Latin american & Iberian Film Collection at Dartmouth

Video & DVD Collection: Feature Films in Spanish Language.

Titles beginning with:  A  . There are 117 records arranged by title.

Title:	A+ (AMAS)
Director:	Xavier Ribera
Format:	1 videodisc (105 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (PAL, Region 2)
Imprint:	Barcelona: Manga Films 2004
Language:	Spanish with optional subtitles in English
Notes:	Originally produced as a motion picture in 2004. Directed and written by: Xavier Ribera. Actores: Eloy Azorin, Elvira Herreria, Jose Coronado, Misia, Ricardo Moya, Fernando Ramallo, Eloi Yebra.
Plot:	A+ is probably one of the most refreshing and innovating cinematographic experiences to be presented in Spain the present year. Filmed most of it in video, it tells tree different stories of three different genres with quite different styles. The point in common for all of them is A+, an independent music show that happens to be the goal for all the characters but by many different circumstances. The first story tells us about a young couple of drug dealers that get themselves in serious trouble with local mafia and have to run away from home almost naked and with two packages of cocaine in their hands. That story, maybe the most interesting, is a rough tale abut fate, love and how to live with you own announced dead. The second one is a funny story held by magnificent comedians Fernando Ramallo and Eloi Yebra about two young guys that star a funny trip to A+ in a lousy sidecar a friend of them got. The third story is a soft and elegant tale about generational miscommunication represented by a father that tries to get close to her daughter by bringing her to A+. The result is a really moving piece that faces us to father-child problems in a very stylish and modern way.
Subjects:	Feature Films. Spain
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Title:	768903, la primera pelicula argentina que no tiene mensaje.
Director:	Cristian Bernanrd and Flavio Nardini.
Format:	1 videocassette (85 min.) ; sd., col. ; 1/2 in. VHS (PAL).
Imprint:	Buenos Aires : Foco, 2001. (Cine argentino)
Language:	Spanish
Notes:	Un film de Cristian Bernanrd y Flavio Nardini. Videocassette release of a 2000 motion picture. Participants: Sergio Baldini, Gerardo Chendo, Diego Mackenzie, Claudio Rissi, Sol Alc, Fernando Cla, Carlos Lanari.
Plot:	Tres amigos viven obsesionados con la vedette Wanda Manera, quien tuvo su época de esplendor durante los años del proceso. La historia comienza en 1976--el año en que la Junta militar toma el poder--y se reinicia dos veces: en 1989--cuando asume el gobierno Menem--y en el 2003--haciendo una suerte de futorologia politica. La pelicula describe como la relación de los amigos con Wenda se transforma con el paso de los años.
Subjects:	Feature films. Argentina.
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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:	27 horas.
Director:	Montxo Armendariz.
Format:	1 videocassette (93 min.) ; sd., col. ; 1/2 in. VHS format (PAL).
Imprint:	Barcelona : Manga Films, Cine Español, 2001
Language:	Spanish
Notes:	Golem ; una produccion de Elias Querejeta ; dirigida por Montxo Armendariz. Released as a motion picture in 1986. Participants: Martxelo Rubio, Maribel Verdu, Jon San Sebastian, Antonio Banderas.
Plot:	Heavy drama about three teens in San Sebastian, a port city on the Bay of Biscay in the Basque country of Spain. Covert references are made to political issues like the miseries of shipyard workers and to the police as rather brusque and hard-nosed. Drugs are rampant in the lower orders of city life; one of the teens has dropped out of high school and is a user, as is his girlfriend. He survives by stealing and by handouts from his family, who nevertheless want nothing to do with him. No matter how much a third teen friend tries to get this couple to give up the habit, nothing works. The ultimate question, though not emphasized here, may be who is really responsible for what happens to this unfortunate young couple.
Subjects:	Feature films. Spain. Male friendship
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Title:	8A
Director:	Orlando Jiménez-Leal
Format:	1 videocassette (84 min.) ; sd., col. 1/2 in.
Imprint:	Los Angeles : Meridian Video : Connoisseur Video Collection : Mirada ; New York, N.Y. : Sold exclusively by New Yorker Video,
Language:	Spanish with English subtitles.
Notes:	Radio Televisione Italiana presents ; produced by RAI 2, Italy in association with WLTV-Univision, P.M. Films, NY ; a film by Orlando Jiménez-Leal ; screenplay, José Húguez, Orlando Jiménez-Leal, David Tedeschi. Director of photography, Emilio Guede, Jr. ; editor, David Tedeschi ; music, Daniel Freiberg. " Docudrama"--Cassette label. Originally produced as an Italian motion picture in 1992. Recorded in hi-fi stereo. Participants: Rubén López, Nino Roger, Julio Torresoto, Luis Llopis. Narrator, John Gres ; voices, Erek Carrión, Manolo Arce.
Plot:	"The Kafka-esque world of Cuba under Castro's rule is brought to light in this reconstruction of the 1989 trial and subsequent execution on charges of drug trafficking of General Arnaldo Ochoa Sánchez, Cuba's highest ranking General, hero of the revolution and commander of the Angolan and Ethiopian campaigns ... Brings an unusual examination of the whole process by using footage of the trial and the reenactments of the conspiracy and executions"--Container.
Subjects:	Cuba. Feature Films. Documentary Films. Trials. Political purges. Historical films. Arnaldo Ochoa Sánchez. Trials, litigation, etc. Politics and government. 1959.
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Title:	1492, conquest of paradise
Director:	Ridley Scott
Format:	1 videodisc (150 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Imprint:	Taiwan : Catalyst Logic, 2002?]
Language:	English; Dialogue in English with optional subtitles in English, traditional Chinese and simplified Chinese.
Notes:	Originally produced as a motion picture in 1992. A Percy Main/Legende/Cyrk production in association with Odyssey Distributors, Ltd. ; a Ridley Scott film ; written by Roselyne Bosch ; produced by Ridley Scott and Alain Goldman ; directed by Ridley Scott. Director of photography, Adrian Biddle ; film editors, William Anderson, Françoise Bonnot ; music, Vangelis. Participants: Gerard Depardieu, Armand Assante, Loren Dean, Angela Molina, Fernando Rey, Michael Wincott, Tcheky Karyo, Kevin Dunn, Mark Margolis, Juan Diego Botto, Achero Mañas, Sigourney Weaver.
Plot:	The film chronicles the first two landmark voyages of Columbus and takes us to the brink of his third and last.
Subjects:	Feature Films. Spain. Columbus, Christopher.
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Title:	7 virgenes / 7 Virgins
Director:	Alberto Rodríguez
Format:	1 videodisc (86 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (PAL/Region 2)
Imprint:	Barcelona: Alta Classics Group. 2005
Language:	Spanish with optional subtitles in English and Spanish
Notes:	Estreno en España: 14 Octubre 2005. 2005: Goya Mejor actor revelación (Jesús Carroza). 2005: San Sebastián: Concha de Plata al mejor actor (Juan José Ballesta) Guión: Alberto Rodríguez y Rafael Cobos López. Producción ejecutiva: José Antonio Félez. Música: Julio de la Rosa. Fotografía: Alex Catalán. Montaje: J. Manuel G. Moyano. Dirección artística: Javier López. Vestuario: Fernando García. Interpretación: Juan José Ballesta (Tano), Jesús Carroza (Richi), Vicente Romero (Santacana), Alba Rodríguez (Patri), Julián Villagrán (José María), Manolo Solo (Director del centro), Ana Wagener (Madre de Richi), Maite Sandoval (Madre de Patri). Special Features: Commentary, Filmographies, Interactive Menu, Making Of, Music Video,
Plot:	Verano en un barrio obrero y marginal de una ciudad del sur. Tano (Juan José Ballesta), un adolescente que cumple condena en un centro de reforma, recibe un permiso especial de 48 horas para asistir a la boda de su hermano Santacana (Vicente Romero). Durante el tiempo que dura el permi-so, Tano se reencuentra con su mejor amigo, Richi (Jesús Carro-za), y se lanza a vivir esas horas con el firme propósito de divertir-se, hacer todo lo que le estaba prohibido en el centro: se emborra-cha, se droga, roba, ama y, fundamentalmente vuelve a la vida. Se siente libre y ejerce esa libertad con toda la fuerza y el atrevimiento de la adolescencia. Pero a medida que transcurre su estancia fuera del centro, Tano también asiste al derrumbamiento de todos sus re-ferentes: el barrio, convertido en otro; la familia, el amor y la amis-tad. Más allá de un permiso de 48 horas, la libertad de Tano se convierte en un viaje impuesto hacia la madurez. (La Butaca)    It is summertime in a blue-collar, marginal district of a city in the South of Spain. Tano, a teenager currently serving a sentence in a juvenile reform center, is given a 48-hour leave to attend his brother's wedding. Together with his best friend Richi, Tano plans to enjoy his 48-hour pass to the limit, doing all the things he is normally prohibited from doing. He gets drunk, takes drugs, steals, has sex and hangs out with his buddies. He feels free and exerts that freedom with all the force and audacity of a teenager. By the end of his 48-hour pass, Tano has also witnessed the collapse of all the things he takes for granted in his life: the neighborhood, his family, friends and loved-ones - everything is somehow different for him. More than just two days of freedom, Tano's leave turns out to be a journey into maturity.
Subjects:	Feature Films. Spain
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Title:	1919, cronica del alba. 2a. parte
Director:	Antonio J. Betancor
Format:	1 videodisc (ca. 90 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (All Region) (PAL)
Imprint:	Madrid : Suevia Films, 2002
Language:	Spanish dialogue with optional English subtitles.
Notes:	Based on the story by Ramón J. Sender./ Originally released as motion picture in 1983. Director, Antonio José Betancor ; music, Riz Ortolani ; photography, Juan Antonio Ruiz Anchia ; producers, Carlos Escobedo, Javier Moro. Participants: Miguel Molina, Cristina Marsillach, Walter Vidarte.
Plot:	This sequel to Valentina jumps ahead eight years where the gentle-poet Pepe is studying in a university and doing an internship in a pharmacy lab. Though it has nearly been a decade, he is still in love with the beautiful Valentina. Unfortunately, things in Spain are getting more tense as his countrymen prepare to rebel against the oppressive government.    A study of the anarchist uprising in Zaragoza in 1919. A fifteen-year-old who has been abandoned by his family works in a drug store, through which pass a parade of enigmatic characters.
Subjects:	Feature films. Spain. Literary adaptation
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Title:	20 centimeters
Director:	Ramón Salazar
Format:	1 videodisc (113 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region All)
Imprint:	Philadelphia, PA : TLA Releasing, 2006
Language:	Spanish with optional English subtitles.
Notes:	Originally released as a motion picture in 2005. Produced by José María Calleja, Iker Monfort ; written and directed by Ramón Salazar. Participants: Mónica Cervera, Pablo Puyol, Miguel O'Dogherty, Concha Galán, Macarena Gómez.
Plot:	Marieta is a narcoleptic transvestite prostitute who yearns to be woman and when asleep is the star of lavish musical numbers
Subjects:	Feature films. Spain
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Title:	90 millas
Director:	Francisco Rodríguez.
Format:	1 videodisc (105 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD ; widescreen (1.85:1) ; Dolby digital stereo..
Imprint:	Coral Gables, FL : distributed by Venevision International, c2006.
Language:	Spanish with some English subtitled in Spanish; optional English subtitles.
Notes:	Originally released as a motion picture in 2005. Una produccion Sateco ; en association con Delicias, Sistemas de Producciones Audiovisuales, et al. ; guión, Jorge Herrera ; director, Francisco Rodríguez. Directors of photography, Domingo Solano, Pablo Hernández ; editor, Alberto G. Triguero ; music, Pedro Luis Martínez ; productores ejecutivos, Miguel Angel Derqui, Francisco Rodríguez. Performer Alexis Valdés, Claudia Rojas, Jorge Herrera, Enrique Molina, Daisy Granados, Joel Guillén, Francisco Rodríguez.
Plot:	A Cuban family leaves the island on a homemade raft and crosses the dangerous stretch from Cuba to Florida in search of freedom.
Subjects:	Feature films. Spain. Political refugees.
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Title:	25 watts
Director:	Juan Pablo Rebella
Format:	1 videodisc (94 min.) ; sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 1)
Imprint:	Uruguay: Cinemateca - Condor Video ; Chicago, Ill. : Distributed by Facets Video
Language:	Spanish with optional English subtitles
Notes:	Originally released as a motion picture in Uruguay in 2001. Una coproducción de Ctrl Z Films, Imágenes, Taxi Films ; produccion, Inés Peñagaricano ; guión y dirección, Juan Pablo Rebella, Pablo Stoll. Participants: Daniel Hendler, Jorge Temponi, Alfonso Tort, Valentin Rivero, Valeria Mendieta.
Plot:	Three young men in Montevideo drink beer, avoid responsibility, talk nonsense, encounter weird characters from the neighborhood and drift in a state of chronic boredom.
Subjects:	Feature films. Uruguay
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Title:	Los abajos firmantes
Director:	Joaquín Oristrell
Format:	1 videodisc (91 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 2, PAL)
Imprint:	Barcelona : Cameo Media, 2004
Language:	Spanish with optional English subtitles.
