Posts Tagged ‘mexico’

Desert Saints (2000)

Saturday, November 29th, 2008
Genres: Action | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Brent Roam | Shawn Woods | Christopher Bersh | Kiefer Sutherland | Rachel Ticotin | Beth Grant | Zach Chapman | Jamey Sheridan | Leslie Stefanson | Melora Walters | Buddy Quaid | Keith Diamond | Bill Sage | Aliza Waksal | Alan Gelfant
Directors: Richard Greenberg
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The nature of temptation. Banks is a hit man, the best, usually working for Latin American drug cartels. He picks up solitary women, uses them briefly for a job, then kills them. He’s in the Southwest, headed toward Mexico, when he picks up Bennie, a woman leaving an abusive marriage, going to Paradise, Arizona. The film follows three tracks: Banks’s slow recruitment of Bennie, the set-up for the hit at a swank resort in Mexico, and the FBI’s close pursuit of Banks, whom they want alive in hopes he’ll rat out his bosses. Bennie may not be who she seems, and there may be a chink in Banks’s tough-guy armor. Guns, money, and a chance at Paradise…

The Day After Tomorrow (2004)

Saturday, November 29th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Dennis Quaid | Jake Gyllenhaal | Emmy Rossum | Dash Mihok | Jay O. Sanders | Sela Ward | Austin Nichols | Arjay Smith | Tamlyn Tomita | Sasha Roiz | Ian Holm | Nassim Sharara | Carl Alacchi | Kenneth Welsh | Michael A. Samah
Directors: Roland Emmerich
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This movie takes a big-budget, special-effects-filled look at what the world would look like if the greenhouse effect and global warming continued at such levels that they resulted in worldwide catastrophe and disaster, including multiple hurricanes, tornadoes, tidal waves, floods and the beginning of the next Ice Age. At the center of the story is a paleoclimatologist (a scientist who studies the ways weather patterns changed in the past), Professor Jack Hall (Quaid), who tries to save the world from the effects of global warming while also trying to get to his son, Sam (Gyllenhaal), who was in New York City as part of a scholastic competition, when the city was overwhelmed by the chilling beginnings of the new Ice Age. In addition to all of the other challenges Dr. Hall faces, he’s also going against the flow as humanity races south to warmer climes, and he’s nearly the only one going north…

The Wild Bunch (1969)

Sunday, November 2nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Drama | Western
Countries: USA
Actors: William Holden | Ernest Borgnine | Robert Ryan | Edmond O'Brien | Warren Oates | Jaime Sánchez | Ben Johnson | Emilio Fernández | Strother Martin | L. Q. Jones | Albert Dekker | Bo Hopkins | Dub Taylor | Paul Harper | Jorge Russek
Directors: Sam Peckinpah
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A few months before World War I, an aging band of outlaws led by Pike Bishop rob a Texas bank intent on using the money to retire. When the robbery goes wrong, the gang is forced to flee to Mexico with Bishop’s reformed ex-partner, Deke Thornton, in hot pursuit. With nothing to show for the failed robbery, Bishop’s gang agrees to steal a shipment of guns for General “Mapache” Juerta, to restore their fortunes. With Thornton closing in, and their association with the evil Juerta trying their conscience, Bishop and co. prepare for their lawless past to catch up with them.

Traffic (2000)

Sunday, November 2nd, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Benicio Del Toro | Jacob Vargas | Andrew Chavez | Michael Saucedo | Tomas Milian | Jose Yenque | Emilio Rivera | Michael O'Neill | Michael Douglas | Russell G. Jones | Lorene Hetherington | Eric Collins | Beau Holden | Peter Stader | James Lew
Directors: Steven Soderbergh
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A modern day look at America’s war on drugs told through four separate stories that are connected in one way or another. A conservative politician who’s just been appointed as the US drug czar learns that his daughter is a drug addict. A trophy wife struggles to save her husband’s drug business, while two DEA agents protect a witness with inside knowledge of the spouse’s business. In Mexico, a corrupt, yet dedicated cop struggles with his conscience when he learns that his new boss may not be the anti-drug official he made himself out to be.

Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002)

Sunday, November 2nd, 2008
Genres: Biography | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Germany | UK | USA
Actors: Rutger Hauer | Julia Roberts | Jennifer Rae Westley | Dick Clark | Sam Rockwell | Michelle Sweeney | Drew Barrymore | Chelsea Ceci | Brad Pitt | Matt Damon | Michael Cera | Aimee Rose Ambroziak | Isabelle Blais | Melissa Carter | Jennifer Hall | Ilona Elkin | Sean Tucker | Jaye P. Morgan | Maggie Gyllenhaal | David Julian Hirsh
Directors: George Clooney
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Television made him famous, but his biggest hits happened off screen. “Confessions of a Dangerous Mind” is the story of a legendary showman’s double life - television producer by day, CIA assassin by night. At the height of his TV career, Chuck Barris was recruited by the CIA and trained to become a covert operative. Or so Barris said.

