Amores Perros (English: Love's a Bitch) is a 2000 Mexican drama thriller film directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu and written by Guillermo Arriaga. It is the first installment in González Iñárritu's "Trilogy of Death", succeeded by 21 Grams (2003) and Babel (2006). It is a triptych; an anthology film, sometimes referred to as the "Mexican Pulp Fiction", containing three distinct stories which are connected by a car accident in Mexico City.