Notes:	Originally issued as a motion picture in 2003. Dirigida por Joaquín Oristrell ; una producción de Centro de Nuevos Creadores, Garbo Producciones, Cantinela. Screenplay, Javier Cámara, Juan Diego Botto, Elvira Mínguez, María Botto, and Joaquín Oristrell ; produced by Joaquín Oristrell, Cristina Rota ; music, Nacho Mastretta ; editor, Miguel Angel Santamaría ; artistic direction, Soledad Seseña ; cinematographer, Mischa Lluch ; production director, Sandra Hermida. Participants: Javier Cámara, Juan Diego Botto, Elvira Mínguez, María Botto.
Plot:	A "play within a play," 4 actors in a touring company debate the Spanish government's decision to send Spanish troops to Iraq.    The leading actor in a theatre company on tour in Spain dies in a car crash. A new actor, Jorge Ruiz, comes to take over. He is good-looking, young and revolutionary. His arrival gives rise to tensions, jealousy and distrust among the rest of the company and especially so for Mario Soto who is in charge of directing while the stage manager, who is busy working on an opera for the Teatro Real in Madrid, is away. In the first rehearsal of the play they are doing, “The Untitled Comedy” by Federico García Lorca, there is a clash between these two men. This struggle between the two is witnessed by Carmen Morante, the leading actress in the company and Laura G. Reyna who was the secret lover of the late leading actor. If this wasn’t enough the newcomer brings further conflict; he reads a manifesto in favour of peace at the end of the performance. Mario questions this decision and the company is split.
Subjects:	Feature films. Spain.
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Title:	Abre los ojos / Open Your Eyes.
Director:	Alejandro Amenabar.
Format:	1 videocassette (117 min.) ; sd., col. ; 1/2 in. VHS format (PAL)
Imprint:	[Madrid] : Sogepaq Video, c1997.
Language:	Spanish dialogue, English subtitles.
Notes:	Story by Alejandro Amenabar, Mateo Gil ; director of photography, Hans Burmann ; music, Alejandro Amenabar. Cast: Penelope Cruz, Chete Lera, Fele Martinez, Eduardo Noriega. Un film de las Producciones del Escorpion, S.L. ; director, Alejandro Amenabar ; productor, Fernando Bovaipa, Jose Luis Cuerda. Videocassette release of the 1997 motion picture.
Plot:	After flirting with another woman during a party, playboy Cesar is given a lift home by his disgruntled sex, only to be horribly disfigured when she intentionally drives her car over an incline. Accused of her murder and confined to a mental hospital, the alienated Cesar explains his plight to a psychiatrist who gradually unravels the terrifying truth about the mistaken identities, apparent betrayals and half-remembered memories that are tormenting Cesar-s mind
Subjects:	Feature films. Spain
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Title:	El abrazo partido
Director:	Daniel Burman.
Format:	1 videodisc (99 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD; Dolby digital 5.1; (Region 4.)
Imprint:	Argentina : Argentina Video Home : Industria Argentina. 2004
Language:	Spanish; In Spanish with English and Portuguese subtitles. Closed captions in Spanish.
Notes:	Originally produced as motion picture in 2003. BD Cine ; Paradis Films ; Classic ; Wanda Vision ; una película de Daniel Burman. Special features: Trailer, interviews with director and actors, outtakes, etc. Participants: Daniel Burman, Adriana Aizemberg, Jorge d'Elia. Awards: Festival de Berlin, 2004: Mejor Película Oso de Plata; Mejor Actor, Daniel Hendler.
Plot:	Un joven judío trabaja junto a su madre en una mercería de una galería de Once y está iniciando los trámites para conseguir la ciudadanía polaca e irse a vivir a Europa. Esta película cuenta su historia, la de los diversos personajes que habitan la galería, y la de su padre, que hace varios años se fue a luchar en la Guerra de Yom Kippur, y que ahora vuelve a reencontrarse con su hijo.    Story of a young man searching for his identity.
Subjects:	Feature films. Argentina
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Title:	El Abuelo / The grandfather.
Director:	José Luis Garci
Format:	1 videodisc (147 min.) ; sd., col. ; 1/2 in. DVD (Region 2), PAL standard, Dolby Digital 5.1.
Imprint:	Madrid. Columbia TriStar Home Video, 2001
Language:	In Spanish with optional English and French subtitles available.
Notes:	Una producción Nickel Odeón Dos, S.A. con la participación de Televisión Española, S.A. ; una película escrita por J.L. Garci y Horacio Valcarcel ; producida y dirigida por José Luis Garci. Participants: Fernando Fernán Gómez, Rafael Alonso, Cayetana Guillén Cuervo, Agustín González.
Plot:	Don Rodrigo, a symbol of an aristocratic family, has returned to his village after a long trip to the United States. He quickly experiences resentment from his village, and comes to understand the value of his true family.
Subjects:	Feature films. Spain
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Title:	El Abuelo / The grandfather.
Director:	José Luis Garci
Format:	1 videodisc (146 min.) ; sd., col. ; 1/2 in.
Imprint:	Burbank, CA: Miramax Home Entertainment.Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment, 2000.
Language:	In Spanish with optional yellow English subtitles.
Notes:	Una producción Nickel Odeón Dos, S.A. con la participación de Televisión Española, S.A. ; una película escrita por J.L. Garci y Horacio Valcarcel ; producida y dirigida por José Luis Garci. Participants: Fernando Fernán Gómez, Rafael Alonso, Cayetana Guillén Cuervo, Agustín González.
Plot:	When news of his son's death brings old Count Albrit home to Spain after years abroad, he's pleased to meet his two charming young granddaughters. But one of the girls is not his son's daughter, and therefore not his true heir. The determined Count sets out to discover which granddaughter is worthy of his love and name.
Subjects:	Feature films. Spain
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Title:	Acción mutante / Mutant Action
Director:	Alex De la Iglesia
Format:	2 videodiscs (ca. 90 min. 80 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD Region 2
Imprint:	Barcelona: Manga Films , 2002
Language:	Spanish with Spanish subtitles.
Notes:	Una coproducción El Deseo, S.A. y CIBY 2000, con la participación de TVE ; producida por Agustin y Pedro Almodóvar ; director, Alex De la Iglesia ; screenplay, Alex de la Iglesia, Jorge Guerricaechevarria. Director of photography, Carlos Gusi ; editor, Pablo Blanco. Originally produced as motion picture in 1992. Special features include: scene selections. Participants: Antonio Resines, Alex Angulo, Frederique Feder, Fernando Guillén, Enrique San Francisco, Juan Viadas, Karra Elejalde, Saturnino Garcia, Jaime Blanch, Jon Gabella, Feodor Atkine. Disc 2 includes: “Imagenes del rodaje. Video musical, Juego interactivo, Filmografia de los actores””
Plot:	Dystopic science fiction film set in the year 2012 in a world ruled by bodybuilders, designers and the ultra-chic. Accion Mutante, an underground group of mentally and physically disabled are the sole resistance to the cult of beauty and wealth. Ramon, the leader of the group devises plots to kidnap Patricia, daughter of a wealthy industrialist, but the plot does not work out as planned.
Subjects:	Feature films. Spain
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Title:	Actrius / Actrices /Actresses
Director:	Ventura Pons
Format:	1 videodisc (88 min + 28 min extras) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (PAL, Region 2)
Imprint:	Barcelona : Manga Films, 2002
Language:	Spanish or Catalan with optional subtitles in Spanish, English or French.
Notes:	Originally produced as a motion picture in 1997. Una producción de Els Films de la Rambla, S.A. y la participación de TVE, Canal+ España. Director, Ventura Pons; music, Carles Cases. Participants: Nuria Espert; Rosa Maria Sardá; Ana Lizaran; Mercè Pons. Written By: Josep María Benet i Jornet (play)Josep María Benet i Jornet (screenplay)
Plot:	In order to prepare for her role as a certain well-known actress, a young woman has lengthy conversations with three different actresses who were good friends with the famous star. Emerging from these conversations are three equally different versions of the past and the events that shaped their lives and careers. This cinematic adaptation of a theatrical work is true to the original, but does not stray far from a theatrical rendering of the story.
Subjects:	Feature films. Spain. Literary adaptation.
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Title:	Adiós con el corazón
Director:	Jose Luis Garcia Sanchez
Format:	1 videodisc (ca. 91 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 1)
Imprint:	United States : Venevision International, 2005
Language:	Spanish dialogue, English subtitles.
Notes:	Originally released as a motion picture in 2000. Directed by Jose Luis Garcia Sanchez ; story, Rafael Azcona ; screenplay José Luis García and Rafael Azcona ; produced by José María Calleja ; a production of Alma Ata International Pictures in association with Gaila-Galiardo Productions and Rafael Azcona, Canal+, Warner Home Video.
Plot:	The story of a single womanizer, Juan, who, though he's getting older, is still attractive to women. One day his doorbell rings, and a charming young woman is standing there. She says she is Juan's daughter, and from this moment on, Juan's life is nothing but surprises.
Subjects:	Feature films. Spain
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Title:	L'age d'or / Edad de oro / The age of gold
Director:	Luis Buñuel
Format:	1 videodisc (63 min.) ; sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 1)
Imprint:	New York : Kino on Video, 2004
Language:	French; Silent segments with English intertitles and music ; sound segments in French with English subtitles.
Notes:	Originally released in France in 1930. Special features: Audio commentary by Robert Short, author of The age of gold: surrealist cinema; stills gallery; Luis Buñuel: a complete filmography. Participants: Gaston Modot, Lya Lys, Max Ernst. Producer, Charles Noailles ; writer, Luis Buñuel & Salvador Dali ; director, Luis Buñuel. Cinematographer, Albert Duverger.
Plot:	Using a melange of strange and unrelated images, this surrealistic film about two lovers who mock convention is a statement by Buñuel on the nature of the bourgeoisie, the Church and the police. Banned in France within two weeks of its release
Subjects:	Feature films. Spain. France. Surrealism Films.
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Title:	A golpes
Director:	Juan Vicente Córdoba
Format:	1 videodisc (113 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 2, PAL)
Imprint:	Madrid , Spain : Enrique Cerezo Producciones Cinematográficas S.A. , 2005
Language:	Spanish with optional English and Portuguese subtitles
Notes:	Originally released as a motion picture in 2005. Guión: Juan Vicente Córdoba y María Reyes Arias. Producción: Enrique Cerezo. Música: Guateque All Stars. Fotografía: Teo Delgado. Montaje: Pablo Blanco. Interpretes : Natalia Verbeke, Daniel Guzmán, Juanita Acosta, Marian Álvarez, Carlos Caniowski, Andrés Gertrudix, Adrián Gordillo, Zay Nuba, Javier Pereira María Reyes, Miguel Ángel Silvestre, María Vázquez, Alfredo Villa.
Plot:	¿Por qué unos tanto y otros tan poco? Se cuestionan María, Juanita, Vicky, Mena y Nitzia, cinco chicas menores de 25 años, que viven en un barrio del extrarradio de Madrid, sin esperanza de un futuro alentador. Sueñan con ardor conseguir lo que desean pero viendo que la vida por sí misma no se lo da, deciden ir a por ello sin cuestionarse los medios que utilicen para conseguirlo y se lo montan haciendo alunizajes enfrentándose a las bandas de chicos que dominan ese negocio. "Si la vida no nos da lo que necesitamos pues vamos a por ello y lo cogemos. Sabemos que hacemos mal pero supongo que nosotras lo vemos como una manera de salir adelante". Sólo el amor, también presente en sus vidas, aliviará un poco su dolor.
Subjects:	Feature Films. Spain
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Title:	Agustina de Aragón.
Director:	Juan de Orduña.
Format:	1 videocassette (120 min.) ; sd., b&w ; 1/2 in. VHS format (PAL)
Imprint:	Valladolid : Divisa Ediciones, 1998, 1957. Series: Clásico español;
Language:	Spanish.
Notes:	Dirigida por Juan de Orduña ; producida por CIFESA ; guión literario y diálogos, Vicente Escrivá ; dirección, Juan de Orduña. Originally produced as VHS-PAL videorecording, as part of the Clásico español series, in Spain by Divisa Ediciones Originally produced as a motion picture in 1950. Participants: Cast: Aurora Bautista, Fernando Rey, Virgilio Teixeira, Eduardo Fajardo, Manuel Luna.
Plot:	During the Siege of Zaragoza by the Napoleonic army, Agustina, a Zaragozan patriot leads the resistance against the French with success finding freedom for Aragon and love.
Subjects:	Feature films. Spain. Biographical films.
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Title:	Agua con sal / Salted water
Director:	Pedro Pérez Rosado
Format:	1 videodisc (107 min.); sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (PAL, Region All)
Imprint:	Barcelona, Spain: Cameo Media S.L., c2006.
Language:	Spanish with subtitles in English.
Notes:	Video release of a motion picture produced in 2005. dirigida por Pedro Pérez Rosado. Director, Pedro Pérez Rosado; screenwriter, Lilian Rosado González; composer, Carlos Varela; cinematographer, Miguel Llorens. Participants: Yoima Valdés, Leyre Berrokal, Juan Carlos Morales, Ofelia Medina, Candela Fernández.
Plot:	A young Cuban named Olga arrives in Spain with a scholarship convinced that she has landed the chance of a lifetime. Deciding to stay, she eventually becomes an illegal immigrant, suffering the brunt of marginalisation and, unable to return home, having to get by as she can. Mari Jo is a young girl from a poor Valencian suburb, born into a family with nothing but problems. Fate has marked her life as she too becomes an outcast. Both end up working illegally in a furniture factory where they earn three times less than the minimum legal salary.
