The Ambassador of India (1986)
Taken from the volume of the thousand and one guffaws of Colombian humor...
Gênero : Comédia
Runtime : 1H 25M
Director : Mario Ribero Ferreira
Escritor : Mario González
Sinopse
Jaime Flórez, a shrewd provincial, has a stroke of luck when he is treated as a king in a town that confuses him with an important international diplomat.
Joan Wilder (Kathleen Turner) é uma romancista mimada que vai ajudar a irmã, que foi seqüestrada na Colômbia. Se ela não levar um mapa que mostra a localização de um tesouro, sua irmã será morta. Mas enquanto tenta cumprir a exigência, conhece Jack Colton (Michael Douglas), um aventureiro e mercenário que a ajuda e por quem se apaixona. Juntos, os dois se envolvem em diversas aventuras.
A story as told by an aborted child who's now 14 years old, involving his mother, three teenagers (two twin brothers and their cousin) that make a love triangle, the twins' father and his new lover, a drug lord and his sidekicks, the drug lord's wife who doesn't know who's the father of her baby, a prostitute with bladder problems, a hit man (really a frustrated poet), and a huge missunderstanding
Ricardo é um comediante amador que quer ficar famoso. Ele atravessa um momento especialmente difícil quando sua namorada termina com ele para ficar com um homem mais velho e rico. Com seus dois amigos, Ricardo conclui que na sociedade colombiana é impossível ser bem sucedido sem ter dinheiro ou um parente importante, sendo por isso melhor aparentar ser alguém de classe mais alta.
A young boy and his friends attempt to become invisible to get closer to the girls they desire. They must steal the magic recipe and its ingredients without getting caught to perform the ritual.
The whimsical and joyous parade of ridiculous events satirize the war that rages in Colombia right now and exposes the real spirit of those who inhabit such a beautiful country.
In a small Catholic village, the community stands against the local priest when the latter refuses to offer a funeral mass for a suicide victim. In reprisal, the priest denies the sacraments to the entire town, until the family of the deceased remove the body from the catholic graveyard.
When the Velezes agree to buy a used Chevrolet Bel-Air from their neighbors, who've recently won a brand-new car in a school raffle, they're thrilled about the prospect of leaving Bogotá's public transportation system behind. Little do they know that, despite its glossy red exterior, their newfound status symbol is a real lemon. Colombian director Luis Orjuela helms this hilarious look at the pitfalls of automobile ownership.
When a mayor running for re-election is caught on video smoking crack, he'll do whatever it takes to keep it out of the wrong hands.
The neighborhood La Estrella, in Bogotá, is inhabited by families displaced by the violence. Before the event which is the arrival of the electric light, that night there is a celebration. Cristancho and Brochero families, neighbors, friends and leaders of La Estrella, will be involved in a series of incidents and jokes.
A black office comedy about a head of human resources who threatens to run away with his wife's best friend to escape the insanity around him.
Zero é um cientista ridicularizado cuja última invenção o levou ao passado, lhe dando a chance de refazer sua vida. De volta à época de faculdade, ele reencontra Helena, sua paixão, mas acaba interferindo em acontecimentos do futuro. Agora, Zero precisa consertar o futuro sem perder Helena de novo.
"I choose the window" tells common episodes of life: steps for rumbeo, test anecdotes, pre-puberty, life in the office, marriage, courtship, among other incidents. The particular name of his new work was put in honor of an anecdote: when he was 16 years old he belonged to a rock band called "I ask for the window"; Lopez said he was kicked out of the band and then decided to be a storyteller.
A man goes back in time to stop his girlfriend from ending the relationship before he can propose to her, but each time he returns, she ends up with a different excuse. He now he has to see how to change to be able to marry her.
Numa manhã de domingo, Salvador vai trabalhar em sua plantação de milho e dá de cara com uma montanha de cadáveres. Assustado, vai até a cidade para alertar as autoridades sobre o massacre. Mas é dia de eleição e o prefeito e o chefe de polícia decidem não fazer alarde. Com medo de um escândalo nacional, eles vão tentar resolver o problema discretamente. Enquanto isso, o calor vai aumentando e o cheiro dos corpos na plantação de Salvador vai ficando cada vez mais difícil de se ignorar. Vencedor do prêmio de melhor direção de fotografia no Sundance Film Festival 2011.
A wealthy Columbian politician blinded by his own privilege is forced to walk a mile in the shoes of the people he despises most after falling victim to a violent attack and subsequently losing his memory. Miguel was a man of fine stock, a politician who has led a charmed life since the day he was born. But Miguel has no appreciation for his lot in life, and scoffs at the everyday people who must struggle just to survive. One day, after being assaulted on the street and left for dead, Miguel awakens with no memory of the past. He has forgotten his distain for the dumpster divers, petty thieves, and wandering transients who crowd the city streets, and now their warmth and solidarity is the only thing keeping him alive. As Miguel forges a friendship with a pious but promiscuous drag queen, the fragments of the past gradually become illuminated in his mind, prompting him on a desperate quest to reclaim his identity and atone for the sins of his past.