Rafael Sanchez Navarro Movies

Humor and tragedy mingle in this film, which examines the lives of a handful of people living in a large Mexico City apartment complex. Teresa (Lorena Rojas) has an unexpected encounter with a boy she knew from high school; where she once taunted him as a bookworm, she now finds herself attracted to him sexually. Horacio (Rafael Sanchez Navarro) loses his job, and his wife Eva (Veronica Merchant) responds by demanding a divorce. Josafat (Salvador Garcini) and his wife Ruth (Toni Marcin) are a deeply religious couple who are not sure how to react to their new upstairs neighbors (Cristina Michaus and Odiseo Bichir), who have sex loudly, enthusiastically, and frequently. Celina (Ana Martin) is a prostitute who finds herself attracted to her teenage son Santiago (Jairo Gomez); Santiago, on the other hand, seems uncertain about his sexuality, and sometimes plays peeping Tom with one of the gay men in the building when he isn't trying on Celina's clothes. And elderly Mr. Cano (Jorge Galvan) finds his children rushing to his side after he has a stroke, though they aren't as interested in helping him once they discover he's lost his money and there is no inheritance for them. Corazones Rotos was shown at the 2001 Guadalajara Film Festival. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

In this comedy, the question is not whether the hero of the film will come to grief over his ill-considered gallantry, but when. Sofia (Cecelia Toussaint) is the unfaithful girlfriend of Bruno (Rafael Sanchez Navarro), a thoroughly besotted novelist. She has been on a jaunt to Veracruz with an elderly lover. When the old businessman dies while they are making love, Sofia calls Bruno to help her make the whole situation disappear. His somewhat improbable solution is to have the dead man's body embalmed and placed in the trunk of his car. After that, every one of his increasingly outrageous adventures carries the risk of the body being discovered. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide

Blood Screams, a fairly entertaining, bloody horror thriller filmed in Mexico and directed by Glenn Gebhard, is the familiar story of two young people who must fight a supernatural killer. When the townspeople of a small Mexican village start mysteriously disappearing, the frightened, superstitious local townspeople become suspicious of two young visitors (Stacey Shaffer and Russ Tamblyn), new to the town. In order to save their lives, they must find out the truth, which to their horror involves a legendary madman who begins to hunt them. Blood Screams was originally released as Los Monjes Sangientos. ~ Linda Rasmussen, All Movie Guide

In one of the more intentionally and unintentionally confusing films to come out of the directorial career of auteur Arturo Ripstein, El Otro is something else, so to speak. The film is set in the late 1940s or early '50s and told as one partially surreal story within another, and clues to unraveling the gist of the events do not come until the end. It starts when a father gets a letter from his son Armando (Rafael Sanchez-Navarro) saying that he does not want to see his family anymore. Upset, the father sends a friend, Tavares (Ignacio Lopez Tarso) to go to Armando's hacienda and check him out. On the train to the hacienda, Tavares watches an argument between a young woman and a man named Luis, and then the woman rushes into his compartment, they talk, he falls asleep, and she disappears. Once Tavares reaches the hacienda, he finds a journal written by Armando's friend Luis that describes the last several weeks. It turns out Luis did not write the journal, Armando wrote it as though he were Luis. As the events in the journal begin to unfold in flashbacks, Tavares and the audience both try to piece things together.
~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide