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A college roommate has disappeared without a trace on graduation day, and a group of friends embark on a fun adventure to find their friend.
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"Harry Caine, a blind writer, reaches this moment in time when he has to heal his wounds from 14 years back. He was then still known by his real name, Mateo Blanco, and directing his last movie."--IMDb.
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It's 1941 but France is trapped in the nineteenth century, governed by steam and Napoleon V, where scientists vanish mysteriously. Avril , a teenage girl, goes in search of her missing scientist parents.
4) Alamar
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Jorge has only a few weeks with his five-year-old son Natan before he leaves to live with his mother in Rome. Intent on teaching Natan about their Mayan heritage, Jorge takes him to the pristine Chinchorro reef, and eases him into the rhythms of a fisherman's life. As the bond between father and son grows stronger, Natan learns to live in harmony with life above and below the surface of the sea.
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Criterion collection volume 609
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A farmworker sneaks across the border from Mexico into California in an effort to make money to send to his family back home. It is a story that happens every day, told here in an uncompromising, groundbreaking work of realism from American independent filmmaker Robert M. Young. Vivid and spare where other films about illegal immigration might sentimentalize, Young's take on the subject is equal parts intimate character study and gripping road movie,...
6) Altiplano
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"High in the breathtaking, majestic Andes of Peru, silent but deadly traces of mercury -- remnants of long-ago silver mining -- bring illness and death to a local village. Seeking retribution, the villagers mistakenly attribute the outbreak to Western doctors who work in the mountains. Two women -- the fiance of a villager killed in the accident and the wife of a doctor murdered in the riot -- are brought together in this haunting yet ravishingly...
7) Amanda O
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"Amanda O es la chica del momento: aclamada actriz de telenovelas, admirada estrella pop y blanco favorito de los paparazzi. Adicta a las cámaras y por sobre todas las cosas a su propia imagen, Amanda regristra cada uno de sus pasos con una cámara personal, documentado permanentemente sus éxitos e inmortalizándose como ícono"--Container.
"Amanda O is an admired pop diva and the paparazzo's favorite target. Accused of being a thief, Amanda is...
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Nora, a beautiful young woman, is envied by women and admired by men. After her father dies, her stepmother sells her to the richest man in Pátzcuaro, but Nora flees into the arms of Arturo. Shortly after, Arturo meets Paulina and both are surprised to wake up in bed together the next morning. Nora finds out she's pregnant with Arturo's child but, before she can tell him, Paulina phones to say that she is also expecting Arturo's child. Desolate,...
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A heartwarming tale of two unique women who bond while recuperating in a hospital. Martha, a mother of four rambunctious and imaginative children, finds solace when she meets the younger woman, Claudia, and quickly the two build a strong relationship. When Martha invites Claudia to live with her family, Claudia unwittingly takes on the responsibility of becoming a surrogate mother to Martha's children.
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Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza are in love with each other, but due to his poor social status, Fermina decides to marry a wealthy doctor, Dr. Juvenal Urbino, instead. Florentino Seeks solace in the arms of many other women, but never can love any one, for his heart truly belongs to Fermina. Based on the bestselling novel by Nobel Prize winning author Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
11) Amorcito corazón
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For the first time on DVD, the four-discs set of captivating cheerful stories about friendship and love. Isabel Cordero is unlucky in love, she believes that she is cursed and thinks that every man who falls in love with her will suffer for it until she meets Fernando Lobo. Will Fernando be the one to finally break Isabel's curse? Anything can happen in this romantic comedy that will have you laughing and crying.
12) Amores perros
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Three different people are catapulted into dramatic and unforseen 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 gunshot Rotweiler.
13) Amores perros
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Criterion collection volume 1060
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"Sending shock waves through the Mexican film industry and the world, this blistering feature film debut from Alejandro G. Iñárritu brought the director's electrifying visual style and bravura multistrand storytelling to the screen with the heart-stopping impact of a primal scream. In Mexico City, the lives of three strangers--a young man mixed up in the gritty underworld of dogfighting, a glamorous woman who seems to have it all, and a mysterious...
14) El angel
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Buenos Aires, 1971. Carlitos is a seventeen-year-old with movie star swagger, blond curls and a baby face. As a young boy, he coveted other people's things, but it wasn't until his early adolescence that his true calling, to be a thief, manifested itself. When he meets Ramon at his new school, Carlitos is immediately drawn to him and starts showing off to get his attention. Together they will embark on a journey of discovery, love and crime.
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Criterion collection volume 459
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After a lavish dinner party in a stately mansion, the guests believe themselves unable to leave the premises. As the days pass, the elaborate facades of their social positions collapse and they are forced to live like animals. Finally discovering they are actually free to leave, they go to church to give thanks, where they are again trapped.
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Nobody has been able to rob the Bank of Spain. A financial institution with maximum security. But this real challenge doesn't scare Thom Johnson, the brilliant young engineer recruited to figure out how to get inside. Thom and his team have only ten days to discover the secret of the box, put together a plan and prepare the assault. And above all, take advantage of the long-awaited final of the Soccer World Cup in South Africa, the perfect plan to...
17) Bad education
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Two lifelong friends revisit some painful memories from their Catholic school days, with unexpected consequences.
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A nine-year-old boy's preening obsession with straightening his hair elicits a tidal wave of homophobic panic in his hard-working mother.
19) Biutiful
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Uxbal is a man on the wrong side of the law who struggles to provide for his children on the dangerous streets of Barcelona. As fate encircles him, Uxbal learns to accept the realities of life, whether bright, bad, or biutiful.
20) Blancanieves
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"Once upon a time there was a little girl named Carmen, who never knew her mother. She learned the art of her father, a famous bullfighter, but was hated by her evil stepmother. One day she ran away with a troupe of dwarves, and became a legend. A re-telling of the classic 'Snow White'"--Container.