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Title:	21 grams (Twenty-one grams)
Director:	Alejandro González Iñárritu.
Format:	1 videodisc (124 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD, Region 1, widescreen presentation; Dolby Digital, DTS.
Imprint:	Universal City, CA : Universal, 2004.
Language:	English
Notes:	Videodisc release of the 2003 motion picture. A Focus Features presentation, a This is That production, a Y Productions production, an Alejandro González Iñárritu film ; produced by Alejandro González Iñárritu, Robert Salerno ; written by Guillermo Arriaga ; directed by Alejandro Gonzálex Iñárritu. Director of photography, Rodrigo Prieto ; editor, Stephen Mirrione ; music, Gustavo Santaolalla ; costume designer, Marlene Stewart ; production designer, Brigitte Broch. Note Originally released as a motion picture in 2003. Special features: '21 grams': in fragments; the making-of '21 grams'. Performer Sean Penn, Benicio Del Toro, Naomi Watts, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Melissa Leo, Eddie Marsan, Clea DuVall, Danny Huston.
Plot:	Fate brought them together, now vengence will tear them apart. A violent car accident unexpectedly throws together the lives of a college professor, an ex-con and a young mother with a reckless past. The crossing of their paths takes them through the heights of love, the depths of revenge and the promise of redemption.
Subjects:	Feature films. United States. Mexico. Traffic accidents.
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Title:	Aguila o sol
Director:	Miguel M. Delgado.
Format:	1 videodisc (ca. 100 min.) ; sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 1)
Imprint:	Northridge, Calif. : Laguna Films, 2003
Language:	Spanish
Notes:	DVD release of videocassette released in 2001. The videocassette was a release of the 1937 motion picture. Producción, Posa Films S.A. ; dirección, Miguel M. Delgado. productor, Felipe Mier ; dirección, Alcady Boytler. Argumento original, Cruz Aguila ; adaptación cinematográfica, Arcady Boytler ; música, Rafael Hernández, M. Castro Padilla ; fotografía, Victor Herrera ; edición, J. M. Noriega. Participants: Mario Moreno (Cantinflas), Manuel Medel, Marina Tamayo
Plot:	A child escapes from an orphanage and makes his way to the stage. Meanwhile, a man desperately searches for the son he left at an orphanage many years ago, when he was poor.
Subjects:	Feature films. Mexico.
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Title:	Ahí viene Martin Corona
Director:	Miguel Zacarias
Format:	1 videodisc (ca. 93 min.) ; sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 1)
Imprint:	Northridge, Calif. : Laguna Films, 2001
Language:	Spanish
Notes:	Originally released as a motion picture in 1952. Producción, Miguel Zacarias ; dirección, Miguel Zacarias. Participants: Pedro Infante, Sara (Sarita) Montiel, Lalo Gonzales, Irma Dorantes, Armando Silvestre, Jose Alfredo Jimentez, Angel Infante
Plot:	Jugador y mujeriego pero a la vez defensor del pobre y pesadilla de los bribones, asi es Martín Corona. Ella muy orgullosa pretendía ponerlo sa sus pies, pero había un problema. Martín Corona se debía más a su pueblo que a nadie y ella no estaba dispuesta a arriesgar perderlo, por lo que antes de casarse con él, le hizo jurar que no intervendría en problemas de otros. Martin Corona is a player and a womanizer who simultaneously defends the poor. But she won't marry him unless he can promise that they'll stay out of other people's problems.
Subjects:	Feature films. Mexico.
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Title:	Ahí está el detalle!;
Director:	Juan Bustillo Oro
Format:	1 videodisc (94 min.) ; sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. (DVD, Region 1)
Imprint:	United States : Vanguard, 2004
Language:	Spanish
Notes:	Originally released as a motion picture in 1940. Grovas Oro Films ; dirigida por Juan Bustillo Oro ; cinecomedia de Humberto Gomez Lander, Juan Bustillo Oro. Fotografía, Lauron Draper ; edición y montaje, Mario González ; jefe de producción, Ricardo Beltre. Participants: Mario Moreno "Cantinflas", Joaquín Pardavé, Sara García, Sofía Álvarez.
Plot:	Cantinflas plays a bum who pretends to be the brother of a wealthy lady, whom they needed to find in order to claim a considerable inheritance. When the real heir to the fortune shows up, the deception becomes harder to maintain as comedy ensues.
Subjects:	Feature films. Mexico.
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Title:	Alborada
Director:	Maria Zaratini
Format:	4 videodiscs (862 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 1)
Imprint:	Mexico : Televisa Home Entertainment : Distributed by Xenon Pictures, c2006.
Language:	Spanish; subtitles in English.
Notes:	Originally produced as a telenovela in 2005. Televisa Home Entertainment. Original story, Maria Zaratini ; adaptation, Maria Eugenia Argomedo ; producer Carla Estrada. Performer Lucero, Fernando Colunga, Daniela Romo, Arturo Peniche, Ernesto Laguardia, Iran Castillo, Valentino Lanus.
Plot:	Story of the young and newly married Hipolita. Her husband might be gay, but his mother is determined to have a grand child. To achieve these goals she kidnaps and holds Luis, a stranger, caplive until he has sexual relations with Hipolita, who has been drugged and tricked into cooperating, and gets her with child. When Hipolita realizes what has happend and learns she is pregnant, she escapes with her maid in search of the child's father. Along the way she encounters intrigues, obstacles, and secrets.
Subjects:	Feature films. Mexico. TV Series.
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Title:	Amar te duele
Director:	Fernando Sariñana
Format:	1 videodisc (104 min.) : sd. b&w ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 1)
Imprint:	Santa Monica, CA : Lionsgate, 2006
Language:	Spanish with optional English subtitles.
Notes:	Originally released as a motion picture in 2002. Altavista Films ; Videocine ; produced by Francisco Gonzalez Compean, Fernando Sariñana ; screenplay, Carolina Rivera ; director, Fernando Sariñana. Director of photography, Chava Cartas ; editor, Roberto Bolado ; music, Enrique Quezadas. Participants: Luis Fernando Pena, Martha Higareda, Ximena Sariñana.
Plot:	In a story of social class differences, a rich teenage girl falls in love with a poor teenage boy in Mexico City. They must fight against peer pressure, prejudice, and her parents that want to send her to Canada, to try to save their love.
Subjects:	Feature films. Mexico
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Title:	American visa
Director:	Juan Carlos Valdivia
Format:	1 videodisc (90 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 1)
Imprint:	United States : Studio Latino : distributed by First Look Home Entertainment, c2007.
Language:	Spanish; optional English or Spanish subtitles.
Notes:	Originally released as a film in 2005. Based on the novel by Juan De Recacoechia. Bola Ocho Producciones, Producciones por Marca, Nicolás Rubió, Richard Ham, Oscar Quintela con la participación de Programa Ibermedia, Consejo Nacional de Cine de Bolivia, Fondo de Inversión y Estímulos al Cine (FIDECINE México) presentan ; una película de Juan Carlos Valdivia ; escrita, producida y dirigida por Juan Carlos Valdivia ; productores, Alejandro González Padilla, Felipe Galdo. Director of photography, Ernesto Fernández Tellería ; editor, Horacio Quiroz ; music, Pepe Stephens. Performer Demián Bichir, Kate del Castillo, Alberto Etcheverry, Roberto Barbery, Alejandra Lanza, Raúl Gómez. Special features include two trailers, "American woman" video by Pesado, making of featurette, production notes, cast and director biographies, interviews with director and actors, and photo gallery.
Plot:	"Mario Alvarez, is an English professor seeking to reunite with his son, years after having sent him to the United States to seek a higher education. Mario's plans are seemingly ruined when his visa application is rejected due to the stricter policies implemented in the post 9/11 aftermath. Desperate to reunite with his son, Mario resorts to questionable measures to overcome the bureaucracy and corruption that stands between him and the visa. Along the way he befriends, Blanca, a beautiful exotic dancer that will make him question whether the road to true happiness lies in following your heart or in fulfilling the American Dream"--Container.
Subjects:	Feature Films. Bolivia. Mexico. United States. Literary Adaptation.
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Title:	Amores perros.
Director:	Alejandro González Iñárritu.
Format:	1 videodisc (153 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD.
Imprint:	[Calif.?] : Lion-s Gate Home Entertainment ; Marina Del Rey, CA : Distributed by Studio Home Entertainment, c2001.
Language:	Spanish (5.1 surround) or French (2.0 surround) language soundtrack with optional subtitles in English, French, and Spanish ; closed-captioned in English for the hearing impaired.
Notes:	Studio Home Entertainment ; Altavista Films presenta una producción de Zeta Film y Altavista Films ; una película de Alejandro González Iñárritu ; dirigida y producida por Alejandro González Iñárritu ; escrita por Guillermo Arriaga Jordán. Originally produced as a motion picture in 2000. Credits Music, Gustavo Santaolalla ; director of photography, Rodrigo Prieto. Performer Emilio Echevarría, Gael García, Goya Toledo, Alvaro Guerrero, Vanessa Bauche, Jorge Salinas. Awards: Cannes Film Festival, 2000: Canal+ Award (Alejandro González Iñárritu). Los Angeles International Film Festival, 2000: Audience Award for Best Feature Film (Alejandro González Iñárritu).
Plot:	Three different people are catapulted into dramatic and unforseen circumstances in the wake of a terrible car crash: a young punk stumbles into the sinister underground world of dog fighting; an injured supermodel-s designer pooch disappears into the apartment-s floorboards; and an ex-radical turned hit man rescues a Rotweiler with a gunshot wound.
Subjects:	Feature Films. Mexico
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Title:	Amor xtremo / Xtreme love
Director:	Chava Cartas
Format:	1 videodisc (104 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 1)
Imprint:	Santa Monica, Calif. : Lionsgate, 2007
Language:	Spanish dialogue, English or Spanish subtitles; English closed-captioned.
Notes:	Originally released as a motion picture in 2006. Distrimax, Inc. ; Sony BMG Music Entertainment ; Artecinema ; [presented by] Gussi, Corazon Films and Elisa Salinas Corp. ; produced by Fernando Sariñana ; screenplay by Carolina Rivera and Carlos Sariñana ; directed by Chava Cartas. Photography, Beto Casillas ; editor, Filipe Gomez ; music, Alex Cuevas, Alex Sanchez de M. ; costume designer, Paola Alfaro ; production designer, Tato Cartas. Participants: Daniel Martinez, Aaron Diaz, Ximena Sariñana, Iran Castillo, Veronica Toussaint, Plutarco Haza, Benny Ibarra, Manuel "Flaco" Ibanez, José Sefami.
Plot:	Dos hermanos viajan de la ciudad de México, hacia las Vegas a participar en el abierto de Motocross, embarcándose en la aventura más grande de sus vidas. Two brothers from Mexico City travel to Las Vegas to catch the U.S. Motocross Open and embark on the journey of their lives.
Subjects:	Feature films. Mexico
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Title:	El Analfabeto
Director:	Miguel M. Delgado
Format:	1 videodisc (110 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 1)
Imprint:	[California] : Colombia Pictures : Colombia Tristar Home Entertainment, [La colección de Cantinflas] 2003.
Language:	Spanish with optional English or Spanish subtitles.
Notes:	Originally produced as a motion picture in 1960. Posa Films International, S.A. ; producida por Jacques Gelman ; argumento original de Marcelo Salazar y Juan López ; guión por Jaime Salvador ; dirigida por Miguel M. Delgado. Participants: Mario Moreno " Cantinflas", Lilia Prado, Angel Garasa, Sara García.
Plot:	Cantinflas recibe una carta con la notificación de que es el heredero de dos millones. Sin embargo, no sabe leer y trabaja como mozo en un banco. El novio de la hija del banquero y un empleado del banco se enteran del contenido de la carta y planean apoderarse de la fortuna del analfabeto. Cantinflas stars as an illiterate young man who receives a letter saying that he has been left a large sum of money from an uncle who has just passed away--but he will have to learn to read before he is able to understand the letter.
Subjects:	Feature films. Mexico
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Title:	Angel de fuego / Angel of fire
Director:	Dana Rotberg
Format:	1 videodisc (ca. 90 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. (DVD Region 1)
Imprint:	United States: Desert Mountain Media, 2002
Language:	Spanish with English subtitles.
Notes:	Videodisc release of the 1992 motion picture. A Dana Rotberg film ; screenplay by Dana Rotberg & Omar Alain Rodrigo ; produced by IMCINE Fondo de Fomento a la Calidad Cinematográfica ; Otra Productora Mas. Music, Ariel Guzik, Ana Ruiz; editing, Sigfrido. Barjau, Dana Rotberg; director of photography, Toni Kuhn. Participants: Evangelina Sosa, Lilia Aragon, Roberto Sosa, Alejandro Parodi, Salvador Sánchez, Gina Morett, Farneso de Bernal, Mercedes Pascual, Marta Aura, Agustín Silva, Noe Montealegre. . Special features: biographies; interactive menus; scene selections.
Plot:	"In a rundown circus on the outskirts of Mexico City, 13 year-old Alma earns a living as a trapeze artist. When her fellow performers find out that she is pregnant, Alma is expelled from the circus. She lives on the streets until she meets a troupe of traveling puppeteers that preach the word of God. Alma sees a promise in them, a glimpse of hope. This is a story of a young girl's search for redemption and forgiveness."--Container.
Subjects:	Feature films. Mexico. Fathers and daughters. Mexico City. Circus performers. Incest
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Title:	El Angel exterminador / Exterminating angel
Director:	Luis Buñuel
Format:	1 videodisc (89 min.) ; sd., b&w ; 1/2 in. DVD (region 2, PAL)
Imprint:	Radlett, Hertfordshire] : Arrow Films, 2006.
Language:	Spanish, with optional English subtitles.
Notes:	Gustavo Alatriste presenta ; nueva version con diálogos de Luis Buñuel del cinedrama de Luis Alcoriza y Luis Buñuel ; productor, Gustavo Alatriste ; director, Luis Buñuel. Photography, Gabriel Figueroa ; music, Raul Lavista ; editor, Carlos Savage, Jr. Note Originally produced as a motion picture in 1962. Based on a play by José Bergamin. Performer Silvia Pinal, Enrique Rambal, Jacqueline Andere, Jose Baviera, Lucy Gallardo, Tito Junco, Claudia Brook.
Plot:	After a lavish dinner party in a stately mansion, the guests believe themselves unable to leave the premises. As the days pass, the elaborate facades of their social positions collapse and they are forced to live like animals. Finally dIscovering they are actually free to leave, they go to church to give thanks, where they are again trapped. Buñuel's allegory exposes the futility of the conventional thinking of the upper classes.
Subjects:	Feature films. Mexico. Spain. Literary Adaptation.
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Title:	Angelitos negros
Director:	Joselito Rodriguez
Format:	1 videodisc (95 min.) ; sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 1)
Imprint:	Burbank, CA: Warner Home Video, 2007
Language:	Spanish, with optional subtitles in English, French, Spanish and Portuguese.
Notes:	Originally released as a motion picture in 1948. Producciones Rodríguez Hnos. ; una realización de Joselito Rodríguez R. ; adaptación cinematografica y dialogos de Rogelio A. Gonzalez ; productor ejecutivo, Ramón Peón ; escrita y dirigida por Joselito Rodriguez R. Cinematography, José Ortiz Ramos; editor, Fernando Martínez; music, Raul Lavista, Nacho García. Participants: Pedro Infante, Emilia Guiu, Rita Montaner, Titina Romay, Chela Castro, Nicolas Rodriguez.
Plot:	Ana Luisa and Jose Carlos, both white, give birth to a black child. Ana rejects the little girl, who ends up suffering the injustice of racism, but Ana Luisa doesn't know that her own maid, who is also black, hides a secret that will change her life.
Subjects:	Feature films. Mexico. Racism
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Title:	Anoche soñé contigo / Dreaming About You
Director:	Marisa Sistach.
Format:	1 videodisc (ca. 90 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Imprint:	United States: Vanguard Cinema, 2003, c1992.
Language:	Spanish dialogue, English subtitles.
Notes:	a Vanguard Cinema Condor Media release ; Clasa Films Mundiales [and] Producciones Tragaluz ; producers, Pablo Barbachano, Francisco Barbachano ; screenplay writer, Jose Buil ; director, Marisa Sistach. Information from pre-release promotional materials; release date: March 25, 2003. Credits Director of photography, Alex Phillips, Jr. ; editor, Sigfrido Garcia ; music, Alberto Delgado. Note Originally released as a motion picture in 1992. Performer Leticia Perdigon, Jose Alonso, Socorro Bonilla, Patricia Aguirre, Martin Altomaro, Moisés Iván Mora.
Plot:	During their summer break, Toto and Quique dream their life away by biking around the neighborhood. They want to discover something new to them ... women. But Toto didn-t count on the unexpected visit of his cousin, Azucena, with whom he would have an unforgetable experience ... his sexual initiation.
Subjects:	Feature films. Mexico. Teenagers Sexual behavior.
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Title:	Ansiedad
Director:	Miguel Zacarias
Format:	1 videocassette (127 min.) ; sd., b&w ; 1/2 in. DVD (Region 1)
Imprint:	Northridge, Calif. : Laguna Films ; Madera, CA : Distributed by Madera CineVideo, 2003
Language:	Spanish
Notes:	Videodisc release of the 1952 motion picture. Producciones Zacarías ; argumento, Miguel Zacarias, Edmundo Baez ; dirigida por Miguel Zacarias. Music, Manuel Esperon ; associate producer, Antonio Matouk ; photographer, Gabriel Figueroa. Participants: Pedro Infante, Libertad Lamarque, Irma Dorantes, Arturo Soto Rangel, Felipe Montoya, Salvador Quiroz, Guillermo Samperio.
Plot:	Rafael Lara, the poor father of newborn twins, is unable to raise enough money for medicine for his sickly twin. At a church, he finds that the infant son of the rich Iturbe has just died. He switches his ill baby with the dead one so that it will receive treatment and live. The twins lead very different lives until a tragedy involving their mother reunites them.
Subjects:	Feature films. Mexico
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Title:	Aqui esta Juan Colorado
Director:	Rolando Aguilar
Format:	1 videodisc (ca. 105 min.) ; sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in DVD, (region 1).
Imprint:	United States : Studio Latino ; Thousand Oaks, CA : Distributed by Ventura Distribution, c2005.
Language:	Spanish
Notes:	Videodisc release of the 1946 film. Studio Latino y Cinema Inc. presentan ; director, Rolando Aguilar ; productor, Raúl de Anda ; guión, Rolando Aguilar, Carlos Gaytán. Performer Raul de Anda, Luis Aguilar, Aurora Cortés. Original music, Rosalío Ramírez; cinematography, Ignacio Torres.
Plot:	In 1914, the guerrilla revolutionary, Juan Colorado, and his troops enter the town of Michoacano de Tuxpan after defeating the federal troops.
Subjects:	Feature Films. Mexico History Revolution, 1910-1920
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Title:	Around the world in 80 days
Director:	Michael Anderson.
Format:	2 videodiscs (182 min.) sd., col. 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 1)
Imprint:	Burbank, CA : Distributed by Warner Home Video, 2004. Especial Edition
Language:	English (dolby surround 5.1) or French (stereo) dialogue, English, French or Spanish subtitles; closed-captioned.
Notes:	Originally released as a motion picture in 1956. Warner Bros. presents ; produced by Michael Todd ; screenplay by James Poe, John Farrow and S.J. Perelman ; directed by Michael Anderson. From the classic by Jules Verne. Introduction by Turner Classic Movies host Robert Osborne; feature length audio commentary by BBC radio's Brian Sibley documentary 'Around the World in 90 min.'; star-filled extravaganza commemorating the film's one-year anniversary; highlights of the March 27, 1957 academy awards ceremony; newsreels of the Los Angeles premiere and opening in Spain; outtakes; Georges Melies 'A trip to the moon'; stills gallery; theatrical trailers; enhanced features for you DVD-ROM PC: Michael Todd's 'Around the world in 80 days almanac'. Participants: David Niven, Shirley MacLaine, Robert Newton, Cantinflas.
Plot:	Adapted from the story by Jules Verne about a man's endeavor to circumnavigate the world in 80 days.    In a lively discussion with Lord Kelvin, inventor Phileas Fogg states his belief that it's possible for someone to travel around the globe in a mere 80 days. Kelvin challenges him to prove it, and adds a wager: if Fogg can't circumnavigate the globe in 80 days, he'll have to give up inventing forever. Fogg and his crew of two take the challenge. They travel by train, boat, balloon, horseback, or any other means at their disposal. However, Fogg and his companions are accused of involvement in a bank robbery and have to clear their names as well.
Subjects:	Feature films. United States. Mexico
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Title:	Aro Tolbukhin en la mente del asesino / Aro Tolbukhin in the Mind of a Killer
Director:	Agustí Villaronga
Format:	1 videodisc (94 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in DVD (Region 2 PAL)
Imprint:	Barcelona : Oberon Cinematográfica ; Barcelona : distribuido por Laurenfilm, 2003
Language:	Spanish or Catalan with optional subtitles in English or French
Notes:	Una pelicula de Agustí Villaronga, Lydia Zimmermann, Isaac P. Racine ; productor, Antonio Chavarrías ; presentan [de] Oberon Cinematográfica, Altavista Films ; con la participación de Canal+, TVE Televisión Española, Televisió de Catalunya, Moro Films, Lestes Films, Bias Post. Participants: Daniel Giménez Cacho ; Carmen Beato ; Zóltán Józan ; Mariona Castillo ; Xhévdet Bajraj ; Margarita Farran./ Director of photography, Guillermo Granillo ; editing, Ernest Blasi ; music, José Manuel Pagan.
Plot:	A Spanish/Mexican co-production, Aro Tolbukhin En La Mente Del Asesino (In the Mind of a Killer) is a semi-documentary about the life of serial killer Aro Tolbukhin. Interviews and reenactments tell the story of a Hungarian man who was sentenced to death before a firing squad in Guatemala. He grew up in Budapest with his twin sister Stella and fled to join the merchant marines during the Russian invasion of 1956. After he was arrested for burning seven people alive in 1981, he confessed to nearly 20 other murders during the Guatemala Civil War. Commentary is provided by Carmen Beato, a former nun who lived with Tolbukhin in Alta Verapaz. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide    En 1981 el húngaro Aro Tolbukhin es detenido por quemar vivas a siete personas en la enfermería de la Misión del Di-vino Redentor en Guatemala. Tras su detención, Aro Tol-bukhin confesó además haber asesinado a cinco mujeres y calcinar sus cadáveres. También se autoinculpó de los asesinatos de otras diecisiete mujeres, todas ellas embarazadas, realizados a lo largo de los quince años en que trabajó como marino mercante. En la in-vestigación judicial, al examinar los expedientes de estos casos que aún es-taban por resolver, no tardaron en encontrarse sustanciosas incoherencias que ponían en duda la autoría que Tolbukhin tanto insistía en atribuirse. Fue conde-nado a muerte. Poco antes de su ejecución Aro Tolbukhin es entrevistado por dos documentalistas franceses. A partir de este material la película intenta pro-fundizar en este personaje y en las causas de su comportamiento.
Subjects:	Feature films. Documentary Films. Guatemala. Mexico. Spain.
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Title:	Así es mi tierra
Director:	Arcady Boytler
Format:	1 videodisc (ca. 90 min.) ; sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 1)
Imprint:	Northridge, CA : Laguna Films, 2003
Language:	Spanish
Notes:	Videocassette release of the 1937 motion picture. Cinematográfica Internacional ; dirección de Arcady Boytler ; supervisión de Felipe Mier. Story, Enrique Uhthoff; adaptation, Arcady Boytler; photography, Victor Herrera; art direction, José Rodriguez Granada; music, Tata-Nacho. Participants: Cantinflas, Manuel Medel, Antonio R. Frausto, Mercedes Soler.
Plot:	Two friends are entangled in the intrigue of a revolutionary general.    Acompañado de otro gran comediante y envuelto en la intriga de un general revolucionario, de rienda suelta a su gran imaginación para provocarnos una bandanada de risas.
Subjects:	Feature films. Mexico
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Title:	Atletico San Pancho
Director:	Gustavo Loza
Format:	1 videodisc (ca. 101 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 1)
Imprint:	Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, 2006
Language:	Spanish dialogue, English subtitles.
Notes:	Originally released as a motion picture in 2001. Altavista Films S.A. de C.V. Diseña ; productores, Francisco González Compeán, Fernando Sariñana ; escrita por Carolina Rivera ; dirigida por Gustavo Loza. Director of photography, Chava Cartas ; editor, Roberto Bolado ; original music, Enrique Quezadas ; art director, Mirko von Berner. Participants: Héctor Súrez, Lumi Cavazos, Plutarco Haza, Luis Felipe Tovar, Giovanni Florido, Valeria Uribe, Erich Harrsch, Adrián Sol.
Plot:	Éste es el mensaje que se lee en una pelota de fútbol que cae misteriosamente del cielo en San Pancho, una localidad que solía ser la meca del fútbal. Y éste es el mensaje que un grupo de jóvenes rebeldes del lugar deciden hacer suyo - Pueden estos chicos inadaptados e ignorados por la sociedad encontrar el coraje, la imaginación y la dedicación para recuperar la gloria de San Pancho y, de paso, convertirse en héroes? A janitor from a small Mexican town pulls together a ragtag group of kids into a top notch soccer team.
Subjects:	Feature films. Mexico. Soccer.
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Title:	Aventurera
Director:	Alberto Gout
Format:	1 videodisc (101 min.) ; sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Imprint:	United States] : Cinemateca : Distributed by Facets Video, 2004
Language:	Spanish language with English subtitles.
Notes:	Videodisc release of the 1950 motion picture. Cinemateca-Condor Media presents ; produced by Guillermo Calderón and Pedro A. Calderón ; screenplay by Álvaro Custodio and Carlos Sampelayo ; directed by Alberto Gout. Cinematography, Alex Phillips ; editor, Alfredo Rosas Priego ; music, Alberto Domínguez, Antonio Díaz Conde and Agustin Lara. Special features: video introduction by Michael Donnelly. Participants: Ninón Sevilla, Tito Junco, Andrea Palma.
Plot:	Elena tries to make a new life for herself after her mother leaves her alone, but she is drugged, seduced, and forced to work as a dancer/call girl in a nightclub. She soon rises to stardom as a dancer, but still plots revenge and escape.
Subjects:	Feature films Mexico.
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Title:	Ay que tiempos señor don Simón
Director:	Julio Bracho
Format:	1 videodisc (102 min.) ; sd., b & n.
Imprint:	México : Televisa, 2003
Language:	Spanish
Notes:	Originally released as a motion picture in 1941. Films Mundiales, S.A. ; productor, Agustín J. Fink ; argumento y adaptación de Julio Bracho ; director, Julio Bracho. Fotografía, Gabriel Figueroa ; editor, E. Gómez Muriel ; música, Raul Lavista. Participants: Joaquín Pardavé, Arturo de Córdoba, Mapy Cortés, Anita Blanch.
Plot:	Inés, a young widow, and her friend Beatriz, attend a "men's only" theater revue. It is there that Inés is convinced that her boyfriend is cheating on her. Unbeknownst to the two girls, they were seen by a jealous member of The Committee of Defendants for Good Manners. But when don Simón, the president of the Committee, is told to expel Inés from the Committee it is discovered that he is hiding a secret that will forever change the life of Inés.
Subjects:	Feature films. Mexico
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Title:	Babel
Director:	Alejandro González Iñárritu.
Format:	1 videodisc (143 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 1)
Imprint:	Hollywood, Calif. : Paramount Home Entertainment, c2007.
Language:	Dialogue in English with optional soundtrack in French, and with optional subtitles in English or Spanish; closed-captioned.
Notes:	Originally released as a motion picture in 2006. Paramount Pictures and Paramount Vintage present an Anonymous Content production, una produccíon de Zeta Film, a Central Films production, a film by Alejandro González Iñárritu ; produced by Jon Kilik and Steve Golin ; written by Guillermo Arriaga ; directed and produced by Alejandro González Iñárritu. Director of photography, Rodrigo Prieto ; edited by, Stephen Mirrione ; music by, Gustavo Santaolalla ; costume designer, Michael Wilkinson ; production designer, Brigitte Broch ; visual effects supervisor, Lon Molnar. Performer Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Gael García Bernal, Koji Yoshida, Adriana Barraza, Rinko Kikuchi, Mustapha Rachidi. Cannes Film Festival, 2006: Best Director (Alejandro González Iñárritu) ; Prize of the Ecumenical Jury (Alejandro González Iñárritu) ; Technical Grand Prize (Stephen Mirrione); Academy Award, Best Original Score, 2007
Plot:	A wealthy American is touring Morocco with his wife. The two become the focus of an international incident also involving a poor Moroccan farmer who is struggling to keep his two young sons in line and his family together. A San Diego nanny, with her employers absent, makes the disastrous decision to take her charges with her to a wedding in Mexico. A deaf-mute Japanese teen tries to deal with a relationship with her father and the world in general that has been upended by the death of her mother. It's about a gun. It's about communication - or the lack of it - both intercultural and intracultural. Raises issues like terrorism and immigration, and is as basic as husbands talking to their wives and parents understanding their children.
