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Title: A ciegas / dirigida por Daniel Calparsoro;
producida por Juan Alexander.
Publisher/ Date: Madrid : Warner Home Video Española, 1997.
Summary: A young woman wants to abandon
her life of crime and leave her terrorist cell. Her decision starts
a tragic chain of events for her friends, and her family.
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Title: ¡A mí la legion! / dirigida
por Juan de Orduña ; producida por CIFESA.
Publisher/ Date: Valladolid : Divisa Ediciones, 1995.
Summary: Spanish legionnaires bond in friendship and
military values, in spite of their differences in social classes.
Languages: No English subtitles.
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Title: Abre los ojos = Open Your Eyes / Artisan
Entertainment and Summit Entertainment ; Sogetel ; Las Producciones
del Escorpión ; Les Films Alain Sarde ; Lucky Red ; produced
by José Luis Cuerda ; director, Alejandro Amenábar ; screenplay,
Alejandro Amenábar, Mateo Gil.
Publisher/ Date: Santa Monica, Calif. : Artisan Home Entertainment,
2001.
Summary: In this psychological thriller the line between
reality and fantasy is hopelessly blurred. César tries to make
sense of his life after a car crash leaves his once-handsome face grotesquely
disfigured. After he is placed into a psychiatric penitentiary for a
murder he doesn't remember committing, César's only hope is to
delve into the depths of his subconscious mind where the answer to ending
his living nightmare lies in his dreams.
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Title: Abril, la trinchera de honor / escrita y
dirigida por Rene Fortunato ; una producción de Rene Fortunato
y Roberto Hiciano.
Publisher/ Date: Santo Domingo, Rep. Dom. : Videocine Palau, 1988.
Summary: A documentary about the U.S. invasion of Santo
Domingo in 1965.
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Title: El abuelo = The Grandfather / una producción
Nickel Odeón Dos, S.A. con la participación de Televisión
Española, S.A. ; una película escrita por J.L. Garci y
Horacio Valcarcel ; producida y dirigida por José Luis Garci.
Edition: Widescreen ver.
Publisher/ Date: Burbank, CA : Miramax Home Entertainment,US : Distributed
by Buena Vista Home Entertainment, 1999
Summary: A penniless count returns to Spain after losing
most of his fortune in America. He then meets his granddaughters, but
is burdened by the secret that surrounds them.
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Title: Acteal estrategia de muerte. / Canal 6 de
Julio.
Publisher/ Date: México, D.F. : Canal 6 de Julio, 1998.
Summary: On December 22, 1997, over 40 indigenous civilians
were murdered. This documentary shows the conflict being waged against
indigenous people in Mexico by the Mexican Army and President Zedillo.
The Ejercito Zapatista and the Tzotzil people, human rights and indigenous
issues.
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Title: Agustina de Aragón / dirigida por
Juan de Orduña ; producida por CIFESA ; guión literario
y diálogos, Vicente Escrivá ; dirección, Juan de
Orduña.
Publisher/ Date: Valladolid Spain : Divisa Ediciones, 1997.
Summary: During the Siege of Zaragoza by the Napoleonic
army, Agustina, a Zaragozan patriot leads the resistance against the
French with success finding freedom for Aragon and love.
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Title: Alas de mariposa = Butterfly Wings / Iberoamericana
Films ; Gasteizko Zinema ; directed by Juanma Bajo Ulloa. Written by
Juanma Bajo Ulloa and Eduardo Bajo Ulloa.
Publisher/ Date: Chicago, Ill. : Facets Video and Chicago Latino Cinema,
1994.
Summary: Carmen becomes pregnant, hoping for a boy
to carry on her husband's name. Guilt and fear however, keep her from
breaking the news to Ami, her shy and sensitive six-year-old daughter.
The new baby's birth soon triggers a series of nightmarish events.
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Title: La aldea maldita = Damned Village / director,
Florián Ray ; producer, Manuel Castillo.
Publisher/ Date: United States : Foreign Film Classics, 1929
Summary: One of Spain's finest silent films. Florián
Ray's unforgettable depiction of Castilian rural life.
Languages: With Spanish captions and added
music soundtrack.
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Title: Alsino and the condor / Almi Distribution
; directed by Miguel Littin.
Publisher/ Date: Beverly Hills, Calif. : Pacific Arts Video, 1986.
Summary: Set in present day Central America, "Alsino
and the condor" is the first fictional feature ever made in Nicaragua.
It has been widely acclaimed for its honest depiction of the clash between
Central American governments and Sandinista rebels.
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Title: Amic, amat = Beloved, Friend / a production
of Els Films de la Rambla, S.A ; with the participation of Televisió
Espanyola, S.A and Canal Plus ; a film by Ventura Pons.
Publisher/ Date: Santa Monica, Calif. : Strand Releasing Home Video,
2001.
Summary: The story of a terminally ill professor, who
is in love with one of his students, a brilliant but wild, orphaned
youth who moonlights as a male hustler.
Languages: In Catalán with English subtitles.
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Title: Amor de hombre = Love of Man / a film by
Yolanda García Serrano & Juan Luis Iborra.
Publisher/ Date: Vertigo Films ; Philadelphia, PA : TLA Releasing, 2003.
Summary: It's Esperanza's 40th birthday and she's captivating
it surrounded by dozens of handsome men, all of them gay. Her best friend
Ramón has been her comfort for many years, but their relationship
is tested when he develops an obsession with a man of questionable quality.
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Title: Amor, mujeres y flores = Love, Women and
Flowers / A film by Jorge Silva, Marta
Rodriguez, and Fundacion cine documental investigacion social.
Publisher/ Date: New York, NY: Women Make Movies, 1989.
Summary: Examination of the human cost of the flower
industry in Colombia.
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Title: El amor perjudica seriamente la salud = Love
Can Seriously Damage Your Health / a film directed by Manuel Gomez Pereira
; produced by César Benítez, Joaquín Oristrell,
Manuel Gomez Pereira for Sogetel S.A., Bocaboca Producciones, S.A.,
Le Studio Canal+, D.M.V.B. Films ; with the special collaboration of
Carles Sans and Lola Herrera.
Publisher/ Date: Condor Media : Distributed by Vanguard Cinema, 2001.
Summary: This romantic comedy charts the course of a long-time
on-again-off-again love affair between Diana Balaguer and Santi Garcia.
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Title: Amores perros / Studio Home Entertainment
; Altavista Films presenta una producción de Zeta Film y Altavista
Films ; una película de Alejandro González Iñárritu
; dirigida y producida por Alejandro González Iñárritu
; escrita por Guillermo Arriaga Jordán.
Publisher/ Date: Lion's Gate Home Entertainment ; Marina Del Rey, CA
: Distributed by Studio Home Entertainment, 2001.
Summary: Three different people are catapulted into
dramatic and unforeseen circumstances in the wake of a terrible car
crash: a young punk stumbles into the sinister underground world of
dog fighting; an injured supermodel's designer pooch disappears into
the apartment's floorboards; and an ex-radical turned hit man rescues
a Rotweiler with a gunshot wound.
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Title: El ángel exterminador = The Exterminating
Angel / nueva versión con dialogos de Luis Buñuel ; del
cinedrama de Luis Alcoriza y Luis Buñuel ; productor, Gustavo
Alatriste ; director, Luis Buñuel.
Publisher/ Date: Chico, Calif. : Tamarelle, 1988 (original release 1962)
Summary: After a lavish dinner party, the guests find themselves
mysteriously unable to leave the room. Over the next few days all the
elaborate pretenses and facades that they've built up by virtue of their
position in society collapse completely as they become reduced to living
like animals.
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Title: A Place Called Chiapas: Eight Months Inside the Zapatista
Uprising / by Nettie Wild ; produced by Canada Wild Productions
Ltd. in association with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation ; produced
by Nettie Wild, Kirk Tougas, Betsy Carson ; written by Nettie Wild,
Manfred Becker.
Publisher/Date: New York, N.Y. : New Yorker Video, 2000.
Summary: Documentary filmed on location in Chiapas,
Mexico.
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Title: Argentina: trastienda de una elección: campaña
presidencial octubre 1999 / Konrad Adenauer Stiftung presenta
; idea y producción general, Daniela Blanco ; realización,
Diego Fraga ; guión, Daniela Blanco, Adriana Amada Suárez.
Publisher/ Date: Buenos Aires: Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, 2000
Summary: A look at the changes in political campaigns
in Argentina since the early 1980's, focusing on the presidential election
of 1999. The role of television advertising and the influence of United
States political campaigns is examined through interviews, film clips
and political advertisements.
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Title: Arte de cada dia = Everyday Art / Mendonca,
M. L., L. M. Salb, et al.
Publisher/Date: New York, The Cinema Guild Inc., 1999.
Summary: This video portrays Cuba's folkloric traditions
and its contemporary art scene, focusing on the everyday life of Cuban
musicians and dancers, who incorporate these traditions into their work.
Shot in homes and on the streets on Cuba, the video captures the rich
connections between generations, African and Latino culture, religion,
daily life and art.
Features pianist Chucho Valdes, dancer Librada Quesada, salsa king Isaac
Delgado, Los Van Van founder Juan Formell, and Raices Profundas and
Los Muequitos de Matanzas, two of the most important folkloric groups
in Cuba today, as well as footage from Havana's International Jazz Festival.
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Title: ¡Átame! = Tie me up, Tie me
down / Miramax Films ; El Deseo, S.A. presenta un film de Almodóvar
; guión y dirección, Pedro Almodóvar.
Publisher/ Date: Troy, MI : Anchor Bay Entertainment, 2000.
Summary: Comedy about an orphaned mental patient who is determined
to create an ideal family for himself by kidnapping a recovering drug
addict/porn star.
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Title: ¡Ay, Carmela! / Iberoamericana Films
Internacional, S.A. presents en asociación con Televisión
Española, S.A. una producción de Andrés Vicente
Goméz.
Publisher/ Date: New York, NY : HBO Video, 1991.
Summary: Aragón, Spain, 1938. Set during the
Spanish Civil War, Carmela and her two companions quit their posts as
entertainers for the Republican troops in search for a better fortune.
By mistake, they cross over to the Nationalist zone, get arrested and
are given the chance to perform for their freedom.
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Title: Azúcar amarga = Bitter Sugar / Azucar
Films ; produced by Jaime Piña, Leon Ichaso ; directed by Leon
Ichaso ; screenplay by Leon Ichaso and Orestes Matacena.
Publisher/ Date: New York : NEW Yorker Video, 2001.
Summary: An idealistic young Cuban Communist sours
on the political conditions in his country and is willing to let his
girlfriend and family go in order to take action.
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Title: Ballad of an unsung hero / a production of KPBS-TV &
Cinewest, San Diego ; produced by Paul Espinosa ; directed by Isaac
Artenstein ; narrated by Julio Medina ; written by Paul Espinosa, Lorena
Parlee.
Publisher/ Date: New York : Cinema Guild, 1983.
Summary: Portrait of 88-year-old Pedro J. González,
his early years as a telegraph operator with Pancho Villa during the
Mexican Revolution, his pioneering career as a radio and recording star
in Los Angeles, and finally his undeserved 6-year imprisonment in San
Quentin following a controversial court case. Includes rare historical
footage and photographs, vintage music from the 1920's, as well as interviews
with Pedro and his wife Maria.
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Title: Barrio / una producción Elía
Querejea para Sogetel, Elía Querejeta P.C. S.L., Mact Productions,
M.G.N. Films; guión y dirección, Fernando León
de Aranoa.
Publisher/ Date: Madrid : Sogepaq Video, 1999
Summary: Javi, Manu and Rai are boys who live in a
poor neighborhood in the south of Madrid where there is not enough money,
the possibilities are limited and life is hard. This summer they want
to enjoy their first sexual experience, their first job, or a first
trip to the beach. The movie follows their adventures during a summer
of discovery and maturation.
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Title: La batalla de Chile: la lucha de un pueblo sin armas.=
The Battle of Chile: The Struggle of an Unarmed People. / Guzman, P.,
C. Marker, et al.
Publisher/ Date: New York, NY, First Run / Icarus Films, 1975.
Summary: The first film in a two-part documentary on
the fate of Allende's Popular Unity government filmed throughout Chile
from February to September 1973. Part one examines the escalation of
rightist opposition following the left's victory in Congressional elections
held in March, 1973. Finding that parliamentary democracy would not
stop Allende's socialist policies, the right-wing shifted its tactics
from the polls to the streets. The film follows months of activity as
a variety of increasingly violent tactics are used by the right to weaken
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Title: Baton Rouge / Modigil, S.A. ; productores ejecutivos,
Eduardo Campoy, Edmundo Gil ; guión, Agustíin Díaz
Yanes y Rafael Moleón ; argumento y diálogos, Agustín
Díaz Yanes ; dirigido por, Rafael Moleón.
Publisher/ Date: Madrid: PolyGram Video, 1995.
Summary: A triangle develops involving Isabel Harris,
a rich and beautiful woman disoriented by nightmares, Antonio, a lower-class
youth in need of money, and Ana Alonso, a cold and calculating psychiatrist.
Antonio and Ana plan the perfect crime.
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Title: Belle époque = The Age of Beauty /
Lola Films ; screenplay, Rafael Azcona ; director, Fernando Trueba.
Publisher/ Date: Culver City, Calif. : Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment,
2003.
Summary: Set in the period before the proclmation of
the Spanish 2nd Republic in 1931, Fernando, a handsome, young Spanish
military deserter, befriends a free-thinking artist. He finds himself
in a romantic dilemma when the artist's four beautiful daughters return
to their country home.
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Title: La boca del lobo = The Lion's Den / producida
por Gerardo Herrero, Francisco J. Lombardi ; dirigida por Francisco
J. Lombardi ; guión, Augusto Cabada, Giovanna Pollarolo, Gerardo
Herrero.
Publisher/ Date: New York, N.Y. : Cinevista Video, 1990.
Summary: The Peruvian army takes control of Chuspi,
a small village isolated in the Andes by a revolutionary group. A young
soldier must choose between obedience to the military and his own conscience.
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Title: Bodas de sangre = Blood Wedding / de Federico García
Lorca ; una producción de Emiliano Piedra ; versión cinematográfica
de Carlos Saura con la colaboración de Antonio Gades; adaptación
al ballet, Alfredo Mañas ; música original de Emilio de
Diego ; director de producción, Gustavo Quintana ; director,
Carlos Saura.
Publisher/ Date: Los Angeles, Calif. : Media Home Entertainment, 1986.
Summary: The story of murderous passion and revenge
is told entirely through dance, without dialogue. A young bride (Hoyos)
runs off from her wedding with a married lover (Gades). Her jilted husband
tracks them down and fights a knife duel to the death.
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Title: El bruto = The Brute / Internacional Cinematográfica
; argumento original de Luis Alcoriza y Luis Buñuel ; dirección
de Luis Buñuel.
Publisher/ Date: Los Angeles, Calif.: Media Home Entertainment, 1987.
Summary: The surrealistically rendered story of a slow-witted
but strong slaughterhouse worker who is hired by a slumlord to break
a tenant strike, in the course of which he accidentally kills one of
the strike leaders. He is then drawn into a doomed affair with the landlord's
sluttish wife.
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Title: Buena Vista Social Club / a Road Movies production
in association with Kintop Pictures, ARTE, and ICAIC; directed by Wim
Wenders.
Publisher/ Date: Santa Monica, Calif: Artisan Entertainment, 1999.
Summary: In 1996, a group of legendary Cuban musicians
were brought together by Ry Cooder to record a CD. This documentary
film shows their songs being recorded in the studio, concert footage
from Amsterdam and New York City, and some of the musicians talking
about their lives in Cuba and how they got started in music. In Spanish
and English.
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Title: El burlador de Sevilla / película
basada en la obra original de Tirso de Molina ; guión de Ricardo
López Aranda ; productor, Alberto Espada dirección y realización,
Gustavo Pérez Puig.
Publisher/ Date: Princeton, N.J. : Films for the Humanities, 1987.
Summary: A cinemagraphic representation of the play
that introduced the theme of Don Juan into European literature.
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Title: Bwana / dirigida por Imanol Uribe ; director de producción
Antonio Guillen ; productor ejecutivo Antonio Cardenal.
Publisher/ Date: Madrid : Columbia TriStar Home Video, 1996.
Summary: A taxi driver and his family picnic on a lonely
beach where they meet Ombasi, an African immigrant who has recently
arrived in Spain in search of his fortune. They spend a pleasant night
talking but the morning brings a terrible surprise: the arrival of a
group of neonazis.
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Title: Cabeza de Vaca / Producciones Iguana in co-produccion
with Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografia, Televisión Española,
S.A., Sociedad Estatal Quinto Centenario, Fondo de Fomento a la Calidad
Cinematográfica, Channel Four Television, American Playhouse
Theatrical Films, Grupo Alica present a Nicolás Echevarría
film ; screenplay Guillermo Sheridan, Nicolás Echevarría
; producers, Rafael Cruz, Jorge Sánchez et al.
Publisher/ Date: New Horizon Home Video, 1993.
Summary: Account of the Spanish explorer Nuñéz
Cabeza de Vaca's shipwreck, capture, escape, and journey from Texas
to Mexico City (1527-1537). Includes tales of El Dorado.
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Title: Calle 54 / Fabienne Servan Schreiber y Cristina
Huete presentan una producción Cineteve, Fernando Trueba PC,
SA, SGAE, Arte France Cinema con la participación de Canal+ (France),
Television Española y Via Digital ; writer & director, Fernando
Trueba.
Publisher/ Date: Burbank, Calif. : Miramax Home Entertainment : Buena
Vista Home Entertainment, 2001.
Summary: Introduced to Latin jazz in the 1980s, when
he was beginning his career as a director, Fernando Trueba has since
become a devoted fan of the music. Noted jazz artists have scored for
some of his films and he took his love of the music one step further
in which he gathered together a number of his favorite Latin jazz artists
for a series of interviews and performances.
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Title: El callejón de los milagros = Midaq
Alley / Lakeshore Entertainment ; Alameda Films, Consejo Nacional para
la Cultura y las Artes, Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografía
; una producción de Alfredo Ripstein Jr. ; dirección,
Jorge Fons ; guión cinematográfico, Vicente Leñero.
Publisher/ Date: New York, NY : Fox Lorber Home Video, 1999.
Summary: Stories of three neighbors whose lives are
intertwined in the old downtown section of Mexico City. Based on Naguib
Mahfouz's Nobel Prize winning novel. The story, translated from El Cairo
to Mexico City's downtown, narrates the life of the members of the neighbourhood
and the connections between them. This film won the Ariel (the Mexican
Oscar) as best movie in 1995.
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Title: Camila / GEA Cinematografico S.R.I. ; a film
by Maria-Luisa Bemberg ; screenplay by Maria-Luisa Bemberg, Beda Docampo
Feijoo and Juan B. Stagnaro ; producer, Lita Stantic.
Publisher/ Date: Los Angeles : Meridian Video ; Mirada, 1995.
Summary: Recounts the true story of a young Catholic
socialite from Buenos Aires, Camila O'Gorman, who falls in love and
runs away with a young Jesuit priest, Ladislao Gutierrez. The two find
temporary happiness in a small provincial village ... but their peace
is ephemeral, and eventually they are recognized and ultimately condemned
to death without a trial. In Spanish with English subtitles.
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Title: Carlos Saura: Relations and portraits / una
producción de Inédito Producciones S.A. de C.V., para
Canal 22, Television Metropolitana S.A. de C.V.
Publisher/ Date: Princeton, N.J.: Films for the Humanities & Sciences,
1998.
Summary: In this television interview on his filmmaking
career which began under the repressive Franco regime, Saura discusses
his filmmaking techniques and how, by incorporating a mixture of incisiveness,
humor, action, and romance, he conveys the gist of Spanish and Latin
culture to world audiences.
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Title: Carmen / inspirada en la novela de Merimée
y la opera de Bizet ; una producción Emiliano Piedra ;guión
y coreografía, Carlos Saura, Antonio Gades: música, Paco
de Lucia ; la opera "Carmen" de Bizet dirigada por Thomas
Schippers ; director, Carlos Saura.
Publisher/ Date: Los Angeles, Calif.: Media Home Entertainment, 1986.
Summary: The line between fantasy and reality dissolves
when, during intense rehearsals for a dance production of the opera
"Carmen," the director of the dance company and his young
star find themselves living the story of love and treachery of "Carmen."
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Title: Carne trémula = Live Flesh / El Deseo
S.A. presenta una coproducción El Deseo, CiBy 2000/France 3 ;
guión y dirección, Pedro Almodovar ; productor ejecutivo,
Augistin Almodóvar.
Publisher/ Date: Culver City, Calif. : MGM Home Entertainment, 1999.
Summary: When, naive, lovestruck Victor attempts to
seduce beautiful and wealthy but strung-out junkie Elena, all he gets
for his trouble is a one-way, six-year ticket to prison, where he concentrates
on strengthening his mind, his body, and his desire for vengeance on
the man who put him there. After his release, Victor crosses paths with
Elena, who is as beautiful as ever since she's cleaned up her act. Still
madly in love with her, Victor will stop at nothing to win her over,
even if it means revenge, for Elena has married the cop who sent him
to prison.
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Title: Carreteras secundarias / dirección,
Emilio Martínez Lázaro ; producción, Ana Huete.
Publisher/ Date: Madrid : Sogetel : Sogepaq Video, 1997.
Summary: Father and son share picaresque adventures
in several regions of Spain. The relationship evolves through their
trials and tribulations.
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Title: Las cartas de Alou = Letters from Alou /
Elías Querejeta, Producciones Cinematográficas, S.L.
Publisher/ Date: Santa Monica, CA : Connoisseur Video Collection, 1994.
Summary: The story of Alou, an African immigrant, who works
his way through Spain to Barcelona, where he is due to meet up with
a friend. The film documents the exploitation and discrimination he
faces as an illegeal immigrant.
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Title: Cartas de mamá / según la novela
de Juio Cortázar ; productor, Eduardo Esquide ; director, Miguel
Picazo.
Publisher/ Date: Princeton, N.J. : Films for the Humanities, 1980.
Summary: A film version of Juio Cortázar's novel,
the protagonists are dominated by fears and doubts reawakened by letters
from the hero's mother.
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Title: Cartas del parque = Letters from the Park
/ un film de Tomás Gutiérrez Alea ; sobre un argumento
original de Gabriel García Márquez ; producción,
Santiago Llapur ; guión, Eliseo Alberto, Tomás Gutiérrez
Alea, Gabriel García Márquez ; dirección, Tomás
Gutiérrez Alea.
Publisher/ Date: New York : Fox Lorber Home Video, 1991.
Summary: Two shy young lovers enlist the help of a
poet to write passionate letters to each other. When the poet becomes
enamored of the young woman, the three are faced with a perplexing dilemma.
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Title: La casa de Bernarda Alba / Paraíso
; Televisión Española.
Publisher/ Date: Murcia : Alga Editores, 1996.
Summary: Based on the play by Federico García
Lorca. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1987.
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Title: El castillo de la pureza / una producción
de Estudio Churubusco ; dirección, Arturo Ripstein ; guión,
José Emilio Pacheco y Arturo Ripstein.
Publisher/ Date: Encino, CA : Compañia Oxxo, 1999.
Summary: The story of a man who kept his family locked
in the house for l8 years to protect them from the world corruption.
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Title: Caudillo / una película de Basilio
M.Patino.
Publisher/ Date: Princeton, NJ : Films for the Humanities & Sciences,
1980.
Summary: Tells the story of General Franco's revolt
and the ensuing Spanish Civil War of 1936-1939 from both the Republican
and Falangist points of view. Includes documentary film footage, narrative
excerpts from various well-known writers who reported on the war at
first hand, and contemporary visits with surviving participants. In
the interest of clarity, the Republican footage is tinted red and the
Falangist footage is tinted blue. There is no editorial commentary.
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Title: La caza = The Hunt / directed by Carlos Saura
; screenplay by Carlos Saura, Angelino Fons.
Publisher/ Date: Santa Monica, CA : Connoisseur Video Collection, 1994.
Summary: A study of hatred and rivalry among four hunters,
three of whom are Franquist veterans. They go to shoot rabbits in an
area near Madrid where some of the heaviest battles of the Civil War
were fought. The hunt becomes an allegory of war.
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Title: Cecilia. Solas, H., H. Hernandez, et al.
Publisher/ Date: New York, N.Y., Latin American Video Archives distributor,
1982.
Summary: This film, based on the novel by Cirilio Villaverde,
is set in nineteenth-century Cuba. The story of Cecilia, a mulatta,
and her relationship with a white man provides an intimate and stark
portrayal of colonial Cuba.
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Title: La Celestina / film based
on the classic love story written by Francisco de Rojas, screenplay
adaptation by Fernández Santos, et al. Publisher/ Date: Princeton,
N.J., Films for the Humanities, 1980.
Summary: Scenes from Rojas' novel of the love affair
of Calisto and Melibea, and Celestina, the go-between.
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Title: Chiapas paisaje depués de la batalla = Chiapas:
The Landscape After the Battle / TV UNAM ; idea original, Irma Avila
Pietrasanta, Pilar López Martínez, Joaquin Palma Ciénega
; realización, Irma Avila Pietrasanta; investigación y
guión, Pilar LópezMartínez ; producción,
Joaquin Palma Ciénega.
Publisher/ Date: Princeton, NJ : Films for the Humanities &
Sciences, 1999.
Summary: Examines the 30 year rebellion and conflict between
the Mexican government and the indigenous population in Chiapas.
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Title: Chiapas, diálogo bajo amenaza / guión
y realización, Carlos Mendoza.
Publisher/ Date: México, D.F. : Canal 6 de Julio, 1995.
Summary: A chronology of the principal national events
precipitated by the orders of President Zedillo to arrest the leaders
of the Zapatista National Liberation Army, on February 9, 1995 to the
"Consulta Nacional por la Paz Y la Democracia" on August 27,
1995.
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Title: Chile, obstinate memory / a coproduction
of Les Films d'Ici and the National Film Board of Canada ; a film by
Patricio Guzmán.
Publisher/ Date: New York, NY : First Run/Icarus Films, 1997.
Summary: Patricio Guzmán, who was Salvador Allende's
bodyguard in 1973 when he was overthrown, returns to Chile 23 years
later to show his film "The Battle of Chile" (which has never
been shown in Chile) to his old friends and to a student group to enlighten
them concerning the historical facts surrounding the military coup of
September, 1973.
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Title: A ciegas / dirigida por Daniel Calparsoro;
producida por Juan Alexander.
Publisher/ Date: Madrid : Warner Home Video Española, 1997.
Summary: A young woman wants to abandon
her life of crime and leave her terrorist cell. Her decision starts
a tragic chain of events for her friends, and her family.
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Title: La ciudad = The City. A film by David Riker.
Publisher/ Date: North Star Films., et al. Zeitgeist Films, 1999.
Summary: In collaboration with the New York Latino
immigrant community over a five-year period, La Ciudad presents scenes
of the daily lives of immigrants. The film's four stories center on
a group of day-laborers scavenging for bricks; two teenagers from the
same hometown who meet in the projects and fall in love; a homeless
father who tries to enroll his daughter in school; and a garment worker
who seeks justice in the sweatshops.
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Title: La ciudad y los perros / The City and the
Dogs / una película de Francisco J. Lombardi ; basada en la novela
de Mario Vargas Llosa ; scripts, Judith Velez ; productor ejecutivo,
Emilio Moscoso ; producida y dirigida por Francisco J. Lombardi.
Publisher/ Date: Condor Video, 1987.
Summary: Four angry cadets, who have formed an inner
circle in an attempt to beat the system and ward off the boredom and
stifling confinement of the military academy, set off a chain of events
that starts with a theft and leads to murder and suicide.
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Title: El cochecito / The Little Coach / directed
by Marco Ferreri ; produced by Pedro Portabella.
Publisher/ Date: NY, NY : Kino on Video, 1985.
Summary: A dark comedy set in postwar Spain about an
old man who wants a motorized wheelchair so he can ride through town
with his crippled friends.
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Title: Colegas / guión cinematográfico
escrito por Gonzalo Goicoechea y Eloy de la Iglesia ; productor ejecutivo,
José A. Pérez Giner ; director, Eloy de la Iglesia.
Publisher/ Date: Los Angeles, Calif. : Award Films International, 2000.
Summary: When Antonio's sister becomes pregnant by
José, his best friend, a chain of events is set in motion that
will indelibly change all of their young lives. A candid study of contemporary
teen friendships in Madrid with probing insights into Spain's new "lost
generation."
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Title: Colón señaló el camino/
guión, Apolonio Torres, José Luis Monter ; productor ejecutivo,
Federico Vopini ; dirección y realización Apolonio Torres.
Publisher/ Date: Princeton, N.J. : Films for the Humanities, 1986.
Summary: The discovery of America: the preparations
for Columbus' first journey, dramatization and discussion of the importance
of the discovery of America and the historical role of the Spanish Empire
in America
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Title: Como agua para chocolate = Like Water For
Chocolate / basada en la novela de Laura Esquibel ; un film de Alfonso
Arau ; guión cinematográfico, Laura Esquivel ; producción
y dirección Alfonso Arau.
Publisher/ Date: Burbank, Calif. : Miramax Home Entertainment ; Buena
Vista Home Video, 1991.
Summary: Romantic fantasy set in the early 20th century
about a young couple blocked from marrying by the demands of her cold
and selfish mother. To be near his love the young man marries her sister,
and she expresses her passion for him through her cooking.
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Title: Como ser mujer y no morir en el intento =
How to Be a Woman and Survive / una producción Iberoamericana
Films en asociación con Atrium Productions, S.A. y I.D.E.A.,
S.A. y Televisión Española, S.A ; producida por Andrés
Vicente Gómez ; dirigida por Ana Belén ; guión,
Carmen Rico Godoy.
Publisher/ Date: Los Angeles, CA : First Look Pictures ; Chatsworth,
CA : Image Entertainment, 1999.
Summary: Carmen's life is complicated. At 42, she is
married to her third husband, Antonio, and has two children from previous
marriages. She tries to carry on her professional career, without neglecting
her relationship with Antonio, the house, her friends, or the emotional
needs of the children
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Title: Contra el viento = Against the Wind / Cartel
S.A. ; directed by Paco Periñan.
Publisher/ Date: Los Angeles : Meridian Video Corp., 1995.
Summary: To escape an incestuous relationship, Juan
flees to a virtually uninhabited area of Andalucia. After a year's separation,
his lover Ana decides to visit him and to move into his house. To defend
himself, Juan tries to return the love of Rosario, but only finds himself
becoming more and more involved with Ana.
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Title: Coppelia / dirección, Ana Garcia,
Zeida Cecilia Mendez.
Languages: Screen titles in Spanish; narration in English.
Publisher/ Date: West Long Branch, NJ : Kultur, 1980.
Summary: The film combiness the romance between Swanilda
and Franz with the story of the dollmaker Coppelius whose greatest ambition
is to create a doll with a soul. Franz promptly falls in love with Coppelia,
whom he thinks alive, but eventually recognizes she is just a doll,
and returns to Swanilda, after which everyone is reconciled.
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Title: Cría cuervos / Producciones Cinematograficas,
S.L. ; producer, Elias Querejeta ; writer and director, Carlos Saura.
Publisher/ Date: Chicago, IL : Home Vision Cinema, 1998.
Summary: Surrounded by tragedy and death, a nine-year
old girl comes to believe that she has the power of life and death over
those close to her.
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Title: Cruce de vias de Carlos Solórzano/
productor, James Crapotta ; dirección, Luz Costaños ;
coreografia y musica, Sandra Genter. Publisher/ Date: New York, N.Y.
: Media Services, Barnard College Library, 1990.
Summary: Authorized reproduction of a Guatemalan television program
originally produced in 1987.
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Title: Cuba va: the challenge of the next generation
/ produced, directed, and edited by Gail Dolgin, Vicente Franco.
Publisher/ Date: San Francisco, CA : Cuba Va Video Project, 1993.
Summary: Considers Cuba's future from the perspective
of Cuban youth. Young people born after the 1959 Revolution discuss
the challenge of Cuba's economic crisis in the nineties. Socialists
and dissidents debate the merits of socialism vs. captialism, the need
for change, internal difficulties, and international politics. Documentary
style interweaves interviews and spontaneous debates with rarely seen
views of Cuban youth culture.
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Title: Cuban dance examples: a glimpse of Cuba through dance
/ produced and shot, written and directed by Yvonne Payne Daniel.
Publisher/ Date: New York : distributed by Insight Media, 1991.
Summary: Taped in Cuba between 1986-1990 and originally
accompanied a doctoral dissertation entitled 'Ethnography of rumba:
dance and social change in contemporary Cuba.' Dances were selected
to show the wealth of styles and techniques that are found throughout
the island and to provide examples of professional, traditional and
general public dancing.
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Title: Dance of hope / Copihue Productions, Inc. ;
directed by Deborah Schaffer ; produced by Lavonne Poteet, Deborah Shaffer.
Publisher/ Date: New York, NY : First Run Features, 1991.
Summary: Interviews the women and children of Chilean
political prisoners. Discusses the problems of attaining justice for
the abduction, torture and death of the prisoners
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Title: Danzón / una película de Maria
Novaro ; producción, Jórge Sanchez ; dirreción,
Maria Novaro ; screenplay by Beatrize and Maria Novaro.
Publisher/ Date: Burbank, California : Columbia Tristar Home Video,
1991.
Summary: Julia is a phone operator in Mexico City
who divides her time between her job, her daughter and the danzón:
a dance that is popular in Mexico and Central America. Every Wednesday,
Julia does the danzón with Carmelo in the old "Salón
Colonia". They've danced for years but barely know each other.
One night Carmelo disappears without a trace. Feeling lonely and sad,
Julia takes a train to Veracruz, where she knows Carmelo has a brother.
That sudden trip will change Julia's life forever.
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Title: De cierta manera / El Instituto Cubano del
Arte e Industria Cinematográficos.
Publisher/ Date: La Habana, Cuba : ICAIC, Instituto Cubano de Arte y
Industria Cinematograficos, 1974.
Summary: Set in a new housing project replacing a slum
area just outside of Havana, three young people try to readjust their
lives to the new social order of Fidel Castro's Cuba.
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Title: Debajo del mundo = Under the Earth / New
World Pictures and Jorge Estrada Mora ; libro y dirrección, Beda
Docampo Feijoo, Juan Bautista Stagnaro.
Publisher/ Date: Los Angeles, Calif.: New World Video ; Image Entertainment,
1989.
Summary: Based on actual events, Debajo del mundo is
the story of a Polish working family whose relative calm is abruptly
shattered by the invasion of the German army. In an act of desperation,
they defy German orders for all Jews to report and opt for the only
alternative--to move underground. For the next two years, their lives
become a nightmare of crude underground apartments and inhuman living
conditions, always menaced by German soldiers, Polish collaborators,
and illness. Yet throughout, they maintain a flickering hope.
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Title: Del "kitsch" a Lacan / Manuel Puig
Publisher/ Date: Hanover, NH : Ediciones del Norte, 1984.
Summary: Manuel Puig in an interview with Reina Roffé
discusses each of his novels, giving clues to the understanding of his
characters. The description of his personal experiences creates a portrait
of a whole sector of Argentine society. Includes readings from his novels
by the author.
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Title: Demonios en el jardín = Demons in
the Garden / una producción de Luis Megino ; director de producción,
Jose G. Jacoste ; guión, Manuel Gutierrez Aragon y Luis Megino
; dirigida por Manuel Gutierrez Aragon.
Publisher/ Date: Los Angeles, CA : Connoisseur Video Collection, 1989.
Summary: Examines the dynamics of a post-Spanish Civil
War family who achieves economic success in the black market while currying
favor with the ruling party.
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Title: Deprisa, deprisa = Faster, faster / una producción
de Elias Querejeta ; guión de Blanca Astiasu ; escrita y dirigida,
Carlos Saura ; producciones Cinematográficas, S.L., Consortium
Pathe, Les Films Moliere.
Publisher/ Date: Chicago, IL : Home Vision Cinema ; Wilmette, Ill. :
Public Media, 1998.
Summary: This film noir about juvenile delinquents
depicts the alienation of Spanish young by modern Spanish society.
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Title: Destinos: an introduction to Spanish / a
telecourse designed by Bill VanPatten ; a production of WGBH-TV, Boston.
Publisher/ Date: Burlington, VT : Annenberg/CPB Collection, 1992.
Summary: Series uses the popular telenovela format
to present vocabulary, structures, and functions in a natural, conversational
way, emphasizing comprehension through context and actions. Story line
involves Raquel Rodríguez, an attorney from Los Angeles, who
is hired by an aging Mexican industrialist to investigate a long-buried
secret about his past. Her task takes her to Mexico City, Seville, Madrid,
Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro, and Puerto Rico, providing exposure to
many varieties of spoken Spanish as well as Latino cultures.
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Title: El Día que me quieras / Exito Productions,
Inc.
Publisher/ Date: Condor Video; Fresno, CA : Vid-Dimension, 1987.
Summary: Carlos Gardel is Julio Argüelles, a man
who relinquishes his family fortune to live in poverty with the woman
he loves. Many years later, now a famous singer, his daughter's boyfriend
is reliving his plight. He is determined to do all he can do to prevent
the groom's father from interfering with the lovers' destiny.
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Title: Días contados / producida por Imanol
Uribe y Andrés Santana ; dirigida por Imanol Uribe.
Publisher/ Date: Madrid : BMG Video, 1995.
Summary: 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 himself.
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Title: El diputado = The Deputy / Figaro Films,
S.A., Ufesa y Prozesa.
Publisher/ Date: Hollywood, CA : Award Films, 1996.
Summary: A political thriller about a gay man high
in the ranks of the Spanish Socialist party and whose love affair with
a 16-year old boy jeopardized the destiny of an entire nation.
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Title: Dispara = Outrage / Metro Film, Rome.
Publisher/ Date: Metro Film, Rome ; Encino, Calif.: distributed by Ardustry
Home Entertainment, 2003.
Summary: A beautiful Italian circus sharpshooter finds
love with a newspaper reporter, but before a planned rendezvous she's
brutally assaulted. Seriously wounded, she tracks down and kills the
three young mechanics who raped her and drives off into the Spanish
countryside where she becomes the target of a massive police search
while the reporter tries to find her first.
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Title: Dolores/ Committee for Hispanic Children
and Families ; writer, producer-director, Pablo Figueroa.
Publisher/ Date: New York, NY: Cinema Guild, 1988.
Summary: A dramatization which portrays the problem
of domestic violence in the Latino community.
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Title: Don Juan, mi querido fantasma = Don Juan.
my love / IFEX Films (International Film Exchange Ltd.) ; script by
Joaquin Oristrell and Antonio Mercuro ; director, Antonio Mercuro ;
una producción BMG Films, S.A. en associación RTVE, S.A
y Productora Andaluza de Programas.
Publisher/ Date: New York, NY : Fox Lorber Home Video, 1991.
Summary: The legendary Don Juan Tenorio comes back
to life on All Souls' Day, at midnight, and has 24 hours to redeem himself.
In the meantime a company is rehearsing the play "Don Juan".
Don Juan the 'ghost' is mistaken for Don Juan the actor. After a series
of farcical situations, the 'ghost' redeems himself and becomes human
again, while the 'actor' ends up in the tomb.
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Title: Don Segundo Sombra / producciones Manuel
Antín ; executive producers, Erwin J. Dobo, Victor Najmias ;
un film de Manuel Antín.
Publisher/ Date: Los Angles, CA : Meridian Video Corp., 1995.
Summary: The story of Fabio Cáceres learning
from his mentor, Don Segundo Sombra, the morals and values of a gaucho
through his behavior, stories, and advice.
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Title: Doña Herlinda y su hijo = Doña
Herlinda and Her Son / argumento y guión, Jaime Humberto Hermosillo
; basado en un cuento de Jorge López Paez ; productor, Manuel
Barbachano Ponce ; una película de Jaime Humberto Hermosillo.
Publisher/ Date: New York, N.Y. : Cinevista Video, 1986.
Summary: Set in Guadalajara, Mexico, the story of a
mother who organizes her gay son's life by arranging a marriage for
him, then having the new wife, their new baby, and his gay lover all
move into her home.
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Title: El Dorado / una producción
de Andrés Vincente Gómez ; un film de Carlos Saura.
Publisher/ Date: Madrid : Iberoamericana : El Nuevo Cine Espanol, 1989.
Summary: Film about the explorer, Lope de Aguirre and
his search for the mythical El Dorado.
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Title: Los dos mundos de Angelita = The Two Worlds
of Angelita /
Publisher/ Date: New York, N.Y. : First Run Icarus Films, 1982.
Summary: Story of the problems which befall a young
girl and her family when they move from rural Puerto Rico to New York
City.
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Title: The Double Day / Solberg, H., J. Stubbs,
et al.
Publisher/ Date: New York: Cinema Guild, 1975.
Summary: The role of women in contemporary Latin America
cultures and the problems they face in the transition from traditional
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Title: = Él = This Strange Passion / Noel Meadow;
produced by Tepeyac Productions ; argumento y adaptación de Luis
Buñuel y Luis Alcoriza; una producción de Oscar Dancigers
; dirigida por Luis Buñuel.
Publisher/ Date: Las Cruces, NM : Hen's Tooth Video, 1989.
Summary: The story of a middle aged, wealthy man and
pillar of local society, whose fascination with an attractive young
woman turns into obsession. Although he wins her hand and they marry,
he becomes convinced beyond all reason that she is being unfaithful.
His paranoia eventually leads him to attempted murder and insanity.
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Title: Elisa, vida mía = Elisa, my life
/ una producción Elias Querejeta ; Elias Querejeta/Lumiere.
Publisher/ Date: Santa Monica CA ; Connoisseur Video Collection, 1994.
Summary: Elisa and her father, a famous novelist, are
reunited after twenty years in this psychological, introspective drama.
Film takes place In an isolated farmhouse in Segovia, where they discuss
their lives and problems.
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Title: Entre las piernas = Between your legs / Nuvisión
presenta una producción de Boca Boca Producciones, S.A., Aurum
Producciones ; dirección, Manuel Gómez Pereira.
Publisher/ Date: Madrid: Aurum Producciones, S.A. ; New York, NY : TLA
Releasing, 2003.
Summary: Both Javier, a film producer and Miranda,
a radio announcer are addicted to sex and anonymous encounters. They
make love in the back of an abandoned car which has a corpse hidden
inside its trunk. Miranda's jealous husband is the cop investigating
the case, and it soon looks like Javier has been framed.
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Title: Entre tinieblas = Dark habits / Tesauro S.A.
; una película de Pedro Almodóvar ; producción
de Luis Calvo.
Publisher/ Date: New York, NY : Wellspring, 2003.
Summary: Yolanda, a night-club singer who goes on the
lam after her lover dies of a tainted drug overdose, takes refuge from
the police in the Convent of the Humble Redeemers. The eccentric nuns,
who greet her with open arms, have their own problems, with the Church,
with the law, and with their benefactress.
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Title: Epílogo / una producción Ditirambo
Films, S.A. en colaboración con Televisión Española
; escrita y dirigada, Gonzalo Suárez ; argumento y guión,
Gonzalo Suárez ; con la colaboración de Miguel Angel Barbero
y Juan Potau.
Publisher/ Date: Murcia : Grupo Editorial Mundografic distributor, 1992.
Summary: A story about two writers who have collaborated
for years. They separate when they discover that they are in love with
the same woman. After ten years, the two reunite to finish a final story
gathered from their experiences.
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Title: Erendira / escenario original de Gabriel
García Márquez, con la participación de Pierre
Vaneck ; un film de Alain Queffelean ; realización, Ruy Guerra.
Publisher/ Date: Los Angeles, Calif. : Media Home Entertainment, 1985.
Summary: Based on a chapter of Cien años de soledad by Gabriel
García Márquez. A teenage girl is exploited as a sexual
slave by her greedy grandmother. But when this third world Cinderella
finally meets her Prince Charming, their only escape is to murder Grandma,
whose lust for life makes her nearly indestructible.
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Title: Esa pareja feliz / Bardem, J. A., L. G. Berlanga,
et al.
Publisher/ Date: Valladolid, Divisa Ediciones, 1999.
Summary: Juan and Carmen have a humble Madrid marriage,
in which she is occupied with housework, and he works as an electrician
for a movie studio. They have a chance to improve their modest social
conditions when they are chosen by a soap company to be "The Happy
Couple" for 24 hours. With the illusionary triumph, they make arrangments
for the happy day, but there is a small financial problem that Juan
must fix beforehand -- without Carmen finding out.
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Title: La escopeta nacional / Alfredo Matas ; un
film de Luis García Berlanga ; una producción de INCINE
Compania Industrial Cinematografica, S.A.
Publisher/ Date: Murcia : Grupo Editorial Mundografic, 1992.
Summary: The film centers on one of the many hunting
extravaganzas organized for members of the ruling class during the Franco
years in Spain. This comedy is about how business deals were made and
concessions granted during the period.
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Title: España estuvo allí/ Torres,
A., J. L. Munter, et al.
Publisher/ Date: Princeton, N.J., Films for the Humanities, 1986.
Summary: A documentary history of Spain in America
told through documents and artifacts, dramatization and interviews with
writers and historians.
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Title: Espejo de escritores / Warren, R. and P.
J. Chvany.
Publisher/ Date: Hanover, NH, Ediciones del Norte, 1983.
Summary: Interviews with Spanish American authors about
their work and literature.
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Title: Espíritu de la colmena = Spirit of
the beehive / directed by Victor Erice ; produced by Elías Querejeta
; screenplay by Victor Erice, Angel Fernández Santos ; photography
by Luis Cuadrado.
Publisher/ Date: Janus Films, 1988.
Summary: After the Spanish Civil War, a family lives
in retreat in the countryside. When a traveling cinema truck comes to
their village, two little sisters are profoundly affected by viewing
the old film, Frankenstein. The younger girl becomes so obsessed with
its images and story that she tries to recreate it in reality.
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Title: Esquilache / Sabre Films con la participación
de Televisión Española ; una producción de José
Sámano ; dirigida por Josefina Molina ; guión, Joaquín
Oristrell, Josefina Molina, José Sámano.
Publisher/ Date: Murcia : Grupo Editorial Mundografic, 1992.
Summary: In 18th century Madrid the people rise up
against the monarchy. The destiny of the crown and the nobility depend
upon the next few hours. Based on "Un soñador para pueblo"
by Antonio Buero Vallejo.
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Title: Estos fueron los palacios / Fuentes, C.,
S. Fuentes, et al.
Publisher/ Date: Hanover, NH, Ediciones del Norte, 1983.
Summary: In this interview by his wife Silvia, Carlos
Fuentes speaks of the Hispanic preoccupation with originality and of
the function of time in literature. He recalls his youth in the United
States, the affirmation of his own identity, his political and literary
formation. Also, takes us through the streets of Mexico City, discovers
his long-standing obsessions. Talks of his artistic evolution and relations
with the theater, and reads excerpts from "La region mas transparente".
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Title: Extramuros = Beyond the walls / una producción
Blau Films, Miguel Picazo, con la colaboración de T.V.E. ; productor,
Antonio Martin ; director, Miguel Picazo.
Publisher/ Date: Frameline, 1994.
Summary: In order to save their financially troubled
convent, Sister Angela and Sister Ana decide to stage a miracle. The
stigmata are fake, but their love for each other is passionate. The
Inquisition investigates and the two lovers pay dearly for their ambition.
Based on the novel by Jesús Fernández Santos.
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Title: Fábula de la bella palomera = The Fable
of the Beautiful Pigeon Fancier / un film de Ruy Guerra ; guión
y diálogos, Ruy Guerra, Gabriel García Márquez
; dirección, Ruy Guerra ; producción, João Alfredo
Viegas.
Publisher/ Date: New York City : Fox Lorber Home Video, 1991.
Summary: Set on a panoramic Brazilian beach, this film
confronts the sexual and social tensions between classes in the romantic
story of a wealthy aristocrat's obsessive desire for a beautiful but
married woman who becomes the object of his unrelenting passion. His
lust finally satisfied, he paints on her belly a declaration of love
which threatens tragic consequences when she undresses for her husband.
Based on the novel Love in the time of cholera by Gabriel García
Márquez.
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Title: Fando y Lis / Producciones Pánicas
presenta un film de Alexandro Jodorowsky ; diálogos y textos
de Fernando Arrabal y Alexandro Jodorowsky ; dirección, guión,
y adaptación cinematográfica, Alexandro Jodorowsky.
Publisher/ Date: Fantoma, 1999.
Summary: A tale of corrupted innocence, sadomasochistic love, and unattainable
paradise. Based on the play by Fernando Arrabal. Originally released
as a motion picture in 1968.
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Title: Fernando ha vuelto = Fernando Is Back / una
realización de Silvio Caiozzi ; una producción Andrea
Films.
Publisher/ Date: Brooklyn, NY : First Run/Icarus Films, 1998.
Summary: Documents the workings of Chili's Identification
Unit, which is comprised of doctors and specialists in anthropology
and forensics. The unit attempts to identify the bodies of all the disappeared
persons in Chile. Focuses on the identification of Fernando Olivares,
the details of his death, and his family's reaction to the identification
of his remains.
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Title: Festive land Carnaval in Bahia / Moraes-Liu,
C., Z. Liu, et al.
Publisher/ Date: Berkeley, CA: University of California Extension
Center for Media and Independent Learning, 2001.
Summary: The meaning of the carnival in Bahia, Brazil is interpreted
and explained by performers and academics.
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Title: Fire from the mountain / Cabezas, O., D.
Shaffer, et al.
Publisher/ Date: New York, NY: First Run/Icarus Films, 1987.
Summary: View of recent Nicaraguan history, the Sandinista
revolt against the Samoza government, and the impact of U.S. policy
on the development of the country.
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Title: Flamenco / de Carlos Sauro ; una producción
de Juan Lebrón Producciónes con la participación
de: RTVA Radio Televisión de Andalucía.
Publisher/ Date: New York, NY : New Yorker Video, 1998.
Summary: A series of flamenco dances are performed
by three hundred dancers and photographed by the master cinematographer,
Vittorio Storaro.
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Title: La flor de mi secreto = The Flower of my
Secret / an El Deseo Sa-CIBY 2000 co-production ; written and directed
by Pedro Almodóvar executive producer Agustín Almodóvar.
Publisher/ Date: Culver City, CA: Columbia TriStar Home Video, 1996.
Summary: Leo writes romance novels--but with a loveless
marriage, she finds herself fresh out of inspiration. Angel is a tough
and gruff journalist with an iron will and a heart of gold. When their
paths happen to cross, they discover something neither had expected.
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Title: Fresa y chocolate = Strawberry & Chocolate
/ guión, Senel Paz, producción, Miguel Mendoza ; dirección,
Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, Juan Carlos Tabío.
Publisher/ Date: Burbank, Calif. : Miramax Home Entertainment, 1995.
Summary: A naive young Cuban college student meets both a writer and
a woman who teach him about the passion of life and the passion of love.
Based on the short story "El Lobo, el bosque y el hombre nuevo" by Senel
Paz.
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Title: Frida : naturaleza viva / Clasa Film Mundiales
S.A. ; guión, José Joaquín Blanco y Paul Leduc
; productor, Manuel Barbachano Ponce; director, Paul Leduc Rosenzweig.
Publisher/ Date: Santa Monica, CA : Connoisseur Video Collection, 1992.
