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A choir of creatures introduces a world delicately constructed by fantasy, mystery, and magical realism in Francisca Alegra̕s poignant and stunning debut feature. It begins in a river in the south of Chile where fish are dying due to pollution from a nearby factory. Amid their floating bodies, long-deceased Magdalena bubbles up to the surface gasping for air, bringing with her old wounds and a wave of family secrets. The shocking return sends her...
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A dark fable set five years after the end of the Spanish Civil War. Eleven-year-old Ofelia comes face to face with the horrors of fascism when she and her pregnant mother are uprooted to the countryside, where her new stepfather, a sadistic captain in General Franco's army, hunts down Republican guerrillas who refuse to give up the fight. The violent reality in which she lives merges seamlessly with a fantastical interior world when Ofelia meets a...
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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.
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Criterion collection volume 459
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After a lavish dinner party in a stately mansion, the guests believe themselves unable to leave the premises. As the days pass, the elaborate facades of their social positions collapse and they are forced to live like animals. Finally discovering they are actually free to leave, they go to church to give thanks, where they are again trapped.
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Luego de vivir un intenso momento de crisis personal y familiar, Bruno - un policía corrupto abandonado por su exposa - se pierde en el arrepentimiento y la lujuria. Un día descubre por casualidad un extraño pasadizo que lo conduce a otra realidad en donde su vida anterior no es más que una película y él un personaje dentro de la misma.
Bruno is a policeman who is struggling through a complicated personal and family crisis. After he sleeps...
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"An indigenous language is in peril as its last two speakers, Evaristo and Isauro, had a quarrel in the past and haven't spoken to each other in over fifty years. Martín, a young linguist, will undertake the challenge to bring the old friends back together and convince them to once again talk to each other, all so he can obtain a recorded registration of the language and study it. However, hidden in the past, in the heart of the jungle, lies a secret...
11) Astro boy
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A scientist creates a robot boy with super powers, x-ray vision and the ability to fly in this animated adventure.
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When Daniel Anderson visits a foster home to drop off donations, he₂s roped into telling the kids a story. Daniel weaves a tale about a 13-year-old Billy Stone and his best friend, Allie, who uncover a long-lost medallion and wish themselves back in time 200 years. Billy and his friend jump off waterfalls, sneak through caves, and battle their nemesis on an island from which they cannot escape, unless Billy discovers the key to reclaiming the medallion...
14) El hombre búfalo
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Sigue Eric, un periodista jóven en la Ciudad de México quien deja de escribir después de recibir amenazas de muerte. Obsesionado con un anciano sin tech quien tiene Alzheimer y un ser mítico quien se cuida de niños abandonados, decide escribir de nuevo, aun se lo tiene que pagar con la vida. Desde el 2000, al menos 133 periodistas se han asesinado en México--calificado por la organización Reporters Without Borders como el país sin guerra más...
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"El soldadito de plomo": Hardy es diferente a todos los otros soldados - la fábrica se quedó sin plomo cuando le tocaba su turno y sólo había bastante para una pierna. "El Tesoro Dorado": La esposa del tambor siempre había querido un niño y había deseado que cuando su niño naciera pudierta tocarle un destello de luz del sol dorado. "El profesor y la pulga": El sueño del profesor es construir un dia un globo volante como el de su padre.
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17) Rito terminal
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The patron saint celebration in an indigenous community is the setting where a photographer loses his shadow. In a spiritual exchange during a traditional funeral, he will also lose the convictions that keep him tied to his world. In order to recover, he will have to travel an initiatory path along with the inhabitants of the community, sharing a different way of approaching the environment. However, only when he accepts the loss of his shadow will...
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Dorana es una hermosa joven que vive una vida dificil. Ella sueña con ser feliz pero el distino la privó desde bebé do una jejor vida a causa de una persona cruel. En una noche tempestuosa, Dorana es transportada por arte de magia a un mundo desconocido, llamado L Tierre de Oz. Cuando se entera qaue ella es la elegida para salvar a Oz de la tiranía de una bruja malavada, Dorana se embarca en un viaje heroico, lleno de revelaciones maravillosas...
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Dorana es una hermosa joven que vive una vida dificil. Ella sueña con ser feliz pero el distino la privó desde bebé do una jejor vida a causa de una persona cruel. En una noche tempestuosa, Dorana es transportada por arte de magia a un mundo desconocido, llamado L Tierre de Oz. Cuando se entera qaue ella es la elegida para salvar a Oz de la tiranía de una bruja malavada, Dorana se embarca en un viaje heroico, lleno de revelaciones maravillosas...