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DVD
2007
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DVD10348

Nosotros los pobres

Nosotros los pobresLoading Esta historia narra la vida de un humilde carpintero (Pepe el Toro) que injustamente es acusado de un crimen. En la cárcel se encuentra con el verdadero culpable del asesinato que le impugnan y logra demostrar su inocencia., Pepe el Toro is a humble carpenter who lives peacefully with his paralized mother, his daughter, and his girlfriend. They all join together to fight injustice after Pepe is wrongfully accused of murder. The first in Infante's Pepe el Toro Trilogy.
Director
Ismael Rodriguez
Release Date
1948
Run Time
115 min.
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DVD
2004
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DVD06668

Los olvidados : The young and the damned

Los olvidadosLoading A group of juvenile delinquents live a life full of violence and crime en one of the most deteriorated, poor neighborhoods in Mexico City. The morality of the youth Pedro is corrupted gradually by other characteristics.
Director
Luis Buñuel
Release Date
1950
Run Time
90 min.
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DVD
2007
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DVD11106

Lola

LolaLoading Lola is a young mother abandoned by the rock singer who fathered her daughter. Lonely and feeling trapped, she evades her parental responsibilities, and in the end, even her guilt is not enough to make her woman up.
Director
María Novaro
Release Date
1989
Run Time
93 min.
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DVD
2001

Amores perros : Love's a bitch

Amores perrosLoading Three different people are catapulted into dramatic and unforeseen circumstances in the wake of a terrible car crash: a young punk stumbles into the sinister underground world of dog fighting; an injured supermodel's designer pooch disappears into the apartment's floorboards; and an ex-radical turned hit man rescues a Rotweiler with a gunshot wound.
Director
Alejandro González Iñárritu
Release Date
2000
Run Time
153 min.
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DVD
2002
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DVD09142

Cilantro y perejil

Cilantro y perejilLoading A female documentary director's latest project is to capture her sister's marital difficulties on film in hopes of shedding light on the travails of modern romance.
Director
Rafael Montero
Release Date
1997
Run Time
90 min.
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DVD
1999
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DVD07283

El callejón de los milagros

El callejón de los milagrosLoading "Set in the old downtown section of Mexico City. The events that take place have been divided into the stories of three neighbors whose lives are entertwined. Rutilio, the family man who experiences homosexual feelings that shatter his domestic life; Susanita, the spinster who dreams of getting married and falls prey to a thief; and Alma, the virgin who becomes a cocaine addicted prostitute."--Container.
Director
Jorge Fons
Release Date
1995
Run Time
140 min.
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DVD
2007

El laberinto del fauno

El laberinto del faunoLoading Set in 1944 Spain, against the backdrop of the anti-Franco guerrilla warfare. When young Ofelia and her mother go to live with her new stepfather on a rural military outpost, she finds herself in a world of unimaginable cruelty. Soon Ofelia finds the creatures of her imagination in which she used to escape have become a reality and she must battle them to save both her mother and herself. In the terrifying battle that ensues, Ofelia soon learns that innocence has a power that evil cannot imagine.
Director
Guillermo del Toro
Release Date
2006
Run Time
119 min.
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DVD
2004
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DVD04083

Robinson Crusoe

Robinson CrusoeLoading The year is 1659. There is a shipwreck and the sole survivor Robinson Crusoe is washed ashore on a deserted island. Suddenly faced with a hostile wilderness, he carves out a life for himself. This filmed presentation of Daniel Defoe's immortal classic is a story about the human spirit's ability to endure what seem insurmountable challenges.
Director
Luis Buñuel
Release Date
1952
Run Time
90 min.
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DVD
2007

El laberinto del fauno : Pan's labyrinth

El laberinto del faunoLoading Set in 1944 Spain, against the backdrop of the anti-Franco guerrilla warfare. When young Ofelia and her mother go to live with her new stepfather on a rural military outpost, she finds herself in a world of unimaginable cruelty. Soon Ofelia finds the creatures of her imagination in which she used to escape have become a reality and she must battle them to save both her mother and herself. In the terrifying battle that ensues, Ofelia soon learns that innocence has a power that evil cannot imagine.
Director
Guillermo del Toro
Release Date
2007
Run Time
119 min.
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DVD
2006
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DVD07581

Nazarín

NazarínLoading A simple priest tries to live by Christian precepts and becomes an outcast and an outlaw. Using a variation of the Don Quixote theme applied to religion and hypocrisy, this candid comedy presents the impossibility of spiritual purity in a corrupt world.
Director
Luis Buñuel
Release Date
1958
Run Time
94 min.
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