Martin LaSalle

After her birthday party, a little girl goes to bed looking forward to an amusement-park trip with her grandparents for the next day.

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Jose learns that Nora, the woman he was married to for 30 years and from whom divorced, has committed suicide. The rabbi explains Joseph that due to the celebrations this time of the year, if Nora is not buried that same day, they should wait at least 5 days for the funeral. Nora had planned before his death, a Machiavellian plan in order that Joseph was the one who has to take care of his funeral. But Nora forgot a small detail, a mysterious photograph stored under her bed, that will remind Joseph that the greatest love stories, sometimes are hidden in the smallest places.

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Pablo and Marina wake up in a hotel room and then travel the country together, she accompanies him while he is in the process of writing a traveler's guide. Pablo is a married man with two daughters, while Marina is a college student. During the journey they pass through different points in the relationship, sometimes in full disagreement.

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After Moishe's death, family and friends sit Shiva in Mexico City. During seven days, secrets will be disclosed.

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A documentary that follows up on what happened to the three principle actors in Robert Bresson's "Pickpocket."

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A blend of documentary and fiction about the death of Simón Otaola.

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A beautiful artist helps an amnesiac piece together his identity and evade a gangster on his trail.

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A small film crew goes through several locations including Europe, New York and Mexico.

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The film is a drama about the aftermath of the 1520s Spanish Conquest of Mexico told from the perspective of the indigenous Aztec people. It explores the social, religious, and psychological changes brought about by a historical process of colonization that both defined the American continent and is also highly reminiscent of today’s neocolonialism.

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A street kid's wish to run away to Tijuana is hampered by lies and betrayal

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Acapulco H.E.A.T. is a 1993 syndicated television series that followed the Hemisphere Emergency Action Team [H.E.A.T.], a group of top-secret agents based in Acapulco, Mexico and recruited by C-5, a secret government coalition, to fight terrorism and international crime. The team kept a low profile, by acting as models and photographers who represented a Beach Fashion enterprise.

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In a totalitarian future, in a nightmare metropolis, inhabited only by criminals and police, Erik Lonnrot, a gifted detective, investigates a series of strange murders and disappearances that seem to implicate a insane crime lord. (Re-released in 1996 as a feature film, 86 minutes.)

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Taking as a guiding theme of religion in Latin America, the film shows the pre-Columbian myths, the arrival of the white man, later syncretism and liberation theology. The main theme is the "popular religion". In Latin America this forms a kind of religious sacred territory where millions of Indians seeking refuge. This is repeated in Brazil, where African religions are another impenetrable territory, which also functions as a stronghold, a refuge.

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In modern-day Mexico City, a vampiress is awakened from a century's sleep and finds herself romantically pursued by a doctor and an older male vampire.

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Romero is a compelling and deeply moving look at the life of Archbishop Oscar Romero of El Salvador, who made the ultimate sacrifice in a passionate stand against social injustice and oppression in his county. This film chronicles the transformation of Romero from an apolitical, complacent priest to a committed leader of the Salvadoran people.

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The Mexican painter Francisco Goitia, feeling his death approaching, manages to make a memory of his life: the reunion with his country and his people, his permanent search for identity as a man and as an artist and his struggle against the demons of the body and his subsequent religious conversion.

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The Penitent (1988) isn’t faith-affirming drama—it’s lurid exploitation mocking Catholic penitents. In a devout New Mexico/Mexico village reenacting Christ’s Passion (flagellation, crucifixion), jealous husband Ramon (Raúl Juliá) joins fanatical Penitentes while his virginal wife Celia falls for ex-con friend Juan (Armand Assante), sparking deadly love triangle amid rituals. Directed by Cliff Osmond, it sensationalizes "primitive brutal" self-mortification as barbaric cult, blending sex, betrayal, and gore—not exploring redemption or biblical penance. Secular gaze shames Hispanic Catholic traditions as repressed pathology. Cherry-picks extremism to caricature piety, ignoring healthy devotion. Obscure PG-13 thriller for grindhouse fans, not believers.

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Drama written by Octavio Paz.

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High school student Dan Bartlett misses the plane he was supposed to be on with his rich girlfriend and her family on the way to a Caribbean vacation during a school break. He flies there alone, and runs into a series of characters and misadventures as he tries to catch up.

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In Acapulco, Hercule Poirot attends a dinner party in which one of the guests clutches his throat and suddenly dies. The causes seem to be natural until another party with most of the same guests produces another corpse.

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Five surreal short stories make up this Mexican anthology film.

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A despondent Vietnam veteran in danger of losing his livelihood is pushed to the edge when he sees Vietnamese immigrants moving into the fishing industry in a Texas bay town.

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The french dancer America is in a hotel in Paris with her lover. He goes out to buy cigarettes and she imagines that he travels to Mexico, where he makes a cabaret number dancing with a mannequin that represents the devil. It is related to the gigolo Jimmy, who prostitutes and explodes, and wanders around the city getting involved in a strange plot with some gangsters.

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A tale of passion and betrayal in which Samson, a judge of Israel who fled with his tribe during the Great Exodus from Egypt, uses his herculean strength in the fight against the Philistine oppressors. He is seduced by Delilah, a Philistine courtesan, who uses her cunning to discover the secret of her lover's great power and then betrays him.

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Snippets of a family drama involving a rebellious son coming to his depressing home village, his father, and a jaded ex-lover, mixed with various surrealist scenes and statements about sin.

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Unsympathetic portrait of a man who's too macho to display his feelings.

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Three U.S. journalists get too close to one another and their work in 1979 Nicaragua.

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Newly-committed to a mental institution, a woman tries to convince her doctors that her husband conspired to have her put away for selfish reasons unrelated to her mental health.

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Historical drama about the career of a hit-man who specialized in political assassinations in Mexico in the 1920s-30s.

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American journalist John Reed travels to Mexico during the Mexican Revolution and interviews Francisco Villa. At the same time, we learn about his relationship with his lover Mabel Dodge, his participation in the Patterson strike, and his work as a reporter during World War I.

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Twin warrior sisters, raised in the wilderness and trained for battle, must survive a bizarre world of monsters, cultists, zombies, and barbarians as they prepare for a final showdown with the father who once tried to destroy them.

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Based on the real-life experiences of Ed Horman. A conservative American businessman travels to Chile to investigate the sudden disappearance of his son after a military takeover. Accompanied by his son's wife he uncovers a trail of cover-ups that implicate the US State department which supports the dictatorship.

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The story of two women, a mother and her daughter, who during the Cristero War set traps for government soldiers passing by their house, using seduction that was never consummated. The idea was to deceive the soldiers by making them feel safe, then hand them over, almost with their hands tied, to the Cristero guerrillas. But then one of the women, the daughter, truly falls in love with one of the soldiers, allows herself to be seduced by him, and then tries to save him, only to be killed, in the circumstances, by the soldier himself.

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