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- DirectorLuis BuñuelStarsSilvia PinalJacqueline AndereEnrique RambalThe guests at an upper-class dinner party find themselves unable to leave.Mexico.
- DirectorLuis BuñuelStarsSilvia PinalFrancisco RabalFernando ReyViridiana, a young nun about to take her final vows, pays a visit to her widowed uncle at the request of her Mother Superior.Mexico / Spain. was voted the best Spanish film of all time with 227 votes in a 2016 poll of 350 experts organized by Spanish film magazine Caimán Cuadernos de Cine.
- DirectorVíctor EriceStarsFernando Fernán GómezTeresa GimperaAna TorrentIn 1940, after watching and being traumatized by the movie Frankenstein (1931), a sensitive seven year-old girl living in a small Spanish village drifts into her own fantasy world.Spain.
- DirectorGregory NavaStarsZaide Silvia GutiérrezDavid VillalpandoErnesto Gómez CruzAfter their family is killed in a government massacre, siblings Enrique and Rosa flee Guatemala and embark on a perilous journey to "El Norte": the United States.Mexico.
- DirectorAlejandro JodorowskyStarsAxel JodorowskyBlanca GuerraGuy StockwellA former circus artist escapes from a mental hospital to rejoin his armless mother - the leader of a strange religious cult - and is forced to enact brutal murders in her name as he becomes "her arms".Mexico.
- DirectorAlejandro JodorowskyStarsAlejandro JodorowskyBrontis JodorowskyJosé LegarretaA mysterious black-clad gunfighter wanders a mystical Western landscape encountering multiple bizarre characters.Mexico.
- DirectorAlejandro G. IñárrituStarsBrad PittCate BlanchettGael García BernalTragedy strikes a married couple on vacation in the Moroccan desert, which jump starts an interlocking story involving four different families.Mexico.
- DirectorCiro GuerraStarsNilbio TorresJan BijvoetAntonio BolívarThe story of the relationship between Karamakate, an Amazonian shaman and last survivor of his people, and two scientists who work together over the course of forty years to search the Amazon for a sacred healing plant.
Colombia / Mexico / Venezuela / Argentina. - DirectorAlejandro JodorowskyStarsAlejandro JodorowskyHoracio SalinasZamira SaundersIn a corrupt, greed-fueled world, a powerful alchemist leads a messianic character and seven materialistic figures to the Holy Mountain, where they hope to achieve enlightenment.Mexico.
- DirectorJuan José CampanellaStarsRicardo DarínSoledad VillamilPablo RagoA retired legal counselor writes a novel hoping to find closure for one of his past unresolved homicide cases and for his unreciprocated love with his superior - both of which still haunt him decades later.Argentina / Spain. Highest rated popular film from Argentina.
- DirectorAlejandro G. IñárrituStarsEmilio EchevarríaGael García BernalGoya ToledoAn amateur dog fighter, a supermodel, and a derelict assassin, all separately struggling to find love, find their lives transformed by a devastating car wreck in Mexico City.Mexico.
- DirectorSergio CabreraStarsFausto CabreraFrank RamírezDelfina GuidoA group of tenants living in an old house are confronted with having to move out due to a renovation project the city has undertaken, but decide to unite and come up with a strategy.Colombia. Was voted the best Colombian film of all time with 38 votes in a 2015 poll of 65 critics and journalists organized by Colombian magazine Semana.
- DirectorJustin WebsterStarsJuan Gabriel VásquezIsidro AlvarezJon Lee Anderson'Gabo, The Magic of Reality' is a story about the incredible power of human imagination, which follows the interwoven threads of Gabriel García Márquez's life and work - "Gabo" to all of Latin America - with the narrative tension of an investigation.
