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1) La llorona
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Criterion collection volume 1156
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A country's bloody history stains the present in the Guatemalan auteur Jayro Bustamante's transfixing fusion of folk horror and searing political commentary, inspired by the real-life indictment of the authoritarian Efraín Ríos Montt for crimes against humanity. A notorious, now aging former military dictator stands trial for atrocities committed against Guatemala's Mayan communities. While battling legal repercussions and the people's demands for...
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In 1952, twenty-three year old medical student Ernesto Guevara de la Serna (later better known as Ernesto Che Guevara) just one semester away from graduation, decides to postpone his last semester to accompany his twenty-nine year old biochemist friend Alberto Granado on his four month, 8,000 km long dream motorcycle trip throughout South America starting from their home in Buenos Aires. Their quest is to see things they've only read about in books...
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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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Actress, seductress, political powerhouse and cultural icon of Argentina and the world, the life and legend of Maria Eva Duarte de Perón, or Evita, as she came to be known, endures to this day. Yet Evita, a woman of poor origins who rose to become the first lady of Argentina, was as hated by the upperclass of her country as she was loved by the poor masses whose causes she championed. Balances and finally completes the picture of Evita's life, death,...
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Joan of Castile (1479-1555, daughter of King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella) has gone down in history as "Joan the Mad." Sent alone to Brussels, sheltered eighteen-year-old Joan is a willing pawn in her political marriage to a young Hapsburg, Philip Archduke of Austria, known as "the Handsome, " consolidating Spain as regional power. Amazingly, Joan falls head-over-heels in love with Philip, who reciprocates initially, but then becomes noticeably indifferent....
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Told across eight different stories taking place in one 100-year-old room, the film explores the secret lives of its inhabitants, from the beginning of the twentieth century to the dawn of the new millennium. This intricately-woven film gives a compelling and profound portrait of modern Mexico from eight of the country's new breed of cinematic storytellers.
9) I am Cuba
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Four vignettes in Batista's Cuba dramatize the need for revolution; long mobile shots tell almost wordless stories.
10) Machuca
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"Explores Chile's bloody 1973 coup through the coming-of-age story of a pair of 12-year-old boys. From opposite extremes of society, Gonzalo and Pedro form an unlikely friendship as politics rip their world apart" -- Container.
12) Che
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Che Guevara, el joven idealista y revolucionario que luchó por los pobres y oprimidos, ha inspirado a una tras otra generación. Fascinante historia acerca de la intrépida vida del Che líder de una sangrienta rebelión socialista que sacudiría al mundo entero.
Rebel. Hero. Lover. Legend. Che has inspired generation after generation as the young idealist and revolutionary who fought for the poor and oppressed. A story about Che's fearless life...
13) Endless poetry
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Narrates the years of the Chilean artist's youth during which he liberated himself from all of his former limitations, from his family, and was introduced into the foremost bohemian artistic circle of 1940s Chile.
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Aquí está Heraclio Bernal : La historia comienz con el descubrimiento de una mina con una beta de oro muy rica y la avaricia de los poderosos para despojar matando a sus verdaderos propietarios. Heraclio Bernal y sus 4 hermanos juran vengarse. El rayo de Sinaloa : la venganza de Heraclio Bernal : Heraclio Bernal y sus 4 hermanos dejan a sus padres para levantarse en armas contra la injusticia del gobierno defendiendo con sus propias vidas los derechos...
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Narra de manera íntima la historia de un hombre bueno, el médico colombiano Héctor Abad Gómez, carismático líder social y hombre de familia, un destacado médico y activista por los derechos humanos en el Medellín polarizado y violento de los años 70. La trama relata la vida del doctor y padre de familia, preocupado tanto por sus hijos como por los niños de clases menos favorecidas. En su casa se respiraba la vitalidad y la creatividad características...
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La trama de la historia se desarrolla principalmente entre los años 1521 y 1531 y esta centrada casi en su totalidad en la persona de Topiltzin, hijo directo del emperador Moctezuma y quien se dedica al oficio de escribano. Como parte de la cultura mexica de entonces, Topiltzin también es un ferviente adorador de la diosa Tonantzin o diosa madre, situación que lo llevará poco mas tarde a enfrentarse a los españoles.
Mexico, 1521. The Spanish...
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Film Movement volume 2, film 2
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Carol, a 12-year-old Spanish-American girl from New York, travels with her mother to Spain in the spring of 1938, at the height of the Spanish Civil War. Separated from her beloved father, she arrives in her mother's home village and transforms the secretive family environment. Her innocence and rebellious nature drive her at first to reject a world that is both new and foreign. But she soon journeys into adulthood through a friendship with the village...
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El miedo no anda en burro: "Una viejita ha sido envenenada por sus parientes con el fin de apresurar la herencia que esperan. Sin embargo, se llevan la sorpresa que su victima le ha dejado todo su dinero a su gatita 'miau'."
Tonta, tonta pero no tanto: "Maria Epifania Jolote, una India analfabeta nacida en San Jose de los Burros se despide de sus padres, del cura y de su burro pues viaja hacia el Distrito federal en busca de su prima Eufemia quien...
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Bookended by a foiled attempt on Simon Bolivar's life in Bogota in 1828, the film charts the story of the revolutionary leader's impassioned fight for independence from Spain and creation of a united South American nation, the great stories of love and loss in his life, the political intrigue and drama following his ascension to power and his mysterious death.