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Set in Mexico City, Carlos Reygadas's sexually explicit drama centers on a man in turmoil over his past actions. Chauffer Marcos feels compelled to reveal a dark secret to his boss's daughter, Ana, a wealthy woman who works as a prostitute just for the thrill of it. Marcos confesses that he and his wife committed a crime that ended in horrible tragedy. Haunted by his past, Marcos searches for redemption.

ออคตาวิโอ หนุ่ม วัยโจ๋ ที่วันๆไม่ทำไร เค้าอาศัยอยู่กับแม่ พี่ชายและพี่สะใภ้ หลาน และหมาตัวโปรดชื่อโคฟี่ พี่ชาย ออคตาวิโอ เป็นพนักงาน แคชเชียร์ ในห้างท้องถิ่น พร้อมมีงานเสริมเป็น โจรลักเล็กขโมยน้อย แถมนิสัยยังชอบ อาละวาดอัดเมียตัวเอง เรื่องราวมันมาเกิดตรงที่ไอ้เจ้า ออคตาวิโอ ดันแอบชอบ พี่สะใภ้วัยรุ่นของตน ที่เรียนไปเลี้ยงลูกไปโดนผัวซ้อมไป ออคตาวิโอ แอบรักยังไม่พอ ยังมีแอบหึงหวงอยากได้มาครอบครองเป็นของตัวเอง ......ทั้งที่พี่สะใภ้ก็ไม่ได้มีทีท่าจะชอบอะไรเค้าเลย..

Mexico City, November 1901. The police raid a private home where a secret party is being held. Among those attending is the son-in-law of President Porfirio Díaz.

A conflicted youth confesses to crimes he didn't commit while a man and woman aroused by death become obsessed with each other.

Eight short stories of seduction and illicit encounters between lovers, filled with humor and eroticism, which use a circular structure located in the cosmopolitan atmosphere of a colonial city of Mexico.

In the near future, a popular uprising in Mexico City interrupts a wedding held at the home of a wealthy family. After the riots have been quashed, they discover the bride has gone missing and plea with the military to help locate her.

Against a background of war breaking out in Europe and the Mexican fiesta Day of Death, we are taken through one day in the life of Geoffrey Firmin, a British consul living in alcoholic disrepair and obscurity in a small southern Mexican town in 1939. The consul's self-destructive behaviour, perhaps a metaphor for a menaced civilization, is a source of perplexity and sadness to his nomadic, idealistic half-brother, Hugh, and his ex-wife, Yvonne, who has returned with hopes of healing Geoffrey and their broken marriage.

A short, unhappy affair with a married man leads a dedicated schoolteacher into the alcohol-and-drug fueled underworld of singles’ bars, where she begins to engage in a pattern of dangerous sexual activity.

The story of a young woman clinging on to her dream to become a beauty contest queen in a Mexico dominated by organized crime.

Recently divorced career woman Alex Greville begins a romantic relationship with glamorous mod artist Bob Elkin, fully aware that he's also intimately involved with middle-aged doctor Daniel Hirsh. For both Alex and Daniel, the younger man represents a break with their repressive pasts, and though both know that Bob is seeing both of them, neither is willing to let go of the youth and vitality he brings to their otherwise stable lives.