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Total number of titles:  149


cover   Director: Alberto Durant
Starring: Germán González, Elsa Olivero, Orlando Sacha, Juan Manuel Ochoa, Enrique Victoria, Gonzalo de Miguel, Ramón García, Aristóteles Picho
Genre: Foreign Film - Spanish//Misc Sa
Studio: Facets Video   Release date: 1991   Rated:   
Language (Country): spanish ( Peru )
Summary: The escapades of the real life criminal "La Gringa"


cover   Director: Alberto Lattuada
Starring: Gabriel Byrne, Rossano Brazzi, Virna Lisi, Oliver Reed, Raf Vallone, Max von Sydow, Eli Wallach, Nicol Williamson, Faye Dunaway, Michel Auclair, William Berger, Keith Buffery, Anne Canovas, Elpidia Carrillo, Massimo Girotti
Genre: Adventure
Studio: A & E Home Video   Release date: 1985   Rated: NR   
Language (Country): spanish ( Italy )
Summary: The epic mini-series tells the story of the legendary Italian-born explorer Diego de Geona Taino, later known as Christopher Columbus, from his birth in c.1450 Genoa, Italy, to his young adult years as an expert sailor and navigator who, with money funded from the monarchy of Spain, sailed to the unknown West to find Asia in 1492, and instead found a 'New World' of the modern day West Indies to South America, and then follows his later years in his 50's as a tired, ailing man whose dreams of exploration and discovery to which he passed onto his son, and other followers, just before his death in 1506.


cover   Director: Mario Camus
Starring: Ana Belén, Maribel Martín, Mario Pardo, François-Eric Gendron, Fernando Fernán Gómez, Charo López, Francisco Rabal, María Luisa Ponte, Jean-Marc Thibault, Mary Carrillo, Manuel Alexandre, Francisco Algora, Luis Ciges, Tote García Ortega, Francisco Marsó
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Studio:   Release date: 1980   Rated:   
Language (Country): spanish ( Spain )
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cover   Director: Juan Pablo Rebella, Pablo Stoll
Starring: Daniel Hendler, Jorge Temponi, Alfonso Tort, Valentín Rivero, Walter Reyno, Damián Barrera, César Herrera, Judith Anaya, Federico Veiroj, Valeria Mendieta, Silvio Sielsky, Claudio Martínez, Teresita González, Roberto Suárez, Gonzalo Eyherabide
Genre: Comedy
Studio:   Release date: 2001   Rated:   
Language (Country): English ( Uruguay )
Summary: 24 hours in the life of three street youths in Montevideo.


cover   Director: Alejandro Amenábar
Starring: Eduardo Noriega, Penélope Cruz, Chete Lera, Fele Martínez, Najwa Nimri, Gérard Barray, Jorge de Juan, Miguel Palenzuela, Pedro Miguel Martínez, Ion Gabella, Joserra Cadiñanos, Tristán Ulloa, Pepe Navarro, Jaro, Walter Prieto
Genre: Drama
Studio:   Release date: 1997   Rated: R   
Language (Country): Spanish ( Spain )
Summary: A very handsome man finds the love of his life, but he suffers an accident and needs to have his face rebuilt by surgery after it is severely disfigured.


cover   Director: José Luis Garci
Starring: Fernando Fernán Gómez, Rafael Alonso, Cayetana Guillén Cuervo, Agustín González, Cristina Cruz, Alicia Rozas, Fernando Guillén, Francisco Piquer, María Massip, José Caride, Francisco Algora, Emma Cohen, Juan Calot, Concha Gómez Conde, Antonio Valero
Genre: Drama
Studio:   Release date: 1998   Rated: PG   
Language (Country): English ( Spain )
Summary: After his son dies, an elderly man comes back to Spain from the US and hopes to find out which of his granddaughters is true, and which one is bastard.


cover   Director: Jaime Oriol, Antonio Tarruella
Starring: Eduardo Bea, Charly Bravo, Ralph Brown, José María Caffarel, Guido Castillo, Fernando Conde, Luis Escobar, Cristina Higueras, Fernando Hilbeck, Daniel Martín, José Morales, Tomás Picó, Aldo Sambrell, Michael Sandow, Luis Suárez, Jack Taylor, Fabiola Toledo
Genre: Documentary
Studio: Red Distribution, In   Release date: 1989   Rated: NR   
Language (Country): spanish ( Spain )
Summary: Discover the world’s most luxurious trains and relive a bygone era, when the journey itself was the most significant part of the experience; rather than simply getting there. A journey where the passenger becomes a real traveler and is able to experience the much more gracious way of travel - in a living recreation of the golden age of rail.
A full seven days aboard this decadent train, through the wondrous vistas of Spain’s Andalucia, Granada, Seville and one of the seven wonders of the world, the spectacular Alhambra.



cover   Director: Daniel Gruener
Starring: Susana Zabaleta, Alejandro Tommasi, Ricardo Blume, Delia Casanova, Francis Laboriel, Roberto Cobo, Zaide Silvia Gutiérrez
Genre: Foreign Film - Mexican
Studio: Facets Video   Release date: 1996   Rated:   
Language (Country): spanish ( Mexico )
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cover   Director: Carlos Saura
Starring: Antonio Gades, Cristina Hoyos, Laura del Sol, Juan Antonio Jiménez, Emma Penella, La Polaca, Gómez de Jerez, Enrique Ortega, Diego Pantoja, Giovana, Maria Campano, Candy Román, Enrique Pantoja, Manolo Sevilla, Antonio Solera
Genre: Music
Studio:   Release date: 1986   Rated:   
Language (Country): spanish ( Spain )
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cover   Director: Alejandro González Iñárritu
Starring: Emilio Echevarría, Gael García Bernal, Goya Toledo, Álvaro Guerrero, Vanessa Bauche, Jorge Salinas, Marco Pérez, Rodrigo Murray, Humberto Busto, Gerardo Campbell, Rosa María Bianchi, Dunia Saldívar, Adriana Barraza, José Sefami, Lourdes Echevarría
Genre: Drama
Studio:   Release date: 2000   Rated: R   
Language (Country): Spanish, French ( Mexico )
Summary: A horrific car accident connects three stories, each involving characters dealing with loss, regret, and life's harsh realities, all in the name of love.


cover   Director: Josetxo San Mateo
Starring: Pilar López de Ayala, Unax Ugalde, Beatriz Argüello, Pilar Barrera, Carlos Caniowski, Federico Celada, Antonio Dechent, Barbara de Lema, Juan Díaz, Jesús Fuente, Ion Gabella, Tran Him Chong, Paca Lorite, Anabel Mateo, Nuria Mencía, Jesús Noguero, Rafael Palmero, María Alfonsa Rosso, Beatriz Sánchez, Benjamín Seva, Juan Viadas
Genre: Drama
Studio:   Release date: 2000   Rated:   
Language (Country): Spanish ( Spain )
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cover   Director: Héctor Olivera
Starring: Thelma Biral, José María Gutiérrez, Enrique Alonso, Max Berliner, Juan José Camero, Rey Charol, Cristina Fernández, Fernando Iglesias 'Tacholas', Antonio Iranzo, Juan Carlos Lamas, Noemí Laserre, Raúl Lavié, Antonio Mónaco, Francisco Rabal, Ricardo Trigo, Jorge Villalba
Genre: Western
Studio:   Release date: 1975   Rated:   
Language (Country): ( Argentina )
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cover   Director: Julian Schnabel
Starring: Susana Zabaleta, Alejandro Tommasi, Ricardo Blume, Delia Casanova, Francis Laboriel, Roberto Cobo, Zaide Silvia Gutiérrez
Genre: Feature Film-drama
Studio: New Line Home Entertainment   Release date: 2001   Rated: R   
Language (Country): spanish ( Mexico )
Summary: Based on the posthumously published memoir by Cuban poet Reinaldo Arenas, "Before Night Falls" is artist-director Julian Schnabel's second exercise in artist biography, but where Schnabel's earlier film "Basquiat" was relatively conventional, this film is bolder in both style and execution. Schnabel is perhaps too enamored of his subject as a noble martyr, lending the film a somewhat inflated sense of importance. Still, it's rare to see an artist's life and work so elegantly interwoven, and "Before Night Falls" uses all of Arenas's life as its canvas, from impoverished youth to lively gay freedom in mid-1950's Cuba; imprisonment during Castro's antigay regime; and to New York City in 1980, followed by Arenas's battle with AIDS and subsequent suicide (depicted here as assisted) in 1990.
Through these extreme rises and falls, Arenas is always writing, his typewriter his most faithful lover and weapon (by way of smuggled manuscripts) against the dark forces that surround him. As "Time" magazine's Richard Corliss wrote, Arenas is "a serious actor's dream role: to be a gay Jesus in a modern Passion Play," and Javier Bardem--the first Spanish actor to receive an Oscar nomination--inhabits the role with subtle ferocity, charting this emotional odyssey with outer reserve but blazing infernos of internal passion. And while Schnabel suffers from a hyperactive camera, there's poetry here--visual, dramatic, and literal--and vibrant humor to temper the deep tragedy of Arenas's life. Schnabel also uses his actor friends to good advantage: a nearly unrecognizable Sean Penn adds an ironic touch to his brief appearance as a peasant, and Johnny Depp is both funny and fearsome in dual roles as a drag queen and vicious army interrogator. "--Jeff Shannon"



