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Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
Español
Description
Tells the parallel stories of nine-year-old Carlitos and his mother, Rosario. In the hopes of providing a better life for her son, Rosario works illegally in the U.S. In Mexico, her mother cares for Carlitos. Unexpected circumstances drive both Rosario and Carlitos to embark on their own journeys in a desperate attempt to reunite. Along the way, mother and son face challenges and obstacles but never lose hope that they will one day be together again....
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
Español
Description
In this steamy, intriguingly complex, psychological thriller the line between reality and fantasy is hopelessly blurred. César tries to make sense of his life after a car crash leaves his once-handsome face grotesquely disfigured. After he is placed into a psychiatric penitentiary for a murder he doesn't remember committing, César's only hope is to delve into the depths of his subconscious mind where the answer to ending his living nightmare lies...
Series
Nuestro cine clásico volume 2
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
Español
Description
La ilusión viaja en tranvía: Confronted with the news that their favorite streetcar will be decommissioned, two municipal transit workers become drunk and decide to borrow it for one last ride without charging the passengers. However, they end up embarking on a series of adventures, as they are confronted with situation after bizarre situation that prevents them from returning the borrowed streetcar.
Nazarín: A humble priest is forced to leave...
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
Español
Description
La familia de Epifanio radica en los Estados Unidos desde hace veinticinco años. Íl y su mujer son mexicanos, pero sus dos hijos nacieron del otro lado. A razí de que Isidro, el hermano de Epifanio enferma de gravedad, deciden viajar para verlo y de paso aprovechar para que sus jóvenes hijos conozcan sus racáes. El viaje estará repleto de situaciones absurdas y divertidas; en las que padres e hijos tendrán que resolver todos los obstáculos,...
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
Español
Description
Three characters in present-day Havana must choose between clinging to their self-restricting beliefs, or getting rid of them to live more freely. Ballerina Mariana has promised God celibacy if she gets the role of "Giselle"; social-worker Julia always faints after hearing a certain word; and pot-smoking percussionist Elpidio was abandoned by his mother, coincidentally named Cuba, some time ago and has not yet gotten over the loss.
7) El profe
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
Español
Description
"El Pintoresco profesor Sócrates García es llamado para dar clases en una escuela rural; a pesar de simpatizar rápidamente con los habitantes tiene un obstáculo: el cacique del pueblo y el presidente municipal son enemigos de la educación, por lo que harán todo lo posible para que el Profe no pueda impartir su educación: lo mandan golpear, convierten la escuela en cantina, y cuando Sócrates improvisa un toldo para dar clases al aire libre,...
9) Amelie
Pub. Date
2001
Language
Français
Description
Amelie Poulain has led a sheltered life, educated at home by her parents, she lives in a fantasy world of her own. When she finally leaves home and finds work as a waitress in a Parisian cafe, life is uneventful until a chain of extraordinary events leads her to the discovery of a box containing a schoolboy's long forgotten mementos. It is then that Amelie discovers her vocation in life - helping others find love and happiness - which she sets about...
10) Aguila o sol
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
Español
Description
Cantinflas, as a child, escapes from an orphanage with two friends and makes his way to the stage as part of a comedy team. Meanwhile, a man searches for the son he left at an orphanage years ago.
12) Mad Max
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
In the desolate near future, road cop Mad Max tires of chasing after vicious roving gangs and quits. When his wife and child are murdered by a motorcycle gang he returns to seek revenge.
13) 13 assassins
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
日本語
Description
Thirteen brave samurai must face overwhelming odds in an epic battle against a sadistic lord and his army of 200 to prevent him from plunging Japan into war.
14) Son of a gun
Language
English
Formats
Description
After breaking out of a maximum-security prison, Brendan Lynch, Australia's most notorious criminal, enlists 19-year-old JR to accompany him and his crew on a gold heist that promises to deliver millions. However, as things start to go wrong, a deadly game of cat and mouse ensues.
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
Swedish
Description
The final installment of Stieg Larsson's 'Millennium' trilogy. Lisbeth Salander is fighting for her life in more ways than one. In an intensive care unit and charged with three murders, she will have to not only prove her innocence, but also identify and denounce the same corrupt government institutions that nearly destroyed her life. Once upon a time, she was a victim. Now, Lisbeth Salander is fighting back.
18) Belle epoque
Author
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
Español
Description
A young Army deserter is seduced by each of the four daughters of the man who has offered him refuge.
19) The aura
Author
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
Español
Description
An epileptic taxidermist's dream of committing the perfect crime presents itself when he takes a hunting trip and meets a criminal planning an armored car heist.
20) Layer cake
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Planning to retire and begin a new life, Mr. X is a successful West End drug dealer who has been asked for one last favor: to negotiate the sale of one million hits of Ecstasy. Unfortunately for Mr. X, the pills were stolen from a Serbian drug lord who'll cut off his head if he sells them. And with a London crime czar promising to retire him permanently if he doesn't, Mr. X may be rightfully concerned about his future.
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