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- With dreams of opening a shop in a city renowned for its chocolate, a young and poor Willy Wonka discovers that the industry is run by a cartel of greedy chocolatiers.
- Black Manta seeks revenge on Aquaman for his father's death. Wielding the Black Trident's power, he becomes a formidable foe. To defend Atlantis, Aquaman forges an alliance with his imprisoned brother. They must protect the kingdom.
- Jairo, sick of living on the fringes of society, fed up with poverty and a terrible family life, enters the world of crime as a Hired Assassin. Once he is really deep into the world of killing for money and dying if necessary, he decides to change the course of his life. But it is too late: he is on a road of no return, and there is no way he can escape his fate.
- An exiled woman returns to her home in Argentina to visit her dying father and leads a double life, one of which involves strange sexual behavior.
- Three people and a baby set off on separate journeys, along the same road; their disparate dreams and stories intertwine amidst the breathtaking deserted Patagonic route.
- Oliver, an 11-year-old boy thrown out of his home by his abusive stepfather, joins a gang of street children and is exposed to narcotics, violence and sexual predators, and the world of crime seems to be the only road available.
- Two months to the end of classes at the Spanish Liceo of Lisbon and time to choose the travel destination Prom. That caused a civil war between those who proposes a cultural trip to Paris, and those who prefer to enjoy a week in Benidorm.
- Ivan, Julia and Kike were born and grew up in Culebra where they shared a close friendship. Ivan and Julia are a couple but Kike is in love with Julia. They are separated when Ivan is drafted and sent to Vietnam. When Ivan is reported MIA for several years, Julia becomes closer with Kike. Ivan returns, takes Julia to New York and marries her, leaving Kike behind. Much later, Ivan is diagnosed with cancer, and this time it is he who decides to return to Culebra with Julia. With her help, he begins to participate in Culebra's social needs. He even ventures in a small boat and that is when he stumbles on Cayo, a small island closeby. Here he finds peace of mind, and the island has a healing effect on him. When federal authorities try to keep Ivan away from Cayo, they find themselves face to face with a community that will defend Ivan's need to visit the island. Based on a true story of love and friendship that will touch your heart, this wrenching drama was filmed in the beautiful natural scenery of Culebra, Puerto Rico.
- A teenage street urchin tries to save his new love from prostitution.
- What if everything in life was down to chance? What if we couldn't escape fate? What do Galois, Bauhaus and The Unbearable Lightness of Being have in common? What if the sweat in our brow could save us from the dust we are destined to return to?
- Herbert Biberman struggles as a Hollywood writer and director blacklisted as one of The Hollywood Ten in the 1950s.
- In the middle of the 'Corralito', Argentina's bank freeze, Jordi travels to Buenos Aires in pursuit of a government contract. To enter into the high spheres of political power, he will have to pay something more than money. Just how far is he willing to go?
- In this whimsical tale for children, a little girl finds herself in a strange land where her only hope of getting home lies in the hands of an eclectic group of newfound friends. After chasing her most beloved toy into the garbage pail, Alicia ends up trapped in the unfamiliar surroundings of a garbage dump. Her only friends are the discarded items that live there, including self-important do-gooder Toaster and valiant trenchcoat Detective Glup. They're desperate to help little Alicia find her way home, but they've got problems of their own. The wicked Don Bater is tirelessly working to lure Glup and his band of rubble-rousers into the incinerator, and the group's only hope is to outsmart him at his own nasty game. Packed with adventure, Glup is a clever, beautifully-animated, heart-warming story of friends, family and the incomparable joy of coming home. -------- A veces uno encuentra amigos en los sitios mas improbables. En este imaginativo cuento, una nina se encuentra en una tierra desconocida, y su regreso a casa depende de un eclectico grupo de nuevos amigos. Siguiendo a su juguete mas querido al bote de la basura, Alicia termina atrapada en el extrano mundo de un basurero. Sus unicos amigos son los articulos desechados que viven alli, entre ellos la engreida y santurrona Tostadora, y el valiente impermeable, Detective Glup. Estan ansiosos de ayudar a la pequena Alicia a volver a su casa, pero tienen sus propios problemas. El malvado Don Bater trata incansablemen...
- "Punto y raya" is the story of a young Colombian recruit who, while patrolling his country's border, is befriended by a Venezuelan adversary, and the tragic consequences of their relationship.
- A well renowned photographer, diagnosed with a terminal illness, dreams about a picture he has never taken, and travels to the end of the world to find that distant place.
- Juan Carlos (David Tenreiro) y Alboroto (Juan Diaz) ocupan un apartamento libre de renta propiedad del tÃo de Carlos. Deciden rentar habitaciones para obtener dinero extra. Su ambición los meterá en más problemas de los esperados.
- A group of musicians, prostitutes, gamblers, and laborers, react to the arrival of a tango pianist at a saloon.
