Delia Peña Orta

Mateo Melgarejo is a notary public and scribe for the illiterate people of Santo Domingo, a neighborhood north of Mexico City's Zócalo. A squatter friend asks for his help in negotiating with the land census bureau to regularize a land title. After a great deal of frustration with the government bureaucracy, he writes a letter to the cabinet minister, earning an audience with him. The minister hires Melgarejo to reform the bureau, and the appointee proceeds to lecture the officials on their duties in a democratic society. At the end, he gives up the post, returning to Santo Domingo to help its poor residents.

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Coco is a boy who feels lonely because his father works all the time and his mother is always playing cards with other women. When he hears that his parents are planning to divorce, Coco makes plans to run away.

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Extremely loose adaptation of Little Women, set in 1970s; three teenaged girls and a younger sister live alone after the death of their parents.

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Lured to a demented playboy's secluded castle for a romantic evening, unsuspecting women become dinner for his 1000 cats.

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A man dies of a heart attack and his wife hides the body in order to continue collecting pension.

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