En el país de no pasa nada (2000)
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Tiempo de ejecución : 1H 31M
Director : María del Carmen de Lara
Escritor : María del Carmen de Lara, Laura Sosa
Sinopsis
A crooked CEO is kidnapped and nobody cares enough to pay his ransom.
An act of kindness leads to the destruction of two lives in just thirty miles, when a hitchiker and his ride let down their guards and reveal intimate, dark secrets about their pasts
Enrique y su esposa esperan con ansiedad la llegada de varios matrimonios muy amigos que, como cada sábado, acuden a cenar.
Hollywood, 1927. El cine sonoro acaba de nacer y los grandes estudios de cine, atendiendo a la demanda de millones de hispanohablantes, empiezan a producir versiones en español de sus más ambiciosas producciones. Es entonces cuando un grupo de directores, guionistas y actores españoles decide instalarse en Los Ángeles con el propósito de hacerse un hueco entre las más grandes estrellas.
After September 11th, six Lower Manhattan residents must deal with pain on their own. Yet in doing so, they find that their lives are inexplicably linked. "Ash Tuesday" examines the loneliness inherent in New York life, but it does so with a refreshing wit and humor that will leave you smiling.
El tema de la película es la migración de mexicanos a los Estados Unidos en busca del "sueño americano". Piporro cruza el Río Grande nadando ilegalmente, y vive una serie de eventos que lo llevan a alejarse de la policía para ganar el premio de "Bracero del Año" por su trabajo en la cosecha.
Ambientada hacia 1910 en el Chaco. Muestra la situación de los leñadores del quebracho, cruelmente explotados por los empresarios ingleses, gracias al apoyo de las autoridades, de la policía local y de un cuerpo parapolicial creado por los propios patronos.
Capulina chip and are transported back to prehistoric times with a time machine. There they live crazy adventures.
After her son gets killed in a car crash, Elena loses all lust for life. Recovering from the crash in a hospital a stranger, David, kidnaps her and takes her for a mysterious journey in an old camper.
Brazilian singer Maria Bethania has a 40-year singing career. A documentary shows her concerts and famous family.
Marina Orlova couldn't even imagine how many adventures are expecting to her in a first grade...
After a brutal attack, a 19-year-old girl falls into a self-destructive cycle.
Una divertida aventura de Viruta y Capulina en donde se verán enredados en un lío de boxeadores confundiendo tanto la situación que ni sus bellas amigas los podrán salvar de una gran golpiza.
When Professor Marsh disappears while searching for the lost city of Lukachukai, his daughter enlists the help of the Three Mesquiteers.
Cuenta las peripecias de un grupo de parejas que llegan a un hotel alojamiento llamado La Cigarra; allí convivirán una noche de pesadilla al enterarse que un marinero que ha llegado con una prostituta ha traído la peste bubónica al hotel y deberán permanecer en cuarentena suscitándose toda serie de inconvenientes.
Una comedia satírica que muestra las relaciones interhumanas con personajes típicos de la sociedad argentina: la secretaria y su jefe, el patrón y la empleada doméstica, la pareja de novios, el matrimonio que no puede tener intimidad en su casa por sus hijos, la estrella de circo y su pareja, la prostituta y el cliente, etc.
Víctor debe dejar su vida de parrandas y cambiar a su novia, Lucero, por la futura esposa que le espera en su pueblo natal. (FILMAFFINITY)
Jimmy Rivière is a young Gypsy, has a sunny but nervous disposition. Sometimes too nervous. Under pressure from his community, he converts to Pentacostalism and renounces his two passions: Thai boxing and Sonia. But how can he refuse the new fight that his trainer proposes? And how can he resist the powerful desire that draws him to Sonia?
Private Diary documents photographer Pedro Usabiaga working with a variety of amateur models. The audience sees how the relationships between the photographer and the subjects changes during their time together, as well as how the individual photographs begin to take shape. Pedro Usabiaga is a well-established Basque photographer whose chief concerns are figurative photography and whose passion in photographing the Spanish male. In this hour long conversation with the artist we are given entry into that process of selecting models (none of the models he uses for this book to be titled 'Private Diary' are professional, but instead are randomly chosen as Usabiaga observes athletes in action) and then allowed to follow Usabiaga and his crew as they photograph these men in natural settings and natural light.
The film tells the story of a real life fan of Boca Juniors football club, Mary Esher Duffau, who as a teenage girl adopted the identity of a man in order to survive on the streets of Buenos Aires. The film shows the teenage Raulito wandering between a reformatory for juvenile offenders, prison and psychiatric hospital. Raulito manages to escape, and finds work at Constitución railway station in Barrio Constitución. Raulito meets up with another street child and they become close friends. They both eventually manage to escape to Mar del Plata.
Made up of 10 short films, 'Revolucion' analyzes through the eyes of the directors what is the revolution today and what it means to the young minds of Mexico.
