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City of God
:Description:Celebrated with worldwide acclaim, this powerful true story of crime and redemption has won numerous prestigious awards around the globe! The streets of the world's most notorious slum, Rio de Janeiro's 'City of God,' are a place where combat photographers fear to tread, police rarely go, and residents are lucky if they live to the age of 20. In the midst of the oppressive crime and violence, a frail and scared young boy will grow up to discover that he can view the harsh realities of ...
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Like Water for Chocolate
: :In turn of the century Mexico, a young woman loves a boy who her mother forces to marry her sister.No Track Information AvailableMedia Type: DVDArtist: CAVAZOS/LEONARDITitle: LIKE WATER FOR CHOCOLATEStreet Release Date: 06/07/2005DomesticGenre: FOREIGN essential video:Expect to be very hungry (and perhaps amorous) after watching this contemporary classic in the small genre of food movies that includes Babette's Feast and Big Night. Director Alfonso Arau (A Walk in the Clouds), adapting a novel by his former wife, Laura Esquivel, tells the story of a ...
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Y Tu Mama Tambien
: :'Two thumbs way up' ('Ebert & Roeper and the Movies')! From world-renowned director Alfonso Cuar n (Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban Great Expectations) comes this 'provocatively and unapologetically sexual' (Los Angeles Times) coming-of-age tale. Nominated* for an Oscar® and a Golden Globe® this sizzling box-office sensation is not only 'raucously funny' (New York Post) but also 'one of the most compellingly sexy movies ever made' (The San Diego Union-Tribune).Julio and Tenoch are two teens ruled by raging hormones and a mission to consume ...
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Man on Fire
:Description:Hard-drinking, burnt-out ex-CIA operative John Creasy (Washington) has given up on life--until his friend Rayburn (Oscar winner Christopher Walken) gets him a job as a bodyguard to nine-year-old Pita Ramos (Dakota Fanning). Bit by bit, Creasy begins to reclaim his soul, but when Pita is kidnapped, Creasy unleashes a firestorm of apocalyptic vengeance against everyone responsible. :Style trumps substance in Man on Fire, a slick, brooding reunion of Crimson Tide star Denzel Washington and director Tony Scott. The ominous, crime-ridden setting is Mexico City, where a ...
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The Motorcycle Diaries (Widescreen Edition)
: :The beauty of the South American landscape and of Gael Garcia Bernal (Y Tu Mama Tambien, Bad Education) gives The Motorcycle Diaries a charisma that is decidedly apolitical. But this portrait of the young Che Guevara (later to become a militant revolutionary) is half buddy-movie, half social commentary--and while that may seem an unholy hybrid, under the guidance of Brazillian director Walter Salles (Central Station) the movie is quietly passionate. Guevara and his friend Alberto Granado (Rodrigo de la Serna, a lusty and engaging actor) set ...
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Amores Perros
: :Three lives become inextricably linked in the wake of a terrible car crash: a young punk stumbles into the sinister underground world of dog fighting; an injured supermodel's pooch disappears into the apartment's floorboards; and an ex-radical turned hit man rescues a gun-shot Rotweiler. Discover why Amores Perros is the best reviewed film of the year.System Requirements: Running Time 153 MinFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA Rating: R UPC: 658149786424 Manufacturer No: 71479 :Amores Perros roughly translates to 'Love's a bitch,' and it's an apt summation of this remarkable film's ...
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The Devil's Backbone (Special Edition)
: :No Description AvailableNo Track Information AvailableMedia Type: DVDArtist: ALMODOVAR,PEDROTitle: DEVIL'S BACKBONEStreet Release Date: 04/25/2006DomesticGenre: HORROR :Seething passions, wandering ghosts, and an unexploded bomb fill this beautifully filmed tale of war and suspense. Though The Devil's Backbone was advertised as a horror movie in the States, it's really more of a drama that happens to have ghosts in it. During the Spanish Civil War, young Carlos is abandoned at a completely isolated orphanage. The tensions therein have been building for years, exacerbated by the unexploded bomb ...
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Al Otro Lado
: :No Description AvailableNo Track Information AvailableMedia Type: DVDArtist: ALMODOVAR,PEDROTitle: DEVIL'S BACKBONEStreet Release Date: 04/25/2006DomesticGenre: HORROR :Seething passions, wandering ghosts, and an unexploded bomb fill this beautifully filmed tale of war and suspense. Though The Devil's Backbone was advertised as a horror movie in the States, it's really more of a drama that happens to have ghosts in it. During the Spanish Civil War, young Carlos is abandoned at a completely isolated orphanage. The tensions therein have been building for years, exacerbated by the unexploded bomb ...
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El Secreto
: :The Secret Extended Edition with Latin American Spanish voice-over dubbings in and subtitles. :Not really a movie or documentary, The Secret is more of a video seminar, a presentation featuring a series of authors, philosophers, doctors, quantum physicists, entrepreneurs, and spiritual practitioners expounding on the powers of The Secret (probably the most well-known of the presenters is Jack Canfield, author of Chicken Soup for the Soul and The Success Principles). What is The Secret, exactly? 'That principle can be summed up in three simple words: ...
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City of Men
: :In this long-awaited follow-up to his Academy Award(R)-nominated film CITY OF GOD (2003 Best Director Fernando Meirelles) producer Fernando Meirelles (THE CONSTANT GARDENER) returns to the Brazilian favelas to tell an inspiring tale of friendship and family on the gritty streets of Rio de Janeiro. Growing up in a culture dictated by violence and run by street gangs teenagers Acerola (Douglas Silva) and Laranjinha (Darlan Cunha) have become close as brothers. With their eighteenth birthdays fast approaching Laranjinha sets out to find the father he ...
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