Summary: On her deathbed, artist Frida Kahlo conjures
up images and memories of her life as a painter, revolutionary and woman
of the world.
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Title: La fuente amarilla = The Yellow Fountain/
Vanguard Cinema presents a Tanelorn Films release of a Mate production
; directed by Miguel Santesmases.
Publisher/ Date: Los Angeles, CA: Tanelorn Films, Inc., Vanguard Cinema,
2001.
Summary: In Chinese mythology, the Yellow Fountain
is the spring where the souls of the dead come to quench their thirst.
Lola's Eurasian parents have already drunk at the fountain with Lola
witnessing their tragic end. Setting off on the trail of her parent's
murderers, Lola begins her search with the only clue she has: a name
scribbled on the back of a card for a Chinese restaurant.
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Title: Fuenteovejuna / de Lope de Vega ; versión
de Juan Guerrero Zamora. Una coproducción de Televisión
Española y Radiotelevisione italiana (RAI).
Publisher/ Date: Princeton, N.J. : Films for the Humanities, 1980.
Summary: A dramatization of Lope Félix de Vega
Carpio's play about 15th century peasants who rise up against a cruel
lord.
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Title: Fugitivas = Fugitives / Sogepaq ; una producción
Maestranza Films (Sevilla) con la participación de Canal Sur
TV ; producida por Antonio P. Pérez ; guión, Oscar Plasencia,
Raúl Brambilla, Miguel Hermoso ; dirigida por Miguel Hermoso.
Publisher/ Date: Los Angeles, CA : Urban Vision Entertainment, 2003.
Summary: Tony, her boyfriend Juanjo, and their low-life
partners Maxi and Moco are preparing for a bank robbery. Right before
the heist, Juanjo informs Tony that his prostitute sister wants him
to take her young daughter, Laura, to visit the girl's father. Juanjo
persuades the initially reluctant Tony that Laura will provide the couple
with a perfect cover. Although the robbery comes off without a hitch,
Juanjo takes off with the cash, leaving Tony and Laura fugitives from
both the law and from the psychotically angry Maxi and Moco. |
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Title: Gabriel García Márquez: la magia de lo
real / García Márquez, G., A. C. Navarro, et
al.
.Publisher/ Date: Princeton, NJ, Films for the Humanities & Sciences,
1993.
Summary: This film delves into the world of One
Hundred Years of Solitude and The Autumn of the Patriarch,
where historical riots and levitating grandmothers appear to be equally
real. Shot on the Colombian coast in Aracataca, the Banana Zone, Cienaga,
and Barranquilla, and incorporating rare archival footage, the film
features the author himself and the people of whom he writes.
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Title: Gabriela Mistral: Poem of Chile / Harry E.
Babbitt, photography ; education consultant, Nancy Frakes.
Publisher/ Date:San Antonio : Babbitt Instructional Resources, 1999.
Summary: A documentary of the life and poetry of Gabriela
Mistral and her relationship to places in Chile.
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Title: Gabriela Mistral: focused on love / una producción
de A&A Comunicaciones para Pramer ; producción general, Eliseo
Alvarez ; producción Leticia Schilman.
Publisher/ Date: Princeton, NJ : Films for the Humanities & Sciences,
2002.
Summary: Recognized from an early age as a poet of
remarkable ability, the writer who was to become known as Gabriela Mistral
was the first Latin American woman to be awarded the prestigious Nobel
Prize, in 1945. Composed of archival footage and commentary from scholars
and friends who discuss the personal events that affected her life and
infused her work with its themes of tragic love and unfulfilled maternal
love, this program provides an in-depth portrait of one of Latin America's
most gifted poets.
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Title: El gallo de oro = The Golden Cockerel / Clasa
Films Mundiales, Manuel Barbachano Ponce.
Publisher/ Date: Condor Video, 1987.
Summary: Cockfights and mariachi music form the backdrop for the traditional
rivalry between villain and hero. Based on the story by Juan Rulfo.
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Title: El gran calavera = The Great Madcap / IFEX
Films ; dirección, Luis Buñuel.
Publisher/ Date: New York : Water Bearer Films, 1992 (original release
1949).
Summary: Satirical film exploring the themes of transexual
humor, sexuality in advertising, the working class' comical exploitation
of the ruling classes, and the link between Christian evangelism and
hard-sell advertising. Videocassette release of the 1949 Mexican motion
picture.
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Title: Gary Cooper, que estás en
los cielos / Miro, P., M. Sampietro, et al.
Publisher/ Date: Madrid, Spain, Sogepaq Video; distribuida por Polygram
Ibérica S.A, 1980.
Summary: A woman nearing her forties, Andrea Soriana,
has always pushed aside personal questions and romantic relationships
in pursuit of professional success. Now a major illness forces her to
reconsider her life--work, family, friendships, men--causing a psychological
and emotional crisis pushes her toward a drastic decision.
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Title: El gran teatro del mundo: auto sacramental
/ de Pedro Calderón de la Barca ; representado por la Compañía
teatral de Barnard College ; director de película, Sholom Rubenstein.
Summary: The manager of a company of players calls
them together to take part in a play. The characters of this religious
drama are archetypes: a Rich Man, a King, a Peasant, a Begger, Beauty
and Wisdom. Each character expounds his attitude toward life, then they
see if there is any social purpose in their lives and whether they are
prepared to fulfill it. Before facing death, each character has one
more chance to mend his ways. Only those who have found some social
purpose, will be invited to the manager's supper (the Holy Communion)
in the epilogue.
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Title: Guantanamera / Tornasol Films ... [et al.]
; producida por Gerardo Herrero ; direccion, Tomás Gutiérrez
Alea, Juan Carlos Tabío.
Publisher/ Date: New York, N.Y. : New Yorker Video, 2000.
Summary: In this romantic comedy, Yoyita, a world-famous diva, returns
to her home town of Guantanamo for an elegant reception and a surprise
reunion with her once beloved, Candido. Overjoyed with the rekindled
memories of her first love, Yoyita's elated heart fizzles while in Candido's
embrace. Joining Yoyita's funeral procession back to Havana are her
sexy niece Gina, a former professor blacklisted for political nonconformity,
and her husband Adolfo, a tasteless government official in charge of
the funeral proceedings. As the cortege wends westward across Cuba,
its path keeps crossing that of Mariano, a gallant truck driver who
once had a crush on Gina and whose recurring presence crystallizes her
doubts about her marriage. |
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Title: La Habana hoy: impresiones de una ciudad en 16 centos
= Havana Today: Impressions of a city in 16 chapters / Ricciarelli,
C. and D. Malquori, et. al.
Publisher/Date: NY, NY: Latin American Video Archives, 2001.
Summary: A documentary about contemporary daily life
in Havana.
Hable con ella / Sony Pictures Classics ; una producción
el Deseo, S.A. con la participación de Vía Digital y Antena
3 Televisión ; el Deseo S.A. presenta ; un film de Almodóvar
; guión y dirección, Pedro Almodóvar.
Publisher/ Date: Culver City, CA : Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment,
2003.
Summary: In a private clinic Barco and Benigno strike
up a friendship while caring for comatose women. Notes: 2002 Academy
Award Winner, Best Original Screenplay - Pedro Almodóvar. 2002
Golden Globe Winner, Best Foreign Language Film.
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Title: ¡Harka! / argumento y diálogos,
Luis García Ortega ; guión técnico y dirección,
Carlos Arévalo.
Publisher/ Date: Valladolid : Divisa Ediciones, 1996. (originally produced
as motion picture by Cifesa in 1941).
Summary: During a Moroccan conflict, Spanish officers
fight in the desert, on the side of the King of Morocco against the
rebels. While some officers return to Spain at the end of their duties,
others stay because of their sense of duty and loyalty towards their
Harka or unit. Note: Film does not have English subtitles.
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Title: Hasta cierto punto = Up to a Certain Point
/ Instituto Cubano del Arte e Industria Cinematográficos.
Publisher/ Date: New York: New Yorker Video, 1995. (original release
1985).
Summary: This clever satire about the battle of the
sexes in contemporary Cuba tells the story of an educated, liberal filmmaker
who, in doing research for a film about the social problem of machismo
in Cuban society, finds himself falling in love with the sexy, liberated
Lina, a pioneering female dockworker.
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Title: La herencia del tirano / Fortunato, R. and
Videocine Palau.
Publisher/Date: Santo Domingo: Videocine Palau, 1998.
Summary: A documentary about the political events in
the Domincan Republic between the death of Trujillo in 1961 and the
inauguration of Bosch as president in 1963.
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Title: El hijo de la novia = The Son of the Bride
/ A Sony Pictures Classic release, Pol-ka Producciones, Patagonik Film
Group, Jempsa, Tornasol Films una coproduccion Argentino-Española
cum el apayu del INCAA y del ICAA con la colaboración de Via
Digital una película de Juan José Campanella ; producers,
Fernando Blanco ... [et al.] ; writers, Fernando Castets, Juan Jose
Campanella ; director, Juan Jose Campanella.
Publisher/ Date: Culver City, CA : Sony Pictures Classics : Distributed
by Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment, 2002.
Summary: Rafael is a 42-year-old divorced father and
restaurant owner who is overwhelmed with life. He feels guilty that
he doesn't visit his mother, who is stricken with Alzheimer's disease;
he lives in his father's shadow; he doesn't spend enough time with his
daughter and he can't commit to his girlfriend. When a series of unexpected
events happen, Rafael re-evaluates his life.
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Title: La historia oficial = The Official Story
/ un film de Luis Puenzo ; libreto cinematográfico de Aída
Bortnik y Luis Puenzo ; dirección de producción, Marcelo
Piñeyre ; dirección, Luis Puenzo.
Publisher/ Date: Beverly Hills, CA : Pacific Arts Video, 1986.
Summary: An Argentine teacher lives in blissful ignorance
of the evils perpetrated by her country's government. Over time, she
begins to suspect that her adopted daughter may have been the child
of a murdered political prisoner. When she attempts to unearth the truth,
her investigation reveals levels of political corruption so abhorrent
that the illusions of her past life are irrevocably shattered. Note:
Academy Award Winner, 1986 - Best Foreign Language Film (Argentina).
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Title: Hombres armados = Men with guns / a Sony
Pictures Classic release ; Lexington Road Productions and Clear Blue
Sky Productions in association with the Independent Film Channel and
Anarchists' Convention.
Publisher/ Date: Culver City, CA : Columbia TriStar Home Video, 1998.
Summary: Dr. Fuentes is a man in search of his legacy--seven
medical students he trained to work in impoverished native villages.