Subjects:	Feature films. Mexico
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Title:	Bala perdida / Stray bullet
Director:	Chano Urueta
Format:	1 videodisc (96 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 1)
Imprint:	S.l. : Vanguard, c2004.
Language:	Spanish; optional English subtitles.
Notes:	Videodisc release of the 1959 Mexican film. Cinematográfica Filmex, S.A. ; dirigida por Chano Urueta. Photography, Agustín Martínez Solares ; editor, Rafael Ceballos ; music, Manuel Esperón. Performer Miguel Aceves Mejia, Antonio Aguilar, Teresita Velázquez, Raúl Meraz, Daniel Herrera, Delia Magaña.
Plot:	In a small Mexican town, bullfighter Carmelo is in love with Alicia, the adopted daughter of the town's pharmacist. Carmelo and Alicia's lives are complicated by Carmelo's old rival Emilio's return from Mexico City with an angry posse on his trail, asking Alicia to hide the money he won cheating at card games.
Subjects:	Feature films. Mexico
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Title:	Bandera rota: historia de un crimen
Director:	Gabriel Retes.
Format:	1 videodisc (ca. 95 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (regions 1 & 4); full screen; Dolby digital 2.0 stereo.
Imprint:	Mexico : Quality Films, 2003
Language:	Spanish
Notes:	Originally produced as a film in 1979. Rio Mixcoac presenta una producción de Jorge Santoyo ; dirección: Gabriel Retes. Performer Manolo Fabregas, Aaron Hernán, Tina Romero, Ana Luisa Peluffo.
Plot:	A group of movie-makers stumble upon the scene of a crime and film a murder. They threaten to expose the criminal, a wealthy financier and industrialist, unless he betters the standard of living of the working class
Subjects:	Feature films. Mexico
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Title:	La barca de oro
Director:	Joaquin Pardave
Format:	1 videodisc (ca. 90 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 1)
Imprint:	Northridge, Calif. : Laguna Films, 2004
Language:	Spanish
Notes:	Originally produced as a motion picture in 1948. Produccion, Oscar J. Brooks ; Direccion, Joaquin Pardave ; Escrita por: Tito Davison, Musica por: Manuel Esperon ; Productora, Cima Films, SA de C.V. Music, Manuel Esperón. Participants: Pedro Infante, Sofia Alvarez, Lilia Prado, Carlos Orellana, Rene Cardona, Alma Delia Fuentes.
Plot:	"La ranchera Chabela se viste y se comporta como hombre por lo que sus hermanas y su to le reprochan. Lorenzo, un amigo de la infancia, pretende a Chabela pero le pide que cambie su actitud. Despues de un tiempo se casan y tienen una hija tan machorra como la madre."--Container.
Subjects:	Feature films. Mexico
Location:	View Catalog Record
Title:	Barrendero
Director:	Miguel M. Delgado
Format:	1 videodisc (117 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 chapter index card. DVD (regions 1 & 4); widescreen; Dolby Digital stereo 5.1.
Imprint:	Mexico : Quality Films ; Loveland, CO : Distributed by Noda Audio Visual, 2002
Language:	In Spanish; optional Spanish, Portuguese, English or French subtitles.
Notes:	Originally released as a motion picture in 1982. Based on the story by Fernando Galeana. Cantinflas Films ; producida por Jacques Gelman ; dirigida por Miguel M. Delgado ; argumento de Mario Moreno Reyes y Fernando Galiana. Performer Mario Moreno "Cantinflas", María Sorte, Ursula Pratts, Eduardo Arcaraz, Roxana Chavez. Cinematographer, Rosalio Solano ; editor, Gloria Schoemann ; music, Gustavo Cesar Carreon ; additional dialogue, Carlos Leon
Plot:	Sweeping the streets and cleaning the beautiful city of Mexico, Cantinflas gets into his role of cleaner but also into the role of flirting.
Subjects:	Feature films. Mexico
Location:	View Catalog Record
Title:	Batalla en el cielo / Battle in heaven
Director:	Carlos Reygados
Format:	1 videodisc (95 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 1)
Imprint:	Los Angeles, CA : Tartan Video USA, 2006
Language:	Spanish dialogue with optional English subtitles.
Notes:	Originally released as a motion picture in 2005. The Coproduction Office presents a Société Parisienne de Producction, Mantarrava, Nodream Cinema production, una producción de Philippe Bober ; produced by Philippe Bober, Carlos Reygadas, Jaime Romandía, Susanne Narian ; guión y dirección, Carlos Reygados. Photography, Diego Martínez Vignatti ; editor, Adoracíon G. Elipe ... [et. al.] ; music, John Tavener. Performers: Marcos Hernández, Anapola Mushkadiz, Bertha Ruiz, David Bornstien, Rosalinda Ramirez. Special features: Interview with director Carlos Reygadas and actress Anapola Mushkadiz; Selecting scenes from the director's award-winning first feature "Japón"; Original theatrical trailer.
Plot:	A chauffeur that lives an impoverished life with his family turns to crime when he is fed up. When he ruins the chance to make his family wealthy, he puts all of their lives in danger instead.
Subjects:	Feature films. Mexico
Location:	View Catalog Record
Title:	Blade II
Director:	Guillermo Del Toro
Format:	2 videodiscs (117 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 1)
Imprint:	United States : New Line Home Entertainment : Distributed by Warner Home Video, c2002.
Language:	English
Notes:	New Line Cinema presents an Amen Ra Films production in association with Imaginary Forces, a Guillermo Del Toro film ; producer, Peter Frankfurt, Wesley Snipes, Patrick Palmer ; writer, David S. Goyer ; director, Guillermo Del Toro. Director of photography, Gabriel Beristain ; editor, Peter Amundson ; music, Marco Beltrami ; costume designer, Wendy Partridge ; production designer, Carol Spier. Blade character created for Marvel Comics by Marv Wolfman and Gene Colan. Special features: commentary track one - director Guillermo Del Toro and producer Peter Frankfort; commentary track two - star and producer Wesley Snipes and writer David Goyer; 5.1 isolated score; original theatrical press kit; production workshop; interactive collection of documentaries and features detailing the "making-of Blade II"; director's notebook; interactive reproduction with an intro by Guillermo Del Toro; multi-angle scoring session; deleted/alternate scenes with optional commentary; theatrical trailers; DVD-ROM: script to screen; official website; hot spot. Performers: Wesley Snipes, Kris Kristofferson, Ron Perlman, Leonor Varela, Norman Reedus, Thomas Kretschmann,
Plot:	The legendary "daywalker" Blade must join forces with a high-powered team of vampires to take on a fearsom threat more deadly than either has seen before. These unlikely allies must stop a race of super-vampires intent on destroying everyone in their path - human or vampire.
Subjects:	Feature films. United States. Mexico. Vampires.
Location:	View Catalog Record
Title:	Bloodthirst. Legend of the chupacabras
Director:	Jonathan Mumm.
Format:	1 videodisc (85 min.) ; sd., col. 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 1)
Imprint:	United States: Aztec Home Entertainment: Distributed by Spartan Home Entertainment 2003
Language:	English (2.0 Stereo) dialogue, optional Spanish subtitles
Notes:	California Postcard Productions presents ; written and produced by Jonathan Mumm. Director of photography, Dave Novick ; music, John Mumm, Rob Wukmir, Max Marchol, Dan Mumm. Participants: Dan Leis, Rachel Sense, Loren Taylor, Hugh McChord.
Plot:	The people of a small town come face to face with a Chupacabras, or 'Goat Sucker' a deadly mythical beast that can kill anything, when they go hunting for a lost gold mine.
Subjects:	Feature films. Mexico. Chupacabras
Location:	View Catalog Record
Title:	Las bodas de oro
Director:	Mario Lemus Lazo
Format:	1 videodisc (81 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (regions 1 & 4) full screen; 2.0 stereo.
Imprint:	México : TV Azteca : Alterfilms , S.A. de C.V. 2005
Language:	Spanish
Notes:	Originally produced in 2005. Credits Production director, Mario Lemus Lazo ; producer, Martín Luna ; writing, Eliseo Alberto ; original music, Camilo Froideval ; editing, David Torres Labansat. Performer Martha Navarro, Fernando Luján, Héctor Bonilla, Patricia Llaca.
Plot:	Eloisa and Orlando celebrate their golden wedding anniversary with family and friends. The celebration is filled with descriptions and images from their life together. When the moment arrives for the couple to speak tho their guests, they announce their plans to divorce -- to the surprise of everyone.
Subjects:	Feature films. Mexico
Location:	View Catalog Record
Title:	El bolero de Raquel
Director:	Miguel M. Delgado
Format:	1 videodisc (101 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Imprint:	[California] : Columbia Pictures : Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment, [La colección de Cantinflas] 2003.
Language:	Spanish dialogue ; optional English and Spanish subtitles.
Notes:	Originally released as a motion picture in 1956. Posa Films, S.A. ; argumento original de Daniel Jiménez ; dirigida por Miguel M. Delgado. Photography, Gabriel Figueroa ; editor, Jorge Bustos ; music, Raul Lavista.Participants: Mario Moreno " Cantinflas", Flor Silvestre, Manola Saavedra.
Plot:	Cantinflas is working as a shoeshine man in Chapultepec Park. When his godson's father is killed in a construction accident, he tries to be a father to the boy. After many adventures, he winds up as a lifeguard at a luxury hotel.
Subjects:	Feature Films. Mexico
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Title:	Border incident
Director:	Anthony Mann
Format:	1 videodisc (95 min.) ; sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 1)
Imprint:	Burbank, Calif. : Warner Home Video, c2006.
Language:	English with optional subtitles in English, French and Spanish; closed-captioned.
Notes:	Originally produced as a motion picture in 1949. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ; produced by Loew's Incorporated ; screen play by John C. Higgins ; story by John C. Higgins and George Zuckerman ; produced by Nicholas Nayfack ; directed by Anthony Mann. Performer Ricardo Montalban, George Murphy, Howard Da Silva, James Mitchell, Arnold Moss, Alfonso Bedoya.
Plot:	The Mexico-California border is the power-keg setting for a tale of government agents versus greed and murder.
Subjects:	Feature films. United States. Mexico. Mexican-American Border Region
Location:	View Catalog Record
Title:	El bruto / The brute
Director:	Luis Buñuel
Format:	1 videodisc (81 min.) ; sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 1)
Imprint:	S.l. : Cozumel Films ; United States: Ventura Distribution, 2003
Language:	Spanish dialogue with English subtitles
Notes:	Originally produced as a motion picture in 1952. Internacional Cinematográfica ; argumento original de Luis Alcoriza y Luis Buñuel ; dirección de Luis Buñuel. Photography, Agustín Jiménez ; editor, Jorge Bustos ; music, Raúl Lavista. Special feature: Pedro Armendáriz filmography. Participants: Pedro Armendáriz, Katy Jurado, Andrés Soler, Rosita Arenas
Plot:	A slow-witted but strong slaughterhouse worker who is hired by a slumlord to break a tenant strike accidentally kills one of the strike leaders. He is then drawn into a doomed affair with the landlord's wife.
Subjects:	Feature films. Mexico. Spain
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Title:	El bulto / Excess baggage.
Director:	Gabriel Retes.
Format:	1 videocassette (117 min.) ; sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 1/2 in. VHS.
Imprint:	New York, NY : Distributed in the United States by LAVA, 1991.
Language:	Spanish with English subtitles.
Notes:	Gabriel Retes, producer director ; Gabriel Retes, Gabriela Retes, Maria del Pozo, screenplay. Cast: Gabriel Retes, Lourdes Elizarrarector Bonilla, Delia Casanova, Juan Claudio Retes, Gabriela Retes.
Plot:	In 1971 during a student demonstration in Mexico, Lauro is clubbed by roit police and left in coma. Twenty years later he awakens and finds himself in a different world than the one he knew, his wife has a new man, his children are grown and his leftist friends have government jobs.
Subjects:	Feature films. Mexico. Social conditions.
Location:	View Catalog Record
Title:	Bugambilia
Director:	Emilio Fernández
Format:	1 videodisc (ca. 102 min.) ; sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region All)
Imprint:	Coyoacan, Mexico : Alter Films ; Mexico City, Mexico : Televisa, 2003.
Language:	Spanish
Notes:	Originally released as a motion picture in 1944. Adapted by Rómulo Gallegos from his novel, Doña Bárbara. Films Mundials ; director, Emilio Fernández ; productor, Felipe Subervielle. Performer Dolores del Río, Pedro Armendáriz, Julio Villareal, Alberto Galán
Plot:	Tells the story of a complex love affair between a foreman and the daughter of a mine owner.
Subjects:	Feature films. Mexico. Literary Adaptation. Venezuela.
Location:	View Catalog Record
Title:	El coronel no tiene quien le escriba / No one writes to the Colonel
Director:	Arturo Ripstein
Format:	1 videodisc (ca. 120 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Imprint:	Deerfield Beach, FL : Maverick Latino, c2003.
Language:	Spanish language film with or without English subtitles
Notes:	Producciones Amaranta ; dirección Arturo Ripstein ; producción Jorge Sanchez. Based on the novel by Gabriel García Márquez. Credits Edicón Fernando Pardo ; dirección de fotographia, Guillermo Granillo ; music, David Mansfield. Special features: ; 5.1 surround; Interactive menu; Screen selections. Performer Fernando Luján, Marisa Paredes, Salma Hayek. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1999.
Plot:	In El Coronel no Tiene Quien le Escriba the old colonel goes each Friday to the post office to see if his long-awaited pension has come through. He knows it will not; so does his wife who is still grieving over the death of their son the year before. The colonel has a mission: to elevate the grim routine of poverty and failure to a high mass of defiance. He does that by showing that a heart that has been broken still beats with vengeance.
Subjects:	Feature films. Mexico. Colombia. Literary adaptation.
Location:	View Catalog Record
Title:	Cabeza de Vaca.
Director:	Nicholas Eshevarria.
Format:	1 videocassette (ca. 108 min.) ; sd., col. ; 1/2 in.
Imprint:	United States: New Horizons Home Video, 1993.
Language:	In Spanish with English subtitles.
Notes:	Producciones Iguana in co-produccion with Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografia, Television Espa~nola, S.A., Sociedad Estatal Quinto Centenario, Fondo de Fomento a la Calidad Cinematografica, Channel Four Television, American Playhouse Theatrical Films, Grupo Alica ... present a Nicolas Echevarria film ; screenplay, Guillermo Sheridan, Nicolas Echevarria ; producers, Rafael Cruz, Jorge Sanchez, Julio Solorzano Foppa, Bertha Navarro ; director, Nicholas Eshevarria.. Director of photography, Guillermo Navarro; editor, Rafael Castenedo; music, Mario Lavista. Based on the book: Naufragios by Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca. Originally produced as motion picture in 1990. Cast: Juan Diego, Daniel Gimenez Cacho, Roberto Sosa, Carlos Castanon.
Plot:	In 1528 a Spanish expedition founders off the coast of Florida. 600 lives are lost. One survivor, Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca, roams across the American continent searching for his Spanish comrades. Instead he discovers the Iguase, an ancient Indian tribe. Over the next eight years, Cabeza de Vaca learns their mystical culture, becoming a healer--and a leader. But soon this New World collides with the Old World as Spanish conquistadors seek to enslave the Indians, and Cabeza de Vaca must confront his own people and his past.
Subjects:	Feature films. Mexico. Spain. Explorers. America. Florida. Discovery and exploration. Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca. Biographical films.
Location:	View Catalog Record
Title:	Caballo prieto azabache / The midnight stallion
Director:	Rene Cardona
Format:	1 videodisc (90 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. (DVD Region 1)
Imprint:	Santa Mesa, CA : Vanguard Latino, 2004
Language:	Spanish with optional English subtitles.
Notes:	Videodisc release of the 1965 film. a Vanguard Cinema release in association with JC Films Inc. ; written by Rafael Garcia Travesi ; directed by Rene Cardona. Participants: Antonio Aguilar, Flor Silvestre, Jaime Fdez
Plot:	Horse breeder Jesus helps a man, Doroteo Arango who is accused of killing a landowner, escape sure death. Arango later becomes the legendary anti-government movement leader Pancho Villa. When Jesus is captured by Villa's men for selling horses to the government, Pancho Villa recognizes him and returns the favor and spares his life.    Jesus un criador de caballos ayuda a un peon acusado de matar ha un hacendado. Con la ayuda de Jesus el pobre hombre, Doroteo Aranda, escapa una muerte segura. Al paso del tiempo, Aranda se convierte en el lejendario revolucionario Pancho Villa. Cuando Jesus es capturado por los hombres de Villa, por vender caballos al govierno, Villa se acuerda de lo que Jesus hizo por el y no solo le perdona la vida si no que le regreza la libertad.
Subjects:	Feature films. Mexico. History. Revolution, 1910-1920. Villa, Pancho, 1878-1923.
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Title:	Café Colón
Director:	Benito Alazraki
Format:	1 videodisc (79 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD
Imprint:	Mexico: Tekila Films : Distributed by Madera Cinevideo,
Language:	Spanish
Notes:	Originally produced as a motion picture in 1959. Filmadora Chapultepec, S.A. presenta ; un producción de Pedro Galindo ; dirigida por Benito Alazraki. Argumento original, Rafael F. Muñoz y Eduardo Galindo, adaptación de Eduardo Galindo, guión técnico, Benito Alazraki ; dirección y fondos musicales, Manuel Esperón ; esconografíia, Manuel Fontanals ; director de fotografía, Gabriel Figueroa. Participants: Maria Félix, Pedro Armendáriz, Jorge Martínez de Hoyos, Francisco Jambrina, Luis Beristáin.
Plot:	Musical film about the romance between a beautiful nightclub singer and an army general during the Mexican Revolution.
Subjects:	Feature films. Mexico. History. Revolution, 1910-1920.
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Title:	El callejón de los milagros / Midaq Alley
Director:	Jorge Fons
Format:	1 videodisc (140 min) ; sd., col. 4 3/4 in. (Region 1)
Imprint:	New York, NY : Fox Lorber Films : Distributed by WinStar TV & Video, 1999
Language:	Spanish with English subtitles.
Notes:	Based on the novel by Naguib Mahfouz. Originally released as a motion picture in 1995. Lakeshore Entertainment ; Alfredo Ripstein Jr. presenta una película de Jorge Fons ; Alameda Films, et al. presentan ; guión cinematográfico, Vicente Leñero ; una producción de Alfredo Ripstein Jr. ; dirección, Jorge Fons. Photography, Carlos Marcovich ; editing, Carlos Savage ; music, Lucia Alvarez. Special features include: Interactive menus ; scene access ; production credits ; awards ; filmographies. Participants: Ernesto Gómez Cruz, Salma Hayek, Maria Rojo, Bruno Bichir, Delia Casanova, Margarita Sanz, Claudio Obregon, Juan Manuel Bernal, Abel Woolrich, Luis Felipe Tovar, Daniel Gimenez Cacho, Gina Morett, Oscar Yoldi, Tiare Scanda.
Plot:	"Set in the old downtown section of Mexico City. The events that take place have been divided into the stories of three neighbors whose lives are entertwined. Rutilio, the family man who experiences homosexual feelings that shatter his domestic life; Susanita, the spinster who dreams of getting married and falls prey to a thief; and Alma, the virgin who becomes a cocaine addicted prostitute."--Container.    The most awarded film in Mexican history, based on the Nobel Prize-winning novel by Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfouz. A complex portrait of lives in a Mexico City neighborhood, and the connections between them. Local pub owner Don Ru (Ernesto Gomez Cruz) is tired of marriage to his wife, Eusebia (Delia Casanova), and has feelings for a young clerk. Don Ru's son Chava (Juan Manuel Bernal) runs away to the U.S. after he almost kills Don Ru's lover. Chava's friend Abel (Bruno Bichir) is in love with Alma (Salma Hayek), the daughter of a tarot reader.
Subjects:	Feature films. Mexico. Mexico City (Mexico).
Location:	View Catalog Record
Title:	Calzonzin inspector
Director:	Alfonso Arau.
Format:	1 videodisc (91 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 1)
Imprint:	Phoenix, AZ] : Desert Mountain Media, c2003.
Language:	Spanish dialogue; English subtitles.
Notes:	Originally released as a motion picture in 1973. Basada en la historieta "Los Supermachos," la historia de un extranjero que llega al pueblo y todos lo confunden como un inspector federal. Estudios Churubusco Azteca, S.A. presenta una película de Alfonso Arau ; cinedrama de Alfonso Arau, Juan de la Cabada, Eduardo Del Rio, Hector Ortega ; dirección, Alfonso Arau. Editor, Rafael Ceballos; cinematography, Jorge Stahl, Jr. ; music, Leonardo Velázquez. Participants: Alfonso Arau, Pancho Córdova, Arturo Alegro.
Plot:	A comedy-of-errors story about a peasant who comes into a corruption-ridden small town geared up for a visit from a federal government inspector. Mistaking the man, Calzonzin, for the Inspector, the crooked local officials fawn on the confused Calzonzin and ply him with bribes.
Subjects:	Feature films. Mexico.
Location:	View Catalog Record
Title:	Canoa
Director:	Felipe Cazals
Format:	1 videodisc (ca. 115 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Imprint:	Phoenix, Ariz. : Desert Mountain Media, Latin cinema collection, 2002
Language:	Spanish, with optional subtitles in English.
Notes:	Videodisc of a film produced in 1975 in Mexico. Conacine ; S.T.P.C. de la R.M. ; argumento y adaptaciáon cinematográfica, Tomás Pérez Turrent ; dirección, Felipe Cazals. Cinematography, Alex Phillips Jr. Participants: Enrique Lucero, Salvador Sánchez, Ernesto Gómez Cruz. Awards: Ariel Award, best original story; 3 Mexican Heraldo Awards; 6 Mexican Diosa de Plata Awards; Berlin International Film Festival, best picture.
Plot:	Based on actual events that occurred on Sept. 14, 1968 in the mountainous town of San Miguel de Canoa, Mexico. A group of employees from the Puebla University set out on a hiking excursion, were mistaken for radical communist agitators by a domineering local priest. A mob of townspeople are incited to riot, resulting in the brutal murders of several of the young men.
Subjects:	Feature films. Mexico. Political violence
Location:	View Catalog Record
Title:	Cañitas
Director:	Julio Cesar Estrada
Format:	1 videodisc (88 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region all)
Imprint:	Mexico : Quality Films, 2007
Language:	Spanish
Notes:	Based on the book, Cañitas, by Carlos Trejo. Estudios Churubusco Azteca. Director, Julio Cesar Estrada; screenplay, Gabriel Gonzaléz Meléndez, Xavier Robles; original music, Eduardo Gamboa; cinematography, Arturo de la Rosa; film editing, Óscar Figueroa.
Plot:	"Qúe presencia habita en la casa de la calle Cañitas? La vida de una típica familia mexicana da un giro de 180 grados cuando su otrora y apacible hogar empieza a mostrar signos sobrenaturales: los pisos tiemblan, la temperatura desciende drásticamente en pleno verano y entre los pasillos se dan cita apariciones demoníacas.
Subjects:	Feature films. Mexico
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Title:	Cantando nace el amor
Director:	Miguel M. Delgado
Format:	1 videodisc (90 min.) ; sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. DVD
Imprint:	México : Televisa, Alter Films, c2007
Language:	Spanish
Notes:	Originally released as a motion picture in 1954. Based on the story by Eduardo Galindo. Dirección, Miguel M. Delgado ; producción, Ricardo Beltri. Music, Gonzalo Curiel ; adaptation, Ramón Pérez Peláez ; photography, Agustín Jiménez. Performer Elsa Aguirre, Raúl Martinez, Andrés Soler, Agustin Lara.
Plot:	"This romantic comedy follows the misadventures of Don Pepe, an aging filmmaker who has discovered a beautiful new actress, Yolanda. But as his protégé becomes romantically involved with her co-star, Raul, Don Pepe has to make sure that the young couple's relationship is harmonious for the sake of his movie"--Yahoo! movies.
Subjects:	Feature Films. Mexico. Literary Adaptation
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Title:	La captura de Gabino Barrera
Director:	René Cardona
Format:	1 videodisc (ca. 90 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 1)
Imprint:	Northridge, CA : Laguna Films, c2004.
Language:	Spanish
Notes:	Originally released as a motion picture in 1967. Studios América, S.A. y Cinematográfica Filmex, S.A. presentan ; dirección, René Cardona. Produccer, Gregorio Walerstein ; director, René Cardona ; screenplay, Rafael García Travesi ; cinematography, Raúl Domínguez ; film editing, Federico Landeros ; original music, Enrico Cabiati. Performer Antonio Aguilar, Eleazar García, Alejandro Reyna, Amedee Chabot, Juliancito Bravo, Cornelio Reyna.
Plot:	The United States police mistake Gabino Barrera and his friends for a group of delinquents and pursue them.
Subjects:	Feature films. Mexico
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Title:	Carmen, la de ronda.
Director:	Tulio Demicheli.
Format:	1 videocassette (112 min.) ; sd., col. ; 1/2 in. VHS.
Imprint:	Portales, Mexico : Mexcinema Video de Mexico, 1992]
Language:	Spanish.
Notes:	Slip case title: Sara Montiel : Originally produced as motion picture in 1959. Cast: Sarita Montiel, Jorge Mistral. This movie is also known as: Carmen de Granada (1959), The Devil Made a Woman (1962) (USA), Girl Against Napoleon (1959).
Plot:	The story of a man-s burning love for Carmen, a woman who is love, hate, passion, treachery all in one.
Subjects:	Feature films. Spain. Musical films.
Location:	View Catalog Record
Title:	La Casa del sur
Director:	Sergio Olhovich
Format:	1 videodisc (ca. 104 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 1 & 4); Dolby digital 1.0.
Imprint:	Mexico : Zima Entertainment, 2007
Language:	Spanish
Notes:	Originally released as a film in 1975. Writers, Eduardo Luján, Sergio Olhorich; original music, Gustavo César Carrión; cinematography, Eduardo Luján, Rosalío solano; film editing, Alberto Valenzuela. Performer David Reynoso, Helena Rojo, Patricia Reyes Spindola, Manuel Ojeda.
Plot:	In The House in the South, a group of desperately impoverished desert dwellers are induced by a government program to move to a lush tropical island if they can ever get there. Their obstacle earlier was simply the cruelty of nature; in their new situation, mankind's cruelty to mankind is the worm in the apple. Fortunately, they have a tough, hard-headed and endlessly optimistic leader.
Subjects:	Feature films. Mexico
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Title:	La Chamuscada
Director:	Alberto Mariscal
Format:	1 videodisc (90 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD
Imprint:	Van Nuys, CA : Laguna Films, c2005.
Language:	Spanish
Notes:	Issued originally in 1967 as a motion picture. Producciones Matouk. Director, Alberto Mariscal ; script and adaptation, Luis Alcoriza, Juan de la Cabada ; cinematography, Roberto Jaramillo ; film editing, Juan José Manguía. Performer Luis Aguilar, Rodolfo de Anda, Emilio Fernández, Irma Serrano.
Plot:	Sensational story concerning a revolutionary group called "Zapatistas" who fight against the federal army to achieve land and freedom.
Subjects:	Feature films. Mexico
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Title:	Children of men
Director:	Alfonso Cuarón
Format:	1 videodisc (110 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 1)
Imprint:	Universal City, Calif. : Universal Pictures, 2007
Language:	English, French or Spanish with optional English, Spanish or French subtitles.
