Mad Love / Juana la loca (2001)
Made in Mexico / Hecho en Mexico
Maria Full of Grace / María llena eres de gracia (2004)
Martin (H) / Martín (Hache) (1997)
Midaq Alley / Callejón de los milagros (1995)
Mondays in the Sun / Los lunes al sol, Los (2002)
Motorcycle Diaries / Diarios de Motocicleta (2004)
My Brother’s Wife / La mujer de mi hermano (2005)
Night with Sabrina Love, A / Una noche de Sabrina Love (2000)
Nine Queens / Nueve reinas (2000)
No One Writes to the Colonel / El coronel no tiene quien le escriba (1999)
Nobody Knows Anybody / Nadie conoce a nadie (1999)
Official Story, The / La historia oficial (1985)
Open your eyes / Abre los ojos (1997)
Orphanage, The / El orfanato (2007)
Over at the Big Ranch / Allá en el rancho grande (1936)
Pan’s Labyrinth / El laberinto del Fauno (2006)
Perfect Crime, The / El crimen perfecto (2004)
Place in the World, A / Un lugar en el mundo (1999)
Private Lives / Vidas privadas (2001)
Rose Seller, The / Vendedora de rosas, La (1998)
Running Out of Time / Días contados (1994)
Same Love, Same Rain / El mismo amor, la misma lluvia (1999)
Sea Inside, The / Mar adentro (2004)
Sex and Lucia / Lucía y el sexo (2001)
Son of the Bride / El hijo de la novia (2001)
Spirit of the Beehive, The / El espíritu de la colmena (1973)
Streeters / De la calle (2001)
Swamp, The / La ciénaga (2001)
Take My Eyes / Te doy mis ojos (2003)
Talk to Her / Hable con ella (2002)
Ton of Luck, A / Soñar no cuesta nada (2006)
Tricky Life / En la puta vida (2001)
Under the Same Moon / La misma luna (2007)
Violin , The / El violín (2005)
Waiting for the Messiah / Esperando al mesías (2000)
What Have I Done to Deserve This? / ¿Qué he hecho yo para merecer esto? (1984)
When Somebody Loves Me / El día que me amen (2003)
Without a Name / Sin nombre (2009)
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown/Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios (1986)
Genre: Drama
Length: 121 minutes
Country: Chile
Actors: Federico Lippi
In 1973, under of the first socialist president democratically elected in a Latin-American country, the principal of the Saint Patrick School makes a trial of integration between students of the upper and lower classes. The bourgeois boy Gonzalo Infante and the boy from the slum Pedro Machuca become great friends, while the conflicts on the streets leads Chile to the bloody and repressive military coup of General Augusto Pinochet on 11 September 1973, changing definitely their lives, their relationship and their country.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0378284/
Mad Love / Juana la loca (2001)
Rating: R for sexuality / nudity
Length: 115 minutes
Country: Italy / Spain / Portugal
Director: Vicente Aranda
In 1496, Juana of Castille, daughter of the Catholic Kings, travels to Flanders to marry the son of the emperor of Austria, known as 'El Hermoso' (The Handsome). In the beginning the marriage is merely a political decision, but soon passion and desire awake between them. When her mother and older brothers die in 1504, Juana becomes queen of Spain. The discovery that her husband has many lovers begins to threaten Juana’s mental health. Felipe, seeing his wife in these circumstances, calls on the Burgos Court to declare Juana insane and proclaim him king, sending Juana to live as a recluse at the Monastery of Las Huelgas.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0270480/
Made in Mexico / Hecho en Mexico
Maria Full of Grace / María llena eres de gracia (2004)
Rating: R for drug content and language
Length: 101 minutes
Country: Colombia
María, a poor Columbian teenager, is desperate to leave a soul-crushing job. She accepts an offer to transport packets of heroin - which she swallows - to the United States. The ruthless world of drug trafficking proves to be more than she bargained for.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0390221/
Genre: Action / Crime / Thriller / Western
Length: 81 minutes
Country: USA / Mexico
Director: Robert Rodriguez
Notes: This is a sort of “home-made” movie by the director of Desperado, before he was a big Hollywood director, shot on a budget of less than $7000, using the director’s friends as actors
All he wants is to be a Mariachi like his father, his grandfather, and his great-grandfather before him. But the town he thinks will bring him luck instead brings only a curse of deadly mistaken identity. Mistaken for a killer who carries his guns in a guitar case, the Mariachi is playing for his life.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104815/
Midaq Alley / Callejón de los milagros (1995)
Genre: Drama
Length: 140 minutes
Country: Mexico
Actors: Salma Hayek
