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Two apprentice scammers who meet in a clinic on the Costa del Sol. By running the clinic they want to advertise. So they take advantage of the arrival of a deputy to cast him unnecessarily, waiting for the arrival of television cameras.Read More »

Heated tempers, frustrated desires and dashed hopes plague a diverse group of individuals whose lives cross paths in Mexico City. There is the bar-owner’s son, Chava (Juan Manuel Bernal), who yearns to emigrate to America. A poor barber, Abel (Bruno Bichir), is madly in love with the gorgeous Alma (Salma Hayek), who eventually becomes a high-class prostitute. Finally, there is Susanita (Margarita Sanz), the desperate spinster who pursues many love affairs in hopes of finding a husband. Adapted from the novel of the Egyptian Nobel prize winner Naguib Mahfuz. (From Film Movement)Read More »

Plot Summary
The film opens through the telescope lens of one of the city’s many colorful outcasts, as he watches a truck arriving carrying mattresses. We meet La Garza, the proprietor of The Smoking Fish nightclub and brothel and her current lover Dimas. Dimas, exuberant and yet full of suppressed dissatisfaction, is at his peak. We see him jubilant at the arrival of the fresh beds for the prostitutes and proud as he watches children celebrating round the burning pyres of old mattresses. But the ritual is tense and uneasy, foreshadowing the community’s easy embrace of substitutes.Read More »

A guerrilla group tries to kidnap a politician. In the attempt several policemen and a guerrilla are killed. By chance the head of the guerrillas is recognised by a former comrade; to prevent betrayal they kidnap him. The plot explores the divergent political views of the characters in a mixture of action, intrigue and the reality of the era.Read More »

A bloodcurdling drama by Argentinian director Diego Yaker starring Spanish actor Carmelo Gómez. An independent film that achieves maximum brilliance, PECADOS is the story of two young lovers who are unaware of a family secret that could destroy them.

Bepo and Lourdes are madly in love, but they have to confront the deep-rooted traditions of their small town and of their families, who share a horrible secret that could tear them apart. The scene: a remote Argentinian town whose devastating beauty makes it a key element of the film. A true Western carried by larger than life characters.Read More »

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A group of actresses performing in a production of Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night” get caught up in a web of romantic intrigue and revelation.Read More »

The film tells the story of the Boteros, a middle-class Mexican family struggling against poverty after their father’s death. Ignacia (Egurrola) is the Boteros mother, a desperate woman who chooses to sacrifice the destiny of her three older children, in order to protect Gabriel (Laguardia) the youngest one. She believes Gabriel will climb the social structure and bring back the lost fortune to the family. But destiny has other plans for the Boteros and tragedy will overcome eventually. Based on the novel of Nobel Prize winner Naguib Mahfouz.Read More »

Veronica, a very popular model on social networks, falls out of favor when she discovers that she is the main suspect in an investigation for the murder of her first daughter.Read More »

Tender and erotic love story of a respectable bourgeois housewife and a large black Alsatian dog.

Shot in 1977, the film employs bestiality as a symbol of Spain’s political landscape. It makes references to the massacre of Atocha and to political right wing groups that after the death of Francisco Franco, tried to maintain the dictator’s political ideals.Read More »