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On a tobacco plantation, Ernesto and Helena, who have been married for several years, receive a visit from Joaquín, her cousin, who has just come out of rehabilitation and creates a love triangle situation.Read More »

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Though the kinky characters and aberrant social behavior common to the works of Spanish director Pedro Almodovar are very evident in his Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, the film is at heart a door-slamming farce in the grand tradition. The tiny apartment of pregnant actress Carmen Maura is the “Grand Central Station” setpiece for this dizzying tale. Distraught over her recent breakup with her lover, Carmen prepares to overdose on sleeping pills, which she blends into a gazpacho so they’ll go down easier. She is diverted from her suicide by her best friend Maria Barranco, a fugitive from justice (her boy friend is a Shi’Ite terrorist) who needs a place to stay. Later, when Carmen’s apartment is empty, her ex-lover’s grown son (Antonio Banderas) comes to the apartment with his fiance (Rossy de Palma) in answer to Carmen’s “room to let” newspaper ad. The wife inadvertently ingests Carmen’s “pill sauce,” and as she blissfully snoozes, the husband inaugurates an affair with Carmen’s friend Barranco.Read More »

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A desperate fisherman and a naive young man embark on a dangerous journey trafficking drugs up the Pacific coast of Colombia. Hidden beneath the waves, they tow a narco-torpedo filled with millions of dollars worth of cocaine. Together they must brave the war-torn region while navigating the growing tension between them.Read More »

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After being raped at a party, actress isolates herself when her brother Adrian doubts her story. While she copes through theater, playing Medea, Adrian spirals into darkness seeking revenge.Read More »

Based on the powerful novel by Ray Loriga: The lives of a young man and girl are united under dramatic circumstances. He has just shot in the face a security guard who accused him of stealing at a local mall. When he steals a car to escape, he meets a suicidal girl who is attracted to her new companion. Together they embark on a journey in search of true meaning for their lives.Read More »

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Story shows the genesis of the career and the rise of Esther the most beloved actress of most popular theater in Havana at the turn of the 19th century.Read More »

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Kaliman, The Incredible Man is one of best known superheroes ever created in Latin America (though curiously, the character himself isn’t Latino.)

Kaliman is a legendary magician/hero character. Dark skin and blue eyes, he is a mestizo. He was raised as a prince somewhere near Pakistan, but learned the secrets of the Tibetan monks. He has wealth, psychic powers, knowledge, and high moral values. He travels with an Egyptian child, “Solin”. Kaliman born as a radio series and soon have his own comic book. Starting with sales of 150,000 a week. It reached sales of 3,500,000 a week.
This first Kaliman film is perhaps the highest budgeted of any Mexican sci-fi film. Shooted in Egipt, with actors form Canada, Spain, Italy and Egypt. The film was processed in Italy, so it has a better color quality than most American films from that time.Read More »

An accomplished and “enchanting” fantasy-romance, this story of a couple’s love for each other and a pixie’s benevolent intervention in their lives is entertaining from beginning to end. Cesar (Francisco Rabal) is a fake sorcerer and travels with his wife Pilar (Concha Velasco) in a combination bus and house, performing magic shows for the public. One time when they are stuck in a ditch in the middle of nowhere, a young woman named Saga (Victoria Abril) helps them get out and back on the road again. It soon becomes clear by her actions that Saga is a friendly pixie-witch. She and her warlock cohort cause Cesar’s fake magic to really work — and that is just the beginning. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie GuideRead More »

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Litoral is a four-part 2008 Chilean TV miniseries written and directed by Raúl Ruiz. Originally subtitled “Tales of the Sea”, it is thematically similar to the director’s film Three Crowns of the Sailor (1983) and is the second of the oneiric folklore-themed miniseries’ he made for TVN, following on from La Recta Provincia (2007).Read More »