Based on the Nobel Prize Winner's novel, the Egyptian Naguib Mahfouz. The story, translated from El Cairo to Mexico City's downtown, narrates the life of the members of the neighborhood and the connection between them Don Ru, the owner of the local pub; Eusebia, his wife; Guicho, his son and Abel his friend, who emigrate to USA in search of fortune; Susanita, the single landlord always dreaming to marry a good man; Jimmy, the pub's employee, who extracts the money when Don Ru is not there and finally marries Susanita; Alma, the very good looking girl, the Abel's dream, who becomes a luxury prostitute while he's away.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112619/
Mondays in the Sun / Los lunes al sol, Los (2002)
Genre: Drama
Rating: R for language
Length: 113 minutes
Country: Spain
Actors: Javier Bardem
Laid off from the local shipyard, six men spend their days at the town bar, where they discuss their current state. Gruff puts up a tough front. The morose José openly worries about his wife, whom he fears might leave him. Amador, the oldest of the bunch, keeps reassuring everyone that his wife will be back any day now from her trip. Meanwhile, Lino refuses to give up hope of employment, going to interview after interview alongside applicants half his age. Presiding over the glum bunch is Rico, the bar owner and the men's co-worker from their shipyard days.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0319769/
Motorcycle Diaries / Diarios de Motocicleta (2004)
Genre: Adventure / Biography / Drama
Rating: R for language
Length: 128 minutes
Country: USA / Germany / UK / Argentina / Chile / Peru / France
Actors: Gael García Bernal
Notes: An adaptation of a journal written by Ernesto "Che" Guevara
In his memoirs, Guevara recounts adventures he, and best friend Alberto Granado, had while crossing South America by motorcycle in the early 1950s when he was 23 years old. Typical college students seeking fun and adventure before graduation, they decide to travel across Argentina, Chile, Brazil and Peru in order to do their medical residency at a leper colony. Beginning as a road movie in which Ernesto and Alberto are looking for chicks, fun and adventure before they must grow up and have a more serious life. As is said in the film itself, it's about "two lives running parallel for a while." The two best friends start off with the same goals and aspirations, but by the time the film is over, it's clear what each man's destiny has become.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0318462/
My Brother’s Wife / La mujer de mi hermano (2005)
Genre: Drama
Rating: R for sexuality and language
Length: 89 minutes
Country: Mexico
After almost 10 years of marriage, attractive Zoe realizes that her marriage lacks passion, and is seduced by the possibility of finding those sensations already forgotten in her husband's brother younger. Her decision leads these three characters to a dangerous game of revenges, secrets and passions as they struggle to understand who they are and what they want from life.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0463345/
Night with Sabrina Love, A / Una noche de Sabrina Love (2000)
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Length: 100 minutes
Country: Argentina
Director: Alejandro Agresti
Actors: Cecilia Roth
Daniel, a 17-year-old movie-lover from one of Argentina's smallest towns, enters an unusual letter-writing competition. The prize is a night of possibly carnal camaraderie with one of the country's biggest and most enigmatic porn stars, Sabrina Love, in the big city of Buenos Aires. But can Daniel make his way to the metropolis in time? And what actually awaits him there?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0247887/
Nine Queens / Nueve reinas (2000)
Genre: Crime / Drama / Mystery
Rating: R for language
Length: 114 minutes
Country: Argentina
Actors: Ricardo Darín
Two small-time grifters team up to sell a big-time score involving a counterfeit set of rare and valuable stamps known as the Nine Queens. As the deceptions mount, it become more and more difficult to figure out who is conning whom.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0247586/
No One Writes to the Colonel / El coronel no tiene quien le escriba (1999)
Genre: Drama
Length: 118 minutes
Country: Mexico
Actors: Salma Hayek
Notes: Adaptation of the novel by Gabriel García Márquez
An old Colonel goes to the post office every Friday to see if his long-awaited pension has come through. He knows that it won’t, and so does his wife. Both of them are grieving the death of their son the year before, but the colonel has a mission: to defy the grim routine of poverty and show that a broken heart still beats with a vengeance.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0132905/
Official Story, The / La historia oficial (1985)
Genre: Drama
Rating: R for violence
