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Death and the Compas

  Death and the Compass is a 1992 American thriller film written and directed by Alex Cox, based on Jorge Luis Borges’ 1942 short story of the same name.  In Read More

The Two Escobars

  Pablo Escobar was the richest, most powerful drug kingpin in the world, ruling the Medelli­n Cartel with an iron fist. Andrés Escobar was the biggest soccer star in Colombia. Read More

Saving Private Perez

  Saving Private Perez is a 2011 Mexican Western comedy film. The movie follows Julian Pérez, a Mexican organized crime leader, who is asked by his mother to rescue his Read More

Rosario Tijeras

  Rosario Tijeras (Flora Martínez) has been abused by men all her life, initially by her stepfather. Years later, she works as a paid assassin, seducing men and killing them Read More

Hell

  El Infierno is a 2010 Mexican black comedy crime drama film produced by Bandidos Films, directed by Luis Estrada and following the line of La ley de Herodes. The Read More

Sins of My Father

  In 1993, after Pablo Escobar is gunned down by the police, his then 16-year-old son Juan Pablo flees to Argentina together with his mother and sister. To avoid being Read More

Holy Blood

  A young man is confined in a mental hospital. Through a flashback we see that he was traumatized as a child, when he and his family were circus performers: Read More

Vampires in Havana

  “Pepito is many things in Cuban folklore, but mostly an irreverent kid with an uncanny gift for thumbing his nose at adults. In Juan Padrón’s animated horror comedy, Vampiros en Read More

Che

  Che is a two-part 2008 biographical film about Argentine Marxist revolutionary Ernesto “Che” Guevara, directed by Steven Soderbergh. Rather than follow a standard chronological order, the films offer an Read More

Lorca: Death of a Poet

  Lorca: Death of a Poet is a 1987 television series directed by Juan Antonio Bardem and broadcast that year on Spanish Television. It is a docudrama that uses documentary Read More