Alejandra Montoya

After her husband leaves her for a younger woman, Julia plans her revenge with the help of her grandmother.

A woman seeks help from one of her bigamous husband's killers to transport his corpse back to her home.

The legendary life of Mexican singer Lucha Reyes is the basis of this fictionalized biography ( or as director Arturo Ripstein puts it "an imaginary biography"). Lucha Reyes was an unconventional, and sexually liberated woman, most famous for her "cancion ranchera" style singing. Her story begins in 1939, where at 33 she still lived at home with her mother, Dona Victora, the madame of a renowned Mexico City whorehouse. Lucha marries the liberal Pedro Calderon and then buys a beggar's daughter. She becomes the mother to this child, Luzma. Lucha craves lasting love like junkies crave heroin. But for her loyal daughter, she never finds it and in the end no one can help her.

Tiré d'un fait divers authentique, l'épopée sanglante d'un couple kitsch des années quarante. C'est l'histoire de Coral, jeune infirmière méxicaine qui voue une admiration sans borne à Charles Boyer. Un jour, elle découvre dans un magazine le sosie de son idole, Nicolas. Elle le séduit, s'impose et l'aide à plumer les veuves et les célibataires. Le film transpose au nord du Mexique l'histoire des « Lonely Hearts Killers » (les « Tueurs aux petites annonces »), un couple de meurtriers, Raymond Fernandez et sa compagne Martha Beck, ayant sévi aux États-Unis à la fin des années 1940.