Four women plan a dangerous strike against a band of Mexican drug traffickers. Motivated by revenge, this action could change their luck forever. The cast: power, lust and money.

Solo.quiero.caminar.AKA.Just.Walking.2008.576p.BluRay.x264-HANDJOB.mkv

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https://nitro.download/view/F5B9628F866911F/Solo.quiero.caminar.AKA.Just.Walking.2008.576p.BluRay.x264-HANDJOB.mkv

Language(s):Spanish, Korean, Russian
Subtitles:English

The post Agustín Díaz Yanes – Solo quiero caminar AKA Just Walking (2008) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Young photographer Andrés plans to marry his girlfriend, Alicia, but everything changes when he’s mugged by two women on the street. He becomes obsessed with one of his attackers, a beautiful but mentally ill woman named Isabel.

Lagrimas.negras.1998.DVDRip.x264-t0m.mkv

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https://nitro.download/view/F40BCD65C547386/Lagrimas.negras.1998.DVDRip.x264-t0m.mkv

Language(s):Spanish
Subtitles:English, Spanish

The post Fernando Bauluz & Ricardo Franco – Lágrimas negras AKA Black Tears (1998) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

A woman uncovers some unsettling truths about her country and its history in this drama from Spain. Lola (Ariadna Gil) is a writer who feels creatively stifled and hasn’t been able to work out a new idea in months. Looking for something to clear her creative block, She takes an assignment to write a piece about Rafael Sanchez Mazas (Ramon Fontsere), a writer who sided with the fascists during the Spanish Civil War. While legend has it Mazas was killed by Republican troops, the truth is he was given protection and shelter by Friends of the Forest, a group of men who lived in the woods. As Lola tries to search out Joaquim Figueras, one of the last surviving Friends of the Forest, she discovers a soldier who captured Mazas and was prepared to shoot him, but opted to let him go at the last moment. As Lola’s writer’s block dissolves, she digs deeper in search of the truth about this elusive man and his mysterious actions during the war. Soldados de Salamina was based on a true story and the real-life Joaquim Figueras appears in the film, along with several other people who took part in the shelter and capture of Mazas. From AllMovie

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https://nitro.download/view/64DA721F14C2120/Soldados_de_Salamina.2003.576p.Bluray.x264-Rony.mkv

Language:Spanish
Subtitles:English, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese

The post David Trueba – Soldados de Salamina AKA Soldiers of Salamina (2003) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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Even though Pedro Almodóvar was a major creative force in blowing away the severity of the Franco years, his films – like “Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown” – still caused shock-horror in the Spanish heartland. “Second Skin”, though by another director (Gerardo Vera), will almost certainly do likewise. Like Almodóvar, Gerardo Vera kicks aside the Catholic certainties of conservative Spain as he delineates the instability of a marriage, specifically caused by a husband who is torn between his wife and another man.

However, in a more general sense Vera seems to be pointing to what happens when a couple follows two different agendas, of which a gay relationship is only an extreme example. This is a film where the characters embrace desire, anxiety, insecurity, confusion and, finally, a small sign of hope, with the latter not couched in some cute ending.

Elena (Ariadna Gil) and Alberto (Jordi Molla) seem to be in a nice contented groove (she even seems happy when discussing their daily routine), and they have a pleasant flat and a kindly kid to prove it. She discovers hotel receipts in his suit, then declarations of love on his voicemail, and so family life begins to shake.

All three leads move convincingly from confidence through emotional agony to grappling with new lives, even though Elena is much too understanding on hearing the bad news. Still, the basic situation is nothing if not authentic, even if the screenplay moves forward in ordinary, obvious ways. It does, for example, highlight the symbolism of the colour red. The trick, of course, is to be able to include surprise within the bounds of credibility. Nonetheless, the low-key direction is pleasingly emphatic in this properly intense, claustrophobic tale of obsessive love.

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https://nitroflare.com/view/E46466EA424CEDB/Gerardo_Vera_-_(1999)_Second_Skin.mkv

Language(s):Spanish
Subtitles:English

The post Gerardo Vera – Segunda piel AKA Second Skin (1999) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

In 1944 falangist Spain, a girl, fascinated with fairy-tales, is sent along with her pregnant mother to live with her new stepfather, a ruthless captain of the Spanish army. During the night, she meets a fairy who takes her to an old faun in the center of the labyrinth. He tells her she’s a princess, but must prove her royalty by surviving three gruesome tasks. If she fails, she will never prove herself to be the the true princess and will never see her real father, the king, again.

