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Director: Rafa Lara (as Rafael Lara)
Stars: Christian Vazquez, Angélica Aragón, Liz Gallardo
On May 5th 1862 a few thousand Mexican soldiers put their lives on the line against the worlds largest and most powerful army in one legendary battle for freedom and for...
Director: William Vega
Stars: Floralba Achicanoy, Joghis Seudin Arias, David Fernando Guacas
A Colombian refugee tries to rebuild her life at a guest house located on the shores of a great lake in the...
Director: Kai Parlange Tessmann
Stars: Kuno Becker, Gerardo Taracena, Ana Serradilla
Locked up and isolated constantly exposed and threatened to be killed for the first time in his life Lazaro understood that he was a free...
Director: Adrián GarcÃa Bogliano
Stars: Laura Caro, Francisco Barreiro, Michele Garcia
A married couple lose their children while on a family trip near some caves in Tijuana. The kids eventually reappear without explanation but it becomes clear that they are not who they used to be that something terrifying has changed...
Director: Amat Escalante
Stars: Armando Espitia, Andrea Vergara, Linda González
Heli a factory worker in rural Mexico must try and protect his young family when his 12 year old sister inadvertently involves them in the brutal drug world when she agrees to look after some cocaine found by her older boyfriend. When the drug cartel want their drugs back they go after the boyfriend and Helis young...
Director: Pedro Pablo Ibarra
Stars: Laura Ramsey, Jaime Camil, Omar Chaparro
Rachel is an intelligent modern-day woman constantly on the move. Primarily focused on her career as a diplomatic consul for the U.S. embassy shes literally lived her life on the move globe-trotting from city to city. Currently working in Mexico City and set to leave for London Rachels world turns upside down on the eve of her own goodbye party when she gets drunk and passes out on the...
Director: Shaul Schwarz
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To a growing number of Mexicans and Latinos in the Americas narco traffickers have become iconic outlaws and the new models of fame and success. They represent a pathway out of the ghetto - a new form of the American Dream fueled by the war on drugs. NARCO CULTURA looks at this explosive phenomenon from within; cycles of addiction to money drugs and violence that are rapidly gaining strength...
Director: Diego Luna
Stars: Michael Peña, America Ferrera, Rosario Dawson
Chronicling the birth of a modern American movement Cesar Chavez tells the story of the famed civil rights leader and labor organizer torn between his duties as a husband and father and his commitment to securing a living wage for farm workers. Passionate but soft-spoken Chavez embraced non-violence as he battled greed and prejudice in his struggle to bring dignity to people. Chavez inspired...
Director: Rachel Seifert
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Moving from country to country in South America reporting from across the drugs frontline and interviewing top-level international politicians this film exposes the human cost of one of the most popular drugs on the London streets. Combining reportage from the drugs front line and interviews with those top-level international politicians who are campaigning to get us in the West to take real...
Director: Niels Mueller
Stars: Sean Penn, Naomi Watts, Don Cheadle
In 1974 Samuel Joseph Byck attempted to hijack a plane he intended to fly into the White House to kill Richard Nixon - possibly the first time an airliner was to be used as a flying bomb in a terrorist attack. Sam Bicke is a lonely ineffectual incompetent who feels wronged by his family friends employers and the world in general though his problems are largely of his own making and his...
Director: Julie Taymor
Stars: Salma Hayek, Alfred Molina, Geoffrey Rush
Frida chronicles the life Frida Kahlo shared unflinchingly and openly with Diego Rivera as the young couple took the art world by storm. From her complex and enduring relationship with her mentor and husband to her illicit and controversial affair with Leon Trotsky to her provocative and romantic entanglements with women Frida Kahlo lived a bold and uncompromising life as a political...
Director: Gary Alazraki
Stars: Gonzalo Vega, Karla Souza, Luis Gerardo Méndez
Three spoiled children who are cut off from their family fortune and forced to do the unthinkable - get a...
Director: Eduardo Rodriguez
Stars: Sergio Acosta, Gizeht Galatea, Carlos Gallardo
Curandero: Dawn of the Demon is an action-packed horror flick that takes a couple on a horrifying journey through the deepest bowels of the Mexican underworld. When beautiful federal agent Magdalena calls upon the local curandero Gallardo for his services to purify a police station the two of suddenly find themselves immersed in a satanic cults blood-thirsty...
Director: Rafa Lara
Stars: Christian Vasquez, Angélica Aragón, Liz Gallardo
On May 5th 1862 a few thousand Mexican soldiers put their lives on the line against the worlds largest and most powerful army in one legendary battle for freedom and for...
Director: Lucio Fulci
Stars: Jorge Rivero, Andrea Occhipinti, Conrado San MartÃn
Italian sword and sorcery epic from splatter director Lucio Fulci loosely inspired from the Hercules mythos about two warriors on a quest and a vengeful demon who throws all kinds of nasty creatures along the way to fill scenes of gory...
Director: Makinov
Stars: Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Vinessa Shaw, Daniel Giménez Cacho
Beth Vinessa Shaw and Francis Ebon Moss-Bachrach a young married couple are on holiday together when they venture to a beautiful but highly remote island. Beth is pregnant and the two are hoping to enjoy their last vacation before their baby is born. When they arrive they notice that while there are plenty of children present the adults all seem to be missing. Initially attributing this...
Director: Francisco Laresgoiti
Stars: Miguel Couturier, Sandra EcheverrÃa, Alonso Echánove
The year 2033 has arrived to Mexico City re-baptised as Villaparaiso Paradise City. The...