But early in his odyssey he begins to suspect that "men with guns"
got there first, and with every step he is confronted by bloody realities
he had long ignored. Now, his is an almost desperate quest, but for
a mythical village deep in the rainforest--one last refuge of hope called
Cerca del Cielo.
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Title: El Hombre, cuando es hombre = A Man, When
He's a Man / Sarmiento, V.
Publisher/ Date:New York, N.Y., Women Make Movies, 1982.
Summary: The love lives of Costa Rican men, and how
they treat their women.
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Title: El Hombre de la esquina rosada / Esquide,
E., M. Picazo, et al.
Publisher/ Date: Princeton, N.J Films for the Humanities, 1980.
Summary: Set in a small town in southern Argentina,
the story depicts the events of a single night as they befall the beautiful
Lujanera, the feared Pegador and El Corralero, the gaucho from the north.
Passion, murder and the ceaseless rhythms of cafe dancing are diffracted
through the author's surrealistic lens, as the lawless world of the
gaucho becomes the setting of a story whose violence is transmuted into
art.
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Title: IA Kuba = Soy Cuba = I am Cuba / Francis Ford
Coppola and Martin Scorsese present ; a Milestone Film.
Publisher/ Date: NY, NY : Milestone Film & Video, 1995 (original
release 1964).
Summary: Four main stories show the rise of the Communist
revolution in Cuba, including Battista's Havana and the grinding poverty
and oppression of the Cuban people.
Language: In Russian and Spanish with English subtitles.
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Title: Ilona llega con la lluvia = Ilona Arrives
with the Rain / con el patrocinio de Bavaria, Sandro Silvestri presenta
un films de Sergio Cabrera coproducida por Fotoemme S.L. (Espana), Emme,
s.r.i. (Italia) con la coloboración de Caracol Televisión
(Colombia), Producciones Fotograma (Colombia), TVE-Television-Española;
productor, Sandro Silvestri ; writers, Jorge Goldenberg, Ana Goldenberg
y Sergio Cabrera ; director, Sergio Cabrera.
Publisher/ Date: Chicago, IL. : Facets Video, 2003.
Summary: A beautiful woman and her long lost lover
reunite for a last caper in steamy, cosmopolitan Panama City. Tough-guy
smuggler Magroll stumbles across Ilona, his long lost love and cohort.
They have not seen each other in years. They begin to plot a new scheme
- one in search of impossible wealth. Based on the novel by Alvaro Mutis.
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Title: Inframundo entrevista con Juan Rulfo./ Rulfo,
J., S. Fuentes, et al.
Publisher/ Date: Hanover, NH, Ediciones del Norte, 1983.
Summary: In a rare interview with Silvia Fuentes, Juan
Rulfo talks about his childhood and family in the context of the Mexican
Revolution. In this way he shows the deepest roots and particular of
the Mexican people. He tells how the various jobs he had, when he was
young, took him from one end of his country to the other, discovering
places and people which he later used in his fiction. He gives us the
ideas which were the basis for "Pedro Paramo". He reads from
that great novel and from his most important story "El llano en
llamas."
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Title: Intacto = Intact / una producción
de Sogecine para Telecinco, con la participación de Canal+ España
y la colaboración de TFC, Tenerife Film Commission.
Publisher/ Date: Marina Del Rey, CA: Lions Gate Home Entertainment,
2003.
Summary: Considered "lucky" after surviving
a plane crash, a thief is recruited into an underground gambling ring
where death and luck intermingle. Sam is the ring leader of a gang who
discovers the theif's luck and attempts to "steal" it from
him.
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Title: Intruso / producida por Enrique Cerezo, Pedro
Costa, Carlos Vasallo ; Pedro Costa P.C., Atrium Productions ; dirigida
por Vicente Aranda.
Publisher/ Date: Boulevard Films, New York : New Yorker Video, 1997.
Summary: Luisa, Ángel and Ramiro have been inseparable
friends since childhood. As soon as Luisa marries Ángel, she
discovers that she is really in love with Ramiro. Ángel accepts
this and disappears from their lives. Fifteen years later Luisa and
Ramiro encounter a destitute and lonelyÁngel and agree to lodge
him.
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Title: Isabel Allende entrevista / Allende, I.,
F. Janney, et al.
Publisher/ Date:Hanover, NH, Ediciones del Norte, 1986.
Summary: Chilean novelist Isabel Allende reads from
and discusses her novels La casa de los espiritus and De amor y sombra.
She speaks of the 1973 military coup in Chile and its effects on her
family as a primary influence on her work. She credits Pablo Neruda's
work with teaching her to give creative expression to small things,
to "find poetry in an onion." She asserts that literature
is independent of sex, that she does not want her work to be judged
as "female" but to be evaluated on its merit as art.
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Title: Jamón jamón / una película
de Bigas Luna ; producida por Andrés Vicente Gómez.
Publisher/ Date: Barcelona : El Nuevo Cine Español, 1998.
Summary: Hilarious, sexy, and complex story of two
young lovers, the pregnant Sylvia and her lover José Luis. When
they announce their plan to wed, his mother hires the town's sexiest
man to break up the marriage. Naturally, nothing goes as planned.
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Title: El jardín de las delicias = Garden
of Delights / Clem Perry / Fleetwood Films ; produced by Elías
Querejeta ; director, Carlos Saura. Publisher/ Date: Los Angeles, CA
: Public Media Home Vision, 1990.
Summary: A rich old man suffers from amnesia caused
by an auto accident. His family recreates scenes from the past in an
effort to jog his memory -- of the number of his Swiss bank account.
A complex, darkly humorous, surrealistic portrait of the frustration
caused by helplessness is presented. Based on an original story by Carlos
Saura. Originally produced as motion picture in 1970.
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Title: Johnny cien pesos = Johnny 100 Pesos / Patagonia
Pictures ; Catalina Cinema, Arauco Films, Vision Comunicaciones ; un
film de Gustavo Graef Marino.
Publisher/ Date: New York, N.Y.: Fox Lorber Home Video ; Los Angeles,
CA: Orion Home Video, 2000.
Summary: When a misguided teenager commits his first
armed robbery with four small-time criminals, their surefire plan goes
wrong and escalates into a hostage situation. In true tabloid style,
the standoff with the police becomes a media circus, turning Johnny
into a reluctant celebrity. Based on a true story.
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Title: José Val del Omar / Filmoteca Española
; Fotofilm Madrid, S.A. ; TactilVision.
Publisher/ Date: Spain : Filmoteca de Andalucia, 1982. Original release
dates 1955, 1960.
Summary: Two experimental films by the Spanish motion
picture producer, José Val del Omar. Contents: Aguaespejo
Granadino (1953-55, 21 min.) Fuego en Castilla (1958-60,
18 min.)
Languages: Silent films with musical accompaniment.
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Title: Julia de Burgos / Burgos,
J. d., L. A. Rosario Quiles, et al.
Publisher/ Date: New York, N.Y., Cinema Guild, 1979.
Summary: A film biography of Puerto Rican poet Julia
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Title: Kamchatka / Patagonik Film Group, Oscar Kramer,
S.A., Alquimia Cinema presentan una coproducción Hispano-Argentina
; producida por Oscar Kramer, Pablo Bossi, Francisco Ramos ; dirigida
por Marcelo Piñeyro ; guión, Marcelo Figueras sobre un
idea de Marcelo Figueras y Marcelo Piñeyro.
Publisher/ Date: Argentina: AVH, 2003.
Summary: In 1976, during the time of the "disappeared
ones" in Argentina, two boys are moved to the countryside by their
parents in an effort to keep the family together as long as possible.
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Title: Kika / a film by Pedro Almodóvar ;
executive producer Agustín Almodóvar.
Publisher/ Date: Vidmark Entertainment, 1994.
Summary: A dizzy dame hairdresser, Kika, gets involved
with a host of unusual characters: a homicidal expatriate Yank writer,
Nicholas, and his bewildered stepson, Ramon, an uncommunicative underwear
photographer; a vampish, oddball femme tv reporter, Andrea, who's constantly
on the lookout for "reality" scoops and who wears a rubber
suit with a revolving video camera mounted on her head; a lesbian maid,
Juana, and her mentally-deficient convicted rapist brother, Pablo, who
escaped while on parole from prison to attend a religious festival in
his home town.
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Title: Km. C-62 un nómada del riel. México,
Plaza y Valdés / Roca, L., J. Tejedor, et al.
Publisher/ Date: México: Plaza y Valdés, 2000.
Summary: Documentary film that examines the life of
Salvador Núñez, who worked for the Mexican national railroad
for 50 years until its privatization in 1997. The program looks at changes
during that time in the communities along the C line, including Cima,
the station town where Núñez lives. |
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Title: Laberinto de pasiones = Labyrinth of Passion / a film
by Pedro Almodóvar.
Publisher/ Date: New York, N.Y. : Cinevista Video, 1990 (original release
1983).
Summary: A camp melodrama/comedy about Sexilia (a nymphomaniac),
Sadec (a gay Islamic terrorist), Riza Niro (the son of the emperor of
Tiran), and Queti (the daughter of a dry-cleaner). When Riza Niro discovers
that Sadec and his colleagues are after him, he disguises himself as
a punk rocker, and falls in love with the stunning Sexilia, his first
straight relationship. Meanwhile Queti, Sexilia's "biggest fan",
helps Sexilia come to terms with her new life-style.
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Title: La lengua de las mariposas = Butterfly /
Miramax Films ; una produccón Sogetel ... [et al.] ; guión,
Rafael Azcona ; director, José Luis Cuerda.
Publisher/ Date: Burbank, CA: Miramax Home Entertainment : distributed
by Buena Vista Home Entertainment, 2000.
Summary: A shy young boy is brought out of his cocoon
by a wise teacher who shows him the wonder of the natural world around
him, amidst the growing tensions and chaos of the Spanish Civil War.
Based on the novel: Qué me quieres, amor? by Manuel Rivas. Winner
of the Goya Award, Best Screenplay Adaptation, 1999. Also known by English
titles: Butterfly tongues and Butterfly's tongue.
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Title: La ley del deseo = Law of Desire / guión
y dirección, Pedro Almodóvar.
Publisher/ Date: New York, NY : Cinevista Video, 1987.
Summary: Explores the relationships of a gay movie
director, who has a transsexual brother (now a woman living with her
daughter) and two lovers, one of whom murders the other and takes the
director's sister (brother) hostage in order to see the director one
more time.
