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1) Hamlet
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La tragedia de Hamlet, príncipe de Dinamarca, es la pieza más larga de Shakespeare, y una de las más influyentes y traducidas de la literatura inglesa. El rey de Dinamarca es asesinado por su hermano Claudio. El fantasma del rey pide entonces venganza a su hijo, el Príncipe Hamlet, por traición, incesto y corrupción moral.
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The central focus in Volver is a family of women: mother and grandmother Irene, her daughters Raimunda and Sole, and Raimunda's 14-year-old daughter Paula. Irene is dead: She died with the girls' father in a fire many years ago in their birth village in La Mancha. Raimunda lives in Madrid with Paula and her shiftless husband, who is malevolent, irrelevant, or absent. Separated Sole runs an unlicensed beauty parlor in her apartment. Their old aunt,...
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Fifteen-year-old Tristan (Fernando Ramallo) is passionate about two things other boys his age are not-- growing up and penning his own biography. While his parents are away on vacation in Paris, he sets out to conquer both. However things don't go according to plan when he learns that his parents have been killed in an accident. This life altering event forces Tristan to mature but not according to his own intentions.
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Rodrigo and Roco are cousins with little in common but devotion to their grandfather. When the grandfather dies, other family members are consumed by the the old man's will and the distribution of the inheritance. The two cousins take it upon themselves to carry out their grandfather's wishes to have his ashes scattered into the sea at Acapulco and embark on a journey of self-discovery and mutual understanding.
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Criterion collection volume 427
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Upper-class geometry professor Juan and his wealthy, married mistress María José, driving back from a late-night rendezvous, accidentally hit a cyclist and run. The resulting tale of guilt, infidelity, and blackmail reveals the wide gap between the rich and the poor in Spain and surveys the corrept ethics of a society seduced by decadence.
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El Pachuco regresa a su pueblo natal Patzcuaro, despues de haber mantenido un pulso de 30 anos con la alambres de las fronteras y las balas de las autoridades de immigracion norteamericanas. Algunos viejos amigos han muerto, el amor de su juventud se ha casado, y los que quedan, como su fiel amigo Chavita, le muestran - cual cruel espejo - las huellas que el tequila en el que se reguian para olvidar el vacio de sus vidas ha dejado en sus rostros.
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When his ex-wife Nora dies right before Passover, José is forced to stay with her body until she can be properly put to rest. He soon realizes he is part of Nora's plan to bring her family back together for one last Passover feast. This leads Jose to reexamine their relationship, and rediscover their undying love for each other.
9) Amador
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Film Movement volume year 10, film 3
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Marcela, a young immigrant with financial troubles, finds a summer job looking after Amador, a bed-ridden elderly man whose family is away. She thinks her problems are solved, but Amador dies shortly thereafter, putting Marcela in a predicament. His death leaves her jobless, something she can't afford to let happen. Faced with a difficult moral dilemma, Marcela will prove that death can't always stop life.
11) El Arracadas
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Mariano Landeros es hecho jurar por su madre que buscara al asesino de su padre a como de lugar; la prueba de ello seria traer la arracada que Doroteo Carrillo le arrebato a su madre cuando el asesinato.
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Julia, a woman suffering from a degenerative sight disease, finds her twin sister Sara hanged in the basement of her house. Everything points to suicide, but Julia is compelled to investigate what she intuitively feels is a murder case. As Julia begins to uncover clues to the truth of her sister's death, those close to her begin to disappear. Her sight gone and confined to her sister's house, Julia soon finds herself trapped in a nightmare from which...
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The real life story of Andres Lopez Lopez aka 'Florecita' who after the killing of Pablo Escobar finds himself in the impossible position of having to go undercover for the DEA or go to the very prison where him mortal enemies wait to kill him. Turning states evidence, Florecita, rising through the ranks of the Colombian Cartel finds himself working two sides of the most dangerous battle known to man.
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"Javi believes he can hear the voices of the dead and that they whisper to him their secrets, which were left unspoken in life. At his mother's house in the mountains, he is fascinated by the room in which his father died and which his mother carefully keeps locked. But, Javi also learns that the living have their secrets as well."--Container.
17) Mandrill
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Mandrill's purpose is to avenge his parents' death. But his weakness is women and when he faces his ultimate challenge, the only obstacle is the beautiful daughter of the man he's supposed to eliminate.
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Nocturna: The Grea Old Man's Night - Ulysses is a hundred-year old man, battling for redemption on his last night on earth. Faced with imminent death, he is forced to rethink his past, his present, and his take on reality. Nocturna: Where The Elephants Go To Die - A woman narrates the final night on earth of a 100-year-od man, who fights for redemption from his life's misdeeds.
19) Nora's will
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When Nora dies before Passover, her ex-husband Jose is forced to stay with her body until she can be put to rest. Jose soon realizes that he is apart of Nora's plan to bring the family back together for one last Passover feast. Jose reexamines their relationship and their love for each other.
20) Lazos de amor
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María Guadalupe, María Paula y María Fernanda son trillizas idénticas sólo físicamente, ya que su forma de ser, vidas y destínos son diferentes. Cuando tenían tres años perideron a sus padres en un accidente automovilístico, en el que María Guadalupe desaparece y María Fernanda queda ciega. Ana Salas encuentra a María Guadalupe y la cria como si fuera su hija, pero el temor de que alguien la reconozca hace que dejen su pueblo y se trasladen...