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  • The Secret in Their Eyes
    Argentina - 2009
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    Benjamin Esposito is a judicial employee who decides to retire after writing a novel about a criminal case, which has been a witness and protagonist. Writing the book on ...
  • Amores perros
    Mexico - 2000
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    Alejandro Gonzalez Iniarritu makes an electrifying directorial debut with AMORES PERROS, an energetic, assured motion picture that jumps off the screen with a seemingly ...
  • Maria Full Of Grace
    Colombia - 2004
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    Seventeen-year-old Maria lives in a small town north of Bogotá with her mother, her grandmother, her sister and her sister’s young son. Maria works on a large rose ...
  • Roma
    Mexico - 2018
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    "Roma" follows Cleo (Yalitza Aparicio), a young domestic worker for a family in the middle-class neighborhood of Roma in Mexico City. Delivering an artful love letter to ...
  • The Club
    Chile - 2015
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    A group of priests of various ages lives together with Mónica, a nun, in a house on the Chilean coast. When they are not praying and atoning for their sins, they train ...
  • A Place in the World
    Argentina - 1992
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    Mario and Ana, in voluntary exile from Buenos Aires, live in a remote Argentine valley with their 12-year-old son Ernesto. Mario runs a school and a wool cooperative; ...
  • Central Station
    Brazil - 1998
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    Dora, a dour old woman, works at a Rio de Janeiro central station, writing letters for customers and mailing them. She hates customers and calls them 'trash'. Josue is a ...
  • The Exterminating Angel
    Mexico - 1962
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    High society guests find themselves unable to leave the dining room after a posh dinner party. The uncomfortable situation extends far beyond the limits of their patience ...
  • The Clan
    Argentina - 2015
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    Argentina in the early eighties. Within a typical family home in the traditional neighborhood of San Isidro, a sinister clan makes its living off kidnapping and murder. ...
  • The Motorcycle Diaries
    Argentina - 2004
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    In 1952, two young Argentines, Ernesto Guevara and Alberto Granado, set out on a road trip to discover the real Latin America. Ernesto is a 23-year-old medical student ...
  • No
    Chile - 2012
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    Military dictator Augusto Pinochet calls for a referendum to decide his permanence in power in 1988, the leaders of the opposition persuade a young daring advertising ...
  • Machuca
    Chile - 2004
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    Two children from different ends of the social spectrum become friends and witness the events that unfold in Chile under Pinochet.
  • And Your Mother Too
    Mexico - 2001
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    Julio (Gael García Bernal) and Tenoch (Diego Luna) are two seventeen-year-old best friends whose sexy, young girlfriends are headed to Italy for summer vacation. At a ...
  • Martin (Hache)
    Argentina - 1997
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    Upon learning that his estranged son in Buenos Aires may have attempted suicide by mixing dog tranquilizers with booze, expatriate Argentine film director Martin ...
  • Wild Tales
    Argentina - 2014
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    Vulnerable before a reality that can suddenly be modified and become unpredictable, the characters of Wild Tales cross the thin line that divides civilization from ...
  • Strawberry and Chocolate
    Cuba - 1993
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    David (Vladimir Cruz) is a student and ardent Communist whose personal life is in something of a slump; his girlfriend recently left him to marry another man after he ...
  • The Snail's Strategy (La estrategia del caracol)
    Colombia - 1993
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    A group of tenants living in an old house are confronted with having to move out due to a renovation project the city has undertaken. The tenants decide to unite and come ...
  • Simon of the Desert
    Mexico - 1965
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  • Fallen from the Sky
    Peru - 1990
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  • From Afar
    Venezuela - 2015
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    Wealthy middle-aged Armando lures young men to his home with money. He doesn’t want to touch, only watch from a strict distance. He also follows an elderly businessman ...
  • Like Water for Chocolate
    Mexico - 1992
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    The passionate Tita (Lumi Cavazos) is in love with Pedro (Marco Leonardi), but her controlling mother (Regina Torne) forbids her from marrying him. When Pedro instead ...
  • Heli
    Mexico - 2013
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    Estela is a 12 year old girl who has just fallen crazy in love with a young police cadet who wants to run away with her and get married. Trying to achieve this dream, her ...
  • Time for Revenge
    Argentina - 1981
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    A union organizing demolition worker and a friend of his decide to blackmail the corrupt company they work for setting up a fake accident. Because of a miscalculation the ...
