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Una novela controversial de Fernando Vallejo.
Ésta es una descarnada parodia de la violencia que afectó a Medellín durante el auge y caída del cartel dirigido por el narcotraficante Pablo Escobar. Aquí, Vallejo se representa como un anciano homosexual de conservadoras costumbres y de espíritu elitista que se dedica a la gramática y que regresa a su ciudad natal después de largos años de exilio en busca de amantes adolescentes
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Pegassus Films
Pub. Date
2005
Language
Español
Description
"Unos narcotraficantes se apoderan de la sierra para sembrar y cultivar drogas. Al ser descubiertos por la ley, los campos se convierten en un infierno del que solo con suerte algunos sobrevivirán"--Container.
Drug traffickers take over the mountain range on which to plant and grow drugs. To avoid discovery by the law, the fields have become a dangerous hell where only the lucky will survive.
Publisher
Breaking Glass Pictures
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Español
Description
"Based on a true story. In Santiago, Chile, eighteen-year-old Jesús is trapped in a dead-end cycle of drugs, sex, apathy, and an obsession with violence. Living in a small flat with his widower father, Hector, where the TV covers up their inability to communicate, doesn't help matters. After his band loses a competition, he and his friends get drunk and head out, looking for a thrill. They finally find it in a cemetery: a young defenseless boy crosses...
Publisher
The Orchard
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Español
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The origins of the Colombian drug trade, as seen through eyes of an indigenous Wayuu family that becomes involved in the booming business of selling marijuana to American youth in the 1970s. When greed, passion and honor collide, a fratricidal war breaks out and puts their lives, culture, and ancestral traditions at stake.
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...
12) Backyard
Publisher
Maya Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2010
Language
Español
Description
Una polic?a idealista llega a Ciudad Ju?rez, M?xico, para investigar el asesinato de una joven que se encuentra en el desierto. La pel?cula incorpora la realidad de la gran cantidad de cr?menes no resueltos contra mujeres, incluidos secuestros, violaciones y asesinatos, en la ciudad fronteriza ubicada en el patio de los Estados Unidos.
15) 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...
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