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Tells the parallel stories of nine-year-old Carlitos and his mother, Rosario. In the hopes of providing a better life for her son, Rosario works illegally in the U.S. In Mexico, her mother cares for Carlitos. Unexpected circumstances drive both Rosario and Carlitos to embark on their own journeys in a desperate attempt to reunite. Along the way, mother and son face challenges and obstacles but never lose hope that they will one day be together again....
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Laura decides to purchase her beloved childhood orphanage with dreams of restoring and reopening the long abandoned facility as a place for disabled children. The new environment awakens the imagination of Laura's son. His ongoing fantasy games played with an invisible friend quickly turn into something more disturbing. Upon seeing her family increasingly threatened by the strange occurrences in the house, Laura looks to a group of parapsychologists...
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Rafael is a 42-year-old divorced father and restaurant owner who is overwhelmed with life. He feels guilty that he doesn't visit his mother, who is stricken with Alzheimer's disease; he lives in his father's shadow; he doesn't spend enough time with his daughter and he can't commit to his girlfriend. When a series of unexpected events happen, Rafael re-evaluates his life.
4) Madre
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Ten years have gone by since Elena's six-year-old son disappeared. The last thing she heard from him was a phone call he gave her, saying that he was lost on a beach in France and couldn't find his father. Now Elena lives on the same beach and manages a restaurant. She is finally beginning to emerge from this tragic episode when she meets a French teenager who strongly reminds her of her lost son. The two will embark on a relationship which will sow...
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"Maria Ortiz, una profesora de escuela de 19 años de edad, resulta violada y encarcelada al asumir la responsabilidad del asesinato de su violador en lugar de su madre"--Container.
Maria goes to jail after murdering her rapist. After she is released, she becomes one of the prostitutes that Veracruz is famous for.
8) Liverpool
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In the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, Farrel asks the captain of the freighter he works on to go ashore once they reach the port of Ushuaia, a town in southern Argentina. He wants to return to his birthplace and see if his mother is still alive. For the past twenty years he has worked as a seaman. Having reached the cluster of houses where he grew up, Farrel discovers his mother is indeed still alive, but someone else has become part of the family....
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A single mother decides to go on a trip from Santiago to the north of Chile with her only son. They are going to meet up with the child's father, a Chilean coal miner, after ten years of separation. The trip is plagued by silence, as the uneasy relationship between mother and son evolves and secrets of the past are brought to the surface. What is left unsaid may carry more meaning than anything spoken.
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Laura decides to purchase her beloved childhood orphanage with dreams of restoring and reopening the long abandoned facility as a place for disabled children. The new environment awakens the imagination of Laura's son. His ongoing fantasy games played with an invisible friend quickly turn into something more disturbing. Upon seeing her family increasingly threatened by the strange occurrences in the house, Laura looks to a group of parapsychologists...
11) Roma
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Un joven escritor debe escribir las memorias de un reconocido novelista, Joaquín Góñez, y lo que comienza como un simple trabajo se convierte en un reto personal, cuando para comprender las miserias de su personaje debe revolverle sus emociones. Joaquín se reencuentra con su pasado, viejos amigos y emores, pero entre todos sus recuerdos, la intensidad de uno, el de su madre Roma, revive para devolverle esa pasión por la vida que creía perdida.
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No hay distancia que pueda romper en enorme lazo que existe entre una madre y su hijo. Esa es la razón que motiva a Carlitos, un humilde niño de nueve años cuya madre emigró a los Estados Unidos en busca de una mejor vida para los dos. Mientras Rosario lucha día a día por un futuro prometedor, el destino obliga a CArlitos a emprender un viaje extraordinario para encontratse con ella. Tanto el público como la critica especializada han aclamado...
13) La gata
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Esmeralda, whom everybody calls "The Stray Cat," grew up in a suburban slum under miserable conditions. Ever since she was a little girl she has lived with Dona Rita, who exploits her by sending her out on the streets to beg in order to earn her keep. As a child, she became friends with Pablo, a wealthy child who cares for her and tries to help her behind his mother's back.
14) Espiritismo
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In compliance with a deep desire, a mother wants her dead son to come back to life.
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Refugio is a hardworking woman who was left to mother her sons alone after being abandoned by their father. Facing countless challenges and always thinking selflessly, she has provided for them with the modest income received from her job. However, she has received very little recognition for all her sacrifices, as her three sons, now adults, show little gratitude.
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At sixteen, David is much like any teenager, but his boyish good looks rest upon a hulking, muscular body. His weightlifting obsession is driven by his mother Juana, a troubled artist whose only goal is to have her son reach physical perfection by his seventeenth birthday. With countless hours spent at a grungy gym in the company of a motley clique of pumped-up gym rats, David desperately searches for what it means to be a man, whilst also navigating...
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Rodolfo (Trevino) is a young bachelor doctor who has a love affair with a younger music student, Ramon (Meza). When Rodolfo's mother begins to urge his son to get married, he quickly asks modern and open-mind Olga (Lupercio) to become his wife. Ramon is heart-broken, but Dona Herlinda (del Toro) has the final solution to make everybody happy: She asks Ramon to live with her, near by Rodolfo and Olga. Everybody together forever.
20) Las abandonadas
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Las abandonadas: A woman abandoned by her fiancé is obliged to do all kinds of work until she falls into the trap of prostitution. She has a son and manages to bring him up, paying his schooling without him knowing it. At the end her son mistakes her for a beggar and gives her money.
Bugambilia: Tells the story of a complex love affair between a foreman and the daughter of a mine owner.