Archive for the ‘Spain’ Category
Hundra (1983)Saturday, February 27th, 2010 |
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It’s the Dark Ages, and savage men enslave all women, but except for one woman who was born in a tribe of fierce warrior women Hundra the Invincible has been raised to despise the influence of men. Her name is Hundra, the finest warrior of her people. Hundra seeks out her elder, she leads a valiant tribe of women who dares to be free. |
Tetro (2009)Thursday, February 25th, 2010 |
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Fresh faced and naive, 17-year-old Bennie arrives in Buenos Aires to search for his older brother who has been missing for more than a decade. The family had emigrated from Italy to Argentina, but with the great musical success of their father Carlo, an acclaimed symphony conductor, the family moved from Argentina to New York. When Bennie finds his brother, the volatile and melancholy poet Tetro, he is not at all what he expected. In the course of staying with Tetro and his girlfriend Miranda, the two brothers grapple with the haunting experiences of their shared past. |
Pancho Villa (1972)Wednesday, February 24th, 2010 |
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Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa is double-crossed in an arms deal planned by his comrade Scotty. Villa and Scotty plot a raid on a U.S. cavalry fort in retaliation. |
The Nun aka La monja (2005)Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010 |
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In 1988, the abusive and deranged Nun Ursula is the principal of a Catholic boarding school in Barcelona. When she finds that the teenage student Mary is pregnant, she decides “to purify” the girl with water, almost killing her. Her class and dorm mates Joanna, Christine, Eulalia, Zoe and Susan fight with the nun and drown her in a bathtub. The six teenagers dump her body in a lake with holy water and make a pact of silence. Eighteen years later, the spirit of the nun is released from the lake and possesses the daughter of Mary, Eve, seeking revenge against the former students and killing each one of them like their saint patrons did to achieve the forgiveness of God through punishment and penitence, pain and sacrifice. |
Che: Part Two (2008)Thursday, February 18th, 2010 |
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In 1967, Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara resigns from his Cuban government posts to secretly make his latest attempt to spread the revolution in Bolivia. However, Che must face grim realities about few troops and supplies, his failing health and a local population who largely does not share his idealistic aspirations. As the US supported Bolivian army prepares to defeat him, Che and his beleaguered force struggle against the increasingly hopeless odds. |
Che: Part One (2008)Thursday, February 18th, 2010 |
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The Argentine, begins as Che and a band of Cuban exiles (led by Fidel Castro) reach the Cuban shore from Mexico in 1956. Within two years, they mobilized popular support and an army and toppled the U.S.-friendly regime of dictator Fulgencio Batista. |
Cobardes (2008)Thursday, February 18th, 2010 |
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A young victim of bullying at school realizes that even the adult world is dominated by fear similar to his own. He pays a high price when he decides to fight back. |
Non si deve profanare il sonno dei morti (1974)Thursday, February 18th, 2010 |
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Brought about by the use of a new, radiation emitting device intended to destroy insect’s nervous systems, the dead are brought back to life due to the jump start the radiation provides to their nervous systems. After the murder of a woman’s estranged husband, police suspect the woman, her sister and a relative stranger (who was only along because the sister had run into his motorcycle only hours prior) of involvement in the murder, and as the bodies begin to accumulate the police chief becomes more and more convinced of their involvement. |
El Cid: La leyenda (2003)Thursday, February 18th, 2010 |
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A race of big-armed men in ancient Spain quarrel amongst themselves in their castle. A young, red haired lad covets the King’s cousin, but is hampered in his advancements by her dwarven father. He would much prefer her to marry an evil count, as is the custom in dwarven society. The red haired lad, our hero, is run afoul by a heinous take for his life. His friend, the prince, bestows upon him a steed of great malignancy and foul temper. The hellish nightmare ride that followed by this treachery marks the beginning of a dive in his Wheel of Fortune, hitherto unseen in polite society. Soon he invokes the wrath of God, that strikes down nearby trees with thunder and lightning, and sends evil Arabs his way. He is forced to flee, and is joined after some years by a band of brigands that followed him. They are easily subdued by gifts of mustelines and pledge their cause to his. This is followed by a psychosomatic crusade against the surrounding castles. Will el Cid stand up against the fiendish lures of madness or will he arise victorious in this battle of reality? |