Notes:	Originally produced as a motion picture in 2006. Based on the book by P.D. James. Universal Pictures presents a Strike Entertainment production in association with Hit and Run Productions, a film by Alfonso Cuarón ; produced by Marc Abraham, Eric Newman, Hilary Shor, Iain Smith, Tony Smith ; screenplay by Alfonso Cuarón & Timothy J. Sexton and David Arata and Mark Fergus & Hawk Ostby ; directed by Alfonso Cuarón. Director of photography, Emmanuel Lubezki ; editors, Alfonso Cuarón, Alex Rodríguez ; original music by, John Tavener ; costume designer, Jany Temime ; production designers, Jim Clay, Geoffrey Kirkland ; special effects supervisor, Paul Corbould ; visual effects supervisors, Frazer Churchill, Timothy Webber. Participants: Clive Owen, Julianne Moore, Michael Caine, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Charlie Hunnam. Special features: 'The possibility of hope' : Alfonso Cuarón's documentary on how the revolutionary themes in 'Children of men' relate to our modern-day society ; 'Under attack' : discover how the filmmakers created the film's most dangerous scenes ; 'Children of men' comments by Slavoj Zizek ; Deleted scenes; 'Theo & Julian' : get the inside story from Clive Owen and Julianne Moore ; Futuristic design : from concept to creation, see how director Alfonso Cuarón's dynamic vision of the future was brought to life.
Plot:	London, 2027. Humanity has become infertile and no child has been born for 18 years. Science is at loss to explain the reason. Immigration is a crime and refugees are caged like animals. African and East European societies have collapsed and their dwindling populations are migrating toward England and other wealthy nations. Torn apart by nuclear fallout, rampant terrorism and political rebellion. In this climate of nationalistic violence, a London peace activist turned bureaucrat Theo Faron, joins forces with Julian, his revolutionary ex-wife, in order to save mankind by protecting a woman who has mysteriously became pregnant. These three set out on a desperate struggle to deliver the world's only pregnant woman to the Human Project with hope that they can discover the cure for global infertility. As they carefully navigate between the battling forces of military police and a pro-immigration insurgency this small group must endure a death-defying ordeal of urban warfare.
Subjects:	Feature films. Mexico. United States. Literary Adaptation.
Location:	View Catalog Record
Title:	Chupacabras: el extraterrestre
Director:	Gilberto De Anda
Format:	1 videodisc (90 min.) sd. col. 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 1)
Imprint:	Northridge, Calif.: Azteca Pictures, 2001
Language:	Spanish
Notes:	Laguna Productions. Executive producer, Orlando R. Mendoza ; dirección, Gilberto De Anda ; music, Ramiro Pastrana. Based on an original idea by Orlando R. Mendoza. Participants: Jorge Reynoso, Miguel Angel Rodriguez, Gilberto de Anda, Lina Santos.
Plot:	Alguna criatura perfora la piel y succiona toda la sangre hasta acabar con sus víctimas dejándoles solamente con hueso y pellejo. Será un extraterrestre?
Subjects:	Feature films. Mexico. Chupacabras
Location:	View Catalog Record
Title:	Cilantro y perejil / Recipes to stay together
Director:	Rafael Montero
Format:	1 videodisc (ca. 90 min.) :sd. col. 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 1)
Imprint:	[Phoenix, AZ] : Desert Mountain Media 2003
Language:	Spanish with optional English subtitles.
Notes:	Originally produced as a motion picture in 1997. IMCINE, et al. presentan ; argumento y guión, Cecilia Perez-Grovas, Carolina Rivera ; producción, Javier García Mata, Fernando Sariñana ; dirección, Rafael Montero. Music, Enrique Quezadas ; editing, Oscar Figueroa Jara ; photography, Guillermo Granillo. Participants: Demián Bichir, Arcelia Ramirez, German Dehesa, Alpha, Juan Manuel Bernal, Maya Mishalsko, Rodolfo Arias, Leticia Huijara, Juan Carlos Colombo
Plot:	A female documentary director's latest project is to capture her sister's marital difficulties on film in hopes of shedding light on the travails of modern romance.
Subjects:	Feature films. Mexico. Mexico City (Mexico).
Location:	View Catalog Record
Title:	Una cita de amor
Director:	Emilio Fernández
Format:	1 videodisc (ca. 86 min.) ; sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Imprint:	Thousand Oaks, CA : Studio Latino : Distributed by Ventura Distribution. 2005
Language:	Spanish
Notes:	Originally released as a motion picture in 1958. Presentan de] Excalibur Media Group y Studio Latino ; productor, Jorge García Besné ; guión, Mauricio Magdaleno, Pedro Antonio de Alarcon ; director, Emilio Fernández. Cinematography, Gabriel Figueroa ; musci , Antonio Díaz Conde. Participants: Silvia Pinal, Jaime Fernández, José Elias Moreno, Amalia Mendoza, Carlos Lopez Moctezuma, Arturo Soto Rangel, Emilo Garibay.
Plot:	Soledad, hija de un rico hacendado, se entrega por amor al joven Román. El padre de la joven odia a Román y pretende casar a su hija con Ernesto, sobrino rico de su amigo el juez del pueblo. Soledad rechaza a Ernesto, de quien fue novia tiempo atrás, pero esto solo hace mayor el capricho de Ernesto, quien busca de cualquier forma poseerla. Soledad is in love with Roman. Her father hates him and wants her to marry Ernesto, the nephew of the local judge. The two men fight and Ernesto is killed. Roman then flees. Soledad's father and the judge put a bounty on him, but Roman vows to return.
Subjects:	Feature films. Mexico
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Title:	La ciudad al desnudo
Director:	Gabriel Retes
Format:	1 videodisc (ca. 105 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD
Imprint:	Thousand Oaks, CA : Distributed by Vanguard Cinema, c2006.
Language:	Spanish; optional English subtitles.
Notes:	Originally released as a motion picture in 1989. Cooperativa Rio Mixcoac ; una realización de Gabriel Retes ; argumento, Ignacio Retes, Servando González ; libro cinematográfico y diálogos, Ignacio Retes ; productor y director, Gabriel Retes. Cinematographer, Francisco Bojorquez ; editor, Victor Mondragon ; music, Rodrigo Mendoza, Mario Santos. Performer Lourdes Elizarrarás, Martin Barraza, Luis Felipe Tovar, Carlos Chavez, Gonzalo Lora.
Plot:	"Fleeing from a traffic accident they inadvertently caused, Alfonso, Aurelia and their infant daughter check into a hotel. The hotel is attacked by a violent gang. The criminals hold everyone hostage, moving room to room, raping, killing and brutalizing the guests. When they come to Alfonso's and Aurelia's room, the young couple must face the choice to fight back at the risk of losing their lives or succumb to their attackers perversions"--Container.
Subjects:	Feature films. Mexico
Location:	View Catalog Record
Title:	Como agua para chocolate / Like water for chocolate.
Director:	Alfonso Arau
Format:	1 videocassette (105 min.) ; sd., col. ; 1/2 in. VHS Hi-fi stereo. Dolby surround sound.
Imprint:	[Burbank, Calif.] : Touchstone Home Video ; Burbank, Calif. : Buena Vista Home Video (distributor), 1994.
Language:	Spanish with English subtitles.
Notes:	Videocassette release of the 1992 motion picture. Based on the novel by Laura Esquivel. Producer director, Alfonso Arau ; screenplay, Laura Esquivel. Cast: Marco Leonardi, Lumi Cavazos, Regina Torne.
Plot:	Romantic fantasy set in the early 20th century about a young couple blocked from marrying by the demands of her cold and selfish mother. To be near his love the young man marries her sister, and she expresses her passion for him through her cooking.
Subjects:	Feature films. Mexico; Literary Adaptation
Location:	View Catalog Record
Title:	Corazon marchito / Wilted heart
Director:	Eduardo Lucatero
Format:	1 videodisc (110 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 1)
Imprint:	Santa Monica, Calif. : Lionsgate Entertainment, 2007
Language:	Spanish dialogue, English and Spanish subtitles;
Notes:	Fondo de Inversión y Estímulos al Cine-Fidecine. Director: Eduardo Lucatero, Guión: Eduardo Lucatero y Rafael Jiménez Hernandez, producida por Rafeal Jiminez Hernandez ; Editor, Óscar Figueroa ; music, Federico Terán. Participants: Ana Serradilla, Mauricio Ochmann, Luis Fernando Peña, Fernanda Castillo, Daniela Schmidt, Héctor Suarez Gomis.
Plot:	Human extremes: love and lovelessness, friendship and loneliness, make-ups and break-ups. When it comes to people and love, what do you look for? How do you know when it's true? And how do you keep it if you finally find it?
Subjects:	Feature films. Mexico
Location:	View Catalog Record
Title:	El costo de la vida [callejón sin salida] / Cost of living
Director:	Rafael Montero Garcia
Format:	1 videodisc (95 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD; full screen; Dolby digital stereo. 2.0.
Imprint:	Phoenix, AZ : Desert Mountain Media, 2002.
Language:	Spanish; optional English subtitles.
Notes:	Originally produced as a motion picture in Mexico in 1988. Una producción de Rafael Montero Garcia, Producciones Volcán, Sociedad Cooperativa de Producción Cinematográfica José Revueltas, Sociedad Cooperativa de Producción Cinematográfica Bertold Brecht ; producción y dirección, Rafael Montero Garcia ; libro cinematográfico, Jose Luis Benlliure, Rafael Montero, con la colaboracion de Oscar A. Montero. Music, Alfonso Munoz Guemes ; director of photography, Mario Luna ; editor, Manuel Rodriguez. Performer Rafael Sanchez Navarro, Alma Delfina, Alonso Echánove, Luisa Huertas, Hector Ortega.
Plot:	A young couple facing economic hardship begin a life of petty crime.
Subjects:	Feature films. Mexico
Location:	View Catalog Record
Title:	La cravate
Director:	Alejandro Jodorowsky.
Format:	1 videodisc (35 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Imprint:	New York, NY : ABKCO Films ; Troy, MI : Distributed by Anchor Bay Entertainment, c2007.
Language:	English
Notes:	Originally released as a motion picture in 1957.
Plot:	"This short film is "about a girl who sells heads. She changes the heads of a poetical guy and a boxer. She puts the spiritual head of the strong body and the idiot head on the spiritual body ... I am saying, you are not a body who has a spirit, you are a spirit who has a body ...""--Container.
Subjects:	Feature films. Mexico
Location:	View Catalog Record
Title:	El crimen del Padre Amaro / The crime of Padre Amaro
Director:	Carlos Carrera.
Format:	1 videodisc (119 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD, 5.1 Dolby digital, Region 1 encoding.
Imprint:	Culver City, Calif. : Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment, 2003
Language:	Spanish with optional soundtrack in English, and with optional English, French or Spanish subtitles.
Notes:	Fondo para la produción Cinematografica de Calidad, Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografía ... presentan ; producers, Alfredo Ripstein, Daniel Birman Ripstein ; screenplay writer, Vicente Leñero ; director, Carlos Carrera. Originally released as a motion picture in 2002. Based on the novel by José Maria Eça de Queiroz. Special features: photo gallery; poster explorations; theatrical trailers; director and actor commentary; making-of featurette. Credits Director of photography, Guillermo Granillo ; art director, Carmen Giménez Cacho ; editor, Oscar Figueroa ; original music, Rosino Serrano ; costume designer, Mariestela Fernández. Golden Ariel Award, 2003.
Plot:	A recently ordained priest is sent to a small parish church in rural Mexico to help an aging priest. Upon arriving at his new post, he meets a beautiful young woman with a religious passion that borders on obsession. Quickly her passion for her faith becomes entangled in a growing attraction to the new priest. When the priest crosses the line that seperates temptation from sin, he finds himself torn between the devine and the carnal, the righteous and the unjust.
Subjects:	Feature Films. México. Literary adaptation. Priests. Celibacy.
Location:	View Catalog Record
Title:	El criminal
Director:	Fernando Durán
Format:	1 videodisc (ca. 94 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 1)
Imprint:	Northridge, Calif. : Laguna Films ; Madera, CA : Madera Cinevideo [distributor], 2005
Language:	Spanish
Notes:	Originally released as a motion picture in 1985. Argumento, Julian Garza ; adaptación, Manuel Cardenas ; productores, Orlando Tamez y Horacio Tamez ; dirección, Fernando Durán. Edición, Lic. Enrique Murillo R. ; música, Ernesto Cortazar ; fotografía, Agustin Lara.Participants: Fernando Almada, Mario Almada, Tito Junco, Roberto Cañedo, Eleazar García "Chelelo," Isaura Espinoza.
Plot:	Cuando la injusticia quiere imponerse, solamente las agallas de un hombre adolorido por fuertes penas puede hacer que este lo entregue todo para hacerse justicia. A one-legged man fights the injustices done to him and his family.
Subjects:	Feature films. Mexico. Western films.
Location:	View Catalog Record
Title:	El cristo de mi cabecera
Director:	Ernesto Cortazar
Format:	1 videodisc (ca. 180 min.) ; sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 1)
Imprint:	Van Nuys, Calif. : Tekila Films, 2004
Language:	Spanish
Notes:	Videodisc release of a 1950 motion picture. Basado en la poesía de Ruben C. Navarro. Produccion and argumento, Ruben C. Navarro ; direccion, Ernesto Cortazar ; fotografia, Ignacio Torres ; musica, Heliodoro Oceguera ; edicion, Gloria Schoemann ; actuacion especial, Luis Leal Solares. Participants: Roberto Canedo, Lilia del Valle, Evita Munoz "Chachita", Guillermo "Indio" Calles.
Plot:
Subjects:	Feature films. Mexico
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Title:	Cronos
Director:	Guillermo Del Toro
Format:	1 videodisc (92 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. 2003
Imprint:	United States: Lions Gate Home Entertainment, 2003
Language:	Spanish with English and Spanish subtitles.
Notes:	Originally released as a motion picture in 1992. October Films ; Producciones Iguana ; Ventana Films ; produced by Bertha Navarro & Arthur H. Gorson ; written and directed by Guillermo Del Toro. Director of photography, Guillermo Navarro ; production design, Tolita Figueroa ; editor, Raul Davalos ; music, Javier Alvarez. Participants: Federico Luppi, Ron Perlman, Claudio Brook, Margarita Isabel, Tamara Shanath. Awards: Winner Best Picture at Cannes Film Festival.
Plot:	An aging antique dealer, Jesus Gris, happens upon an elegant mechanized scarab. When opened, it painfully stabs whomever is holding it, but the wound brings youthful vigor and a vampire's need for blood. The device is relentlessly pursued by a dying tycoon, Dieter de la Guardia, whose nephew Angel, reluctant to see his uncle live a moment longer, must still do the old man's bidding. Meanwhile, Gris's desires endanger his own graddaughter, Aurora.
Subjects:	Feature Films. Mexico. Horror films.
Location:	View Catalog Record
Title:	Cuando los hijos se van / When our children leave.
Director:	Julian Soler
Format:	1 videodisc (90 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. (Region 1)
Imprint:	United States: JC Films. [Costa Mesa, Calif.] : Vanguard Cinema, 2003
Language:	In Spanish with English subtitles.
Notes:	Originally issued as motion picture in 1969. JC Films ; Filmadora Chapultepec, S. A. ; a Pedro Galindo producción. Cinematography by Ignacio Torres ; edited by Jorge Bustos ; sound by Luis Fernandez ; special effects, Antonio Muños ; executive producer, Jose De Jesus Fernandez ; directed by Julian Soler. Participants: Amparo Rivelles, Alberto Vasquez, Alicia Bone, Fernando Soler, Blanca Sanchez, Enrique Becker, Rafael Del Rio, Malo Reyes, Carmen Frida, Andres Soler.
Plot:	In the 60's most youngsters experimented with love, freedom of expression and ideas, but not those from a conservative Catholic family. Federico and his sisters leave home to pursue their dreams although they are in a constant battle with their parents.
Subjects:	Feature films. Mexico
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Title:	Cuando habla el corazon / When the heart speaks
Director:	Juan Jose Segura
Format:	1 videodisc (ca. 130 min.) ; sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 1)
Imprint:	Monterey, Calif. : Kit Parker Films ; Tulsa, Okla. : Distributed by VCI Entertainment, c2003.
Language:	Spanish with English subtitles.
Notes:	Videodisc release of the 1942 motion picture. Story, Ernesto Cortazar, Ramon Perez ; director of photography, Agustin Jimenez ; editor, Rafael Ceballos ; original music, Ernesto Cortázar, Manuel Esperón. Special features include: Poster gallery ; vintage trailers ; biography of Pedro Infante, biography of Victor Manuel Mendoza, biography of director Jose Segura and history of Producciones Rosas Priego. Performer Pedro Infante, Maria Luisa Zea, Victor Manuel Mendoza, Jose Eduardo Perez, Susana Cora, Arturo Soto Rangel, Fanny Schiller, Alfonso Bedolla.
Plot:	Pedro Infante's cinematic debut is an action and song-filled saga. Two childhood friends, one poor and one rich, grow to hate each other as one is responsible for the death of the other's sister.
Subjects:	Feature films. Mexico
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Title:	Dama de noche
Director:	Eva López Sánchez
Format:	1 videodisc (97 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 1)
Imprint:	Phoenix, AZ : Desert Mountain Media, 2003
Language:	Spanish with English subtitles.
Notes:	Originally produced as a motion picture in 1993. An Eva López Sánchez film ; story & screenplay by Eva López-Sánchez ; produced by Centro De Capacitación Cinematográfica. Digitally restored from the original film negative" Container. Special features: biographies of Eva López Sánchez, Rafael Sánchez Navarro, and Cecilia Toussaint. Participants: Cecilia Toussaint, Rafael Sánchez Navarro
Plot:	Bruno, autor de novelas de detectives, acude al rescate de su ex-novia Sofía cuando ésta lo llama desde Veracruz, desecha por la muerte accidental de su amante. Como si fuera el héroe de una de sus novelas, Bruno sale de la Cuidad de México immediatamente para ayudar a Sofía y hace planes para deshacerse del cuerpo del amante. Una serie de sucesos imprevistos termina en tragedia. Bruno, a down and out writer, comes to the rescue of his former lover, Sofia, who is devastated in Veracruz, after the accidental death of her elderly boyfriend. Like the hero in one of his adventure novels, Bruno leaves Mexico City immediately to save Sofía. The story unravels as he proposes to get rid of the body, triggering increasingly outrageous incidents ... leading to a tragic end.
Subjects:	Feature films. Mexico
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Title:	Danzón
Director:	Maria Novaro.
Format:	1 videocassette (103 min.) ; sd., col. ; 1/2 in.
Imprint:	Burbank, Calif. : Columbia Tristar Home Video, c1993.
Language:	Spanish with yellow English subtitles.
Notes:	Produced by Jorge Sanchez ; directed by Maria Novaro. Series SONY Pictures classics Originally released by Macondo Cine-Video, 1991. Credits Screenplay, Beatriz and Maria Novaro; editors, Nelson Rodriguez and Maria Novaro; sound, Nerio Barberis. Performer Maria Rojo, Blanca Guerra, Tito Vasconcelos, Carmen Salinas. Director's Fortnight Award, Cannes Film Festival.
Plot:	A surprising love story about a woman who finally discovers the passion that has been missing from her life.    Julia (Rojo) is a phone operator in Mexico City who divides her time between her job, her daughter and the danzon: a cuban dance very popular in Mexico and Central America. Every wednesday Julia does the danzon with Carmelo (Rergis) in the old "Salon Colonia". They've danced for years but barely know each other. One night Carmelo disappears without a trace. Feeling lonely and sad, Julia takes a train to Veracruz, where she knows Carmelo has a brother. That sudden trip will change Julia's life forever.
Subjects:	Feature Films. Mexico.
Location:	View Catalog Record
Title:	De ida y vuelta / Back and forth (To and fro)
Director:	Salvador Aguirre
Format:	1 videodisc (90 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 1)
Imprint:	Costa Mesa, CA : Condor Media : Distributed by Vanguard Cinema, 2002
Language:	Spanish with English subtitles
Notes:	Originally produced in 2000 as a motion picture. Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes, et al. ; screenplay, Salvador Aguirre, Alejandro Lubezki, Geronimo D. ; producers, Angeles Castro Gurria, Hugo Rodriguez ; director Salvador Aguirre. Cinematography, Geronimo Denti ; editor, Moises Ortiz Urquidi ; music, Jorge Fratta. Participants: Tiaré Scanda, Gerardo Taracena, Ricardo Esquerra
Plot:	Filiberto, a Mexican migrant worker, returns to his home town after working for three years in the United States.
Subjects:	Feature films. Mexico. United States. Migrant labor.
Location:	View Catalog Record
Title:	De noche vienes, Esmeralda / Esmeralda comes by night
Director:	Jaime Humberto Hermosillo.
Format:	1 videodisc (107 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 1)
Imprint:	New York: New Line Home Video ; Chatsworth, CA. : distributed by Image Entertainment, c2006.
Language:	Spanish with English subtitles
Notes:	Originally released as a motion picture in 1997. Based on the novel: De noche vienes by Elena Poniatowska. Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes ; Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografia, et al. ; guión y dirección Jaime Humberto Hermosillo. Produced by Fernando Cámara, Salvador de la Fuente, and Carlos Taibo. Performer María Rojo, Claudio Obregón, Martha Navarro, Pedro Armendáriz, Jr., Alberto Estrella, Tito Vasconcelos, Humberto Pineda. Ariel Awards, Mexico: Silver Ariel for Best Costume Design, Best Production Design, Best Screenplay, Best Set Design, Best Supporting Actress (Martha Navarro), 1998. Guadalajara Mexican Film Festival: Audience Award, 1998. Toulouse Latin American Film Festival: Special Mention, 1998.
Plot:	The story of Esmeralda, a nurse who is happily married to five husbands. As Esmeralda is about to marry husband number six, she is charged with bigamy. During her interrogation and detention, she reveals her spellbinding charm.
Subjects:	Feature films. Mexico. Literary Adaptation.
Location:	View Catalog Record
Title:	Desperado
Director:	Robert Rodriguez.
Format:	1 videodisc (ca. 103 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 1)
Imprint:	Culver City, Calif. : Columbia Pictures Industries : Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment, c2003.
Language:	Dialogue in English with optional soundtracks in French, Portuguese and Spanish with optional English, French, Portuguese, Spanish, Thai, and Chinese (Mandarin); closed-captioned.
Notes:	Originally released as a motion picture in 1995. Sequel to the film El Mariachi. Columbia Pictures presents a Los Hooligans production ; a film by Robert Rodriguez ; produced by Bill Borden ; written, produced, and directed by Robert Rodriguez. Director of photography, Guillermo Navarro ; editor, Robert Rodriguez ; music, Los Lobos.Performer Antonio Banderas, Joaquim de Almeida, Salma Hayek, Steve Buscemi, Cheech Marin, Quentin Tarantino.
Plot:	A mysterious guitar player seeks vengeance against the men who murdered his girlfriend.
Subjects:	Feature films. Mexico. United States. Drug traffic
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Title:	El deseo en otoño
Director:	Carlos Enrique Taboada
Format:	1 videodisc (93 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in DVD (regions 1 & 4); full screen; 2.0 sound.
Imprint:	México Televisa, c2006
Language:	Spanish
Notes:	Originally released as a motion picture in 1971. Una producción de Alfonso Rosas Priego. R. ; dirijida por Carlos Enrique Taboada ; Televisa S.A. de C.V. Director, Carlos Enrique Taboada ; producer, Alfonso Rosas Priego R. ; photography, Raúl Domínguez ; music, Raúl Lavista ; screenplay, Tony Sbert ; editing, Federico Landeros. Performer Maricruz Olivier, Guillermo Murray, Sonia Furió, Silvia Mariscal, Juan Peláez, Pilar Sen.
Plot:	A rags to riches story about a young woman named Elena who inherits a substantial fortune. Having no one else to share her good fortune with, Elena invites her friend Clara to stay with her in her house and to share her wealth. When Elena falls in love Clara fears for her own place in Elena's household and vows to prevent the new romance from blossoming.
Subjects:	Feature films. Mexico
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Title:	El diablo de la frontera
Director:	Carlos Valdemar
Format:	1 videodisc (ca. 113 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 1)
Imprint:	Granada Hills, CA : Condor Pictures ; United States : Distributed by Laguna Films, c2005.
Language:	Spanish with English subtitles.
Notes:	Condor Pictures presenta una producción de Salvador Salinas y Asociados, una película de Carlos Valdemar ; argumento y adaptación, Carlos Valdemar ; director, Carlos Valdemar. Performer Gerardo Albarran, Salvador Salinas, Armando Infante, Carmen del Valle, Karla Barahona, Alfredo Gutierrez, Gibran Gonzalez, Rojo Grau, Samuel Chazev.
Plot:	Guera is a wicked, powerful woman and owner of many race horses. To revenge the death of a little boy, a group of workers try to steal her son's horse, El Diablo de la Frontera (The Devil of the Border).
Subjects:	Feature films. Mexico
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Title:	Doña Barbara.
Director:	Fernando de Fuentes.
Format:	1 videocassette (ca. 138 min.) ; sd., b&w ; 1/2 in. VHS.
Imprint:	United States: Condor Video : distributed by Media Home Entertainment, c1987.
Language:	Spanish, subtitled in English.
Notes:	Productor, Fernando de Fuentes ; director, Fernando de Fuentes; adaptacion, Romulo Gallegos. Based on the novel by Romulo Gallegos. Originally produced in Mexico 1943 by Clasa Films. Photography, Alex Phillips ; editor, Charles L. Kimball ; music, Francisco Dominguez. Cast: Maria Felix, Julian Soler, Maria Elena Marques, Andres Soler, Charles Rooner.
Plot:	Dona Barbara, feared for her witchcraft, becomes involved in a land dispute with Santos Luzardo, a lawyer who has come to take charge of his property. Both she and her daughter, fall in love with the lawyer in this film reflecting the conflict between civilization and primitivism.
Subjects:	Feature films. Mexico. Venezuela Literary adaptation.
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Title:	Doña Herlinda y su hijo / Doña Herlinda and her son.
Director:	Jaime Humberto Hermosillo.
Format:	1 videodisc (90 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Imprint:	United States: Vanguard Cinema, 2001.
Language:	In Spanish with English subtitles.
Notes:	Clasa Films Mundiales ; argumento y guión, Jaime Humberto Hermosillo ; basado en un cuento de Jorge Lopez Paez ; productor, Manuel Barbachano Ponce ; una película de Jaime Humberto Hermosillo. Based on the novel by Jorge López Páez. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1985. Performer Arturo Meza, Marco Antonio Treviño, Guadalupe del Toro, Leticia Lupercio.
Plot:	Set in Guadalajara, the story of a mother who organizes her gay son-s life by arranging a marriage for him, then having the new wife, their new baby, and his gay lover all move into her home.
Subjects:	Feature Films. México. Literary adaptation. Mothers and sons. Gay men.
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Title:	Doña Barbara.
Director:	Betty Kaplan
Format:	United States: Urban Vision Entertainment, 2004
Imprint:	1 videodisc (105 min.) ; sd., col.; 4 3/4 in. (Region 1)
Language:	In Spanish with English subtitles.
Notes:	Originally released as a motion picture in 1998. Based on the novel of Romulo Gallegos. Special features: behind the scenes, music video, trailers, web link. Participants: Esther Goris, Jorge Perugorria, Ruth Gabriel, Ulises Dumont, Juan Fernandez. produced by David Frost, Peter Rawley, Maria de la Paz Marino ; directed by Betty Kaplan. Cinematography, Hector Collodoro ; editor, Jose Salcedo ; music, Bingen Mendizabal.
Plot:	Based on the 1929 novel by Romulo Gallegos, Dona Barbara tells of a dramatic confrontation over land and civil rights, notable for its passionate characterizations. A young lawyer, Luzardo (Jorge Perugorria) returns to his family's ranch with the intention of selling it. However, his family's secrets refuse to remain in the past, and an encounter with the reputed witch Dona Barbara soon draws him into a game of seduction
Subjects:	Feature Films. United States. Argentina. Mexico. Venezuela. Literary Adaptation.
Location:	View Catalog Record
Title:	Drama: El fanfarron (1943) -- Mulata (1954) -- Que viva Tepito (1981) -- Reto a la vida (1954)
Director:	Fernando A. Rivero, Gilberto Martínez Solares, Mario Hernandez and Julio Bracho
Format:	1 videodisc (ca. 340 min.) ; sd., b&w and col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 1)
Imprint:	Minneapolis, MN : Mill Creek Entertainment, c2006.
Language:	Spanish
Notes:	El fanfarrón: ¡Aquí llegó el valentón!. Originally released as a motion picture in 1943 (83 minutes).B&N Director, Fernando A. Rivero. Performer: Jorge Negrete, Emilio Fernández, Pedro Galindo.    Mulata. Originally released as a motion picture in 1954. (80 minutes). B&N Based on the novel by Roberto Olivencia Márquez.. Film adaptation, Gilberto Martínez Solares; dialogue, Ulises Petit de Murat; original music, Manuel Esperón; cinematography, Agustín Martínez Solares; film editing, Carlos Savage. Performer: Pedro Armendariz, Ninon Sevilla, Rene Cardona.    Que viva Tepito. Originally released as a motion picture in 1981 Director, Mario Hernandez; writer, Xavier Robles; cinematography, Agustín Lara Alvarado. Performer: David Reynoso, Carmen Salinas, Ernesto Gómez Cruz.    Reto a la vida. Originally released as a motion picture in 1954. B&N Director, Julio Bracho Performer: Pedro Armendariz, Susana Canales, Francisco Jambrina.