Length: 112 minutes)
Country: Argentina
An Argentine teacher lives in blissful ignorance of the evils perpetrated by her country's government. Over time, however, her students' rejection of the "official" versions of their history leads her to question things herself. Suspecting that her adopted daughter was taken from a woman who is among Argentina's "disappeared," (i.e., a likely victim of violent political repression), she attempts to unearth the truth. Soon everything about her life with her husband begins to look doctored and glossed-over to her. The mounting suspicion and conflict between husband and wife lead toward an astonishing eruption of suppressed feelings, a release of buried truths so abhorrent that the illusions of her past life are irrevocably shattered. This is more than the story of one wobbly marital union; it is an allegory for a nation fearing its recent past.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089276/
Open your eyes / Abre los ojos (1997)
Genre: Drama / Romance / Sci-Fi / Thriller
Rating: R for strong sexuality, language, and some violence
Length: 117 minutes
Country: Spain / France / Italy
Actors: Penélope Cruz, Eduardo Noriega
Director: Alejandro Amenábar
Notes: Vanilla Sky was a remake of this original Spanish movie
A young playboy takes all he has for granted: his inherited fortune, his good looks, and his life as a renowned womanizer. Just when he meets a woman with whom he might be truly falling in love, a jilted former lover tries to kill him by crashing the car they’re driving. He becomes horribly disfigured, with no chance, it seems, of winning the woman he loves. Now he is in jail and talking to a sympathetic psychiatrist, who tries to get to the truth behind a mysterious death.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0125659/
Orphanage, The / El orfanato (2007)
Genre: Drama / Horror / Mystery / Thriller
Rating: R for some disturbing content
Length: 105 minutes
Country: Mexico / Spain
With fond memories of the seaside orphanage where she was raised, Laura persuades her husband to help her revamp it as a facility for disabled children. But once they move in, their son Simón begins to exhibit dark and disturbing behavior. As Laura tries to understand Simón's increasingly malevolent actions, she becomes drawn into the house's terrifying secrets.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0464141/
Over at the Big Ranch / Allá en el rancho grande (1936)
Genre: Comedy / Musical / Romance / Drama
Length: 95 minutes
Country: Mexico
The owner and the general manager of a ranch (Rancho Grande), two good friends, fall in love with the same girl at the same time. The owner tries to 'buy' the girl without knowing she is in love with the manager.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0027277/
Pan’s Labyrinth / El laberinto del Fauno (2006)
Genre: Drama / Fantasy / Thriller
Rating: R for graphic violence and some language
Length: 119 minutes
Country: Spain
Director: Guillermo del Toro
Actors: Federico Luppi
When young Ofelia and her mother go to live with her new stepfather on a rural military outpost, she finds herself in a world of unimaginable cruelty. Soon Ofelia finds the creatures of her imagination in which she used to escape have become a reality and she must battle them to save both her mother and herself. In the terrifying battle that ensues, Ofelia soon learns that innocence has a power that evil cannot imagine.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0457430/
Genre: Action / Drama / Romance
Rating: R for strong sexual content, nudity, language, brief drug use and some violence
Length: 116 minutes
Country: Colombia
Actors: John Leguizamo
Marlon Cruz, a young Colombian man, is motivated by his beautiful girlfriend Reina leaves his life in Colombia to illegally cross the border and find fortune in New York. Marlon’s journey, which takes him to through seedy strip clubs, dance halls, homeless hostels, and the streets of Jackson Heights, ultimately takes him to a place he could have never predicted.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0475860/
Genre: Drama
Length: 88 minutes
Country: Spain
El Bola, a.k.a. "Pellet" is a 12-year-old boy raised in a violent and sordid environment. Embarrassed by his family life, he avoids becoming close to classmates. The arrival of a new boy at school changes his attitude towards his classmates, and friendship. The heart of the story is the change in El Bola's life, at almost all levels, after befriending this new classmate.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0243794/
Perfect Crime, The / El crimen perfecto (2004)
Genre: Black Comedy / Crime / Thriller
Length: 105 minutes
Country: Spain
