Armando, a middle-aged owner of a Caracas dental prosthesis business, is estranged from his father, who he observes occasionally from a distance. Read More »
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Alias María (2015) José Luis Rugeles, Carlos Clavijo, Anderson Gomez, Carmenza González, Drama, War
The 13 year old Maria is a member of a guerrilla unit in Colombia. She is sent for a special mission together with three others to bring the commander’s child into safety. Meanwhile she is pregnant herself.
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Choking Man (2006) Steve Barron, Octavio Gómez Berríos, Eugenia Yuan, Mandy Patinkin, Drama
Choking Man is an intense blend of psychological drama and magical realism that encapsulates the contemporary immigrant experience in America. Read More »
The Battle of the Sexes (1960) Charles Crichton, Peter Sellers, Robert Morley, Constance Cummings, Comedy
Man-eating businesswoman, Angela Barrows is sent by her US company to Edinburgh to investigate export opportunities. She meets businessman Robert MacPherson en route and he persuades her to help bring his company into the 20th century. The staff, lead by Mr. Martin, have other ideas and a battle between the old and new business methods breaks out.
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Son de mar / Sound of the Sea (2001) Bigas Luna, Jordi Mollà, Leonor Watling, Eduard Fernández, Drama, Romance
A new literature teacher, Ulises, comes to a small town near the sea and falls in love with a young woman, Martina.
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Sex Is Crazy (1981) Jesus Franco, ina Romay, Lynn Endersson, Antonio Mayans, Comedy, Erotic
A group of actresses appear in an adult science fiction film but are later abducted by real aliens who whisk them away in a flying saucer and impregnate them!
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Raging Bull (1980) Martin Scorsese, Robert De Niro, Cathy Moriarty, Joe Pesci, Biography, Drama, Sport
When Jake LaMotta steps into a boxing ring and obliterates his opponent, he’s a prizefighter. But when he treats his family and friends the same way, he’s a ticking time bomb, ready to go off at any moment.
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Vigil in the Night (1940) George Stevens, Carole Lombard, Anne Shirley, Brian Aherne, Drama
Nurse Anne Lee blames herself for a fatal mistake of her sister Lucy, who also is a nurse. Anne loses her job, and gets a new one at a poorly equipped country hospital. There she falls in love with Dr. Prescott, who is battling with Mr. Bowly, the chairman of the local hospital board, who also makes Anne’s life miserable. But then a virulent epidemic begins…
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Eréndira (1983) Ruy Guerra, Irene Papas, Claudia Ohana, Michael Lonsdale, Drama
While Erendira, a beautiful teenage girl, has a surreal mystical vision, her grandmother’s house catches on fire and burns to the ground.
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El rey del Once / The Tenth Man (2016) Daniel Burman, Alan Sabbagh, Julieta Zylberberg, Usher Barilka, Comedy, Drama
After years away, Ariel (Alan Sabbagh) returns to Buenos Aires seeking to reconnect with his father Usher, who founded a charity foundation in Once, the city’s bustling Jewish district where Ariel spent his youth.
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Lejos del mar / Far from the Sea (2015) Imanol Uribe, Elena Anaya, Eduard Fernández, José Luis García Pérez, Drama, Thriller
In 2009, and after 22 years in prison, a former ETA’s terrorist named Santi is released due to the Parot Doctrine (a polemic judicial resource to liberate activists and terrorists according their sentences and years in detention).
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Arrebatos (1998) Jesús Mora, Eusebio Poncela, Cecilia Roth, Will More, Documentary
Making-of documentary about Spanish auteur Iván Zulueta’s arthouse cult masterpiece “Arrebato” (1980) by Jesus Mora featuring interviews with cast and crew.
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Malas temporadas / Hard Times (2005) Manuel Martín Cuenca, Javier Cámara, Nathalie Poza, Eman Xor Oña, Drama
Four people are searching for their place in this world.
A beautiful singer (Leonor Watling) who has lost the ability to inspire is struggling to make sense of her life. Spending the remaining of her time in a wheelchair Laura is having second thoughts about what it means to be.
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Tapas (2005) José Corbacho, Juan Cruz, Ángel de Andrés López, María Galiana, Elvira Mínguez, Comedy, Drama
The film centers on a Spanish tapas bar and the love lives of the loosely interconnected people in the neighborhood surrounding the bar.
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Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy (1955) Charles Lamont, Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Marie Windsor, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy is the last of the team’s vehicles for Universal-International. Stranded in Egypt, Bud and Lou hire themselves out as travelling companions to archeologist Kurt Katch. Before long, Katch is murdered by a group of cultists, and a medallion, embossed with a map which leads to a sacred burial site, is accidentally swallowed by Costello. The boys become the unwilling pawns of the cultists, led by Richard Deacon, and a greedy adventuress, played by Marie Windsor. The last scene finds Costello being menaced by three mummies, two of them bogus.
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