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El Infierno
After being deported back to Mexico, a man has no choice but to join the vicious drug cartel that has corrupted his hometown in order to survive.
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Nine Queens
Two con artists try to swindle a stamp collector by selling him a sheet of counterfeit rare stamps, the "nine queens".
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The Young and the Damned
A group of juvenile delinquents live a violent life in the infamous slums of Mexico City; among them Pedro, whose morality is gradually corrupted and destroyed by the others.
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Argentina 1985
In the 1980s, a team of lawyers takes on the heads of Argentina's bloody military dictatorship in a battle against odds and a race against time.
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The Heist of the Century
In 2006, a group of thieves performed what is considered one of the most famous and smart bank heists in the history of Argentina. How they robbed the Rio bank is as surprising as what happened afterwards. This is their story.
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Sin Nombre
Sayra, a Native Honduran teenager, hungers for a better life. Her chance for one comes when she is reunited with her long-estranged father, who intends to emigrate to Mexico and then enter the United States. Sayra's life collides with a pai
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Bad Education
When an old friend brings filmmaker Enrique Goded a semi-autobiographical script chronicling their adolescence, Enrique is forced to relive his youth spent at a Catholic boarding school. Weaving through past and present, the script follows
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El Angel
Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1971. Carlos Robledo Puch is a 19-year-old boy with an angelic face, but a vocational thief as well, who acts ruthlessly, without remorse. When he meets Ramón, they follow together a dark path of crime and death.
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Marshland
The Spanish Deep South, 1980. A series of brutal murders of adolescent girls in a remote and forgotten town bring together two disparate characters – both detectives in the homicide division – to investigate the cases.
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Herod's Law
In the 1940s, a small Mexican town has seen its last three mayors assassinated in rapid succession. A naive janitor is recruited to become the new mayor, and he believes he will modernize the little town and usher in a reign of peace. But t
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Maria Full of Grace
A pregnant Colombian teenager becomes a drug mule to make some desperately needed money for her family.
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Straight from the Barrio
A young drug dealer falls in love while facing disruption among the men in his gang, and being offered a career as a Reggaetón singer.
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Birds of Passage
During the marijuana bonanza, a violent decade that saw the origins of drug trafficking in Colombia, Rapayet and his indigenous family get involved in a war to control the business that ends up destroying their lives and their culture.
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A Twelve-Year Night
Uruguay, 1973. Having been crushed by the military dictatorship, surviving members of the Tupamaro guerillas are imprisoned and tortured. They must find a way to endure the coming 12 years.
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The Rose Seller
Monica is 13 years old and has already created her own world, on the street, where she fights courageously to defend what little she has: her friends, her boyfriend, who sells drugs, and her dignity and pride that makes no concessions to an
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High Heels
After being estranged for 15 years, flamboyant actress Becky del Paramo re-enters her daughter Rebeca's life when she comes to perform a concert. Rebeca, she finds, is now married to one of Becky's ex-lovers, Manuel. The mother and daughte
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At the End of the Tunnel
A paraplegic computer engineer who moves in a wheelchair and works in his basement starts hearing noises and voices of bank-robbers.
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El Mariachi
El Mariachi just wants to play his guitar and carry on the family tradition. Unfortunately, the town he tries to find work in has another visitor, a killer who carries his guns in a guitar case. The drug lord and his henchmen mistake el Mar
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La Civil
Cielo is a mother whose teenage daughter is kidnapped in Northern Mexico. When the authorities offer no support in the search, Cielo takes matters into her own hands and transforms from housewife into a vengeful militant.
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On Probation
Mariano is a psychologist who must fulfill community service after losing a lawsuit by a traffic accident. He is forced to provide therapeutic support to Alfredo, a policeman depressed over his wife cheating on him. Mariano is then accidentally involved in a double homicide investigation being conducted by Alfredo.
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The Skeleton of Mrs. Morales
A taxidermist decides to murder his wife after having to put up with her after twenty years of hellish marriage.
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Common Wealth
After finding an enormous amount of money hidden in a dead man's apartment, real estate agent Julia must face the wrath of the very peculiar inhabitants of the apartment building, who will stop at nothing to get their hands on the money.
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Our Lady of the Assassins
World-weary author Fernando has returned to his native Colombia to live out his days in peace. But Fernando's once-quiet hometown has become a hotbed of violence, drugs, and corruption. On the brink of despair, Fernando meets Alexis, a beautiful but hardened street kid who lives by the rule of the gun. Together, they forge an unlikely relationship.