  • The Official Story
    Argentina - 1985
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    Alicia Marnet de Ibañez is happily married to her husband Roberto. They have an adopted daughter named Gaby. Alicia is blissfully ignorant about what happened in the ...
  • El mariachi
    United States - 1992
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    Kind-spirited guitarist El Mariachi (Carlos Gallardo) simply wants to wander through life as his father and grandfather did, with a song in his heart and a smile on his ...
  • October (Octubre)
    Peru - 2010
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    Clemente, an extremely quiet pawnbroker, is Sofia's hope to avoid solitude. Being his neighbor and a single woman, she spends her days as an October's Lord of the ...
  • Carandiru
    Brazil - 2003
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    The acclaimed director of 'Kiss of the Spider Woman' dramatizes the 1992 prisoner revolt and massacre at São Paulo's infamous Carandiru penitentiary. A tender, forceful, ...
  • Moon of Avellaneda
    Argentina - 2004
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  • Innocent Voices
    Mexico - 2004
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    Weakened by two years of fighting, the army of El Salvador has been forced to replenish its ranks with the nation’s young sons, most of whom are kidnapped in sudden and ...
  • American Visa
    Bolivia - 2005
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    A Bolivian man with dreams of reuniting with his son and starting a new life in the United States is forced to resort to questionable methods due to harsh laws designed ...
  • The Dance of Reality
    Chile - 2013
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    Alejandro Jodorowsky's childhood in Chile. “Having broken away from my illusory self, I was desperately seeking a path and a meaning to life.” This phrase perfectly sums ...
  • El Topo
    Mexico - 1970
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    A fascinating collision of Sixties avant-garde theater, Latin American symbolism, European radical cinema and the furthest reaches of the movie western, El Topo ...
  • Güeros
    Mexico - 2014
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    Set in 1999 against a backdrop of student protests, Güeros is a road movie that becomes a voyage of discovery for three rootless young people seeking to bridge the gap ...
  • Paradise
    Peru - 2009
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    It’s exactly a month since “Che Loco” was killed by a rival gang. For that reason Joaquín, Antuanet, Lalo, Mario and Sara, long life friends, walk across the sandy ...
  • The Jackal of Nahueltoro
    Chile - 1969
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  • El (This Strange Passion)
    Mexico - 1953
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    Francisco is rich, rather strict on principles, and still a bachelor. After meeting Gloria by accident, he is suddenly intent on her becoming his wife and courts her ...
  • It's Not You, It's Me
    Argentina - 2004
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  • Blood of the Condor
    Bolivia - 1969
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  • Rosario Tijeras
    Colombia - 2005
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    Medellín, 1989. Antonio (Unax Ugalde) brings Rosario (Flora Martinez) to the hospital; she’s shot, bleeding badly. Flashbacks, mixed with Antonio’s wait at the hospital ...
  • Young & Wild
    Chile - 2012
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    Daniela is a petite, pretty teenager raised in the bosom of a strict and well-to-do evangelical family in Santiago, Chile. Daniela is also a 17-year-old who finds that ...
  • Whisky
    Uruguay - 2004
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    Montevideo, Uruguay. Jacobo, a 60-year-old man, lives alone since the death of his mother, of whom he took care up to her last day. All he has in life is a humble sock ...
  • Secuestro Express
    Venezuela - 2005
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    Every sixty minutes a person is abducted in Latin America. 70% of the victims do not survive. "Secuestro Express" is the frightening story of one young couple's ordeal as ...
  • La zona
    Mexico - 2007
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    Residents of an enclosed neighborhood in the middle of Mexico DF are shocked by a violent crime, and for one resident in particular, young Alejandro, the drama is ...
  • Vampires in Havana
    Cuba - 1985
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    A vampire family from Cuba is preparing for a showdown between the USA vampires and the Eastern European vampires. But with the aid of a scientist, they need a type of ...
  • Gloria
    Chile - 2013
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    Gloria is a 58 year old divorcée. Her children have all left home but she has no desire to spend her days and nights alone. Determined to defy old age and loneliness, she ...
  • The Crime of Father Amaro
    Mexico - 2002
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    A handsome young priest, Padre Amaro (Gael Garcia Bernal) arrives in a small town and finds himself surrounded by hypocrisy and corruption--and also finds himself tempted ...
  • The Perfect Dictatorship
    Mexico - 2014
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    TV MX, the most powerful Mexican Television Corporation, discloses a scandalous story involving Governor Carmelo Vargas in serious crimes and illicit business. Governor ...
