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1) Julieta
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Julieta lives in Madrid with her daughter Antia. They both suffer in silence over the loss of Xoan, Antia's father and Julieta's husband. At times, grief doesn't bring people closer, it drives them apart.
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When Sonia receives the news that her husband's cancer has progressed to a terminal stage, she races to secure the insurance company approval for the care that can help him. Met with indifference and negligence at every turn, Sonia's desperation triggers a primal survival instinct as a series of increasingly violent confrontations unfold. A sharp, urgent tale of a distraught woman intent on protecting her family at all costs.
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Durante 25 años un crimen ha permanecido imborrable en la memoria de Benjamín Esposito, ahora, en su madurez decide volver sobre esa historia: recorrer de nuevo aquel pasado de amor, muerte y amistad, pero esos recuerdos puestos en libertad repasados unas mil veces, cambiarán su visión de ese pasado, y reescribirán su futuro.
Recently retired criminal court investigator Benjamín decides to write a novel based on a twenty-five-year-old unresolved...
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Romantic fantasy set in Mexico during the early 20th century. A young couple is blocked from marrying by the demands of the young woman's cold and selfish mother. To be near his love, the young man marries her sister, and she expresses her passion for him through her cooking.
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Patagonia, 1960. A German doctor meets an Argentinean family and follows them on along desert road to a small town where the family will be starting a new life. Eva, Enzo and their three children welcome the doctor into their home and entrust their young daughter, Lilth, to his care, not knowing that they are harboring one of the most dangerous criminals in the world. At the same time, Israeli agents are desperately looking to bring "the German doctor"...
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World-weary author Fernando has returned to his native Colombia to live out his days in peace. But Fernando's once-quiet hometown has become a hotbed of violence, drugs and corruption. On the brink of despair, Fernando meets Alexis, a beautiful but hardened street kid who lives by the rule of the gun. Together, they forge an unlikely relationship.--Container.
7) Tristana
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After the death of her mother, young Tristana goes to live with her guardian, Don Lope, an older man who eventually breaks through his facade of respectability and seduces her. She repays him a hundred fold, preying on his jealousy and taunting him with perverse whimsies.
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After learning of a former infantry mate's attempted suicide, journalist Esteban returns to the Falkland Islands (or in Argentina, known as the Malvinas) to confront the horrors he experienced as an eighteen-year-old soldier. Presents the harrowing story of a group of young men sent to fight an un-winnable war and left to bear its emotional scars.
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Hache returns to Madrid and the memory of Babi has accompanied him all this time. He fears the time to reconnect with her. He soon realizes that things have changed and that, little by little, he has to rebuild his life in Spain: make new friends, get a job, start a new phase ... When he meets Gin, a cheerful and beautiful girl, he thinks he can fall in love again. But it is not easy to forget Babi and when, by chance he encounters her, he feels his...
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After rescuing an orphan, a brave man about to marry finds himself on the run and becomes entrapped by his step-sister and another man; a revolutionary fighting for the rights of the poor doesn't see that a woman in his life is in love with him; a soldier is torn between his love for his country and his feelings for a beautiful woman who happens to be the enemy; a revolutionary soldier's fight against the government is complicated by his ex-girlfriend...
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When two gay thugs Angel (Eduardo Noriega) and El Nene (Leonardo Sbaraglia) join a plan to hold up an armored truck with a group of seasoned gangsters, their love and loyalty to each other is tested. Angel is wounded by police gunfire during the robbery, forcing El Nene to kill them all in a fit of rage. Things become complicated when they escape to Uruguay and the police threaten to torture the driver's moll if she doesn't tell them where they are....
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An unhappily married woman indulges in a brief, torrid affair with an engineer, but then refuses to leave her elderly husband. Twenty-five years later, the former lover leaves a fortune to her son, causing an uproar.
Una mujer infelizmente casada tiene una breve y apasionada aventura con un ingeniero, pero rehúsa dejar a su marido mayor de edad. Veinticinco años después, el ex-amante deja una fortuna a su hijo, causando un escándalo.
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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.
14) Julieta
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Julieta lives in Madrid with her daughter Antia. They both suffer in silence over the loss of Xoan, Antia's father and Julieta's husband. At times, grief doesn't bring people closer, it drives them apart.
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A collection of stories by Robert Munsch.
Bola de mugre: After a number of conflicts with a mud puddle, Jule Ann is victorious with soap as ammunition.
La estacion de los bomberos: Sheila and Michael visit the firehouse and ask to drive a firetruck, and while they don't get to take the wheel, they do manage to go to a fire.
La cola de caballo de estafania: Stephanie's experiments with ponytails create havoc at school when everyone begins to imitate...
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Un compositor está obsesionado con Susana y los dos tienen una aventura amorosa. Desgraciadamente, Susana tiene secretos malos en su pasado que él no los sabe.
Perfectionist composer Rodrigo's new obsession with the mysterious and alluring Susana. Cocooned in her home, the two enter a torrid love affair as Susanna opens up and tells Rodrigo stories of sexual encounters with her past lovers. As Rodrigo is both artistically inspired and romantically...
17) Romeo y Julieta
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"Morir de amor no es lo mismo que morir de risa. Acompañe a Cantinflas en esta historia que ni a Shakespiare se la habría ocurrido."--Container.
Comedic retelling of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.
18) El Apando
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"Los presos drogadictos, Albino, Polonio y El Carajo están encerrados en 'el apando, ' celda de castigo en la cárcel capitalina. Entre ellos surge una riña en la que resulta golpeado El Carajo, por quien sienten gran repulsión, y que acostumbra cortarse las venas para poder inyectarse la droga que Polonio le vende por veinte pesos."--Container.
Stark dramatization of the lives of drug addicts in a Mexico City prison.
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Heated tempers, frustrated desires and dashed hopes plague a diverse group of individuals whose lives cross paths in Mexico City. There is the bar-owner's son, Chava, who yearns to immigrate to America. A poor barber, Abel, is madly in love with the gorgeous Alma, who eventually becomes a high-class prostitute. Finally, there is Susanita, the desperate spinster who pursues many love affairs in hopes of finding a husband.
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Based on the hit novel by Ángeles Mastretta, the film portrays the story of a woman who dared to break the mold of her time. Catalina (Ana Claudia Talancón) is a woman from Puebla who marries Andrés Ascencio (Daniel Giménez Cacho), a sympathetic and powerful, as a way out of her little world and expecting to live great experiences. She soon discovers that her life has been chained to Andrés, and she has lost her freedom. Catalina will rediscover...