Plot:	El fanfarrón tells the story of the local Robin Hood whose efforts to aid the people of the region are thwarted by a local landowner.    Mulata tells the story of the lives and loves of two mulatos who grew up together in Havana    Que viva Tepito shows life in the district of Tepito where honest people must live alongside the worst criminals    Retrato a la vida follows the adventures of Diego Maldonato who must flee a city in Mexico to escape a corrupt commisioner
Subjects:	Feature films. Mexico
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Title:	La edad de la violencia
Director:	Julian Soler.
Format:	1 videodisc (ca. 102 min.) ; sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Imprint:	Mexico : Alter Films, 2003.
Language:	Spanish
Notes:	Originally produced in 1964. Producciones Sotomayor, S.A. ; director, Julian Soler. Story, J.M. Fernandez Unsain; music, Sergio Guerrero; photography, Raúl Martínez Solares; editing, Carlos Savage. Performer Fernando Soler, Cesar Costa., Alberto Vázquez, Manolo Muñoz, Julio Alemán, Julissa.
Plot:	Musical film about a gang of 20-something youths involved in petty crimes such as stealing wallets and cars. They try to convince another young man who is a good fighter to join their gang by using the sister of one gang member to lure him in.
Subjects:	Feature films. Mexico
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Title:	El / (Also known as: This strange passion, He, and Torments. )
Director:	Luis Buñuel.
Format:	1 videodisc (ca. 92 min.) ; sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. DVD format (PAL; Multizona); Dolby Digital 5.1 (from the original mono.) and mono.
Imprint:	Vallodolid : Divisa Ediciones, 2002
Language:	Spanish
Notes:	Originally produced as a motion picture in 1952. Based on the novel by Mercedes Pinto. Producciónes Tepeyac, S.A. presenta ; argumento y adaptación de Luis Buñuel y Luis Alcoriza ; una producción de Oscar Dancigers ; dirigida por Luis Buñuel. Music, Luis Hernándes Bretón; photography, Gabriel Figueroa. Participants: Arturo de Córdova, Delia Garcés, Luis Beristáin, Aurora Walker, Carlos Martínez Baena, Manuel Dondé.
Plot:	Francisco is rich, rather strict on principles, and still a bachelor. After meeting Gloria by accident, he is suddenly intent on making her his wife. He courts her until she agrees to marry him. Francisco, dedicated at first, becomes a pathologically jealous husband. His passion starts to exhibit disturbing traits as he teeters over the edge into madness.
Subjects:	Feature Films. Spain. Mexico
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Title:	Elsa & Fred
Director:	Marcos Carnevale
Format:	1 videodisc (ca. 107 min.) : sd, col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 1 & 4); widescreen or full screen; Dolby digital 2.0.
Imprint:	México : RTC : Zima Entertainment, 2007
Language:	Spanish
Notes:	Originally released as a film in 2005. una producción de Tesela y Shazam Producciones ; una co-producción Hispano-Argentina ; dirigida por Marcos Carnevale. Writers, Marcos Carnevale, Marcela Guerty, Lily Ann Martin; original music, Lito Vitale; cinematography, Juan Carlos Gomez; film editing, Nacho Ruiz Capillas.
Plot:	Elsa tiene 82 años, de los cuales 60 vivió soñando un momento que ya había sido soñado por Fellini: la escena de La Dolce Vita en la Fontana de Trevi. Igual, pero sin Anita Ekberg sino ella. Sin Marcello Mastroianni, sino con ese amor que tardó tanto tiempo en aparecer. Alfredo es un poco más joven que Elsa y siempre fue un hmbre de bien que cuplió con su deber. Al quedar viudo, desconcertado y angustiado por la ausencia de su mjer, su hija le insta a mudarse a un apartamento más pequeno donde conoce a Elsa. A partir de este momento, todo se transforma"--Container. When the retired seventy-seven years old hypochondriac widower Fred moves to an apartment in Madrid, his temperamental daughter Cuca has an incident with his next door neighbor, the elder Argentinean Elsa. Later, they meet each other and Elsa seduces Fred with her reckless behavior and view of life and they have a romance.
Subjects:	Feature films. Mexico
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Title:	Emiliano Zapata
Director:	Felipe Cazals
Format:	1 videodisc (120 [i.e., 100] min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Imprint:	Mexico: Tekila Films ; Madera, CA : Distributed by Madera Cinevideo, 2005
Language:	Spanish
Notes:	Originally released as a motion picture in 1970. Chichén-Itzá Productions ; Producciones Aguila, S.A. presenta ; guión cinematográfico, Mario Hernández, Antonio Aguilar ; diálogos adicionales, Ricardo Garibay ; producica por Antonio Aguilar ; director, Felipe Cazals. Música, Salvador Leon ; fotografia, Alex Phillips. Participants: Antonio Aguilar, Jaime Fernández, Mario Almada, Patricia Aspillaga. Special features: includes biographical information for many of the main characters.
Plot:	Historical drama of the life of Zapata, focusing on the Mexican Revolution.
Subjects:	Feature films. Mexico. Zapata, Emiliano, 1879-1919.
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Title:	Enamorada
Director:	Emilio "El Indio" Fernández
Format:	1 videodisc (93 min.) ; sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 1)
Imprint:	Thousand Oaks, CA ; Cozumel Films : Manufactured and distributed by Ventura Distribution, 2003
Language:	Spanish
Notes:	Originally produced as motion picture in Mexico in 1946. Panamerican Films, S.A. ; un cinedrama de Iñigo de Martino y Emilio Fernandez ; producción de Benito Alazraki Franco ; dirección de Emilio Fernadez. Photography, Gabriel Figueroa ; editing, Gloria Schoemann ; music, Eduardo Hernández Moncada.Participants: María Félix, Pedro Armendáriz, Fernando Fernández.
Plot:	A revolutionary general and his troops seize the conservative town of Cholula where the general falls for the wild and beautiful Beatriz, the daughter of one of the town's richest men.
Subjects:	Feature films. Mexico. Revolution, 1910-1920.
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Title:	En el pais de no pasa nada /In the country where nothing happened
Director:	Maria del Carmen de Lara
Format:	1 videodisc (98 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD
Imprint:	United States : Condor Media : Huntington Beach, CA : Distributed by Vanguard Cinema, c2001.
Language:	Spanish with English subtitles.
Notes:	Originally produced as a motion picture in 1999. Filmanía en coproducción con Fondo Para la Producción Cinematografica de Calidad, et al. ; producción, Laura Imperiale, Alvaro Garnica, Jorge Sánchez ; dirección, Maria del Carmen de Lara ; guión, Maria del Carmen de Lara, Laura Sosa.
Plot:	A satire of Mexican politics that is a hilarious adventure of double lives and double meanings.
Subjects:	Feature films. Mexico
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Title:	Ensayo de un crimen / Rehearsal for a Crime/The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz [and] Él / This Strange Passion/Torments
Director:	Luis Buñuel
Format:	1 videodisc (100 min. + 91 min.) ; sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Imprint:	Peris : Collection Ciné-club, 2001
Language:	Spanish with optional French or English subtitles.
Notes:	Ensayo de un crimen Originally released as motion pictures in 1955. Based on the novel by Rodolfo Usigli; Alianza Cinematográfica, S.A. presenta ; argumento y adaptación, scenario, Luis Buñuel y E. Ugarte Pagés ; producción, Alfonso Patiño Gómez ; dirrección, Luis Buñuel. photography, Agustin Jimenez ; music, Jorge Perez ; editors, Jorge Bustos, Pablo Gomez. Photography, Agustin Jimenez ; music, Jorge Perez ; editors, Jorge Bustos, Pablo Gomez. Participants: Miroslava Stern, Ernesto Alonzo, Rita Macedo, Ariadna Welter.    ElOriginally released as motion pictures in 1952. Based on the novel by Mercedes Pinto. Producciones Tepeyac, S.A. : argumento y adaptación de Luis Buñuel y Luis Alcoriza ; una producción de Oscar Dancigers ; dirigida por Luis Buñuel. Photography, Gabriel Figueroa ; music, Luis Hernandez Breton ; editor, Carlos Savage. Participants: Arturo de Cordova, Delia Garces, Luis Beristain. Galeshka Moravioff présente.\ Added features: Filmography, history of the films (in French).
Plot:	A pair of black comedies by Buñuel. Ensayo de un crimen tells the tale of a would-be serial killer of attractive women. El is the story of an aristocratic who courts and marries a much younger woman, and then descends into madness while trying to keep her away from outside social contacts.    In El, it is director Luis Bunuel's contention that uncontrollable insanity can grow within even the most rational of men. Spanish aristocratic Arturo de Cordova, outwardly the picture of courtly charm, marries lovely Delia Garces, who is much younger than he. From the honeymoon onward, Cordova imagines that his bride's former lover is spying on them. At first his jealousy manifests itself in short bursts of violence against phantom intruders. But the middle-aged groom's lunacy blossoms, until he is prepared to literally sew his young bride up lest she be accessible to others. Bunuel alternates Cordova's disintegration with his standard attacks upon Catholicism; the church can offer nothing to this unhappy man but empty homilies, leaving him no choice but to lie to himself that he is "cured"--knowing deep down that he never will be. Historian William K. Everson hit the nail on the head when he described El as "the most clinical dissection yet of a paranoic's descent into total madness". Another critic has succinctly described the protagonist as "an Othello with the hero as his own Iago." El, which literally translates as "He", has been released in some markets as This Strange Passion.    This Mexican-filmed black comedy (Ensayo de un crimen)(distributed in the U.S. seven years after its initial 1955 release date) is one of the minor but no less characteristic works of director Luis Buñuel. The film begins with Archibaldo (Ernesto Alonso) being triggered by a music box into a lengthy reminiscence of his childhood. It was an average, everyday incident, one that undoubtedly has occurred to us all: Archibaldo was caught dressing up in his mother's clothes by his governess, who was then instantly killed by a revolutionary's bullet before she could tell on him. The experience proved to be Archibaldo's "first rush," and he spends the rest of his life trying to re-create the sexual euphoria of that moment -- by murdering attractive women. Buñuel's characteristic perverse black humor then adds a twist, which prevents Archibaldo from fulfilling his desires. Perverse, but darkly funny, Ensayo de un Crimen is a slyly shocking delight.
Subjects:	Feature films. Mexico. Spain. Literary Adaptation
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Title:	Entre Pancho Villa y una mujer desnuda / Between Pancho Villa and a naked woman
Director:	Sabina Berman, Isabelle Tardan,
Format:	1 videocassette (100 min.) ; sd., col. ; 1/2 in.
Imprint:	Chicago : Facets Video (dist.), 1999
Language:	Spanish; In Spanish with English subtitles.
Notes:	Televicine, S.A. de C.V. Dirección, Sabina Berman, Isabelle Tardan. Based on a play by Sabina Berman entitled: Entre Villa y una mujer desnuda. Participants: Diana Bracho, Arturo Ríos, Jesús Ochoa, Gabriel Porras, Pilar Ixquic Mata, Angelina Pelaez, Zaide Silvia Gutierrez.
Plot:	Comedic history of a love replete with passion, aversion, machismo, and infidelity. The lives and amorous encounters of Gina and Adrián are played out against a setting into which the phantasm of Pancho Villa, Adrián's advisor, persistently enters.
Subjects:	Feature films. Mexico
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Title:	Entre la tarde y la noche
Director:	Oscar Blancarte.
Format:	1 videodisc (105 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Imprint:	United States : Desert Mountain Media, c2007.
Language:	Spanish; English subtitles.
Notes:	Originally released as a motion picture in 1999. una película de Oscar Blancarte. Screenplay, Oscar Blancarte and Alvaro del Amo; cinematography, Arturo de la Rosa and Jorge Suarez; film editing, Oscar Figueroa; music, Oscar Reynoso. Performer Angélica Aragón, Lumi Cavazos, Manuel Ojeda, Francisco Gattorino, Rosa Furman, Dolores Berinstain, Louis Felipe Tovar.
Plot:	An author preparing to pen her masterwork returns to her small Mexican town in search of inspiration, only to discover just how her secret-shrouded past has molded her into the woman she became.
Subjects:	Feature films. Mexico
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Title:	Eréndira / Die Unglaubliche und traurige Geschichte von der unschuldigen Erendira und ihrer herzlosen Großmutter
Director:	Ruy Guerra
Format:	1 videocassette (103 min.) ; sd., col. ; 1/2 in.
Imprint:	Los Angeles, Calif. : Media Home Entertainment, 1985
Language:	Spanish with English subtitles./
Notes:	Videocassette release of 1983 motion picture. Based on the short story by Gabriel García Márquez, La increíble y triste historia de la cándida Eréndira y de su abuela desalmada. A coproduction of France, Mexico and West Germany. Les Films du Triangle [and] Films A2. Screenplay by Gabriel García Márquez; director, Ruy Guerra; producer, Alain Queffelean; music, Maurice Lecoeur.Participants: Irene Papas, Claudia Ohana, Michel Lonsdale, Oliver Wehje, Rufus, Blanca Guerra, Ernesto Gomez Cruz.
Plot:	A black comedy about a wicked grandmother and her exploitation of her beautiful teenage granddaughter, Eréndira. Filmed in a surreal style similar to that found in so much of the writing of García Márquez.
Subjects:	Feature films. Colombia. Mexico. Brazil.
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Title:	La escondida
Director:	Roberto Gavaldón
Format:	1 videodisc (ca. 100 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 1)
Imprint:	United States : Urban Vision Entertainment. 2002
Language:	Spanish with optional English subtitles.
Notes:	Originally released as a motion picture in 1956. Alfa Films, S.A. presenta ; argumento Miguel N. Lira ; adaptación José Revueltas, Roberto Gavaldón y Gunther Gerzso ; dirección Roberto Gavaldón. Editor, Jorge Bustos ; music, Raul Lavista, Cuco Sánchez ; photography, Gabriel Figueroa. Special features: trailers and weblinks./ Participants: Pedro Armendáriz, María Felix, Carlos Agosti, Domingo Soler. Awards: Ariel Awards, Mexico, 1957: Silver Ariel, Best editing (Jorge Bustos).
Plot:	In Mexico of 1909 a peasant girl rises to fame and riches as a noted courtesan. She retains loyalty to her roots and her love for a zapatista brings about her downfall.
Subjects:	Feature films. Mexico. Revolution, 1910-1920.
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Title:	Espaldas mojadas
Director:	Alejandro Galindo
Format:	1 videodisc (110 min.) :sd., b&w 4 3/4 in. DVD Region 1
Imprint:	Los Angeles, Calif. : Distributed by Urban Vision Entertainment, 2003
Language:	Spanish
Notes:	Originally released as a motion picture in 1953. Ciudad ; distribuida en la República Mexicana por " Distribuidora Mexicana de Peliculas S.A." ; una co-producción de " Productora Atlas, S.A.", ATA Films, S.A. presento ; produccion a cargo de José Elvira ; direccion de Alejandro Galindo. Director of photography, Rosalio Solano ; editor, Carlos Savage ; music, Jorge Perez H. Special features: trailers; links. Participants: David Silva, Victor Parra, Martha Valdes, Oscar Pulido, Pedro Vargas, Carolina Barret, Lola Beltran, Guillermo Alvarez, Alicia Malvido. : Awards: Ariel Awards: Best Supporting Actor (Eulalio Gonzalez " Piporro") ; Best Supporting Actress (Carolina Barret) ; Best Original Story (Alejandro Galindo) ; Film of National Interest (Alejandro Galindo).
Plot:	A timeless and poignant tale dramatizing the plight of Mexican migrant workers in the U.S. Rafael, in trouble and in need of work, crosses the border to a new life. He does not adapt to life in the U.S. though and ultimately returns to Mexico.
Subjects:	Feature films. Mexico. United States. Migrant labor.
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Title:	Espérame en Siberia, vida mia
Director:	René Cardona
Format:	1 videodisc (95 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 1)
Imprint:	Northridge, Calif. : Laguna Films, c2003
Language:	Spanish
Notes:	Originally released as a motion picture in 1971. Based on the novel by Enrique Jardiel Poncela. Producciones Zacarias S.A. ; productor, Miguel Zacarias ; dirección, René Cardona, Jr.Photography, Alex Philips Jr. ; editor, Gloria Schoemann ; film adaptation, René Cardona Jr. ; original music, Luis Hernández Bretón. Performer Mauricio Garces, Zulma Faiad, Manolo Fabregas, Enrique Rocha.
Plot:	When a rich man, who bequeaths everything to his doctor, finally finds love and marries, the doctor is determined to keep his inheritance.
Subjects:	Feature films. Mexico. Literary Adaptation.
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Title:	Estas ruinas que ves / These ruins that you see
Director:	Julián Pastor
Format:	1 videodisc (ca. 103 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Imprint:	Phoenix, AZ : Desert Mountain Media, c2002.
Language:	Spanish dialogue ; optional English subtitles.
Notes:	Videodisc release of the 1978 motion picture. Based on the novel by Jorge Ibargüengoitia. Digitally restored from the original film negative." A Julián Pastor film ; Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografía. directed by Julián Pastor ; Screen play by Jorge Patiño ; produced by Conacine ; music, Leonardo Velazquez. Participants: Fernando Luján, Blanca Guerra, Pedro Armendáriz.
Plot:	A university literature professor meets a beautiful ex-student, engaged to another man.
Subjects:	Feature films. Mexico. Literary Adaptation
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Title:	Fando y Lis / La constellation
Director:	Alexandro Jodorowsky
Format:	1 videodisc (96 min.). DVD, mono.; sd., b&w & col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Imprint:	California : Fantoma, 1999
Language:	First film: Spanish with optional English or French subtitles. 2nd film: French and English with optional English subtitles
Notes:	Producciones Pánicas presenta un film de Alexandro Jodorowsky ; diálogos y textos de Fernando Arrabal y Alexandro Jodorowsky ; dirección, guión, y adaptación cinematográfica, Alexandro Jodorowsky. Basada en la obra de teatro de Fernando Arrabal. Originally released as a motion picture in 1968. Credits Photography, Reynoso & Corkidi ; music, Pepe Avila, Hector Morelys, Mario Lozua ; executive producers, Mauricio & Samuel Rosemberg. Performer Sergio Klainer, Diana Mariscal, María Teresa Rivas, Tamara Garina, Juan José Arreola, René Rebetez, Amparo Villegas.    Includes audio commentary by Alexandro Jodorowsky and full-color reproduction of the original 8-page handbill given out at the film-s premiere. Includes feature-length documentary La constellation Jodorowsky (1995, 87 min., col., stereo, directed by Louis Mouchet, featuring interviews with Jean Moebius Giraud, Marcel Marceau & Peter Gabriel.
Plot:	"Surreal beauty and savage imagery [are blended] to fashion this bizarre tale of corrupted innocence, sadomasochistic love, and unattainable paradise" Container.
Subjects:	Feature films. Chile. Mexico. Spain. Fantasy films. Literary adaptation.
Location:	View Catalog Record
Title:	Fando y Lis
Director:	Alexandro Jodorowsky
Format:	1 videodisc (96 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.DVD (Region 1)
Imprint:	New York, NY : ABKCO Films ; Troy, MI : Distributed by Anchor Bay Entertainment, c2007.
Language:	Dialogue in Spanish with optional subtitles in English, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, and French; closed-captioned.
Notes:	Originally released as a motion picture in 1968. Producciones Pánicas presenta un film de Alexandro Jodorowsky ; diálogos y textos de Fernando Arrabal y Alexandro Jodorowsky ; dirección, guión, y adaptación cinematográfica, Alexandro Jodorowsky. Basada en la obra de teatro de Fernando Arrabal. Credits Photography, Reynoso & Corkidi ; music, Pepe Avila, Hector Morelys, Mario Lozua ; executive producers, Mauricio & Samuel Rosemberg. Performer Sergio Klainer, Diana Mariscal, María Teresa Rivas, Tamara Garina, Juan José Arreola, René Rebetez, Amparo Villegas. Special features Includes: feature commentary by Alejandro Jodorowsky; bonus material and commentary tracks; on camera interview with Alejandro Jodorowsky; original theatrical trailer; photo gallery; original script excerpts.
Plot:	Fando and his paraplegic sweetheart Lis search for the enchanted city of Tar where spiritual ecstasy resides. The road trip takes them through urban rubble, scalding deserts, treacherous mountains, their own pasts, and close encounters of the weirdest kind.
Subjects:	Feature films. Chile. Spain. Mexico. Fantasy films. Literary adaptation.
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Title:	La fiesta de los perrones
Director:	Jesús Fragoso.
Format:	California : Azteca Pictures ; Loveland, CO : Distributed by Noda Audio Visual, c1999.
Imprint:	1 videodisc (ca. 90 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD
Language:	Spanish
Notes:	Originally released as a motion picture in 1999. Azteca Pictures ; producida por Laguna Productions, Inc. ; dirigida por Jesús Fragoso. Photography, Arturo Vidart; editing, Jorge Manrique; screenplay, Jose Ramon Nevarez; music, Jorge Manrique Jr. Performer Julio Aleman, Claudia Vega, Roberto Ballesteros, Arturo Martinez, Arsenio Campos
Plot:	In order to end drug trafficking in the area, a specialist is called in.
Subjects:	Feature films. Mexico. Drug traffic -- Mexico -- Drama.
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Title:	La fiera de la montaña
Director:	Raymundo Calixto Sánchez
Format:	1 videodisc (ca. 90 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD.
Imprint:	S.l. : Excalibur Media Group : Chatsworth, CA : Woodhaven Entertainment [distributor], c2003.
Language:	Spanish
Notes:	Originally released as a motion picture in 2001. Producciones César Balestra ; argumento y adaptación, José Luis Quintero y Raymundo Calixto S. ; producida por César M. Balestra y Campuzano ; dirigida por Raymundo Calixto Sánchez. Performer Hugo Stiglitz, Andrés García Jr., Gustavo Aguilar "Manotas", Eva Garbo.
Plot:	The villagers in the Sierra Madre mountains believe a ghost exists in the woods. When three children disappear, their grandfather leads a search to find them. The villagers find that the 'ghost' is a mountain man and the children have befriended him.
Subjects:	Feature films. Mexico
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Title:	Flor de mayo
Director:	Roberto Gavaldón
Format:	1 videodisc (100 min.) ; sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 1)
Imprint:	Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Cozumel Films : Ventura Distribution, Cozumel classic films, 2003.
Language:	Spanish
Notes:	Film originally produced in 1959. Basada en la novela de Vicente Blasco Ibáñez.Cozumel Films ; dirigida por Roberto Gavaldón. Música, Gustavo C. Carrión. Participants: María Félix, Jack Palance, Pedro Armendáriz.
Plot:	Es la historia de tres personas unidas por un pasado obscuro, lleno de engaños que los lleva a las puertas de la violencia. An American fisherman has an affair with the wife of his business partner, entangling all three in a web of violence.
Subjects:	Feature films. Mexico. Literary Adaptation.
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Title:	Frida : naturaleza viva
Director:	Paul Leduc
Format:	1 videocassette (108 min.) ; sd., col. ; 1/2 in.
Imprint:	Los Angeles, Calif. : Connoisseur Video, c1989.
Language:	Spanish dialogue, English subtitles.
Notes:	Originally produced as a motion picture in 1984. Clasa Films Mundiales ; guión, José Joaquín Blanco y Paul Leduc ; productor, Manuel Barbachano Ponce ; director, Paul Leduc. Photography, Alejandro Luna ; editing, Rafael Castanedo. Performer Ofelia Medina, Juan José Gurrola, Salvador Sánchez, Max Kerlow, Claudio Brook. First Prize, Havana Film Festival, 1985.
Plot:	On her deathbed, the artist Frida Kahlo recalls her life as a painter and reflects on the effects of her illnesses and injuries and on her relationships with Leon Trotsky, husband Diego Rivera, and others.
Subjects:	Feature films. Mexico. Biographical films. Kahlo, Frida.
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Title:	Frida
Director:	Julie Taymor.
Format:	2 videodiscs (122 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Imprint:	United States: Miramax Home Entertainment : Burbank, Calif. : Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment, 2003, c2002.
Language:	Dialogue in English with optional soundtrack in French, and with optional Spanish subtitles; Closed-captioned.
Notes:	Miramax Films presents in association with Margaret Rose Perenchio a Ventanarose production in association with Lions Gate Films, a film by Julie Taymor ; producers, Sarah Green, Salma Hayek, Jay Polstein, et al. ; screenplay writers, Clancy Sigal, et al. ; director, Julie Taymor. Originally released as a motion picture in 2002. Based on the book by Hayden Herrera. Director of photography, Rodrigo Prieto ; editor, Françoise Bonnot ; music composer, Elliot Goldenthal ; costume designer, Julie Weiss ; production designer, Felipe Fernández del Paso. Performer Salma Hayek, Alfred Molina, Valeria Golino, Mia Maestro, Roger Rees, Diego Luna, Geoffrey Rush, Ashley Judd, Antonio Banderas.    Disc 1: feature film with commentary by director Julie Taymor; selected scenes commentary with composer Elliot Goldenthal; a conversation with Salma Hayek --    Disc 2: American Film Institute Q&A with director Julie Taymor; Bill Moyers interview with Julie Taymor; Chavela Vargas interview; the voice of Lila Downs; the vision of Frida: with Rodrigo Prieto and Julie Taymor; the design of Frida: with Felipe Fernandez; the music of Frida: with Elliot Goldenthal and Salma Hayek; Salma Hayek-s recording session; bringing Frida Kahlo-s life and art to film: a walk through real locations; portrait of an artist; Amobea Proteus visual FX; The Brothers Quay visual FX; Frida Kahlo facts.
Plot:	The life of artist Frida Kahlo, from her humble upbringing to her worldwide fame and controversy that surrounded both her and her husband, Diego Rivera.
Subjects:	Feature Films. Mexico. Frida Khalo. Diego Rivera, 1886-1957.
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Title:	El fugitivo
Director:	Emilio Gomez Muriel
Format:	1 videodisc (101 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (regions 1 & 4).
Imprint:	Mexico : Distrimax, S.A. de C.V., c2005.
Language:	Spanish
Notes:	Originally produced as a film in 1966. Director, Emilio Gomez Muriel ; music, Antonio Diaz Conde ; cinematography, Ezequiel Carrasco ; producer, Enrique Rosas Priego ; writers, Emilio Gómez Muriel, Alfredo Ruanova. Performer Luis Aguilar, Lucha Villa, Alma Delia Fuentes, Roberto Cañedo, Raul Ramirez.
Plot:	A man who spent 10 years in prison for a fraud he did not commit waits for the right moment for revenge.
Subjects:	Feature films. Mexico
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Title:	Gabino Barrera
Director:	Rene Cardona
Format:	1 videodisc (1 hr., 28 min.) ; sd., col. ; 1/2 in. DVD (Region 1)
Imprint:	Costa Mesa, Calif. : Vanguard Cinema, c2004.
Language:	Spanish with optional English subtitles.
Notes:	Originally released as a motion picture in 1964. Vanguard Cinema in association with JC Films Inc. Producers, Gregorio Walerstein, Jesus Grovas; director, Rene Cardona; writer, Rafael Garcia Travesi; music Enrique Cabiati; cinematography, Fernando Colin. Performer Antonio Aguilar, Maria Duval, Jaime Fernandez, Eleazar Garcia, Liza Castro, Miguel Ángel Ferriz, Guillermo Rivas, Mario Alberto Rodriguez.
Plot:	Gabino Barrera was a legend of his time and a symbol of his people; a fighter against injustice, a true Mexican hero.
Subjects:	Feature films. Mexico.
Location:	View Catalog Record
Title:	Gallo de oro / The golden cockerel
Director:	Manuel Barbachano Ponce
Format:	1 videodisc (ca. 105 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 1).
Imprint:	[Chicago, IL] : Cinemateca - Condor Video : Distributed by Facets Video, 2003.
Language:	In Spanish with optional English subtitles.
Notes:	Originally released as a motion picture in 1964. Based on the story of the same name by Juan Rulfo. Clasa Films Mundiales ; una pelicula de Manuel Barbachano Ponce ; cinedrama de Carlos Fuentes, Gabriel García Márquez, Robert Gavaldon ; director, Roberto Gavaldón. Special features: Original theatrical trailer, cast and crew biographies. Credits Photography, Gabriel Figueroa; editor, Gloria Schoemann; music, Ruben Fuentes. Performers Ignacio López Tarso, Lucha Villa, Narciso Busquets.