Rafael, a top department store salesman with his pick of the comely female staff, thinks he has the perfect life -- that is, until a rivalry with co-worker Don Antonio, ends in murder, and Rafael must find an alibi. Lourdes, the one salesgirl Rafael has hitherto spurned, comes to his aid, but at a price.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0395125/
Place in the World, A / Un lugar en el mundo (1999)
Genre: Drama
Length: 120 minutes
Country: Argentina
Actors: Federico Lippi, Cecilia Roth
Mario and Ana, in voluntary exile from Buenos Aires, live in a remote Argentine valley with their 12-year-old son Ernesto. Mario runs a school and a wool cooperative; Ana, a doctor, heads a clinic with Nelda, a progressive nun. Into this idealistic family comes Hans, a jaded Spanish geological engineer -- surveying the land for the local patron, to see if it can be dammed for hydro-electric power, which would drive the peasants from the land into the cities.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104774/
Private Lives / Vidas privadas (2001)
Genre: Drama
Length: 97 minutes
Country: Spain / Argentina
Director: Fito Páez
Actors: Gael García Bernal, Héctor Alterio
Carmen Uranga is a 42 year-old woman who after 20 years jurisdiction of her native country (Argentina), returns to solve a family problem related with the inheritance that her sick father wants to leave him. Their return trip results in the unavoidable memories of the torture that was object during the dictatorship and a dramatic revelation.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0288869/
Genre: Crime Drama
Length: 155 minutes
Country: France
Actors: Tahar Rahim, Niels Arestrup
Malik el Djebena, who is condemned to six years in prison, cannot read or write, but soon figures out the politics of the prison. Though Malik is only 19-years-old, the leader of the Corsican gang who rules the prison corners him and gives him certain 'missions' to carry out. He quickly gains the confidence of the gang leader, as these assignments begin to toughen him up. But Malik soon develops some plans of his own.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1235166/?ref_=nv_sr_1
Rose Seller, The / Vendedora de rosas, La (1998)
Length: 116 minutes
Country: Colombia
In the two days leading up to Christmas, a thirteen year-old Colombian street kid tries to sell roses for money. Surrounded by a group of fellow runaways and orphans who all get by through robbery, prostitution, and drugs, Monica hopes that there will at least be some sort of party to attend over the holidays.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0157154/
Running Out of Time / Días contados (1994)
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Length: 94 minutes
Country: Spain
Actors: Javier Bardem
Antonio, a member of an ETA terrorist cell that is hatching a plot against Madrid, challenges his priorities when he falls in love with Charo, a beautiful drug addict 12 years younger than he.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109699/
Same Love, Same Rain / El mismo amor, la misma lluvia (1999)
Genre: Comedy / Romance
Length: 100 minutes
Country: Argentina
Director: Juan José Campanella
Actors: Ricardo Darín
Jorge Pellegrini, a would-be serious writer turned hack and Laura Ramallo, an idealistic actress meet and fall in love. Their initial romance ends with their breakup but they will have repeated encounters against the backdrop of Argentina’s changing political situation until their final encounter almost two decades later.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0210843/
Sammy and I / Samy y yo (2002)
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Length: 85 minutes
Country: Argentina
Director: Eduardo Milewicz
Actors: Ricardo Darín
Goldstein, a script writer for a TV show, decides to leave everything aside when his 40th birthday approaches and nothing seems to be going as planned. His mother becomes a pop icon when she is featured on a television show where she talks about his shortcomings. Just when his self-esteem can’t get any lower, in comes Mary, who’s about to change his life into a success story.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0293567/
Sea Inside, The / Mar adentro (2004)
Rating: PG-13 for intense depiction of mature thematic material
Length: 125 minutes
Country: Spain
Director: Alejandro Amenábar
Actors: Javier Bardem
This film recounts the life story of Spaniard Ramón Sampedro, who fought a 30-year campaign to win the right to end his life with dignity. The story explores Ramón's relationships with two women: Julia, a lawyer who supports his cause, and Rosa, a local woman who wants to convince him that life is worth living. Despite his wish to die, Ramón taught everyone he encountered the meaning, value and preciousness of life.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0369702/