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Canoa: A Shameful Memory
A group of students arrives in a small town during a hiking expedition. Once there, the local priest accuses them of being communist agitators on the run from an army crack-down against student demonstrations in nearby Mexico City and ralli
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The Boss: Anatomy of a Crime
This incredibly disturbing story follows the exploitation of an apprentice butcher, Hermógenes, and his trial after he murders his boss in broad daylight. Hermógenes, a farmhand from northern Argentina, relocates to Buenos Aires in search of a better life for himself and his young wife, but soon finds himself at the mercy of a corrupt boss. The film is based on a thorough investigation of a real event that happened in Buenos Aires 10 years ago. Almost every scene in the film is inspired by real facts or based on well documented daily practices of the “meat business” and its environment. Both a shocking exposé of unscrupulous practices in the meat industry and a heart-wrenching personal story, El Patrón became one of the most successful Argentine films of 2014.
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Eye for an Eye
Mario, an exemplary man, lives in a village on the Galician coast. In the old people’s home, where he works as a nurse, everyone appreciates him. When the best known narco in the area, Antonio Padín, recently released from prison, enters the residence, Mario tries to make Antonio feel at home. Now, Padín's two sons, Kike and Toño, are in charge of the family business. The failure of an operation will put Kike in jail and cause them to owe a large debt to a Colombian supplier. Toño will turn to the nurse to try to convince his father to assume the debt. But Mario has his own plans.
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The Bosses
Set in 2013 Monterrey, Poncho is a student at a prestigious college, he goes to get weed with his friend El Greñas, they go to La Bomba to get some. Although when La Bomba runs out of weed, they decide to take him on a quest to get more weed from El Perro. When Poncho needs to go back home, La Bomba kidnaps both Poncho and Greñas and taking Poncho's phone and car. La Bomba contacts Poncho's father to get him one million dollars to free his son, though Bomba didn't know the deadly consequences.
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Monos
On a faraway mountaintop, eight kids with guns watch over a hostage and a conscripted milk cow.
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The Snitch Cartel
The real life story of Andres Lopez Lopez aka "Frecita" during his years involved with the Colombian Cartel aka "Cartel Norte del Valle"
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The Lady of Silence: The Mataviejitas Murders
Between 1998 and 2005, a wave of murders targeting elderly women hit Mexico City, triggering the hunt for — and capture — of a most unlikely suspect.
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Everybody Knows
Laura, a Spanish woman living in Buenos Aires, returns to her hometown outside Madrid with her Argentinian husband and children. However, the trip is upset by unexpected events that bring secrets into the open.
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Boogie
Hoping to make some money, Boogie, a violent and ruthless assassin, kidnaps a witness a mafia boss wants dead.
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A Cop Movie
This documentary walks the line between fact and fiction, delving into corruption in the Mexican police through the experiences of two officers.
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The Invisible Guardian
When the naked body of a teenage girl is found on the banks of the River Baztán, it is quickly linked to a similar murder one month before. Soon, rumours are flying in the nearby village of Elizondo. Is this the work of a ritualistic killer
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The Legacy of the Bones
Inspector Amaia Salazar must return to the Baztan valley in order to solve a series of suicides that seem to follow a similar pattern.
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The Lost Brother
Cetarti is drowning in nothingness. With no job or purpose, he spends his days inside watching documentaries on television, until one day he is informed that his mother and brother were gunned down. He travels from Buenos Aires to Lapachito, a decrepit town in the province of Chaco in northern Argentina to deal with their bodies and to get the life insurance money. There he meets Duarte, a sort of boss in the town and a friend of his mother's murderer who also kidnaps people for money. Cetarti's path will lead him to committing illegal acts to get his hands on the insurance money and to his involvement in Duarte's dark dealings, leading to an absurd and unexpected outcome.
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The Brute
A tough young man, who helps to kick poor people out of their houses, falls in love with a girl. She lives with her father in the building about to be demolished.
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Satanás - Profile of a Killer
Based on the Mario Mendoza's book and inspired by true events, tells three interconnected stories happening in the eve of the infamous Pozzetto Massacre.
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Heli
Heli must try and protect his young family when his 12-year-old sister inadvertently involves them in the brutal drug world. He must battle against the drug cartel that have been angered as well as the corrupt police force.
