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Criterion collection volume 838
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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...
2) Daniel & Ana
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Two siblings are both at defining moments in their lives. Ana is about to be married and Daniel is a teenager discovering his personal and sexual identity. Yet the harmony in their lives is instantly shattered when they are kidnapped and something happens which forces them to confront their desires and fears. Nothing they have known will ever be the same again.
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Three different people are catapulted into dramatic and unforeseen circumstances in the wake of a terrible car crash: a young punk stumbles into the sinister underground world of dog fighting; an injured supermodel's designer pooch disappears into the apartment's floorboards; and an ex-radical turned hit man rescues a Rotweiler with a gunshot wound.
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"Fernando es un hombre arruinado completamente por el alcohol y quien ha sido injustamente culpado de un crimen. Para probar su inocencia debe enfrentarse a una familia muy poderosa que quiere su silencio a toda costa. Un drama que le puede ocurrir a cualquiera y que muy pocos pueden sobrevivir!"--Publisher's website.
10) Drama/Mex
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Two interlaced stories unfold over the course of the same long, hot day in the once lush and now decadent resort town of Acapulco. The first involves the beautiful and cool Fernanda, who is forced to deal with the sudden emergence of her ex-lover, Chino. Her boyfriend, Gonzalo, must now compete with the intense sexual tension Fernanda and Chino share. The second story concerns Jamie, an office worker with hidden indiscretions, attempting suicide in...
11) El criminal
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Cuando la injusticia quiere imponerse, solamente las agallas de un hombre adolorido por fuertes penas puede hacer que este lo entregue todo para hacerse justicia.
A one-legged man fights the injustices done to him and his family.
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Star anchorman Manolo Bonilla has flown to a small town in Ecuador with producer Marisa and cameraman Ivan on the trail of a child serial killer and rapist. The accidental death of a young boy brings the town to the verge of lynching Vinicio Cepeda, a humble traveling salesman. Manolo's intervention saves the man's life, and makes a great story for his show in Miami. Vinicio is put in jail for involuntary manslaughter and he offer Manolo information...
15) Sobre ella
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A group of friends learns how to stick together despite everyday problems.
17) El tahur
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"Martin Estrada y Raul Vida desde niños riñen por el amor de Alejandra pero el padre de ella rechaza a Martin por ser solo capataz de la hacienda y permite a Raul aprovechar de ella ya que él es rico. Decepcionado Martin se marcha a buscar fortuna regresando despues de un tiempo con mucho dinero y convertido en un tahur profesional encontrando a Raul en la ruina y sin saber lo que pasaba con Alejandra."--Publisher's website.
18) El Zurdo
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Pedro, el Zurdo es un joven jugador de cartas que es asaltado por unos tipos a cuales les había ganado una partida de poker. A verle la cara a uno de sus agresores, el le dispara. A salir del pueblo, el Zurdo encuentra un niño llorando alado del herido, su padre. Mientras el niño jura a vengar la muerte de su pardre, el Zurdo lo ayuda enterrarlo no sospechando que fue el que lo mato.
Pedro, Lefty is an young gambler who is jumped by a group of...
20) Macario
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A surrealistic, allegorical portrayal of poverty, hunger, and death in a 16th-century Mexican village.