Subjects:	Feature films. Spain. Cuba. Illegal aliens. Immigrants. Emigration and immigration.
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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:	Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes / Aguirre, the wrath of God
Director:	Werner Herzog
Format:	1 videodisc (94 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 1)
Imprint:	Troy, MI : Anchor Bay Entertainment, 2000
Language:	German with optional English soundtrack and subtitles.
Notes:	Originally released as a motion picture by Werner Herzog Filmproduktion in 1972. Full-frame presentation, Dolby digital, Dolby surround 5.1 (German), mono (English). Special features include: audio commentary with Werner Herzog, theatrical trailer, talent bios. Credits Written, produced and directed by Werner Herzog ; cinematography, Thomas Mauch ; editor, Beate Mainka-Jellinghaus ; music, Popol Vuh. Performer Klaus Kinski, Helena Rojo, Del Negro, Ruy Guerra.
Plot:	A band of Spanish conquistadors, led by Pizarro, go up the Amazon in search of gold. As the soldiers battle starvation, Indians, the forces of nature and each other, Don Lope de Aguirre (the self-styled "Wrath of God") is consumed by visions of conquering all of South America and leads a revolt, but Aguirre's megalomania turns the expedition into a death trip.
Subjects:	Feature films. Peru. Spain Colonies America. El Dorado
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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.
Location:	View Catalog Record
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:	Airbag
Director:	Juanma Bajo Ulloa
Format:	1 videodisc (132 min.) ; sd., col. ; 1/2 in. DVD (Region 2), PAL standard, Dolby Digital 5.1.
Imprint:	Madrid : Asegarce Zinema : Marea Films : Distribuido por Columbia Tristar Home Video, 1999
Language:	Spanish with optional subtitles in English and French.
Notes:	Videodisc release of the 1997 motion picture. Asegarce Zinema y Marea Films presentan, en coproducción con Road Movies Dritte Produktionen y MGN Filmes, con el apoyo de Eurimages y NRW Filmstiftung Nordrhein-Westfalen GmbH; y la colaboración de Televisión Española, Canal+ España, Degeto Film, ETB. Drección, Juanma Bajo Ulloa. Screenwriters, Karra Elejalde, Juanma Bajo Ulloa, Fernando Guillén-Cuervo. Music, Bingen Mendizábal. Editor, Pablo Blanco. Cinematographer, Gonzalo Berridi. Participants: Karra Elejalde, Fernando Guillén-Cuervo, Alberto San Juan, Maria de Medeiros, Rosa María Sardà, Pilar Bardem, Francisco Rabal.
Plot:	Juantxo is a socially awkward idiot and a mamma's boy. He is, however, engaged to a rich and beautiful woman. A few days before his wedding, Juantxo-s buddies persuade him to go out for a final night of oat-sowing. Juantxo falls for an exotic prostitute. Unfortunately he loses his fiancee-s expensive engagement ring while messing with the hooker. They have three days to find it and their journey takes them on a riotous road trip that leads them into the depths of the Mafia underworld.
Subjects:	Feature films. Spain
Location:	View Catalog Record
Title:	Aislados
Director:	David Marqués
Format:	1 videodisc (80 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 2)
Imprint:	Spain: Cameo Media, 2006
Language:	Spanish dialogue; English, French, German subtitles.
Notes:	Originally released as a documentary in 2005. Director: David Marqués. Música: Juanma Redondo. Fotografía: Arie Van Dam. Productor: Jean-Luc Ducasse, Enrique González Macho Guión: David Marqués Reparto: Adrià Collado, Jean-Luc Ducasse, Eric Francés.
Plot:	Adrià llega al puerto de Sant Antoni en Ibiza. Nadie ha venido a recogerle. Incia la búsqueda de “la casa del francés” en Santa Agnès, un pequeño pueblo del interior de la isla, donde le espera Kike para pasar el fin de semana. Durante esos días, y poco a poco, Adrià descubrirá algo que puede hacerle cambiar de vida... Shot in six days by a crew of six guys, on a budget of just six hundred Euros, Aislados ("Isolated") re-writes the definition of an independent movie, with a helping hand from Avid...
Subjects:	Feature Films. Spain.
Location:	View Catalog Record
Title:	Alas de mariposa.
Director:	Juanma Bajo Ulloa
Format:	1 videocassette (108 min.) ; sd., col. ; 1/2 in. VHS format (PAL).
Imprint:	Madrid : Columbia TriStar Home Video, c1992.
Language:	Spanish.
Notes:	Iberoamericana Films, Gasteizko Zinema ; escrita por Juanma y Eduardo Bajo Ulloa ; dirigada por Juanma Bajo Ulloa. Photography, Aitor Mantxola, Enric Davi. Iberoamericana Films, Gasteizko Zinema ; escrita por Juanma y Eduardo Bajo Ulloa ; dirigada por Juanma Bajo Ulloa. Participants, Silvia Munt, Fernando Valverde, Susana Garcia, Laura Vaquero.
Plot:	Ami is a sensitive 7 year old, whose mother Carmen is obsessed with giving her husband Gabriel a son. When Carmen becomes pregnant, her relationship with her daughter begins to deteriorate. When the new son is born, events turn into a nightmare.
Subjects:	Feature films. Spain.
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Title:	Alatriste (El capitán Alatriste)
Director:	Agustín Díaz Yanes
Format:	1 videodisc (147 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 2, PAL)
Imprint:	Madrid: Estudios Picasso. Origen PC. La Chauve-Souris, 2007
Language:	Spanish with optional subtitles in Spanish, French and English.
Notes:	Videodisc release of a motion picture produced in 2006. Based on the novel of Arturo Pérez-Reverte. Coproducción España-Francia-USA. Participants: Viggo Mortensen, Juan Echanove, Eduardo Noriega, Elena Anaya, Eduard Fenández, Unax Ugalde, Javier Cámara, Blanca Portillo, Nicolás Belmonte
Plot:	España Imperial, siglo XVII. Diego Alatriste, valeroso soldado al servicio de su majestad, combate en una guerra en las frías tierras de Flandes. En una emboscada de los holandeses, Balboa, amigo y compañero de armas, cae herido de muerte. Alatriste escucha de los labios de su amigo una última petición y promete cumplirla: cuidará de su hijo Iñigo y le alejará del oficio de soldado. El propio Alatriste, que malvive vendiendo su espada, se verá implicado en una de estas intrigas cuando es contratado junto a otro mercenario, el italiano Gualterio Malatesta, para dar muerte a dos misteriosos personajes que viajan de incógnito a Madrid...
Subjects:	Feature films. Spain. Literary adaptation
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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:	...al fin, el mar
Director:	Jorge Dyszel
Format:	1 videodisc (95 min.) ; sd., col. ; c2005. DVD (Region 1 and 4, PAL)
Imprint:	Buenos Aires] : Distribuida por Gijef S.A. 2005
Language:	Spanish and English with optional subtitles in English, Spanish, English and Spanish, or French; optional Spanish audio description.
Notes:	Originally produced as a motion picture in 2003. un film de Jorge Dyszel ; guión, Audry Gutiérrez Alea, Jorge Dyszel ; coproductor, José Luis Lobato. Director of photography, Marcelo Iaccarino; music, Miguel Nuñez; editor, Miguel Perez; presented by Jorge Dyszel, Jose Luis Lobato, Aleph Media. Special features include making-of; trailer; teaser; director's info; photo gallery; musical themes; deleted scenes. Participants: Joel Nuñez, Audry Gutiérrez Alea, Enrique Pinti, Vladimir Cruz.
Plot:	"Tony is a Cuban-American metals trader. One sunny morning, while fishing off Key West-Florida, he finds the wreck of a makeshift raft floating close to the beach. The rafters names were carved on the wood of the boat (Pablo and Mariana). Tony travels to Cuba to find the family of the rafters to tell them what he had found. This journey also becomes a discovery of his own Cuban roots. Tony finds the family and, shocked and surprised, finds the beautiful Mariana whom he presumed had died at sea, and she awakens in him his true destiny"--IMDb.
Subjects:	Feature films. Argentina
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Title:	Alicia en el pueblo de Maravillas / Alicia im dorf der wunder
Director:	Daniel Díaz Torres.
Format:	1 videodisc (92 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Imprint:	Cuba : Cine Cuba Video, 2003.
Language:	Spanish
Notes:	DVD release of the 1991 Cuban motion picture. Credits Fotografía, Raul Perez Ureta ; música, Frank Delgado ; edición, Jorge Abello. Performer Reynaldo Miravalles, Thais Valdes, Alberto Pujols, Raúl Pomares.
Plot:	A satire about the life of the Cuban people. Alicia, a culture instructor, is sent to a small town "Maravillas", which is itself an exaggerated, but very ingenious reflection of the real Cuba. The adventures that she has there are almost as crazy and senseless as the ones lived by the other Alice (in Wonderland), reflecting the indoctrination, coercion, absolutisms, and many other everyday problems in Cuban society.
Subjects:	Feature Films. Cuba
Location:	View Catalog Record
Title:	Alma Viva para que florezca la memoria
Director:	Ricardo Ayala ( Yuyachkani )
Format:	1 videocassette (10 m.) . sd., col. ; VHS
Imprint:	Ayacucho, Abril 2002
Language:	Spanish
Notes:	Asistencia técnica, Fidel Melquiades ; apoyo técnico, Alejandro Fuentes ; dirección, Miguel Rubio ; video realizado por Ricardo Ayala. Performer Ana Correa, Agusto Casafranca.
Plot:	Presencia de Yuyachkani. En las primeras audiencias públicas de la Comisión de la verdad y Reconciliación del Peru. Ayacucho, abril 2002 Videorecording of a live performance by Yuyuachkani focused on raising awareness of events that occured during the 1980s in Peru.
Subjects:	Feature Films. Documentary films. Short films. Peru. Theater. Grupo Cultural Yuyachkani
Location:	View Catalog Record
Title:	A los cuatro vientos. Lauaxeta / To the four winds, Lauaxeta
Director:	José A. Zorilla, Arantxa Urretavizcaya, Xabier Elorriaga
Format:	1 videocassette (90 min.) ; sd., col. ; 1/2 in.
Imprint:	Donostia : [Distributed by] Filmoteca Vasca, 1999
Language:	Spanish, English, Basque, and French, with Spanish subtitles.
Notes:	Igeldo Zine Produkzioak ; José A. Zorilla, Arantxa Urretavizcaya, Xabier Elorriaga, guión ; basado en una ídea de [y] producida por Angel Amigo ; M. Grange, transl. & adapt. Version Internacional subtitulada en castellano. Videocassette release of a 1987 motion picture. Participants: Xabier Elorriaga, Anne Louise Lambert, Jean Claude Bouillaud, Peter Leeper, Antonio Passy, Ramón Agirre, Miguel Munarriz, Ramón Barea.
Plot:	Semi-fictional account of Estaban Urkiaga, Basque poet, journalist and major in Basque Army during Spanish Civil War, particularly events of 1937 leading up to Urkiaga-s execution by Falangists.
Subjects:	Feature films. Spain. Basque Country. Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939. Guernica (Spain). Bombardment, 1937. Estaban, Urkiaga, 1905-1937.
Location:	View Catalog Record
Title:	El alquimista impaciente
Director:	Patricia Ferreira
Format:	1 videodisc (ca. 120 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 1)
Imprint:	Coral Gables, FL : Venevision International, 2005.
Language:	Spanish with English subtitles.
Notes:	Originally released as a motion picture in 2002. Based on the novel by Lorenzo Silva. Continental Producciones, Cartel, Tornasol Films, Television de Galicia, S.A. presentan ; en coproduccion con SB Producciones, Sempsa, Patagonik Film Group ; con la participation de Television Espanola ; productores, Gerardo Herrero, et al. ; guion, Patricia Ferreira, Enrique Jimenez ; dirigida por Patricia Ferreira. Director of photography, Marcelo Camorino ; editor, Carmen Frias ; music, Javier Navarrete, José Nieto. Performer Ingrid Rubio, Roberto Enriquez, Chete Lera, Adriana Ozores, Miguel Angel Sola.
Plot:	Ironic and intriguing story of two detectives, Vila and Chamorro, who are investigating the mysterious death of a nuclear plant worker who was bound and gagged in a shady motel room.
Subjects:	Feature films. Spain. Literary Adaptation
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Title:	Alsino y el condor / Alsino and the condor
Director:	Miguel Littín
Format:	1 videocassette (89 min.) ; sd., col. ; 1/2 in.
Imprint:	Beverly Hills, Calif. : Pacific Arts Video, c1983
Language:	Spanish and English dialogue, English subtitles.
Notes:	un film de Miguel Littín ; productor ejecutivo, Hernan Littín ; dirección, Miguel Littín. Writers, Isadora Aguirre, Miguel Littin, Thomás Pérez Turrent; original music, Leo Brouwer; cinematography, Jorde Herrera, Pablo Martínez. Performer Dean Stockwell, Alan Esquivel, Carmen Bunster.
Plot:	"Alsino, a boy of 10 or 12, lives with his grandmother in a remote area of Nicaragua. He's engulfed in the war between rebels and government troops when a US advisor orders the army to open a staging area by the boy's hamlet. Alsino tries to be a child, climbing trees with a girl, looking through his grandfather's trunk of mementos and trying to fly; he goes to town to sell a saddle, has his first drink and is taken to a brothel. But the war surrounds him. The US advisor takes Alsino on a chopper flight, but he's unimpressed. The soldiers' cruelties awake rebel sympathies in Alsino, and after an army assault backfires, the lad is fully baptized into the conflict"--IMDb plot summary.