cover   Director: Sam Peckinpah
Starring: Javier Bardem, Olivier Martinez, Andrea Di Stefano, Johnny Depp, Michael Wincott, Olatz Lopez Garmendia, Giovanni Florido, Loló Navarro, Sebastián Silva, Carmen Beato, Cy Schnabel, Olmo Schnabel, Vito Maria Schnabel, Pedro Armendáriz Jr., Diego Luna
Genre: Feature Film-action//Adventure
Studio: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer   Release date: 1974   Rated: R   
Language (Country): spanish ( USA )
Summary: Sam Peckinpah knew he couldn't call a movie Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia and get away with it. That's why he did it. When he undertook this nakedly personal project, in self-exile in Mexico, the director was a deeply bitter man out of favor with critics, the media, and the Hollywood establishment, which had just released his Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid in a mutilated version. "Bring Me the Head..." sounded like the parody title of an ultraviolent Sam Peckinpah movie, and he flung it in our faces just as his onscreen surrogate tosses the titular object at the camera./ / Thing is, the movie is a masterpiece--raw, shocking, beautiful, and brave--in which Peckinpah confronts his enemies and his own demons. Warren Oates plays a gringo piano-player stuck in Mexico who hears that some powerful men are willing to pay a bounty on a guy he knows. They don't know the guy is already dead, killed in a car accident. It'll be easy to exhume the trophy and collect the money--except that it will cost our seedy hero everything he has and ever wanted./ / John Huston's Treasure of the Sierra Madre had always been a key legend for Peckinpah; this film is a subterranean re-imagining of it, with Oates as both the son of Fred C. Dobbs and the carnival-mirror reflection of Peckinpah himself. And Isela Vega's performance as the sainted whore Elita--bruised and worldly one minute, radiant and clear-skinned as a child the next--is an act of grace. --Richard T. Jameson/ /


cover   Director: José Luis Cuerda
Starring: Fernando Fernán Gómez, Manuel Lozano, Uxía Blanco, Gonzalo Uriarte, Alexis de los Santos, Jesús Castejón, Guillermo Toledo, Elena Fernández, Tamar Novas, Tatan, Roberto Vidal Bolaño, Celso Parada, Celso Bugallo, Antonio Lagares, Milagros Jiménez
Genre: Drama
Studio:   Release date: 1999   Rated: R   
Language (Country): Spanish, French ( Spain )
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cover   Director: Nicolás Echevarría
Starring: Emilio Echevarría, Gael García Bernal, Goya Toledo, Álvaro Guerrero, Vanessa Bauche, Jorge Salinas, Marco Pérez, Rodrigo Murray, Humberto Busto, Gerardo Campbell, Rosa María Bianchi, Dunia Saldívar, Adriana Barraza, José Sefami, Lourdes Echevarría
Genre: Foreign Film - Spanish//Misc Sa
Studio: New Concorde Home Video   Release date: 1992   Rated: R   
Language (Country): spanish ( Mexico )
Summary: Complaints about how this film departs from the original memoir are unfair for two reasons:



1) In order for any historical film to stand on its own, it needs to mess with the original and find its own truth and shape. Film is art, not history. The question is: does this film entertain and fascinate us? It does!



2) Cabeza de Vaca's memoir is full of gaps--he doesn't go into detail about alot of the things he experienced and how he survived. For example, in the span of one chapter (a few pages in his memoir), he tells us that several years have gone by. Thus, the film makers had some flexibility with regards to being creative. In fact, Cabeza de Vaca states in his preface to the king that he is intentionally leaving things out for the purpose of brevity. Also, there was another reason not to spill all the beans-- in light of the Inquisition, there might have been experiences he left out on purpose.



This is one of the finest films about the Conquest of the New World ever made. Don't miss it. If you enjoy it, read the original story.



cover   Director: Héctor Olivera
Starring: Thelma Biral, José María Gutiérrez, Enrique Alonso, Max Berliner, Juan José Camero, Rey Charol, Cristina Fernández, Fernando Iglesias 'Tacholas', Antonio Iranzo, Juan Carlos Lamas, Noemí Laserre, Raúl Lavié, Antonio Mónaco, Francisco Rabal, Ricardo Trigo, Jorge Villalba
Genre: Western
Studio:   Release date: 1975   Rated:   
Language (Country): ( Argentina )
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cover   Director: Richard T. Heffron
Starring: Susu Pecoraro
Genre: Foreign Films - Argentinian
Studio: Facets Video   Release date: 1984   Rated: NR   
Language (Country): spanish ( )
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cover   Director: Carlos Saura
Starring: Susana Zabaleta, Alejandro Tommasi, Ricardo Blume, Delia Casanova, Francis Laboriel, Roberto Cobo, Zaide Silvia Gutiérrez
Genre: Horror
Studio:   Release date: 1996   Rated:   
Language (Country): spanish ( Mexico )
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cover   Director: Montxo Armendáriz
Starring: Mulie Jarju, Eulalia Ramón, Ahmed El-Maaroufi, Akonio Dolo, Albert Vidal, Rosa Morata, Mamadou Lamine, Ly Babali, M'Barick Guisse, Joaquín Notario, Manuel Millán, Jordi Serrat
Genre: Drama
Studio:   Release date: 1990   Rated:   
Language (Country): spanish ( Spain )
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cover   Director:
Starring: Gregorio Casals
Genre: Foreign Film - Mexican
Studio: Compania Oxxo   Release date: 2003   Rated: NR   
Language (Country): spanish ( )
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cover   Director: Robin D. Williams
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Genre: Kids & Family/ Educational/ Special Interests/ History
Studio:   Release date: 1984   Rated:   
Language (Country): spanish ( Argentina )
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cover   Director: Antonio Eguino
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Studio:   Release date: 1976   Rated:   
Language (Country): spanish ( Bolivia )
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cover   Director: Rafael Montero
Starring: Arcelia Ramírez, Demián Bichir, Germán Dehesa, Rodolfo Arias, Maya Mishalska, Juan Manuel Bernal, Alpha Acosta, Angélica Aragón, Alfredo Sevilla, Leticia Huijara, Plutarco Haza, Mercedes Pascual, Alejandro Bichir, Jesús Ochoa, Juan Carlos Colombo
Genre: Comedy
Studio:   Release date: 1995   Rated: PG-13   
Language (Country): ( Mexico )
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cover   Director: Francisco J. Lombardi
Starring: Warren Oates, Isela Vega, Robert Webber, Gig Young, Helmut Dantine, Emilio Fernández, Kris Kristofferson, Chano Urueta, Donnie Fritts, Jorge Russek, Chalo González, Don Levy, Enrique Lucero, Janine Maldonado, Tamara Garina
Genre: Drama
Studio: Coleccion Literaria   Release date: 1974   Rated: NR   
Language (Country): spanish ( Mexico )
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cover   Director: Jaime Osorio Gómez
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Genre: Foreign Film - Spanish//Misc Sa
Studio: Facets Video   Release date: 1975   Rated:   
Language (Country): spanish ( Mexico )
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cover   Director: Eliseo Subiela
Starring: Guillermo Battaglia, Alicia Bruzzo, Kátia D'Angelo, Jorge D'Elía, Alicia Dolinski, Marlene França, José María Gutiérrez, Gloria Guzmán, Susana Lanteri, Raúl Lavié, Arturo Puig, Chela Ruíz, Jofre Soares, Marcos Woinsky
Genre: Drama
Studio:   Release date: 1981   Rated:   
Language (Country): spanish ( Argentina )
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cover   Director: Rafael Montero, ,
Starring: Verónica Merchant, Rafael Sánchez Navarro, Carmen Montejo, Odiseo Bichir, Cristina Michaus, Lorena Rojas, Francisco de la O, Jorge Galván, Norma Herrera, Ana Martín, Jairo Gómez, Salvador Garcini, Tony Marcin, Luis de Icaza, Alfredo Sevilla
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Studio:   Release date: 2001   Rated:   
Language (Country): Spanish ( Mexico )
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cover   Director: Carlos Saura
Starring: Jaime Fernández, Gregorio Casal, Rosalía Valdés, Rosa Maria Tijerina, Alicia Montoya, Anaís de Melo, Alejandro Parodi, Aurora Clavel, Raúl Meraz, Alicia Palacios, Victorio Blanco
Genre: Foreign Film - Spanish//Misc Sa
Studio: Home Vision Entertainment   Release date: 1975   Rated:   
Language (Country): spanish ( Mexico )
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cover   Director: Francesco Rosi
Starring: Rupert Everett, Ornella Muti, Gian Maria Volonté, Irene Papas, Lucia Bosé, Anthony Delon, Alain Cuny, Sergi Mateu, Silverio Blasi, Carlos Miranda, Rogerio Miranda, Vicky Hernández, Leonor González, Caroline Lang, Carolina Rosi
Genre: Drama
Studio:   Release date: 1987   Rated:   
Language (Country): spanish ( Colombia )
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cover   Director: Guillermo del Toro
Starring: Antonio Gades, Cristina Hoyos, Laura del Sol, Juan Antonio Jiménez, Emma Penella, La Polaca, Gómez de Jerez, Enrique Ortega, Diego Pantoja, Giovana, Maria Campano, Candy Román, Enrique Pantoja, Manolo Sevilla, Antonio Solera
Genre: Horror
Studio: Vidmark//Trimark   Release date: 1994   Rated: R   
Language (Country): spanish ( Spain )
Summary: For some reason I developed an early low opinion of Mexican horror films and have since avoided them. Fortunately I didn't realize Cronos was Mexican ans so got to see this truly unusual film directed by Guilliermo del Toro. While it will never win a place on the heights there's a surprising amount of inventiveness and imaginative film work in something that probably has one-tenth the budget of the average Hollywood failure.