Plot:	A poor man forgets his roots in the fame, wealth and romance of the cock-fighting arena. His luck runs out and he is returned to his origins
Subjects:	Feature films. Mexico. Literary Adaptation.
Location:	View Catalog Record
Title:	Un gallo en corral ajeno
Director:	Julián Soler
Format:	1 videodisc (ca. 90 min.) ; sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 1)
Imprint:	Thousand Oaks, CA : Ventura Distribution, Cozumel classic films, 2003.
Language:	Spanish
Notes:	Videorecording of 1951 motion picture. Based on "Ladron de Gallinas," a play by Adolfo Torrado. Cozumel Films ; Columbia. Producer, David Negrete and Felipe Subervielle; music, Manuel Esperon; director, Julian Soler.. Participants: Jorge Negrete, Gloria Marín, Andrés Soler.
Plot:	"En esta divertida y realista historia Jorge Negrete representa el papel de un vagabundo con doble personalidad quien se encuentra con una necia y rica escultora (Gloria Marín) quien decide tratar de moldear a este hombre a su gusto como lo haría con cualquier obra suya, pero no se imagina las sorpresas que le esperan con este "Charro" Mexicano"--Container.
Subjects:	Feature films. Mexico Literary Adaptation
Location:	View Catalog Record
Title:	Gitana tenías que ser
Director:	Rafael Baledón
Format:	1 videodisc (88 min.) ; sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 1)
Imprint:	Thousand Oaks, CA. : Cozumel Films : Ventura Distribution, 2003
Language:	Spanish
Notes:	Originally produced as motion picture in 1953. Cozumel Films ; una produción de Cesáreo González ; dirigada por Rafael Baledón. Cinemagrafía, Raúl Martínez Solares. Original story by Janet and Luis Alcoriza; adapted by Fernando Galiana, Ramón Obón. Participants: Pedro Infante, Carmen Sevilla, Chula Prieto.
Plot:	La cantante gitana Pastora de los Reyes llega a México con su prima, tía y tío. Ella va a filmar una película con el mariachi Pablo (Infante) como el galán. Él la conoce en el aeropuerto y se desagradan mutuamente al instante. Más tarde las cosas empiezan a cambiar cuando cantan en la Plaza Garibaldi. Justo cuando Pablo trata de besarla, los fotografos los interrumpen y ella piensa que todo fue por pura publicidad. Ella se va enojada. Después de eso, Pastora y Pablo no pueden verse ni en pintura, y finalmente Pastora declara que quiere a Pablo, y el productor le informa que él había sido el que contrató a los fotógrafos y no Pablo. Van a ver a Pablo a Garibaldi, pero este la recibe con la canción del desinfle (ya no te quiero, ya no me gustas, ahora me asustas me das horror). Pastora sale desilusionada de Garibaldi. Cuando acaba la filmación de la película, Pastora se va al aeropuerto para regresar a España, le habla a Pablo para decirle la razón por la que había ido a buscarlo, pero que ya no lo podía esperar, Pablo sale inmediatamente al aeropuerto, pero ya no alcanza al avión. Cuando ya regresaba todo desconsolado, Pastora lo estaba esperando en el pasillo, Pablo simplemente le dice: "Gitana tenías que ser". Como en la mayoría de películas, el amor triunfa al final.
Subjects:	Feature films. Mexico
Location:	View Catalog Record
Title:	Gran Casino
Director:	Luis Buñuel
Format:	2 videodiscs (191 min.) ; sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Imprint:	Santa Monica, CA : Lions Gate Entertainment, 2007
Language:	Spanish with English subtitles.
Notes:	Originally produced in 1947. Producer, Óscar Dancigers ; story, Michel Veber ; adaptation, Mauricio Magdaleno ; directed by Luis Buñuel. Cinematographer, Jack Draper ; editor, Gloria Schoemann ; music, Manuel Esperón. Participants: Jorge Negrete, Libertad Lamarque, Meche Barba, Agustín Isunza, Julio Villarreal. This DVD is in a Luis Buñuel 2-disc collector's ed. In Disc 2 includes: La Joven.
Plot:	An excaped convict and his friend get hired by a rich oil magnet, who shortly thereafter goes missing. In The young one, on an isolated island off the coast an adolescent girl finds herself protected first by a handyman and then by an escaped jazz musician wanted for rape. Of course the handyman at first tries to kill the escapee, but eventually sees that he is wrong about the guy.
Subjects:	Feature films. Mexico. Spain.
Location:	View Catalog Record
Title:	El gran calavera
Director:	Luis Buñuel
Format:	1 videodisc (ca. 92 min.) ; sd., b&w. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 1)
Imprint:	México : Televisa, Alter Films, 2004
Language:	Spanish
Notes:	Original produced as a film in 1949. Based on the play by Adolfo Torrado. Dirección, Luis Buñuel ; producción, Fernando Soler, Oscar Dancigers. Film adaptation, Raquel, Luis Alcoriza; cinematography, Ezequiel Carrasco; film editing, Carlos Savage; original music, Manuel Esperón.
Plot:	"Concerns a family's attempts to change the patriarch's somewhat indulgent and hedonistic ways by fooling him into thinking his large fortune is gone. They assume a life of poverty in Mexico in an attempt to teach him a lesson. However, he discovers it's a ruse, but continues to perpetuate the facade of ignorance while sneaking off during the day to conduct his thriving business. Why? To teach his family a lesson - they are all lazy, worthless leeches!"--IMDb plot summary.
Subjects:	Feature films. Spain. Mexico
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Title:	Great expectations
Director:	Alfonso Cuarón.
Format:	1 videodisc (122 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 1)
Imprint:	Beverly Hills, CA : Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, c1999.
Language:	English with optional soundtrack in French ; English and Spanish subtitles available.
Notes:	Videodisc release of the 1998 motion picture. Based on the novel by Charles Dickens. Twentieth Century Fox ; screenplay by Mitch Glazer ; produced by Art Linson ; directed by Alfonso Cuarón. Director of photography, Emmanuel Lubezki; editor, Steven Weisberg ; music, Patrick Doyle. Performer Ethan Hawke, Gwyneth Paltrow, Anne Bancroft, Robert De Niro, Hank Azaria, Chris Cooper.
Plot:	Based on Charles Dickens' novel, this is a story of the love of a man for an unreachable woman. Updated to modern day New York City, the story concerns a man of modest background who falls in love with a rich girl. But when a mysterious benefactor greenlights the man to make his dreams come true, everything done has the ultimate goal of making Estella fall in love with him.
Subjects:	Feature films. Mexico. United States. Literary Adaptation
Location:	View Catalog Record
Title:	El Grito
Director:	Gabriel Beristain
Format:	1 videodisc (99 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 1)
Imprint:	California: Condor Media: Distributed by Vanguard Cinema,
Language:	Spanish with English subtitles.
Notes:	Originally released as a motion picture in 1999. a film by Gabriel Beristain ; producers, Isaac Artenstein, Paul Marquez ; screenplay, M. Francesconi, Tim Hoy ; director, Gabriel Beristain. Participants: Yareli Arizmendi, Steven Bauer, Olivia Hussey.
Plot:	Detective Carlos Ibarra investigates a puzzling series of murders. Beautiful, well-dressed women are being savagely mutilated and abandoned all over the city. Estela, a reporter from a crime tabloid stumbles upon a clue tieing these murders, but she needs time before the news causes widespread panic, so Ibarra strikes a deal with the reporter. Despite warming up to one another, Estela cannot hold onto the scoop for long, as her new discoveries will test Ibarra's mettle, rushing to solve the crime and save Estela's life. Estela es una mujer divorciada, de vida privilegiada que logra emplearse como fotógrafia y reporta de el Grito, un sordido tabloide policial. Estela, que aprende su oficio soportando la burla de sus colegas, también da con la clave que une una serie de asesinatos de bellas mujeres que aparecen salvajemente amputadas por la ciudad. Pero cuando la policía le impide publicar su primicia con el asesino aun suelto, Estela se apresura a resolver el misterio sin conocer las sorprendentes consecuencias que desatará.
Subjects:	Feature films. Mexico
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Title:	Guadalupe
Director:	Santiago Parra
Format:	1 videodisc (96 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (regions 1 & 4); widescreen; Dolby digital 2.0 & 5.1.
Imprint:	Mexico : Quality Films, 2006
Language:	Spanish ; optional subtitles in English or Italian.
Notes:	Originally released as a motion picture in 2006. Dos Corazones Films ; una película de Santiago Parra. Director, Santiago Parra; writer, Roberto Girault; original music, Juan Manuel Langanica; cinematograpy, Carlos Arenal. Performer José Carlos Ruiz, Pedro Armendáriz, Angélica Aragón, Eric del Castillo, Ivana Miño.
Plot:	A story of redemption and religious awakening that uses flash-backs to 16th century Mexico when legend says the Virgin Mary appeared before a peasant in the desert and modern day Mexico where two archaeologists seek proof of the legend and instead find the path to their own spiritual contentment.
Subjects:	Feature films. Mexico. Guadalupe, Our Lady of. Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint -- Apparitions and miracles.
Location:	View Catalog Record
Title:	La guarecita de Michoacan
Director:	úlio Aldama
Format:	1 videodisc ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Imprint:	Reseda, CA : Venus Pictures ; Loveland, CO : Distributed by Noda Audio Visual, 2003.
Language:	Spanish
Notes:	Originally produced in 2003. Venus Pictures. Writer, Enrique Murillo; producer, Luis Michel; director, Júlio Aldama.Performer Alfredo Bojorquez, Jaime Fernandez, Tania Mendoza, Luis Michel, Marco Antonio Orozco.
Plot:	"Una deuda de juego es siempre una dueda de honor, pero cuando se gana a la mala la deuda a pagar tiene un perdón; es así como comienza la historia de esta película en la que la acción, bellos paisajes y mujeres hermosas de la sierra de Michoacán lo impactaran de tal manera que usted no podrá pararse de su asiento"--Container.
Subjects:	Feature films. Mexico
Location:	View Catalog Record
Title:	Harry Potter and the prisoner of Azkaban
Director:	Alfonso Cuarón
Format:	2 videodiscs (ca. 142 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 1)
Imprint:	Burbank, Calif.: Warner Home Video, 2004
Language:	English or dubbed Spanish, with optional French or Spanish subtitles;
Notes:	Originally released as a motion picture in 2004. Based on the novel by J.K. Rowling. Warner Bros ; 1492 Pictures ; Heyday Films ; producers, Chris Columbus, David Heyman, Mark Radcliffe ; screenplay, Steve Kloves ; directed by Alfonso Cuarón. Director of photography, Michael Seresin ; editor, Steven Weisberg ; music, John Williams ; costume designer, Jany Temime ; production designer, Stuart Craig ; visual effects supervisors, Tim Burke, Roger Guyett. Participants: Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint, Robbie Coltrane, Alan Rickman, Maggie Smith, Michael Gambon, David Thewlis, Gary Oldman. Special features (disc 2): a selection of mystifying exclusive never-before-seen footage ; "Creating the vision" a revealing interview with J.K. Rowling and the filmmakers ; three great interactive challenges ; self-guided iPIX tours ; interviews with cast lead Johnny Vaughn and the Shrunken Head ; meet the animal trainer ; "Choir practice" sing-along with Hogwarts choir ; Hogwarts portrait gallery ; conjuring a scene ; theatrical trailers from all three Harry Potter films ; Electronic Arts game preview ; DVD-ROM features: Wizard trading cards ; Hogwarts timeline.
Plot:	Harry, Ron, and Hermione, now teenagers, return for their third year at Hogwarts. There they are forced to face escaped prisoner Sirius Black, who poses a great threat to Harry. Harry must overcome the threats of Dementors, outsmart a werewolf, and finally deal with the truth about Sirius and his relationship with his parents. Harry and friends master advanced magic classes, cross time barriers, and change the course of more than one life.
Subjects:	Feature films. United states. Mexico
Location:	View Catalog Record
Title:	Hasta morir / 'Til death
Director:	Fernando Sariñana
Format:	1 videodisc (ca. 100 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD; full screen.
Imprint:	United States : CineVilla ; Marina Del Rey, Calif. : Distributed by Rebel Crew Films, 2006
Language:	Spanish with English subtitles.
Notes:	Originally produced as a motion picture in 1994. Vida Films ; produced by Fernando Sariñana ; story and screenplay by Marcela Fuentes-Berain ; directed by Fernando Sariñana. Director of photography, Guillermo Granillo ; art director, Gloria Carrasco ; editor, Carlos Bolado ; music, Eduardo Gamboa, Enrique Quezadas Luna. Participants: Demian Bichir, Juan Manuel Bernal, Veronica Merchant, Montserrat Ontiveros Vanessa Bauche. Awards Ariel Awards, Mexico: Silver Ariel for Best Actor & Best Sound, 1995. Guadalajara Mexican Film Festival: Audience Award, 1994. Havana Film Festival: Best Editing & Coral for Best First Work, 1994.
Plot:	The violent lives of Mexican street kids are examined in this intense Mexican social drama that centers upon the friendship between two adolescents.
Subjects:	Feature films. Mexico. Gangs. Mexico City.
Location:	View Catalog Record
Title:	Los hermanos muerte
Director:	Rafael Baledon
Format:	1 videodisc (ca. 90 min) ; sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (region 1 & 4); full screen; 2.0 sound.
Imprint:	México : Alterfilms, c2006.
Language:	Spanish
Notes:	Originally produced in 1964. Um filme de Producciones Sotomayor ; dirigido por Rafael Baledon. Story and screenplay, José Ma. Fernandez Unsain; cinematography, Raúl Martínez Solares; film editing, Carlos Savage Jr.; original music, Rubén Fuentes, José Alfredo Jiménez, Tomás Méndez, Cuco Sánchez, Armando Valdéz Herrera, Silvestre Vargas. Performer Emilio Fernandez, Luis Aguilar, Lola Beltran, Julio Aldama, Fernando Soler.
Plot:	En medio de un méxico convulsionado por los ánimos de la revolución surge, en un pueblo que podría ser cualquiera del país, un grupo dirigido por tres hermanos implacables, valientes y mortíferos: los hermanos muerte.
Subjects:	Feature films. Mexico
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Title:	El hijo de Gabino Barrera
Director:	René Cardona
Format:	1 videodisc (90 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 1)
Imprint:	Northridge, CA : Laguna Films, c2004.
Language:	Spanish
Notes:	Originally produced in 1962. Productora, Estudios América y Cinematografía Filmex. Director, René Cardona; writer, Jorge Erico Cabiati; music, Rafael García Travesi. Performer Antonio Aguilar, Jaime Fernández, Jorge Russek, Eleazar García, Eric del Castillo, Carmelita Gonzalez, Aurora Clavel, Delia Magaña, Bruno Rey, Ramon Bugarini.
Plot:	Gabino Barrera was a feared, audacious man, a man who became a legend in his own time. Now his son will fight until the end to obtain what he thinks is his only purpose in his life, to take revenge for the death of his father. Unfortunately in the process he falls in love with the daughter of the presumed murderer.
Subjects:	Feature films. Mexico
Location:	View Catalog Record
Title:	Los hijos de María Morales
Director:	Fernando de Fuentes.
Format:	1 videodisc (ca. 108 min.) ; sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (regions 1 & 4).
Imprint:	Mexico : Videomax : Distribuido por Distrimax, c2005.
Language:	Spanish
Notes:	Una producción Diana Films ; edición por José W. Bustos ; música por Manuel Esperón ; fotografía Ignacio Torres ; argumento Fernando Méndez ; producida por Fernando de Fuentes y Antonio Matouk ; dirigida por Fernando de Fuentes.
Plot:	A humorous romantic adventure about two rejoicing brothers whose lives revolve around gambling and romancing women as they challenge gamblers from town to town.
Subjects:	Feature films. Mexico
Location:	View Catalog Record
Title:	The Hire: The Powder Keg.
Director:	Alejandro González Iñárritu.
Format:	1 videodisc (14 minutes) sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. (Region 1)
Imprint:	United States: BMW of North America, 2003
Language:	English
Notes:	Short film included in a DVD titled The hire: a series of 8 short films. A collection of short films created by some of the movie industry's best talent. In each film, Clive Owen stars as the Driver, whose skill behind the wheel becomes critical to the film's plot. Sub-Stories provide an underlying plot linking each film to the next. The Sub-Stories can be accessed through special features.
Plot:	The DVD Contents is: Hostage / John Woo -- Ticker / Joe Carnahan -- Beat the devil / Tony Scott -- Ambush / John Frankenheimer -- Chosen / Ang Lee -- The follow / Wong Kar-Wai -- Star / Guy Ritchie -- Powder keg / Alejandro González Iñárritu.
Subjects:	Feature Films. Short Films. Experimental films. United States. Mexico.
Location:	View Catalog Record
Title:	The holy mountain
Director:	Alejandro Jodorowsky.
Format:	1 videodisc (113 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD; Dolby digital 5.1 and 2.0 stereo.; region 1.
Imprint:	New York : ABKCO Films ; Troy, MI : Distributed by Anchor Bay Entertainment, c2007.
Language:	Soundtrack in English ; with optional subtitles in English, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese or French; closed-captioned.
Notes:	Originally produced as a motion picture in 1973. Special features includes: Commentary by Alejandro Jodorowky; on camera interview with Alejandro Jodorowsky; original theatrical trailer; photo gallery; original script excerpts. Writer and director: Alejandro Jodorowsky ; produced by Allen Klein ; cinematography by Raphael Corkidi.
Plot:	A Christlike figure wanders through bizarre, grotesque scenarios filled with religious and sacrilegious imagery. He joins a group of six wealthy and powerful individuals and together they ascend the Holy Mountain to gain the secret of eternal life.
Subjects:	Feature films. Mexico
Location:	View Catalog Record
Title:	La ilusion viaja en tranvia / Illusion travels by streetcar.
Director:	Luis Buñuel.
Format:	1 videodisc (90 min.) ; 4 3/4 in. DVD
Imprint:	Mexico : : Alter Films : Televisa, 2003.
Language:	Spanish; optional subtitles in Spanish and English.
Notes:	DVD release of the 1953 film by Clasa Film. Director, Luis Buñuel ; producer, Armando Orive Alba ; editor, Jorge Bustos and Luis Buñuel ; music, Luis Hernández Bretón. Performer Lilia Prado, Carlos Navarro, Fernando Soto "Mantequiilla", Agustín Isunza, Miguel Manzano.
Plot:	"In the 50's, in Mexico, the streetcar mechanic Juan Godinez and the pilot Tarrajas become upset when they are informed by their supervisor that the streetcar number 133 will be decommissioned. They go to a party and late night, they get drunk and decide to borrow the streetcar for one last spin for fun, without charging the passengers. Completely wasted, they sleep in the streetcar and on the next morning, they get in troubled and weird situations while trying to return the vehicle to the garage"--IMDb plot summary.
Subjects:	Feature films. Spain Mexico
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Title:	imperio de la fortuna
Director:	Arturo Ripstein.
Format:	1 videodisc (ca. 130 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 1)
Imprint:	[Phoenix, Az.] : Desert Mountain Media, 2005
Language:	Spanish language soundtrack (stereo 2.0) with optional English subtitles.
Notes:	Originally produced as a motion picture in Mexico in 1985. Based on the book El gallo de oro by Juan Rulfo. IMCINE, Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografía presenta una película de Arturo Ripstein ; argumento, Juan Rulfo ; guión, Paz Alicia Garciadiego ; productor ejecutivo, Héctor López Lechuga ; dirección, Arturo Ripstein. Director of photography, Angel Goded ; editor, Carlos Savage ; music, Lucía Alvarez. Participants: Ernesto Gómez Cruz, Blanca Guerra, Alejandro Parodi, Zaide Silvia Gutiérrez. Digitally restored from the original film negative. Special features include biographies and filmographies of Arturo Ripstein, Ernesto Gómez Cruz, and Blanca Guerra. Mejor Película en Londres, Cartagena y la Habana. Ganadora de 9 Arieles y 6 Diosas de Plata, incluyendo Mejor Película y Mejor Dirección en ambos casos. Premio " DICINE" a la Mejor Película Mexicana de la década.
Plot:	A poor peasant is given a loser fighting cock for food, but he instead trains it and begins to make money. His new-found fortune attracts the local cabaret singer and he becomes attracted to her, believing she is his good luck charm.    "Historia de Dionisio Pinzón, anunciador de palenques, y de un regalo que le cambia la vida; un gallo moribundo. Tras la muerte de su madre y la recuperación del gallo, éste hace ganar dinero a Dionisio en los palenques. La fortuna parece sonreírle, y más aún cuando la mujer que ama accede a casarse con él."
Subjects:	Feature films. Mexico
Location:	View Catalog Record
Title:	Infierno en la sierra
Director:	Jorge Araujo.
Format:	1 videodisc ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Imprint:	Van Nuys, Calif. : Pegassus Films ; Loveland, CO : Distributed by Noda Audio Visual, 2005.
Language:	Spanish
Notes:	Originally produced in 2000. Grupo Imagen Producciones presenta ; prduccion y direccion, Jorge Araujo. Participants: Guillermo Quintanilla, Antonio Raxel, Valente Pastor, Lalo El Gallo.
Plot:	Drug traffickers take over the mountain range on which to plant and grow drugs. To avoid discovery by the law, the fields have become a dangerous hell where only the lucky will survive.
Subjects:	Feature films. Mexico. Drug traffic.
Location:	View Catalog Record
Title:	Juan Charrasqueado y Gabino Barrera
Director:	Rafael Villaseñor
Format:	1 videodisc (ca. 90 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 1)
Imprint:	Van Nuys, CA : Laguna Films, c2004.
Language:	Spanish
Notes:	Videodisc release of the 1981 motion picture. Cima Films, S.A. de C.V. Director, Rafael Villaseñor; writer, Rafael Garcia Travesi; music, Federico Mendez; cinematography, Xavier Cruz. Performer Vicente Fernandez, Miguel A. Rodriguez, Blanca Guerra, Carlos Cardan, David Reynoso, Maribel Guardia, Carlos Derbez, Tere Alvarez, Humberto Elizondo, Arturo Martinez.
Plot:	Juan Charrasqueado, a notorious womanizer, and Gabino Barrera, the revolutionary zapatista, fight for the heart of the same woman in this Mexican adventure film.
Subjects:	Feature films. Mexico
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Title:	Japón
Director:	Carlos Reygadas
Format:	1 videodisc (126 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (PAL, Region 2)
Imprint:	USA. : Tartan Video, 2002
Language:	Spanish; subtitles in English.
Notes:	Originally produced as a motion picture in 2002. NoDream Cinema, con la colaboración de Mantarraya Producciones ; guión y dirección, Carlos Reygadas ; productor, Carlos Reydagas. Director of photography, Diego Martinez Vignatti ; editing, Daniel Melguizo, Carlos Serrano, David Torres. Participants: Alejandro Ferretis, Magdalena Flores. Special feature: interview with director Carlos Reygadas.
Plot:	Mexican director Carlos Reygadas' first film is a poetic, existential drama that explores life, death, truth and redemption on a journey through the rugged and unforgiving Mexican landscape. The film follows an unnamed, middle-aged artist (Alejandro Ferretis), who is tired and disillusioned with life in Mexico City. He travels to the countryside where he plans to kill himself. Here, he meets Ascen (Magdalena Flores), an old widow who lives by herself in the mountains, and he takes up lodging with her. Ascen is uneducated, but has a profound understanding of life's problems. Her ability to transcend them is far superior to that of the intellectual Ferretis; her limitless generosity and kindness help him find the will to live.
Subjects:	Feature films. Mexico
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Title:	El jardín del Edén / The garden of Eden
Director:	María Novaro.
Format:	1 videodisc (104 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Imprint:	United States: Vanguard Cinema, 2001
Language:	In Spanish with English subtitles.
Notes:	Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografía, et al. en coproducción con Macondo Cine Video ; una película de María Novaro ; guión, Beatriz Novaro and María Novaro ; producción, Jórge Sanchez ; dirección, María Novaro. Originally released as a motion picture in 1994. Credits Director of photography, Eric A. Edwards ; editor, Sigfrido Barjau. Performer Renée Coleman, Bruno Bichir, Gabriela Roel, Rosario Sagrav, Alan Ciangheroti, Ana Ofelia Murguía, Joseph Culp.
Plot:	Three border-crossing stories are intertwined on the contemporary U.S.-Mexican border at Tijuana: those of a young Mexican mother with three children, seeking to start a new life after her husband-s death; of a gringa adventurer looking for her whale-watching brother and for a Chicana friend in search of her roots; and of a campesino seeking to cross the border for better living conditions.
Subjects:	Feature films. United States. Mexico. Emigration and immigration. Tijuana (Baja California, Mexico).
Location:	View Catalog Record
Title:	J-ok'el-- la llorona
Director:	Benjamin Williams.
Format:	1 videodisc (88 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (regions 1 & 4); wide screen; Dolby digital 5.1 or 2.0.
Imprint:	México : Quality Films, c2007.
Language:	Spanish and English; Spanish or English subtitles.
Notes:	Originally released as a motion picture in 2007. Out Of Light Entertainment ; una película de Benjamin Williams. Story, Benjamin Williams; screenplay, Jeremy Svenson, Peter Theis, Andy Whitaker, Alondra Salinas; original music, George Shaw; director of photography, Andrew Waruszewski; film editing, Slater Dixon. Performer Tom Parker, Ana Patricia Rojo, Dee Wallace, Jesus Ochoa, Diana Bracho.
Plot:	"An unworldly and closed-minded American travels to a small village in exotic Chiapas, Mexico at the behest of his estranged mother when his half-sister disappears during a local epidemic of kidnappings attributed to the legendary J-ok'el, the weeping woman, who drowned her own babies centuries ago and whose spirit has returned to claim more children as her own"--IMDb plot summary.
Subjects:	Feature films. Mexico. Legends -- Mexico -- Chiapas.
Location:	View Catalog Record
Title:	La joven / The young one
Director:	Luis Buñuel
Format:	2 videodiscs (191 min.) ; sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Imprint:	Santa Monica, CA : Lions Gate Entertainment, 2007
Language:	English with Spanish and English subtitles
Notes:	Originally produced as a 1960 motion picture./ Inspired by Peter Matthiessen's story Travlin' man. Valiant Films presents ; Olmec Productions ; written for the screen by H.B. Addis, Luis Bunuel ; produced by George P. Werker ; directed by Luis Buñuel. Editor, Carlos Savage ; music, Jesus Zarzosa ; photography, Gabriel Figueroa. Participants: Zachary Scott, Bernie Hamilton, Kay Meersman, Crahan Denton, Claudio Brook. This DVD is Disc 2 in a Luis Buñuel 2-disc collector's ed. In Disc 1 includes: Gran Casino
Plot:	A game warden and an orphaned thirteen-year-old girl are the only inhabitants of an isolated island off the Carolina coast. The warden is obsessed by the girl, and when a black musician on the run from a lynch mob arrives on the island, the warden wants him out of the way.
Subjects:	Feature films. Mexico. United States. Spain. Racism.
Location:	View Catalog Record
Title:	El juicio de Martín Cortéz
Director:	Alejandro Galindo.
Format:	1 videodisc (ca. 115 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4/3 in DVD, (NTSC, Region 1)
Imprint:	Los Angeles, Calif. : Desert Mountain Media, 2007
Language:	Spanish
Notes:	Originally released as a film in 1974. Producción Televicine, S.A. de C.V. ; dirección, Alejandro Galindo. Participants: David Reynoso, Pili Bayona, Claudio Obregon, y Gonzalo Vega.
Plot:	"Durante la representación de la obra Martín Cortés, el primer mexicano, el actor que encarna a Martín asesina a su antagonista"--Container. During the performance of the work "Martin Cortez, the first Mexican", the actor who plays Martin kills his antagonist.
Subjects:	Feature films. Mexico
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Title:	Laberinto del Fauno / Pan's labyrinth
Director:	Guillermo del Toro
Format:	1 videodisc (approx. 119 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Imprint:	Burbank, CA : New Line Home Entertainment, 2007
Language:	Spanish with optional English or Spanish
Notes:	Originally released as a motion picture in 2006. Telecinco presenta ; una producción de Estudios Picasso, Tequilla Gang, Esperanto Filmoj ; en asociacion con CaféFX, Inc. ; una pelicula de Guillermo del Toro ; escrita, producida y dirigida por Guillermo del Toro ; producida por Bertha Navarro, et al.. Director of photography, Guillermo Navarro ; editor, Bernat Vilaplana ; music, Javier Navarrete ; costume designers, Lala Huete, Rocío Redondo ; production designer, Eugenio Caballero ; special effects supervisor, Reyes Abades ; visual effect supervisors, Everett Burrell, Edward Irastorza. Special features: video introduction; audio commentary by director Guillermo Del Toro; marketing campaign; sneak peeks; DVD-ROM features. Participants: Ariadna Gil, Ivana Baquero, Sergi López, Maribel Verdú, Doug Jones, Álex Angulo, Federico Luppi, Manolo Solo, César Vea, Roger Casamajor, Ivan Massagué, Gonzalo Uriarte.