Length: 86 minutes
Country: Venezuela
In a night pregnant with a strange mix of tension and dizzy abandon, lovers Carla and Martin prowl clubs before drunkenly wandering back to his car. While he comes across as crass nouveau riche, she appears more liberal. Their conspicuous affluence, however, makes them ideal targets for kidnappers, and the trio of Trece, Budu and Niga gets a bead on them and promptly sweeps them up at gunpoint. The kidnappers then demand $20,000 to be delivered in two hours. Carla phones her rich father Sergio to procure the money, but chaos soon ensues. A botched ATM robbery is followed by a stopover at the palatial estate of a gay drug dealer.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0371939/
Sex and Lucia / Lucía y el sexo (2001)
Rating: R for strong sexual content and language
Length: 128 minutes
Country: Spain
Director: Julio Medem
Actors: Paz Vega
Lucía is a young waitress in a restaurant in the centre of Madrid. After the loss of her long-time boyfriend, a writer, she seeks refuge on a quiet, secluded Mediterranean island. There, bathed in an atmosphere of fresh air and dazzling sun, Lucía meets a man and begins to discover the dark corners of her past relationship.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0254455/
Son of the Bride / El hijo de la novia (2001)
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Rating: R for language
Length: 123 minutes
Country: Argentina
Director: Juan José Campanella
Actors: Ricardo Darín, Héctor Alterio
At age 42, Rafael Belvedere is having a crisis. He lives in the shadow of his father, he feels guilty about rarely visiting his aging mother, his ex-wife says he doesn't spend enough time with their daughter and he has yet to make a commitment to his girlfriend. At his lowest point, a minor heart attack reunites him with Juan Carlos, a childhood friend, who helps Rafael to reconstruct his past and look at the present in new ways.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0292542/
Spirit of the Beehive, The / El espíritu de la colmena (1973)
Genre: Drama
Length: 95 minutes
Country: Spain
In Castile during the 1940’s, a traveling movie theater brings James Whale's black and white film classic "Frankenstein" to a village. Two young girls, Isabel and Ana, determine to find the Monster.
Streeters / De la calle (2001)
Genre: Drama
Length: 84 minutes
Country: Mexico
Rufino (15) roams the streets of Mexico City. He tries his best to look after the youngest homeless children who survive on a diet of glue and hash and sleep in the sewers at night. Rufino earns some money doing hard and dirty work, such as moving meat around a slaughterhouse. Rufino sells a bag of cocaine for Ochoa, a corrupt cop who has Rufino's district in his power and is also the lover of Rufino's adoptive mother. He decides to use the money to flee the city with his girlfriend and her baby. Ochoa sets off after them. Just as Rufino seems able to escape, he finds out that his real father is still alive. Obsessed by this knowledge, Rufino doesn't want to leave until he has found his father.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0279765/
Swamp, The / La ciénaga (2001)
Length: 103 minutes
Country: Argentina / France / Spain
Director: Lucrecia Martel
Chekhov in contemporary Argentina. Mecha and Gregorio are at their rundown country place near La Ciénaga with their teen children. It's hot. The adults drink constantly; Mecha cuts herself, engendering a trip to the hospital and a visit from her son José. A cousin, Tali, brings her children. The kids are on their own, sunbathing by the filthy pool, dancing in town, running in the hills with shotguns, driving cars without licenses. One of the teen girls loves Isabel, a family servant constantly accused of stealing. Mother and son, son and sisters, teen and Isabel are in each other's beds and bathrooms with a creepy intimacy. With no adults paying attention, who's at risk?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0240419/
Take My Eyes / Te doy mis ojos (2003)
Length: 90 minutes
Country: Spain
A terrified Pilar flees from her violent husband Antonio and seeks refuge in her sister’s home for herself and her son. Away from her abusive husband, Pilar is determined to start a new life. Yet the passionate Antonio seeks to hang onto Pilar, whom he says is the apple of his eye, and the bond between them runs deep…
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0350193/
Talk to Her / Hable con ella (2002)
Genre: Drama
Rating: R for nudity, sexual content and some language
Length: 114 minutes
Country: Spain
Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Actors: Paz Vega, Cecilia Roth
