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The story of a disciplined and sexually driven man who keeps his family isolated in his home for years to protect them from the “evil nature” of human beings while inventing (with his wife) rat poison.Read More »
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Arturo Ripstein – El castillo de la pureza aka The Castle of Purity (1973) (HD)
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Arianne Benedetti – Más que hermanos AKA Beyond Brotherhood (2017)
Drama2011-2020Arianne BenedettiPanamaTwo young siblings ended up living on the streets, having nothing left but their love. It’s a story about survival, second chances and second falls.Read More »
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Alfredo Salazar – El Charro de las Calaveras AKA The Rider of the Skulls (1965)
1961-1970Alfredo SalazarHorrorMexicoWesternThe Rider of the Skulls, a masked (by a black handkerchief with eye-holes in it) Zorro-esque avenger, rides into town just in time to see a villager get his face torn off by a werewolf and he boards with the family of a boy being terrorized by the monster who’s identity hits close to home. After solving the mystery and putting the creature to rest with the help of a cackling witch who can raise the dead to provide a clue or two, Rider takes the kid and his comic, cowardly servant along on further adventures which include dispatching a bat-headed vampire and dueling to the death with a headless horseman looking for his lost cabeza. After righting these wrongs, our fearless hero and his ragtag band of rescues (including the senorita who inherited said talking head in a box) ride off into the sunset in search of more evil to vanquish–something the Rider vowed to do after bandidos murdered his parents.Read More »
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Albert Zugsmith – The Chinese Room (1968)
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Lourdes Portillo & Susana Blaustein Muñoz – Las madres de la Plaza de Mayo AKA The Mothers of Plaza De Mayo (1985)
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This Academy award-nominated documentary about the Argentinian mothers’ movement to demand to know the fate of 30,000 “disappeared” sons and daughters remains as extraordinarily powerful as when it was first released. As well as giving an understanding of Argentinian history in the ‘70s and ‘80s, LAS MADRES shows the empowerment of women in a society where women are expected to be silent. LAS MADRES provides a banner of hope in the international struggle for human rights.Read More » -
Jesús Franco – Rififí en la ciudad AKA Rififi in the City (1963)
1961-1970Film NoirJesus FrancoPoliticsSpainIn an unnamed Central American state on the eve of a crucial election, a young police informer working for police officer Miguel Mora bent on uncovering the shady works of popular politician Maurice Leprince is killed. However, thugs working for Leprince began to be killed one by one as well…Read More »
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Jesús Franco – Mil sexos tiene la noche AKA Night Has a Thousand Desires (1984)
1981-1990Film NoirHorrorJesus FrancoSpainIn this surreal and sensuous mystery/noir, Lina Romay (The Female Vampire, Lorna the Exorcist) plays Irina, a partner in a male-female mind reading act. At night she experiences vivid and charged dreams which end in murder. It seems that the people whose minds she reads are being killed off one by one. In the 1980s, after the death of the Spanish dictator, Jess Franco returned to his native country and made a series of films in which he was given almost total freedom. Night Has A Thousand Desires is one of the most artistically successful of these films. It’s filled with familiar Franco touches – artful cinematography, atmospheric locations, naked women, an avant garde soundtrack – and it features one of Lina Romay’s most committed performances.Read More »
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Patricio Guzmán – Mi país imaginario AKA My Imaginary Country (2022)
2021-2030ChileDocumentaryPatricio GuzmánPoliticsProtests that exploded onto the streets of Chile’s capital of Santiago in 2019 as the population demanded more democracy and social equality around education, healthcare and job opportunities.Read More »
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Carla Simón – Carta a mi madre para mi hijo aka Letter to My Mother for My Son (2022)
2021-2030Carla SimónShort FilmSpainA young woman travels from the 60s to the present day, via the 80s, crossing the thresholds of femininity and history, until she meets Carla next to the blue sky of the Catalan coast.Read More »