Imagine, if you will that a European alchemist fled Europe to Mexico in the 16th Century. Gaining appointment as the Governor's clockmaker he set about making a machine that would prolong his life. He succeeds and lives until a building collapses on him in modern times. His estate is broken up and sold and the real story begins when an antique dealer, Jesus Gris (Federico Luppi), acquires a statue of an angel. In it he finds a golden scarab-like machine. One with horrific powers that Jesus inadvertently activates.

Seeking the scarab for his own purposes is Dieter de la Guardia (Claudio Brook) and his last remaining relative Angel (Ron Perlman). They will stop at nothing, but a repeatedly foiled by the scarab's power over Jesus. Another key player is Aurora Gris (Tamara Shanath) who has no lines but seems to preside over the life and death drama that plays out before her.

There are a few grim and violent moments, but, for the most part, Cronos gains its momentum from its atmospherics. Imagine a screenplay written by Poe and directed by Fellini with echoes of Don't Look Now and you will have a sense of the film's feeling. Colors are dark, sets are detailed, and the minimal special effects are telling. Especially the insides and operation of the clockwork scarab.

The film is as much about the value of life as it is a horror or suspense story. Clumsy at some times and subtle at others, the message gets through with an ending which leaves just enough in question to haunt the viewer. The approach is novel, a very different twist on the vampire genre, and I found myself liking it more the longer I watched it. Definitely worth viewing.


cover   Director: Lautaro Murúa
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Genre: Drama
Studio:   Release date: 1984   Rated:   
Language (Country): spanish ( Argentina )
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cover   Director: Karim Dridi
Starring: Miguel Del Morales, Pepín Vaillant, Mirta Gonzáles, Aníbal Ávila, Alberto Pablo, Armandito Machado, Mario Sanchez Martinez, Zaida Reyte, Gilberto Mendez, Alejandro Almenares, Paisan Mallet, Eulises Sanchez, Carlo Boromeo Planchez, Cándido Fabré
Genre: Documentary
Studio:   Release date: 2000   Rated:   
Language (Country): Spanish ( France )
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cover   Director: Ignacio Ortiz
Starring: Arturo Ríos, Luisa Huertas, Miguel Santana, Ana Graham, Dagoberto Gama, Leticia Gutiérrez, Baltimore Beltran, Mayra Serbulo, Natalia Traven, Ari Brickman, Rodolfo Guerrero, Salomón Reyes, Iván Rafael González, Graham Hernández Erdely, José Concepción Macías
Genre: Drama
Studio:   Release date: 2002   Rated:   
Language (Country): ( Mexico )
Summary: A man who travels back to the house of his father, grandfather and backwards.


cover   Director: Pedro Almodóvar
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Genre: Foreign Film - Spanish//Misc Sa
Studio: Cinevista Inc.   Release date: 1984   Rated: NR   
Language (Country): spanish ( )
Summary: Who but Pedro Almodóvar would make a movie in which a nightclub singer named Yolanda, whose boyfriend has died from a heroin overdose, hides from the police in a nunnery--only to discover that the nuns have more perverse lifestyles than her own? The nuns of "Dark Habits" use drugs, write lurid pulp novels, design high-fashion habits, and keep a tiger in their courtyard. Yolanda (Cristina Sanchez Pascual) gets caught up in the head nun's scheme to regain the patronage of a wealthy noblewoman, but betrayal, illicit love, and a campy musical number are waiting in the wings. "Dark Habits" features Almodóvar regulars Carmen Maura and Marisa Paredes, as well as a bit part by Cecelia Roth of "All About My Mother". Fans of Almodóvar's magnificent later films (like "Habla Con Ella" (Talk to Her)) may find "Dark Habits" a bit thin, but it offers its own charms and comic delights. "--Bret Fetzer"


cover   Director: Tomas Gutierrez
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Genre: Foreign Film - Spanish//Misc Sa
Studio: New Yorker Films   Release date: 1976   Rated: NR   
Language (Country): spanish ( Spain )
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cover   Director: Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón
Starring: Geraldine Chaplin, Mónica Randall, Florinda Chico, Ana Torrent, Héctor Alterio, Germán Cobos, Mirta Miller, Josefina Díaz, Conchita Pérez, Juan Sánchez Almendros, Mayte Sanchez
Genre: Foreign Film - Spanish//Misc Sa
Studio: Connoisseur//Meridian Films   Release date: 1976   Rated:   
Language (Country): spanish ( Spain )
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cover   Director: Carlos Saura
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Genre: Foreign Film - Spanish//Misc Sa
Studio: Home Vision Entertainment   Release date: 1993   Rated:   
Language (Country): spanish ( Mexico )
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cover   Director: Daniel Barone
Starring: Adrián Suar, Leticia Brédice, Alfredo Casero, Jorge Marrale, Juan Leyrado, María Rosa Fugazot, Christina Banegas, Marta Betoldi, Alejandro Awada, Gabriel Correa, Eugenia Guerty, Juan Manuel Gil Navarro, Diego Reinhold, Diamela Viani, Franco Infantino
Genre: Drama
Studio:   Release date: 2003   Rated:   
Language (Country): English ( Argentina )
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cover   Director: Betty Kaplan
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Genre: Foreign Film - Spanish//Misc Sa
Studio: Urban Vision Enterta   Release date: 1993   Rated: R   
Language (Country): spanish ( Mexico )
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cover   Director: Bruno Barreto
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Genre: Foreign Film - Portugese
Studio: Fox Lorber   Release date:   Rated:   
Language (Country): spanish ( )
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cover   Director: Jaime Humberto Hermosillo
Starring: Pablo Serra, Gustavo Bueno, Luis Álvarez, Juan Manuel Ochoa, Eduardo Adrianzén, Liliana Navarro, Miguel Iza, Alberto Isola, Jorge Rodríguez Paz, Ramón García, Lourdes Mindreau, Aristóteles Picho, Antonio Vega, Isabel Duval, Ricardo Mejía
Genre: Foreign Film - Mexican
Studio: Vanguard Cinema   Release date: 1986   Rated: NR   
Language (Country): spanish ( Peru )
Summary: Doña Herlinda is a delightfully singular movie character, a doting widow who wants it all--a happy son, grandchildren, and the respect of her neighbor--and quietly, lovingly manipulates the world around her to get it. Her devoted son, Rodolfo, is gay, but that's no problem: she practically adopts Ramon, his young lover, and even moves him into their house ("Rodolfo's bedroom is big," she smiles with convincing innocence) while simultaneously arranging for Ramon's marriage. Writer-director Jaime Humberto Hermosillo has nothing but respect for his characters, especially Guadalupe Del Toro's sweet and sly Doña Herlinda, a woman who projects naïve innocence while determinedly stage-managing her unconventional family unit. In other hands this might be a recipe for tragedy, but Hermosillo spins it into a lovingly subversive comedy of tolerance, acceptance, and keeping up appearances. --Sean Axmaker


cover   Director: Carlos Saura
Starring: Omero Antonutti, Lambert Wilson, Eusebio Poncela, Gabriela Roel, Inés Sastre, José Sancho, Patxi Bisquert, Francisco Algora, Féodor Atkine, Abel Vitón, Francisco Merino, Mariano González, Gladys Catania, Alfredo Catania, Gustavo Rojas
Genre: Drama
Studio: Paramount Home Video   Release date: 1988   Rated: PG   
Language (Country): spanish ( Spain )
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cover   Director: Carlos Saura
Starring: Iñaki Aierra, Ofelia Angélica, Álvaro de Luna, Marion Game, Magdalena García, Alicia Hermida, Pablo Hernández Smith, Jacques Lalande, Clara Merin, Isabel Mestres, Luisa Rodrigo, Alicia Sánchez, Antonio Saura, Pedro Sempson, Assumpta Serna, Julien Thomas
Genre: Drama
Studio:   Release date: 1982   Rated:   
Language (Country): spanish ( Spain )
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cover   Director: Juan Carlos de Llaca
Starring: Osvaldo Benavides, Rodrigo Cachero, Ana de la Reguera, Otto Sirgo, Rosa María Bianchi, Pilar Ixquic Mata, Alejandro Tommasi, Gina Morett, Alexia Witt, Emilio Cortés, Héctor Ortega, Xavier Masse, Ricardo Esquerra, Ana Karla Kegel, Elena Paola Kegel, Hugo Villa
Genre: Comedy
Studio:   Release date: 2000   Rated: R   
Language (Country): Spanish ( Mexico )
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cover   Director: Luis Buñuel
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Genre: Drama
Studio:   Release date: 1953   Rated:   
Language (Country): spanish ( Mexico )
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cover   Director: Luis Buñuel
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Genre: Foreign Film - Mexican
Studio: Xenon Studios   Release date: 1952   Rated: NR   
Language (Country): spanish ( )
Summary: The Brute is a slaughterhouse worker who more than makes up in muscle what he lacks in brain power. He's hired by a landlord to intimidate his unwanted tenants, but ends up seducing the daughter of one of them, much to the annoyance of the landlord's wife, with whom he's also having an affair... In Spanish No Subtitles. El Bruto trabaja en el matadero, y lo que le falta de cerebro le sobra de fuerza. Un propietario lo contrata para echar fuera a inquilinos indeseados, pero el Bruto seduce a la hija de uno de ellos, cosa que molesta a la esposa del propietario, con quien el Bruto también tiene relaciones… In Spanish No Subtitles.


