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Short film by Carlos Reygadas for Short Plays (2014). A view of Mexican hope told through forty global years.
Short film by Carlos Reygadas for Short Plays (2014). A view of Mexican hope told through forty global years.
Tomás, who lives in Canada, travels to Madrid, Spain, to visit his old friend Julián. Both of them, accompanied by Truman, Julián's faithful dog, will share many surprising and emotional little moments, triggered by the hard situation Julián is going through, for just a few days.
A couple search for love but never quite seem to meet.
Mario sees his brother David's kidnapping. When David returns 19 days later with no memory, Mario suspects the returnee isn't really his brother. His investigation challenges his grip on reality.
Unable to have kids of their own, Cecilia and Diego get a call from the adoption agency they registered to, some time ago. The sudden arrival of Joel, a 9 year old with a very hard backstory, will change the course of their lives.
The crime of Facundo provokes in Gustavo and Cristina, his parents, an irreparable vacuum. The tragedy demonstrates everything that could not be in the link between Gustavo and son and disarms appearances with his wife; Cristina Gustavo undertakes a desperate attempt to understand his guilt: a tortuous guilt that provokes a deep sense of revenge. You need to find the person responsible for that crime.
Three men struggling to survive their spatial and temporal limits in front of and within a witness: the mountain.
It’s 1948 and the Cold War has arrived in Chile. In the Congress, prominent Communist Senator and popular poet Pablo Neruda accuses the government of betraying the Party and is stripped of his parliamentary immunity by President González Videla. The Chief of Investigative Police instructs inspector Óscar Peluchonneau to arrest the poet. Neruda tries to escape from the country with his wife, the painter Delia del Carril, but they are forced to go underground.
Armando, a 50 year man, seeks young men in Caracas and pays them just for company. One day he meets Elder, a 17 years boy that is the leader of a criminal gang, and that meeting changes their lives forever.
An erotic horror tale about a vixen vampiress seducing and killing women to appease her insatiable thirst for female blood.
At the head of a group of professional deception, nicknamed "The Savvy", the mysterious man with no name (or SN) performs a fast, simple and efficient scheme to seize an armored car, achieving a billionaire booty. After running what the media describe as the coup of the decade, Funboy, the genius of the team is kidnapped by the minions of Uncle Andre. In order to free his companion (Funboy) of debt that would cause a slow and painful death, The Sweet and agree to follow SN Knee on the challenge posed by Uncle André: seize the crown of the most important beauty contest the country.
Victor works in a real estate agency in the well-known Chueca neighborhood of Madrid. He hides a terrible secret: he makes apartments available for sale by murdering the old ladies owners that live in them. Then, refurbishes and decorates the apartments to sell them to gay couples with high purchasing power. His ultimate objective is to transform Chueca into a kind of London Soho area.
On a faraway mountaintop, eight kids with guns watch over a hostage and a conscripted milk cow.
Pepe is the best person in the world, until he discovers that he has a terminal illness and has months to live. To avoid suffering for his loved ones, Pepe decides to become the worst person in the world and thus keep them away from him so that they don't miss him when he dies.
An Indian arouses envy for his expertise in hunting animals without ruining their skins, for his wisdom and his kindness.
In a Mexican border town plagued by neglect, corruption, and violence, a frustrated teacher tries an unorthodox new method to break through his students’ apathy and unlock their curiosity, their potential... and perhaps even their genius.
A journalist Lorena and her friend photographer Raul decide to try to take an interview from influential politician Hermenegildo Parra. After several unsuccessful attempts they decide to break into his house and make some photos there but when they enter his cabinet they see him stabbed with the knife. The next day the newspaper announces his death and start to celebrate a big amount of sold copies but during the fiesta a phone calls and it was Mr.Parra "alive and kicking". After this scandal Lorena becomes pursued by some mysterious killers who want to take the negatives from her at any price. The solution of this mystery is very unexpected...
While leading a police investigation of a massacre in a public school at the border of Mexico and U.S.A, special Agent Emanuel Ritter links this strange case to the coming and rising of the ancient demon Belzebuth. But in order to stop the trail of upcoming infanticides, Ritter shall have to confront himself before dealing with the forces of good and evil.
After a young heiress is assaulted by a policeman, she seeks revenge by befriending the policeman’s mousy wife and introducing her to her circle of outrageous punk friends.