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Publisher
Kim Stim
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Español
Appears on list
Description
Maria is a young girl who hides in a mysterious abandoned house in southern Chile after escaping from a colony run by German religious fanatics. She's greeted by two pigs sheltering there, and the house begins to react to Maria's feelings, eventually transforming the animals into humans in a phantasmagoria of beauty and horror.
Publisher
Videomax
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
Español
Description
A harsh reality of extreme poverty, injustice and ignorance that identify a Mexico in decline during the decade of the 70s. Through various sarcastic situations that the characters perform, they criticize society, but mainly the government. Not everything is misfortune, because this helps to overcome what society suffers from: the Mexican always gets ahead.
Publisher
Alfhaville Cinema
Pub. Date
2016
Language
Español
Description
Everything begins with a stray bullet ... And a wealthy young man trying to evict 250 families who are squatting on the land he inherited from his father. The leader of the squatter settlement is ready to negotiate, knowing that an eviction will not happen without blood. Suspecting a betrayal, the dwellers voice their concern. SIN MUERTOS NO HAY CARNAVAL portrays the city of Guayaquil through all its social strata, full of latent tensions that can...
4) Mambo man
Publisher
Film Movement
Language
Español
Formats
Description
Based on a true story. In 2017, after more than half a century since Castro’s revolution, Cuba opens her arms to the West and the Yankee dollar. Born into communism, JC (Héctor Noas) is a ‘big fish in a small pond’ – a local music producer and promoter, farmer and small-time hustler who lives by his wits and imagination. To support his family and small circle of ‘business associates’ and maintain his local “Godfather” status, JC lives...
5) José
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Español
Description
Jose lives with his mother in Guatemala City, where, dominated by conservative Catholic and Evangelical Christian religion, living one's life as an openly gay man is hard for Jose to imagine. His mother has never had a husband and is determined to hold on to him. Jose fills his free time with dating apps, but when he meets attractive and gentle Luis, they pursue an unexpected relationship with more emotion than Jose has ever felt. He is thrust into...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Español
Description
A choir of creatures introduces a world delicately constructed by fantasy, mystery, and magical realism in Francisca Alegra̕2s poignant and stunning debut feature. It begins in a river in the south of Chile where fish are dying due to pollution from a nearby factory. Amid their floating bodies, long-deceased Magdalena bubbles up to the surface gasping for air, bringing with her old wounds and a wave of family secrets. The shocking return sends her...
7) Museo
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Language
Español
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Movies for Latinx/a/o Heritage Month- Películas para el mes de la herencia latinx/a/o 2022
¡Películas para celebrar el Mes de la Herencia Hispana!/Movies to Celebrate National Hispanic Heritage Month!
¡Películas para celebrar el Mes de la Herencia Hispana!/Movies to Celebrate National Hispanic Heritage Month!
Formats
Description
Well into their 30s, Juan Nuñez (Gael García Bernal) and Benjamín Wilson (Leonardo Ortizgris) still can’t seem to finish veterinary school or leave their parents’ homes. Instead, they wallow in comfortable limbo in the district of Satelite, Mexico City’s version of an American suburb. On a fateful Christmas Eve, however, they decide it’s finally time to distinguish themselves by executing the most infamous cultural artifacts heist in all...
Publisher
TLA Releasing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Español
Description
Handsome, twenty-something, Manuel, travels back to his hometown with an ulterior motive- to ask his parents for money to move to Denmark with his super-hot boyfriend. Soon after arriving, however, things start to get complicated-- his boyfriend dumps him, he has a surprising romantic encounter with an ex-teacher, and his parents are finding every possible means to avoid talking about his love life!
Publisher
Televisa Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008, c1976
Language
Español
Description
La trampa secutora de la modernidad, la juventud y la gran ciudad son los factores que se combinan en este drama que, por cierto, es el primer melodrama a colores fimado en México. Un grupo de compañeras, entre las que destacan Isabel (Silvia Derbez) y Alicia (Martha Mijares), con diferentes historias, diferentes dolores y un deseo parecido, se combinan en esta cinta solemne para enfrentar no sólo las ambiciones de alfunos homres como Rodrigo...
