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Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 84 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Armando Alvarez has lived and worked on his father's ranch in Mexico his entire life. As the ranch faces financial strains, Armando's younger brother Raul shows up and pledges to settle all his father's debts. It seems that Raul's success as an international businessman means the ranch's troubles are over, but when Armando falls for Sonia, and Raul's business dealings turn out to be less than legit, the Alvarez family finds themselves in a full-out...
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
A professional gambler is killed during a poker game, forcing his wife to pass as a gambler herself and seek vengeance against the killer.
Un jugador profesional pierde la vida en un juego de pocker, porlo que su guapa esposa se hace pasar como aspostadora encontrando un nuevo amor y buscando venganza.
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
Pablo is a Bible-quoting hit man who works along side his wise-cracking sidekick Pedro. The duo relishes in their work and offers their victims the opportunity to redeem themselves before terminating their life.
Un asesino que le gusta citar de la Biblia se enfrenta a muchas dificultades cuando no quiere matar a un pastor de su pueblo.
4) Viola
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 63 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
A dazzling and delightful mystery about love and its follies from filmmaker Matías Piñeiro. VIOLA follows a young woman who joins a small Shakespeare theater company in Buenos Aires and becomes entangled in a seductive roundelay of romantic dalliances, intrigue and revelation. Official Selection at **Toronto International Film Festival** and the **Berlin International Film Festival**. *"Piñeiro's bold but graceful camera movements, exploring space...
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (90 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
Rogelio se debate entre su familia en el hogar y su pandilla en la calle. Su tío intenta ayudarle a seguir el camino correcto siguiendo sus sueños de ser luchador, pero por otro lado decide continuar con su pandilla consumiendo drogas, asaltando casas y atacando a quien se le pusiera enfrente.
Rogelio is torn between his family at home and his gang life. He is conflicted between the advice from his uncle who is trying to get him to follow his dreams...
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
La regla de honor ladrones es nunca robar a tu propia gente. Pero las situaciones extremas solo se pueden arreglar con medidas extremas, así es que una gran banda de asaltantes decide robarle a uno de los mejores en el ramo, el reto es inmenso pero la recompensa lo es má ... si es que lo pueden lograr.
The rule among criminals is don't steal from your own kind. But extreme situations call for extreme measures. And so it goes that a bunch of thieves...
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (89 min) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
Una atractiva cantante de cabaret ha cautivado con su sensual voz al desaliñado ex policía Nick. El pasado de ambos está por alcanzarlos para desatar una extraordinaria historia de sexo, drogas, intrigas, muerte.
An attractive cabaret singer with a sensual voice, has captured the attention of Nick, a sleazy, former police officer. Their past encounter is about to lead them into an extraordinary affair filled with sex, drugs, intrigue and death....
8) Lucia, Lucia
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
"A woman's search for her missing husband ignites a dangerous and unexpectedly romantic adventure. It's a wild ride through the mysterious territory of identity, as Lucia finds herself in a triagle of love and friendship with a reawakened passion for life that's different from anything she ever imagined"--Container back cover.
9) El Mariachi
Pub. Date
2003.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (81 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Formats
Description
All he wants is to be a mariachi, like his father, his grandfather and his great grandfather before him. But the town he thinks will bring him luck brings only a curse--of deadly mistaken identity. Forced to trade his guitar for a gun, the mariachi is playing for his life.
10) 7 soles
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (87 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
El Negro gets hired to smuggle a group of undocumented migrants into the United States. When he claims this will be his last trip because he wants out of the business, his superiors become suspicious and send a younger smuggler to keep an eye on him. The two fight during the troubled crossing, and eventually lose part of their human cargo. El Negro now finds himself on the run from his former associates and the law.
Impactante, estremecedora y cruda...
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
Dos hermanos viajan de la ciudad de México, hacia las Vegas a participar en el abierto de Motocross, embarcándose en la aventura más grande de sus vidas.
Two brothers from Mexico City travel to Las Vegas to catch the U.S. Motocross Open and embark on the journey of their lives.
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
"...El Marlboro acaba de salir de la cárcel y busca a su hermano el Cucú, causante quizás de su encierro. Durante 24 horas, tendrán tiempo de reencontrarse y perdonarse, pero también de cometer un asalto que los llevará a mezclarse con personajes de otros ámbitos sociales"--Container.
Marlboro is out of jail and looking for his brother, who perhaps was the reason for his imprisonment. Over the next 24 hours, they will reunite, forgive one...
Pub. Date
2007.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (120 min.) : sound, color, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
Joaquina has never married, but she makes up for it by going to the movies, where she lets her imagination run away with her. When her young nephew comes for a visit, she introduces him to her fantasy world, in which the actors easily become the characters they play, and vice versa. But, she takes her fantasies too far when she decides to do something about the marauding bandits that plague her small town. She writes to legendary western hero Tom...
14) 7 boxes: 7 cajas
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
A seventeen-year-old wheelbarrow leader who dreams of becoming famous receives an unusual proposal: carry seven boxes of unknown content in exchange for a torn half of a $100 bill. Embarking on the journey seems easy, but things quickly get complicated along the way.
"...Víctor, un carretillero de 17 años que trabaja en el famoso Mercado 4 de la ciudad de Asunción, se distrae imaginando ser famoso y admirado en la televisión de un puesto de ventas...
15) Fray justica
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
Maximiliano is a fugitive from justice who hides out in small town posing as a priest. He gradually wins the trust and affection of the townspeople and falls in love. At great risk he fights to protect the people from the rich and powerful local boss.
Maximiliano es un hombre que huye de la justicia tras cometer un robo y va a refugiarse a un pueblo llamado San Pedro. Haciéndose pasar como sacerdote, Maximiliano decide hacer justicia y defender...
Series
Criterion collection volume 458
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (DVD) (140 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([12] pages ; 19 cm)
Language
Español
Description
El norte: Enrique and Rosa are brother and sister Mayan Indian peasants, living in the mountains of Guatemala. When the village attempts to organize for better treatment, Enrique and Rosa are forced to flee as the Guatemalan army is sent in to punish the townspeople. Receiving clandestine help from friends and humorous advice from a veteran immigrant, they make their way to Los Angeles, hoping to make a new life as young, uneducated, and illegal immigrants.
The...
Series
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (210 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
Mexicanos al grito de guerra: Drama patriótico e histórico, Napoleón III está planeando invadir México, el cual se prepara para repeler el ataque. Al mismo tiempo es lanzada una convocatoria para realizar el Himno Nacional. Este concurso es ganado por el poeta Francisco González Bocanegra y el músico catalán Jaime Nuno. Sea testigo de todos los acontecimientos y actos heróicos que rodearon la creación de nuestro glorioso Himno Nacional que...
18) Miss Bala
Series
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
"An aspiring beauty queen finds herself in the wrong place at the worst possible time in this explosive crime thriller set amid Mexico's increasingly violent drug war. After witnessing a shooting in a nightclub, the young woman is kidnapped and forced to work for ruthless gangsters in order the keep her dreams, and her family, alive"--Container.
"Desde la primera toma, la historia es contada a través de los ojos inocentes de Laura Guerrero...una...
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