Plot:	Set in 1944 Spain, against the backdrop of the anti-Franco guerrilla warfare. When young Ofelia and her mother go to live with her new stepfather on a rural military outpost, she finds herself in a world of unimaginable cruelty. Soon Ofelia finds the creatures of her imagination in which she used to escape have become a reality and she must battle them to save both her mother and herself. In the terrifying battle that ensues, Ofelia soon learns that innocence has a power that evil cannot imagine.
Subjects:	Feature films. Spain Mexico. Francoism.
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Title:	Lamberto Quintero
Director:	Mario Hernández
Format:	1 videodisc (ca. 90 min.) ; sd., col. 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 1)
Imprint:	United States: Itza Direct, 2005
Language:	Spanish
Notes:	Originally released as a motion picture in 1987. Producciones Aguila ; director, Mario Hernández. Producer, Antonio Aguilar; screenplay, Sergio Molina; photography, Agustín Lara Alvarado; music, Leonardo Velázquez; editor, Sergio Soto. Participants: Antonio Aguilar, Angélica Aragón, Marcela Rubiales, Merle Uribe, Mar Castro "La Chiquitibúm", Armando Araiza.
Plot:	Don Lamberto Quintero, un importante personaje de la zona, al cual todo el pueblo va en busca de su ayuda y sobre todo de su dinero, Este sin duda alguna, busca la manera de como ayudarlos y sacarlos de sus apuros. Pero no todos corren con la misma suerte, pues el poder que tiene y las riquezas son envidia de otro gran lider, el Sr. Valderrama. Enemigos hasta la muerte, luchan por conseguir el poder absoluto y saldar cuentas personales hasta conseguir sus propositos. Una historia llena de aventura, amor y accion que no puede dejar de ver.
Subjects:	Feature Films. Mexico
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Title:	Lauro Puñales
Director:	Rene Cardona
Format:	1 videodisc (90 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 1)
Imprint:	Northridge, CA : Laguna Films, 2004
Language:	Spanish
Notes:	Videodisc release of the 1969 film. Directed by Rene Cardona. Participants: Antonio Aquilar, Flor Silvestre, Jaime Fernández, Eleazar García "El chelelo."
Plot:	En la época de Emiliano Zapata muchos fueron los héroes que lo acompañaron y murieron por su causa, Lauro Puñales (Antonio Aguilar) fue uno de ellos, amó, luchó e inspiró a los suyos a continuar la lucha por los ideales zapatistas. Al ser emboscado por los traidores de la revolución, Lauro queda paralítico, pero posteriormente sus amigos lo ayudarán a descubrir quien fue el verdadero culpable de su desgracia.    Mexican movie star Antonio Aguilar stars as the titular character Lauro Punales in this tragic drama. Left paralyzed in a violent ambush by traitors of the Revolution, Lauro is devastated, bedridden, and cared for by friends and relatives. However, when it is discovered that the perpetrators of Lauro's attack can be identified and avenged, Lauro gains a newfound spirit. High drama and fast action combine to make this a fine Mexican flick.
Subjects:	Feature films. Mexico. Revolution, 1910-1920.
Location:	View Catalog Record
Title:	El leon de Sierra Morena
Director:	Miguel Contreras Torres
Format:	1 videocassette ( 57 min.) : b&w and ; 1/2 in (PAL)
Imprint:	Rio De Janeiro : Funarte Cinema Latinoamereicano. 1999 (Tesouros do cinema latino-americano)
Language:	Silent film
Notes:	Originally produced in 1927. Una producción de Miguel Contreras Torres [México]; Imperial Films [España]; Gaumont [Francia). Dirección: Miguel Contreras Torres. Guión: Miguel Contreras Torres, sobre la novela "José María, el Tempranillo" de Manuel Fernández y González. Fotografía: Georges Blanc y Barthe Guidhard. Decorados: Eugene Carré. Credited cast: Isabel Alemany; Miguel Contreras Torres ; Barón de Kardy ; Nilda Duplessy ; Santiago Guzmán ; René Navar ; René Navarre ; Lilian Prospect ; Carmen Rico.
Plot:	Durante la lucha que sostiene con Diego Fuentes por la hija de Miguel Vega, Morales es herido mortalmente. Diego huye a las montañas, donde se reune con la banda del Águila de la Sierra, un bandido generoso. Después de varias escaramuzas, Diego es aprehendido y condenado a morir en la horca. El Águila de la Sierra acude con una marquesa para que ésta interceda por Diego, quien finalmente es puesto en libertad.
Subjects:	Feature Films. Mexico. Silent films.
Location:	View Catalog Record
Title:	La leyenda de una máscara / The legend of a mask
Director:	José Buil
Format:	1 videodisc (94 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 i. DVD (Region 1)
Imprint:	Phoenix, Ariz. : Desert Mountain Media, c2003.
Language:	Spanish with optional subtitles in English
Notes:	Originally released as a motion picture in 1991. CONACINE S.A. de C.V. presenta ; producción ejecutiva, Mauricio Rojas, Gonzalo Herrerías ; dirección, José Buil ; argumento y guión, José Buil. Director of photography, Henner Hofmann ; editing, Sigfrido García Case ; music, Oscar Reynoso. Performers: Héctor Bonilla, Héctor Ortega, María Rojo, Gina Morett, Pedro Armendáriz. Special features: Full screen presentation; biographies of director and cast members; menus in Spanish or English.
Plot:	Después de la muerte de El Angel Enmascarado (un luchador popular), Olmo Robles, un reportero desconocido, se pone a investigar la verdadera identidad que el héroe siempre ha escondido tras su máscara.   After the death of The Masked Angel (a popular wrestler), Olmo Robles, an obscure sports reporter sets out to investigate the true identity of the hero that has always been hidden behind his mask.
Subjects:	Feature films. Mexico
Location:	View Catalog Record
Title:	La ley de Herodes / Herod's law
Director:	Luis Estrada
Format:	1 videodisc (ca. 122 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 1)
Imprint:	Beverly Hills, Calif. : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, 2003
Language:	Spanish; Subtitled in English.
Notes:	Originally produced in 1999. Bandidos Films presents a Luis Estrada film. Producer/director, Luis Estrada ; screenwriters, Luis Estrada, Jaime Sampietro, Fernando Léon, Vicente Leñero ; executive producer, Sandra Solares ; music, Santiago Ojeda. Participants: Damián Alcázar, Pedro Armendáriz, Jr., Alex Cox, Guillermo Gil, Ernesto Gómez Cruz, Leticia Huijara, Eduardo López Rojas, Manuel Ojeda, Salvador Sánchez, Isela Vega. Awards: 2000 Sundance Film Festival, Latin American Cinema award ; Mexican Festival, 9 Ariel awards.
Plot:	When in San Pedro de los Saguaros, the mayor is lynched by a group of indigenous people, the old junkyard operator Juan Vargas is named the Temporary Municipal President. This makes him believe that his dream of power is going to come true; but when confronted with the problems of the place, he decides to resign. However, his boss obliges him to stay by telling him that he's been touched by Herodes Law and gives to him the constitution as an aid and a gun. He soon discovers the delights of power applying the law along the way and provoking reactions that get out of control.
Subjects:	Feature films. Mexico. Political corruption.
Location:	View Catalog Record
Title:	A little princess
Director:	Alfonso Cuarón
Format:	1 videodisc (97 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Imprint:	Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, 1998
Language:	English with optional French and Spanish soundtracks and subtitles.
Notes:	Originally released as a motion picture in 1995. Based on the novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett. Warner Bros. presents a Mark Johnson/Baltimore Pictures production ; directed by Alfonso Cuaron ; screenplay by Richard La Gravenese and Elizabeth Chandler ; produced by Mark Johnson.
Plot:	Sara Crewe is the pampered daughter of an Army officer who is left in a strict boarding school when her father goes off to war. When he is reported dead, her world is turned upside down and she is made a servant at the school, yet she refuses to let her spirit be broken.
Subjects:	Feature films. Mexico. United States. Literary Adaptation.
Location:	View Catalog Record
Title:	Lolo
Director:	Francisco Athié
Format:	1 videodisc (88 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Imprint:	Marina Del Rey, CA CineVilla : Distributed by Rebel Crew Films, 2006
Language:	Spanish with English subtitles.
Notes:	Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica, Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografía, Estudios Churubusco Azteca ; productor, Gustavo Montiel ; guión y dirección , Francisco Athié. Cinematography, Jorge Medina; editor, Tlacatéotl Mata; sound editor, Antonio Diego; music, Juan Cristóbal Pérez Grobert. Performer Lucha Villa, Roberto Sosa, Damian Alcázar, Alonso Echánove.
Plot:	Dolores Chimal, also known as "Lolo", is an outcast boy who lives in the suburbs of Mexico City. After being assaulted and losing his job as a result of a week in the hospital, he accidentally kills the local moneylender (an old woman) when trying to rob his mother's golden watch that she had pawned. Lolo is then hunted and blackmailed by everybody but his girlfriend, Sonia, who is forced to sell herself at a men's club to help him. With money in their hands, Sonia and Lolo share the feeling of guilt and shame, and with the events in the neighborhood that have united them to such degree they decide to flee together.
Subjects:	Feature films. Mexico
Location:	View Catalog Record
Title:	Los de abajo
Director:	Servando Gonzalez
Format:	1 videocassette (ca. 97 min.) ; sd., col. ; 1/2 in. VHS
Imprint:	Encino, CA : Compañía Oxxo, c2000.
Language:	Spanish
Notes:	Videocassette release of the 1978 motion picture. Based on the novel by Mariano Azuela. Producido por Conacine ; dirección, Servando Gonzalez. Music, Silvestre Revueltos; photography, Gabriel Figueroa; editor, Emilio Gómez Muriel. Performer Eric de Castillo, Enrique Lucero, Jorge Victoria, Gloria Maestre, Raul Quijada.
Plot:	Demetrio Macias is a poor man who takes up the cause of the Mexican Revolution after his house if burned down. He and his compatriots battle side by side with Pancho Villa, getting caught up in the revolutionary spirit of the time. Their fight captures the common man's struggles and sacrifices during a difficult period in history.
Subjects:	Feature films. Mexico. Literary Adaptation
Location:	View Catalog Record
Title:	La lucha con la pantera
Director:	Alberto Bojórquez
Format:	1 videodisc (94 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 1 & 4)
Imprint:	Mexico: Conacine, 2007
Language:	Spanish
Notes:	Originally released as a motion picture in 1975. Corporación Nacional Cinematográfica (CONACINE). Reparto: Rocío Brambila, Marissa Makendosky, Mildred Hernández, Lilia Michel, Gregorio Casal, Cecilia Pezet, Roberto Dumont y Enrique Novi.
Plot:	La vida en los 70´s no fue fácil. Y tres ejemplos se impondrán como crueles vistazos a la vida desperdiciada de la juventud. Tres jovencitas cuyas existencias parecen irse al olvido : una de ellas tiene tendencias suicidas, la segunda experimenta una atracción incestuosa por su hermano, y la tercera añora ser abusada sexualmente, tal y como lo lee en sus fotonovelas. Adaptada del cuento homónimo de José de la Colina.
Subjects:	Feature Films. Mexico
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Title:	Lucía Lucía
Director:	Antonio Serrano
Format:	1 videodisc (108 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD; full screen and widescreen presentations; Dolby Digital 5.1 Dolby surround.
Imprint:	Beverly Hills, Calif. : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, c2003.
Language:	Spanish with English subtitles; closed-captioned in English.
Notes:	Originally released as a motion picture in 2003. Based on the novel "La hija del canibal" by Rosa Montero. Fox Searchlight Pictures ; Titán Producciones ; Argos Comunición en coprodución con Lola Films, et al. ; dirigada por Antonio Serrano ; productor, Matthias Ehrenberg ; productores, Christian Valdelievre, Inna Payán ; productores, Epigmenio Ibarra, Carlos Payán ; guion original, Antonio Serrano con la colaboración de Marcela Fuentes-Berain. Director of photography, Xavier Pérez Crobet ; editor, Jorge García ; music, Nacho Mastretta. Performer Cecilia Roth, Carlos Álvarez Novoa, Kuno Becker.
Plot:	"A woman's search for her missing husband ignites a dangerous and unexpectedly romantic adventure. It's a wild ride through the mysterious territory of identity, as Lucia finds herself in a triangle of love and friendship with a reawakened passion for life that's different from anything she ever imagined"--Container back cover.
Subjects:	Feature films. Mexico. Literary Adaptation.
Location:	View Catalog Record
Title:	Lucio Vazquez
Director:	René Cardona
Format:	1 videodisc (ca. 90 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Imprint:	Northridge, Calif. : Laguna Films, c2004.
Language:	Spanish; optional English subtitles; closed-captioned.
Notes:	Originally produced in 1966. Estudios América y Cinematográfica Filmex ; producción, Gregorio Walerstein ; dirección, René Cardona ; escrita por Rafael García Travesi. Music, Enrico Cabiati; cinematography, Raúl Domínguez; film editing, Federico Landeros. Performer Antonio Aguilar, Elezar Garcia Chelelo, Jaime Fernandez, Alma Delia Fuentes.
Plot:	Following the assasination of Emilio Zapata all eyes turn to the new leader of the Mexican Revolution, Lucio Vazquez. He is driven by the need to bring justice for the campesinos in their fight for land and his anger to avenge the murder of his best friend and compatriot Zapata.
Subjects:	Feature films. Mexico. Zapata, Emiliano, 1879-1919. Mexico. History. Revolution, 1910-1920.
Location:	View Catalog Record
Title:	Lugar sin limites / Place without limits.
Director:	Arturo Ripstein.
Format:	1 videodisc (110 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Imprint:	Los Angeles, CA : World Artists Home Video, c2001.
Language:	In Spanish with new English subtitles.
Notes:	Originally released in 1977 as a motion picture. Based on the novel by José Donoso. Credits Producer, Rogelio Gonzales ; director, Arturo Ripstein ; writers, Arturo Ripstein and José Emilio Pacheco ; director of photography, Miguel Garzon ; songs, Pepe Arevalo, Hernandez Sisters, Gomez Sisters, Sonoro Santanero and Damaso Perez Prado ; sound, Guillermo Carrasco and Ricardo Saldivar. Performer Lucha Villa, Carmen Salinas, Ana Martin, Julian Pastor, Don Fernando Soler, Gonzalo Vega, Roberto Cobo.
Plot:	La Manuela, a transvestite, lives in a brothel run by his daughter. When his daughter is threatened, La Manuela steps in to protect her with tragic consequences.
Subjects:	Feature films. Mexico. Fathers and daughters. Machismo. Transvestites. Literary adaptation.
Location:	View Catalog Record
Title:	Macario
Director:	Roberto Gavaldon
Format:	1 videodisc (91 min.) ; sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 1)
Imprint:	Fayetteville, AR: Veracruz, Serie: Vive Mexico! cine en 35 mm. 2003.
Language:	Spanish dialogue, English subtitles; closed-captioned in Spanish.
Notes:	Originally produced in Mexico as motion picture in 1960 by Clasa Films Mundiales. Based on the novel by B. Traven. Director, Roberto Gavaldon ; producer, Armando Oribe Alba ; photography, Gabriel Figueroa ; music, Paul Lavista. Cast, Ignacio López Tarso, Pina Pellicer, Enrique Lucero.
Plot:	A surrealistic portrayal of poverty, hunger, and death in a 16th century Mexican village. Macario, a humble woodcutter who cannot afford to feed his family, makes a deal with Death to escape his poverty. Macario es la singular aventura o desaventura de un hombre humilde, hambriento, que al dar satisfacción al mayor deseo de su vida--comerse en soledad un pavo entero--recibe poderes sobre la vida y la muerte. A partir de ese momento, Macario vive experiencias extraordinarias.
Subjects:	Feature films. Mexico. Literary adaptation.
Location:	View Catalog Record
Title:	La madrastra
Director:	Salvador Mejía Alejandre
Format:	3 videodiscs (710 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 1)
Imprint:	Santa Monica, CA : Televisa Home Entertainment : distributed by Xenon Pictures, c2006, 2005.
Language:	Spanish; optional English subtitles.
Notes:	Originally produced as a television series in 2005. Based on the story by Arturo Moya Grau. Televisa Home Entertainment ; productor ejecutivo, Salvador Mejía Alejandre. Adaptation, Julián Aguilar; camera director, Jesús Najera Saro. Performers: Victoria Ruffo, César Évora, Eduardo Capetillo, Jacqueline Andere, Ana Martín, Martha Julia, Cecilia Gabriela, Guillermo García Cantú, René Casados.
Plot:	Maria is released from prison after being accused of killing her best friend only to find that her children believe she is dead. She must find the true killer of her friend in order to prove her innocence and win her children's love before revealing her true identity to them.
Subjects:	Feature Films. Mexico. TV Series
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Title:	La Madrecita
Director:	Fernando Cortés
Format:	1 videodisc (ca. 85 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 1 & 4); 2.0 stereo.
Imprint:	Mexico : Diana Films ; United States: Videomax 2005
Language:	Spanish
Notes:	Originally released as a motion picture in 1974. Diana Films presenta ; dirigida por Fernando Cortés. Story, Fernando Galiana ; photography, Fernando Alvarez Garces Colin ; music, Sergio Guerrero; editing, Sergio Soto. Performer Maria Elena Velasco, Pancho Corova, Martha Roth, Oscar Ortiz de Pinedo, Manolo Bravo, Rebeca Silva.
Plot:	Sister María Nicolasa of the Sacred Heart (La India María) is transfered from Oaxaca to a convent in Mexico City that is plagued with many problems. She sets to work rescuing a band of orphans from bad habits and defending the land where the convent is [located] from the hands of rapacious landowners, with complicated and comic results.
Subjects:	Feature films. Mexico
Location:	View Catalog Record
Title:	El Mariachi
Director:	Robert Rodriguez
Format:	1 videodisc (ca. 81 min) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD.
Imprint:	Culver City, Calif. : Columbia TriStar Home Video, 2003.
Language:	Dialogue in Spanish with optional soundtrack in French with optional English, Spanish, French or Korean subtitles; closed-captioned.
Notes:	Videodisc release of motion pictures originally released in 1993. . "Includes Bedhead, Rodriguez's multi award-winning film short and a sneak peek at Rodriguez's Once upon a time in Mexico!"--Case. Special features: New film transfer from original negatives supervised by Robert Rodriguez; director's commentary; Robert Rodriguez's short film Bedhead; "10-minute film school" featurette; sneak peek: Once upon a time in Mexico. Columbia Pictures presents a Los Hooligans production ; a Robert Rodriguez film. Director, writer, photographer, editor, Robert Rodríguez ; producers, Robert Rodríguez, Carlos Gallardo ; music, Marc Trujillo, Alvaro Rodríguez, Chris Knudson, Cecilio Rodríguez, Eric Guthrie. Performer Carlos Gallardo, Consuelo Gómez, Reinol Martínez, Peter Marquandt. Winner, Sundance Film Festival.
Plot:	All he wants is to be a mariachi, like his father, his grandfather and his great grandfather before him. But the town he thinks will bring him luck brings only a curse--of deadly mistaken identity. Forced to trade his guitar for a gun, the mariachi is playing for his life.
Subjects:	Feature films. Mexico. United States. Drug traffic. Short films.
Location:	View Catalog Record
Title:	El mariachi desconocido
Director:	Gilberto Martínez Solares
Format:	1 videodisc (ca. 89 min.) ; sd., bw ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Regions 1 & 4).
Imprint:	Mexico : Distributed by Zima Entertainment, 2005
Language:	Spanish
Notes:	Originally released as a film in 1953. Producciones Mier y Brooks presentan ; dirigida por Gilberto Martínez Solares ; distribuida por Zima Entertainment. Music, Manuel Esperón ; story and adaptation, Gilberto Martínez Solares, Juan García. Performer German Valdés (Tin Tan), Rosa de Castilla, y Rosita Fornés.
Plot:	Charismatic comedian Tin Tan plays a mariachi who lives an entertaining and extraordinary life which traveling from Mexico to the island of Cuba.
Subjects:	Feature films. Mexico. Singers.
Location:	View Catalog Record
Title:	Mariana, Mariana
Director:	Alberto Isaac
Format:	1 videodisc (110 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Imprint:	United States : Desert Mountain Media, 2007
Language:	Spanish
Notes:	Originally issued as a motion picture in 1986. Una película de Alberto Isaac ; producción, Conacine. Guión, Vicente Leñero, José Estrada fotografía, Daniel López Santos, Angel Goded ; edición, Carlos Savage ; música, Carlos Warman ; dirección de arte, Javier Rodríguez González ; ambientacion, Ana Sanchez, Jorge Morales. Participants: Pedro Armendariz Jr., Elizabeth Aguilar, Saby Kamalichi, Luis Mario Quiroz.
Plot:	The story runs in the 1940s Mexico City. A schoolboy (Carlos) falls in love with his best friend's mother (Mariana). The drama begins when Carlos gets out of school to declare his love to Mariana and is discovered by his teachers.
Subjects:	Feature films. Mexico
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Title:	Me cai de la nube / My fall from the cloud
Director:	Arturo Martinez
Format:	1 videodisc (80 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Regiona 1)
Imprint:	S.l.] : Vanguard Cinema, 2004
Language:	Spanish with optional English subtitles.
Notes:	Videodisc release of a 1974 Mexican drama. A Vanguard Cinema release ; a JC Films presentation.
Plot:	"La historia de un ranchero que se enamora de la mujer mas bonita de la región, pero se da cuenta de que ella no lo quiere y hace lo imposible para conquistar ese amor que lo tiene tan destruido. Una película con un verdadero drama y pobreza, donde se refleja la cruda realidad de la maldita pobreza, pero el amor es mas grande que ese detalle."--Publisher's website....    This is the history of a poor ranch hand who falls in love with a beautiful woman from the region but he discovers that she does not return his feeling. He does everything in his power to persuade her that he is suitable for her. This is a movie with real drama and heartache, reflecting the painful reality of being poor. But love is bigger than all and makes even the poor man rich at heart.
Subjects:	Feature films. Mexico
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Title:	Las medias de seda
Director:	Miguel Morayta.
Format:	1 videodisc (ca. 93 min.) ; sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. DVD
Imprint:	Mexico : Alterfilms : Televisa, 2004
Language:	Spanish; optional English and Spanish subtitles.
Notes:	Originally released as a motion picture in 1955. Argumento de Tilka Rey y Vicente Ferre de Calig ; adaptación de Sebastián Garbril Rovira y Antonio Monsel ; Clasa Films Mundiales ; una producción de Armando Orive Alba ; direccion de Miguel Morayta. Director of photography, Alex Phillips ; editor, Jorge Bustos ; music, Roberto Tellez Oropeza. Performer Rosario Dúrcal, Armando Silvestre, Joaquín Pardavé, Carlos Orellana, Lucy González.
Plot:	When Rosary's parents die, she is soon harassed by the false attentions of Don Juan, municipal president of San Juan del Río. Don Juan lives up to his name by trying to conquer all the women he comes across. But soon Rosary's brother, Antonio, arrives in town and helps to deflect Don Juan's attentions.
Subjects:	Feature films. Mexico
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Title:	El médico de las locas
Director:	Miguel Morayta.
Format:	1 videodisc (ca. 90 min.) ; sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Regions 1 & 4).
Imprint:	México : Zima Entertainment, 2005
Language:	Spanish
Notes:	Originally released as a motion picture in 1956. Based on the novel by Xavier de Montépin. Productora Mier Y Brooks S.A. ; dirección, Miguel Morayta. Writers, Óscar J. Brooks, Carlos Léon, Miguel Morayta; original music, Manuel Esperón; cinematography, José Ortiz Ramos; film editing, Carlos Savage. Performer Germán Valdes "Tin Tan", Marcelo Chavez, Rosita Arenas, Sonia Furió, Emperatriz Carbajal.
Plot:	Quiso ser medico, pero no pudo, pues nadie entendia sus "Genialidades", entonces decidio ser arquitecto, excultor, pintor, bailarín,decorador y cantane pero con ninguna profesión pudo, sin embargo, solo el amor pudo mantenerle las esperanzas de seguir adelante y seguir "Malgastando" el dinero del suegro. Tin Tan rides again in this funny film about a student of medicine who is good for nothing until he becomes the favorite doctor of the mad women in town.
Subjects:	Feature films. Mexico
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Title:	Me gustán valentones
Director:	Julián Soler
Format:	1 videodisc (ca. 1hr., 38 min.) ; sd., bw. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (regions 1 & 4); full screen; 2.0 sound.
Imprint:	México : Televisa : Alter Films, c2006.
Language:	Spanish; optional Spanish subtitles.
Notes:	Originally released as a film in 1959. Director: Julián Soler ; argumento: Alfredo Varela Jr. y Janet Alcoriza ; adaptación: Alfredo Varela Jr. y Janet Alcoriza ; edición: Carlos Savage ; fotografia: Raúl Martínez Solares ; música: Sergio Guerrero ; productor: Jesús Sotomayor Martínez ; casa productora: Producciones Sotomayor. Imprint México : Televisa : Alter Films, c2006. Performer Luis Aguilar, Eulalio González "Piporro", y Rosita Quintana.
Plot:	Somewhere in the Mexican countryside, Chelita lives alone and fends off the unwanted advances from Pantaleon, the local bad guy. When her cousin, who arrives to help administer her ranch, is no help against Pantaleon, she tries to get help from Jose, who has recently arrived from the United States with a dark past
Subjects:	Feature films. Mexico
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Title:	Me traes de un ala
Director:	Gilberto Martinez Solares.
Format:	1 videodisc (90 min..) ; sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (regions 1 & 4).
Imprint:	Mexico. : Zima Entertainment, 2005
Language:	Spanish
Notes:	Originally produced as a motion picture in 1953. Argumento y adaptación de Mauricio Wall y Ramón Obón ; una producción de Gregorio Walerstein ; dirigida por Gilberto Martinez Solares.
Plot:	Comedy about a man who writes a script to win the heart of a beautiful actress.
Subjects:	Feature films. Mexico
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Title:	Mi caballo, El Cantador
Director:	Mario Hernandez
Format:	1 videodisc (93 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 1)
Imprint:	Mexico?] : Tekila Films ; Madera, CA : Distributed by Madera Cinevideo, 2005
Language:	Spanish
Notes:	Originally released as a motion picture in 1978. Chichen-Itza Productions ; Conacite Dos y Producciones Aguila S.A. presentan ; argumento, Antonio Aguilar ; libro cinematografico, Jorge Patiño ; director, Mario Hernandez. Fotografía, Agustin Lara Alvarado ; editor, Sergio Soto ; música, Chucho Zarsoza. Participants: Antonio Aguilar, Flor Silvestre, Bruno Rey.
Plot:	Aguilar plays a priest who avenges the murder of a grandfather at the hands of his greedy grandson.
Subjects:	Feature films. Mexico.
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Title:	Mi adorada Clementina
Director:	Rafael Baledon
Format:	1 videodisc (ca. 90 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 1)
Imprint:	[Northridge, Calif.] : Laguna Films ; Loveland, CO : Distributed by Noda Audio Visual, 2004
Language:	Spanish
Notes:	Videocassette release of the 1953 motion picture. Cumbre Films. direccion, Rafael Baledon. Producción, Alfredo Ripstein, Jr. Escrita por, Ramón Obón. Música, Antonio Díaz Conde. Participants: Antonio Aguilar, Marga Lopez, Joaquin Pardave, Elda Peralte, Pedro de Aguillon.
Plot:	"Alfredo quiere divorciarse de Clementina, porque ella es muy anticuada, pues fue criada por su abuelo quién quería que fuera como su difunta esposa. Un día el alma de su abuela cobra vida y toma el lugar de Clementina, quien harátodo lo posible para reconquistar a Alfredo"--Container. Alfredo wants to divorce Clementina because she is so old-fashioned since she was raised by her grandfather to be like her grandmother. One day the soul of her grandmother takes over Clementina's body.
Subjects:	Feature films. Mexico
Location:	View Catalog Record
Title:	Miércoles de ceniza / Ash Wednesday.