Murder in Three Acts (1986)

Wednesday, October 29th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Mystery
Countries: USA
Actors: Peter Ustinov | Tony Curtis | Emma Samms | Jonathan Cecil | Fernando Allende | Pedro Armendáriz Jr. | Lisa Eichhorn | Dana Elcar | Frances Lee McCain | Marian Mercer | Diana Muldaur | Nicholas Pryor | Concetta Tomei | Jacqueline Evans | Ángeles González
Directors: Gary Nelson
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Hercule Poirot’s assistant, Hastings, calls him down to Acapulco in Mexico where he can write his memoirs but Hastings drags him to a party populated with Hastings’ new friends. There’s Janet Crisp - the writer, Daisy Eastman and her daughter ‘Egg’, Ricardo Montoya, Dr. Strange, Miss Milray the housekeeper and Charles Cartwright the famous American actor. But at the party another guest - Rev. Babbington - dies from poisoning and when Dr. Strange also dies from poisoning, Poirot must swing into action before the serial killer strikes again…

All the Pretty Horses (2000)

Friday, October 10th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Western
Countries: USA
Actors: Matt Damon | Henry Thomas | Penélope Cruz | J.D. Young | Laura Poe | Sam Shepard | Robert Patrick | Lucas Black | Yvette Diaz | Imelda Colindres | Augustin Solis | Rubén Blades | Elizabeth Ibarra | Miriam Colon | Lonnie Rodriguez
Directors: Billy Bob Thornton
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Two young Texas cowboys on the cusp of manhood ride into 1940’s Mexico in search of experience. What they find is a country as chaotic as it is beautiful, as cruel and unfeeling as it is mysterious, where death is a constant, capricious companion.

Fast Food Nation (2006)

Wednesday, September 17th, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Wilmer Valderrama | Catalina Sandino Moreno | Ana Claudia Talancón | Juan Carlos Serrán | Armando Hernández | Greg Kinnear | Frank Ertl | Michael D. Conway | Mitch Baker | Ellar Salmon | Dakota Edwards | Dana Wheeler-Nicholson | Luis Guzmán | Bobby Cannavale | Francisco Rosales
Directors: Richard Linklater
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Don Anderson (Greg Kinnear) is the Mickey’s food restaurant chain’s Marketing Director. He is the inventor of the “Big One” the hamburger best seller of Mickey’s. An independent research reports the presence of cow’s feces in the Big One. So Don is sent to Cody, Colorado, to verify if the slaughterhouse, main supplier of Mickey’s, is efficient as it appears and the production process is regular. During his investigations he discovers the horrible truth behind a simple hamburger; the reality is not like we think it is. Don discovers that the mass production system involves from the temp workers like Amber (Ashley Jonhson), to the exploitation of Mexican irregular immigrants. It is not only the meat that is crush in the mincing machine, but all our society.

Frida (2002)

Thursday, August 7th, 2008
Genres: Biography | Drama
Countries: Canada | Mexico | USA
Actors: Salma Hayek | Mía Maestro | Amelia Zapata | Alejandro Usigli | Diego Luna | Alfred Molina | Lucia Bravo | Valeria Golino | Patricia Reyes Spíndola | Loló Navarro | Roger Rees | Fermín Martínez | Roberto Medina | Ashley Judd | Antonio Banderas
Directors: Julie Taymor
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“Frida” chronicles the life Frida Kahlo (Salma Hayek) shared unflinchingly and openly with Diego Rivera (Alfred Molina), as the young couple took the art world by storm. From her complex and enduring relationship with her mentor and husband to her illicit and controversial affair with Leon Trotsky, to her provocative and romantic entanglements with women, Frida Kahlo lived a bold and uncompromising life as a political, artistic, and sexual revolutionary.

The Ruins (2008)

Thursday, June 26th, 2008
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Countries: Australia | USA
Actors: Jonathan Tucker | Shawn Ashmore | Joe Anderson | Sergio Calderón | Jesse Ramirez | Balder Moreno | Dimitri Baveas | Patricio Almeida Rodriguez | Mario Jurado | Luis Antonio Ramos | Walter Quispe | Nathan Vega | Tanisha Marquez-Munduate | Chris Argirousis | Alexander Gregory
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A group of friends whose leisurely Mexican holiday takes a turn for the worse when they, along with a fellow tourist embark on a remote archaeological dig in the jungle, where something evil lives among the ruins.