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Torrente: The Dumb Arm of the Law
A former policeman enlists his nerdy friend to help bust drug traffickers moving heroin through a Chinese restaurant.
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Spider
Three friends are part of a fascist opposition group in the chaotic Chile of the early 70's and together commit a political crime that changes the history of the country and incidentally involves them in a betrayal that separates them forever.
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Deep Crimson
Driven by desire and desperate for self-love, Coral and Nicolás will abandon their past lives in a journey surrounded by murder.
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Airbag
A man gets involved in a series of mishaps while frantically searching for his lost wedding ring
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Blood of the Condor
A community reacts against a group of foreigners who under the guise of development assistance are forcibly sterilizing the peasant women.
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Sultans of the South
A band of thieves steals from a Mexican bank and travel to Argentina to launder the money. Upon their arrival, the plan goes south and it's up to them to figure out what went wrong.
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Kill the Jockey
Remo's self-destructive behavior overshadows his talent. Abril, an upcoming jockey, is pregnant with Remo's baby and has to decide between the child or continuing to race. They both race for Sirena, a businessman who saved Remo's life in the past but now is determined to find him, dead or alive.
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Pseudo
A taxi driver from La Paz, out of work and desperate for money, assumes the identity of a passenger — a photographer — and takes his next assignment, not knowing he is actually a hit-man whose next target is a top-ranked government official
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Cenizas del paraíso
A judge falls from the roof of the Federal Courthouse. A woman is murdered. Between them and the three sons of the judge there is a connection that will be investigated by a woman judge who is determined to discover the truth.
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Museo
Mexico, 1985. Juan and Wilson, two perennial Veterinary students, perpetrate an audacious heist in the National Museum of Anthropology, running away with a loot of more than hundred invaluable pieces of Mayan art, unaware of the consequences of their outrageous act.
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Ladrones
Alejandro Toledo comes out of his retirement from crime to help a community reclaim land stolen from them by a beautiful but ruthless businesswoman and her clan.
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Rodrigo D. No Future
Rodrigo and his friends, restless teenagers from the marginalized neighborhoods on the hillsides of Medellín, spend their time causing trouble. But Rodrigo dreams of playing rock music and brings his friends together to form a punk band that becomes a lifeline amid a web of disorientation, violence, drugs, and fear.
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Eleven Males 2
Eleven friends face the kidnapper of their children on the soccer field. Only a victory will bring them back to their families.
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Más allá del silencio
Fidel, a deaf mugger, sees the possibility of a new life after he start attending to a school for the deaf. However his chances are getting shorter as the a police officer is after his trail.
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Gimme Power
When a Mexican film director becomes fed up with the crime and corruption in his homeland, he decides to single-handedly take on a powerful band of criminals.
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Victims of Sin
A nightclub performer decides to raise the baby boy she found abandoned in a trash can, putting her job and social life in jeopardy.
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Hurricane Season
When a group of teens finds a corpse floating in a canal, the brutal reality behind the perverse crime unravels a town's hidden secrets.
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8 tiros
Revenge. Juan and Vicente are brothers, but they are separated by a deep hatred that will drive Juan to return to life to take from his brother the only thing that matters to him: his power. A story of love, disappointment, and excess.
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Lost in the Night
A young man from a small mining town embroils himself with a wealthy family with a dubious past.
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Rodents
The world of Salvador, a young and naive petty thief is changed by the arrival of his cousin Angel, an ex-convict in search of easy money, and with a hideout. Salvador gets wrapped up in Angel's twisted dealings in an attempt to escape from his suffocating family, dragging along his family and friends, in his criminal path. Where will this all lead?
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Broken
A policewoman returns with her young daughter to her hometown to care for her dying mother. The murder of a young girl will keep her there longer than expected. She will try to solve a case that no one seems to care about, risking everything on the path.
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Pure Blood
Roberto Hurtado suffers from a rare disease that requires massive transfusions of blood from children or adolescents. His son blackmails three employees to get blood for him and they resort to unscrupulous methods to obtain it.
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Cadejo Blanco
After her sister goes missing, Sarita, a working-class girl from Guatemala City, travels to the seaside town of Puerto Barrios to infiltrate a group of young gang members. As she risks her life to join the gang, Sarita becomes involved with her sister’s dangerous ex-boyfriend and gets closer to learning what happened to her sister.
