In an isolated village in Extremadura (Spain), the Jiménez and Fuentes families have a violent history of land disputes, jealousy, envy, and violence.Read More »
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Carlos Saura – El 7º día AKA The 7th Day (2004)
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Juan Carlos Olaria – El diario rojo AKA The Red Diary (1982)
1981-1990ArthouseDramaJuan Carlos OlariaSpain

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Juan (Joan Estrada) and Ana (Anna Sales) suffer a marriage crisis. Ana’s pregnancy should harmonize her future, but John’s sterility will cause a whirlwind of unexpected emotions.Read More » -
Manuela Martelli – 1976 aka Chile ’76 (2022)
2021-2030ChileDramaManuela MartelliQuote:
Chile, 1976. Carmen heads off to her beach house. When the family priest asks her to take care of a young man he is sheltering in secret, Carmen steps onto unexplored territories, away from the quiet life she is used to.Read More » -
Fernando de Fuentes – El fantasma del convento AKA The Phantom of the Convent (1934)
Horror1931-1940AdventureFernando de FuentesMexicoAlfonso, Eduardo and Cristina get lost when visiting a forest. A strange monk finds them and takes them to an ancient convent. There, the three amigos suffer personality changes, specially Cristina who tries to seduce Alfonso in a strange coincidence to a story told by an old monk. After some efforts to escape, Alfonso is trapped inside a jail and more strange and macabre situations happen.Read More »
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Simón Mesa Soto – Madre AKA Mother (2016)
2011-2020ColombiaDramaShort FilmSimón Mesa Soto

16 year-old Andrea comes down from her poor neighborhood in the hills of Medellin to attend a downtown casting call for a porno film.
«Madre» premiered at Cannes Film Festival (Short Film Competition) in 2016.Read More »
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Nicolás Pereda – Dear Chantal (2021)
2021-2030MexicoNicolás PeredaShort FilmA mysterious, moving, miniature homage to Chantal Akerman, conceived as a series of playfully impossible letters addressed to the deceased cinema great that respond to her fictitious enquiry about renting his luminous Coyoacan apartment.Read More »
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Pau Teixidor – Purgatorio (2014)
2011-2020HorrorPau TeixidorSpainQuote:
Marta (Oona Chaplin) is a young woman who just lost her son and can not overcome the feeling of guilt for his death. After moving with her husband (Andrew Gertrúdix) to an apartment in a nearly empty building, her trauma takes hold of her during one night. Her flamboyant neighbor (Ana Fernández) knocks on their door to ask Marta to take care of her young son, a kid who seems to speak with the dead. As the hours pass, Daniel is adopting an increasingly nervous and violent behavior, and even claims to be accompanied by another child that no one can see. For Marta, a nightmare begins, during which her trauma gains an increasingly tight grip on her. Is it possible that the spirit of her son has followed her to her new home?Read More » -
Emilio Vieyra – Sangre de vírgenes AKA Blood of the Virgins (1967)
1961-1970ArgentinaCultEmilio VieyraHorrorA blood drenched vampire epic from the director of “The Curious Dr. Humpp”. A potent combination of Latin spice, Hammer-style horror and topless go-go dancing, this vampire movie from south of the border is a wild and untamed slice of raw cinema. A group of young swingers are on holiday in the mountains when their van breaks down. Seeking shelter in an abandoned lodge, they end up having a night none of them will soon forget… A raunchy and radical production – as you’d expect from the country that produced both Evita and Che Guevara.Read More »
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Rogelio A. González – La sangre enemiga AKA The Enemy Blood (1971)
Drama1971-1980CrimeMexicoRogelio A. González

A group of people suffering from mental retardation, blindness and physical malformations work in a traveling circus.
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If there is a controversial Mexican cinema that tried to renew itself, it is undoubtedly that of the seventies. A tough and sad drama that tackles thorny and controversial issues under a trashy layer of violence, sex and exploitation. I give it high marks for the audacity of filming this at that time of censorship, unthinkable that today something like this (so politically incorrect) would be filmed in Mexican cinema.Read More »