Director: Zev Berman
Stars: Brian Presley, Jake Muxworthy, Rider Strong
Three college students Phil Ed and Henry take a road trip into Mexico for a week of drinking and carefree fun only to have Phil find himself a captive of a group of satanic Mexican drug smugglers who kill tourists and whom are looking for a group of new ones to prepare for a...
Director: Joao G. Amorim
Stars: Daniel Pinchbeck, Maude Barlow, Ariane Burgess
2012: Time For Change is a documentary feature that presents ways to transform our unsustainable society into a regenerative planetary culture. This can be achieved through a personal and global change of consciousness and the systemic implementation of ecological...
Director: Albert Pyun
Stars: John Stockwell, Michael Dudikoff, Michele Little
After an atomic war Phillip Hammer and Marlowe Chandler have spent 15 years on their own in an bunker stuffed with junk from the 40s and old detective novels. Now 19 years old they leave their shelter to find a world full of mutants freaks and cannibals. They become famous detectives in the struggle for the two keys that could fire the last nuclear...
Director: Benito Fernández
Stars: José Luis Orozco, José A. Toledano, Miguel Calderón
Brijes are magical animal spirits that have been in contact with human beings since the beginning of time. Every human had his brije: The human cared for his brije and vice versa. When the human turned 13 the old shamans performed the ritual a synchronizing ritual trough which the human and the brije were able to transform into the warrior form: a physical state in which the human acquired the...
Director: Suzie Templeton
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An animated retelling set to Prokofievs suite. Peter is a slight lad solitary locked out of the woods by his protective grandfather his only friend a duck. In town hes bullied. When a wolf menaces the duck - as well as grandfathers fat cat and an ill-flying bird that Peter has befriended - Peter bravely tries to tree the wolf. Grandfather the townspeople and the hunters who have...
Director: Damiano Damiani
Stars: James Olson, Burt Young, Rutanya Alda
An Italian-American family move into a house built on an ancient Indian burial ground. The oldest son is possessed by an evil spirit and is forced to murder his family. The familys priest feels responsible and tries to save the possessed boys...
Director: Juan López Moctezuma
Stars: Claudio Brook, David Silva, Tina Romero
A young girls arrival at a convent after the death of her parents marks the beginning of a series of events that unleash an evil presence on the girl and her mysterious new friend an enigmatic figure known as Alucarda. Demonic possession Satan worship and vampirism...
Director: Jan Kounen
Stars: Vincent Cassel, Michael Madsen, Juliette Lewis
Alledged wayward adolescent Louisiana gentleman Michael Mike Blueberry is dumped by his family with a Wild West uncle. The brutes only motivation is a stick. After a nearly fatal encounter in the brothel with Wallace Wally Sebastian Blount Mike is left for dead in the desert. A Chiricuahua Apache medicine mans family finds nurses and initiates him. After the shamans death Mike...
Director: Joachim Rønning, Espen Sandberg
Stars: Penélope Cruz, Salma Hayek, Steve Zahn
In 1848 a New York bank wants to put a railroad across Mexico so it buys up small banks around Santa Rita Durango and evicts farmers on the proposed rail line who owe money. The banks henchman is the murderous Jackson. He runs afoul of two women MarÃa the tough but uneducated daughter of a farmer and Sara the European-educated daughter of the owner of one of these banks. To feed the...
Director: Eugenio Derbez
Stars: Eugenio Derbez, Karla Souza, Jessica Lindsey
Valentin is Acapulcos resident playboy until a former fling leaves a baby on his doorstep and takes off without a trace. Leaving Mexico for Los Angeles to find the babys mother Valentin ends up finding a new home for himself and his newfound daughter Maggie. An unlikely father figure Valentin raises Maggie for six years while also establishing himself as one of Hollywoods top stuntmen to...
Director: Cary Fukunaga
Stars: Marco Antonio Aguirre, Leonardo Alonso, Karla Cecilia Alvarado, Juan Pablo Arias Barrón, Rosalba Belén Barrón, Felipe Castro, Rosalba Quintana Cruz, Marcela Feregrino, Kristyan Ferrer, Edgar Flores, Giovanni Florido
Storyline: Honduran teenager Sayra reunites with her father an opportunity for her to potentially realize her dream of a life in the U.S. Moving to Mexico is the first step in a fateful journey of unexpected...
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Stars: Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, Danny DeVito, Zack Norman, Alfonso Arau, Manuel Ojeda, Holland Taylor, Mary Ellen Trainor, Eve Smith, Joe Nesnow
Storyline: Joan Wilder a mousy romance novelist receives a treasure map in the mail from her recently murdered brother-in-law. Meanwhile her sister Elaine is kidnapped in Colombia and the two criminals responsible demand that she travel to Colombia to exchange the map for her sister. Joan does and quickly becomes lost in the jungle after being waylayed by Zolo a vicious and corrupt Colombian...
Director: Norberto Barba
Stars: Mario Van Peebles, Barry Corbin, William Sadler, Jaime Gomez, Demián Bichir, Seidy Lopez, Abraham Verduzco, JoaquÃn Garrido, William Wallace, Adrien Brody, Brent Schaeffer, Lucas Dudley, Christopher Michael, Rafael Velasco, Abel Woolrich
Storyline: Mario Van Peebles stars as an android killing weapon designed by the military and utilized to enter into a Latin American war to destroy the rebels - natives fighting simply to maintain their freedom. Contrary to his programming he develops an affinity for the villagers and decides to help them fight back. This lets his creators bring him back and ultimately leads to one of them being...