Subjects:	Feature films. Nicaragua. Central America. History. 1951-1979. United States. Foreign relations. Central America.
Location:	View Catalog Record
Title:	El amante bilingüe.
Director:	Vicente Aranda
Format:	1 videocassette (99 min.) ; sd., col. ; 1/2 in. VHS format [PAL]
Imprint:	Madrid : Lolafilms, S.A. ; Roma : International DEAM Films, S.R.L. : Distributed by Columbia Tristar Home Video , c1992.
Language:	In Spanish and Catalan, with subtitles in Spanish.
Notes:	Videocassette release of the 1993 motion picture. Based on a novel with the same title by Juan Marse. Director, Vicente Aranda ; producer, Mario Pedrazza ; editor, Wolfgang Burmann ; screenplay, Juan Marse ; photography, Juan Amores ; music, Jose Nieto. Imanol Arias, Ornella Muti (her voice dubbed by Victoria Peña), Loles Leon, Javier Bardem, Joan Lluis Bozzo.
Plot:	A rich girl marries below her status because of sexual attraction. After five years, she finds outside marriage the satisfaction she wants. She divorces her husband and he becomes a beggar. In a riot incident he is hit by a bomb and his face remains disfigured. With the help of a mask he is able to sexually attract his ex-wife again as a completely new person.
Subjects:	Feature films. Spain. Literary adaptation.
Location:	View Catalog Record
Title:	Amantes.
Director:	Vicente Aranda
Format:	1 videocassette (100 min.) ; sd., col. ; 1/2 in. VHS format (PAL).
Imprint:	Madrid : Columbia Tristar Home Video, 1992.
Language:	In Spanish.
Notes:	Videocassette release of the 1991 motion picture. Pedro Costa Producciones Cinematograficas, S.A. ; con la participacion de TVE, S.A ; una pelicula de Vicente Aranda. Producer, Pedro Costa ; screenplay, Alvaro Del Amo, Vicente Aranda, Carlos Perez Merinero; photography, Jose Luis Alcaine ; music, Jose Nieto. Cast: Victoria Abril, Jorge Sanz, Maribel Verdu.
Plot:	After finishing military service, Paco sets off to find work in Madrid, leaving behind his girlfriend Trini in his hometown. In Madrid he embarks on an affair with his landlady and becomes embroiled in the low-life of the district, but the virtuous Trini tries to re-enter his life, with tragic results.
Subjects:	Feature films. Spain
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Title:	Los amantes del Círculo Polar.
Director:	Julio Medem.
Format:	1 videodisc (112 min.) ; sd., col. 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 2), PAL standard, Dolby Digital 5.1.
Imprint:	Madrid : Sogepaq Video, 2001.
Language:	In Spanish with optional English and French subtitles available.
Notes:	Videodisc release of the 1998 motion picture produced by Sociedad General de Cine S.A. Una película de Julio Medem. Producer: Femando Bovaira, Enrique López Lavigne ; music composer: Alberto Iglesias ; Screenplay: Julio Medem ; Director: Julio Medem.
Plot:	Two lovers are about to embark on an erotic odyssey that will take them to the ends of the earth. A story of love and sexual awakening so powerful it will alter their course forever.
Subjects:	Feature films. Spain
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Title:	Amanece que no es poco.
Director:	José Luis Cuerda.
Format:	1 videodisc (110 min.); sd., col. 4 3/4 in. DVD (PAL) Region 2
Imprint:	Madrid : Círculo Digital, 2002,
Language:	Spanish
Notes:	Originally released as a motion picture in 1988. Participants: Antonio Resines, Luis Ciges, José Sazatornil. Video Mercury Films. Director writer, José Luis Cuerda ; director of photography, Porfirio Enriquez ; music, José Nieto.
Plot:	Teodoro is a Spanish engineer who works as a professor at the University of Oklahoma. He returns to Spain on sabbatical, only to discover more adventure than he had bargained for.
Subjects:	Feature films. Spain.
Location:	View Catalog Record
Title:	Amada / Beloved
Director:	Humberto Solás
Format:	1 videodisc (ca. 105 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 1)
Imprint:	New York : First Run Features ; Northampton, Mass. : Icestorm, 2006 [Cuban masterworks collection]
Language:	Spanish with optional English subtitles.
Notes:	Originally produced as a motion picture in 1982. Based on the novel La esfinge by Miguel de Carrión. El Instituto Cubano del Arte e Industria Cinematográficos presenta ; productor, José Ramón Pérez ; dirección, Humberto Solás ; colaboración en la dirección, Nelson Rodríguez ; guión, Nelson Rodríguez con la colaboración de Humberto Solás. Director of photography, Livio Delgado ; editor, Nelson Rodríguez ; music, Leo Brouwer. Participants: Eslinda Rúñez, César Evora, Silvia Planas Note: "To find the Five beautifully restored classic films from revolutionary Cuba search this catalog for "Cuban masterworks collection" in Kwyword.
Plot:	Drama about politics and an illicit affair in the lives of an aristocratic Cuban family in Havana during the early part of the 20th century as a young housewife falls in love with her leftwing journalist cousin. Cuenta la historia de una bella mujer atrapada en sí misma, en constante pugna con sus sentidos y sentimientos, a la vez que nos brinda pinceladas del entorno political y social de La Habana de 1914.
Subjects:	Feature Fiulms. Cuba. Literary Adaptation. Havana (Cuba). History. 20th century.
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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:	A mi la legión!
Director:	Juan de Orduña
Format:	1 videocassette (90 min.) ; sd., b&w ; 1/2 in. VHS format (PAL)
Imprint:	Valladolid : Divisa Ediciones, 1998, (1942). Series: Clásico español;
Language:	Spanish.
Notes:	Participants: Cast: Alfredo Mayo, Luis Peña, Manuel Luna, Pilar Soler. Dirigida por Juan de Orduña en 1942 ; producida por CIFESA. Originally produced as VHS-PAL videorecording, as part of the Clásico español series, in Spain by Divisa Ediciones in 1995.
Plot:	Spanish legionnaires bond in friendship and military values, in spite of their differences in social classes. Nos encontramos ante momentos intensos y agridulces en la vida de dos legionarios de África. La historia de dos hombres de muy diferente condición social. Se conocen pero luego, las circunstancias les separan. La acción se traslada al Palacio Real de un país imaginario llamado Silonia. Pero ambos hombres ya no son los mismos de antes, habían sido curtidos y transformados por el corte legionario. Ya no podían olvidar su condición de caballeros legionarios. Cuando la patria se encuentra en peligro, ellos acuden bajo el emblema de la gloriosa bandera española. Dos amigos por la patria y por la legión ofrecen un auténtico alarde de los eternos valores militares.
Subjects:	Feature films. Spain.
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Title:	Amic, Amat / Beloved, friend /
Director:	Ventura Pons
Format:	1 videodisc (90 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. (Region 1)
Imprint:	[Santa Monica, Calif.] : Strand Releasing Home Video, 2001
Language:	Catalan; In Catalan with English subtitles.
Notes:	A production of Els Films de la Rambla, S.A ; with the participation of Televisió Espanyola, S.A and Canal Plus ; a film by Ventura Pons. Producer, director, Ventura Pons ; story, J.M. Benet i Journet ; music, Carles Cases.Title from disc surface. Based on the story " Testament" by Josep M. Benet i Jornet. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1999. Participants: Josep Maria Pou, Rosa Maria Sardà, Mario Gas, David Selvas, Irene Montalá.
Plot:	The story of a terminally ill professor, who is in love with one of his students, a brilliant but wild, orphaned youth who moonlights as a male hustler.    Jaume is an aging literature professor who discovers he is sick. Confronting death, he decides to leave a will in the form of an essay, based on Llull's The Book of the Friend and the Beloved. His closest friend, Pere, who is also a professor, has a strong aversion to even contemplating death and no interest in reading Jaume's essay. Besides, he has his own problems: his daughter, Alba, informs him and Fanny (his wife), that she is pregnant. Things get complicated when Pere finds out that the father is a brilliant and shady former student of his. Jaume has also given a copy of his essay to David, to whom he is attracted. Pere finds out about their relationship and attempts to save his best friend from David's predatory claws, but meanwhile his own relationship with Fanny is in trouble...
Subjects:	Feature films. Spain. Catalonia. Literary Adaptation
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Title:	A mi madre le gustan las mujeres
Director:	Daniela Fejerman and Inés París.
Format:	1 videodisc (94 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 2), PAL standard; Dolby digital 5.1; wide screen.
Imprint:	Barcelona : Lauren films, c2002.
Language:	In Spanish with optional subtitles in English.
Notes:	Una producción de Fernando Colomo P.C ; Ensueño Films ; con la participación de Vía Digital ; con al participación de Antena 3 Televisión. " La familia ya no es lo que era."--Container. Special features include: direct access to scenes, posters, theatrical trailers, filmographies of the artists, directors. Credits Directors and writers, Daniela Fejerman and Inés París; producers, Fernando Colomo and Beatriz de la Gándara; music, Juan Bardem and Andy Chango. Performer Leonor Watling, Rosa María Sardá, María Pujalte, Silvia Abascal, Eliska Sirova, Chisco Amado, Alex Angulo.
Plot:	Three daughters react to the news that their mother is a lesbian.    Elvira, una chica de veintitantos años, tan guapa como insegura, coincide con sus hermanas, Jimena y Sol en casa de su madre, Sofía, una célebre pianista separada del padre de sus hijas hace años. la madre aprovecha la celebración de su cumpleaños para dar a sus hijas una gran noticia: se ha vuelto a enamorar. Las hermanas aplauden la buena nueva. La madre les advierte que su pareja es algo más joven que ella, ha nacido en Chequia y es también pianista, pero hay algo más: es una mujer. Las tres hermanas intentan reaccionar en un principio como las mujeres modernas, tolerantes y progresistas que se supone que son. pero la realidad es que la noticia les rompe los esquemas. Sobre todo a la neurótica Elvira, a la que la elección de su madre sume en una profunda crisis de identidad sexual
Subjects:	Feature films. Spain. Lesbians. Family relationships. Mothers and daughters..
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Title:	Amic, Amat / Amigo Amado / Beloved, friend /
Director:	Ventura Pons
Format:	1 videodisc (90 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. PAL (Region 2)
Imprint:	Barcelona : Els Films, 1998
Language:	Catalan or Spanish with Spanish or French or English subtitles.
Notes:	Originally produced as a motion picture in 1999. A production of Els Films de la Rambla, S.A ; with the participation of Televisió Espanyola, S.A and Canal Plus ; a film by Ventura Pons. Producer, director, Ventura Pons ; story, J.M. Benet i Journet ; music, Carles Cases.Title from disc surface. Based on the story " Testament" by Josep M. Benet i Jornet. Participants: Josep Maria Pou, Rosa Maria Sardà, Mario Gas, David Selvas, Irene Montalá.
Plot:	The story of a terminally ill professor, who is in love with one of his students, a brilliant but wild, orphaned youth who moonlights as a male hustler.
Subjects:	Feature films. Spain. Catalonia. Literary Adaptation
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Title:	Amo tu cama rica
Director:	Emilio Martinez Lazaro
Format:	1 videocassette (099 min.) ; sd., col. ; 1/2 in. VHS format [PAL]
Imprint:	Madrid : Kaplan & F. Trueba P.C : Distributed by Columbia Tristar Home Video & CIA. S.R.C., c1993
Language:	Spanish.
Notes:	Videocassette release of a 1991 motion picture. Director, Emilio Martinez-Lazaro ; producer, Cristina Huete ; editor, Alfonso Pino ; artistic director, Juan Botella ; screenplay, Emilio Martinez-Lazaro, Martin Casariego, David Trueba ; photography, Jose Luis Lopez-Linares ; music, Michel Camilo. Pere Ponce, Ariadna Gil, Cassen, Lina Canalejas, Ayanta Barilli, Clara Sanchis, Fernando Vivanco, Nancho Novo.
Plot:	Troubled love story of two teenagers who like each other but not enough to commit themselves. Eventually they find out that they fit to one another like a bolt to its nut.
Subjects:	Feature films. Spain
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Title:	El amor perjudica seriamente la salud / Love can seriously damage your health.
Director:	Manuel Gomez Pereira.
Format:	1 videodisc (118 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. in. DVD (Region 1).
Imprint:	United States: Condor Media : Distributed by Vanguard Cinema, 2000.
Language:	Spanish with English subtitles.
Notes:	A film directed by Manuel Gomez Pereira ; produced by César Benítez, Joaquín Oristrell, Manuel Gomez Pereira for Sogetel S.A., Bocaboca Producciones, S.A., Le Studio Canal+, D.M.V.B. Films ; with the special collaboration of Carles Sans and Lola Herrera]. Cinematography, Juan Amorós ; editor, Guillermo Represa ; music, Bernardo Bonezzi. Videodisc release of the 1996 motion picture. Participants: Penélope Cruz, Ana Belén, Juanjo Puigcorbé, Gabino Diego.
Plot:	This romantic comedy charts the course of a long-time on-again-off-again love affair between Diana Balaguer and Santi Garcia. Penelope Cruz headlines the cast of this sophisticated Spanish romantic comedy. The film follows 30 years in an on-again, off-again affair that begins when Diana, a devoted fan of the Beatles, seduces shy bellboy Santi so that she can sneak into John Lennon-s Madrid hotel room. Decades later, Diana and Santi remain involved, and an event at the same hotel sheds new light on their relationship.