Publisher
Breaking Glass Pictures
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Español
Appears on list
Description
Lucas travels to visit his sister, who lives in a remote town in Southern Chil. Beside the ocean shrouded in the wintry mist, he meets Antonio, a boatswain on a local fishing boat. When an intense romance blossoms between them, their strength, their independence, and their adulthood become immovable, just like the ebb and flow of the tide.
Publisher
Freestyle Digital Media
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Español
Appears on list
Description
Amid the political turmoil during 1980's Chile, a lonely transvestite engages in a risky clandestine operation after falling in love with a guerrilla who asks her to hide dangerous secrets of the revolution at home.
13) La granja
Publisher
Breaking Glass Pictures
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Español
Description
A promising young boxer, a barren midwife, and a fat kid with a bike: three intersecting stories focus around the pursuit of happiness and its unanticipated consequences during the economic collapse of the island of Puerto Rico. Each actor in this modern day tragedy will ultimately discover how the pursuit of hope can dehumanize and expose underlying animal instincts.
14) Ma ma
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Español
Description
Just as Magda is diagnosed with breast cancer, she meets Arturo, a devoted husband and father in the midst of unspeakable loss. Their chance encounter leads both down a path of strength, grace, love, and rebirth.
15) El club
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Español
Description
Four priests exiled to a small Chilean seaside town to atone for the sins of their pasts find their fragile stability disrupted by the arrival of a newly-disgraced companion in this taut blackly comic drama.
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011?]
Language
Español
Description
Romantic fantasy set in early 20th century Mexico about a young couple, Tita and Pedro, blocked from marrying by a family tradition strictly enforced by Tita's cold and selfish mother. To be near his love the young man marries her sister, while Tita, as the family cook, expresses her passion for him through her cooking.
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Español
Appears on these lists
Celebrate Latinx/a/o Heritage Month with Cinema! / ¡Celebre el Mes de la Herencia Latinx/a/o con cinema!
¡Celebre el Mes de Orgullo!
¡Celebre el Mes de Orgullo!
Description
When handsome and charismatic Pablo arrives at his affluent family's house, everyone is eagerly awaiting his return. A seemingly exemplary pillar of Guatemala City's Evangelical Christian community, Pablo's announcement that he intends to leave his wife for another man sends shockwaves through the family. As Pablo tries to acclimate to his new life in the city's gay subculture, his ultra-religious family does everything in its power to get their prodigal...
Publisher
Altered Innocence
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Español
Description
The feature debut of singer/songwriter Alex Anwandter takes a piercing look at modern Chile through the eyes of a father and son. Introverted Juan, manager of a mannequin factory, lives alone with his eighteen-year-old gay son, Pablo in Chile. While Pablo hangs out with his best friend Mari and secretly hooks up with the sexy, but closeted Felix, Juan channels his life into his work trying to build a business he doesn't really even own. When Pablo...
19) Esteros
Publisher
Breaking Glass Pictures
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Español
Description
Matias and Jeronimo, childhood friends, before starting high school they both experience their sexual awakening and their friendship takes a new turn. Matias's father breaks their relationship up by accepting a job far away. Ten years later, Matias returns to his old town for carnival with his girlfriend and unexpectedly runs in Jeronimo. Fellings slowly start to reappear and reach a climax, but at what price?
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Español
Appears on list
Description
Middle-aged Magdalena has lost contact with her son after he took off with a friend from their town of Guanajuato to cross the border into the U.S., hopeful to find work. Desperate to find out what happened to him, and to know whether or not he's even alive, she embarks on an ever-expanding and increasingly dangerous journey to discover the truth. At the same time, a young man named Miguel has returned to Mexico after being deported from the U.S.,...
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