Dieta mediterránea (2009)Thursday, February 18th, 2010 |
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Sofia’s story, the best chef the world, and the two men who helped her to become a legend. |
The Anarchist’s Wife (2008)Thursday, February 18th, 2010 |
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“The Anarchist’s Wife” is the story of Manuela who is left behind when her husband Justo fights for his ideals against Franco’s Nationalists during the Spanish Civil War. He is deported to a concentration camp, and upon his release, continues the fight against nationalism in the French resistance. Years, pass without a word from him, but his wife never gives up hope of seeing him again. |
El juego del ahorcado (2009)Thursday, February 18th, 2010 |
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El truco del manco (2008)Thursday, February 18th, 2010 |
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Pan’s Labyrinth (2006)Thursday, February 18th, 2010 |
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“Pan’s Labyrinth” is the story of a young girl who travels with her pregnant mother to live with her mother’s new husband in a rural area up North in Spain, 1944, after Franco’s victory. The girl lives in an imaginary world of her own creation and faces the real world with much chagrin. Fascist repression during the first years of Franco’s dictatorship is at its height in rural Spain and the girl must come to terms with that through a fable of her own. |
The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006)Thursday, February 18th, 2010 |
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Ireland, 1920. Damien and Teddy are brothers. But while the latter is already the leader of a guerrilla squad fighting for the independence of his motherland, Damien, a medical student at University College, would rather finish his training at the London hospital where he has found a place. However, shortly before his departure, he happens to witness atrocities committed by the ferocious Black and Tans and finally decides to join the resistance group led by Teddy. The two brothers fight side by side until a truce is signed. But peace is short-lived and when England imposes a treaty regarded unfair by a part of the population war resumes, this time pitting Irishmen against Irishmen, brothers against brothers, Teddy against Damien… |
Faust: Love of the Damned (2001)Thursday, February 18th, 2010 |
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An artist, John Jaspers (Mark frost) sells his soul to the mysterious “M” (Andrew Divoff)in order to get revenge on the people who killed his girlfriend. Soon, he realizes everything has a price, and he is transformed into a horned demon with a passion for killing. He learns that M plans to release the Homunculus, a giant Lizard-like monster onto the earth, opening the gate to hell. Now, Jaspers must stop M before he can let the apocalypse begin… |
Free Zone (2005)Wednesday, February 17th, 2010 |
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Rebecca, a young American lady who has been living in Jerusalem for a while, suddenly breaks off her engagement with Julio, her Israeli fiancé. In a state of emotional shock she gets into a taxi and asks the diver to take her anywhere she likes but away from the place where she broke up. Although reluctant, Hanna, the driver lets her accompany her to Jordan’s Free Zone where she is to meet “The American”, her husband Moshe’s Palestinian business partner. Once there, they realize “The American” is not there but a Palestinian woman named Leila offers them, after much bickering with Hanna, to take them to the oasis where “The American” lives… |
Delusions of Grandeur (1971)Wednesday, February 17th, 2010 |
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Men of War (1994)Wednesday, February 17th, 2010 |
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I, Whore (Yo puta) (2004)Wednesday, February 17th, 2010 |
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A young writer named Elisabeth (unseen except for a voice-over) decides to write her newest book on the world’s oldest profession: prostitution. Based in Los Angeles, Elisabeth travels the world interviewing dozens of prostitutes ranging from call-girls, streetwalkers, even male and female gigolos. While Elisabeth is away, her neighbor Rebecca, an anthropology grad student, is drawn herself into the profession by her call-girl neighbor Adrianna who steers her to her top client Pierre. |



