Subjects:	Feature films. Spain.
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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 Idiota / Idiot Love
Director:	Ventura Pons
Format:	1 videodisc (92 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 2, PAL)
Imprint:	Barcelona: Manga Films, 2005
Language:	Spanish with English or Spanish subtitles.
Notes:	Originally produced as a motion picture in 2005. Producida por Els Films de la Rambla. Dirección: Ventura Pons. Guión Ventura Pons. Fotografía: Mario Montero. Música: Carles Cases. Montaje: Pere Abadal. Intérpretes: Santi Millán. Cayetana Guillén Cuervo. Mercè Pons. Marc Cartes. Jordi Dauder. El guión es del propio director y se basa en un libro de Lluís-Antón Baulenas, que ya había sido adaptado por Pons en Anita no pierde el tren. Se rodó en Barcelona y Buenos Aires a lo largo de ocho semanas a partir del 14 de junio de 2004.
Plot:	En medio de un momento de crisis personal , después de una noche de copas en la que el protagonista sale sólo para olvidar las penas, Pere Lluc borracho, de camino a casa se tropieza con la escalera de aluminio de una chica, Sandra que se dedica a colgar banderolas en las farolas. Cae al suelo y conmocionado, se queda fascinado por ella. Cada día que pasa se obsesiona más con la chica. Asistiremos al relato de la tormentosa pasión para conseguir su amor.    Pere-Luc is going through a personal crisis. One night he has a night out on the town with the sole objective of forgetting his troubles. He is staggering home drunk when he crashes into a metal step ladder belonging to Sandra who works hanging banderoles on street lights. He falls to the ground, stunned, and becomes fascinated by the girl. As the days go by his obsession for her grows. We are going to watch the story of this stormy passion as he tries to win her love..
Subjects:	Feature Films. Spain.
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Title:	El Amor brujo / Love, the magician
Director:	Carlos Saura
Format:	1 videodisc (98 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region All, PAL)
Imprint:	Madrid : Suevia Films, 2004
Language:	Spanish language, subtitles in English or Castilian.
Notes:	Originally released as a motion picture 1985. Emiliano Piedra Productions ; musica de Manuel de Falla ; libretto de Martinez Sierra ; guión y coreográfia Carlos Saura y Antonio Gades ; dirigida por Jesus Lopez Cobos. Director of photography, Teo Escamilla; editor, Pedro del Rey; music played by Orquesta Nacional de España; conducted by Jesus Lopez Cobos. Participants: Antonio Gades, Cristina Hoyos, Juan Antonio Jimenez.
Plot:	El Amor Brujo is the third in director Carlos Saura's flamenco trilogy, preceded by Blood Wedding (1981) and Carmen (1983).The plot involves two gypsies, male and female, who are united in an arranged marriage. Each loves someone else, a circumstance that results in a fatal knife duel. Candela eventually remarries, but her new husband soon discovers that every night at midnight, she is compelled to arise from her bed and dance with the ghost of Jose. The climax involves the girl's torn loyalties between the ghost of her dead husband and her living lover. Antonio Gades, Cristina Hoyos, Laura del Sol and Juan Antonio Jimenez are the principals in this well-photographed film.
Subjects:	Feature films. Spain. Gypsies
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Title:	Amo tu cama rica
Director:	Emilio Martínez Lázaro
Format:	1 videodisc (106 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 2, PAL)
Imprint:	Madrid] : Kaplan & F. Trueba P.C : Distributed by Buena Vista Entertainment, 2003
Language:	Spanish language, with English subtitles.
Notes:	Videodisc release of a 1991 motion picture. Una producción Kaplan & Fernando Trueba P.C ; con la participación de T.V.E. Director, Emilio Martínez-Lázaro ; producer, Cristina Huete ; editor, Alfonso Pino ; artistic director, Juan Botella ; screenplay, Emilio Martínez-Lázaro, Martín Casariego, David Trueba ; photography, José Luis López-Linares ; music, Michel Camilo. Participants: Pere Ponce, Ariadna Gil, Cassen, Lina Canalejas, Ayanta Barilli, Clara Sanchis, Fernando Vivanco, Nancho Novo.
Plot:	Troubled love story of two teenagers who like each other but not enough to commit themselves. Eventually they find out that they fit to one another like a bolt to its nut.
Subjects:	Feature films. Spain
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Title:	El Amor Brujo
Director:	Francisco Rovira Beleta
Format:	1 videodisc (100 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region All, PAL)
Imprint:	Valladolid, Spain : Divisa, 2003
Language:	Spanish
Notes:	Originally produced as a motion picture in 1967. Loose version of the ballet by Gregorio Martinez Sierra and composed by Manuel de Falla. Dirigida por Francisco Rovira Beleta ; producida por Films R.B. Films R.B. ; escrita por Jose Antonio Nedran, J.N. Caballero Bonal, F. Roviro-Beleta ; una film de Rovira-Beleta. Photography, Gabor Pogani, Francisco Marin ; adaptation and musical direction, Ernesto Halffter ; choreography, Alberto Lorca. Participants: Antonio Gades, La Polaca, Rafael de Cordova, Morucha, Nuria Torray.
Plot:	A gypsy couple cannot marry until the ghost of the bride's first husband is put to rest. This is the second cinema version that was made of the theatre piece by Falla. It is a flamenco musical whose central theme is a story of love, passion and cruelty, that Rovira Beleta blends with fantastic elements. It was an Oscar nominee for the best foreign picture in 1967
Subjects:	Feature films. Spain. Gypsies.
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Title:	Amor de hombre / Love of man
Director:	Yolanda García Serrano & Juan Luis Iborra
Format:	1 videodisc (94 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 1)
Imprint:	Spain: Vertigo Films ; Philadelphia, PA : TLA Releasing, 2003, c1998.
Language:	Spanish with English subtitle
Notes:	Originally released as a motion picture in 1998. A film by Yolanda García Serrano & Juan Luis Iborra. Produced by Pastora Delgado ; written & directed by Yolanda García Serrano & Juan Luis Iborra. Participants: Loles León, Ardrea Occhipinti, Pedro Mari Sánchez, Armando del Río, Roberto Alvarez, Roma Sánchez, Jesús Cabrero, Sergio Otegui.
Plot:	Al celebrar su cumpleaños de 40 años, Esperanza está rodeada de hombres guapos, todos homosexuales. Su mejor amigo Ramón por muchos años ha sido su consolador. Su amistad es puesto a prueba cuando Ramón se pone obsesionado por un hombre de carácter dudoso. It's Esperanza's 40th birthday and she's captivating it surrounded by dozens of handsome men, all of them gay. Her best friend Ramón has been her comfort for many years, but their relationship is tested when he develops an obsession with a man of questionable quality.
Subjects:	Feature films. Spain.
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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 amor y el espanto
Director:	Juan Carlos Desanzo
Format:	1 videodisc (110 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD
Imprint:	Santa Monica, CA : Xenon Pictures, 2007
Language:	Spanish
Notes:	Originally released in 2001. Productor ejecutivo, Isidro Miguel ; director, Juan Carlos Desanzo. Writer, Jose Pablo Feinmann ; music, Martin Bianchedi ; cinematographer, Carlos Torlaschi ; editor, Sergio Zottola. Participants: Miguel Ángel Solá, Blanca Oteyza.
Plot:	This work of historical fiction confronts the renowned Argentine writer/poet/social critic Jorge Luis Borges with characters and situations from his stories and poems.
Subjects:	Feature films. Argentina. Borges, Jorge Luis, 1899-1986.
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Title:	Un amor de Borges
Director:	Javier Torre.
Format:	1 videodisc (ca. 90 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Imprint:	Mexico : Latin Media ; [Madera, CA] : Distributed by Madera CineVideo, 2006
Language:	Spanish
Notes:	Originally released as a motion picture in 2000. Inspired by the book Borges a contraluz by Estela Canto. Javier Torre y El Sol Films presentan a ; libro cinematográfico, Javier Torre, Isabel de Estrada ; dirección, Javier Torre. Fotografía, Mariano Cúneo ; música, José Luis Castiñeira de Dios ; montaje, Liliana Nadal.
Plot:	Depicts the romance between Jorge Luis Borges and Estela Canto.
Subjects:	Feature films -- Argentina. Borges, Jorge Luis, 1899-1986.
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Title:	Amor propio
Director:	Mario Camus
Format:	1 videodisc (110 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 1)
Imprint:	United States] : Distributed by Venevision International, 2006
Language:	Spanish with optional subtitles in English.
Notes:	Videodisc release of a 1994 motion picture. Sogetel, Central de Producciones Audiovisuales, Antea Films con la colaboración de Sogepaq ; productores ejecutivos, José Luis Olaizola M., Fernando de Garcillán ; escrita y dirigida por Mario Camus. Director of photography, Jaume Peracaula ; editor, Jose Maria Biurrun ; music, Sebastian Mariné ; production director, Ricardo García-Arrojo. Participants: Verónica Forqué, Antonio Resines, Fernando Valverde, Anabel Alonso, Carlos Ballesteros, Antonio Valero.
Plot:	Juana finds herself in trouble with the law when her husband, a bank manager, skips town after stealing millions of dollars from bank clients. She has to prove that she was not involved in the fraud or will face years in prison. Her life takes a turn for the best when she works with Hilario, on of her husbands victims, to get to the bottom of the scandal.
Subjects:	Feature films. Spain.
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Title:	Ana y los lobos
Director:	Carlos Saura.
Format:	1 videocassette (105 min.) ; sd., col. ; 1/2 in. VHS format (PAL).
Imprint:	Madrid : Mangua Films. 1999.
Language:	Spanish.
Notes:	Originally released as motion picture in 1972. Participants: Geraldine Chaplin, Fernando Fernán Gómez, Jose Maria Prada, Jose Vivo, Rafaela Aparicio, Charo Soriano. Screenplay, Rafael Azcona, Carlos Saura ; music, Luis de Pablo ; photography, Luis Cuadrado ; director, Carlos Saura.
Plot:	The film deals with a woman and her three sons, each one symbolic of one of the repressive elements of Spanish society: politics, religion and sex. A poor English governess enters the service of this household and becomes the victim of the brothers attentions, aggressions and cruelty.
Subjects:	Feature films. Spain
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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:	Ana y los otros / Ana and the others /
Director:	Celina Murga.
Format:	1 videodisc (80 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 4, PAL)
Imprint:	Buenos Aires : SBP, 2006
Language:	Spanish with optional English subtitles.
Notes:	Originally released as a motion picture in 2002. Primer Plano Film Group S.A. ; una producción de Celina Murga y Carolina Konstantinovsky ; producción, guión y dirección, Celina Murga. Cinematography, José María Gómez, Marcelo Lavintman ; editing, Martín Mainoli. Participants: Camila Toker, Ignacio Uslenghi, Natacha Massera, Juan Cruz Díaz la Barba.
Plot:	Ana is a young woman that lives in Buenos Aires and returns to her native city, Parana, where she meets old friends, makes new ones, revisits her past and begins to rethink her life.
Subjects:	Feature films. Argentina.
Location:	View Catalog Record
Title:	El angel exterminador / The Exterminating angel.
Director:	Luis Buñuel.
Format:	1 videocassette (93 min.) ; sd., col. ; 1/2 in. VHS.
Imprint:	Las Cruces, NM : Hen-s Tooth Video, 1991.
Language:	Spanish with English subtitles.
Notes:	Nueva version con dialogos de Luis Buñuel del cinedrama de Luis Alcoriza y Luis Buñuel ; productor, Gustavo Alatrista ; director, Luis Buñuel. Title on cassette and container: Originally issued as motion picture in Mexico in 1962. Cast: Silvia Pinal, Enrique Rambal, Claudio Brook.
Plot:	High society dinner guests find themselves unable to leave the room, stay there for days and go totally to the bad before the strange spell is broken. When they go to church to give thanks, they find themselves unable to leave the church.
Subjects:	Feature films. Spain.
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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:	Angel negro/ Black angel
Director:	Jorge Olguin
Format:	1 videodisc (85 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region all)
Imprint:	New York: Troma Team Video, Director's cut 2003
Language:	Spanish with English subtitles.
Notes:	Originally released as a motion picture in 2000. Lloyd Kaufman and Michael Herz present a Troma Team release ; O.C. Films in association with Sobras.com Producciones ; produced by Marcelo Rojas and Alvaro Faez ; written and directed by Jorge Olguin. Participants: Alvaro Morales, Andrea Freund, Blanca Lewin, Juan Pablo Bastidas, Fernando Gallardo, Arturo Ruiz Tagle, Patricia Pardo, Alvaro Espinoza, Claudio Rodríguez. "Uncensored director's cut."--Container./ Special features: Director's commentary with translation ; Making of Angel negro documentary ; interview with director Jorge Olguín ; introduction by Lloyd Kaufman.
Plot:	Teenager Angel Cruz disappears after a tragic accident. Ten years later, her classmates that were involved with the accident begin showing up dead. Is the ghost of Angel committing these murders, or has her spirit possessed someone still living?
Subjects:	Feature films. Chile.