- DirectorPatricia RiggenStarsAntonio BanderasRodrigo SantoroJuliette BinocheBased on the real-life event, when a gold and copper mine collapses, it traps 33 miners underground for 69 days.one of the highest grossing Colombian films of all time
- DirectorJoshua MarstonStarsCatalina Sandino MorenoGuilied LopezOrlando TobónA pregnant Colombian teenager becomes a drug mule to make some desperately-needed money for her family.one of the highest grossing Colombian films of all time
- DirectorMike NewellStarsJavier BardemGiovanna MezzogiornoBenjamin BrattFlorentino, rejected by the beautiful Fermina at a young age, devotes much of his adult life to carnal affairs as a desperate attempt to heal his broken heart.one of the highest grossing Colombian films of all time, based on the novel
- DirectorRomán ChalbaudStarsHilda VeraMiguel Ángel LandaOrlando UrdanetaA handsome young man is released from jail and goes to "El Pez Que Fuma", a bordello in the outskirts of Caracas. La Garza, its middle-aged owner, hires the young man as handy man, but soon he takes the place of the administrator, who is also La Garza's lover.was voted the best Venezuelan film of all time with 22 votes in a 1987 poll of 29 experts organized by Imagen magazine.[211] It was also voted the best Venezuelan film of all time with 33 votes in a 2016 poll of 41 experts organized by the Fundación Cinemateca Nacional.
- DirectorGustavo Tovar ArroyoStarsÓscar AriasDiego ArriaJosé María AznarThe president of Venezuela, Commander Hugo Chávez Frías, raised himself as a champion of Latin American and universal justice. Using the resources of the Venezuelan state in an indiscriminate and criminal manner, he was promoted as the great defender of the people and he passed himself off as the great promoter of Simon Bolivar's dream of integration. However, in fact this was a complete and frustrating historical farce, which many people still do not know of. The purpose of Chavismo: The Plague of the 21st Century, is to dismantle the farce. Venezuela and Latin America have experienced a convulsive beginning of the century. Much of this has been due to the arrival of the charismatic commander Hugo Chávez to power and his crazy ideology of "socialism of the 21st century". This Venezuelan military man wrote a confusing chapter of the recent history of Latin America. Much has been said and written about him, however, most of the works developed on his figure have had little impact on the collective imagination, on the soul, thought and culture of the popular masses, despite the total disaster that it represented for Venezuela. and for the region, conscious work has still not been done to dismantle its tragicomedy. The lieutenant colonel, Hugo Chávez was a communications champion with a singular political sense to read the popular sentiment and embody it, his unquestionable charisma conquered all kinds of public, who, enraptured, always gave a vote of confidence to his delusions. Those who opposed their criminal public policies failed precisely because they tried to respond in a sophisticated, legal and academic way to their atrocious step in history. The great failure in judging him was the great conquest of the commander: his critical but flat language, comprehensive of popular sentiment, in most cases eloquent, wisely directed to the popular imaginary, always defiant of imaginary enemies, managed to captivate thousands of followers around the world. Through this historical document we make an x-ray of the dilemma to strip him before public opinion, analyzing the causes (social, political and economic) that caused the rise of Chávez; the terrible criminal-exercise that he had in power versus the response of organized civil society (especially students); the gradual political fall of the tropical dictator as the secrecy that enveloped his fatal illness; and, finally, the bizarre succession -and his disastrous public work- of who thinks himself may have been his lover in life, Nicolás Maduro. All this not only facing the past or the present, but especially the future as a historical critic of this harmful