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1) The dictator
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The creators and star of Borat bring you the hilarious comedy about what happens when the world's worst dictator comes to America. Stuck in New York and stripped of his power, Aladeen is finally forced to live his ultimate nightmare, the American dream. Featuring never-before-seen footage, that's outrageous and shamefully funny!
2) Commando
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Colonel John Matrix is retired from the army. He lives in the mountains of California with his daughter Jenny. Jenny is kidnapped by Bennett, one of John's former soldiers. Bennet's boss, exiled Latin American dictator Arius, demands that John assassinate the president of Arius's country so Arius can reinstate himself as dictator. John is put on a southbound airplane with a guard, but before the airplane can take off, John snaps the guard's neck,...
4) Paraiso
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A balsero (rafter) flees from Cuban dreams gone wrong and lands in a Miami of no return, where desperation to change his life leads him to commit despicable acts. A controversial and subversive taste of an imagined freedom, Paraiso explores generational and class divides within the Cuban exile community seldom addressed in cinema. This movie, part thriller, part drama, part existential romance, explodes with heart, color, and music.
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"Karl Marx dejó tras de sí un impresionante legado teórico y una descendencia extensa. Dejó también un vástago adicional, hijo de la criada de la casa, al que nunca quiso reconocer y que entregó a su compañero, Engels. A través de otra hija bastarda de Marx, fruto de la aventura con una aristócrata rusa, Clara Obligado retrata toda una educación amorosa y sexual --no hay variante que no encuentre su preciso y sugerente relato--, y conforma...
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"Llegó la hora de recapitular. Hay que ir haciendo las maletas. Desaparecer es una actividad ingrata que solo se justifica porque es la única prueba irrefutable de que hemos vivido". Las anticipadas memorias del escritor y periodista cubano Carlos Alberto Montaner hablan de cuanto él ha visto y oído, de lo que ha creído y lo que recuerda. Aunque, y el autor lo advierte con antelación, entretejidos en esos recuerdos puede haber algunos pasajes...
8) El profeta
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Exiled artist and poet Mustafa embarks on a journey home with his housekeeper and her daughter; together the trio must evade the authorities who fear that the truth in Mustafa's words will incite rebellion.
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En esta impactante novela negra, Imanol Caneyada retrata con crudeza un mundo en el que imperan el poder del narcotráfico, las mentiras, el crimen, la corrupción, los asesinatos y la violencia. A través de una trama envolvente y personajes delineados con exactitud, Tardarás Un Rato En Morir nos cuenta la historia de un ex gobernador mexicano y su fiel ayudante, quienes deben partir en secreto hacia Canadá. Su exilio es la única manera de rehuir...
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An exiled Cuban is entrenched, armed to the teeth, in his carpentry shop to prevent him from being captured. While waiting for the arrival of the police, he Facetimes, explaining the reasons why he intends to face the authorities. His story, sometimes humorous, is intertwined with three of his friends (an art critic, a hustler and an Argentine psychologist) offering a fresh take on the recent political and cultural history of the American continent...
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Julio Méndez, novelista chileno ya en la cincuentena, exiliado en Española y obsesionado por un éxito que no llega, se debate con su ansiedad y sus intuiciones sobre la propia mediocridad, al tiempo que se ve atormentado por las figuras de una todopoderosa agente literaria y del máximo escritor de su tiempo. Desgarrada y tragicómica, cotidiana y patética, la novela explora los laberintos de la marginalidad interior, así como el destierro, las...
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The celebrated Uruguayan writer relays the personal pain and extensive social damage brought on by authoritarian repression and exile. Through a novel voicing the profound disruptions to human relations under a regime of military dictators, Benedetti, an exile himself, denounces the political authorities and empowers the people with a passionate hope for their country and the message that spring never fails to follow even the most oppressive of winters....
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""A haunting coming of age story that reads like a Dickensian novel, though. all true."-Helen Thorpe, journalist. Never before released in Spanish, Boxeando por Cuba memorializes Guillermo Vicente Vidal's emigration to America at the behest of his parents, fearful of Fidel Castro's regime. This is his story of overcoming incredible odds"--
"In 1961, fearing the communist rule of Fidel Castro, Guillermo Vicente Vidal's family sent him to America through...