Gael García Bernal
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English
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A hitman is a mysterious loner. Getting his instructions at the airport before leaving for Madrid, he is told simply to go to a café and look for the violin. Further instructions come from various people he meets along the way and each is a part of his dangerous mission. He uses a coded greeting and exchanges matchboxes, one of which contains a curious code which the hitman simply eats. He prefers two cups of espresso served in separate cups and...
42) Rosewater
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English
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Journalist Maziar Bahari is detained by Iranian forces who relentlessly interrogate him under suspicion that he is a spy.
43) I'm with Lucy
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English
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Dumped by the man she thought was her perfect match, Lucy continues on her search for Mr. Right. Her girlfriends set her up on a series of blind dates with five handsome and eligible bachlors, each with his own charms ... and flaws. Will she meet the man of her dreams or will her dating nightmare never end?
45) Déficit
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Español
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Viewers will see depicted a day in the life of Cristobal, a student who studies economics and listens to various amounts of urban music. The film focuses on the upper class of Mexican society and its relationship with other social classes. Someone throws a party, which is just an excuse to tell a tale about the loss of innocence and about the gradual deterioration of a political system in Mexico.
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Criterion collection volume 723
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Español
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A pair of horny Mexico City teenagers from different classes who, after their girlfriend's jet off to Italy for the summer, are bewitched by a gorgeous older Spanish woman they meet at a wedding. When she agrees to accompany them on a trip to a faraway beach, the three forms an increasingly intense and sensual alliance that ultimately strips them both physically and emotionally bare.
48) Babel
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English
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A wealthy American is touring Morocco with his wife. The two become the focus of an international incident also involving a poor Moroccan farmer who is struggling to keep his two young sons in line and his family together. A San Diego nanny, with her employers absent, makes the disastrous decision to take her charges with her to a wedding in Mexico. A deaf-mute Japanese teen tries to deal with a relationship with her father and the world in general...
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Español
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Idealistic filmmaker Sebastian and his cynical producer Costa arrive in Bolivia to make a revisionist film about Christopher Columbus' conquest of the Americas. But as filming commences, the local citizens begin to riot in protest against a multi-national corporation that is taking control of their water supply. With the film shoot in jeopardy, both men find their convictions shaken. Inspired by the real-life Water Wars in Bolivia in the year 2000....
Series
Criterion collection volume 723
Language
Español
Description
A pair of horny Mexico City teenagers from different classes who, after their girlfriends jet off to Italy for the summer, are bewitched by a gorgeous older Spanish woman they meet at a wedding. When she agrees to accompany them on a trip to a faraway beach, the three forms an increasingly intense and sensual alliance that ultimately strips them all both physically and emotionally bare.
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Español
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Three lives become inextricably linked in the wake of a terrible car crash: a young punk stumbles into the sinister underground world of dog fighting; an injured supermodel's pooch disappears into the apartment's floorboards; and an ex-radical turned hit man rescues a gun-shot Rotweiler.
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English
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Tells the story of a migrant who found himself in the deadly stretch of the Sonora Desert known as "the corridor of death, " and shows how one life becomes testimony to the tragic results of the U.S. war on immigration. As the real-life drama unfolds we see this John Doe, unidentifiable at his point of death, become a living and breathing human being with an important life story. Eventually, the authorities are able to identify the man as a 29 year-old...
54) Revolución
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Español
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A series of ten short films that come together to celebrate the one hundred years since the Mexican revolution. A powerful and multifaceted compilation that expresses the rich culture and customs of contemporary Mexican society. Stories include the journey of a young Mexican-American woman bringing back her father's body to Mexico for burial, a tuba player living in a small village, children rescuing a priest that they find hanging upside down in...
55) Zoom
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English
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A multi-dimensional interface between a comic book artist, a novelist, and a film director. Each lives in a separate reality but authors a story about one of the others.
56) Salt and fire
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English
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A scientist blames the head of a large company for an ecological disaster in South America. But when a volcano begins to show signs of erupting, they must unite to avoid a disaster.
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Español
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Being a fan of someone suggests a relationship that, by definition, is unequal. One loves in advance and falls in love with a projection, with an invention of the imagination. 'Your Biggest Fan' is not a story of delusional love or unattainable idols. It is the history of real characters that show how to be fans of people who are close to them, yet for some mysterious reason, are inaccessible. It's a love story full of loneliness, random encounters,...
59) Chicuarotes
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"El "Cagalera" y el "Moloteco" son dos jóvenes que buscan salir de la pobreza que abunda en el pueblo de San Gregorio Atlapulco. Tratan de conseguir algo de dinero con una rutina de chistes caracterizados de payasos en el transporte público. Dado que no consiguen mucho dinero, deciden asaltar a los pasajeros. Así es como empiezan a cometer una serie de delitos menores intentando juntar dinero para comprar una plaza en el sindicato de electricistas....
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Argentina, 1952. The death of Eva Peron sparks a 25-year clash between opposing military coups over the burial of her embalmed corpse, now a beloved and hated political symbol. Evita's posthumous legacy is told through a series of isolated incidents featuring the expert doctor obsessively carrying out her embalming, an army colonel's secret mission to transport the body back to Argentina, and the kidnapping of a military dictator who is forced to...