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Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
Español
Description
Ramón Sampedro wants to end his life because a diving accident 28 years before that turned him into a quadriplegic. For most of those years he made the most of it: writing, developing a close relationships with his family, who all help to care for him. While grateful to his family and friends for their help, Ramón was always an active person. He has come to see his life as frustrating and pointless and wishes to die with what remains of his dignity....
Publisher
Venevision International [dist
Pub. Date
1999]
Language
Español
Description
An aspiring author with writer's block earns a living by designing crossword puzzles. One day he receives a threatening message stating that he must include the word "adversary" in the crossword puzzle to be published close to Palm Sunday. Convinced that it is all a bad joke, he still gives into the blackmail, and finds his action has unleashed a series of terrible events.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Hannah, a recluse who wears a hearing aid, is forced by her employer to take a vacation. On holiday she finds a job on an oil rig caring for Josef, a burn victim who has temporarily lost his sight. Hannah's job is to care for Josef until he is stable enough to be transferred. There is almost no one on the rig, except a cook, an oceanographer and a few others out at sea. Hannah tends to Josef and he slowly breaks her shell of silence.
6) Amador
Series
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
Español
Description
Marcela, a young immigrant with financial troubles, finds a summer job looking after Amador, a bed-ridden elderly man whose family is away. She thinks her problems are solved, but Amador dies shortly thereafter, putting Marcela in a predicament. His death leaves her jobless, something she can't afford to let happen. Faced with a difficult moral dilemma, Marcela will prove that death can't always stop life.
Publisher
TLA Releasing
Pub. Date
2004
Language
Español
Description
This film tells the engaging story of Pedro, an attractive gay dentist living an active single life in Madrid. He offers to take care of his adorable 9-year-old nephew Bernardo for two weeks while the child's mother travels abroad with her latest "hippie" boyfriend. When Mom suddenly becomes detained in India, however, Pedro must become the boy's caretaker. And to further complicate matters, the boy's grandmother begins a custody battle for the child....
8) Biutiful
Publisher
Distributed by Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
Español
Formats
Description
"Biutiful" takes place in grimy and crowded parts of Barcelona that are a world away from that city's tourist attractions. Uxbal is a midlevel mobster, in charge of Chinese sweatshop workers making counterfeit watches and bags, and the African vendors who sell them. He collects and dispenses money, and runs interference with the cops. He also has two young children, a mentally unstable former wife, and a terminal illness. He is trying, despite his...
9) Volver
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
Español
Description
Raimunda lives in Madrid with her daughter Paula and her drunk husband Paco. Her sister, Sole, is separated and works clandestinely as a hairstylist for women. Years ago, in the sisters birth village, they lost their parents in a fire in La Mancha. Their aunt, Paula, still lives in the village and continues to speak about her sister Irene, mother of the two sisters, as if she were still alive. When the old aunt dies the situation changes and the past...
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
Español
Description
"One of the most personal film by Guillermo del Toro,... is also among his most frightening and emotionally layered. Set during the final week of the Spanish Civil War, it tells the tale of a twelve-year-old boy who, after his freedom-fighting father is killed, is sent to a haunted rural orphanage full of terrible secrets. Del Toro expertly combines gothic ghost story, murder mystery, and historical melodrama in a stylish melange that, like his later...
11) The window
Series
Film Movement volume 7, film 6
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
Español
Description
"It is a significant day for 80-year-old Antonio. His estranged son is coming to visit and all must be perfect. There will be a special champagne toast; an embrace; warm words that may finally bridge the gap between them. But first, Antonio must wait. Bedridden, he looks out his window at the Patagonian landscape and sees the past and present, while sensing the future. He escapes the eyes of his faithful caretakers and leaves the house for what might...
Publisher
Green Planet Films
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Looks at the role played by cargo shipping in the global economy. Raises ethical questions pertaining to the shipping industry such as the exploitation of workers from developing countries, the poor conditions of the shipping fleets due to poor maintenance, and the environmental effects caused by the wreckage of vessels.
Series
Criterion collection volume 838
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Español
Description
A dark fable set five years after the end of the Spanish Civil War. Eleven-year-old Ofelia comes face to face with the horrors of fascism when she and her pregnant mother are uprooted to the countryside, where her new stepfather, a sadistic captain in General Franco's army, hunts down Republican guerrillas who refuse to give up the fight. The violent reality in which she lives merges seamlessly with a fantastical interior world when Ofelia meets a...