cover   Director: Robert Rodriguez
Starring: Carlos Gallardo/ Consuelo Gómez
Genre: Foreign Film - Spanish//Misc Sa
Studio: Columbia//Tristar Studios   Release date: 1995   Rated: R   
Language (Country): spanish ( )
Summary: Filmmaker Robert Rodriguez captured the world's attention with this little 1992 film, made for only $7,500 (not counting the cost of a little prerelease polish) and originally destined for the Spanish- language video market. An enterprising studio executive saw the enormous Spielbergian talent in Rodriguez's work and decided to get El Mariachi out to the international public. A tight, inventive, highly entertaining movie from start to finish, the story concerns a guitarist mistaken for a hired killer and forced to fight a local crime boss and his army of goons. Rodriguez makes clever use of every available prop, from guitar cases to a beat-up bus to a funny-looking dog. But his promise as a director--he went on to make Desperado and From Dusk till Dawn--is evident in every scene. --Tom Keogh


cover   Director: Leon Ichaso/ Orlando Jiménez Leal
Starring: Berta Socuéllamos, José Antonio Valdelomar, Jesús Arias, José María Hervás Roldán, María del Mar Serrano, Consuelo Pascual, André Falcon, Yves Arcanel, Yves Barsacq, Suzy Hannier, Alain Doutey, Joaquín Escola, Matías Prats
Genre: Foreign Film - Spanish//Misc Sa
Studio: New Yorker Films   Release date: 1981   Rated: G   
Language (Country): spanish ( Spain )
Summary: Cuando Cantinflas aparece en el campo de batalla, hasta el diablo se hecha a correr.


cover   Director:
Starring: Maria Felix
Genre: Foreign Film - Mexican
Studio: Ventura Distribution   Release date: 1946   Rated: NR   
Language (Country): spanish ( )
Summary: During the Mexican Civil War, a revolutionary general (Armendáriz) and his troops seize the conservative town of Cholula, near Mexico City. Even as the revolutionaries mistreat the wealthy people of the town, the general falls for beautiful and wild Beatriz Peñafiel (María Félix), the daughter of one of the town's richest men. In Spanish No Subtitles En los tiempos de la Revolución, un general guerrillero (Armendáriz) y sus tropas capturan el pueblo de Cholula, en las cercanías de la capital. Mientras los revolucionarios maltratan a los ricos del pueblo, el general se enamora de la bella e impetuosa Beatriz Peñafiel (María Félix), hija de uno de los más ricos hombres de Cholula. In Spanish No Subtitles


cover   Director: Ruy Guerra
Starring: Irene Papas, Claudia Ohana, Michael Lonsdale, Oliver Wehe, Rufus, Blanca Guerra, Ernesto Gómez Cruz, Pierre Vaneck, Carlos Cardán, Humberto Elizondo, Jorge Fegán, Francisco Mauri, Sergio Calderón, Martín Palomares, Salvador Garcini
Genre: Drama
Studio:   Release date: 1983   Rated:   
Language (Country): spanish ( France )
Summary:


cover   Director: Jaime Humberto Hermosillo
Starring:
Genre: Feature Film-comedy
Studio: New Line Studios   Release date: 1953   Rated:   
Language (Country): spanish ( Mexico )
Summary:


cover   Director:
Starring:
Genre: Music
Studio:   Release date: 1987   Rated:   
Language (Country): spanish ( USA )
Summary:


cover   Director: Luis Buñuel
Starring: Pedro Armendáriz, Katy Jurado, Rosa Arenas, Andrés Soler, Roberto Meyer, Beatriz Ramos, Paco Martínez, Gloria Mestre, Paz Villegas, José Muñoz, Diana Ochoa, Ignacio Villabajo, Jaime Fernández, Raquel García, Lupe Carriles
Genre: Foreign Film - Spanish//Misc Sa
Studio: Hen's Tooth Video   Release date: 1953   Rated:   
Language (Country): spanish ( Mexico )
Summary:


cover   Director: Ruy Guerra
Starring: Pedro Armendáriz, Katy Jurado, Rosa Arenas, Andrés Soler, Roberto Meyer, Beatriz Ramos, Paco Martínez, Gloria Mestre, Paz Villegas, José Muñoz, Diana Ochoa, Ignacio Villabajo, Jaime Fernández, Raquel García, Lupe Carriles
Genre: Foreign Film - Spanish//Misc Sa
Studio: Fox Lorber   Release date: 1953   Rated:   
Language (Country): spanish ( Mexico )
Summary:


cover   Director: Humberto López y Guerra
Starring:
Genre: Documentary
Studio:   Release date: 1976   Rated:   
Language (Country): spanish ( Sweden )
Summary:


cover   Director: Carlos Saura
Starring: La Paquera de Jerez, Merche Esmeralda, Manolo Sanlúcar, Joaquín Cortés, Manuel Moneo, Agujeta, Mario Maya, Paco Toronjo, Antonio Toscano, Fernanda de Utrera, José Meneses, Maria Pagés, Enrique Morente, José Mercé, Manuela Carrasco
Genre: Music
Studio:   Release date: 1995   Rated:   
Language (Country): Spanish ( Spain )
Summary:


cover   Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Starring: Marisa Paredes/ Juan Echanove
Genre: Foreign Film - Spanish//Misc Sa
Studio: Columbia//Tristar Studios   Release date: 1996   Rated: R   
Language (Country): spanish ( )
Summary: Pedro Alomodóvar made this misfired, rambling comedy about a romance novelist (Marisa Paredes) whose crumbling marriage has left her depressed and unable to work. At a low point, she writes a scathing indictment of her own books (which are penned under another name), with no one realizing critic and author are one and the same. Almodóvar (Law of Desire) has the start of a great idea here, and for once, he's direct about his sympathy for a character. But nothing else about The Flower of My Secret is so clear. Despite its unusual allegiance to the straightforward "women's films" of the 1950s, this movie blows it by becoming needlessly complicated over extraneous junk, forcing one to grope in the dark for Almodóvar's point. --Tom Keogh


cover   Director: Julie Taymor
Starring: Salma Hayek, Mía Maestro, Amelia Zapata, Alejandro Usigli, Diego Luna, Alfred Molina, Lucia Bravo, Valeria Golino, Patricia Reyes Spíndola, Loló Navarro, Roger Rees, Fermín Martínez, Roberto Medina, Ashley Judd, Antonio Banderas
Genre: Biography
Studio:   Release date: 2002   Rated: R   
Language (Country): English, French, ( USA )
Summary: A biography of artist Frida Kahlo, who channeled the pain of a crippling injury and her tempestuous marriage into her work.


cover   Director: Carlos Saura
Starring:
Genre: Special Interests
Studio: Home Vision Entertainment   Release date: 1953   Rated: NR   
Language (Country): spanish ( Mexico )
Summary:


cover   Director: Susan Seidelman
Starring: Judy Davis, Marcia Gay Harden, Lili Taylor, Juliette Lewis, Courtney Jines, María Barranco, Christopher Bowen, Pep Molina, Víctor Álvaro, Steve Itkin, Sergi Ruiz, Gloria Casas, Aitor Extravizz, Glòria Roig, Saskia Lange
Genre: Comedy
Studio:   Release date: 2001   Rated: R   
Language (Country): English ( Spain )
Summary: Alone in a foreign city, Cassandra must solve a family's darkest, deepest secrets before she can confront her own past.


cover   Director: John Widdicombe, ,
Starring:
Genre: Music
Studio:   Release date: 1998   Rated:   
Language (Country): English/French/German/Spanish/Italian/Romanian ( UK )
Summary:


cover   Director: Rafael J. Salvia
Starring:
Genre: Documentary
Studio: Studio Home Entertainment   Release date: 1973   Rated: R   
Language (Country): spanish ( Spain )
Summary:


cover   Director: Luis Bunel
Starring:
Genre: Foreign Film - Spanish//Misc Sa
Studio: Water Bearer   Release date: 1983   Rated: R   
Language (Country): spanish ( USA )
Summary:


cover   Director: Fernando Sanchez
Starring:
Genre: Television & Documentary/ Music Documentaries/ Special Interests/ History
Studio:   Release date:   Rated:   
Language (Country): spanish ( )
Summary:


cover   Director: Leopoldo Torre Nilsson
Starring:
Genre: Drama
Studio:   Release date: 1975   Rated:   
Language (Country): spanish ( Argentina )
Summary:


cover   Director: François Truffaut
Starring: Charles Denner, Brigitte Fossey, Nelly Borgeaud, Geneviève Fontanel, Leslie Caron, Nathalie Baye, Valérie Bonnier, Jean Dasté, Sabine Glaser, Henri Agel, Chantal Balussou, Nella Barbier, Anne Bataille, Martine Chassaing, Ghylaine Dumas
Genre: Comedy
Studio:   Release date: 1977   Rated:   
Language (Country): French, Spanish ( France )
Summary:


cover   Director: María Luisa Bemberg
Starring:
Genre: Foreign Film - Spanish//Misc Sa
Studio: Columbia//Tristar Studios   Release date:   Rated:   
Language (Country): spanish ( )
Summary:


cover   Director: Jaime Chávarri
Starring:
Genre: Foreign Film - Spanish//Misc Sa
Studio: Fox Lorber   Release date: 1979   Rated:   
Language (Country): spanish ( USA )
Summary:


cover   Director: María Luisa Bemberg
Starring:
Genre: Foreign Film - Spanish//Misc Sa
Studio: First Run Features   Release date: 1995   Rated: R   
Language (Country): spanish ( )
Summary: One of my best friends saw that I was reading a novel about Sor Juana, SOR JUANA'S SECOND DREAM, by Alicia Gaspar de Alba, and recommended this film to me -- with the admonishment to ignore the tawdry blurb on the cover: "Lesbian passions seething behind convent walls", indeed! How ridiculous -- it would be like describing FORREST GUMP as "partying with coeds in a dorm room after hours". It's a cheap attempt to draw the wrong conclusions about this moving story. Don't let it put you off.
This film about the amazing woman who has been called Mexico's 'Tenth muse' -- a reference to the title Plato bestowed on Sappho -- is a beautiful piece of film-making. Even considering the scenes that were meant to be outdoors, that were obviously shot on a sound stage, this is a lovely experience. The direction is superb, the acting amazingly sensitive -- I was enthralled, and I usually don't enjoy films with subtitles.
Sor Juana was an amazing woman -- intellectual, creative, always pushing her own boundaries, and brave. For a woman in her era (seventeenth century Mexico) to profess that women had just as much right to an education, to learning, as men, set her against some powerful forces -- mainly the hierarchy of the Catholic Church. Her courage and determination in the face of such opposition is inspiring -- it's easy to see why she's seen as a hero by so many.



