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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.

The Spanish Apartment

  As part of a job that he is promised, Xavier, an economics student in his twenties, signs on to a European exchange program in order to gain working knowledge Read More

Tune in Tomorrow

  Martin works at the local radio station, which just hired a new scriptwriter with a reputation for great drama, Pedro Carmichael. Martin’s aunt Julia, not related by blood, returns Read More

El Cid

  Spain is overrun by the Moors and the country’s only hope rests in a heroic knight known as El Cid (Charlton Heston). He knows a divided Spain cannot stand Read More

Volver

  Raimunda, her daughter Paula and her sister Sole travel from Madrid to the windy and superstitious village of Alcanfor de las Infantas to visit the grave of their mother Read More

The Official Story

  Alicia Marnet de Ibáñez is a high school history professor and a well-to-do housewife in Buenos Aires, circa 1983, after the fall of the “junta militar” that had taken Read More

Perder es cuestión de método

  When a dead body is found close to Colombia’s capital, Bogotá, journalist Victor Silampa rushes to the scene. By his side is Emir Estupiñan, who eagerly abandons his dull Read More

Pedro Páramo

  A rancher comes to Comala looking for his father, because on her deathbed his mother asked him to avenge her complete abandonment.  Highly symbolic and allegorical, this drama takes Read More