Director:	Roberto Galvaldon
Format:	1 videodisc (ca. 100 min.) ; sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 1)
Imprint:	Mexico : Brentwood Home Video ; BCI Eclipse, distributor, 2003
Language:	Spanish
Notes:	Originally released as a motion picture in 1958. Cinematografica Filmex S.A. ; produced by Gregorio Walerstein ; written by Luis G. Basurto ; directed by Roberto Galvaldon. Participants: Maria Felix, Arturo de Cordova, Victor Junco, Andrea Palma, David Reynoso, Luis Aragon.
Plot:	Famous Mexican actress Maria Felix plays a rich boat passenger who has been tossed off a ship only to be rescued and then violated by a priest. And that is only the beginning of this rich, sprawling drama. La historia de una mujer llamada Victoria quien después de ser violada pierde toda la esperanza en la justicia divina y se aparta de los caminos del bien como encargada de un prostíbulo. Al paso de los años su fe es puesta a prueba cuando deba olvidar su trágico pasado para intentar recuperar la esperanza y ayudar a un misterioso doctor llamado Federico en su lucha personal contra la injusticia. Al mismo tiempo los problemas que le traen su trabajo y las personas con las que convive, la convierten en una presa fácil del dolor y la tristeza.
Subjects:	Feature films. Mexico
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Title:	El miedo no anda en burro
Director:	Fernando Cortes
Format:	1 videodisc (ca. 90 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Imprint:	Northridge, Calif. : Laguna Films, c2003.
Language:	Spanish
Notes:	Originally produced as a motion picture in 1976. Diana Films ; dirección, Fernando Cortes ; producción, Fernando de Fuentes. Director of cinematography, Fernando Colin ; music, Sergio Guerrero ; screenplay, Fernando Galiana. Performer Ma?ia Elena Velasco (La India María), Eleazar Garcia (Chelelo), Fernando Lujan, Emma Roldan.
Plot:	María becomes the caretaker of a poodle who has inherited money from an old woman. Her family members are jealous and they try to get rid of both María and the poodle ... by setting up a House of Horrors?.
Subjects:	Feature films. Mexico
Location:	View Catalog Record
Title:	Los milagros de San Martín de Porres
Director:	Rafael Baledón.
Format:	1 videodisc (90 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Imprint:	Northridge, Calif. : Laguna Films ; Madera, Calif. : Madera Cinevideo, c2005.
Language:	Spanish
Notes:	Originally released as a motion picture in 1959. Cinematográfica Metrópolis S. de R.L. ; argumento Luis Manrique ; productores Alfonso Gallardo Kuri y Roberto Gallardo Kuri ; director, Rafael Baledón. Director of photography, Agustín Martinez Solares; editor, Juan José Marino; music, Sergio Gurrero.
Plot:	Religious drama that follows Martin de Porres, a saint, who uses his powers to cure people afflicted with a variety of diseases and handicaps, stop people from committing sinful acts, and converting non-believers to Catholicism. Performer Jorge Caballero, Fernando Almada, Roberto Canedo.
Subjects:	Feature films. Mexico. Martín, de Porres, Saint, 1579-1639.
Location:	View Catalog Record
Title:	Misterio
Director:	Marcela Fernández Violante.
Format:	1 videodisc (ca. 90 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Imprint:	Los Angeles, CA] : Desert Mountain Media, 2007
Language:	Spanish
Notes:	Originally released as a film in 1980. Una película de Marcela Fernández Violante. Participants: Helena Rojo, Juan Ferrara, y Victor Junco.
Plot:	"Juan Ferrara y Helena Rojo protagonizan esta apasionante historia en la que un actor mezcla la realidad con la fantasia debido a un personaje que interpreta en una telenovela"--Container. A passionate love story of an actor who mixes reality and fantasy based on a soap opera character he is playing.
Subjects:	Feature Films. Mexico.
Location:	View Catalog Record
Title:	La Montaña Sagrada / The Holy Mountain
Director:	Alejandro Jodorowky
Format:	1 videodisc (113 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 1)
Imprint:	New York : ABKCO Films ; Troy, MI : Distributed by Anchor Bay Entertainment, c2007.
Language:	Soundtrack in English ; with optional subtitles in English, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese or French; closed-captioned.
Notes:	Originally produced as a motion picture in 1973. Jodorowsky's third film, La Montaña Sagrada (The Holy Mountain) (1973), was entirely financed by John Lennon and Yoko Ono. At a projected budget of $1,500,000 (in USA dollars), it was the most expensive Mexican film production to date. It has been suggested that the Holy Mountain may be inspired by Rene Daumal novel Mount Analogue.
Plot:	A Christlike figure wanders through bizarre, grotesque scenarios filled with religious and sacrilegious imagery. He joins a group of six wealthy and powerful individuals and together they ascend the Holy Mountain to gain the secret of eternal life.
Subjects:	Feature films. Experimental films. Fantasy films. Chile. Mexico.
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Title:	La muerte de un gallero / El ojo de vidrio
Director:	Mario Hernandez
Format:	1 videodisc (109, 116 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 1)
Imprint:	Santa Ana, CA : Aztlan Media : Distributed by Ground-Zero Latino, 2003
Language:	Spanish
Notes:	"La muerte de un gallero" originally released as a motion picture in 1977; Conacite/Dos y Producciones Aguila, S.A. ; argumento, Antonio Aguilar ; dirección, Mario Hernandez ; [Ojo de vidrio] [presentan a] estudios America, S.A. y Cinematografica Aguila, S.A. ; argumento, Alfredo Vacela y Antonio Aguilar ; cinedrama, Alfredo Varela ; direcction de Rene Cadona, Jr."La muerte de un gallero": Libro cinematografico, Jorge Patino ; fotografico, Agustin Lara Alvarado ; editor, Sergio Soto ; musica, Chucho Zarzosa.    "El ojo de vidrio": originally released as a motion picture in 1967. Director de fotografía, Raul Domique ; musica de fondo, Enrico Cabiati. Participants: Antonio Aguilar, Flor Silvestre, Manuel Capetillo, Eleazar Garcia, Alejandro Reyna, Guillermo Rivar.
Plot:	"La muerte de un gallero": Historia de un experto en gallos de pelea y su amigo quien a base de malos tratos y de trampas logra casarse con una bella con una bella dama que esta enamorada del experto en gallos "La muerte de un gallero": Story of a love triangle set in the bloody world of cockfighting.    "El ojo de vidrio": Otra vez es Aguilar un héroe revolucionario, zapatista, en esta cinta de aventuras y canciones llevada con tono humorístico. Se supone que tanto el personaje de Augilar como cuatro primos suyos, los hermanos Buenavista, quedaron tuertos, siendo campesinos medieros. "El ojo de vidrio": Five men, maimed by a wealthy landowner, turn to fight for the Mexican Revolution.
Subjects:	Feature films. Mexico. Mexican Revolution, 1910-1920.
Location:	View Catalog Record
Title:	La Mujer del puerto
Director:	Arcady Boytler and Raphael J. Sevilla
Format:	1 videodisc ([110] min.) ; sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 1)
Imprint:	S.l. : Excalibur Media Group ; Thousand Oaks, CA : Distributor, Ventura Entertainment, Inc., 2003
Language:	Spanish
Notes:	Originally released as a motion picture in 1949. Eurindia Films ; Servando C. de La Garza presenta a; direccion de Arcady Boytler. Cinematography, Alex Phillips ; music,Max Urban. Participants: Andrea Palma, Domingo Soler, Estela Inda, Francisco Zarraga, Joaquin Busquets, Arturo Manrique.
Plot:	"Rosario, una joven campesina, se entrega por amor a su novio sin sospechar que él la engaña con otra. La decepción y el dolor por la muerte de su padre hacen que la joven huya a Veracruz y se convierta en prostituta. Una noche, Rosario conoce a Alberto, un marino del cual queda prendada. Tras pasar una noche de amor juntos, el destino les revela una cruel sorpresa."--Container. "Rosario (Palma) becomes a prostitute after losing her father and discovering her boyfriend had a liaison with another woman. In Veracruz, Rosario lives above a sordid cabaret "selling her love to the men coming from the sea." One night, sailor Alberto (Soler) rescues Rosario from the dirty hands of a drunken man. They get along and go to Rosario's room. After making love, they begin to talk and Rosario discovers they're siblings."--Container. .
Subjects:	Feature films. Mexico
Location:	View Catalog Record
Title:	Una mujer sin amor / A woman without love
Director:	Luis Buñuel
Format:	1 videodisc (91 min.) ; sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 1)
Imprint:	Chicago, Ill. : Distributed by Facets Video, c2007.
Language:	Spanish, with optional English subtitles.
Notes:	Originally released as a motion picture in 1952. Cinemateca presents a film by Luis Buñuel ; screenplay by Jaime Salvador ; produced by Sergio Kogan, Oscar Dancigers ; directed by Luis Buñuel. From the story Pierre et Jean by Guy de Maupassant.
Plot:	An unhappily married woman indulges in a brief, torrid affair with an engineer, but then refuses to leave her elderly husband. Twenty-five years later, the former lover leaves a fortune to her son, causing an uproar. Una mujer infelizmente casada tiene una breve y apasionada aventura con un ingeniero, pero rehúsa dejar a su marido mayor de edad. Veinticinco años después, el ex-amante deja una fortuna a su hijo, causando un escándalo.
Subjects:	Feature films. Mexico. Spain
Location:	View Catalog Record
Title:	La mujer que no tuvo infancia
Director:	Tito Davison.
Format:	1 videodisc (95 min) ; sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. DVD
Imprint:	Los Angeles, CA : Video Visa ; Madera, CA : Madera CineVideo [distributor], 2003
Language:	Spanish
Notes:	Originally released as a motion picture in 1957. Producciones Sotomayor. Direccion, Tito Davison ; productor: Jesús Sotomayor Martínez ; argumento: Fernando Galiana y José Luis Galiana ; adaptación: Edmundo Baéz y Tito Davison ; edición: Carlos Savage ; fotografía: José Ortiz Ramos. Participants: Pedro Armendariz, Libertad Lamarque.
Plot:	Desde muy pequeña tuvo que enfrentarse a la vida, y descubrió que sólo en uno se puede confiar. La realidad le robó la infancia, pero no el afán de ser feliz algún día.
Subjects:	Feature films. Mexico.
Location:	View Catalog Record
Title:	La mujer de mi hermano
Director:	Ricardo de Montreuil
Format:	1 videodisc (ca. 93 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD, region 1, widescreen presentation; Dolby Digital 5.1 surround, Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo., NTSC.
Imprint:	Santa Monica, Calif. : Lions Gate Home Entertainment, 2006
Language:	Spanish, with optional English or Spanish subtitles.
Notes:	Originally released as a motion picture in 2005. Based on the novel by Jaime Bayly. Lions Gate Films ; Panamax Films ; Shallow Entertainment presenta una producción de Stan Jakubowicz ; dirigida por Ricardo de Montreuil ; escrita y coproducida por Jaime Bayly. Director of photography, Andrés Sánchez ; editing, Rosario Suárez ; music, Angelo Milli. Performer Bárbara Mori, Christian Meier, Manolo Cardona, Gaby Espino, Bruno Bichir, Beto Cuevas, Angélica Aragón.
Plot:	After ten years of marriage, the stunning Zoe realizes that her marriage no longer carries the passion it once had. She finds herself in the arms of her husband's brother. Her decision launches them into a gauntlet of revenge, secrets, and despair.
Subjects:	Feature films. Peru. Mexico. Literary Adaptation
Location:	View Catalog Record
Title:	La mujer de Benjamín / Benjamin's woman
Director:	Carlos Carrera.
Format:	1 videodisc (ca. 93 min) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD; full screen; stereo 2.0.
Imprint:	Phoenix, Arizona : Desert Mountain Media, c2002.
Language:	Spanish; optional English subtitles.
Notes:	Originally produced in 1991. Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica, Estudios Churubusco Azteca, Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografía presentan una película de Carlos Carrera ; guión, Carlos Carrera e Ignacio Ortiz ; dirección, Carlos Carrera. Photography, Xavier Pérez Grobet ; editing, Sigfrido Barjau, Oscar Figueroa ; music, José Amozurrutia, Alejandro Giacomán ; sound, Fernando Camara. Performer Eduardo López Rojas, Malena Doria, Arcelia Ramírez. Awards Ariel Awards, Mexico: Silver Ariel for Best Actor in a Minor Role, Best First Work & Best Supporting Actor, 1992. Guadalajara Mexican Film Festival: Audience Award, 1991. Havana Film Festival: Best Actor, 1991. Montréal World Film Festival: Montréal First Film Prize, 1991. Premios ACE for Cinema-Best First Work & Cinema-Best New Actor, 1992.
Plot:	Benjamin, an old bachelor, still lives with his sister Micaela in their boring small town. The only entertainment he has is when he and a group of friends get together and play like children. But then Benjamin falls in love with the young and beautiful Natividad. He writes her love letters, but when this strategy fails he and his friends plan to kidnap her and keep her until she falls in love with him.
Subjects:	Feature films. Mexico
Location:	View Catalog Record
Title:	Narcos y perros.
Director:	Fernando Duran.
Format:	1 videodisc (95 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD Region 1
Imprint:	Costa Mesa, CA : Vanguard Cinema, 2003, c2000.
Language:	Spanish dialogue, English subtitles.
Notes:	J. C. Films, Inc. presenta una produccion de Juan Manuel Romero ; producers, Juan Manuel Romero, Rosa Maria Romero ; director, Fernando Duran. Credits Directors of photography, Jose Luis Lemus, Francisco J. Lopez ; music, Carlos Tachiquin ; special effects, Benjamin Benitez. Note Originally released as a motion picture in 2001. Special features: theatrical trailer. Performer Fernando Saenz, Rafael Goyri, John Solis, Javier Montaño, Lupillo Rivera, Tomas Osuna, Jose Flores, Vanessa Del Rocio, Amador Cranados.
Plot:	Summary Sheds light onto the terrible world of drug trafficking. The always present corruption of the authorities and the constent fight for power and control between the two. A young cop is lured by money and power to part ways with the law. He is recruited and initiated into the dangerous world of violence and drug dealing at the United States - Mexican border. No one has been able to return to the other side before, alive. Now, father and son are on opposite sides and something or someone will have to give.
Subjects:	Feature films. Mexico. Police corruption. Drug traffic
Location:	View Catalog Record
Title:	Narcos y perros 2 / Drug wars 2, the sequel
Director:	Javier Montaño
Format:	1 videodisc (ca. 100 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 1)
Imprint:	Costa Mesa, CA : Vanguard Cinema, 2003, c2001.
Language:	Spanish dialogue, English subtitles.
Notes:	Originally released as a motion picture in 2001. [presente de] J.C. Films, Inc. ; productor, Juan Manuel Romero, Rosa Maria Romero ; director, Javier Montaño. Director of photography, Jorge Román ; editor, Pier Maldonado ; music, Carlos Tachiquin ; production designer, Mary Poly Moreno. Participants: Fernando Saenz, Bernabe Melendrez, John Solis, Angelica Soler, Javier Montaño, Horacio Almada.
Plot:	Gabriel had been captured and jailed and his best friend and ally killed. Gabriel's father attempts a rescue but his son, wanting to have nothing to do with his father, succeeds in escaping jail by himself. He forms a new gang to avenge the death of his best friend turning the Drug Wars into one bloody family fued.
Subjects:	Feature films. Mexico. Drug traffic
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Title:	Náufragos de San Blas
Director:	Julio Aldama, Jr
Format:	1 videodisc ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Imprint:	Houston, Texas : distributed by Distrimax, c2007.
Language:	Spanish; optional subtitles in English.
Notes:	Originally released as a motion picture in 2007. Performer Julio Aldama, Jorge Aldama, Lolo Ortiz. Dirección e historia de Julio Aldama, Jr. ; producida por Jorge Aguado Bazua, Julio Aguado Bazua. "La noticia que estremeció al mundo en el 2006! Basado en hechos reales"-- Container.
Plot:	A story based on actual events. Three humble fishermen from Manzanillo, Colima, Mexico, are hired to pick up some mysterious cargo at sea. They face mortal danger when they discover the contents of the boxes. Then they must choose between a sure death at the hands of their smuggler captors or the small chance of surviving at sea in a small boat without provisions.
Subjects:	Feature films. Mexico
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Title:	Naufragio
Director:	Jaime Humberto Hermosillo
Format:	1 videodisc (101 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Imprint:	United States : Desert Mountain Media, 2007
Language:	Spanish
Notes:	Originally issued as a motion picture in Churubusco, Mexico in 1978. Una pelicula de Jaime Humberto Hermosillo ; producción Conacite Uno ; DASA Films S.A. ; based on a story by José de la Colina, Jaime Humberto Hermosillo ; screenplay, Jaime Humberto Hermosillo. Cinematographer, Rosalío Solano; music, Joaquín Gutiérrez Heras; sound, Javier Mateos; art director, Lucero Isaac; editor, Rafael Ceballos. Participants: José Alonso, María Rojo, Ana Ofelia Murguía, Carlos Castañon, Guillermo Gil, Evangelina Martínez, Magnolia Rivas, Max Kerlow, Ernesto Bunuelas, Patricia Zepeda, Manuel Ojeda, Marta Navarro, Emma Roldan, Blanca Torres, Farnesio de Bernal.
Plot:	"Amparito fantasizes about the return of her son, Miguel Angel, who left home years earlier to travel around the world as a sailor. She has left his room intact with all of his personal effects. Leticia, a young colleague who shares the apartment, becomes progressively invested in Amparito's obsession. The freedom of Miguel Angel's idealized wandering contrasts with the drudgery of the clerical jobs held by these two women. One night, while Amparito lies ill in a hospital, Miguel Angel returns unexpectedly and spends the night with Leticia. A group of drunken sailors destroy the apartment and leave town, taking Miguel Angel with them. The film concludes with the image of a wave flooding the apartment and floating the objects and furniture out to sea"--The Mexican Cinema Project, 1994.
Subjects:	Feature films. Mexico
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Title:	Nicotina me muero por un cigarro
Director:	Hugo Rodríguez
Format:	1 videodisc (86 min + 69 min extras); sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 2, PAL)
Imprint:	Barcelona ; Manga Films S.L. 2004
Language:	Spanish with optional Spanish and English subtitles.
Notes:	Originally produced as a motion picture in 2003. Cacerola Films, Altavista Films, Videocine en coproducción de Fondo de Inversión y Estímulos de Cine, Arca Difusión, Oberon Cinematográfia ; dirigida por Hugo Rodríguez ; escrita por Martín Salinas ; producida por Laura Imperiale y Martha Sosa. Participants: Diego Luna, Marta Belaustegui, Daniel Gimébez Cacho, Jesýs Ochoa, Lucas Crespi, Raphael Inclán.
Plot:	"A highly stylized crime caper set in Mexico City about a simple exchange that goes awry, causing the lives of nine unsuspecting characters to explode in one tumultuous night over a fortune in diamonds."--Internet movie database.
Subjects:	Feature films. Mexico.
Location:	View Catalog Record
Title:	El niño perdido.
Director:	Humberto Gómez Landero.
Format:	1 videodisc (ca. 95 min.) ; sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in
Imprint:	[California?] : Cozumel Films : Ventura Distribution, 2003
Language:	Spanish
Notes:	Originally issued as a motion picture in 1947. Productor: AS Films, S.A. ; productor, Jesus Grovas ; guión, director, Humberto Gómez Landero. Performers: Germán Valdez (Tin Tan), Emilia Guiú, Marcelo Chavez.
Plot:	Tin Tan plays a 25 year-old man who has been isolated from society by two scheming aunts who want to steal his inheritance from a relative that he never met.    Criado como un niño por sus tías Pura y Pita, el joven Agustín sufre de doble identidad y cada día, a las siete de la noche en punto, se convierte en un "lobo" aullador que persigue a toda mujer que se le acerca. La situación se enreda más a la llegada del abuelo don Jacobo, quien desconoce la manera en que su nieto ha sido criado.
Subjects:	Feature Films. Mexico.
Location:	View Catalog Record
Title:	Niña amada mia
Director:	Alfredo Gurrola
Format:	1 videodisc (253 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Imprint:	Mexico: Televisa Home Entertainment ; Santa Monica, CA. dstribuido por Xenon Pictures, 2004
Language:	Spanish;
Notes:	Videodisc release of a movie made for Mexican televison. Dirigida por Alfredo Gurrola. Producido por Televisa, S.A. Original, César Miguel Rondón ; adaptación, Gabriela Ortigoza, Juan Carlos Alcalá ; musicador para adaptación en DVD, Raul Crespin. Participants: Sergio Goyri, Karyme Lozano, Eric del Castillo, Otto Sirgo
Plot:	"Don Clemente es un acaudalado hacendado, estricto y controlador. Enviudo cuando sus hijas Isabela, Diana y Carolina eran solo unas ninas. Tiempo despues se casaria nuevamente con otra mujer, de quien sus hijas sospechan que solo esta con su padre por interes economico."--Container.
Subjects:	Feature films. TV Series. Mexico. Fathers and daughters -- Drama.
Location:	View Catalog Record
Title:	Niñas mal / Charm school
Director:	Fernando Sariñana
Format:	1 videodisc (ca. 103 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 1)
Imprint:	Culver City, Calif. : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, 2008
Language:	Spanish or dubbed French dialogue, English or French subtitles.
Notes:	Originally released as a motion picture in 2007. Presented by Columbia Pictures Producciones México ; produced by Fernando Sariñana ; original story by José Balido & Ignacio Darnaude and Issa López ; screenplay by Issa López and Carolina Rivera ; directed by Fernando Sariñana. Participants: Martha Higareda, Camila Sodi, Ximena Sariñana, María Aura, Alejandra Adame, Blanca Guerra, Zaide Silvia Gutiérrez.
Plot:	Sassy Adela León, with her tattoos, body piercing and arrest for indecent exposure - wants to be an actress, which drives her father to distraction. She's not exactly what Mexico City's conservative party has in mind as the daughter of thier next nominee. So that she doesn't jeopardize his standing in the coming election, Sr. León enrolls Adela in a stylish finished school for young ladies. Schoolmistress Maca Ribera promises him that, with a little effort, she can transform Adela into a domestic goddess. By celebrating one another's differences, the girls form fast friendships and life at their stuffy school has become one big slumber party. When Adela is asked to play the biggest role of her life, the hostess of an influential dinner party for her father, she really dishes it out.
Subjects:	Feature films. Mexico
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Title:	No te engañes, corazón
Director:	Miguel Contreras Torres.
Format:	1 videodisc (104 min.) ; sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. (DVD, Region 1)
Imprint:	United States] : Vanguard, 2004
Language:	Spanish
Notes:	Originally released as a motion picture in 193. A Vanguard Cinema release Video Suenos presents a Miguel Contreras Torres film ; directed by Miguel Contreras Torres. Participants: Mario Moreno " Cantinflas", Carlos Orellana, Sara Garcia, Manuel Buendia, Matilde
Plot:	Don Boni is diagnosed with a deadly disease, decides to spend his last days doing good. Along the way he gets drunk, buys a lottery ticket and falls asleep. When he wakes, he realizes he's won a large sum of money and his doctor is in jail for fraud.
Subjects:	Feature films. Mexico.
Location:	View Catalog Record
Title:	No basta ser charro
Director:	Juan Bustillo Oror.
Format:	1 videodisc (90 min.) ; sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 1)
Imprint:	Northridge, Calif. : Laguna Films, 2003
Language:	Spanish
Notes:	Originally released as a motion picture in 1945. Productor, Juan Bustillo Oro ; director, Juan Bustillo Oror. Participants: Jorge Negrete, Carmelita González.
Plot:	This movie pokes fun at Negrete's celebritity status. The GREAT singer, Jorge Negrete has disappeared! A cowboy, a Negrete look-alike (played in a dual role by Negrete) shows up at this time at an isolated Rancho and is mistaken for the singer. Of course, the rancher's beautiful daughter falls for the cowboy, thinking that he is really Negrete in disguise.
Subjects:	Feature films. Mexico
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Title:	Novia que te vea / Like a bride
Director:	Guita Schyfter
Format:	1 videodisc (115 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Imprint:	United States : Desert Mountain Media : Imcine,
Language:	Spanish with optional English subtitles.
Notes:	Originally produced as a motion picture in 1994. Produced by Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografía, Fondo de Fomento a la Calidad Cinematográfica Producciones Arte Nuevo ; a Guita Schyfter film ; screenplay by Hugo Hiriart. Participants: Angélica Aragón, Claudette Maillé, Ernesto Laguardia, Emilio Echevarría.
Plot:	A delightful depiction of the adventures, suffering, love affairs and difficulties of two Mexican Jewish girls in the early 1960s.
Subjects:	Feature films. Mexico
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Title:	Oficio de tinieblas
Director:	Archibaldo Burns.
Format:	1 videodisc (108 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD, regions 1 and 4, full screen presentation; Dolby Digital 1.0.
Imprint:	México, D.F. : Zima Entertainment ; 1999
Language:	Spanish
Notes:	Originally released as a motion picture in 1981. Based on the novel with the same title by Rosario Castellanos. Conacite Dos ; adaptación cinematográfica, dirección, Archibaldo Burns. Music, Manuel Enríquez ; photography, Miguel Garzón ; editor, Max Sánchez. Performer Enrique Lizalde, Julissa, Manuel Ojeda, Monica Miguel, Lilia Prado, Tito Junco.
Plot:	This film set in 1934 explores the struggle among the Maya Indians, the white landowners, and the conflicted mestiza class in the Chiapas region of Southern Mexico.
Subjects:	Feature films. Mexico.Literary Adaptation. Chiapas (Mexico). Social conditions. Indian women
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Title:	Old Gringo
Director:	Luis Puenzo.
Format:	1 videocassette (ca. 120 min.) ; sd., col. ; 1/2 in.
Imprint:	Burbank, CA : RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video, 1990
Language:	English
Notes:	Columbia Pictures ; produced by Lois Bonfiglio ; directed by Luis Puenzo ; screenplay by Aida Bortnick & Luis Puenzo. Based on: Gringo viejo Carlos Fuentes. Originally produced as motion picture. Credits Music by Lee Holdridge. Performer Jane Fonda, Gregory Peck, Jimmy Smits.
Plot:	A frustrated American spinster, a retired journalist and adventurer, and a young general face love, death, and war amidst the Mexican Revolution.
Subjects:	Feature Films. Mexico. Literary adaptation.
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Title:	Los Olvidados.
Director:	Luis Buñuel.
Format:	1 videocassette (88 min) ; sd., b&w ; 1/2 in. VHS.
Imprint:	Los Angeles, Calif. : Connoisseur Video Collection, c1989.
Language:	In Spanish with English subtitles
Notes:	Original screenplay by Luis Buñuel and Luis Alcoriza. A videorecording of the 1950 motion picture released in Mexico by Ultramar Films. Directed by Luis Buñuel ; produced by Oscar Dancigers. Cast: Alfonso Mejia, Roberto Cobo, Estela Inda. Best Film, Best Director-Cannes Film Festival--Container.
Plot:	Buñuel-s study of street gangs set in the outskirts of Mexico City; a good boy is contaminated by young thugs in the slums, and both he and his tormentor die violently.
Subjects:	Feature films. Mexico
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Title:	Los Olvidados.
Director:	Luis Buñuel.
Format:	1 videocassette (81 min) ; sd., b & w ; 1/2 in. VHS
Imprint:	[S.l] : Hollywood Home Theatre, 1980,1950.
Language:	In Spanish with English subtitles
Notes:	Original screenplay by Luis Buñuel and Luis Alcoriza. A videorecording of the 1950 motion picture released in Mexico by Ultramar Films. Directed by Luis Buñuel ; produced by Oscar Dancigers. Cast: Alfonso Mejia, Roberto Cobo, Estela Inda. Best Film, Best Director-Cannes Film Festival--Container.
Plot:	Buñuel-s study of street gangs set in the outskirts of Mexico City; a good boy is contaminated by young thugs in the slums, and both he and his tormentor die violently.
Subjects:	Feature films. Mexico
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Title:	Los Olvidados
Director:	Luis Buñuel
Format:	Coyoacan, México, D.F. : Alterfilms : Televisa, Alter's collection; Viva México! cine en 35 mm; 2004.
Imprint:	1 videodisc (ca. 90 min.) ; sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language:	Spanish with optional subtitles in English and Spanish.
Notes:	Orginally released as a motion picture in 1950. "DVD versión remasterizada de Los Olvidados, Luis Buñuel. Incluye final alternativo." De Luis Buñuel ; Ultramar Films ; director, Luis Buñuel ; productor, Oscar Dancigers. Photography: Gabriel Figueroa; editor, Carlos Savage; music, Rodolfo Halffter.