cover   Director: Sergio Cabrera
Starring: Margarita Rosa de Francisco, Imanol Arias, Pastora Vega, Humberto Dorado, José Luis Borau, Mirta Ibarra, Fausto Cabrera, David Riondino, Antonino Iuorio, Toni Zenet, Gabriel Latorre, Gustavo Pérez de Ayala, Fanny Mikey, Julio Medina, Luis Fernando Munera
Genre:
Studio:   Release date: 1996   Rated:   
Language (Country): Spanish ( Colombia )
Summary:


cover   Director: J.J. Bigas Luna
Starring:
Genre: Foreign Film - Spanish//Misc Sa
Studio: Fox Lorber   Release date:   Rated:   
Language (Country): spanish ( )
Summary: Salted pork shanks as leitmotiv in a dark comedy about an absurd love triangle: this is what post-Franco cine is all about (food and sex). Spanish tortillas (i.e., potato omelets) are also big in this one. Director José Juan Bigas Luna's Jamón Jamón is intelligent, wry, and--despite the formulaic narrative that melodrama must essentially contain--unpredictable. At times his film exudes a certain Almodóvar flavor, but there is an edge, perhaps a heavy-handedness, to the dark humor that is either Luna's success or his downfall. The film garnered the Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival, after all. Try to follow: sexy Penelope Cruz (Belle Epoque) is growing up with her mother outside town on the highway, on the wrong side of the highway. Together they run a truck stop where cars and life literally race past. Cruz is in love with Jordí Molla, by whom she is pregnant. Molla's bourgeois mother, played by Anna Galiena (Being Human), thinks he can and should do better. (Of course, neither Cruz nor his mother knows of the erotic, hmm, avian interludes Molla enjoys on the side.) To save her son from the lower classes, Galiena hires Javier Bardem, a muscular, pretty man (whose regular consumption of the pork he distributes for a living has enhanced his sexual appeal) to pursue Cruz. The dark comedy finds a proper ending to the triangle in a grotesque but comedic landscape of death. This is not a cookie-cutter movie but rather one that will resonate with both your light and dark sides. After each surprise, you'll chuckle, feel guilty, and chuckle again. --Erik Macki


cover   Director: Gustavo Graef-Marino
Starring:
Genre: Action
Studio:   Release date: 1993   Rated:   
Language (Country): English, Spanish ( Chile )
Summary:


cover   Director: Pedro Almodovar
Starring: María Félix, Pedro Armendáriz, Fernando Fernández, José Morcillo, Eduardo Arozamena, Miguel Inclán, Manuel Dondé, Eugenio Rossi, Norma Hill, Juan García, José Torvay, Pascual García Peña, Arturo Soto Rangel, Enriqueta Reza, Rogelio Fernández
Genre: Foreign Film - Spanish//Misc Sa
Studio: Vidmark//Trimark   Release date: 2002   Rated: Unrated   
Language (Country): spanish ( Mexico )
Summary:


cover   Director: Yolanda García Serrano, Juan Luis Iborra
Starring: Concha Velasco, Georges Corraface, Silke, Carlos Fuentes, Mercè Pons, Alberto San Juan, Elisa Matilla, Armando del Río, Miguel García Borda, Jesús Cabrero, Víctor Ullate Jr., Cora Tiedra, Tristán Ulloa, Roberto Álamo, Julia Altares, Roberto Álvarez, Carmen Balagué, José Bernal, Carlos Blanes, Urbano Blanes, Pedro Garay, Gonzalo Garralda, Silvia Gil, Juan Luis Iborra, José Mellado, María Eugenia Mur, Joaquín Oristrell, Ana Pascual, José Salcedo, Rosario Santesmases, Claudio Sierra
Genre: Drama
Studio:   Release date: 2000   Rated: R   
Language (Country): Spanish ( Spain )
Summary: A comedic look at the love lives of 14 different people and how they interconnect during one hot August afternoon around the Plaza del Sol in Madrid, Spain.


cover   Director: Alejandro Saderman
Starring: Ney Latorraca, Claudia Ohana, Tônia Carrero, Dina Sfat, Chico Díaz, Cecil Thiré, Athayde Arcoverde, Josy Campos, José Kléber, Julio Levy, Tonico Pereira, Rui Resende
Genre: Foreign Film - Spanish//Misc Sa
Studio: Fox Lorber   Release date: 1988   Rated:   
Language (Country): spanish ( Spain )
Summary: Orestes, a rich factory owner, falls for the beautiful Fulvia. They communicate using pigeons, to avoid being discovered by her husband.



cover   Director: Gerd Lombardi
Starring: Antonio Acebal, Alberto Alonso, Eduardo Calvo, Antonio Canal, Lina Canalejas, Roberto Cruz, Ignacio de Paúl, Luisa Fernanda Gaona, José Luis López Vázquez, José Nieto, Yamil Omar, Mayrata O'Wisiedo, Julia Peña, Luis Peña, Francisco Pierrá, Marisa Porcel, Esperanza Roy, Porfiria Sanchíz, Charo Soriano, Luchy Soto
Genre: Foreign Film - Spanish//Misc Sa
Studio: Cinevista Inc.   Release date: 1970   Rated:   
Language (Country): spanish ( Spain )
Summary: The greedy relatives of an amnesic and paralytic 45 years old millionaire try him to recover his memory by any means.


cover   Director: Alfredo Ovando
Starring:
Genre: Documentary
Studio:   Release date: 1986   Rated:   
Language (Country): spanish ( Bolivia )
Summary:


cover   Director: César Fernández Ardavín
Starring:
Genre: Comedy
Studio:   Release date: 1959   Rated:   
Language (Country): spanish ( Spain )
Summary: Film based on an anonymous novel from the XVI century.



cover   Director: Fina Torres
Starring:
Genre: Feature Film-drama
Studio: Facets Multimedia Inc.   Release date:   Rated:   
Language (Country): spanish ( )
Summary:


cover   Director: Alfonso Arau
Starring: Marco Leonardi, Lumi Cavazos, Regina Torné, Mario Iván Martínez, Ada Carrasco, Yareli Arizmendi, Claudette Maillé, Pilar Aranda, Farnesio de Bernal, Joaquín Garrido, Rodolfo Arias, Margarita Isabel, Sandra Arau, Andrés García Jr., Regino Herrera
Genre: Drama
Studio:   Release date: 1992   Rated:   
Language (Country): English, Spanish ( Mexico )
Summary:


cover   Director: Leopoldo Torre Nilsson
Starring: Dean Hinchey, Stanley Katz, Chris Lacoste, Iris Paluly
Genre:
Studio:   Release date: 2000   Rated:   
Language (Country): spanish ( )
Summary:


    Director: Vicente Aranda
Starring: Marcello Mastroianni, Luisina Brando, Alejandra Podesta, Betiana Blum, Roberto Carnaghi, Alberto Segado, Mónica Lacoste, Jorge Luz, Mónica Villa, Juan Manuel Tenuta, Tina Serrano, Verónica Llinás, Susana Cortínez, Martin Kalwill, Walter Marín
Genre: Foreign Film - Spanish//Misc Sa
Studio: Republic Studios   Release date: 1993   Rated: Unrated   
Language (Country): spanish ( Argentina )
Summary: How do couples continue the excitement, year after year? Join four couples as they illustrate 32 lovemaking positions in explicit detail. See special variations on the "rear entry" position and positions using props, like furniture. Learn how to achieve deeper penetration, prolonged intercourse and more satisfying sex, even for those with physical limitations such as back problems, arthritis and pregnancy. Explicit sexual content.


cover   Director: Julio Medem
Starring:
Genre: Foreign Film - Spanish//Misc Sa
Studio: New Line Studios   Release date: 1993   Rated:   
Language (Country): spanish ( Argentina )
Summary:


cover   Director: Luis Buñuel
Starring: Dan O'Herlihy/ Jaime Fernández (II)
Genre: Feature Film-action//Adventure
Studio: Vci//Ffi   Release date: 1954   Rated: NR   
Language (Country): spanish ( )
Summary: Luis Buñuel (1900-1983) is celebrated today as "the father of cinematic Surrealism" for creating subversive classics from the beginning of his career, L' Âge d'or (1930), until the end, That Obscure Object of Desire (1977). What a shock to discover, then, that his only English-language film, the once all-but-lost Robinson Crusoe (1954), is a straightforward adventure tale with all of the fun and social comment of the timeless Daniel Defoe novel but with nary a sliced eyeball to be found.



I'm certain ya'll know the story, and the film is faithful: Rob is shipwrecked on a tropical island, saves what he can from the ship before it goes down, and spends most of the rest of the 17th century dodging wild animals, cannibals, and pirates before hooking up with his man Friday.