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Kalibre 35
Four young friends are obsessed with cinema: watching it, tasting it and, above all, making it. However, financial difficulties repeatedly truncate their great illusion. Desperate, they decide to make a cinematographic plot come true: to rob a bank to finance their film.
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The Heist
In Mexico City's infamous Lecumberri prison, three drug-addicted convicts celebrate getting drugs from one of their the mothers. They are found out and locked up in the "apando," the dreaded punishment cell. Protests over the treatment of those held in the cell lead to a bloody confrontation.
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The Gasoline Thieves
Lalo is a fourteen year old teenager who, from an naive approach, gets involved in the underground world of the gas theft mafia while he's trying to make money to buy a gift for Ana and win her heart.
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From Within
Sofía is a former professional racer who ends up working as a mule for a drug cartel. When she and her best friend are ambushed by two corrupt cops who want to kill them and take the drugs, all hell breaks loose when they discover what they were carrying is not of this world. Now it's up to Doc, a cartel hitman and Sofía's lover, to save their lives.
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Invoking Yell
Set in 1990s story of three twenty something women who venture into the woods to shoot a demo tape for their black metal band.
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The Delinquents
Morán works as a clerk in a bank in Buenos Aires. He is as good as invisible to his colleagues. Over dinner with his colleague Román, Morán tells him that he stole exactly $650,000, which is exactly double what he would have made until his retirement. He plans to turn himself in, but not before offering Román to split the money if agrees to hide it for the duration of his incarceration.
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Glue Sniffer
Oliver flees from abuse of his family and seeks refuge in the violent streets of Caracas, where survival is only possible in an environment of corruption, crime and sniffing glue to escape hunger, like other children in the same situation. Soon, the child becomes part of the clashes between drug gangs and corrupt policemen.
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Sex, Lies and Death
Viviana and Alicia have never met, but they're about to get intimately acquainted. One day, while tipping drinks back in a bar, the two women strike up a conversation that quickly turns personal, Viviana is locked in an abusive marriage, a
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Faster, Faster
Angela is a young waitress who turns her back on society when she meets and falls in love with Pablo, a reckless criminal delinquent. Along with Pablo’s gang of car thieves, the pair embark on a drug and disco-fueled robbery spree as they h
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Kill and Be Killed
A former singer lives alone with her fortune - and with her nephew, Fernando, a low character to whom she refuses to lend more money. Elisa leaves prison and starts a new life as a personal attendant to the aging singer, using her knowledge as a former nurse - a profession she can not return to. Fernando meets Elisa, and together they plan to poison the lonely woman, and use her money abroad. They plan their alibis well. But those who kill by the sword will perish by the sword.
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Crónicas
A suspense thriller about a reporter from Miami who travels to Ecuador in pursuit of a serial killer known as the "Monster of Babahoyo."
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Backyard
Officer Blanca Bravo arrives in Juarez, Mexico — a grim nexus of corporate colonialism and sexual tourism — to investigate a rash of killings targeting female migrant workers. But with no help from the locals, bringing the responsible parties to justice becomes a frustrating exercise. As Bravo rails against indifference and local corruption, she finds herself on a collision course with Mickey Santos, a Mexican mogul with a taste for young prostitutes.
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I Don't Expect Anyone to Believe Me
A writer's career — and entire life — suddenly goes off script when he falls prey to a dangerous web of criminals right before moving to Barcelona.
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A Sort of Family
What limits does Malena cross to get what she wants most? Malena is a 38 year old middle class doctor from Buenos Aires. One afternoon she receives the call from Doctor Costas, who informs her that she must travel immediately to the north of the country: the baby she was waiting for is about to be born. Unexpectedly Malena decides to embark on an uncertain journey, full of crossroads, facing all kinds of legal and moral obstacles that will make her constantly wondering how far she is ready to go.
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A Common Crime
Cecilia is too afraid one night to let her housekeeper's son into the house. The next day his dead body is found.
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Robe of Gems
Deep in the Mexican countryside, a community is plagued by the constant threat of looming violence. Three women from different social classes—a maid, her wealthy employer, and a police officer—become tragically affected by a missing-person case related to organized crime.
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339 Amin Abel Hasbun: Memory of a Crime
Based on a real story, this Dominican drama is an intriguing account of the murder of Amin Abel Hasbun, a brilliant student leader in the Dominican Republic accused of kidnapping US Embassy official, J. Crowley. Hasbun was one of many young leftists fighting against the government of Dr. Joaquin Balaguer, who favored a repressive regime.