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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:	Animales Heridos / Wounded animals
Director:	Ventura Pons
Format:	1 videodisc (88 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 2, PAL)
Imprint:	Barcelona: Filmax, 2006
Language:	Spanish, with English and Spanish subtitles
Notes:	Released as a motion picture in 2006. Guión: Ventura Pons; basado en relatos del libro "Animales tristes" de Jordi Puntí. Producción: Ventura Pons. Música: Carles Cases. Fotografía: Rafael Lluch. Montaje: Pere Abadal. Dirección artística: Bel-lo Torras. Interpretación: José Coronado , Cecilia Rossetto, Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, Marc Cartes, Cristina Plazas, Patricia Arredondo, Gerardo Zamora, Aina Clotet, Francesc Albiol, Teresa Manresa, Paul Berrondo. Estreno en España: 10 Febrero 2006.
Plot:	Silvio Lisboa has a lot of money and, for the last year, a lover, Claudia Riera the famous interior designer. This man also has an obsession; hide with her in room 1817 of the Princesa Sofia Hotel. Silvio, in fact, lives near the hotel with his wife Marcia, a neurotic lady of leisure who only finds consolation in the coca infusion brewed by her Peruvian cleaning lady. But the peace of family life is about to be upset by the imminent arrival of Claudia who wants to write a report about the Lisboa’s home. Marcia goes crazy preparing the flat and doesn’t forget even the smallest detail. However, the visit ends tragically as Claudia finds out about Silvio’s sick obsession, cancels the report and considers their secret love affair over. Marcia can’t take this and gets depressed. To get over her depression she has a face lift and the couple go to Cadaqués for a few weeks.. His fantasy is to hide his mistress in room 1817 in the Princess Sofía hotel. Silvio Lisboa is a rich married man and a nervous wreck. He is seeing a famous interior director, Claudia Riera, who decides to make a programme on the Lisboa and in the process discovers her lover's obsession.
Subjects:	Feature Films. Spain. Literary Aaptation.
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Title:	El año de las luces
Director:	Fernando Trueba
Format:	1 videocassette (104 min.) ; sd., col. ; 1/2 in. VHS format (PAL).
Imprint:	Barcelona : Nuevo Cine Español, 1998
Language:	Spanish
Notes:	Director, Fernando Trueba ; producer, Andrés Vicente Gomez. Originally released as a motion picture in 1986. Participants: Jorge Sanz, Maribel Verdu, Manuel Aleixandre, Rafaela Aparicio, José Sazatornil, Santiago Ramos, Chus Lampreave, Violeta Cela y Verónica Forqué.
Plot:	A tender story of adolescents set in 1940. In 1940, 16-year-old Manolo and 8-year-old Jesus, two sons of a fallen soldier, are taken by their older brother Pepe, a lieutenant in the Army, to a sanatorium for children suffering from tuberculosis, situated on the border with Portugal. There Manolo is initiated into the adult world and has his first experiences with sex and love
Subjects:	Feature Films. Spain
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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:	Anónima de asesinos / Man on the spying trapeze
Director:	Juan de Orduña
Format:	1 videocassette (ca. 92 min.) ; sd., col. ; 1/2 in. VHS
Imprint:	Spain/Italy/Germany 1966
Language:	Dubbed in English.
Notes:	De Juan de Orduña. Cast: Wayde Preston, Helga Sommerfeld y Gianni Rizzo. Originally released as a motion picture in 1966.
Plot:	With a title like this, it-s got to be good! Right? Perhaps not, but there-s plenty of guilty pleasure to be found in this James Bond knock-off starring Wayde Preston as super-cool secret agent Jerry Land. When he-s not having his way with several lovely ladies, he-s trying to crack a case involving hidden microfilm and a corpse at the Colosseum. There-s danger at every turn, but can Jerry Land handle it while still making time with the babes? You bet he can!
Subjects:	Feature Films. Spain
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Title:	Un año sin amor
Director:	Anahi Berneri
Format:	1 videodiscs (ca. 90 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 4);
Imprint:	Buenos Aures: AVH, 2005
Language:	Spanish with English subtitles.
Notes:	Estreno en Argentina: 24 Marzo 2005. Basado en la novela Un año sin amor : diario del SIDA de Pablo Pérez. Interpretación: Juan Minujín (Pablo), Mimí Ardú (Tía), Carlos Echevarría (Nicolás), Javier van der Couter (Martín), Osmar Núñez (Comisario Báez), Ricardo Merkin (Padre de Pablo), Carlos Portaluppi (Editor), Bárbara Lombardo (Julia), Ricardo Moriello (Juan), Juan Carlos Ricci (Dr. Rizzo). Guión: Pablo Pérez y Anahí Berneri; basado en la novela de Pablo Pérez. Producción: Diego Dubcovsky, Daniel Burman y Maximiliano Pelosi. Música: Leo García y Martín Bauer. Fotografía: Lucio Bonelli. Montaje: Álex Zito. Dirección artística: María Eugenia Sueiro. Vestuario: Roberta Pesci.
Plot:	Narra la vida de un joven escritor enfermo de sida, que pelea día a día contra su enfermedad. En esa batalla se introduce en prácticas sadomasoquistas, para a través del goce del dolor encontrar la fuerza para seguir viviendo y tratar de encontrar un amor verdadero.   Pablo (Juan Minujín) es un joven escritor enfermo de sida, a quien el temor a la muerte lo empuja a escribir su diario. "No quiero escribir, me obligo", se repite una y otra vez, y la obligación de escribir se transforma en la obligación de seguir buscando la cura a sus males. No sólo a la enfermedad, sino también a la sole-dad. Pablo busca el amor de su vida o tal vez al hombre que lo devuel-va a una existencia plena. Publica anuncios de contacto y recorre el circuito gay de Buenos Aires, que desemboca, muchas veces, en el sexo eventual. En esta búsqueda, encuentra una forma de erotizar su dolor: se une a un grupo con el comparte prácticas sexuales sadoma-soquistas y el fetichismo por el cuero. Así, en los golpes deseados creerá enamorarse y encontrar la fortaleza para seguir viviendo. El "año sin amor" en la vida de Pablo es 1996, cuando se implementan las te-rapias con cócteles de drogas, que transformaron al sida en una enfer-medad crónica y no necesariamente mortal, como quedó establecido en el Congreso de Vancouver. Pablo debe comenzar a tomar la medi-cación, pero tiene un gran temor: que una prescripción desacertada pueda conducirlo a la muerte.("La Butaca Revista de Cine")
Subjects:	Feature films. Argentina. Literary Adaptation. AIDS (Disease). Patients.
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Title:	El año del diluvio
Director:	Jaime Chávarri.
Format:	1 videodisc (85 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 2, PAL)
Imprint:	Madrid : Mangafilms, c2004.
Language:	Spanish dialogue with English and Spanish subtitles
Notes:	Videodisc recording of a motion picture made in Spain in 2005. Based on a novel with the same title by Eduardo Mendoza. Participants: Fanny Ardant, Darío Grandinetti, Eloy Azorín, Pepa López, Ginés García Millán, Francis Lorenzo, Sandra De Falco, Rosa Novell, Francesc Orella.
Plot:	In a really hot summer, Sister Consuelo, the superior of a religious order dedicated to charitable medicine, decides to carry out a project to transform the rambling and almost useless hospital in town into a modern asylum for the old with the most up to date infrastructure. To finance the project, the determined nun decides to visit a rich landowner who lives in the close to the town, Augusto Aixelá, a gentleman farmer famed for being a womaniser. Their continuous encounters bring about a closeness that produces a passionate and stormy attraction whose memory will last until the end of their days. In the final destiny of this relationship, an unhappy confrontation with the bandits and the discovery of certain deceits and vengeances bring about an overturn in the life of Sister Consuelo..
Subjects:	Feature films. Spain.
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Title:	El año de la garrapata / The year of the slacker
Director:	Jorge Coira
Format:	1 videodisc (ca. 89 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Imprint:	S.l. : Urban Vision Entertainment, c2005.
Language:	Spanish dialogue, English subtitles
Notes:	Originally released as a motion picture in 2004. una producción de Filmanova, Lugo Press ; en coproducción con Filmanova Invest, Televisión de Galicia ; y la participación de Canal+, Televisión de Galicia ; dirigida por Jorge Coira. Producers: Antón Reixa, Xosé de Cora. Screenplay, Carlos Portela; director, Jorge Coira; cinematography, Chechu Graf; film editing, Guillermo Represa. Performer Félix Gómez, Javier Veiga, Verónica Sánchez, Maria Vázquez.
Plot:	After nine years of college, Fran has graduated to find he has no desire to devote himself to a career, despite the demands of his parents and successful Ph.D. bound girlfriend. He finds salvation in his friend, Morgan, who is the perfect slacker.
Subjects:	Feature films. Spain
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Title:	Los años bárbaros
Director:	Fernando Colomo
Format:	1 videodisc (120 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD; widescreen 1.85:1; Dolby digital stereo
Imprint:	Coral Gables, FL : Venevision International, c2005.
Language:	Spanish; optional English subtitles.
Notes:	Originally released as a motion picture in 1998. A Beatriz de la Gándara [and] Fernando Colomo production with Mainstream S.A., Sogepaq ; with the participation of Canal+ España and Canal+ Francia ; script, Fernando Colomo, et al. ; director, Fernando Colomo. Director of photography, Néstor Calvo ; artistic director, Alain Bainée ; production director, Félix Rodríguez ; editor, Miguel Ángel Santamaría ; original music, Juan Bardem. Performer Jordi Mollà, Ernesto Alterio, Hedy Burress, Allison Smith, Juan Echanove.
Plot:	Set in 1940's Spain, two young men are sent to prison for painting graffiti against the dictator, but they escape and travel the country posing as tour guides for two young American women.
Subjects:	Feature films. Spain
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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:	Antes que anochezca / Before night falls
Director:	Julian Schnabel
Format:	1 videodisc (133 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD, widescreen, Dolby digital, 5.1 surround sound.
Imprint:	United States: New Line Home Video, 2001, c2000.
Language:	Dialogue in English, French and Spanish; subtitles in English, French or Spanish
Notes:	Videodisc release of the 2000 motion picture. Based on the memoirs Antes que anochezca (Before night falls) by Reinaldo Arenas. Fineline Features, Grandview Pictures, Jon Kilik presents a film by Julian Schnabel ; producer, Jon Kilik ; writers, Cunningham O-Keefe, Larazo Gomez Carilles, Julian Schnabel ; director, Julian Schnabel. Special features: filmmaker commentary with director, actor, screenwriter and composer; original documentary shorts, cast and crew filmographies, original theatrical trailer.. Directors of photography, Xavier Perez Grobet, Guillermo Rosas ; editor, Michael Berenbaum ; music, Carter Burwell ; costume designer, Mariestela Fernandez ; production designer, Salvador Parra.Cast: Javier Bardem, Olivier Martinez, Andrea Di Stefano, Johnny Depp, Sean Penn, Michael Wincott. Awards: Independent Spirit Award, 2001, Best Male Lead (Javier Bardem). NBR Award, 2000, Best Actor (Javier Bardem). NSFC Award, 2001, Best Actor (Javier Bardem). SEFCA Award, 2001, Best Actor (Javier Bardem). Venice Film Festival, 2000, Grand Special Jury Prize (Julian Schnabel). OCIC Award, Special Mention (Julian Schnabel). Rota Soundtrack Award (Carter Burwell). Volpi Cup, Best Actor (Javier Bardem).
Plot:	A look at the life of Reinaldo Arenas, from childhood in Cuba to his death in New York City. His writings and homosexuality get him in trouble with Castro-s Cuba and he spends two years in prison before leaving for the United States.
Subjects:	Feature films. Cuba. Literary adaptation
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Title:	Antigona: Teatro mujer y derechos humanos
Director:	Miguel Rubio Zapata (Yuyachkani)
Format:	1 videodisc (120 min.) ; sd., 4 3/4 in. DVD, (Region All);
Imprint:	Lima: Grupo Cultural Yuyachkani. 2000.
Language:	Spanish
Notes:	Antigona de Yuyachkani (Peru). Teatro mujer y derechos humanos. Unipersonal de Teresa Ralli. Version libre de Jose Watanabe de la Tragedia de Sofocles. Dirige, Miguel Rubio. Estreno: Del 24 de Febrero al 02 de Abril del 2000
Plot:	"Leimos Antigona muy jovenes, como parte de la cultura de cualquier persona que decide dedicar su vida al teatro. Quedo, en el fondo de nosotros, una persona que lleva hasta las ultimas consecuencias un pensamiento que considera justo.    Años despues, a comienzos de los ochenta, vimos una exposicion fotografica. Eran fotos en blanco y negro. Habia captado imagenes impresionantes de la violencia de esos años. La que mas nos conmovio fue la de una mujer cruzando los arcos de la Plaza de Armas de Ayacucho, parecia una figura en fuga, una exhalacion bajo la sombra que creaba un sol cenital. Vestia de luto. En ese momento, espontaneamente, esa mujer formo para nosotros una sola frase con Antigona.    De este modo el texto clasico nos mostraba su poder: cruzar siglos para encajar en una situacion y tiempo cercanos. Desde ese entonces empezamos a pensar en la puesta en escena de Antigona. Y el desarrollo de la violencia que vivio nuestro pais fue haciendonos mas conscientes de la necesidad del proyecto: ¿Quien no recuerda a las mujeres buscando familiares desaparecidos, las tumbas NN, la soledad de los desplazados?.    Para la realizacion de este Proyecto hemos tenido relacion con muchas mujeres parientes de desaparecidos que han venido a contarnos sus historias. Sus testimonios han alimentado nuestra puesta en escena. ¿Como olvidar a tantas mujeres enfrentandose solas al poder para indagar por sus esposos, padres o hijos? Antigona las resume.    Otro encuentro, decisivo, fue con Jose Watanabe a traves de su libro "Cosas del Cuerpo". Entramos en una relacion de gran empatia con los textos, sentiamos que en ellos la belleza surgia o era indesligable de su calidad de verosimiles, no importa si ficcionados. Desde esos momentos pensamos en Watanabe para Antigona. El nos propuso desarrollarla en poemas . A partir de su hermosa version, empezamos la otra escritura, la escritura en el espacio, es decir, la construccion que realiza el actor, con sus acciones, sus gestos, su voz, junto con los otros elementos de la gramatica espacial, como los luminicos y musicales.    Recurrir a Antigona es una manera de apelar a la memoria historica universal para buscar en ella señales que nos ayuden a entender nuestra propia tragedia. El objetivo del personaje Antigona es enterrar a su hermano muerto, pese a un decreto que prohibe hacerlo. Para nosotros enterrar no es una metafora del olvido. El enterramiento de un suceso o una persona implica evaluarlo, conocer su significado y ponerle un nombre para no olvidarlo, es ubicarlo como un hecho vivo y ejemplar en nuestra memoria. Alli debe estar como quien ocupa un espacio, dispuesto para el dialogo con nosotros, ahora o en el futuro.    Recurrir a Antigona es tambien pensar en las consecuencias del poder ejercido sin controles. Antigona, como imagen, no existiria sin su contraparte, Creonte, el rey que en su soberbia se atreve a retar a los cielos al querer extender su dominio sobre los cadaveres. " Recuerda que solo los dioses tienen mandato sobre los muertos", le increpa Antigona. Ella, al margen de las facciones en pugna, quiere cumplir con sus hermano, desea ardientemente que la tierra lo acoja. Su gesto solo esta motivado por el amor: "Yo he nacido para amar, no para compartir odios", dice, con voz al mismo tiempo antigua y contemporanea". (Teresa Ralli / Miguel Rubio, Yuyachkani)
Subjects:	Feature films. Peru. Theater. Human rights. Grupo Cultural Yuyachkani
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Title:	Antartida
Director:	Manuel Huerga
Format:	1 videodisc (ca. 106 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Imprint:	USA: Lolafilms Home Entertainment ; Thousand Oaks, CA : Distributed by Studio Latino, 2006
Language:	Spanish dialogue, English subtitles
Notes:	Originally released as a motion picture in 1995. Sogetel/Iberoamaericana Films ; Canal + & Oviedo T.V. ; producer, Andrés Vicente Gómez, Fernando de Garcillán, Pepo Sol ; writer, Francisco Casavella ; director, Manuel Huerga. Director of photography, Javier Aguirresarobe ; editor, Ernest Blasi ; original music, John Cale. Participants: Ariadna Gil, Carlos Fuentes, Francis Lorenzo, José Manuel Lorenzo, Walter Vidarte.
Plot:	Maria, a frustrated rock & roll singer with a heroin addiction, has lost her boyfriend to a drug overdose. She has lost the will to live, until she meets Rafia, a young guy with a much clearer view of life than she has.
Subjects:	Feature films. Spain
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Title:	Antigua vida mía
Director:	Héctor Olivera
Format:	1 videodisc (105 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 1 & 4)
Imprint:	Spain : Tornasol Films : Alter Films,2001
Language:	Spanish
Notes:	Originally released as a motion picture in 2001. Based on the novel by Marcela Serrano. Writers, Ángeles González Sinde, Alberto Marcías, Marcela Serrano; original music, Angel Illaramendi; cinematography, Alfredy Mayo; film editing, Miguel Perez. Performer Cecilia Roth, Ana Belén, Juan Leyrado, Jorge Marrale, Alfredo Casero, Odiseo Bichir, Cristi Cobar, Diana Lamas.
Plot:	A woman tries to help her friend, who is in jail for killing her husband.
Subjects:	Feature films. Spain. Argentina. Literary Adaptation
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Title:	Aoom
Director:	Gonzalo Suarez
Format:	1 videodisc (150 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Imprint:	Madrid: Ocho y medio, 2006 (Editado dentro del libro Pasos en el Tiempo)/I>
Language:	Spanish
Notes:	This movie has only been shown on the film festival in San Sebastian (1970) and never made it to the big screen. Dialogue Writer: Gustau Hernandez. Director: Gonzalo Suárez. Dialogue Writer: Gonzalo Suárez. Cinematographer: Francisco Marin. Cast: Lex Barker, Teresa Gimpera, Luis Ciges, Julian Ugarte.
Plot:	Aging actor Ristol (Lex Barker)feels himself prisoner of his body, his job and his traits, and he is very unhappy with his life. He decides to leave his body and to penetrate into a doll's body. The transfer is successful, his soal lives on in the doll and his own body dies. His secretary Constantino is fascinated by the doll and steals it, but soon he becomes scared because of its suggestive ability. He tries to destroy the doll and finally throws it into the sea. Ristols lover Ana can't accept his death and desperately tries to find him, at times supported by an awkward detective. In the meantime Ristol's soal has migrated into a murdered fisher who now comes alive again. But she is murdered once again and finally Ristol's soal migrates into a stone where he can rest.
Subjects:	Feature films. spain
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Title:	Apasionados / Passionate
Director:	Juan Jose Jusid
Format:	1 videodisc (ca. 100 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (PAL Region 4)
Imprint:	Buenos Aires: Patagonik Film Group, 2006
Language:	Spanish with optional English subtitles
Notes:	Originally released as a film in 2002. Venevision International presenta ; productora, Patagonik ; dirigida por Juan Jose Jusid; musicalizacion, Federico Jusid ; cinematografia, Porfirio Enríquez ; edicion, Juan Carlos Macías. Participants: Nancy Dupláa, Natalia Verbeke, y Pablo Echarri.
Plot:	"Esta es una comedia romántica que posee todos los ingredientes necesarios para convertise en una de las grandes producciones del año: amor, ternura, pasión, reflexión y un final inesperado. Uma es una bellísima azafata que, cansada de esperar al hombre de sus sueños con quien pueda formar una familia, ha decidido dejar de esperar y planea convertirse en una madre soltera. Después de buscar por todo el mundo descubre que Nico, el novio de Lucía, su mejor amiga, reúne todas las características necesarias. Ellas hacen un pacto, pero lo que parecía ser 'un simple préstamo' toma un rumbo inesperado transformándoles la vida a todos los personajes"--Container. This romantic comedy has everything to become an instant classic: love, comedy, charm, passion, and reflection with an unexpected ending. Uma is a beautiful flight attendant that is tired of waiting for 'Mr. Right' and desperate to become pregnant. As a result, she decides to find a donor to become a single mother and finds the right person with her best friend, Lucia. However, Lucia offers her own boyfriend, Nico as a candidate and things get intresting.
Subjects:	Feature films. Argentina.
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Title:	Apartment zero
Director:	Martin Donovan
Format:	1 videodisc (ca. 124 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Imprint:	Union Station Media ; Troy, MI : Distributed by Anchor Bay Entertainment, Edition: Special ed. 2006
Language:	English; Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.
Notes:	Originally released as a motion picture in 1988. A presentation of Producer Representatives Organzation ; The Summit Company Limited presents a Stephen J. Cole production ; a Martin Donovan film ; screenplay by Martin Donovan and David Koepp ; story by Martin Donovan ; produced by Martin Donovan and David Koepp ; directed by Martin Donovan. Music, Elia Cmiral ; editign, Conrad M. Gonzalez ; director of photography, Miguel Rodriguez. Participants: Colin Firth, Hart Bochner, Dora Bryan, Liz Smith, Fabrizio Bentivoglio, James Telfer, Mirella D'Angelo, Juan Vitali, Francesca D'Aloja, Miguel Ligero, Elvia Andreoli, Marikena Monti, Cipe Lincovsky. Commentary from director, Martin Donovan; commentary with writer/producer David Koepp and Steven Soderbergh, fellow 1989 Sundance director on independent film in the 1980's.
Plot:	Set in modern day Argentina, the film centers on a pair of unlikely roommates, Adrian LeDuc and Jack Carney. Adrian is a lonely, reserved man who runs a local revival movie theater. In order to make ends meet, he takes in a roommate--Jack. Jack is handsome, charming and alluring. He may also be a killer.
Subjects:	Feature films. Argentina.
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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:	Aquesta nit o mai / Esta Noche O Jamas
Director:	Ventura Pons
Format:	1 videodisc (88 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. PAL (Region 2)
Imprint:	Barcelona: Manga Films, 2004
Language:	Spanish or Catalan with Spanish or English subtitles.
Notes:	Originally produced as a motion picture in 1992. Música: Carles Cases. Escrita por: Joan Barbero. Distribuidora: Manga Films. Interpretes : Lloll Bertran, Ángel Burgos, José María Cañete, Marta Fernández Muro, María Lanau, Mónica López, Marc Martínez, Amparo Moreno, Blanca Pampols, Mingo Ràfols, Santi Ricart, Camilo Rodríguez, Carles Sans, Mary Santpere
Plot:	Un viaje trepidante por un laberinto de fuegos pasionales donde el azar y la magia unen sus fuerzas hasta conseguir que santas, gorilas, estudiantes, traficantes de diamantes, directores de cine, viudas, antropólogos, enanitos, peluqueros, transformistas y otros inútiles cumplan su destino: vivir la verbena de San Juan como un sueño bajo la luna de verano.    The film takes on a trip through a lively metropolis on the eve of a major holiday, witnessing the love lives, family situations, gender confusion and even a diamond traffic ring uniting some 14 different characters. They all have something in common - they're after love, money, live in or visit the same luxury apartment building, and speak Catalan, in the pulsating and hallucinating Barcelona of the 1990s
Subjects:	Feature films. Spain.
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Title:	La Ardilla roja
Director:	Julio Medem.
Format:	1 videocassette (111 min.) ; sd., col. ; 1/2 in. VHS format (PAL).
Imprint:	Spain: Sogepaq Video ; Madrid: Distribuido por PolyGram Ibérica, 1999
Language:	Spanish
Notes:	Sogetel ; productor ejecutivo, Fernando de Garcillan ; escrito y dirigida por Julio Medem. Videocassette release of the 1993 motion picture. Participants: Emma Suárez, Nancho Novo, Maria Barranco, Karra Elejalde, Carmelo Gómez.
Plot:	Jota is a young man whose fortunes are down. His rocker girlfriend has left him and he is considering jumping off of a jetty late one summer night in San Sebastian. Before he can jump, a motorcyclist crashes through the barrier and Jota runs to assist. The woman has amnesia and Jota takes her to the hospital where he registers her as Lisa, his fiance. When Lisa has recovered physically, Jota takes her from the hospital and they go on a vacation to a campground called The Red Squirrel ...
Subjects:	Feature films. Spain
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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:	Arroz y tartana
Director:	José Antonio Escrivá
Format:	1 videodisc (200 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 2, PAL)
Imprint:	Valladolid : Divisa Home Vídeo, 2003
Language:	Spanish with optional subtitles in Spanish and English.
Notes:	Originally produced as a TV series in 2003. TVE presenta ; una producción de Intercartel ; con la colaboración de Generalitat Valencia. Director, José Antonio Escrivá; writer, Horacio Valcárcel. Based on the novel by V. Blasco Ibáñez; originally broadcast as a miniseries. Participants: Carmen Maura, Jose Sancho, Eloy Azorin, Blanca Jara. Menús interactivos, Acceso directo a escenas, Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, un bestseller de la época, Los desastres del 98, Ofrenda de flores fin de rodaje (vídeo), Entrevista con Carmen Maura (Vídeo), Fichas
Plot:	This excellent mini-series portrays the Valencian society of the late 19th century and early 20th century. "Arroz y tartana" is technically outstanding, specially concerning art direction, costume design and music. In turn of the century Valencia, an elegant widow struggles to marry off her two daughters and maintain appearances among the haute bourgeoisie.    En la Valencia de 1900, doña Manuela de Fora, viuda de Pajares, mujer elegante de madura belleza, vive con la obsesión de casar bien a sus dos hijas, Concha y Amparo, habidas en segundo matrimonio. De su primer marido tuvo a Juanito, al que menosprecia por su deseo de ser comerciante. Quien de verdad aprecia al laborioso Juanito en su tío Juan, hombre de costumbres austeras que reprocha a su hermana Manuela, siempre que puede, su manía de gastar dinero en guardar las apariencias de una alta posición social. Y es que doña Manuela, aparte de su personal gusto por la vida, en su afán de lograr buen partido para “sus niñas” ha hipotecado todas sus fincas.
Subjects:	Feature films -- Spain. TV Series. Literary Adaptation.
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Title:	Arrabalera
Director:	Tulio Demicheli
Format:	1 videodisc (83 min.) ; sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region All)
Imprint:	Buenos Aires: Esmerald, 2007. Cine argentino de coleccion
Language:	Spanish dialogue, English subtitles.
Notes:	Originally released as a motion picture in 1950. Argentine musical drama film directed and written by Tulio Demicheli based on the story by Samuel Eichelbaum. Director: Tulio Demicheli Guion: Ulyses Petit de Murat y Tulio Demicheli Intérpretes: Tita Merello, Santiago Gómez Cou, Raúl del Valle, Tito Alonso.