Plot:	A group of juvenile delinquents live a life full of violence and crime en one of the most deteriorated, poor neighborhoods in Mexico City. The morality of the youth Pedro is corrupted gradually by other characteristics.
Subjects:	Feature films Mexico.
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Title:	Otaola o la república del exilio
Director:	Raúl Busteros
Format:	1 videodisc (96 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Imprint:	Los Angeles, CA] : Desert Mountain Media, 2007
Language:	Spanish
Notes:	Originally produced as a motion picture in 2000. Based on the novel : El cortejo by Simón Otaola. Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografía (IMCINE) ; y Producciones Redondo S.A. de C.V. ; una película de Raúl Busteros ; inspirada y basada libremente en la obra de Simón Otaola ; producción, Doris Cetina ; guión y dirrección, Raúl Busteros. Cinematography, Hector "Fito" García ; editing, Enrique Puente Portillo. Participants: Mario Iván Martínez, Eugenio Álvarez, Héctor Ortega, Roger Nevares.
Plot:	"Al fallecer un político español exiliado en México, sus compatriotas comienzan un viaje. Durante el trayecto se encuentran con diversos e inesperados personajes. Este extraño recorrido conecta la realidad con el más allá. Una cinta que mantendrá al expectador motivado de principio a fin"--Container.
Subjects:	Feature Films. Mexico
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Title:	La otra conquista / The other conquest
Director:	Salvador Carrasco
Format:	1 videodisc (105 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 1)
Imprint:	Englewood, Colo : Union Station Media : Distributed by Starz Home Entertainment, 2007
Language:	Spanish and Nahuatl dialogue, English subtitles
Notes:	Originally released as a Mexican motion picture in 1998. Carrasco & Domingo Films en asociación con Placido Domingo, Enrique Gonzalez Torres ; en co-producción con Sedesol, [et al.] ; producción, Alvaro Domingo ; guión, dirección y edición, Salvador Carrasco. Director of photography, Arturo de la Rosa ; music, Samuel Zyman and Jorge Reyes. Special features: Featurette with cast and crew interviews; deleted scenes; director's commentary. Participants: Jose Carlos Rodriguez, Elpidia Carrillo, Iñaki Aierra, Honorato Magaloni, Damian Delgado.
Plot:	Mexico, 1521. The Spanish army of Hernando Cortés has swept through the New World forcing their religious beliefs on the brave Aztec people. A skillful Aztec scribe, who survived the Massacre of the Temple in 1520, spends years trying to preserve the rites and customs of his people. The Spanish army would conquer their land, but not the soul of the Aztec people.
Subjects:	Feature films. Mexico. Aztecs. Conquest, 1519-1540.
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Title:	El padrecito
Director:	Miguel M. Delgado
Format:	1 videodisc (130 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Imprint:	California: Columbia Pictures : Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment, [La colección de Cantinflas] 2003
Language:	Spanish with English and Spanish subtitles
Notes:	DVD release of a 1964 motion picture. Posa Films Internacional, S.A. ; producida por Jacques Gelman ; argumento original y adaptación cinematográfica de Fernando Galiana ; dirigida por Miguel M. Delgado. Director of photography, Rosalio Solano ; editor, Jorge Bustos, music, Raul Lavista. Participants: Mario Moreno " Cantinflas", Angel Garasa, Rosa María Vázquez.
Plot:	El padre Sebastán (Cantinflas) es nombrado como el nuevo ayudante del párroco de un pueblo pequeño. A pesar de que al principio no es muy bien recibido por la gente, poco a poco se va ganando sus corazones.    Cantinflas stars as the new priest in a town set in its ways. Thinking he is going to take the place of their beloved priest, none of the townspeople like him. While there, he stirs up controversy with his eclectic ways of doing things.
Subjects:	Feature films. Mexico
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Title:	El padre pistolas
Director:	Julián Soler
Format:	1 videodisc (94 min.) ; sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 1)
Imprint:	Mexico : Televisa, c2005.
Language:	Spanish
Notes:	Videodisc release of the 1960 feature film by Producciones Sotomayer, S.A. Una produccion de Jesus Sotomayer Martínez ; dirijida por Julián Soler ; escenografía por Javíer Torres Torija ; Televisa S.A. de C.V. Story, José María Fernández Unsáin; adaptation, Alfredo Varela; original music, Raúl Lavista; cinematography, Raúl Martínez Solares; film editing, Carlos Savage. Performer Eulalio González "Piporro", Carlos López Moctezuma, Domingo Soler, Christian Martell.
Plot:	The most wanted bandit escapes from the police with a priest's suitcase. Further north he finds a town dominated by a bad man and his fianceé. Disguised as the new priest, he takes over the church, but he has to face the town's chief. Among many fun intrigues, the new priest arrives and the bandit's identity is discovered.
Subjects:	Feature films. Mexico
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Title:	La pasión según Berenice / The passion of Berenice
Director:	Jaime Humberto Hermosillo
Format:	1 videodisc (ca. 101 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. (Region 1)
Imprint:	[Phoenix, Ariz.] : Desert Mountain Media ; United States: DVD Video, 2002.
Language:	Spanish with English subtitles.
Notes:	Originally produced as a motion picture in 1976. Story & screenplay by Jaime Humberto Hermosillo ; produced by Conacine Dasa Films. Performer Pedro Armendáriz Jr., Martha Navarro, Emma Roldán. Awards: Winner of 4 Ariel awards, 2 Mexican Heraldo awards, and the Mexican Diosa de Plata.
Plot:	Berenice, una joven viuda traumatizada por el incendio en el que misteriosamente perdió la vida su esposo, se convierte en la cuidadora de su débil madrina, a quien trata un guapo doctor. Berenice se enamora del doctor y se endreda en la pasión e intriga.    Berenice, a brooding young widow scarred by the fire that mysteriously took her husband's life, becomes the caretaker of her ailing godmother. There she falls in love with her godmother's handsome doctor and becomes involved in passion and intrigue.
Subjects:	Feature films. Mexico
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Title:	Picardía mexicana
Director:	Abel Salazar
Format:	1 videodisc (105 min.). sd., col. 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 1)
Imprint:	Northridge, Calif. : Laguna Films, 2004
Language:	Spanish
Notes:	Originally released as a motion picture in 1980. Cima Films, S.A. Una producción de Alfredo Ripstein Jr. Dirección, Abel Salazar. Photography, Javier Cruz ; editor, Angel Camacho. Participants: Vicente Fernández, Jacqueline Andere, Adalberto Martínez, Héctor Suárez.
Plot:	"Picardía Mexicana es una historia que se desarrolla entre albures, risas, lagrimas y algrías. Un maestro se intercepta en camino de Vicente y un niño, para enseñarles el camino del la felicidad."    "Picardía Mexicana" is a story that develops through laughter, tears and joy. A teacher and a youth meet on the road to Vicente and are show the road to happiness.
Subjects:	Feature films. Mexico
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Title:	Piedras verdes / Mystic stones
Director:	Angel Flores Torres
Format:	1 videodisc (88 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 1)
Imprint:	Santa Monica, CA : Artisan Home Entertainment : Distributed by Lions Gate Home Entertainment. 2005
Language:	Spanish dialogue with optional English subtitles.
Notes:	Originally released as a motion picture in 2001. Flores DelValle Flores en coproducción con Videocine, De Cuernos al Abismo Films y con el apoyo de Conaculta/Imcine presentan una producción de Angel Flores Marini, una película de Angel Flores Marini ; productor, Angel Flores Marini ; guión cinematográfico, Angel Flores Torres, Angel Flores Marini ; argumento original y dirección, Angel Flores Torres. Director of photography, Eduardo Flores Torres ; art director, Mirko Von Berner ; editor, Damián Mendoza, Angel Flores Torres ; original music, Café Tacuba. Participants: Vanessa Bauche, Osvaldo Beravides, Juan Claudio Retes, Gabriel Retes, Alicia de Lago, Ignacio Retes, Oscar Chávez, Blanca Sánchez, Dagoberto Gama, Damián Delgado.
Plot:	Illegally adopted as a child after her mother's death, Mariana is disowned by her adopted mother when she turns 18. She falls into an underground urban lifestyle, reliant on a drug-dealing boyfriend. When things turn explosive, she flees the city and the law on a quest to find her biological father.
Subjects:	Feature films.
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Title:	Playa azul / Beach hotel
Director:	Alfredo Joskowicz.
Format:	1 videodisc (96 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Imprint:	United States: Vanguard Cinema, 2003.
Language:	Spanish dialogue, English subtitles.
Notes:	Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes, Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografia, Fondo de Fomento a la Calidad Cinematografica, Noos Films presentan un film de Alfredo Joskowicz ; screenplay writers, Victor Hugo, Rascon Banda, Tereia Velo, Alfredo Joskowicz ; director, Alfredo Joskowicz. Director of photography, Rodolfo Sanchez Santinelli ; editor, Franciso Chiu Amador ; original music, Amparo Rubin. Note Originally released as a motion picture in 1992. Performer Sergio de Bustamante, Pilar Pellicer, Mercedes Olea, Lourdes Villareal, Ignacio Retes, Mel Herrera. Ariel Awards, Mexico, 1992: Silver Ariel - Best Score (Mejor Música de Fondo) (Amparo Rubín).
Plot:	A politician accused of fraud seeks refuge in a remote and practically abandoned hotel he owns. He summons his family, his wife and two children to the hotel to decide their future. Unfortunately his friends decide not to help the disgraced politician. After awhile, even his own family abandons him, and his son strips him of his wealth, leaving the politician with very few options.
Subjects:	Feature films. Mexico. Politicians. Fraud. Fathers and sons.
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Title:	Por la libre / Dust to dust
Director:	Juan Carlos de Llaca
Format:	1 videodisc (96 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 1)
Imprint:	Beverly Hills, CA : Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, 2003
Language:	Spanish and English with English and Spanish subtitles.
Notes:	Motion picture originally released in 2000. Altavista Films presenta ; una película de Juan Carlos de Llaca. Producer, Anna Roth ; director, Juan Carlos de Llaca ; original story and screenplay by Antonio Armonía. Participants: Osvaldo Benavides, Rodrigo Cachero.
Plot:	Rodrigo and Roco are cousins with little in common but devotion to their grandfather. When the grandfather dies, other family members are consumed by the the old man's will and the distribution of the inheritance. The two cousins take it upon themselves to carry out their grandfather's wishes to have his ashes scattered into the sea at Acapulco and embark on a journey of self-discovery and mutual understanding.
Subjects:	Feature films. Mexico.
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Title:	Por si no te vuelvo a ver / If I never see you again
Director:	Juan Pablo Villaseñor
Format:	1 videodisc (94 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 i. DVD (Region 1)
Imprint:	Phoenix, Ariz. : Desert Mountain Media, c2002.
Language:	Spanish with optional subtitles in English
Notes:	Originally released as a motion picture in 1997. Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica, Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografía, Estudios Churubusco Azteza ; producción, Gustavo Montiel, Andrea Gentile ; escrita y dirigida por Juan Pablo Villaseñor. Cast: Ana Bertha Espin, Zaide Silvia Gutierrez, Max Kerlow, Blanca Torres, AWARDS: San Diego Film Festival Patron's Award, Mexican Cinema Journalist, Guadalajara Mexican Film Festival, Valladolid International Film Festival, 7 Silver Goddesses
Plot:	Cinco ancianos que han formado un conjunto musical escapan del asilo donde viven con la misión de entregar las cenizas de Rosita, una vieja amiga, a su sobrina Margarita. En el camino, perseguidos por las autoridades del asilo y por la policía, los cinco músicos tratarán de cumplir su ilusión de presentarse en un escenario.   A genuine original, Juan Pablo Villasenor's award-winning debut feature (international and Mexican jury prize at the 1997 Guadalajara Film Festival) offers a deft blend of humor and sentiment as it chronicles the road adventures of a group of elderly musicians who escape from a Mexico City nursing home and play in numerous clubs on the way to Tijuana where their leader hopes to fulfill his lover's dying wish. For over a decade, bandleader Bruno has endured condescending and authoritarian treatment at the hands of the nursing home staff and management. His lover Rosita finds her situation there so depressing that she finally commits suicide, but not before asking Bruno to see that her ashes are returned to Tijuana, her hometown. After the cremation, Bruno steals her ashes and hits the road to search for Rosita's niece Margarita. Unfortunately, she is a seedy character who cares nothing for her aunt's desires. While Bruno wrangles with Margarita over the ashes, his four cohorts back at the home find his courage and daring an inspiration. To this end, they too escape after a performance at another nursing home. By the time they find Bruno, he has begun falling for the troubled, much younger Margarita who still mourns for a lost love. To make matters more complicated, Margarita's elderly neighbor Diana makes passes at Bruno and his band's lead singer Oscar. The band's real adventure begins when the sleazy club owner they have been working for sends them packing to Tijuana with instrument cases filled with illegal drugs. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
Subjects:	Feature films. Mexico
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Title:	Por querer a una mujer
Director:	Ernesto Cortázar
Format:	1 videodisc (ca. 75 min.) ; sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 1)
Imprint:	United States: Tekila Films, 2003.
Language:	Spanish
Notes:	Originally produced as a motion picture 1951. Producción Garcia Besnes S. de R. ; productor, Oscar J. Brooks ; director, Gilberto Martinez Solares. Dirección, Ernesto Cortázar ; argumento, Ernesto Cortázar y Jaime L. Contreras ; edición, Gloria Schoemann ; fotografía, Jack Draper ; musica Manuel Esperon. Participants: Pedro Armendáriz, Tito Junco, Rita Macedo, Miguel Aceves Mejia.
Plot:	Un melodrama ranchero. Una pelicula donde se pueden apreciar magnificos panoramas campiranos y estampas musicales.
Subjects:	Feature Films. Mexico
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Title:	Profundo carmesi / Deep crimson
Director:	Arturo Ripstein
Format:	1 videodisc (114 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 1)
Imprint:	United States: Home Vision Entertainment, 2005
Language:	Spanish; Spanish dialogue with optional English subtitles.
Notes:	Originally produced as a motion picture in 1996. A film by Arturo Ripstein ; Ivania Films, MK2 Productions and Wanda Films ; produced by Miguel Necoechea and Pablo Barbachano ; written by Paz Alicia Garciadiego ; directed by Arturo Ripstein. Director of photography, Guillermo Granillo ; editor, Rafael Castanedo ; music, David Mansfield. Special features: Digital transfer enhanced; French theatrical trailer; essay by author, professor, and film expert Jorge Ruffinelli. Participants: Daniel Giménez Cacho, Regina Orozco, Marisa Paredes.
Plot:	Based on the true story of the Lonely Hearts Murders, Nicolas and Coral roam the back roads of Mexico looking for lonely women who Nicolas seduces and the insanely jealous Coral then murders.
Subjects:	Feature films. Mexico.
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Title:	El puño de Hierro
Director:	Gabriel García Moreno
Format:	1 videocassette ( 77 min.) : b&w and ; 1/2 in (PAL)
Imprint:	Rio De Janeiro : Funarte Cinema Latinoamereicano. 1999 (Tesouros do cinema latino-americano)
Language:	Silent Film
Notes:	Originally produced in 1927. Una producción de: Centro Cultural Cinematográfico, S. A. de Orizaba, Veracruz. Dirección: Gabriel García Moreno; Guión: Gabriel García Moreno; Fotografía: Manuel Carrillo y Juan D. Vasallo. Reparto: Carlos Villatoro; Octavio Valencia; Lupe Bonilla; Rosario Galaviz; Manuel de los Ríos; Ignacio Ojeda; Guillermo Pacheco; Manuel Araiza.
Plot:	Carlos, un joven de clase acomodada, es tentado por las drogas que le ofrece el Buitre, lugarteniente del malvado traficante el Tieso. Desesperada, su novia Laura intenta ayudarlo a salir de las drogas sin mucho éxito. Al mismo tiempo, la banda del Murciélago asola la región secuestrando y robando a los hacendados. Juanito y Perico deciden investigar y capturar al Murciélago.    "In 1927, a startling silent film about drug addiction and trafficking was exhibited in a city in Mexico. With a narrative blending social commentary, fast-paced adventure, and surreal elements, the film marked a new departure in Mexican cinema. Entitled El puño de hierro (The Iron Fist), it was the work of a young director named Gabriel García Moreno and was produced for his own company based in Orizaba, Veracruz. However, the film failed to register with audiences of the time and quickly disappeared from public view. It would not find an audience again until the very end of the 20th century when a revival of interest in the early cinema history of Latin America finally brought it to light" (From El Puño de Hierro, a Mexican Silent Film Classic by William M. Drew and Esperanza Vázquez Bernal
Subjects:	Feature Films. Mexico. Silent films.
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Title:	Qué viva México! / Da zdravstvuet Meksika! / Viva Mexico!
Director:	Sergei Eisenstein and Grigory Alexandrov
Format:	1 videodisc (85 min.) ; sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.in. DVD (Region 1)
Imprint:	Mexico: Studio Latino/Excalibur Media Group ; Thousand Oaks, CA : Ventura Distriution, 2004
Language:	Russian narration, English subtitles
Notes:	Based on: Que viva Mexico! / Sergei Eisenstein. Previously issued in less complete version under title: Thunder over Mexico. Reconstructed by Grigori Aleksandrov and Nikita Orlov in 1979 from materials directed by Sergei Eisenstein in 1931. Mosfil'm pervoe tvorcheskoe ob”edinenie ; Sergeii Eizenshtein, Eduard Tisse, Grigorii Aleksandrov. Cinematographer, Eduard Tisse; editor, Esfir Tobak. Special features: Que Viva clippings: a sampling of texts pertaining to the production and release of Que Viva Mexico./ Participants: Narrator, Sergei Bondarchuk.    Contents: Que viva Mexico; (1931/1979, 85 min.) -- Romance sentimentale : a cinematographic study with Mara Griy /; scenario and direction, S.M. Eisenstein and G.V. Alexandroff ; music, Alexis Archangelsky ; production, Sequana-Film; (1930, 20 min.) -- Misery and fortune of woman = Frauennot, Frauenglück ; Lazar Wechsler presents ; Praesens-Film AG ; photographed by Eduard Tisse ; directed by Sergei Eisenstein and Grigory Alexandrov ; music by Martin Uhl ; restored by Bret Wood; (1929, 20 min.).
Plot:	Que viva Mexico: A film document of the history of Mexico, presented in four novellas: Sandunga, an exposition of Tehuantepec jungles and the peaceful lifestyles of their inhabitants; Manguei, a love story about a poor peon and his bride; Fiesta, devoted to bullfighting and romantic love; and Soldadera, a portrayal of the 1910 revolution in Mexico as depicted in the frescoes of Siqueiros, Rivera, and Orosco. Romance sentimentale: Eisenstein's first sound film, this experimental 1930 short is a dazzling symphony of images and sounds, made in collaboration with Alexandrov and Tisse. Misery and fortune of woman: A 20 minute excerpt from an ultra-rare 1929 film by Eisenstein, Alexandrov and Tisse intended to encourage legal and sanitary birth/abortion clinics in Europe. A dramatization of the plight of working class women.
Subjects:	Feature films. Documentary films. Experimental films. Short films. Mexico. Soviet Union. Description and travel.
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Title:	Un quijote sin mancha
Director:	Miguel M. Delgado
Format:	1 videodisc (107 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD
Imprint:	S.l.] : Super Estrella Films, 2003
Language:	Spanish
Notes:	Originally released as a motion picture in 1969. Posa Films Internacional, S.A. ; producida por Jacques Gelman ; dirección, Miguel M. Delgado. Music, Sergio Guerrero ; cinematography, Rosalio Solano. Participants: Mario Moreno "Cantinflas", Lupita Ferrer, Susana Salvat, Eduardo Alcaraz, Luis Manuel Pelayo, Carios Riquelme
Plot:	Justo Leal y Aventado es un hombre de extracción sumamente humilde. Por lo tanto conoce las privaciones, angustias e impotencia para defenderse que padece la gente necesitada. Es por esto que, a los 30 años, decide estudiar la carrera de leyes con el fin de poder ayudarios. La historia comienza cuando Justo eatá cursando el último año de Derecho y se enfrenta a sus primeros casos = A just and loyal man of humble extraction, anguishes over his inability to defend suffering people. He becomes a lawyers apprentice to help people.
Subjects:	Feature films. Mexico
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Title:	La razon de la culpa
Director:	Juan José Ortega
Format:	1 videodisc (ca. 96 min.) ; sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. DVD; full screen (1.33:1) presentation; Dolby Digital surround 5.1.
Imprint:	Costa Mesa, CA : Vanguard, c2004.
Language:	Spanish; English subtitles.
Notes:	Originally released as a motion picture in 1943. A Vanguard Cinema release Video Suenos presents a Compania Cinematografica Mexicanas production ; written by Jaime Contreras, Catalina D'Erzell, Ramon Perez Pelaez ; directed by Juan José Ortega. Director of photography, Jack Draper ; art director, Ramon Rodriguez Granada ; editors, Rafael Ceballos, Charles Kimball ; original music, Maneul Esperon. Performer Pedro Infante, Blanca de Castejón, Andrés Soler, María Elena Marqués, Mimí Derba, Carolina Barret, Conchita Sáenz, Araceli Fernández, Ricardo Montalban, Roberto Canedo.
Plot:	Love, drama, and romance are intertwine in this tale of life's trials and tribulations. An important lesson is learned: when it comes to love, life's mistakes are easily forgotten.
Subjects:	Feature films. Mexico
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Title:	El Rey
Director:	Mario Hernandez
Format:	1 videodisc (90 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4. DVD (Region 1)
Imprint:	Bethesda, MD : Capitol Entertainment, c1999.Mexico?] : Tekila Films ; Madera, CA : Distributed by Madera Cinevideo, 2005
Language:	Spanish
Notes:	Originally produced as a motion picture in 1976. Chichén-Itzá Productions ; Producciones Aguila S.A. presentan a ; guion, Mario Hernandez, Antonio Aguilar ; una producción de Antonio Aguilar ; director, Mario Hernandez. Fotografía, Javier Cruz, Ruvalcaba ; edición, Sergio Soto ; música, Gustavo Pimentel. Participants: Antonio Aguilar, Carmen Montejo, Pancho Cordova, Gerardo Reyes, Javier Ruan, El Chelelo, Yolanda Lievana.
Plot:	During the Mexican revolution, a hero unselfishly helps the people.
Subjects:	Feature films. Mexico. Revolution, 1910-1920. Western films.
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Title:	El Rincon de las virgenes
Director:	Alberto Isaac
Format:	1 videodisc (90 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD
Imprint:	United States: Desert Mountain Media ; Madera, CA : distributed by Madera Cinevideo, 2007
Language:	Spanish
Notes:	Director, Alberto Isaac ; producer, Estudios Churubusco-Azteca. Participants: Carmen Salinas, Alfonso Arau, Rosalbo Bramblia, Emilio Fernández.
Plot:	A group of women, inhabitants of Comala, try to convince Lucas Lucatero, a seller of trinkets, to accompany them to ask for the canonization of Anacleto Morones, but the seller explains to them the true story of Anacleto: I knew him when he was making up tall tales while dallying with Leona, a singer of ballads. Both used their facility with words to deceive the people and make them believe in miracles, by which Anacleto is elevated to sainthood.
Subjects:	Feature films. Mexico
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Title:	Rio abajo / On the line.
Director:	Jose Luis Borau.
Format:	1 videodisc (95 min.) ; sd., col. ; 1/2 in. DVD.
Imprint:	Chatsworth, CA : Image Entertainment [distributor], 2001
Language:	English, dubbed from the Spanish.
Notes:	An Amber El Iman S.A. production ; produced by Steven Kovacs and Jose Luis Borau ; directed by Jose Luis Borau.. Originally released as motion picture in 1985. Director of photography, Teo Escamilla ; screenplay by Jose Luis borau, Barbara P. Solomon. Performers: David Carradine, Scott Wilson, Victoria Abril, Jeff Delger, Paul Richardson, Jesse Vint, Sam Jaffe.
Plot:	Drama about a smuggler on the Mexican border pitted against the border patrol. Victoria Abril, David Carradine and Scott Wilson (Dead Man Walking) star in this tough, fast-paced feature about two border patrol officers who fall for the same, beautiful Mexican prostitute. This Spanish U.S. co-production from the veteran Spanish director Jose Luis Borau (Furtivos) functions well enough as a juicy love triangle melodrama, but it also works as an allegory of America-s conflicting views concerning its southern neighbors.
Subjects:	Feature films. United States. Spain. Mexico
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Title:	Río escondido
Director:	Emilio "El Indio" Fernández
Format:	1 videodisc (110 min.) ; sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 1)
Imprint:	Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Ventura : Excalibur Media Group : Studio Latino, 2004
Language:	Spanish
Notes:	Originally produced in 1943. Latino y Camara Corp. presentan ; director, Emilio "El Indio" Fernández ; productor, Raúl De Anda. Participants: María Félix, Carlos López Moctezuma, Fernando Fernández.
Plot:	La ambición y maldad de un solo hombre deja a una pueblo entero sin agua, enterrándolo en la miseria y la desolación"--Container. The drama of a town's fight against injustice, hunger, and death
Subjects:	Feature films. Mexico. Civil rights.
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Title:	Rito terminal
Director:	Oscar Urrutia Lazo
Format:	1 videodisc (ca. 110 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD, region 1; Dolby digital stereo.
Imprint:	United States : Distributed by Image Entertainment, 2004
Language:	Spanish and Nahuatl dialogue with English subtitles.
Notes:	Originally released as a motion picture in 2000. Mexican Film Institute ; University Center for Film Studies ; producer, Mitl Valdéz ; writer and director, Oscar Urrutia Lazo. Director of photography, Ciro Cabello ; editor, Manuel Rodríguez ; music, José Navarro. Performer Guillermo Larrea, Soledad Ruiz, Ángeles Cruz, Guillermo Ríos, Antonio Monroy.
Plot:	The patron saint celebration in an indigenous community is the setting where a photographer loses his shadow. In a spiritual exchange during a traditional funeral, he will also lose the convictions that keep him tied to his world. In order to recover, he will have to travel an initiatory path along with the inhabitants of the community, sharing a different way of approaching the environment. However, only when he accepts the loss of his shadow will he be able to face the woman who has taken it and succeed in recovering it.
Subjects:	Feature films. Mexico
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Title:	El ropavejero
Director:	Emilio Gomez Muriel
Format:	1 videodisc (ca. 104 min.) ; sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. DVD
Imprint:	Coyoacan, Mexico : Alter Films ; [Mexico City, Mexico] : Televisa, c2004.
Language:	Spanish ; optional subtitles in English and Spanish.
Notes:	Originally released as a motion picture in 1946. Clasa Films Mundiales ; director, Emilio Gomez Muriel ; argumento, Mane Sierra ; adaptación, Joaquín Pardavé. Cinematography, Raul Martinez Solares ; editing, Jorge Bustos ; original music, Francisco Argote. Performer Joaquín Pardavé, Sara García, Dalia Iñiguez, Jorge Ancira.
Plot:	Cirilo, a used clothing dealer, is in love with Maria, a servant. They look for items to sell in the house where Maria works, and find in the basement equipment for printing counterfeit money. Circilo decides to take advantage of this find, leading to a series of funny events.
Subjects:	Feature films. Mexico
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Title:	La Rosa de plata
Director:	Valentín Trujillo
Format:	1 videodisc (90 min. ) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.DVD
Imprint:	México : Alterfilms, 2007
Language:	Spanish
Notes:	Videodisc release of the 1998 feature film. una producción de Dirsol S.A. de C.V. ; dirigida por Valentín Trujillo. Productor y director, Valentín Trujillo ; fotografía, Arturo Bidart ; música, Edgar Sosa. Participants: Valentín Trujillo, Andrea García, Ana Luisa Peluffo.
Plot:	Tras la dolorosa muerte de su madre en españa, Ana Luisa se ve obligada a regresar a México para reencontrarse con su padre: Don Diego, hombre acaudalado y dominante, en una época en la que los españoles abusaban de las tierras conquistadas y de su gente. Upon the death of her mother, Andrea returns to Mexico to join her father, a wealthy domineering man. When she falls in love with a simple handsome "mestizo" worker, problems arise.
Subjects:	Feature films. Mexico.
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Title:	Salon Mexico
Director:	José Luis García Agraz
Format:	1 videocassette (110 min.) ; sd., col. ; 1/2 in.
Imprint:	Chicago, IL : Facets Video : Chicago Latino Cinema, 2000
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