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Tolin is the biggest television variety show in Mexico, and its host, famous comedian and conductor, Salvador, is one of the most beloved people in the country. It's lucky then that Pancho and Emilio, two brothers who lead a small gang of thieves, choose Salvador's taxi to rob. Recognizing the star, Pancho immediately sees an opportunity for lots of cash. For Emilio, it's the opportunity for his dreams of becoming a stand-up comedian to come to fruition. The once simple mugging soon turns into a more complicated case of kidnapping.

Season:
2002
Director:
Armando Casas
Cinematography:
Alejandro Cant?
Cast:
V?ctor Hugo Arana, Emilio Guerrero, Ana Serradilla, Jorge Sep?lveda, Juan Carlos Vives
Producer:
Mitl Vald?s
Language:
Spanish with English subtitles

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After working for three years in the United States, Filiberto, a young Mexican peasant, returns to his native village hoping to remake his life and gain the respect he thinks he is due. Things have changed in his absence. His mother has died, and Luis, his best friend, has married Filiberto's ex-girlfriend, Soledad. More of an immediate problem, however, is that the oppressive owner of the Hacienda wants to recruit Filiberto to help exploit the village's water supply.

Season:
2001
Director:
Salvador Aquirre
Cinematography:
Geronimo Denti
Cast:
Gerardo Taracena, Ricardo Esquerra, Tiare Scanda, Alfonso Mier y Teran
Producer:
Hugo Rodriguez, Sandra Solares
Language:
Spanish with English subtitles

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Juan, I Forgot I Don't Remember is the kind of inspirational film that composes a delicious poem of identity and memory, as a son journeys to reconstruct the life of his father. The result is a montage of hauntingly beautiful images and stories that are merged to form one of this year's most mesmerizing gems. Director Juan Carlos Rulfo is the son of renowned Mexican writer and poet, Juan Rulfo. Returning to the town of Jalisco, Mexico, Rulfo interviews all of the elders who remember his late father.

Season:
2000
Director:
Juan Carlos Rulfo
Cinematography:
Federico Barbabosa
Cast:
Justo Peralta, Rebecca Jimenez, Jesus Ramirez
Producer:
IMCINE
Executive Producer:
Maria Fernanda Suarez
Language:
Spanish with English subtitles

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The town of Carranco has always had its trouble, but when the naked body of a teenage girl, Adela, turns up in the town's oat fields, Carranco is turned upside-down. The "logical" conclusion is that Adela's lover, the gypsy known as El Gitano, is the suspect, especially since he has left town so quickly after a passionate night with Adela.

Season:
2000
Director:
Gabriel Retes
Cinematography:
Claudio Rocha
Cast:
Karra Elejalde, Ana Alvarez, Diego Luna, Hector Alterio, Laila Saab, Ignacio Retes
Producer:
Miguel Necoechea, Pablo Barbachano
Language:
Spanish with English subtitles

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In a modern Latin American police state, everyday corruption has entered the digital domain. The murder of an important trade union leader seems at first to be just another ordinary crime of passion, one of the hundreds that occur every day in Mexico City. But of course, nothing is as it seems, and the murder soon turns out to be linked to a widespread money laundering operation. Marco Antonio, an unemployed reporter, is asked to write a major article about the crime. At the same time, Maga?a, a mediocre lawyer, is hired to defend Claudia Jimenez, who is accused of the crime.

Season:
1999
Director:
Francisco Athi?
Cinematography:
Rodrigo Prieto
Cast:
Roberto Sosa, Lumi Cavazos, Alberto Estrella, Luis de Icaza, Christian Gout, Eduardo Oca?a
Language:
Spanish with English subtitles

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From its first scenes, Sobrenatural enters with the rage of a storm and speeds its viewer into a realm saturated with black magic. The screams of Eva, as she is murdered, haunt Dolores for days. Dolores and Andres live down the hall from Eva's apartment, and after her horrifying death, Andres increasingly becomes withdrawn and quiet. Worried about their marriage, Dolores seeks the help of therapist Dr. Riojas, beginning a radical transformation in Dolores. Breaking into Eva's now vacant apartment, Dolores discovers a strange powder and the business card of a "heal-sorcerer", Madame Endor.

Season:
1997
Director:
Daniel Gruener
Cast:
Susana Zabaleta, Alejandro Tommasi, Delia Casanova, Ricardo Blume, Zaide Silvia Gutierrez, Roberto Cobo
Producer:
Ignacio Sada Madero
Executive Producer:
Ivan Lipkes, Dulce Kuri
Language:
Spanish w/ English subtitles

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Thousands of years of tradition have allowed the Huichol Indians of Mexico to live self-sufficient lives as agriculturists, hunters and gatherers; a lifestyle based on respecting nature. Nevertheless, the constant invasion of their land has cause them to move and find work as temporary fieldworkers where they have been exposed to harmful elements. This is their story.

Season:
1997
Director:
Patricia Diaz-Romo
Cast:
Peter Coyote
Producer:
Patricia Diaz-Romo

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Everything in life has a price.

Season:
2009
Premiere status:
United States Premiere
Director:
Victor Avelar
Cinematography:
Hector Maeshiro
Cast:
Alejandro Belmonte, Natalia Esperón, Daniel Martínez, Siouzana Melikian, Arcelia Ramírez, Jorge Zárate
Editor:
Victor Avelar, Lourdes Rébora
Producer:
Julio Bárcenas, Ángeles Castro, Liliana Pardo
Language:
Spanish (w/ English subtitles)
Genre:
Drama

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Jim Morrison was the Lizard King, Pat Corcoran was the Chameleon.

Stuck in a dream state of the 1960s, Pat struggles to see life outside the limelight that once blanketed him. When a beautiful young woman named Ana saves his life, Pat agrees to drive them to her ancestral home, in hopes that she can save him from his past. Unpaved roads treat the pair to a dusty adventure full of anger management, baseball bats, lust, and God as the road trip becomes a journey full of lessons and revelations.

Season:
2009
Premiere status:
World Premiere
Director:
Alfonso Corona
Cast:
Humberto Zurita, Ana Serradilla, Fernando Lujan, Ernesto Yanez, Enrique Arreola, Carlos Cardan
Editor:
Oscar Figueroa
Producer:
Alfonso Corona
Executive Producer:
Estrella Medina
Language:
Spanish (w/ English subtitles)
Genre:
Comedy
Music:
Anthony Guefen

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Infidelity plays out like the acts of an opera.

Season:
2008
Premiere status:
North American Premiere
Director:
Juan Patricio Riveroll
Cinematography:
Roberto Macias, Jorge Senyal
Cast:
Arturo Ríos, Magdalena Flores, Martin LaSalle, Marina Magro, Daniela Schmidt
Editor:
Alejandro Molina, Roberto Garza
Producer:
Juan Patricio Riveroll
Language:
Spanish w/ English subtitles
Genre:
Drama
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