Alejandro Reza Movies

A young man grows up in the shadow of a rival who is also his brother in this impressionistic drama from Mexico. Jose (Christian Vasquez) is an orphan who, on the advice of a local priest (Carlos Aragon), is adopted by Don Leandro, a landowner who operates a sheep ranch. Both Leandro and the priest believe that the rancher's son Jeronimo (Luis Ivan Arana) could use a companion, especially after the death of his mother, but Jose is looked down upon by his new brother, and when Jose is put in charge of looking after some of the sheep, Jeronimo shoots one of the animals in hopes of seeing Jose banished from the ranch. In an effort to up the crime, Jose and his pal Kumbia (Rodrigo Corea) try to dye a white sheep black so it can pass for the missing animal. As Jose tries to fit in at the Leandro Ranch, he becomes deeply infatuated with Maria (Ximena Romo), the beautiful daughter of a local fireworks showman. However, Maria's father imagines Jose is a poor match for his daughter, and instead tries to arrange a match with Jeronimo. Oveja negra (aka Black Sheep) was the first feature film from director Humberto Hinojosa Ozcariz. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi

A Mexican teen who collects random trinkets discovers the importance of human contact though three unusual items she discovered on the street. Imaginative Esmeralda (Bárbara Mori) keeps a box of found items under her bed, creating stories about each of them in order to make her own life more interesting. Little does Esmeralda realize that three of these items are about to change her life, as well as the lives of the lovelorn individuals to whom they once belonged. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

Mexican folklore melds with J-horror elements and the brooding atmospherics of Spanish horror specialist Jaume Balaguero in director Rigoberto Castaneda's loose adaptation of the La Llorona legend - a frightening tale that has been passed down from parent to child for generations. Agata and Catalina Hameran are twin siblings whose already powerful bond was infinitely intensified when their mother suffered an unusually traumatic death. It was on that day that the sisters discovered they have the power to communicate telepathically, regardless of the physical distance between them. One night, when Agata is badly injured in an accident on the 31st kilometer of a dark road that runs alongside the forests of Mexico City, Catalina experiences an overwhelming wave of dread. While Agata was rendered comatose in the accident, Catalina continues to hear her sister cry out in agony from some alternate plane of reality and realizes that something is horribly wrong. Compelled to explore the history of this lonely stretch of road after a series of bizarre supernatural occurrences, Catalina soon finds out that Agata wasn't the first person to suffer tragedy at the 31st kilometer marker, and vows to uncover the connecting factor between this strange series of seemingly unrelated accidents. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

Unable to cope with the fact that his girlfriend cheated on him with his best friend, a twenty-two year old schizophrenic sets an elaborate revenge plan into motion before taking his own life. Gregorio has been in and out of mental hospitals for years. During Gregario's time away, his girlfriend Tania and their good friend Manuel (Diego Luna) began an illicit affair. Before long Tania and Manuel have fallen in love. Though Gregario and Manuel seem to reconcile after Gregario is discharged from the hospital, everything changes with Gregario commits suicide. Upon Gregario's death, Manuel inherits a box of notes, lyrics, and other curiosities from his old friend. Later, Manuel begins receiving unsigned letters quoting Gregario's writings and starts hearing excerpts from the letters in conversation and in the media, leading the unscrupulous friend to fear for his own sanity. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

A lonely man's search for companionship soon takes him to dangerous and unexpected places in this erotically charged drama. Luis Antonio Vargas (Antonio Banderas) is a successful coffee salesman living in Cuba in the 1880s. Luis has had little luck finding love among the women of his native island, and he sends away to America for a mail-order bride. To his pleasant surprise, his fiancée from the United States, Julia Russell (Angelina Jolie), turns out to be not only beautiful but passionate and devoted. But Luis' happiness proves to be short-lived when he learns that Julia is not the person he imagined her to be, and detective Walter Downs (Thomas Jane) appears, trying to get to the bottom of Julia's mysterious past and possibly deadly secrets. Original Sin is based on the novel Waltz Into Darkness by Cornell Woolrich, which Francois Truffaut previously adapted for the screen as La Sirene du Mississippi. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi