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1) Roma
Series
Criterion collection volume 1014
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (DVD) (135 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
With his eighth and most personal film, Alfonso Cuarón recreated the early 1970s Mexico City of his childhood, narrating a tumultuous period in the life of a middle-class family through the experiences of Cleo (Yalitza Aparicio, in a revelatory screen debut), the indigenous domestic worker who keeps the household running. Charged with the care of four small children abandoned by their father, Cleo tends to the family even as her own life is shaken...
Series
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 90 min., 94 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
La ilusión viaja en tranvía: Confronted with the news that their favorite streetcar will be decommissioned, two municipal transit workers become drunk and decide to borrow it for one last ride without charging the passengers. However, they end up embarking on a series of adventures, as they are confronted with situation after bizarre situation that prevents them from returning the borrowed streetcar.
Nazarín: A humble priest is forced to leave...
Series
Pub. Date
2003.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD)(117 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
Esta es la historia de dos mercenarios que crecieron juntos, como hermanos, y de su celosa relacion con la imponente Casilda. Al terminar la Guerra de la Reforma, Pedro y Damian emprenden un camino que los conduce a jugar, robar y matar. Las cartas con que juegan parecen determinar su destino.
The story of two mercenaries, raised as brothers, and their jealous relationship with the stunningly beautiful Casilda. At the end of the Reform War, Pedro...
Author
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (84 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A young man who by mistake gets caught with hunting rifles while crossing into Mexico is sentenced to 10 years in federal prison. The rifles were registered in the United States and more importantly in Mexico. Andres discovers that the Mexican judicial system is extremely flawed. There are no juries, no testimony and your are guilty until proven innocent.
El Escape De Los Santos es una filmacion independiente inspirada en la vida real sobre los hechos...
Pub. Date
2003.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD)(90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
Benjamin, es llamado por el departamente de policia luego de su retiro despues de capturar a un buscado narcotraficante, que para distraer al juez encargado de su caso, contrata a un ex-policia y a la bella Carolina para secuestrar a la hija del juez. Ahora Benjamin tendra que encontrar al secuestrador, haciendo se esclavo de la bella Carolina y amo de la justicia.
A police officer must find the kidnapped daughter of a judge if he wants the drug...
Pub. Date
2004.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
Portrait of a Mexican man: simple, brave, in love and violent.
Guadalupe Padilla es un jefe revolucionario decidido a tomar una plaza supuestamente asegurada por los federales. Al entrar a la población y ocupar la casa del rico del pueblo, descubre por accidente que en ese mismo lugar se han reunido en secreto, los representantes de las potencias que en un futuro se aliarán para formar el eje Roma-Tokio-Berlín, y que en ese momento conspiran para...
Pub. Date
2005.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
A modern version of the biblical flood. This film reflects the postmodern visions of the battle between good and evil on our society, through the dramatic experiences lived by a group of Mexico City urbanites seeking friendship, loyalty and love.
Una visió moderna del diluvio bíblico. Esta "ópera prima" refleja las visiones postmodernas de lo bueno y lo malo en nuestra sociedad, a través de experiencias dramáticas vividas por un grupo de amigos...
Pub. Date
2004.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
In the town of Three Rivers, Gloria has a lot of fun at the fair with her friends. She is fascinated by a gypsy who tells her that she will fall in love with a man who will bring many problems to her life. In the meantime, "El Rémington", arrives at the town. He and Gloria meet and fall in love. Unfortunately, his life always accompanied by violence and a thirst for vengance causes him to separate from Gloria.
En el pueblo de Tres Ríos, en la feria...
14) Japon
Pub. Date
2004.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD)(126 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
Mexican director Carolos Reygadas' first film is a poetic, existential drama that explores life, death, truth and redemption by following a suicidal old man on his journey through the rugged and unforgiving Mexican landscape.
Pub. Date
2003.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD)(96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
Rodrigo and Roco are cousins with little in common but devotion to their grandfather. When the grandfather dies, other family members are consumed by the the old man's will and the distribution of the inheritance. The two cousins take it upon themselves to carry out their grandfather's wishes to have his ashes scattered into the sea at Acapulco and embark on a journey of self-discovery and mutual understanding.
17) Rito terminal
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
The patron saint celebration in an indigenous community is the setting where a photographer loses his shadow. In a spiritual exchange during a traditional funeral, he will also lose the convictions that keep him tied to his world. In order to recover, he will have to travel an initiatory path along with the inhabitants of the community, sharing a different way of approaching the environment. However, only when he accepts the loss of his shadow will...
19) Amores perros
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (153 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
"En Ciudad de M?xico, un fatal accidente automovil?stico afecta tr?gicamente a tres personas. Octavio, un adolescente, decide escaparse con Susana, la esposa de su hermano; el Cof?, su perro, se convierte en el instrumento para conseguir el dinero necesario para la fuga. Al mismo tiempo, Daniel, un hombre maduro deja a su esposa y a sus hijos para irse a vivir con Valeria, una hermosa modelo. El mismo d?a en que celebran su nueva vida, el destino...
Pub. Date
2007.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
A serial killer is stalking children in Mexico City.
Una ola de asesinatos seriales perpetradas hacia la infancia de la ciudad de México hace que el país entero convulsione en pánico.
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