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1) El desierto
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
Español
Description
Axel, Jonathan and Ana live together in a post-catastrophic world. Their whole dynamic changes when Axel and Jonathan go out on an expedition in search of provisions and return to the house with a zombie that they call Pythagoras.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Español
Description
A chambermaid at a high-end Mexico City hotel, into a beautifully observed film of rich detail. Set entirely in this alienating environment, with extended scenes taking place in the guest rooms, hallways, and cleaning facilities, this minimalist yet sumptuous movie brings to the fore Eve's hopes, dreams, and desires.
Publisher
Palm Pictures
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
Español
Description
The anchor of a popular news show flies to a small town in Ecuador to cover a story about a serial child killer. He saves a man after the town tries to lynch him. The man offers information about the case in exchange for a story about his innocence.
4) Hermano
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
Español
Description
Raised as brothers, teammates and competitors on the soccer field: the gregarious, swaggering Julio and the wiry, focused Daniel have remained virtually inseparable ever since the newborn Daniel was found abandoned in a trash heap in their La Ceniza slum. The opportunity of their lives arrives when a scout invites them to try out for the city's top professional team, just as a tragic act of violence threatens to tear them apart and prevent them from...
Series
Publisher
Televisa Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
Español
Description
Pedro Pablo Leon Jaramillo, a man who has become the richest and most wanted drug trafficker in Colombia, has maintained a low profile over the course of his life and kept his role as a drug cartel a secret from his friends and family. This strategy has allowed him to fly under the radar of the authorities for years, but has also inadvertently created a complex web of betrayals, loves and hates that grows beyond his control. As the truth is revealed...
Publisher
Strand Releasing Home Video
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Español
Description
The Spanish Deep South, 1980. A series of brutal murders of adolescent girls in a remote and forgotten town bring together two disparate characters; both detectives in the homicide division, to investigate the cases. With deep divisions in their ideology, detectives Juan and Pedro must put aside their differences in order to hunt down a killer.
8) Nora's will
Publisher
Menemsha Films
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
Español
Description
When his ex-wife Nora dies right before Passover, José is forced to stay with her body until she can be properly put to rest. He soon realizes he is part of Nora's plan to bring her family back together for one last Passover feast. This leads Jose to reexamine their relationship and rediscover their undying love for each other.
Publisher
Alebrije Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
Español
Description
Depicts the extreme economic realities that coexist in society today: wealthy lifestyles afforded through illicit activities and the plight of the poor who are immersed in a world of violence void of opportunities. The convergence between the two is the commercialization of drugs and all of its deadly ramifications.
10) Amador
Series
Film Movement volume 10, film 3
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2012, c2010
Language
Español
Description
Marcela, a young immigrant with financial troubles, finds a summer job looking after Amador, a bed-ridden elderly man whose family is away. She thinks her problems are solved, but Amador dies shortly thereafter, putting Marcela in a predicament. His death leaves her jobless, something she can't afford to let happen. Faced with a difficult moral dilemma, Marcela will prove that death can't always stop life.
11) [Rec]
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
Español
Description
A beautiful, young TV reporter and her crew cover the night shift at the local fire station. When the station receives a call from an old lady trapped in the her apartment, the reporter and crew decide to ride along. Once the building is sealed off, the news crew, firefighters, and residents all become trapped inside, and with the camera running, nothing may survive but the film itself.
Publisher
Métropole Films Distribution
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
Español
Description
"After his company falls prey to a deadly ambush, Alatriste returns to Spain to fulfill the dying wish of a fallen friend: to care for his son, Iñigo. But the once-mighty empire has started to crumble under the weight of corruption. With Iñigo under his wing, Alatriste must fight to protect his honour amidst the decay of his cherished homeland"--Container.
Series
Criterion collection volume 458
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
Español
Description
El norte: Enrique and Rosa are brother and sister Mayan Indian peasants, living in the mountains of Guatemala. When the village attempts to organize for better treatment, Enrique and Rosa are forced to flee as the Guatemalan army is sent in to punish the townspeople. Receiving clandestine help from friends and humorous advice from a veteran immigrant, they make their way to Los Angeles, hoping to make a new life as young, uneducated, and illegal immigrants.
The...
Publisher
Koch Lorber Films
Pub. Date
©2004
Language
Español
Description
An Argentine teacher lives in blissful ignorance of the evils perpetrated by her country's government. Over time, she begins to suspect that her adopted daughter may have been the child of a murdered political prisoner. When she attempts to unearth the truth, her investigation reveals levels of political corruption so abhorrent that the illusions of her past life are irrevocably shattered.
Series
Criterion collection volume 351
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
Español
Description
In a small Castilian village in 1940, directly following the country's devastating civil war, six-year-old Ana attends a traveling movie show of Frankenstein and becomes haunted by her memory of it. Produced as Franco's long regime was nearing its end, this film is both a bewitching portrait of a child's inner life and an elusive, cloaked meditation on a nation trapped under tyranny.
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