The passing of a Mexican Jew whose appetite for life was stronger than his spiritual discipline makes for a difficult set of...
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2008
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Eva
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2008
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When a serial killer begins burying his victims in the salt fields of Santa Rosa de la Sal, police commander Trujillo begins...
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2008
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Mexican director Fernando Sarinana's comedy Charm School (aka Niñas Mal) represented the first feature to be produced by...
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Maca Ribera
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2006
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This historical drama depicts the waning days of the life of Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, the 19th century president of...
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2001
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Alberto Cortes wrote and directed this Mexican-Cuban drama, an adaptation the Nicolas Dorr play about aging Violeta...
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Violeta
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1998
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Norma
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1996
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This is the third film based on Tom Clancy's high-tech espionage potboilers starring CIA deputy director Jack Ryan....
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1994
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The murder of a taxi dancer and her pimp provide the motivation for this crime melodrama, a remake of Emilio Fernandez's...
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La Almendrita
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1994
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The legendary life of Mexican singer Lucha Reyes is the basis of this fictionalized biography ( or as director...
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La Jaira
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1994
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This Mexican film, loosely based on Egyptian author Naguib Mahfouz's 1940's book, traces the slow and painful collapse of a...
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1994
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Spain held vast territories in its Mexican colony, areas which are now part of the American soutwest. For a long time, huge...
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1993
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Joaquin (Manuel Ojeda) and his beautiful wife Susana (Blanca Guerra) are indeed In the Middle of Nowhere in this crime drama....
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Susana
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1993
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Spending the bulk of her time working and raising her child alone, Julia's life is filled with mundane grays. The only color...
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Colorada
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1992
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In this art-film, ten episodes take place in the life of an apartment, which is the real leading character in the movie. The...
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1991
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1991
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Guerilla wars against the major powers have been a factor in Central American politics for a long time. This biographical...
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1990
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Circus horrors cross over into the mundane world in this terrifying, psychedelic film from Alejandro Jodorowsky, the man who...
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Concha
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1989
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Cabalgando Con La Muerte concerns a lone-wolf cowboy named Candido. His sense of personal honor puts him in a situation...
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1989
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A wealthy industrial family tries to overcome the death of their patriarch in this social melodrama. The eldest son inherits...
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1989
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This rambling film has no clear story but serves as a showcase for a number of popular musicians. Among those featured are...
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1988
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Alex Cox directed this hallucinatory bio-pic starring Ed Harris as 19th-century American adventurer William Walker, who...
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Yrena
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1987
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Twenty years ago, Juan witnessed his father's death in a smuggling operation across the U.S. border and knows that he was...
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Leticia
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1987
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Don Rogelio always had a roving eye, but after his feisty wife left him over fifteen years ago, he has been going after women...
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Aurelia Reyes
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1987
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This drama concerns a rich Mexican woman's outrage at the gap that separates the wealthy from the abjectly poor (there is not...
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Yolanda
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1986
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Dull-witted Mexican peasant Ernesto Gomez Cruz comes into possession of a rooster severely injured in a cockfight. He...
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La caponera
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1986
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1986
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An unhappily married husband takes off to Mexico in hopes of finding a fulfilling romantic interlude, and scores nothing but...
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Alicia
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1986
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This rare Costa Rican story takes place at the end of the colonial era and involves superstition, possession (of sorts), and...
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Petronila
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1985
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1985
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Set to the pulsating soundtrack of Mexican rock music, director Paul Leduc's gritty look at life in the ghettoes of Mexico...
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1985
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1985
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When a man's passion for gambling becomes too extreme, he manages to lose all of his worldly possessions. ~ Iotis Erlewine,...
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Carmen
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1984
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Director José Luis García Agraz, an independent filmmaker, opens this fast-paced drama with a murder and in flashbacks tells...
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Lilia
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1983
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In this detective venture, a gumshoe looks into the killing of a wealthy socialite. It is difficult as the killer was...
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1983
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The family film El Caballito Volador concerns a boy who, in order to save his family's farm, sets off with a flying pony for...
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1983
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This tantalizing blend of eroticism and mysticism was adapted from a novel by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Erendira...
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1983
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In this, the first of a two-part Soviet-made historical epic, the life of journalist John Reed is chronicled. Much of the...
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1982
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Based on a true story, the Mexican adventure film Juan Charrasqueado y Gabino Barrera tells the tale of the two title...
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1982
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1982
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In this average, made for pay-TV adventure yarn loosely based on Arthur Conan Doyle's Challenger's Gold, the archaeologist...
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B.G. Alvarez
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1982
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1981
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1981
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The gritty Mexican drama Perro Callejero 2 follows the continuing exploits of the lead character, a former orphan who finds...
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1981
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As cryptic as the title itself, Cripta is about an inmate in a mental hospital who is released to help solve the mystery of...
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1981
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The gritty Mexican drama Perro Callejero concerns a young orphan who has been raised in the meanest, poorest streets of...
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1980
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1979
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Rafael Villasenor Kuri's crime film El Coyote y la Bronca stars Vincente Fernandez as a con-man who treats people as nothing...
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1978
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In this sexy romantic comedy from Mexico, a college professor finds his life is turned upside down when he falls for a former...
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1978
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While searching for his father Pedro Parama, a young boy discovers only horror. He comes to a deserted village and begins to...
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1977
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1975
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An explorer in the New World braves the wrath of man and the fury of nature to transcend time and become legend in an epic...
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