  • Madeinusa
    Peru - 2006
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    Modern-day urban values mix and clash with small-town life in Madeinusa, Claudia Llosa's remarkable debut feature about a city stranger's encounter with an innocent ...
  • Lost Embrace
    Argentina - 2003
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    A young Jewish man who spends most of his life in a shopping mall longs to obtain a passport so he can journey back to Poland, as his father did, but those close to him ...
  • Cronos
    Mexico - 1993
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    In 1535, an alchemist builds an extraordinary mechanism encapsulated into a small golden device. The invention, designed to convey eternal life to its owner, survives its ...
  • Guantanamera
    Cuba - 1995
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    When Aunt Yoyita dies during a visit to Gina in Guantánamo, Gina, along with Yoyita's childhood sweetheart, the aging Cándido, must take the body to Havana. To their ...
  • Dog Eat Dog
    Colombia - 2008
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    In the crime world of Columbia, there is an unwritten code. When Víctor and Eusebio, two hoods who bungle a shake-down job, break that code, they unwittingly sign their own death sentence.
  • After Lucia
    Mexico - 2012
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    After the death of her mother Lucía, teenage Alejandra (Tessa Ia) and her dad Roberto (Hernan Mendoza) have just moved from Puerto Vallarta to Mexico D.F. She is new at ...
  • Petete and Trapito
    Argentina - 1975
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    On a stormy night, Trapito the scarecrow saves Salapin the sparrow's life. Salapin is very grateful and makes Trapito believe that he can move from his place. Together ...
  • Nine Queens
    Argentina - 2000
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    Set in a Buenos Aires that is on the verge of economic collapse, the film tells the story of Juan (Gastón Pauls), a con artist with a conscience. Trying to round up ...
  • The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz
    Mexico - 1955
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    The delirious journey of a mental disordered man, who is obsessed in making the perfect crime.
  • Same Love, Same Rain
    Argentina - 1999
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    In 1980, Jorge (Ricardo Darin) is a serious fiction writer who meets Laura (Soledad Villamil), an aspiring young actress. The two fall in love, and although they emerge ...
  • Estomago: A Gastronomic Story
    Brazil - 2007
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    In the great restaurant of life, there are those who eat and those who get eaten. Raimundo Nonato, the protagonist of the Ulm, Unds an alternative way, a life of his own: ...
  • Satan
    Colombia - 2007
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    In this stirring drama from Colombian director Andi Baiz passion, violence, and secrets collide as three people put their dreams and fears to the test. Provocative and ...
  • Tango
    Argentina - 1998
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    Set in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the film tells the story of director Mario Suarez's quest to make the ultimate tango film. Lonely after his wife (one of the film's stars) ...
  • To Kill a Man
    Chile - 2014
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    When Jorge, a hardworking family man who's barely making ends meet, gets mugged by Kalule, a neighborhood delinquent, Jorge's son decides to confront the attacker, only ...
Movies from this Rating List. (Click on a movie to rate it)
  • The Secret in Their Eyes
  • Amores perros
  • Maria Full Of Grace
  • Roma
  • The Club
  • A Place in the World
  • Central Station
  • The Exterminating Angel
  • The Clan
  • The Motorcycle Diaries
  • No
  • Machuca
  • And Your Mother Too
  • Martin (Hache)
  • Wild Tales
  • Strawberry and Chocolate
  • The Snail's Strategy (La estrategia del caracol)
  • Simon of the Desert
  • Fallen from the Sky
  • From Afar
  • Like Water for Chocolate
  • Heli
  • Time for Revenge
  • The Official Story
  • El mariachi
  • October (Octubre)
  • Carandiru
  • Moon of Avellaneda
  • Innocent Voices
  • American Visa
  • The Dance of Reality
  • El Topo
  • Güeros
  • Paradise
  • The Jackal of Nahueltoro
  • El (This Strange Passion)
  • It's Not You, It's Me
  • Blood of the Condor
  • Rosario Tijeras
  • Young & Wild
  • Whisky
  • Secuestro Express
  • La zona
  • Vampires in Havana
  • Gloria
  • The Crime of Father Amaro
  • The Perfect Dictatorship
  • Madeinusa
  • Lost Embrace
  • Cronos
  • Guantanamera
  • Dog Eat Dog
  • After Lucia
  • Petete and Trapito
  • Nine Queens
  • The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz
  • Same Love, Same Rain
  • Estomago: A Gastronomic Story
  • Satan
  • Tango
  • To Kill a Man
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