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1) Roma
Series
Criterion collection volume 1014
Pub. Date
[2020]
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With his eighth and most personal film, Alfonso Cuaron recreated the early 1970s Mexico City of his childhood, narrating a tumultuous period in the life of a middle-class family through the experiences of Cleo, the indigenous domestic worker who keeps the household running. Charged with the care of four small children abandoned by their father, Cleo tends to the family even as her own life is shaken by personal and political upheavals
3) Fidel
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Whether dismissed as a relic or revered as a savior, many agree that Fidel Castro is one of the most influential and controversial figures of our time. Rarely are Americans given a chance to see inside the world of this socialist leader. The documentary Fidel offers a unique opportunity to view the man through exclusive interviews with Castro himself, historians, public figures and close friends, with rare footage from the Cuban State archives....
Pub. Date
1992
Description
In early 20th century Mexico, Tita and Pedro are in love, but cannot marry because of a family tradition. To be near Tita, Pedro marries her sister and Tita, as the family cook, expresses her passion through preparing delectable dishes.
Story of forbidden love that takes place on a ranch in Mexico near the Texas border in 1910, during the Mexican Revolution. Pedro wishes to marry Tita, the youngest of three daughters of a willful widow on a remote...
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Pub. Date
2007
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When young Ofelia and her mother go to live with her new stepfather on a rural military outpost, she finds herself in a world of unimaginable cruelty. Soon Ofelia finds the creatures of her imagination in which she used to escape have become a reality and she must battle them to save both her mother and herself. In the terrifying battle that ensues, Ofelia soon learns that innocence has a power that evil cannot imagine.
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
It tells of a series of reencounters experienced by Salvador Mallo, a film director in his physical decline. Some of them in the flesh, others remembered: his childhood in the '60s, when he emigrated with his parents to a village in Valencia in search of prosperity, the first desire, his first adult love in the Madrid of the '80s, the pain of the breakup of that love while it was still alive and intense.
11) Rendez-vous
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Lili and Eduardo meet for the first time after connecting on a dating app. Eduardo arrives late but with a good reason in a place like Mexico City: he was mugged and they took his phone so he couldn't text her to say he was running late. While at first everything seems to be going fine, when Lili finds Eduardo's phone in his jacket, things take an unexpected and terrifying turn for the worse.
12) Bailabilonia
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Bailabilonia travels through a city full of visual and social contrasts. What's ours and what comes from outside, live in a total diversity of body languages. With Buenos Aires as the main background, this documentary video dance film accompanies dancer's everyday's life, their rehearsals and the performance on a public space. That is when diversity mixes up and offers itself to the others, like a unique dance, like a unique landscape.
13) Trees - Spanish
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Exploring the world of trees this video defines what makes up a tree including the different parts of the tree. It also explains the difference between deciduous trees and coniferous trees and why trees are important parts of our lives.
15) Villegas
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After not seeing each other in some time, two cousins drive to their grandfather's funeral in their childhood town. Their return home becomes an intense emotional journey where they will learn more about their differences.
16) Pretty Boxer
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Daniela "La Bonita" Bermudez's ferocity on the ropes contrasts with her shyness. This is a story of sacrifice where a 20-year-old boxer bears the burden of her family's desire to lift itself out of poverty.
18) Granada Nights
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In Granada, Spain a British tourist struggles with a broken heart as he befriends a group of young foreigners and crashes into the heart of the international student scene.
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El jinete Matt O'Brien recibe la misión de escoltar a la señorita Owens a un pueblo remoto. Pero cuando descubre una operación minera ilegal que contrabandea oro al otro lado de la frontera, su superior, el sargento Means, le ordena regresar.
Película estadounidense de 1945 del género western dirigida por Derwin Abrahams, filmada en Cinecolor en Lake Hemet, California. La película está protagonizada por Bob Steele, Joan Woodbury y cuenta con...
20) The Suffragists
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The story of Eufrosina Cruz, an indigenous woman from the Zapotec community of Santa María Quiegolani in the state of Oaxaca, Mexico. Las Sufragistas details her political struggle, as well as Mexican women's long fight for political power, beginning with the Revolutionary period. The film also considers challenges that women in power face.