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1) Che
Series
Criterion Collection volume 496
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
Español
Description
A portrait of the man who overthrew a dictatorship and became a revolutionary before his life was ended. Includes both Che Part One: The Argentine and Part Two: Guerrilla and bonus features.
Publisher
Kim Stim
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Español
Description
Chile 1990, at the end of Pinochet's dictatorship, a group of adolescents living in a commune, attempt to make sense of their own burgeoning desires and tangled relationships while the adults prepare for the first New Year's Eve under the promise of democracy.
Publisher
House of Films, LLC
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Español
Description
An epic portrayal of Pablo Nerudas exhile. In 1948 Chiles corrupt President deprives Neruda of his Senate seat and orders his arrest. In great peril, the poet moves from place to place in Chile, finally escaping across the Andes to Argentina. His fugitive adventures lead to the south of Chile where Neruda lived during his formative years.
6) No
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
Español
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Description
"Military dictator Augusto Pinochet calls for a referendum to decide his permanence in power in 1988, the leaders of the opposition persuade a young daring advertising executive - René Saavedra - to head their campaign. With limited resources and under the constant scrutiny of the despot's watchmen, Saavedra and his team conceive of a bold plan to win the election and free their country from oppression"--IMDb.
7) Chile '76
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Español
Description
Set during the early days of Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship, Chile '76 builds from a quiet character study to a gripping suspense thriller as it explores one woman's precarious flirtation with political engagement. Carmen leads a sheltered upper-middle-class existence. She heads to her summer house in the off-season to supervise its renovation, while also performing local charitable works through her church. Her husband, children, and grandchildren...
Publisher
Alfhaville Cinema
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Español
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Celebrate Latinx/a/o Heritage Month with Cinema! / ¡Celebre el Mes de la Herencia Latinx/a/o con cinema!
Movies for Latinx/a/o Heritage Month- Películas para el mes de la herencia latinx/a/o 2022
Movies for Latinx/a/o Heritage Month- Películas para el mes de la herencia latinx/a/o 2022
Description
Told across eight different stories taking place in one 100-year-old room, the film explores the secret lives of its inhabitants, from the beginning of the twentieth century to the dawn of the new millennium. This intricately-woven film gives a compelling and profound portrait of modern Mexico from eight of the country's new breed of cinematic storytellers.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
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.
10) Roma
Series
Criterion collection volume 1014
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Español
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Movies for Latinx/a/o Heritage Month- Películas para el mes de la herencia latinx/a/o 2022
Seeking Out Diverse Movies
¡Películas para celebrar el Mes de la Herencia Hispana!/Movies to Celebrate National Hispanic Heritage Month!
Seeking Out Diverse Movies
¡Películas para celebrar el Mes de la Herencia Hispana!/Movies to Celebrate National Hispanic Heritage Month!
Description
"In Mexico City's upscale Colonia Roma district, a quiet but swift change is on its way. Pivoting around Dr Antonio's middle-bourgeoisie family, the lives of two women--the devoted live-in maid and housekeeper of Mixteco heritage, Cleo, and her academic employer, Sofía--become inextricably intertwined, as a seemingly ordinary business trip to Quebec paves the way for a bitter heartbreak. Over a span of one long year--from the quadrennial 1970s World...
11) Zama
Publisher
Strand Releasing Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Español
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Description
"Zama, an officer of the Spanish Crown born in South America, waits for a letter from the King granting him a transfer from the town [in Asunción, Paraguay] in which he is stagnating, to a better place. His situation is delicate. He must ensure that nothing overshadows his transfer. He is forced to accept submissively every task entrusted to him by successive Governors who come and go as he stays behind. The years go by and the letter from the King...
12) Belle epoque
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Español
Description
Spain, 1931 is a politically divided nation and on the brink of war. With allegiances torn between Republican and Traditionalist factions, Fernando, a disillusioned soldier, has chosen a third option, going AWOL. Fate intervenes during his escape when he meets Manolo, an admiring land owner who sees himself mirrored in the young man and welcomes him into his home, a home inhabited by Manolo's four visiting daughters, each more beautiful than the other....
Publisher
Zima Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016?]
Language
Español
Description
Following the assassination of Pancho Villa on the outskirts of Parral, Chihuahua, the whole city mourns his death. Villa's closest collaborators hold a wake for the revolutionary hero. Standing out among the mourners are the four women with whom Villa was having intimate relationships at the time of his death. As expected, the tension between the women grows and intensifies, culminating in a dramatic surprise ending.
Publisher
Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
"An impassioned group of men and women risk everything for family, faith and the very future of their country--as the film's adventure unfolds against the long-hidden, true story of the 1920s Cristero War--the daring people's revolt that rocked 20th century North America. ... General Gorostieta, the retired military man who at first thinks he has nothing personal at stake as he and his wife ... watch Mexico fall into a violent civil war. yet the man...
16) Canoa
Series
Criterion collection volume 862
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Español
Description
"One of Mexico's most highly regarded works of political cinema, Canoa: A Shameful Memory reimagines a real-life incident that had occurred just eight years before its release, when a group of urban university employees on a hiking trip were viciously attacked by residents of the village of San Miguel Canoa who had been manipulated by a corrupt priest into believing the travelers were communist revolutionaries. Director Felipe Cazals adopts a gritty...
Publisher
Icarus Films Home Video
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Español
Description
Al Otro Lado (To the Other Side) : An aspiring corrido composer faces two life-changing choices: to traffic drugs or unlawfully cross the border into the United States. Directed by Natalia Almada. El Velador : From dusk to dawn Martin watches over the extravagant mausoleums of Mexico's most notorious Drug Lords. El General : The filmmaker reflects on her great-grandfather, who was a revolutionary general and then president of Mexico. All Water Has...
18) Neruda
Series
Baruch video volume DVD 1776
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Español
Description
An inspector hunts down Nobel Prize-winning Chilean poet, Pablo Neruda, who becomes a fugitive in his home country in the late 1940s for joining the Communist Party.
19) La llorona
Series
Criterion collection volume 1156
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Español
Description
A country's bloody history stains the present in the Guatemalan auteur Jayro Bustamante's transfixing fusion of folk horror and searing political commentary, inspired by the real-life indictment of the authoritarian Efraín Ríos Montt for crimes against humanity. A notorious, now aging former military dictator stands trial for atrocities committed against Guatemala's Maya communities. While battling legal repercussions and the people's demands for...
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Español
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Celebrate Latinx/a/o Heritage Month with Cinema! / ¡Celebre el Mes de la Herencia Latinx/a/o con cinema!
Movies for Latinx/a/o Heritage Month- Películas para el mes de la herencia latinx/a/o 2022
Movies for Latinx/a/o Heritage Month- Películas para el mes de la herencia latinx/a/o 2022
Description
The film centers on Karamakate, an Amazonian shaman and the last survivor of his people, and the two scientists who, over the course of 40 years, build a friendship with him. The film was inspired by the real-life journals of two explorers (Theodor Koch-Grünberg and Richard Evans Schultes) who traveled through the Colombian Amazon during the last century in search of the sacred and difficult-to-find psychedelic Yakruna plant.
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