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Set during Franco’s mopping up exercise after the Spanish Civil War, Guillermo Del Toro’s Pan’s Labyrinth is a wonderful, dark fairy tale that, in a metaphor for Spain itself, teeters on the edge of nightmare dreamscapes of corruption, violence and the death of innocents.

6.55GB | 1h 59mn | 1280×688 | mkv
https://nitro.download/view/D5607D41A79D676/Pans_Labyrinth_(2006).mkv

Language(s):Spanish
Subtitles:English

The post Guillermo del Toro – El Laberinto Del Fauno aka Pan’s Labyrinth (2006) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Review
Highly stylized
Noted Mexican filmmaker Arturo Ripstein (Deep Crimson) presents a highly stylized, almost stagebound, erotic melodrama about life in the 1940s in Mexico (filmed in the lush style of 1940s melodramas). It’s based on the story by Max Aub and penned by Alicia Paz Garciadiego. The narrative is in the form of a repetitious parable that is overlong, hitting many dull spots and at times insufferable to watch. It stays on message to show a series of themes (colonialism, class warfare, racial and idealogical divisions and revolutionary fervor in both Franco’s Spain and Mexico) based on real historical events and combines it with the fictional story of the willing enslavement to the upper-class of the peasant Indian Mexican named Nacho (Luis Felipe Tovar).

Nacho is a servile waiter at the Cafe Ofelia in Vera Cruz, whose corpulent boss Don Lazaro (Julian Pastor) prides himself as being a full-blooded Spaniard even though he was born and raised in Mexico. The obedient brown-skinned waiter relaxes at night by jerking off to porn photos, and puts up with his boss’s disrespectful way of treating him without getting angry (in a patronizing way the boss even likes Nacho). Things change one night when a sexy drunken, opium taking foreign whore, Lola (Ariadna Gil), hangs out at the bar and Nacho falls madly in love with her. Lola, who claims to be a Russian revolutionist living in Germany at one time as a circus performer and is not a Spaniard as the cafe owner believes, is only interested in a career-minded brutish masked wrestler named Gardenia Wilson (Alberto Estrella), whom she said gave her the best fuck she’s ever had in her life and wants desperately to reunite with him. When the wrestler encounters Lola he rejects her as a worthless slut, which doesn’t stop her from still wanting to become his slave lover. Meanwhile she has a sadistic streak in her and takes advantage of Nacho’s slave-like devotion of her to treat him like dirt while only allowing him to kiss her feet as he devotes his life to try and please her every whim. The masochistic relationship continues as a group of artistic Republicans, expatriates from Spain, regularly meet in the cafe and sing songs from Gilbert & Sullivan’s Mikado and impotently proclaim they should kill Franco. Nacho befriends the most human of the bunch, Gimeno (Juan Diego), who is a photographer of high-brow art that reflects his anarchist beliefs through historical reenactments. At his wit’s end and losing track of reality at a fast rate, Nacho believes he can gain Lola’s respect and thereby her love by killing Franco (something she echoes in her dreams). Nacho works things out with his photographer friend to stage a series of photos showing the waiter killing Franco.

The film is more satisfactory for its symbolic worth (only through art can one transcend the miseries of life), its arthouse look and beautiful visual sets (by production designer Antonio Munohierro) that offer a dazzling smoky atmosphere bordering on being surreal and other worldly than for its dramatics. Ripstein’s presentation of the revolutionists as futile dreamers who are delusional and who are as doomed as the waiter (the only hope for Mexico’s salvation if he can find that voice inside) and the floozy either because they can’t act on their desires or because their desires are too perverted, gives the film its gravitas but fails to uplift it emotionally. It was hard to care about any of the characters, who were only used for symbolic effect and never seemed like real flesh-and-blood people.
Dennis Schwartz, 6/20/2005

1.98GB | 2h 22m | 720×480 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/9B19253856AC001/The_Virgin_of_Lust_(2002)_–_Arturo_Ripstein.mkv
https://nitro.download/view/974431D62F3DD47/The_Virgin_of_Lust_(2002)_–_Arturo_Ripstein.srt

Language:Spanish
Subtitles:English (muxed, srt)

The post Arturo Ripstein – Virgin of Lust aka Virgen de la Lujuria (2002) first appeared on Cinema of the World.