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All about my mother (1999)
Todo sobre mi madre
Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Starring: Penelope Cruz, Cecilia Roth
Young Esteban want to become a writer and also to discover the identity of his father, carefully concealed by his mother.
[VHS ]

      
Amores perros (2000)
Love's a bitch
Director: Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Starring: Gael García Bernal, Emilio Echevarría
Three people are catapulted into dramatic and unforseen circumstances in the wake of a terrible car crash.
[DVD]

      
Bella (2006)
Director: Alejandro Gomez Monteverde
Starring: Tammy Blanchard, Eduardo Verástegui
Once a famous athlete and now a cook, José has retreated from the world but reaches out to Nina, a young waitress.
[DVD]

      
Danzon (1991)
Director: Maria Novaro
Starring: Blanca Guerra, Maria Rojo
A trip to Veracruz to find a missing dancing partner changes a Mexican worman's life forever.
[VHS ]

      
El mariachi (1992)
Director: Robert Rodriguez
Starring: Carlos Gallardo, Consuelo Gómez
A traveling mariachi is mistaken for a murderous criminal and must hide from a gang bent on killing him.
[DVD]

      
Eva Perón (1996)
Director: Juan Carlos Lenardi
Starring: Esther Goris, Víctor Laplace
An obscure actress becomes the wife of Argentine strong-man President Juan Peron and one of the most powerful figures in Argentina.
[DVD]

      
Funny, dirty little war (1983)
No habrá más penas ni olvido
Director: Hector Olivera
Starring: Julio de Grazia, Federico Luppi
A civil war erupts in a quiet Agentine village when a local Peronist politician claims a municipal clerk is a Communist.
[VHS ]

      
Intimate stories (2002)
Historias mínimas
Director: Carlos Sorin
Starring: Antonio Benedicti, Javier Lombardo
Three people and a baby set off on separate journeys along the the Patagonian road.
[DVD]

      
Land without bread (1933)
Las Hurdes
Director: Luis Buñuel
Starring: Various
This surrealistic documentary portrays the region of Las Hurdes, a remote region of Spain where civilisation has barely developed.
[VHS ]

      
Life is to whistle (1998)
La vida es silbar
Director: Fernando Perez
Starring: Luis Alberto Garcia, Isabel Santos
Three characters in present-day Havana must choose between clinging to their self-restricting beliefs or getting rid of them to live more freely.
[DVD]

      
Like water for chocolate (1992)
Como agua para chocolate
Director: Alfonso Arau
Starring: Laura Esquivel, Alfonso Arau
In a forgotten Mexico, Tita and Pedro fall in love but are forbidden to marry.
[DVD | VHS ]

      
Live-in maid (2004)
Cama adentro
Director: Jorge Gaggero
Starring: Norma Aleandro, Norma Argentina
A wealthy woman and her live-in housekeeper must adjust their relationship when Buenos Aires is plunged into economic crisis.
[DVD]

      
Maria full of grace (2004)
Director: Joshua Marston
Starring: Catalina Sandino Moreno, Yenny Paolo Vega
A pregnant Columbian teenager becomes a drug mule to make some desperately needed money for her family.
[DVD]

      
My brother's wife (2005)
La mujer de mi hermano
Director: Ricardo de Montreuil
Starring: Christian Meier, Bárbara Mori
Zoe's marriage lacks passion and surprise, but she might find those forgotten sensations in her husband's brother.
[DVD]

      
Nazarín (1959)
Director: Luis Buñuel
Starring: Marga López, Francisco Rabal
A priest is forced to leave the priesthood because of his relationship with women.
[VHS ]

      
Open your eyes (1997)
Abre los ojos
Director: Alejandro Amenábar
Starring: Penelope Cruz, Chete Lera
César tries to make sense of life after a car crash leaves his face disfigured and he is sent to a psychiatric penitentiary for a murder he doesn't remember committing.
[VHS ]

      
Pan's labyrinth (2006)
El laberinto del fauno
Director: Guillermo del Toro
Starring: Ivana Baquero, Ariadna Gil
In 1944 fascist Spain, the young stepdaughter of a sadistic army officer escapes into an eerie but captivating fantasy world.
[DVD]

      
Reed, Mexico insurgenté (1973)
Director: Paul Leduc
Starring: Claudio Obregon, Eduardo López Rojas
Young journalist John Reed rides with Pancho Villa's army in 1913-14 in the Mexican Revolution.
[VHS ]

      
Sólo con tu pareja (1991)
Director: Alfonso Cuarón
Starring: Daniel Giménez Cacho, Claudia Ramirez
A womanizer gets a taste of his own medicine from a spurned nurse.
[DVD]

      
Tango (1998)
Tango, no me dejes nunca
Director: Carlos Saura
Starring: Cecilia Narova, Miguel Ángel Solá
A forty-something tango artist, whose wife has left him, leaves his apartment and starts preparing a film about tango.
[DVD]



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