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Title: Libertarias / una producción de Andrés
Vicente Gómez para Sogetel, S.A. y Lolafilms, S.A. ; con la participación
de Canal+ España, Sogepaq, S.A., Televisión Española
y la colaboración de Academy Pictures y ERA Films ; productor
ejécutiva, Andrés Vicente Gómez ; dirigida por
Vicente Aranda.
Publisher/ Date: Madrid : Sogepaq Video : distribuido en España
por Polygram Ibérica, S.A., 1995.
Summary: July 19th, 1936. The revolution has just started
in a small town near Barcelona. María, a young innocent nun escaping
from her convent, which is being ransacked by revolutionaries, finds
refuge in a whorehouse. In the whorehouse, some militia women - Libertarias
- burst in with the mission of freeing the prostitutes. Befriended by
the group, María will participate in the armed fight, and her
the course of her life will change forever. Videocassette release of
the 1995 Spanish television motion picture. No English subtitles.
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Title: El Libro de buen amor / guión, Juan
Ruiz, Manuel Criado del Val y Jesús Fernández Santos ;
dirección, Jesús Fernández Santos ; ayudante dirección,
Ricardo Walker ; producción, Miguel Ángel Recuerdo.
Publisher/ Date: Princeton, N.J. : Films for the Humanities, 1980.
Summary: Dramatization of the fourteenth-century poem
El libro de buen amor by Juan Ruiz. With commentary by Rosales.
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Title: El Licenciado vidriera / Cervantes Saavedra,
M. d., Televisión Española., et al.
Publisher/Date: Princeton, N.J., Films for the Humanities, 1980.
Summary: Cervantes' story from the Novelas ejemplares
about a young man who becomes convinced that he is made of glass
and is in perpetual fear of being broken.
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Title: La línea del cielo Skyline = Skyline
/ una producción La Salamandra ; Kino International Corp. ; guión
y dirección, Fernando Colomo.
Publisher/ Date: New York, NY : Kino International Corp., 1994.
Summary: The adventures and misadventures of a Spanish
photographer who comes to Manhattan seeking fame and fortune.
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Title: La locura de amor = The Mad Queen / Orduña,
J. and A. Echegaray. Una producción de Cifesa.
Publisher/ Date: Spain: Divisa Ediciones, 1997. (original release 1948).
Summary: An adaptation of Tamayo's historical play
set in the 16th century about Juana, la Loca, Queen of Castile, the
daughter of Ferdinand and Isabella. Based on the drama La locura
de Amor by Manuel Tamayo y Baus.
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Title: La Lola se va a los puertos / dirigida y
producida por Juan de Orduña.
Publisher/ Date: Valladolid : Divisa Ediciones, 1999. (Originally produced
as a motion picture in 1947 by Cifesa).
Summary: Around 1860, in Andalusia, a young flamenco
singer Lola goes with her entourage to sing at the country estate of
Don Diego, There is a clash of values between the persons who imitate
French manners and customs and the persons who uphold the traditional
Andalusian mores and customs. Lola asserts her flamenco values through
her songs and dances. Based on the play by Manuel and Antonio Machado.
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Title: Los de abajo = Those from below / dirección
de Servando González.
Publisher/ Date: CA: Eagle Video of the Americas, 1987.
Summary: A chronicle of the Mexican Revolution and
of Mexican history. In the midst of misery and injustice appeared the
face of Los de Abajo and represents the greed of those in power. Based
on the work by Mariano Azuela. |
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Title: Lo verde empieza en los Pirineos / director,
Vicente Escrivá ; una producción de Aspa P.C. y Filmayer
Producción S.A.
Publisher/ Date: Barcelona : Manga Film, 2000. Originally produced as
a motion picture in 1973.
Summary:There are two types of men: those obsessed
with women, and those who are even more obsessed with women. The problem
was accentuated in the 1970s in Spain with censorship and repression
under Franco's dictatorship. For the protagonists, there seemed to be
a solution: trespass across the French border in order to make a pornographic
movie in a more lenient country.
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Title: Lucía / Cuban Institute of Art and
Film Industry ; director, Humberto Solás ; producers, Raul Canosa,
Camilo Vives ; screenplay, Humberto Solás, Julio García
Espinosa, Nelson Rodríguez.
Publisher/ Date: New York, N.Y. : Latin American Video Archives, 1995.
Summary: A classic of Cuban cinema which looks at the
lives of three Lucías, an upper class woman in the 1890s, a middle
class woman in the 1930s, and a working class Lucía of the 1960s.
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Title: Lucía y el sexo = Sex and Lucia /
una producción de Sogecine realizada por Alicia Produce con la
participación de Canal+ España, la particpación
de TVE (Television Española) y Studio Canal France ; productores,
Fernando Bovaira, Enrique López Lavigne ; escrita y dirigida
por Julio Medem.
Publisher/ Date: New York : Palm Pictures ; Distributed by Lions Gate
Home Entertainment, 2003.
Summary: After the loss of her long-time boyfriend,
Lucía seeks refuge on a quiet Mediterranean island where she
meets a new man and begins to discover the dark secrets of her past
relationship.
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Title: El lugar sin límites = The Place
without Limits / Ripstein, A., Conacite Dos (Firm), et al.
Publisher/ Date: Los Angeles, CA:, World Artists Home Video, 1998.
Summary: The film explores machismo and homophobia
in Latin America through the story of La Manuels, a transvestite.
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Title: Maestro de las voces / Espejo de escritores
series.
Publisher/ Date: Hanover, NH : Ediciones del Norte, 1984.
Summary: An interview of Mario Vargas Llosa with José
Miguel Oviedo in which the author answers questions about which genres
he prefers, what recently led him to change from short stories to drama.
He discusses the social role of the writer, at the same time defending
that writing is a private act.
Title: La mafia en la Habana / Igeldo Komunikazioa
/ Impala S.A. / Imago S.R.L. / Canal+.
Publisher/ Date: La Habana, Cuba : Video ICAIC, 2000.
Summary: Direct testimonies by croupiers, henchmen,
revolutionaries, ex-holders of important positions with Cuban governments
before and after the Revolution, as well as with the occasional musician,
bring us into to the world of near-mythical characters such as Lucky
Luciano and Meyer Lansky in this history of organized crime in Cuba.
Through the testimonies of these witnesses to that late-night, behind-the-scenes
world, we also see just how far the American Mafia was ready to go in
its attempts to recover the "Havana Empire." Based on "El
Imperio de La Habana" by Juan Enrique Cirules.
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Title: Mararía / Tanelorn Films ; una producción
Aiete Films S.A./Ariane Films S.A./ Mararía P.C.S.L. con al participación
de Televisión Española ... [et al.]; producida por Andrés
Santana ; dirigida por Antonio José Belancón.
Publisher/ Date: United States: Vanguard Cinema, 2001.
Summary: Set on the island of Lanzarote during the
Spanish Civil War, this is the story of young Dr. Fermin who becomes
the island doctor and falls under the spell of the bewitching Mararía.
She returns his attentions until a young English surveyor arrives. Mararía
is attracted to the Englishman and this sets the stage for tragedy for
each of them. Based on the novel by Rafael Arozarena.
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Title: Marcelino pan y vino = The Miracle of Marcelino
/ directed by Ladislao Vajda.
Publisher/ Date: VCI Home Video, 1998, (originally released in 1955).
Summary: Story of the miracle of a little boy, abandoned
at a monastery, who is discovered to be talking with Jesus Christ. Based
on the story by José María Sánchez-Silva.
Language: Dubbed into English.
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Title: El mariachi / produced by Robert Rodríguez
and Carlos Gallardo ; written and directed by Robert Rodríguez.
Publisher/ Date: Burbank, Calif. : Columbia TriStar Home Video, 1993.
Summary: 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 brings only a curse--of deadly mistaken
identity. Forced to trade his guitar for a gun, the mariachi is now
playing for his life.
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Title: Mariposas en el andamio
= Butterflies on the scaffold / Kangaroo Productions presenta ; dirección:
Margaret Gilpin, Luis Felipe Bernaza ; guión, Luis Felipe Bernaza,
Margaret Gilpin ; productora, Margaret Gilpin.
Publisher/ Date: New York, NY : Latin American Video Archives, 1996.
Summary: This award winning, remarkable documentary
offers a rare view of day-to-day life for gays and transvestites in
Cuba today. Butterflies on the scaffold follows a group of working class
drag queens in the Havana suburb of La Güinera. They gained their
neighbors' respect and became an integral part of the community by forging
a coalition with the female leaders of the local construction brigade
and performing in the workers' dining room.
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Title: Más que amor, frenesí = Not
Love, Just Frenzy / una producción de Fernando Colomo P.C., con
la participación de Televisión Española, con la
participación de Canal+ España ; un film de Películas
Frenéticas S.L. ; producida por Fernando Colomo, Beatríz
de la Gándara ; escrita y dirigida por Alfonso Albacete, Miguel
Bardem, David Menkes.
Publisher/ Date: Los Angeles, CA : Jour de Fête Films : Distributed
by Image Entertainment, 2001.
Summary: A group of 20-something friends get tangled
up in a maze of wild sex, drugs and gunfights as they encounter outrageous
characters in the wild Euro club scene.
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Title: Matador / Una producción de Andrés
Vicente Gómez ; director, Pedro Almodóvar.
Publisher/ Date: New York, N.Y. : Cinevista, 1989 (originally produced
in 1983 by Cia Iberoaméricana de TV, S.A.
Summary: The story of a retired torero's love affair
with a beautiful woman. The lovers are brought together by a young bullfighting
student who confesses to a string of murders.
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Title: Memorias del subdesarrollo = Memories of
Underdevelopment / guión basado en una novela de Edmundo Desnoes
; realización, Tomás Gutiérrez Alea.
Publisher/ Date: New York, N.Y. : New Yorker Video, 1971. Originally
released in 1968.
Summary: Set in the 1960s, story centers on an Europeanized
Cuban intellectual, too idealistic (or lazy) to leave for Miami, but
too decadent to fit into Cuban society under the Castro regime.
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Title: Men with guns = Hombres armados / a Sony
Pictures Classic release ; Lexington Road Productions and Clear Blue
Sky Productions in association with the Independent Film Channel and
Anarchists' Convention.
Publisher/ Date: Culver City, CA : Columbia TriStar Home Video, 1998.
Summary: Dr. Fuentes is a man in search of his legacy--seven
medical students he trained to work in impoverished native villages.
But early in his odyssey he begins to suspect that "men with guns"
got there first, and with every step he is confronted by bloody realities |