In the early sequences, we see that Crusoe is all but helpless, not even able to build a fire with no servants to help him. Over the years, he not only perseveres, but triumphs over his environment, building a quite satisfactory fortress of solitude. The loneliness gets to him, though, particularly once his dog dies - "I learned to master everything on my island - except myself!" he ruminates. In a masterful scene, he dreams of his father, who chides him for going off to sea; in another, he feeds some small ants to some big ones, which means something, but don't ask me what. Once he rescues Friday from the cannibals, he gains - not a friend, but a servant, and when his suspicions of Friday get the best of him, Crusoe clamps him in leg irons he rescued from the wreck (he was on a slaving mission, although why he'd want to carry heavy chains from the sinking ship is anybody's guess). Eventually, he comes to recognize Friday as an equal, albeit a lesser one, which leads to a delightful argument about God and the devil between Crusoe and Friday, and if Hitchcock made Psycho just so he could film the shower scene, I can see Buñuel (product of a strict religious upbringing) making Crusoe just for this scene.



A major feather in the proverbial cap for VCI Entertainment, Robinson Crusoe is treated to a brilliant restoration and even includes a few worthwhile extras: the trailer, a poster gallery, an audio interview with Crusoe star Dan O'Herlihy (an Oscar nominee in the role; he lost to Brando in On The Waterfront), and an insert copy of the pressbook. There's also a "before and after" restoration featurette, so you can appreciate how much work went into the digitally remastered edition. Highly recommended.




cover   Director: Christian Gavary
Starring:
Genre: Foreign Film - Mexican
Studio: Connoisseur//Meridian Films   Release date: 1960   Rated: NR   
Language (Country): spanish ( )
Summary: Regarding the film, this is an old Mexican classic released in 1960, a little bit after the Golden era of Mexican cinema, from director Roberto Gavald?n, who also did Flor de Mayo starring American Jack Palance (who performed in Spanish!). For an American viewer, I would say this film is sort of a Mexican It's A Wonderful Life, only you would watch it every Day of the Dead instead of Christmas. Its a good film, with touches of surrealism and good old fashion morality (a la Capra), but definitely lacks the shine of earlier Epoca Dorada films. It shows a slight taint of fifties cornyism as well as the influence of the new medium of television. But by all means I don't want to sour you on this film. The cinematography is done by the famed Gabriel Figueroa, and he gets an occasional chance to shine. If you haven't seen it, you should definitely check it out, especially if you have an interest in M?xico or D?a de los Muertos.
Regarding the DVD, I can only say WOW! This is part of the new apparently Televisa-backed Vive M?xico collection, and the production is first rate. The image quality is top notch, it has marvelous trailers for other films in the collection including Ahi Est? El Detalle (comedian Cantiflas' most revered film) and El Rapto (an Emilio Fernandez flic with Jorge Negrete and Maria Feliz), and it also has English and Spanish subtitles, which have been lacking on other recent DVDs. I see that a number of rare classics like Maria Candelaria, Dona Barbara, Bugambilia, La Perla, Salon Mexico, & Los Olvidados have already been released south of the border in this collection, let's hope somebody gets smart and starts selling those up here sooner rather than later. Otherwise I'll have to take a trip down to Tijuana just to buy some DVDs!



cover   Director: Eliseo Subiela
Starring: Lorenzo Quinteros/ Hugo Soto
Genre: Feature Film-drama
Studio: Anchor Bay Entertain   Release date: 1987   Rated: R   
Language (Country): spanish ( )
Summary: I am a child, adolescent, and adult psychiatrist who saw this picture many years before I imagined I would be going to medical school, let alone becoming a psychiatrist. It has been one of my favorite films, maybe THE favorite. Its beautiful rendition of music overlaying the tragic Christlike tale of misunderstandings, betrayals, and "rational" human denials of subconscious truths was powerful. I have shown it to anyone I could who worked with me in the mental health system. I still rely on it to remind me of why compassion heals, and human connection; not medication, or psychotherapy, or other knowledge I might have. Since I have seen it countless times, and have a video I don't watch for fear of wearing it out, I would be ever so grateful if it came out in DVD. I might even buy a DVD player.


cover   Director: Manuel García Ferré
Starring:
Genre: DVD/ Kids & Family/ Animation
Studio: Telefe   Release date: 1993   Rated: G   
Language (Country): spanish ( Spain )
Summary:


cover   Director: Carmen Toscano, Salvador Toscano, ,
Starring: Manuel Bernal
Genre: Documentary
Studio:   Release date: 1950   Rated:   
Language (Country): spanish ( Mexico )
Summary:


cover   Director: Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
Starring: Woody Allen, Charlotte Rampling
Genre: Comedy
Studio: New Yorker Films   Release date: 1980   Rated: PG   
Language (Country): spanish ( )
Summary: While his family fled to America in the wake of the revolution, Cuban intellectual Sergio has stayed behind--more due to passivity than political commitment. Unable to imagine himself a part of the new landscape, his days are spent killing time: gazing out his balcony telescope; taking lazy, aimless walks down neighborhood streets lined with both shady trees and his own clamorous memories; smoking in bed. All the while his head teems with thoughts of Cuba's cultural inferiority to Europe, self-pitying diatribes, and erotic reveries. Disgusted by his own diffidence, Sergio can't even see the irony when his scathing assessment of the teenage actress manqué he picks up on the street works equally well to describe himself. No less than the "underdeveloped" Erica, he has become alienated, filled with "the inability to relate to things, to accumulate experience, to develop." Probably because his film's central figure is so inactive, director Tomás Gutiérrez Alea constructed his 1968 masterpiece out of a riot of influences and styles, throwing seemingly everything he could think of into the pot. There are minidocumentaries on the cruelties of Batista forces, stream-of-consciousness flashbacks and flash-forwards, delicate little photomontages, newspaper headlines, visits to Hemingway's home, even a philological debate attended by Sergio. The last does get a little tiresome; but other than the one misstep, Memories of Underdevelopment is such a vivid, consistently fresh and surprising film--intellectually and sensually vibrant from start to finish--that it's little wonder its belated foreign release single-handedly put Cuban cinema on the map. --Bruce Reid


cover   Director: Lewis Gilbert (II)
Starring: María Rojo, Claudio Obregón, Martha Navarro, Antonio Crestani, Ignacio Retes, Humberto Pineda, Alberto Estrella, Tito Vasconcelos, Ernesto Laguardia, Pedro Armendáriz Jr., Roberto Cobo, Álvaro Guerrero, Arturo Villaseñor, Ana Ofelia Murguía, Víctor Carpinteiro
Genre: Foreign Film - Spanish//Misc Sa
Studio: Facets Multimedia Inc.   Release date: 1997   Rated:   
Language (Country): spanish ( Mexico )
Summary: Esmeralda is married with 5 husbands at the same time, so she has to explain to the judge why she has done this.


cover   Director: Jorge Fons
Starring:
Genre: Foreign Film - Spanish//Misc Sa
Studio: Fox Lorber   Release date: 1998   Rated: NR   
Language (Country): spanish ( )
Summary: With humor, pain and love for mankind, the film tells the story of three neighbors whose lives are intertwined. Rutiloio, the family man with homosexual feelings; Susanita, who dreams of getting married but falls prey to a thief; and Alma (Salma Hayek), a virgin who becomes a cocaine snorting prostitute. Interactive Menus, Scene access, Production Credits, Awards, Filmographies


cover   Director: Lisandro Duque Naranjo
Starring:
Genre: Foreign Film - Spanish//Misc Sa
Studio: Fox Lorber   Release date:   Rated:   
Language (Country): spanish ( )
Summary:


cover   Director: Donald Petrie
Starring: Julie Christie
Genre: Feature Film-drama
Studio: Anchor Bay Entertain   Release date: 2000   Rated: PG-13   
Language (Country): spanish ( )
Summary:


cover   Director: Roland Joffé
Starring: Marisa Paredes, Juan Echanove, Carmen Elías, Rossy de Palma, Chus Lampreave, Kiti Manver, Joaquín Cortés, Manuela Vargas, Imanol Arias, Gloria Muñoz, Juan José Otegui, Nancho Novo, Jordi Mollà, Alicia Agut, Marisol Muriel
Genre: Feature Film-action//Adventure
Studio: Warner Studios   Release date: 1995   Rated: NR   
Language (Country): spanish ( Spain )
Summary: Roland Joffé (The Killing Fields) directs this fuzzy effort at a David Lean-like epic without David Lean's sense of emotional proportion. Lean's most important screenwriting collaborator, Robert Bolt, in fact wrote The Mission, which concerns a Jesuit missionary (Jeremy Irons) who establishes a church in the hostile jungles of Brazil and then finds his work threatened by greed and political forces among his superiors. Robert De Niro is briefly effective as a callous soldier who kills his own brother and then turns to Irons's character to oversee his penance and conversion to the clergy. The narrative and dramatic forces at work in this movie should be more stirring and powerful than they are--the problem being that Joffé is too removed from them to allow us in. --Tom Keogh


cover   Director: Joseph Losey
Starring: Alain Delon, Jeanne Moreau, Francine Bergé, Juliet Berto, Jean Bouise, Suzanne Flon, Massimo Girotti, Michael Lonsdale, Michel Aumont, Roland Bertin, Jean Champion, Etienne Chicot, Magali Clément, Gérard Jugnot, Hermine Karagheuz
Genre: Drama
Studio:   Release date: 1976   Rated:   
Language (Country): spanish ( France )
Summary:


cover   Director: Frédéric Rossif
Starring: John Gielgud, Irene Worth, Suzanne Flon, Roger Mollien, Germaine Montero, Pierre Vaneck, Jean Vilar
Genre: Documentary
Studio:   Release date: 1963   Rated:   
Language (Country): spanish ( France )
Summary:


cover   Director:
Starring:
Genre: Educational
Studio:   Release date:   Rated:   
Language (Country): Spanish



