Miss Bala

Oct 14, 2011

1h 53m

★ 6.7

Overview

The story of a young woman clinging on to her dream to become a beauty contest queen in a Mexico dominated by organized crime.

Genres

Drama

Action

Production Companies

Canana

Fox International Productions

Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografía

Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes

FIDECINE

Miss Bala Trailers

Cast

Laura Guerrero

Stephanie Sigman

Lino Valdez

Noé Hernández

Jessica Berlanga

Irene Azuela

Kike Camara

Jose Yenque

Jimmy

James Russo

General Salomón Duarte

Miguel Couturier

Agent Bell

Gabriel Heads

Arturo Guerrero

Juan Carlos Galván

Ramon Guerrero

Javier Zaragoza

Azucena 'Suzu' Ramos

Lakshmi Picazo

Luisa Janes

Leonor Victorica

Javi Fernández

Hugo Márquez

Sami, Joe and Leyla are ready for a truly epic summer after finishing school and ready to get out and grab their slice of life. But what is to come is diametrically opposed to their expectations. Determined to stand up for themselves, the three friends find out how right Leyla’s mom was when she told them: always keep more dreams in your soul than reality can destroy.

3.8

Blood Debts

Jan 30, 1985

It started with the rape of his daughter, then the killing of her boyfriend. He takes the law into his own hands and has his revenge. Branded as a vicious killer by the underworld, the syndicate blackmails him into becoming their hitman. As he gets more and more tied up in the world of drugs, prostitution and death, he decides he wants out. No one gets out of the syndicate alive. It then becomes a battle for survival, him against them in a desperate act of street warfare. His life is his prize.

6.0

The Outrage

Oct 7, 1964

At a disused railway station, three men -- a con artist, a preacher, and a prospector -- discuss the recent trial and sentencing of the outlaw Juan Carrasco for the murder of a man and the rape of his wife. In their recounting, the three explore the conflicting testimonies of the parties involved in the crimes. Disconcerting new questions arise with each different version of the event.

5.8

A Family Divided

Jan 22, 1995

College swimmer Chad Billingsley is his middle class family's pride and joy. After a moody phase of scared denial, he owns up to father, attorney Roger, that Rosalie Frank, the provocatively dressed waitress who attended his frat's last party and is missing since, had sex with five of them. Roger does his utmost to prevent the potential statutory rape case ruining his son's future, but confides in his moralistic wife, refuge house worker Karen, who instead of supporting the boys haunts them like Rosalie's mother Inez, with multiple tragic results.

6.1

Twilight Portrait

Nov 10, 2011

Marina, an upper-crust social worker with a doting husband and an enviable downtown apartment, is suddenly transformed into a bizarre twilight version of herself when she is raped by three policemen.

5.0

Highway of Death

Jun 18, 1963

A man goes to his house, finds her daughter dead and hears his wife and another man plotting his killing.

2.7

Hawa

Jul 4, 2003

Sanjana lives in a big city along with her husband and two daughters. But things are not quite rosy as the couple faces a disastrous situation in their life which leads to divorce. Sanjana along with her brother, Vicky, her two daughters and a dog relocates to a lonely house in a forest. While residing there Sanjana begins to see some odd situations taking place especially when her house is struck by lightning, her dog attacked her and she and her daughters are mysteriously raped.

5.9

Much Loved

Jun 26, 2015

A social drama about four marginalized prostitutes in Marrakech and their complex relations with their families and society at large.

6.7

Elle

May 25, 2016

When Michèle, the CEO of a gaming software company, is attacked in her home by an unknown assailant, she refuses to let it alter her precisely ordered life. She manages crises involving family, all the while becoming engaged in a game of cat and mouse with her stalker.

5.0

The In-Law

Aug 19, 1912

Lusha is suffering from her drunken husband. One day her father-in-law rapes her. Of course, she doesn’t dare admit it to her husband. So, unable to move this incident, Lusha commits suicide...

9.5

Canary Season

Nov 26, 1993

It's 1980. Malin is fatherless, angry, and in trouble. At 20, he's spent a year in jail for assaulting a lover of Lily, his mother. In her desk he finds a soldier's photograph and assumes he's found his father. He confronts the man, now a teacher, and gets nowhere. At home again, he mocks his mother. Finally, she tells him her grim story, from the year before his birth. We see a people's court, where Lily's parents seek justice for their grandchild to be. We follow Lily to a prison camp, to the city where she's told to inform on the only person who's been kind, to an asylum, and finally to her current poverty and loneliness. How will Malin respond to these revelations?

6.2

The World Is Mine

Jun 5, 2015

Larisa is 16 and lives in a city by the sea. It's a small city, where gossip and news spread fast. It's a city where your image and influence, "manelele", money and power are all that matters. And Larisa… wants it all. And even if she doesn't have it, she fights for it. Larisa believes in herself. She knows that she deserves better. She is convinced that it's worth doing everything it takes to fulfill her dreams. And for her courage and recklessness - we love her.

5.0

6 Ways to Die

Jul 31, 2015

Sonny "Sundown" Garcia is the top cocaine distributor in the United States, which has made him a very rich and powerful man. It has also made him plenty of enemies. John Doe is just such a man. A nameless man of mystery, John lives to see Sundown not just dead, but to suffer six meaningful losses before his death—his fortune, his freedom, his love, his reputation, his most valuable possession and, finally, his life. John hires six hit-men, each one assigned to inflict one of the six meaningful losses upon Sundown.

0.0

Quelques Secondes

May 22, 2015

The daily life of five young women living in a Paris hosting center. All haunted by their heavy past (rape, violence, abandonment...), they try to move forward... except one.

6.1

Return to Sender

May 31, 2015

A nurse mistakes a stranger who pays her a visit for her blind date and soon, the man rapes her and turns her life upside down. The woman works to reclaim her life and exact revenge on her assailant after he's paroled from prison.

5.4

The Choice

Apr 2, 2015

A childless couple struggle in the aftermath of a sexual assault leaves the woman pregnant.

6.0

Mishka

Oct 22, 2017

Mishka tells the story of a conflicted 13-year-old and her grim secrets. In the face of an unsettling reality, Mishka makes an alarming decision in a desperate attempt to revert her childhood self.

3.1

Bummer

Mar 3, 1973

The manager of a rock band fires the drunken, psycho bass player, who goes on a rape and murder spree.

6.4

Puzzle of a Downfall Child

Dec 16, 1970

Lou Andreas Sand, a once famous model, recalls her past as she tries to make success in the modeling world of New York, her stressful workdays, her affair with Mark, an advertising executive, her friendship with photographer Aaron, and her downward spiral into ruin.

4.8

Angel of Vengeance

Mar 7, 1987

A young woman newly arrived in a small town comes up against a crazed group of survivalists who have killed a party of motorcyclists in the desert. They capture and rape her, but she escapes and makes plans to take her vengeance on them.