Friar Juan 1970
A Dominican friar finds himself wrapped in tangled skirts because he is mistaken for his twin brother, a womanizer.
A Dominican friar finds himself wrapped in tangled skirts because he is mistaken for his twin brother, a womanizer.
Alejandra returns to Peru. She discovers that her father is alive and in prison. Soon, her journey will become a voyage of inner discovery that will bring her closer to her father, her country, and her own identity.
Like almost all of Edmo Cominetti's films, in this, his first film as a director, he presents an important social situation plagued by conflicts that arise in a town. It was presented as a Chaco Film production. This film was shot in partnership with Edmo's brother, Sóstenes Luis Cominetti, being a kind of rehearsal.
Hard-drinking Mexican gent goes to Havana on holiday.
In their spare time, after their studies or their work, children and adolescents between the ages of eight and sixteen meet at the School of Bullfighting in Madrid to learn the Art of Cúchares: Torear. In their stomachs there is no hunger as in the past, their dreams do not lie in having a farmhouse and being famous. Their only dreams are to be in front of a bull, animal with which death goes, fact of which they are fully aware, as their teachers continually remind them. These, retired bullfighters, some by age, others by force and all with their bodies full of scars produced by the horns of a bull. The nude bullfighting scene is fascinating without being exploitive, and it serves as an analogy for the vulnerability these young bullfighters have when in the ring with the bulls.
Four youngsters meet on a bayou after years and sordid things start to emerge.
Following the Spanish Civil War, a man goes into hiding to avoid arrest by the victorious Nationalist forces.
A glimpse at the few days and nights in the lives of a brother and sister, Amanda and Tito, in Santiago’s semi-criminal underworld. A rambling portrait of Chilean society.
A group of women visit a nightclub. They are all attracted to him main dancer and try to win him over without the others knowing. Him taking advantage the situation, create a plan to manipulate them.
A group of Spanish boys take advantage of a high roof to ogle a sunbathing woman, but the presence of an adjacent male nude complicates matters.
The sexual misunderstandings caused by the real identity of a rich woman serve Hermosillo to satirize the moral and social hypocrisy of the provincial that every Mexican carries inside.
Manolo and Kacho thought they had escaped all the dangers of doing illegal business, but they were wrong.
After his twin's sudden death, Andy, a shy and lonely young boy, discovers a mysterious way to communicate with his brother Nico, who is trapped in a limbo between life and death.
Havana, spring 1971: The poet Heberto Padilla has just been set free and appears before the Cuban Writers' Union where he pronounces a statement of "heartfelt self-criticism", declares himself to be a counterrevolutionary agent and throws accusations of complicity at many of his colleagues present at the event, among them, his wife. A month previously, his arrest under the accusation of endangering the security of the Cuban state had mobilised prominent intellectuals all over the world, who wrote a letter to Fidel Castro calling for the release of the poet, whose only sin had been to dissent through his poetic work. The writer's mea culpa, the recording of which is shown for the first time to the public, marks the narrative line of a story including the testimonies of Gabriel García Márquez, Julio Cortázar, Mario Vargas Llosa, Jean-Paul Sartre, Jorge Edwards and Fidel Castro.
Romantic comedy/drama.
When her country is taken over by socialist revolutionaries, a wealthy woman can't bear to give up all of her wealth and possessions to the new government, so she hides all of her treasures in the 12 chairs of a dining-room set. After her death her nephew finds out what she had done and, since the chairs had been "nationalized" and are now in the possession of a dozen different people, he sets out to track them down and get the treasures he believes rightfully belong to him.