cover   Director: Jaime de Armiñán
Starring: Héctor Alterio, Ana Torrent, Luis Politti, Agustín González, Patricia Adriani, María Luisa Ponte, Mercedes Alonso, Luisa Rodrigo, Amparo Baró, Ovidi Montllor, Mauricio Calvo, Arantza, Bernabé, Carmen, Catalina, Fermín, Jacobo, Jaime, Juan, Quino, Sagastizado I, Tomás, Yiyi
Genre: Drama
Studio: Ventura Distribution   Release date: 1980   Rated: NR   
Language (Country): spanish ( Spain )
Summary: Tin Tan representa a un hombre de 25 años quien ha sido aislado de la sociedad por dos tías codiciosas que planean robarle la herencia de un abuelo que este nunca ha conocido. La locura empieza cuando don Jacobo llega para conocer a su nieto y las tías tratan de ocultarle la verdad. Divertidísima y familiar comedia. Tin Tan plays a 25 year old man who has been isolated from society by his two greedy aunts as they plan to steal his inheritance left to him by his grandfather that he never met. The madness begins when Don Jacobo (the grandfather) wants to meet his grandson and the aunts try to hide the truth. It’s an entertaining family comedy. IN SPANISH NO SUBTITLES


cover   Director: Claudio Isaac, ,
Starring: Octavio Paz
Genre: Documentary
Studio:   Release date: 1983   Rated:   
Language (Country): spanish ( Mexico )
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cover   Director: Luis Puenzo
Starring: Héctor Alterio/ Norma Aleandro
Genre: Foreign Film - Spanish//Misc Sa
Studio: Koch Lorber Films   Release date:   Rated: R   
Language (Country): spanish ( )
Summary: This is one of those rare political films that transcend politics with a stirring emotional story. Argentinean first-time director Luis Puenzo tells the story of a strong-willed teacher who tries to learn the true identity of her adopted daughter's father, coming to suspect that he was a political prisoner. Her political awakening is actually an emotional one as well because of her detached persona. Ironically, even though she is a teacher, she doesn't connect with people very well, thinking of history in the most abstract terms. But she learns the painful truth of present-day life. Tautly directed by Puenzo, "The Official Story" was a 1985 Oscar-winner for Best Foreign Film, with a riveting performance by Norma Aleandro. "--Bill Desowitz"


cover   Director: Fina Torres
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Genre: Feature Film-drama
Studio: Facets Multimedia Inc.   Release date: 1969   Rated:   
Language (Country): spanish ( )
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cover   Director: Eva Lesmes
Starring: Adriana Ozores, Malena Alterio, Maribel Verdú, Carmen Maura, Juan Gea, Jaime Pujol, Joaquín Climent, Antònia Martínez, Alejandro Sigüenza, Omar Muñoz, Pep Guinyol, Francisco Casares, Chelo Vivares, Diana Palazón, Lina Mira
Genre: Comedy
Studio:   Release date: 2001   Rated:   
Language (Country): Spanish ( Spain )
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cover   Director: José Sánchez
Starring: Rogan Labier, Rosemarie Lagunas, Michael O'Connor
Genre: Short
Studio:   Release date: 1994   Rated:   
Language (Country): spanish ( Bolivia )
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cover   Director: Carlos Velo
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Genre: Drama
Studio:   Release date: 1967   Rated:   
Language (Country): spanish ( Mexico )
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cover   Director: George Stevens
Starring: Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, Shelley Winters, Anne Revere, Keefe Brasselle, Fred Clark, Raymond Burr, Herbert Heyes, Shepperd Strudwick, Frieda Inescort, Kathryn Givney, Walter Sande, Ted de Corsia, John Ridgely, Lois Chartrand
Genre: Performing Arts - Opera
Studio: Bel Canto Society   Release date: 1951   Rated:   
Language (Country): spanish ( USA )
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cover   Director: Manuel García Ferré
Starring: Rosario Sánchez Almada, Pelusa Suero, Enrique Conlazo, Miguel Esteban, Cecilia Gispert, Susana Sisto
Genre: Documentary
Studio: Home Vision Entertainment   Release date: 1999   Rated:   
Language (Country): spanish ( Argentina )
Summary: Animated Argentine film about a young girl turtle who gets lost on a balloon trip.



cover   Director: Raúl de la Torre
Starring: Alfredo Alcón, Cristina Allende, Graciela Borges, Armando Capo, Nora Cullen, Arturo García Buhr, Ricardo Jordán, Daniel Lago, Adriana Parets, Silvia Pinal, Juan Carlos Puppo, José Soriano, Alfredo Zemma, China Zorrilla
Genre: Drama
Studio:   Release date: 1982   Rated:   
Language (Country): spanish ( Argentina )
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cover   Director: Víctor Gaviria
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Genre: Foreign Film - Spanish//Misc Sa
Studio: Kino Video   Release date: 1960   Rated: NR   
Language (Country): spanish ( Mexico )
Summary: If you haven't watched this movie then be warned ... this is an extremely difficult one to watch. And it's certainly not for everyone. But if you can stomach the poverty, the violence, the hopelessness and the senselessness that pours out of every shot then don't miss this. The story follows a group of teenagers (some of them young actors, others kids picked off the streets) trying to survive in the seedier part of the town of Medellin, the citadel of the Colombian drug lords. The town is a maze of unauthorized ugly brick constructions and the potholed roads look undrivable, mirroring the despair and aimlessness in the lives of its residents. School dropouts turn to drug-peddling and car thefts to have enough money for food and beer. Life is cheap and guns are used like toys. The fact that four of the boys appearing in this film died before it was completed only reinforces its impact.



It has taken a long time for this to come out on DVD, but that wait is now thankfully over. Living in the U.S. or indeed in most other parts of the world, it is difficult to imagine that this depicts a breathing town where people still continue to live their lives. Not a single shot in the movie is visually or emotionally pleasing; you feel downright unpleasant when it ends, but this is life in Medellin portrayed almost like a documentary. Most of these people have never seen anything different or better ... this is the reality for them, and I would call it remarkable to have been able to share that for an hour and a half.



If you didn't like the film, then that's understandable. I admit that I would certainly think more than twice before traveling to Medellin. If you did, then also watch Mira Nair's "Salaam Bombay" if you haven't. Its another movie made with street urchins halfway across the world, but the underlying common theme comes across just as vividly ... dreamless lives looking at grey days turning greyer.



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Studio: Pacific Arts Video   Release date: 1971   Rated: NR   
Language (Country): spanish ( )
Summary: Salvador Dali: A Soft Self-Portrait is a surreal journey into the mind of Salvador Dali, one of the greatest artists of the 20th century. Filmed on location at Dali¿s fabulously beautiful villa in Port Lligat, Spain, this film visually explores Dali¿s outrageous world, his art and his philosophies. Narrated by Orson Wells, designed, masterminded and acted by Dali himself, Salvador Dali: A Soft Self-Portrait is a breathtakingly imaginative adventure into the subconscious, destined to become a work of art. A rare collector's gem for Dali aficionados.


cover   Director: Fernando Durán
Starring: Efrain Aizpuro, Jorge Aldama, Rodolfo Almada, Jose Luis Alvarez, Martha Álvarez, Israel Anguiano, Ricardo Ávila, Mário Becerra Jr., Marcos Bustos, Santiago Cevallos, Alan Ciangherotti, Javier Cruz, Jesus David, Carlos Derbez, Alicia Encinas, Diana Ferreti, Octavio Gómez, Alexa Gonzalez, Gibrán González, Alfredo Gutiérrez, Ernesto Daniel Hernandez, Juan M. Hernández, Uriel Jimenez, Amanda Juarez, Oscar Marquez, Consuelo Martínez, Martín Martínez, Alexis Zuniga Miranda, Luis Miguel M., Carlos Muñoz, José Manuel Muñoz, Esteban Ortíz, Janko Puente, Ivette Vieyra Ramos, Julio Robles, Joel Romero, Fernando Sáenz, Fernando Siver, Rosalia Vargas, Carolina Vázquez, Alejandro Vega, Magaly Velazquez
Genre: Action
Studio:   Release date: 2002   Rated:   
Language (Country): Spanish ( Mexico )
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cover   Director: Alejandro Springall
Starring: Dolores Heredia, Demián Bichir, Alberto Estrella, Pedro Altamirano, Roberto Cobo, Roger Cudney, Mónica Dionne, Juan Duarte, Josefina Echánove, Felipe Ehrenberg, María Amparo Escandón, Ana Bertha Espín, Flor Eduarda Gurrola, Pilar Ixquic Mata, Paco Morayta, Olímpico, Regina Orozco, Darío T. Pie, José Sefami, Georgina Tábora, Fernando Torre Laphame, Luis Felipe Tovar, Claudio Valdés, Maya Zapata
Genre: Comedy
Studio:   Release date: 1999   Rated: R   
Language (Country): Spanish ( Mexico )
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cover   Director: Mario Camus
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Genre: Drama
Studio:   Release date: 1984   Rated:   
Language (Country): spanish ( Spain )
Summary: Spain, 1960's. People from a very poor family work in the country, at the service of a rich family of landowners...