character called Hugo Chávez. Given the benefit of the doubt that still many political, academic and popular sectors give to the Venezuelan dictator, it is imperative to open a riddle and a censorious question about what it has meant, means and will mean for Venezuela and Latin America its passage through power. This military soldier who has ruined one of the most prosperous and stable nations in Latin America and has plunged it into a social, political and economic pit of still unknown magnitude, must be submitted to a thorough historical judgment. Chavismo is a piece that brings together the opinions of the most important Latin American leaders, who lived close to the Chávez phenomenon, who knew him and witnessed his rise and his strategies to try to consolidate the Chavez hegemony in Latin America and the world, including some of his ministers in the first years of government. Among them, outstanding figures such as: Mario Vargas Llosa, Oscar Arias, Sebastian Piñera, Luis Almagro, Ricardo Haussmann, Diego Arria, Andres Pastrana, José María Aznar, Felipe González, Juan Claudio Lechín, JJ Rendón, Alvaro Vargas Llosa, Jorge Quiroga, José Miguel Vivanco, Felipe Calderón, Vicente Fox, Luis Moreno Ocampo, Moises Naím, Carlos Alberto Montaner, Plinio Apuleyo Mendoza, Oscar García Mendoza, Yon Goicoechea, David Smolansky, Freddy Guevara, Daniel Ceballos, Juan Andrés Mejias, José Manuel Olivares, Raúl Salazar, José Gregorio Briceño, Guaicaipuro Lameda, Ismael García, Antoinette Mendoza de López, Lilian Tintori, Maria Corina Machado, Mitzy Capriles de Ledezma, José Gustavo Arocha, Tamara Suju, Ana Julia Jatar, Thays Peñalver, Gonzalo Himiob, Alfredo Romero, Laureano Márquez, Pedro Mario Burelli, Miguel Henrique Otero, Marcel Granier, David Moran, Antonio Rivero, Lester Toledo, Srdja Popovic. The documentary aspires to pay arguments to the historical debate. Given the relevance of the observed, the urgency that the phenomenon does not repeat or expand in other countries and the need to create political antibodies that prevent the emergence of similar cases in the region, taking advantage of the fact that the protagonists are within reach and live the drama still to this day. Finally, the idea is to contribute to a sensible transition of the Chavista regime and a historic trial that repudiates its practices, which reveals this terrible era of waste, authoritarianism and mediocrity, but above all denounces the great farce, corruption and cynicism that was established in Venezuela and spread through Latin America and Spain
- DirectorGustavo Rondón CórdovaStarsGiovanny GarciaReggie ReyesKirvin BarriosAndrés and his 12 year old son Pedro live in a violent neighborhood in Caracas, but they hardly see each other. One day, Andrés comes home and finds out that Pedro has gotten himself in serious trouble after hurting a boy in a fight.Venezuelan. anti-government
- DirectorJorge Thielen ArmandStarsJosé Dolores LópezAdrializ LópezMarley AlvillaresA vivid and intimate account of the Venezuelan crisis told through the real-life struggle of a young father trying to save his family from the demolition of their home.Venezuelan. anti-government
- DirectorLorenzo VigasStarsAlfredo CastroLuis SilvaJericó MontillaArmando, 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.Venezuelan. LGBT
- DirectorMiguel FerrariStarsGuillermo GarciaIgnacio MontesHilda AbrahamzFashion photographer, Diego suddenly needs to care for the teenage son he's not seen in years just as his boyfriend is put in a coma from a brutal assault. Father and son must grow to understand each others' worlds to face other problems.Venezuelan. LGBT
- DirectorMario SofficiStarsFrancisco PetroneÁngel MagañaRoberto FugazotBy 1915, a contractor traveling to Posadas looking for new staff. Among the music and drinks in a bar and shipped to the mill. He is accompanied by a drunken doctor and his daughter. In the mill, injustices and cruelties are accentuated.Argentina. was voted as the greatest Argentine film of all time in two polls carried out by the Museo del Cine Pablo Ducros Hicken in 1977 and 1984.
