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Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes (Mexico)
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
Español
Description
Tadeo is a street magician with many secrets. Once a famous photographer, he now hangs out with a blind vagabond who acts as his performance assistant. He meets a young neighbor who inadvertently reminds him of what he abandoned.
Tadeo es un desempleado que decide convertirse en mago y así recorre los barrios más decadentes de la ciudad para subsistir. Su vida se encuentra si un aliciente, hasta que aparece una joven vecina que lo hace recordar...
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
Español
Description
"In December 2005 Toño Zuniga was picked up off the street in Mexico City, Mexico, and sentenced to 20 years for a murder he knew nothing about. A friend of Toño's contacted two young lawyers, Roberto Hernández and Layda Negrete, who gained prominence in Mexico when they helped bring about the release of another innocent man from prison. Looking into Toño's case, Roberto and Layda managed to get a retrial--on camera--and enlisted the help of...
Series
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
Español
Description
A successful filmmaker deals with the current events of his life: his wife has just left him, his father has died, he is an alcholic and desperately trying to finish a screenplay. While coping with all of this he meets a beautiful aspiring filmmaker who could disrupt it all.
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
Español
Description
Cuentos de hadas para dormir cocodrilos: A story of magical realism featuring superstition, ambition, and treason. A man who suffers from insomnia is forced to confront a dark and mysterious past when he heeds a call from his brother. Upon traveling to his hometown, he finds out that both his brother and his father died years ago and that his family is under a menacing curse.
Otilia Rauda: Scandalous and with an intense storyline. A woman and her...
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Español
Description
"Es la historia de un nįo brillante, inadaptado y pesimista, que tras enterarse de que es un genio, lucha por salir adelante a pesar de la ignorancia y los escasos recursos de su familia. Con s̤lo ocho ąos de edad, tiene que adelantar la decisi̤n m̀s dif̕cil de su vida: ¿Qǔ quiere ser de grande?"--Filmaffinity.com.
A heartwarming comedic film about family love and the hard choices that come with opportunity. Set in Sonora, Mexico, Jerema's...
6) Cronos
Series
Criterion collection volume 551
Pub. Date
2010
Language
Español
Description
In the darkness, a clock ticks. Aging antique dealer Jesús Gris marks his time with his granddaughter Aurora, and his wife Mercedes. Señor Gris comes to possess, quite accidentally, the ancient Cronos device. The invention of a sixteenth century alchemist who fled to Mexico during the Spanish Inquisition, it grants eternal life and youthful vigor to the user. The only drawbacks are marble white skin that burns under sunlight and an insatiable thirst...