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  Isabel (Betsy Blair) is a good-natured and sensible spinster who lives in a small town with her widowed mother. At the age of 35, she is losing all hope Read More

Desperado

  Desperado is a 1995 American neo-Western action film written, produced, and directed by Robert Rodriguez. It is the second part of Rodriguez’s Mexico Trilogy.  Mariachi (Antonio Banderas) plunges headfirst Read More

Rojas: La Celestina

  This film is a superb production of the Rojas masterpiece. The camera expands the boundaries of artistic imagination, so that this Celestina becomes the ideal key to the work Read More

The Poem of the Cid

  El Cid is unique among the world’s great epics because it was composed so close to the actual historical events (a mere 40 years after the death of Rodrigo Read More

Carlos V: Un Monarca, un Imperio, y una Espada

  A child of Belgium, a speaker of French, and a Habsburg on his father’s side, there was little Spanish about Charles V, yet Spain was the core of his Read More

This Man Must Die

  Single father obsessed with murdering the hit&run driver who killed his only child, poses as a screenwriter to get close to an actress who was in the death car. Read More

The Bride

  The Bride is Paula Ortiz’s adaptation of Fedrico Garcia Lorca’s Blood Wedding, among the 20th century’s most famous and revered Spanish plays. Nominated for 12 Goya Awards (Spain’s Academy Read More

I, the Worst of All

  This fact-based film examines the life of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (Assumpta Serna), a Roman Catholic nun from Mexico City who, in the midst of the Spanish Read More

The Class

  An almost autobiographical film that highlights power struggle between a teacher who wants to do good and students who disagree about what “good” is. Neither side is seen as Read More

The Butcher

  An unlikely friendship between a dour, working class butcher and a repressed schoolteacher coincides with a grisly series of Ripper-type murders in a provincial French town.