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"When a billionaire entrepreneur impulsively decides to create an iconic movie, he demands the best. Renowned filmmaker Lola Cuevas is recruited dto mastermind this ambitious endeavor. Completing the all-star team are two actors with enormous talent but even bigger egos: Hollywood heartthrob Félix Rivero and radical theatre actor Iván Torres. Both are legends, but not exactly best friends. Through a series of increasingly eccentric trials set by...
2) Nora’s Will
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Before dying, Nora schemes a plan to make José, her ex-husband, take care of her corpse although a mysterious photograph forgotten under the bed will lead to an unexpected outcome reminding us that the biggest love stories are sometimes hidden in the smallest places. *"In her feature film debut, Mexican writer/director Mariana Chenillo has woven a genuine charmer, tartly funny and irreverent yet warm and poignant, a testament to enduring love." -...
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Alberto, a dull and indolent engineer, is fired from his company just as he plans to buy a house with his girlfriend and become parents. To cover it up, he decides to accept an assignment from his former boss to travel to the city of Melilla, a Spanish enclave in North Africa and gate to Europe. Alberto must renovate, underhand, the system of fences that not only separates one piece of land from another, a city from a country, but two universes in...
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The family, the poor kid who appears on TV, the sixth-floor neighbors, the tenant and the real estate agent, the business couple, the guy progress has run-over and the couple about to get married. Seven darkly humorous stories, whose protagonists are downright detestable. Seven characteristics that make us unbearable. Seven reasons it’s best to avoid people altogether. Seven surrealist visions of a dysfunctional society that does not progress.
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Award-winning director Daniel Burman returns with this well-observed comedy that wrestles with notions of identity, home and the intricacies of the father-son relationship. After years away, Ariel returns to Buenos Aires seeking to reconnect with his father Usher, who has founded a charity foundation in Once, the city's bustling Jewish district where Ariel spent his youth. In the process of trying to meet his father and getting entangled in his charitable...
7) The Maid
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After 23 years working as a devoted maid in an upper class Chilean household, embittered and ailing Raquel can no longer care for the family alone. Trapped by guilt, matriarch Pilar refuses to let Raquel go, even though it is clear their longtime maid is slowly unraveling. Instead, Pilar hires more help, throwing Raquel into a jealous frenzy. The seemingly happy home soon becomes the stage for Raquel's dirty tricks as she attempts to drive away anyone...
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A group of four old friends conformed by a film director, a film writer, an actress and her husband share a big house in the country. Their coexistence is menaced by a young couple who resourcefully and deceitfully seek to get them to sell the house to develop a real estate project of their own.
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Filmed by Chilean master Raúl Ruiz in 1990 but left unfinished until it was completed by his wife and collaborator Valeria Sarmiento in 2017, THE WANDERING SOAP OPERA is a dreamily interconnected series of vignettes that spoof on telenovela conventions while reflecting Ruiz's feelings upon returning to his native Chile after more than 15 years away. In one episode, a man seduces a woman by showing her his muscles, which are actually slabs of raw...
10) Truman
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Diagnosed with terminal cancer, Julián (Ricardo Darin) has decided to forgo treatment and spend his final days tying up loose ends. When childhood friend Tomás (Javier Cámara) pays his ailing friend an unexpected visit, he quickly realizes he won’t be able to change Julián's mind. In what will be their final reunion, the two friends set out to finalize Julián’s funeral arrangements, settle his accounts and, most importantly, find a home for...
11) The film critic
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This playful yet heartfelt take on the rom-com genre follows a world-weary Buenos Aires film critic who eschews romantic clichés until a chance meeting with a gorgeous thrill-seeker leads him to question his old views about life and love. Nominated for Best New Actress (Telma Crisanti), Best Screenplay - Original, and Best First Work at the **Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences of Argentina**.
12) Acción Mutante
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Before The Day of the Beast, Perdita Durango and the HBO series 30 Coins, writer/director Álex de la Iglesia made his smash debut with this "crazy genius sci-fi classic you've probably never seen" (A Taste of Cinema): In a dystopian future ruled by the wealthy and attractive, a deformed and disabled terrorist organization will kidnap an heiress and trigger an intergalactic bloodbath.
13) The Candidate
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A pitch-perfect political comedy that explores the creation of a political persona that is all form and no content. THE CANDIDATE tells the story of Martín, the son of a wealthy businessman, who starts prepping his candidacy for office. In order to distance himself from the reputation of his father, he decides to form a new party that speaks for the common man, and hires a team of PR hotshots to craft his new image. Winner of Best Director at the...
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A stylish supernatural shocker that has been a hit at film festivals around the world. Argentina’s MEMORY OF THE DEAD boasts some terrifying FX set pieces bathed in a candy-colored visual palette that makes Mario Bava’s gothic classics look monochromatic by comparison. Following the sudden death of her husband, Alicia assembles all his friends at a vast country manor for a reading of his final letter. But Alicia also has other plans in mind –...
15) The Club
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Four priests exiled to a small seaside town to atone for the sins of their pasts find their fragile stability disrupted by the arrival of a newly-disgraced companion in this taut darkly comic drama from acclaimed director Pablo Larraín (*Neruda, Jackie*) Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the **Berlin International Film Festival** and Best Picture at **Fantastic Fest**. Nominated for Best Motion Picture - Foreign Language at the 2016 **Golden Globes**....
16) Sidewalls
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Director Gustavo Taretto pays homage to the city of Buenos Aires as he reflects on how urban chaos, as well as new technologies, can unite people but also keep them apart (as the sidewalls of the title). Mixing animation, photography and graphic art he reveals the characters' isolation and anxieties that are a staple of modern life in a noisy city that nonetheless has an irresistible charm.
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Victor returns to Buenos Aires after his father’s death to prepare a radio production of "Love’s Labor’s Lost." Reuniting with his repertory, he finds himself sorting out complicated entanglements with girlfriend Paula, sometime lover Ana, and departed actress Natalia, as well as his muddled relations with the constellation of friends involved with the project. Nominated for the Golden Leopard at the **Locarno International Film Festival.**...
18) The Last Circus
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A twisted love triangle evolves into a ferocious battle between a Sad Clown and a Happy Clown, escalating to unbelievable heights in this shocking, irreverent and unforgettable film.
19) Family Life
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While house-sitting for a distant cousin, a lonely man fabricates the existence of a vindictive ex-wife withholding his daughter in order to gain the sympathy of the single mother he has just met. Nominated for the Grand Jury Prize in the World Cinema - Dramatic at the **Sundance Film Festival.** Nominated for the Big Screen Award at the **Rotterdam International Film Festival.** *"A sharply observed and poignant parable." - Jonathan Holland, **Hollywood...
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At the Palacio, an all-inclusive resort in the Caribbean, Mike's arrival complicates the normal flow of operations. His voracious appetite, mysterious magnetism and unexpected miracles bring him the curious, among which he makes three friends and meeets a few admirers, a jealous salsa teacher and an enamored octopus. All of whom will accompany him in a gargantuan downward spiral mixing civil unrest and intestinal meltdown; a change of administration...
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