- DirectorLeonardo FavioStarsDiego PuenteTino PascaliCacho EspíndolaCHRONICLE OF A BOY ALONE, is an indictment of a fascist regime running roughshod over its most vulnerable citizens, its children. Focusing on the bleak life of eleven-year-old bad boy Polin, who's been abandoned by his family and sent to live in a state-run orphanage, it's also a moving portrait of the human spirit imprisoned by the chains of well-intentioned fools. Inside the harsh confines of the supposedly beneficial institution, Polin and his fellow inmates must deal with constant physical and psychological abuse by the staff, as well as the natural emotional tensions brought on by their own burgeoning adolescence. But through it all, they manage to keep their hopes alive with optimistic talk of freedom and bold plans of escape. One day, when the opportunity finally arises, and Polin learns that freedom, too, has its price.Argentina. was voted as the greatest Argentine film of all time in a poll carried out by the Museo del Cine Pablo Ducros Hicken in 2000.
- DirectorLucrecia MartelStarsMercedes MoránGraciela BorgesMartín AdjemiánThe life of two women and their families in a small provincial town of Salta, Argentina.Argentina. was voted as the greatest Argentine film of all time in a 2022 poll organized by film magazines La vida útil, Taipei and La tierra quema— inspired by the previous lists by the Museo del Cine Pablo Ducrós Hicken—which was presented at the Mar del Plata International Film Festival.
- DirectorMaría Luisa BembergStarsSusú PecoraroImanol AriasHéctor AlterioIn 1840's Buenos Aires, Argentina, a beautiful young socialite named Camila falls in love with Ladislao, a Jesuit priest. After several failed attempts at fighting his own feelings, he ultimately succumbs to her. The two later escape to a far off, secluded village where they assume new identities as husband and wife and begin running a children's school. After several months of relative happiness, the couple's identity is discovered by a local priest. Under moralistic pressure from both Camila's family and the Catholic church the authorities apprehend the lovers, and imprison them for sacrilege.Argentina. Rated as one of the top 10 films of all time by Argentinians.
- DirectorHugo del CarrilStarsHugo del CarrilAdriana BenettiRaúl del ValleThe Peralta brothers work in the countryside the Alto Parana. There they will meet subhuman working conditions. Finally, the workers rise and harshly punish their exploiters.Argentina. Rated as one of the top 10 films of all time by Argentinians.
- DirectorHéctor OliveraStarsPedro AleandroHéctor AlterioLuis BrandoniIn 1920, some workers of Patagonia, grouped in anarchist and socialist societies, decide to make a strike demanding better working conditions. The situation becomes unsustainable and the government sends the order is restored.Argentina. Rated as one of the top 10 films of all time by Argentinians.
- DirectorMario SofficiStarsJuan VerdaguerSusana CamposMaría Luisa RobledoOut of the blue, a meek, old painter begins receiving love letters from Rosaura. This intrigues his fellow boarding house tenants, so they involve themselves into his relationship until one day the mysterious Rosaura appears.Argentina. Rated as one of the top 10 films of all time by Argentinians.
- DirectorLeonardo FavioStarsFederico LuppiElsa DanielMaría VanerAniceto is used to being lonely. When Francisca offers him her true love, his personal limitations and little miseries arise.Argentina. Rated as one of the top 10 films of all time by Argentinians.
- DirectorAdolfo AristarainStarsFederico LuppiHaydée PadillaJulio De GraziaTwo coworkers fake an accident to blackmail the company they work for for a sum of money. However, the plan goes awry and one of them dies. The surviving employee demands a compensation, but the company refuses to pay him.Argentina. Rated as one of the top 10 films of all time by Argentinians.
- DirectorHugo SantiagoStarsOlga ZubarryLautaro MurúaJuan Carlos PazA group of men led by an old man trying to stop an invasion of the city of Aquileia. The invaders are introducing a machinery for a mass invasion, but the invasion is absolute and impossible to define.Argentina. Rated as one of the top 10 films of all time by Argentinians.
- DirectorPablo TraperoStarsLuis MarganiDaniel ValenzuelaAdriana AizembergThe portrait of a man and his attempts to make things up with life after losing his job.Argentina. Rated as one of the top 10 films of all time by Argentinians.
