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Play

  As Chilean writer-director Alicia Scherson’s debut feature, the psychodrama Play explores the ramifications of an infatuation that threatens to erupt into full-blown obsession. It unfolds in Santiago, Chile, where Read More

The Death of Pinochet

  On December 10, 2006, General Pinochet dies unexpectedly in Santiago’s Military Hospital. For 24 hours, his death reawakens the political divisions that marked Chile’s recent history with death and Read More

Romelia’s Secret

  An elderly woman (Romelia), her daughter and her grandchildren take a few days on holiday to visit a small town outside the city. The town makes Romelia melancholy and Read More

Snow White

  A band of bullfighting dwarfs save the life of a young woman with amnesia. They end up taking her under their wing when they find out that she has Read More

Nada

  It is Barcelona, in the forties. Young Andrea comes to town to start college in the midst of an oppressive environment and extreme poverty. She’s staying at her aunt Read More

Requiem for a Spanish Peasant

  Mosen Millan (Antonio Ferrandis), a Roman Catholic priest in a small Spanish village, is preparing to lead a service celebrating the life of Paco (Antonio Banderas), an outspoken young Read More

Las poquianchis

  Three sisters manage brothels protected by the authorities, prostituting young girls who are tricked into believing they will be housemaids.  Based on the true story of the sisters who Read More

Once Upon a Time in Mexico

  In the third movie of Rodriguez’s “Mariachi” trilogy, El Mariachi is recruited by CIA officer Sheldon Jeffrey Sands to kill General Emiliano Marquez, a corrupt Mexican Army officer who Read More

Secuestro express

  Carla (Mia Maestro) and her boyfriend, Martin (Jean Paul Leroux), are out clubbing one night in downtown Caracas, Venezuela, when they are attacked and kidnapped. Their captors, Trece (Carlos Read More

Our Lady of the Assassins

  The tempestuous love story between Fernando, an older man who has recently returned to his crime-ridden drug capitol hometown of Medellin, Colombia and the gun-happy 16-year-old assassin Alexis, who Read More