After a chance encounter at a theater, two men, Benigno and Marco, meet at a private clinic where Benigno works. Lydia, Marco's girlfriend and a bullfighter by profession, has been gored and is in a coma. It so happens that Benigno is looking after another woman in a coma, Alicia, a young ballet student. The lives of the four characters will flow in all directions, past, present and future, dragging all of them towards an unsuspected destiny.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0287467/
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Length: 121 minutes
Country: Spain
Actors: Penelope Cruz, Carmen Maura
Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Raimunda lives in Madrid with her daughter Paula and her husband Paco, who is always drunk. Her sister, Sole, is separated and works clandestinely as a hairstylist for women. The two sisters lost their parents in a fire in La Mancha, their birth village, years ago. Their aunt, Paula, still lives in the village and continues to speak about her sister Irene, mother of the two sisters, as if she were still alive. When the old aunt dies the situation changes and the past returns (volver).
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0441909/
Ton of Luck, A / Soñar no cuesta nada (2006)
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Rating: R for strong sexual content, nudity, language, brief drug use and some violence
Length: 100 minutes
Country: Colombia / Argentina
Notes: Based on true events that happened in Colombia in May 2003
Four soldiers in the Colombian army find $46 million in a bag meant for the guerrilla group FARC. They decide not to report their treasure and they desert the army. But now they have to figure out how they can get back to civilization and not be discovered.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0791150/
Tricky Life / En la puta vida (2001)
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Crime
Rating: Unrated, contains nudity and violence
Length: 100 minutes
Country: Uruguay / Spain
Elisa has dreams of owning her own hair salon in Montevideo (the capital of Uruguay) to support her two children. After breaking up with her boyfriend (her boss), who will not marry her, she loses her job. A friend gets her a new job at the local brothel, where she falls in love with a new man and follows him to Barcelona, leading her further into the sex trade.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0285066/
Under the Same Moon / La misma luna (2007)
Genre: Drama
Rating: PG-13 for some mature thematic elements
Length: 106 minutes
Country: Mexico
Under the Same Moon tells the parallel stories of nine-year-old Carlitos and his mother, Rosario. In the hopes of providing a better life for her son, Rosario works illegally in the U.S. while her mother cares for Carlitos back in Mexico. Unexpected circumstances drive both Rosario and Carlitos to embark on their own journeys in a desperate attempt to reunite. Along the way, mother and son face challenges and obstacles but never lose hope that they will one day be together again.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0796307/
Genre: Drama
Rating: PG-13 for some thematic elements and language
Length: 86 minutes
Country: Spain / Argentina
Director: Alejandro Agresti
Actors Carmen Maura
Valentin is an eight-year-old boy who discovers that his family has problems that only he can solve. He dreams of being reunited with his mother, who is separated from his abusive father. His feuding parents have left him to be raised by his eccentric his grandmother. His mother has apparently forgotten him and his father seems interested in him only as bait to attract new girlfriends. In his mother’s absence, Valentín develops a strong connection with the attractive Leticia, one of his father’s many short-term girlfriends. Meanwhile his grandmother gets sick, and the boy sets out to resolve all his family problems.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0296915/
Violin , The / El violín (2005)
Genre: Drama / Music
Length: 98 minutes
Country: Mexico
In rural Mexico, during the peasant revolts of the 1970s, Plutarco, his son Genaro and grandson Lucio lead double lives. On the one hand, they are simple country musicians, on the other, they actively support the peasant guerrilla movement against the oppressor government. When the army occupies the village, the rebels are forced to flee and leave their ammunition behind. Making the most of the fact that he looks like an inoffensive violinist, Plutarco has a plan: to recover the munitions hidden in his cornfield. His music enraptures the captain, but he still has to get his hands on the ammunition.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0451966/
Waiting for the Messiah / Esperando al mesías (2000)
