Archive for the ‘Mexico’ Category
Paradas continuas (2009)Thursday, June 10th, 2010 |
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A coming of age story of two youngsters trying an entrepreneur’s project that involves a sexy van, and their schoolmates. Search keywords |
El estudiante (2009)Thursday, June 10th, 2010 |
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After retiring to the beautiful Mexican town of Guanajuato, a 70 year old decides to follow his dreams and enroll at the university where he stumbles upon a new generation and they are bound together by the novel Don Quijote de la Mancha. Search keywords |
The Orphanage (2007)Wednesday, June 9th, 2010 |
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The former orphan Laura raises her adopted son Simón with her husband Carlos in an old house and former orphanage where she was raised. Simón is HIV positive and tells Laura that he has five invisible friends, and she believes they are fruit of his imagination. Laura decides to reopen an orphanage for handicapped children in the location and during the opening party, Simón calls her to show the little cabin of his friend Tomás. The busy Laura does not gives much attention to her son; then she sees a mysterious masked boy and Simón vanishes. Laura feels the presence of other persons in the house and months later, the desperate Laura invites a team of parapsychologists to try to unravel the mystery. |
The Maid (2009)Monday, June 7th, 2010 |
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The story of how a maid called Raquel, who has worked for over 20 years in one affluent Chilean household, rediscovers herself. La Nana is an intelligent microcosm of Latin social hierarchy while also focusing on one woman’s journey to free herself from a mental servitude of her own making |
El bruto (1953)Monday, June 7th, 2010 |
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An evil old man, Andrés, is the owner of an old building, where very poor people live. Mr. Andrés wants to demolish the building, and gives the people a few hours to evacuate it. But they will confront the old man, saying that they won’t leave their homes. Andrés will look for help and he finds it in Pedro, a tough, strong and rude man, but not quite clever, who will be hired by Andrés in order to bullying the people in the building and make them leave. Meanwhile, Pedro will work in a butcher’s shop, where also works Paloma, Andres’s wife, an attractive woman who starts to feel attracted to Pedro. One night, Pedro is making a tour by the building, threatening people, and he will fight with a man who dares to face up with him. But the man is killed accidentally by Pedro, who escapes from the place and hides with Paloma, now his lover. Meche, the murdered man’s daughter, is a charming and pretty girl, who will help Pedro to scape from the angry neighbors. Pedro falls in love with Meche, and he offers his home to her. Meche starts to have feelings about the naive but “brutal” man, without knowing that he’s the murderer of her father. |
Gran Casino (Tampico) (1947)Monday, June 7th, 2010 |
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After the mysterious disappearance of an oil well owner, one of his workers, Gerardo (‘Jorge Negrete’ (qv)) assumes the business management. Soon, the owner’s sister (‘Libertad Lamarque’ (qv)) arrives from Argentina, and, believing that Gerardo killed her brother to keep the wells for himself, she starts working as a singer under a false name in the same casino her brother disappeared, in order to find out what exactly happened. |
Abismos de pasión aka Wuthering Heights (1954)Monday, June 7th, 2010 |
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Gone several years, the brooding Alejandro returns to the hacienda of his foster sister, Catalina, whom he loves, to find her married to the wealthy and effete Eduardo. Alejandro hates Eduardo and Catalina’s brother Ricardo; he’s rich now and has a lien on the drunken Ricardo’s ranch. He also wants Catalina to run away with him. She loves him as if he was her soul, but she also loves Eduardo and is pregnant, so she won’t leave. She wants Alejandro to stay nearby, a soul mate, but he, ruled by instinct and passion, stays only to hurt her. He woos Isabel, Eduardo’s impressionable young sister. The passions of impossible love and corrosive hate play out against Mexico’s barren high chaparral. |
The Desert Within (2008)Monday, June 7th, 2010 |
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To redeem himself from a great sin, a man dedicates himself to building a church. Search keywords |
No One Writes to the Colonel (1999)Sunday, June 6th, 2010 |
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Cada viernes El Coronel se coloca el único traje que tiene y acude al muelle para aguardar la carta que anuncie la llegada de su pensión. Pero en el pueblo todos saben que esa pensión nunca llegará. Su mujer también lo sabe, y hasta él mismo lo sabe. No obstante, él sigue esperando, conviviendo con el dolor por la muerte de su hijo… |
Important Man (1962)Sunday, June 6th, 2010 |
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Animas Trujano is a colorful but irresponsible Indian in a small Mexican village. He hopes above all things someday to be chosen mayordomio of his village, a place of great honor usually conferred upon the wealthiest and most respected citizens. Animas has a loyal wife, but cheats on her and gambles away every cent they raise. Chances arise for Animas to turn over a new leaf and even hope realistically for the honor of mayordomio. But will Animas behave responsibly enough to take advantage of these opportunities? |
Puerto Vallarta Squeeze (2004)Sunday, June 6th, 2010 |
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An American government hit man on the run makes a pact with two travelers to help him disappear in the Mexican jungle. |
Road to Fame aka Casi divas (2008)Sunday, June 6th, 2010 |
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Four ambitious and beautiful young women. From four very different corners of Mexico. Just like hundreds of others, they are caught up in the frenzy that sweeps the nation when Alejandro Mateos (Julio Bracho), one of the country’s most powerful producers, dreams up a nationwide talent search to cast the lead in his next big movie. But all this is news to Alejandro’s on-again, off-again lover, Eva Gallardo (Patricia Llaca) , a diva of epic proportions, who expected to get the part. While Eva schemes to nail down the role, our four leads begin their own journey on the road to fame. Search keywords |
Under The Salt (2008)Saturday, June 5th, 2010 |
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A series of murders leads commander TRUJILLO to Santa Rosa de la Sal a town close to a salt mine, where he meets VÃCTOR ZEPEDA – a lonely teenager who works in his father funeral home and spends his free time making crude animated horror films – who’s strange behavior seems to point at him as the culprit of the crimes. |
The Last Hunter aka El último cazador (1997)Friday, June 4th, 2010 |
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Amor xtremo (2006)Friday, June 4th, 2010 |
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Two brothers from Mexico City travel to to Las Vegas to catch the U.S. Motocross Open. Search keywords |
Under the Same Moon (La misma luna) (2007)Friday, June 4th, 2010 |
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UNDER THE SAME MOON (LA MISMA LUNA) tells the parallel stories of nine-year-old Carlitos and his mother, Rosario. In the hopes of providing a better life for her son, Rosario works illegally in the U.S. while her mother cares for Carlitos back in Mexico. Unexpected circumstances drive both Rosario and Carlitos to embark on their own journeys in a desperate attempt to reunite. Along the way, mother and son face challenges and obstacles but never lose hope that they will one day be together again. |
Calvario (2003)Friday, June 4th, 2010 |
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Waylaid en route to a delivery sure to fulfil his sexual fantasies, this poor gas man discovers that the earlybird gets the worm. |
Sleep Dealer (2008)Thursday, June 3rd, 2010 |
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The near future. Like tomorrow. In a world marked by closed borders, corporate warriors, and a global computer network, three strangers risk their lives to connect, break through the barriers of technology, and unseal their fates. |
Sultanes del Sur (2007)Thursday, June 3rd, 2010 |
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Los bastardos (2008)Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010 |
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A 24 hour period in the lives of Fausto and Jesus, two undocumented Mexican day-laborers in L.A. Each day another task, each day the same pressure to find money. They go about their daily routine, standing on the corner at the Home Improvement Store waiting for work to come. Today, the job they are given is well paid compared to their poor usual wages. Today, Jesus carries a shotgun inside his backpack. |



















