La muertas de Juarez
Mexico's downward spiral is tainted with corruption, social racism, misery and ultimately with lot of blood.
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- DirectorCarlos CarreraStarsAna de la RegueraAsur ZagadaMarco PérezThe true story of the border town of Juarez, Mexico where since the mid-1990s thousands of women have gone missing or turned up as sun-burnt corpses in the desert. Can new police captain Blanca Bravo stop the savagery?
- DirectorGerardo NaranjoStarsStephanie SigmanNoé HernándezIrene AzuelaAfter entering a beauty contest in Tijuana, a young woman witnesses drug-related murders and is forced to do the gang's bidding.
- DirectorJosé Antonio CorderoAlejandra Sánchez OrozcoAlejandra SánchezIn an industrial town in Mexico near the US border, hundreds of women have been sexually abused and murdered. As the body count continues to rise, a web of corruption unfolds that reaches the highest levels of Mexican society.
- DirectorÁlex de la IglesiaStarsRosie PerezJavier BardemHarley CrossA psychotic criminal couple kidnaps a random teenage couple. The woman rapes the male captive, and lets him watch his lover being raped by the man. They then plan to sacrifice the couple.
- DirectorGregory NavaStarsJennifer LopezAntonio BanderasMaya ZapataA journalist investigates a series of murders near American-owned factories on the border of Juarez and El Paso.
- DirectorLorena Mendez-Quiroga
- DirectorSteev HiseOn The Edge is a documentary covering the brutal murders of over 400 poor young women in the border town of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, murders that have been repeatedly ignored and unresolved by the police and governments over the last 12 years, despite the efforts of family members and activists to obtain justice for the victims. Rather than provide an easy, murder-mystery style solution to the crimes, the film sets out to explain the social, cultural, and economic factors that have created this situation where these killings can continue, and continue to go unpunished.
- DirectorCharlie MinnStarsDaniel BorundaCharles BowdenHoward CampbellThe greatest human rights disaster in the world is happening 10 feet from the U.S.A. An investigation of the political, social, and economic forces that have left tens of thousands of innocent Mexicans dead.
- DirectorKevin James DobsonStarsAngus MacfadyenAna Claudia TalancónGuillermo DiazWhile on assignment, Los Angeles based reporter Karina Danes meets Mariela, a rare survivor of one of the vicious attacks taking place in the border town of Cuidad Juarez.
- DirectorJorge Ramírez SuárezStarsBruno BichirLorraine PilkingtonJesús OchoaThough around them a criminal world seethes, Julie and Antonio are a young and loving couple with a new baby and a solid, white-collar sense of stability. But when a loose social connection suddenly ties them to a major political assassination, the two become innocents desperately trying to adapt to a world of murderous politicians and police that, moment to moment, threatens their lives.
- DirectorCharlie MinnStarsDaniel BorundaCharles BowdenHoward CampbellAn investigation of the economic / social / political forces behind the violence plaguing Ciudad Juarez. A coverage of events from 2011, and victims affected by the "drug war." A forecast of Juarez' future from numerous experts, including the critical 2012 elections.
- DirectorAlex FloresStarsMayte AlvaradoOllin AyacaxillVanessa BaucheFemicide is growing in Mexico. Since 1993, more than 450 women have been brutally murdered in Ciudad Juarez. Alex Flores' documentary shoes the theories found by the family members of the victims, journalists, artists and activists, questioning why the federal government hasn't find the killers. Juarez exposes the high levels of corruption and violence in Mexico, which have led to increasing violence and murders against women.
- DirectorCharlie MinnStarsCharles BowdenHoward CampbellJulián Leyzaola PérezA perception shattering view of the violence in Mexico which has killed over 100,000 of the nation's citizens over the course of six years.