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Length: 97 minutes
Country: Spain / Italy / Argentina
Director: Daniel Burman
Actor: Héctor Alterio
Set in the vibrant Jewish community of Buenos Aires, Daniel Burman's second feature takes a poignant look at the lives of two men. One is a young man who is torn between his devotion to traditional family ties and the desire for something different; the other is an older bank employee who suddenly finds his life in complete turmoil. Santamaria is terminated from his steady bank job as the world stock market experiences unpredictable convulsions, and his wife duly takes this development as an opportunity to put him out on the street. Forced to make a paltry living returning stolen wallets, Santamaria finds some hope in the form of a comely bathroom attendant, who is waiting for her husband to be released from prison. Meanwhile, Ariel is chafing against the restraints of a predictable future that will see him take over his elderly father's restaurant and marry a nice Jewish girl. Santamaria's and Ariel's stories are told in bits and pieces, contrasted against one another to demonstrate the many parallel universes that can co-exist in the same urban milieu.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0248001/
What Have I Done to Deserve This? / ¿Qué he hecho yo para merecer esto? (1984)
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Length: 101 minutes
Country: Spain
Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Actors: Carmen Maura
A dysfunctional family in Madrid: Gloria is a cleaning lady, hooked on No-Doze, living in a crowded flat with Antonio, her surly husband, a cabby who adores an aging German singer he used to chauffeur; he's also a forger. One teen son sells heroin, the other sleeps with men. Her mother-in-law keeps bottled water and cupcakes under lock and key, selling them to the family. Two alcoholic writers cook up a plot to sell a manuscript as Hitler's memoirs, if Antonio will transcribe it in Hitler's hand. He agrees, so they ask the German singer to play the role of the original owner since her past affinity for Nazi memorabilia makes her a likely candidate. Meanwhile, Gloria has given away one son to a sex-crazed dentist, and grandma picks up a pet lizard. Can this chaos be tamed?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088461/
When Somebody Loves Me / El día que me amen (2003)
Genre: Drama / Romance
Length: 110 minutes
Country: Argentina
Actors: Leticia Brédice
Mental illness and the power of friendship. Mara and Joaquín were childhood friends, next-door neighbors. They are now in their early 30s. She's returned to Acassuno after eight years abroad, ostensibly to audition for a part in a musical. Joaquín has been a recluse in his parents' house, perhaps because Mara left without a word years before. Mara seeks to renew the friendship, which may be good for Joaquín, but it soon becomes clear that both face formidable obstacles to a lasting relationship with anyone. The past contains both causes of unhappiness and keys to change.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0362582/
Without a Name / Sin nombre (2009)
Genre: Adventure / Crime / Drama / Thriller
Rating: R for violence, language and some sexual content
Length: 96 minutes
Country: Mexico / USA
Fleeing retaliation from the violent Central American street gang he has deserted, Casper boards a northbound train, where he takes refuge on top of the moving freight cars and hopes for a fresh start in a new country. Dodging authorities and other dangers, he finds a new friend in Sayra, a Honduran girl also making a run for the American border.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1127715/
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown/Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios (1986)
Genre: Comedy
Rating: R
Length: 90 minutes
Country: Spain
Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Actors: Antonio Banderas, Carmen Maura
A woman's lover leaves her, and she tries to contact him to find out why he's left. She confronts his wife and son, who are as clueless as she. Meanwhile her girlfriend is afraid the police are looking for her because of her boyfriend's criminal activities. They talk to a female lawyer, who turns out to be the lover's new lover, and everyone's path keeps crossing each other's in a very complicated and confusing manner.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095675/
Genre: Drama
Length: 86 minutes
Country: Argentina / France / Spain
Actors: Ricardo Darín
The dramatic story of a 15-year-old hermaphrodite, born with what the doctors call ’ambiguous genitalia,’ whose parents moved from Buenos Aires to an isolated cabin outside of Piriápolis, Uruguay, to protect their child from prejudice