- In the middle of Patagonia, Margarita waits for the train that will bring her a coffin and also a letter with memories and triggers a story in which she works as a servant and suffers Teresa's cries, and lavishes the pawn's kisses.
- "Óscar. The Color of Destiny" is a revealing portrayal of a forgotten icon of French Surrealism: Spanish painter Óscar Domínguez, contemporary of Picasso. The film rediscovers the life of a talented artist who was ignored after he committed suicide, fifty years ago, victim of a serious illness which had disfigured his body: the Elephant Man's disease. The film is stirring and touching and compels admiration for the bohemian painter whose fate was self-destruction, after a wild crazy life. Lucas Fernández turns the life of a debauchee, who regarded himself a monster because of his disfiguring disease, into a universal story where art is the product of love and loneliness, of sex and violence before, during and after the Nazi invasion of Paris.
- Passion: of people for the land and sea, of corporations for riches, and of men and women for each other. Vicente and Abigail run a banana plantation in Limon Province, on the Caribbean coast of Costa Rica. Abigail's half-sister Irene, about whom Abigail knew nothing, comes to introduce herself. She is 21 and beautiful. Meanwhile, banana prices fall, threatening the plantation's finances. An oil company works with the government to get off-shore drilling rights, over local objection. Vicente is at the center of each cross-current. Will he fall for Irene, can he save the plantation, will he sell out to corporate offers? What of the coast: can its beauty be saved?
- After living in Madrid for many years as a teacher, Lucia returns to her hometown after her father's death results in the inheritance of his tomato farm. While fighting the community's racism toward the new illegal workers, Lucia falls in love with the farm's accountant, Curro, a man who shares her cause. The couple is forced to confront the racism of the town and as tensions come to head, they will have to make some decisions that could cost them everything.
- Four friends (two couples) play a game of truth on the evening after one of them, Ernesto, is mistakenly told by a doctor he has only three months to live. Ernesto's a sad sack, living with Lea at his parents', about to lose a job he got through his best friend Alberto. Ernesto is also hopelessly in love with Alberto's fiancée Susana, who has gotten Lea a job as the sign-language interpreter on a local TV news show Susana anchors, a job Lea is about to lose. The truths that come out during the game, especially Ernesto's desire for Susana, create havoc. Alberto and Susana's wedding and Ernesto's new test results are coming soon. What to do?
- A smart poor girl and a inmature rich boy get their life twisted when they accidently have a baby.
- This is the story of Ariel Lambert, a twenty year old, who is advised to rest in a quiet place after a psychiatric episode. He moves together with his mother and sister to Villa Mar, small seaside resort, which is practically deserted at that time of the year. Slowly, Ariel discovers that children go into a house nearby, (which is supposed to be derelict) and they never come out again. Is this happening for real? Or is it only a figment of Ariel's sick mind? There will be only one way to find out: Ariel will have to go into the house himself
- During Bolivia's annual Carnival, wealthy Hector is carjacked by two punks who hold him at gunpoint and demand that he take them to his apartment so they can rob him. They arrive at his apartment and take the elevator up. When the elevator becomes stuck, the three men are trapped for three days in a claustrophobic battle of wits.
- Teenaged Fede is trying to overcome his family's peculiarities--a sister's unsatisfied wedding; a grandfather's refusal to talk to his best friend; a family friend coping with Down's Syndrome, and then there are the bullies.
- "Des-autorizados" es la combinación de tres historias, tres realidades que coexisten y se retroalimentan. El viaje comienza en la imaginación de Elia K, la directora, que se imagina a Elías, un personaje que es un dramaturgo pobre que se enfrenta a la encrucijada de serle fiel a su arte, o sucumbir ante las presiones de los productores- debe decidir entre entregar su obra o pagar el precio de su libertad. En otro plano, tenemos a Nina y Federico, los protagonistas de la obra que Elías esta escribiendo. Ellos, solo buscan amarse, se ven forzados a salir del papel y presionar a Elías para que el les de el final que su historia merece, Este es el punto de partida de "Des-autorizados", una película que transcurre en una ciudad imaginaria, colorida y delirante. En la línea de "Amelie" y "Stranger Than Fiction", nos trae una reflexión sobre el arte, la creación, el amor y el desamor.
- Six Cuban intellectuals begin a game of musical beds.
- Azucena is tired of her abusive husband Felipe and is desperately in love with Pablo. She sets up a plan to become a widow as soon as possible and it will involve her hypochondriac sister Isabel and her gay cousin Quique.
- Sergio Arau's film on his 1980's Mexican rock band Botellita de Jerez.
- Gonzalo is in the middle of an exam. He doesn't care if he fails or passes, he doesn't care if his mother gets angry, even though that's what he wants. He doesn't like what's around him and has decided that his world is going to stop.