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To Fool a Thief
Sebastian meets Natalia when trying to steal an important piece of art from a museum, and she wins the hand. Rivals declared, the two have to work together later in a robbery more complex: a valuable and unique bottle of Malbec from Bordeaux in the mid-nineteenth century, listed as one of the best wines in the world and jealously guarded in the vault of a bank, in Mendoza. In a world full of glamor, between vineyards and mountains, the thieves will have to display their magic, but while preparing discover theft, each to his own, that nothing will be as thought
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Green
In Alonso Ruizpalacios’ bracing and stylish film, security guards in an armoured van try to manage the stress that comes from being close to a pile of cash in Mexico City. The team’s stability is imperilled when one member nears his boiling point.
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The Dead Mother
Ismael breaks into the house of a fine art restorer and shoots the homeowner dead, leaving her daughter orphaned and traumatized for life. Years later, Ismael is working in a bar where he sees the daughter again. Paranoid that she has recognised him and will report him, he kidnaps her and holds her hostage, demanding that her hospital pay a ransom for her release. As he spends more time with her, a strange bond develops that causes him to delay the ransom request or fulfil his threats of throwing her in front of a train. But he can’t delay forever…
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Bleak Street
Two wrestlers decide to go to a hotel in order to meet two prostitutes.
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The Heavy Hand of the Law
Gloria is a lawyer who throughout her career has never been able to defend someone who was not guilty. His new client seems to be not so different: a man accused of rape in a small town where no one believes his story.
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Dishonor
The woeful tale of a trained nurse falsely accused of murder and shipped off to prison for five years.
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A Sweet Scent of Death
Ramón is secretly in love with Adela. One morning, he discovers her corpse among the oat fields
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The Birthday of the Dog
Two men who kill their wives so they can be together. A tailor goes from having his dog as his best friend to a young man, in a friendship that becomes so very close that the younger man murders his wife. He is helped by the other man. The husband wants to help him, but his wife wants to turn him in to the police. So he also kills his wife.
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Pilotos de la muerte
A couple of provincial gas station employees travel to the capital seeking fortune of vehicle mechanics accidental career passing drivers.
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Adventure in Rio
Tourist gets bonked on the head, suffers an amnesiac fugue, wanders away from her husband and children, becomes an evil prostitute-y thief-y saloon gal.
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Return to Hansala
A woman loses her brother in an illegal immigration attempt and must return his body to their homeland.
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Carnival Sunday
Madrid, Carnival Sunday. A night watchman finds the body of a woman, a rich and greedy moneylender who has apparently been murdered. The prime suspect is a watchmaker who owed her a lot of money.
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A Dragonfly for Each Corpse
A killer is cleaning up the streets of Milan by murdering those considered as deviant. An ornamental dragonfly, soaked in the blood of the victim, is left on each body.
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Nesio
It is a light and amusing story about Nemesio, a small time drug dealer who has never managed to get away from his mother or his childhood traumas, and carries on his back the stigma of a born loser. This he struggles to overcome, but finds it impossible. By intent or otherwise, Nesio becomes involved in a homicide and an impossible love with a masked woman wrestler. All of this framed by downtown Mexico City.
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Casablanca, Nest of Spies
Casablanca 1942. While French Police Chief Maurice Desjardins is busy having careless fun with some loose girls, members of the French Resistance kill a man at the harbor and steal his briefcase full of important documents from the Third Re
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The Seer's Prayer
The host of a folk music radio program risks his life by reporting on clashes between police and guerrillas.
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Under the Rose
Sara, the daughter of Oliver and Julia suddenly disappears. Days pass by without any news about the girl. But one morning, the family receives a letter from someone who claims to have retained Sara and wants to talk with them that night.
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Summertime Killer
During his childhood, a boy sees four men drown his father; now, the grown young man makes it his business to kill each member of the foursome. His last killing presents him with some challenges, as his victim is only wounded. He kidnaps th
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Death of a Hoodlum
A jewel heist goes wrong, resulting in several deaths. Naschy is left with the loot and he takes off with the the cash before the gang is supposed to meet back up. Gang leader Frank Brana sets out to track down the man and the jewels with t
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El amigo visible
Juan is 50 years old and suffers from visual impairment and a stutter. His life is monotonous and lonely, divided between work and home. Everything worsens when his mother, his only companion, dies. After that, he discovers a man dressed in black in his room, who proposes a sinister pact.