- DirectorLuis PuenzoStarsNorma AleandroHéctor AlterioChunchuna VillafañeDuring the final months of Argentinian Military Dictatorship in 1983, a high school teacher sets out to find out who the mother of her adopted daughter is.Argentina. Rated as one of the top 10 films of all time by Argentinians.
- DirectorClaudia LlosaStarsMagaly SolierSusi SánchezEfraín SolísFausta is suffering from a rare disease called the Milk of Sorrow, which is transmitted through the breast milk of pregnant women who were abused or raped during or soon after pregnancy. While living in constant fear and confusion due to this disease, she must face the sudden death of her mother. She chooses to take drastic measures to not follow in her mother's footsteps.Peru. Won film festival awards in Europe.
- DirectorLuis García BerlangaStarsNino ManfrediEmma PenellaJosé IsbertAn undertaker marries an old executioner's daughter and must continue his father-in-law's profession after his retirement, although he doesn't like it.Spain. was voted the best Spanish film of all time with 77 votes in a 1995 poll of 100 critics and film professionals organized by Spanish film magazine Nickel Odeon
- DirectorEmilio Martínez LázaroStarsDani RoviraKarra ElejaldeCarmen MachiAmaia after breaking up with Rafa, falls in love with a Catalonian. Koldo, her father, goes to Sevilla to persuade Rafa to go to Catalonia and take Amaia's heart back.Spain. One of the highest grossing Spanish films.
- DirectorEmilio Martínez LázaroStarsClara LagoDani RoviraCarmen MachiRafael, a Sevillian who has never left Andalucia, decides to leave his homeland to follow Amaia, a Basque girl unlike other women whom he has ever known.Spain. One of the highest grossing Spanish films.
- DirectorJ.A. BayonaStarsNaomi WattsEwan McGregorTom HollandThe story of a tourist family in Thailand caught in the destruction and chaotic aftermath of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.Spain. One of the highest grossing Spanish films.
- DirectorRené CardonaStarsMaura MontiRoberto CañedoHéctor GodoyBatwoman is called to investigate a whacked-out scientist who is capturing wrestlers and using their spinal fluid to create a Gill Man.Mexican Batwoman (unoffical of course)
- DirectorDamián SzifronStarsDarío GrandinettiMaría MarullMónica VillaSix short stories that explore the extremities of human behavior involving people in distress.second highest rated popular film from Argentina
- DirectorJeff ZimbalistMichael ZimbalistStarsMaría Ester EscobarFrancisco MaturanaAlexis García V.A look at how the lives of Colombian footballer Andres Escobar and drug lord Pablo Escobar were intertwined, alongside the mysterious events that led to Andres' murder in 1994.second highest rated popular film from Colombia
- DirectorRobert BaharAlmudena CarracedoStarsMaría MartínFrancisco FrancoAdolf HitlerThe Silence of Others reveals the epic struggle of victims of Spain's 40-year dictatorship under General Franco, who continue to seek justice to this day. Filmed over six years, the film follows the survivors as they organize the groundbreaking 'Argentine Lawsuit' and fight a state-imposed amnesia of crimes against humanity, and explores a country still divided four decades into democracy. Seven years in the making, The Silence of Others is the second documentary feature by Emmy-winning filmmakers Almudena Carracedo and Robert Bahar (Made in L.A.). It is being Executive Produced by Pedro Almodóvar, Agustín Almodóvar, and Esther García.one of the highest rated films from Spain
- DirectorOriol PauloStarsMario CasasAna WagenerJose CoronadoA successful entrepreneur accused of murder and a witness preparation expert have less than three hours to come up with an impregnable defense.one of the most popular films from Spain on IMDb
- DirectorVíctor GaviriaStarsLeidy María 'Lady' TabaresMarta CorreaMileider Gil13-year-old Monica leads a street life, making her living by selling flowers to couples in local nightspots, she is joined by 10-year-old Andrea who runs out of her house after her mother beats her.