- The town of Papayal is located in the Amazon jungle. It is ruled by violence, greed and vice. It has grown around mines where gold is extracted, and where mercury has severely destroyed the environment. Apart from the local bar and brothel, the settlers have nothing to do but work on the mines. Every once in a while a man called Fellini arrives and projects films. One day the mother of teenager Isabel and her lover steal the gold from miner El Gallego and flee from Papayal. The girl is forced to pay their debt, by working on the brothel. Isabel tries to escape, but she is caught by the police, and meets Cae, a young man who is bought by a trader to work in the gold mines. Back on Papayal, Isabel falls in love with Cae, who tells her that both her mother and her lover have been killed.
- A stray cat, an oriental pigeon, an Eastern European rat and a Caribbean cockroach live on the streets. One night they have the chance to win the reward offered for Nora's (a lost cat) safe return.
- From absolute poverty to absolute power! "El Don" is the saga of a common man with uncommonly fierce ambition who rises to rule an empire of unspeakable evil only to discover that the love he thought he had forgotten still rules what is left of his heart.
- Dos cincuentones, Augusto (taxista) y Julio (ex-cineasta) aceptan efectuar una operación clandestina a cambio de dinero. Junto a MelquÃades (suegro de Augusto) y las prostitutas Lola y Emma, enfrentaran a un grupo de traficantes que se les interpone.
- César, vigorous in his 60s, runs a vineyard near Barcelona. The week he learns his vines have worms, a former associate calls: César is a retired hit man and the call blackmails into one final murder - of an accountant exposing political corruption. César tells his daughter, who's about to marry, that he'll be back soon - and goes to the flat in the city set up for him across the street from the accountant. There are complications: he becomes a favorite of women in the building, the accountant befriends him at a market, and he sees his son-in-law entering a house of ill repute on the street. There's also a female cop dropping by. Can César navigate his dilemmas?
- Film about the writer Manuel Puig and the years he spent in Río de Janeiro.
- It opens with a murder. Abelardo Sachs is the owner and editor of a famous political magazine He's gunned down in his luxurious home by a masked killer.
- Un asesinato, dos torpes detectives, seis sospechosos, mil carcajadas. Con su investigación Sánchez y Mejía nos llevan por un mundo de corrupción, amores, traición y sexo. Película costarricense nominada para el "Golden India Catalina" como mejor película 2002 en el Festival de Cine de Cartagena.
- An Argentinean born Spaniard, writer and journalist, whose parents were tortured and murdered during the Military Coup, returns to finish a novel about them, with the ambiguous determination to get even with their murderer, a former Sheriff who lives nearby in Patagonia. He and the Sheriff's daughter fall in love. He takes DNA samples of the Girl's family and realizes the truth; she is not their daughter, which means she might have been abducted from her murdered parents. He indirectly feeds her mistrust. The girl travels to Buenos Aires to investigate. She finds out the truth and faces her father, who avows never agreeing on saving those children. On her question, "Who am I?" he says she is a mistake and that she is alive thanks to his decision. It is her who ultimately solves the Writer's conflict in a tragical showdown with the Sheriff.
- Well-known Latin funnyman Javier Gurruchagaen stars as unlikely police detective Robert Ruperez, nicknamed R2. This unsophisticated small-time cop dreams of becoming a suave ace detective like those he sees in the movies and embraces his job with hilarious enthusiasm, adopting a wide variety of disguises to solve the most minor cases. Then one day his life unexpectedly changes when a millionaire's wife is threatened with kidnapping and for some reason calls on R2 for help. Hurled into a dangerous world he's only imagined, R2 is launched on the kind of crime-fighting adventure he's always dreamed about!
- This dramatic comedy addresses the terrible degree of disintegration Argentina has reached. Corrupt justice, unemployment, an absence of prospects for young people, accelerated decadence in the standard of living, increasing violence, a lack of ethics - all part of day-to-day life in the country. The story revolves around the life of Leopold, a middle-class father; his wife Isabel working for a decadent comedian; Beto, the son, a taxi driver; and Martita, the daughter, a divorced and unemployed hairdresser. All live in 'harmony' in a 40 square-meter apartment. One day Leopoldo takes it upon himself to donate blood. The next day, he is summoned once more to the hospital. His life is about to change, and radically so.
- Punk musician Carlos decides to set out to find out about his family history when his adoptive father Genaro dies. He leaves Buenos Aires with the bandoneon of Genaro as his only company and sets out for Los Angeles, a wind-shaken village in the middle of nowhere of the Argentinian pampa. After some troublesome quest, he finds there not only the secret of his origin, but also the love of this life and his own tune, which combines his past as punk drummer with the traditional elements borrowed from cumbias, chamamés, and criollo valses.
- Oliver Stone's second documentary on/interview with Fidel Castro specifically addresses his country's recent crackdown on Cuban dissidents; namely, the execution of three men who hijacked a ferry to the United States.