cover   Director: Montxo Armendáriz
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Genre: Foreign Film - Spanish//Misc Sa
Studio: New Yorker Films   Release date: 1997   Rated: NR   
Language (Country): spanish ( )
Summary: Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, SECRETS OF THE HEART (SECRETOS DEL CORAZON) is an elegant and poignant tale of the mysterious and magical adult world as seen through the eyes of Javi, a nine-year-old child, growing up in a small provincial town in the 1960s.
Javi believes he can hear the voices of the dead and that they whisper to him their secrets, which were left unspoken in life. At his mother's house in the mountains, he is fascinated by the room in which his father died and which his mother carefully keeps locked. But, Javi also learns that the living have their secrets as well.
As Javi begins to comprehend these secrets of the heart, he takes us on a journey where we are offered "The irresistible opportunity to see the world once again through the eyes of a child." (Seattle Film Festival)



cover   Director: Carlos Azpúrua
Starring: Sidney Poitier, Tom Berenger
Genre: Foreign Film - Spanish//Misc Sa
Studio: Facets Video   Release date: 1988   Rated: R   
Language (Country): spanish ( )
Summary: Sidney Poitier, one of film's most distinguished and acclaimed actors, returns to the screen after a decade-long absence in this must-see, action-filled thriller. When a cunning murderer vanishes into the rugged mountains of the Pacific Northwest, pursuing FBI agent Warren Stantin (Poitier) must exchange familiar city streets for unknown wilderness trails. Completely out of his element, Stantin is forced to enlist the aid of expert tracker Jonathan Knox (PLATOON'S Tom Berenger). It's a turbulent yet vital relationship they must maintain in order to survive ... and one that becomes increasingly desperate when Knox's girlfriend Sarah (Kirstie Alley) becomes the killer's latest hostage.


cover   Director: Montxo Armendáriz
Starring: Lucía Jiménez, Juan Diego Botto, Mercedes Sampietro, Álvaro de Luna, María Botto, María Vázquez, Rubén Ochandiano, Joseba Apaolaza, Asunción Balaguer, Ramón Barea, Gonzalo Baz, Maiken Beitia, Patxi Bisquert, Jordi Bosch, Joan Dalmau, Ander Erburù, Andoni Erburu, Patxi Erro, David Goñi, Juan Jesús Jiménez, Virginia Moriones, Pepo Oliva, Ignacio Orduña, Helio Pedregal, Javier Salvo, Alicia Sánchez, Kandido Uranga, David Zabalza, Quino Zubieta
Genre: Drama
Studio:   Release date: 2001   Rated:   
Language (Country): ( Spain )
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cover   Director: Sam Taylor
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Genre: Foreign Film - Russian
Studio: Kino Video   Release date: 2002   Rated: NR   
Language (Country): spanish ( )
Summary: I first saw Umphrey's McGee live at the Langerado music festival in Florida and, after seeing them, bought this dvd without reading any reviews or doing any research. To my surprise, the dvd surpassed all of my expectations. The audio quality is outstanding. Your friends will not have heard of Umphrey's McGee, but when you show them this disc they will not forget who turned them on to this band first. Umphrey's is one of the best up and coming jam bands out there - you will not be disappointed with this dvd. I own many concert dvds, and as far as overall marks go, this dvd is up there as a great concert and a must have for any jam band fan. Hope the review helps - enjoy.


cover   Director: Benito Zambrano
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Genre: Foreign Film - Spanish//Misc Sa
Studio: First Look Pictures   Release date: 1998   Rated: R   
Language (Country): spanish ( )
Summary: A powerful and touching story of love and redemption, Solas is a drama of Spanish women whose emotional life is as rich as their surroundings are poor. Maria is a beautiful but troubled woman adrift in a nameless city in southern Spain. She drinks, smokes and steals, desperate for oblivion and angry at the entire world. Emotional rescue comes in the form of her own mother, who comes to stay with her daughter when Maria’s father needs surgery at the hospital in town. The mother cooks, crochets and befriends the gentlemanly neighbor downstairs while patiently trying to reach out to her daughter, whose bitterness is no match for her mother’s love and devotion.


cover   Director: Víctor Erice
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Genre: Foreign Film - Spanish//Misc Sa
Studio: Home Vision Entertainment   Release date: 1986   Rated:   
Language (Country): spanish ( UK )
Summary: 18th century Spanish Jesuits try to protect a remote South American Indian tribe in danger of falling under the rule of pro-slavery Portugal.


cover   Director: Jaime Humberto Hermosillo
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Genre: Foreign Film - Spanish//Misc Sa
Studio: Fox Lorber   Release date: 1975   Rated:   
Language (Country): spanish ( USA )
Summary: Upon arrival at a mental institution, a brash rebel rallies the patients together to take on the oppressive Nurse Ratched, a woman more a dictator than a nurse.


cover   Director: John Reinhardt
Starring: Raul Julia
Genre: Foreign Film - Spanish//Misc Sa
Studio: Warner Home Video   Release date: 1935   Rated: G   
Language (Country): spanish ( )
Summary: Tango Bar Drama, 1hr 27min Carlos Gardel, Rosita Moreno, Enrique de Rosas Killed in a plane crash in June of 1935, Argentine musical star Carlos Gardel was well on his way to becoming a legend when his final starring feature, Tango Bar, was released in the U.S. Though well past middle age, Gardel convincingly plays an amorous young cabaret vocalist named Ricardo, who falls in love with gorgeous dancer Laura (Rosita Moreno). To rescue the heroine from a gang of crooks, Ricardo puts his own life on the line, nearly losing same in the process. The villain, played by Enrique de Rosas, is a government official, reflecting the "outlaw" status of the tango in much of South America. Though filmed in Spanish and set in Argentina, Tango Bar was lensed in its entirety in Paramount's East Coast studios at Astoria, Long Island. Songs: Arrabal amargo, Por una cabeza, Lejana tierra mía y Los ojos de mi moza. Bonus Track : Gardel Color "Por una cabeza", "Golondrinas", "Cuesta abajo"


cover   Director: Jorge Zanada
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Genre: Foreign Film - Spanish//Misc Sa
Studio: Facets Multimedia Inc.   Release date: 1985   Rated:   
Language (Country): spanish ( Argentina )
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cover   Director: Antonio Hernández
Starring: Leonardo Sbaraglia, Fernando Fernán Gómez, Geraldine Chaplin, Ana Fernández, Adriana Ozores, Leticia Brédice, Roberto Álvarez, Àlex Casanovas, Mónica Estarreado, Alfredo Alcón, Natacha Kucic, Jorge San José, Lorena López, Alain Cipot, Eduardo Torroja
Genre: Drama
Studio:   Release date: 2002   Rated:   
Language (Country): English, Spanish ( Spain )
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cover   Director: Walter Salles
Starring: Gael García Bernal, Rodrigo De la Serna, Mercedes Morán, Jean Pierre Noher, Lucas Oro, Marina Glezer, Sofia Bertolotto, Franco Solazzi, Ricardo Díaz Mourelle, Sergio Boris, Daniel Cargieman, Diego Giorzi, Facundo Espinosa, Matias Gomez, Diego Treu
Genre: Adventure
Studio:   Release date: 2004   Rated: R   
Language (Country): Spanish, French ( USA )
Summary: The dramatization of a motorcycle road trip Che Guevara went on in his youth that showed him his life's calling.


cover   Director: Alejandro Amenábar
Starring: Javier Bardem, Belén Rueda, Lola Dueñas, Mabel Rivera, Celso Bugallo, Clara Segura, Joan Dalmau, Alberto Jiménez, Tamar Novas, Francesc Garrido, José María Pou, Alberto Amarilla, Andrea Occhipinti, Federico Pérez Rey, Nicolás Fernández Luna
Genre: Biography
Studio:   Release date: 2004   Rated: PG-13   
Language (Country): Spanish, ( Spain )
Summary: The real-life story of Spaniard Ramon Sampedro, who fought a 30 year campaign in favor of euthanasia and his own right to die.


cover   Director: Alejandro Amenabar
Starring: Ana Torrent, Fele Martínez, Eduardo Noriega (II)
Genre: Foreign Film - Spanish//Misc Sa
Studio: New Yorker Video   Release date: 1996   Rated: R   
Language (Country): spanish ( )
Summary: Spanish director Alejandro Amenábar grabbed the attention of American audiences with his dreamy thriller Open Your Eyes, but he earlier sent shock waves throughout Spain in 1996 with this disturbing debut. Thesis is a quietly creepy psychological thriller about a young college student, Ángela (Ana Torrent) investigating the social fascination with sensational violence for her thesis project. In her search for violent video footage, she stumbles onto what may be a real live snuff film, a videotape that her professor was watching before his untimely death. With the help of a geeky gore junkie she uncovers a conspiracy that may include her handsome but sinister new boyfriend, her thesis advisor, and even her weirdo partner. When she uncovers one too many secrets lying in the catacombs of the university basement, she realizes that she may be the next victim. It goes on perhaps too long, and Amenábar's pointed observations on the lure of violence and the dark side of human nature are lost as the spiraling mystery spins into a first-person nightmare, but his skill at weaving a paranoid world where evil may lurk behind every friendly face is undeniable. Thesis is reminiscent of Brian De Palma's early thrillers: dark, stylish, subdued, and bubbling with the characters' guilty (and ultimately dangerous) fascination with the transgressive. --Sean Axmaker


cover   Director: Adolfo Aristarain
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Genre: Drama
Studio:   Release date: 1981   Rated:   
Language (Country): spanish ( Argentina )
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cover   Director: Alfredo Ovando
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Genre: Documentary
Studio:   Release date: 1988   Rated:   
Language (Country): spanish ( Bolivia )
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cover   Director: Camilo Luzuriaga
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Genre: Drama
Studio: Image Entertainment   Release date: 1990   Rated: NR   
Language (Country): spanish ( Ecuador )
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cover   Director: Gustavo Mosquera R.
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Genre: Foreign Film - Spanish//Misc Sa
Studio: Cinevista Inc.   Release date: 1985   Rated:   
Language (Country): spanish ( Venezuela )
Summary: A young girl is sent to a South American hacienda, where she learns about the life of her reclusive aunt, Oriana

 

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