El Deseo

Six short stories that explore the extremities of human behavior involving people in distress.

A father, accompanied by his son, goes looking for his missing daughter in North Africa.

A film director reflects on the choices he's made in life as the past and present come crashing down around him.

Ingrid and Martha were close friends in their youth, when they worked together at the same magazine. After years of being out of touch, they meet again in an extreme but strangely sweet situation.

A brilliant plastic surgeon, haunted by past tragedies, creates a type of synthetic skin that withstands any kind of damage. His guinea pig: a mysterious and volatile woman who holds the key to his obsession.

After twenty-five years Silva rides a horse across the desert to visit his friend Sheriff Jake. They celebrate the meeting, but the next morning Jake tells him that reason for his trip is not to go down the memory lane of their fr...

Two men share an odd friendship while they care for two women who are both in deep comas.

After her death, a mother returns to her home town in order to fix the situations she couldn't resolve during her life.

A comedy-drama about a bereaved mother, an overwrought actress, her jealous lover, and a pregnant nun.

After a casual encounter, a brokenhearted woman decides to confront her life and the most important events involving her estranged daughter.

After Carlos - a 12-year-old whose father has died in the Spanish Civil War - arrives at an ominous boys' orphanage, he discovers the school is haunted and has many dark secrets which he must uncover.

An examination on the effect of Franco-era religious schooling and sexual abuse on the lives of two longtime friends.

The angelic face of Carlos, a 17-year-old teenager, hides a dark facet of robberies, lies and murders.

A television actress encounters a variety of eccentric characters after embarking on a journey to discover why her lover abruptly left her.

Harry Caine, a blind writer, reaches this moment in time when he has to heal his wounds from 14 years back. He was then still known by his real name, Mateo Blanco, and directing his last movie.

The story of two mothers who bond in unexpected way after giving birth the same day.

The true story of the Puccio Clan, a family who kidnapped and killed people in the 80s.

After leaving jail, Víctor is still in love with Elena, but she's married to the former cop -now basketball player- who became paralysed by a shot from Víctor's gun...

An unbalanced but alluring former mental patient takes a porn star prisoner in the hopes of convincing her to marry him.

Based on the novel by Antonio Di Benedetto written in 1956, on Don Diego de Zama, a Spanish officer of the seventeenth century settled in Asunción, who awaits his transfer to Buenos Aires.