Plot:	Una joven obrera que canta en el bar del barrio, es cortejada por dos hombres. Pero la elección del hombre para su vida termina siendo el incorrecto. El es un bebedor, jugador y golpeador. Cuando le dice que esta embarazada el le propina una paliza y ella huye de la casa. Se encuentra con el otro hombre quien le ofrece hospedaje. Cuando el bebe nace el se hace cargo del niño. Veinte años después, el niño es un joven maduro, y ellos están felices con la familia que han formado. Pero aparece el padre del joven y parece que todo va cambiar. Estos argumentos eran propicios para Tita Merello quien no solo se lucía interpretando los tangos sino que lo hacia con papeles muy fuertes y que parecían escritos solo para ella. La mujer sacrificada, tenía mucho que ver con la vida que el público conocía.
Subjects:	Feature films. Argentina
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Title:	El Asadito
Director:	Gustavo Postiglione
Format:	1 videocassette (72 min.) ; sd., col. ; 1/2 in. VHS (PAL).
Imprint:	San Luis, Argentina: Transeuropa Video Entartaiment 2001
Language:	Spanish
Notes:	ideocassette release of a 2000 motion picture. Directed by: Gustavo Postiglione Participants: Gerardo Dayub, Tito Gómez, Héctor Molina, Raúl Calandra, Carlos Resta, David Edery, Daniel Briguet.
Plot:	El 30 de diciembre de 1999 se encuentran a comer un asado 7 amigos más un invitado sorpresa. El encuentro es en la terraza de Tito, el anfitrión, y la reunión se prolonga hasta las últimas horas del milenio.    "El asadito es todo lo que se ha dicho por ahí, lo que varía son las proporciones. Ha sido rodada de un tirón, durante las veinte horas que unieron la tarde del 30 de diciembre de 1999 con la madrugada del "último día" del siglo XX, y es la historia de esas mismas veinte horas. Que se consumen en el departamento "tipo casa" de Tito, próximo al centro de Rosario. Entre su patio y terraza transcurrirá este asado que comparten siete amigos nacidos en aquella ciudad. Un poco por la fecha, otro poco porque hace tiempo que, viejos amigos como son, no coincidían en un mismo lugar (incluyendo a ese que vive en Buenos Aires y cae sin aviso), no se trata de un asado cualquiera. Tiene visos, justamente, de reunión, y en cuanto tal se muestra propicio para evocar tiempos idos. O para ensayar, consolidar, o cuanto menos considerar, una mirada hacia el pasado. Un balance. Estamos hablando de una reunión de hombres más o menos cuarentones. Y esto ya no es cualquier cosa, sino una de las cosas más sabrosas (el olor del asadito torció mis habituales metáforas) y complejas que puede abordar el cine argentino contemporáneo. Porque una reunión de cuarentones (y precisemos más: de clase media urbana venida a menos, culta) sobre el filo del 2000 está casi obligada a asumir una expresión muy trágica. Los que tienen más o menos cuarenta en el 2000 tenían entre quince y veinte cuando la dictadura más sangrienta de la historia de este país empezó a decapitar a varias generaciones. Y entre otras, a la de El asadito. Cuando digo a decapitar digo a cortar cabezas, pero no sólo de un modo literal. La dictadura no fue tan torpe como asesina: quiso matar a lo mejor, descabezar a esas generaciones, y lo consiguió en buena medida. Los que comparten este asado no son ni lo mejor ni lo peor (que Dios me libre: se parecen a muchos de nosotros); son los que quedaron. Los que la dictadura nos dejó. Tito, el Turco, Héctor, Raúl, David, Daniel y Carloncho hablan de los temas que convocan a cualquier grupo de varones desde casi siempre: coches, minas, fútbol, cine, plata... hasta política. Y sin embargo eso otro, eso de lo que hablábamos, ya desde el principio parece hacerse un lugarcito ahí, entre ellos. Y planea como una ausencia sobre las primeras mesas y sobremesas de este largo encuentro a siete voces, filmado cámara en mano, fotografiado en un blanco y negro notoria, quizás excesivamente granulado. Es mérito de la dirección de actores (y del esquema de improvisaciones libres sobre temas prefijados) que esta tensión emerja sutilmente, naturalmente, para sostenerse durante la primera mitad del relato. Más allá de unos pocos diálogos que flaquean, la credibilidad de las criaturas que no dejan de charlar ante nosotros es notable. Con lo que nos alejamos del "costumbrismo" para acercarnos al "naturalismo": reconocerse en ellas no es difícil; reconocerlas es más fácil aun. Ahora bien, al cabo de un rato de naturalismo alguien podría decir: muy bien, estos tipos son como mis amigos y yo, se nos parecen... ¿pero qué hacen en esta película? O más bien: ¿qué hace esta película con ellos? Acá quería llegar. Ya queda dicho que a poco de empezar los planta con credibilidad y firmeza, y que los envuelve en cierto halo de tragedia que se percibe sutilmente. No es poco. Pero una vez logrado esto, no hace muchas otras cosas con ellos durante demasiado tiempo. Tito y sus invitados vuelven sobre sí mismos, se reiteran, sin que el film alcance a traducir la mayor parte de esa acumulación en drama (o en tragedia, o en comedia). En otros términos, los 72 minutos de El asadito se hacen largos. Otra cosa que hace la película viene un poco de la mano de ese rosarino doblemente aporteñado: porque vive en Buenos Aires, pero también porque su liviandad, su falta de lealtad, sus fríos "principios" (más entre comillas que nunca) aparecen algo más que subliminalmente asociados con la capital de este país. Como si el Turco se hubiese contagiado de Buenos Aires. ¿Será un prejuicio? En el mejor de los casos resulta contradictorio con la –aventuro– mayor revelación de esta película: los otros personajes, rosarinos de pura cepa (como así sus intérpretes)... ¡podrían pasar perfectamente por porteños, tanto en acento como en "melancolía" y tópicos! Lo último que hace El asadito es de lo más lamentable. Sube el tono dramático mediante la introducción de un dato que habla de una traición, o cuanto menos de una bajeza de uno de los presentes. El problema no es que los demás lo consientan, sino que el film también parece plegárseles. Como si este final de fiesta cabizbajo, amargo, derrotado, desleal, se le hubiese pegado a las ropas. Y el olor de la resignación es más persistente que el del asado." Guillermo Ravaschino
Subjects:	Feature films. Argentina.
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Title:	Asesinato en el Comité Central.
Director:	Vicente Aranda
Format:	1 videocassette (106 min.) ; sd., col. ; 1/2 in. VHS format (PAL).
Imprint:	Madrid: Sogepaq Video : Distribuido en España por PolyGram Ibérica, S.A., 1997.
Language:	Spanish
Notes:	Una producción de Morgana Films, S.A., LolaFilms, S.A., Acuarius, S.A. ; dirigida por Vicente Aranda. Screenplay, Vicente Aranda, director of photography, José Luis Alcaine ; music, Manuel Camp. Videocassette release of the 1982 motion picture. Based on the novel by Manuel Vázquez Montalbán. Letterbox format. Participants: Patxi Andión, Victoria Abril, Conrado San Martín, Rosa María Mateo, Héctor Alterio.
Plot:	When the Secretary General of the Spanish Communist Party is assassinated during a plenary session of the Central Committee, parallel investigations, both private and official are undertaken to discover the truth. Private detective Carvalho begins his investigation in the company of Carmela, a left-wing militant who is privy to the inner workings of the Party. Anonymous powers interfere with the investigation.
Subjects:	Feature films. Spain. Literary adaptation
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Title:	Asfalto.
Director:	Daniel Calparsoro
Format:	1 videodiscs (ca. 92 min.) ; sd., col.; 4 3/4 in. DVD (PAL) Region 2
Imprint:	Barcelona [Spain]: Filmax Home Video, 2000
Language:	Spanish with Spanish subtitles.
Notes:	Videodisc release of the 1999 motion picture produced by José María Lara. Participants: Najwa Nimri, Juan Diego Botto, Gustavo Salmerón, Roger Ibáñez, Javier Nogueiras, Rubén Ochandiano, Carla Calparsoro, Jeff Bigot, David Bolajuzón, Oliver G. Sarmiento, Angel Planas, Javier Vega. Con el apoyo de Eurimages y la participación de TVE, Canal+ y ETB ; y la participación de Albarès Productions y Sur Films ; una producción de José María Lara ; guión, Daniel Calparsoro y Santiago Tabernero con la colaboración de Frank Palacios. Montaje, Julia Juániz ; fotografía, Josep M. Civit ; cámara, Josu Inchaustegui ; ; música, Mastretta y Najwajean.
Plot:	Spanish thriller about three young criminals on the streets of Madrid.    Lucía es una joven buscavidas urbana que mantiene una relación muy especial con sus dos amigos, Chino y Charly, unos rateros de poca monta que, como ella, se sienten atrapados por la gran ciudad. El amor que se profesan los tres jóvenes es recíproco y a tres bandas. Los tres se sienten desengañados por la sociedad que les ha tocado vivir y se autodefinen como “euromierda”.
Subjects:	Feature films. Spain
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Title:	Asi en el cielo como en la tierra / In heaven as on earth.
Director:	José Luis Cuerda
Format:	1 videodisc (135 min.); DVD (Region 2), PAL standard, Dolby Digital 5.1.
Imprint:	Madrid: D.V.D. FILMS. 2002
Language:	Spanish
Notes:	Director: Jose Luis Cuerda. Intérpretes: Francisco Rabal, Fernando Fernán Gómez, Jesus Bonilla Videodisc release of the 1995 motion picture.
Plot:	Dios padre no puede más. Está harto. Tiene una depresión espantosa y duda de todo ¿Valió de algo que mandase a un Hijo suyo a la Tierra?, ¿no se lo devolvieron hecho un -ecce homo- y continuaron los hombres empecatados hasta las cejas, de espaldas a quien había dado su vida por su redención?. Dios decide tener otro hijo, pero en mejores condiciones que el anterior. Éste lo va a tener en el cielo, lo va a educar Él y va a ser distinto, más moderno. Cuando Jesucristo se entera de las intenciones de su padre, se pilla una gran depresión y llega a pensar que a su Padre le flojea la cabeza. Quiere evitarlo a toda costa y encuentra la manera: un buen Apocalipsis. Pero la idea se encuentra con varios inconvenientes como la dificultad de enterder el libro de San Juan o la falta de presupuesto del Ayutamiento para organizar un Apocalipsis como Dios manda. God has a little problem when he decides to have another son: there aren-t many virgins left in the world and those that are are not easily convinced by archangel Saint Gabriel and refuse to conceive anyone.
Subjects:	Feature films. Spain.
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Title:	Asignatura pendiente
Director:	José Luis Garci.
Format:	1 videodisc (ca. 108 min.) ; sd., col. 4 3/4 in.;Mono DVD (PAL) Region 2
Imprint:	Madrid : Video Mercury Films. Buena Vista Home Entertainment [distributor], 100 años de oro del cine español, 4. 2001,
Language:	Spanish
Notes:	Originally released as motion picture in 1977. Participants: José Sacristán, Fiorella Faltoyano. Responsibility: Photography, Manuel Rojas ; director, José Luis Garci ; producer, José Maria González Sinde.Características especiales: Acceso directo a escenas, Menús interactivos.
Plot:	A young left-wing lawyer and a former girlfriend, both now married to others, have an affair in which they try to recapture the lost opportunities of their youth.
Subjects:	Feature films. 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:	A solas contigo.
Director:	Eduardo Campoy.
Format:	1 videocassette (88 min.) ; sd., col. ; 1/2 in. VHS format [PAL)
Imprint:	Barcelona : Cartel, S.A. : Flamenco Films, Laurenfilm : Distributed by Lauren Video Hogar, 1993
Language:	Spanish
Notes:	Videocassette release of a 1990 motion picture. Director, Eduardo Campoy ; producer, Mario Pedraza ; editor, Luis Manuel Del Valle ; artistic director, Javier Fernandez ; screenplay, Agustin Diaz-Yanes, Eduardo Calvo, Manolo Matji ; photography, Alfredo Mayo ; music, Mario De Benito. Victoria Abril, Imanol Arias, Juan Echanove, Nacho Martinez, R. Romero Marchent, Conrado San Martin, Manuel Gil, Emma Suarez, Maria Luisa San Jose, Esperanza Campuzano.
Plot:	In the Spanish navy a mole passes secret information to a foreign country. Not to be discovered, he kills one of his collegues. He is seen by a girl, but he does not know that she is actually blind. Eventually he is discovered and he kills himself.
Subjects:	Feature films. Spain
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Title:	Astronautas
Director:	Santi Amodeo
Format:	1 videodisc (86 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 2, PAL)
Imprint:	Madrid : Tesela P.C. : Distribuido por Buena Vista Home Entertainment S.A.,
Language:	Spanish with optional English subtitles.
Notes:	Originally released as a motion picture in 2003. Una película de Santi Amodeo ; una producción de José Antonio Félez para Tesela, P.C. y La Zanfoña. Director/screenplay, Santi Amodeo ; executive producer, José Antonio Felez ; sound, Jorge Marín ; editor, José M.G. Moyano ; music, Lavadora ; cinematographer, Alex Catalan ; art director, Javier López. Special features: "The making of Astronautras" ; promotional trailer ; music clips./ Participants: Nancho Novo, Teresa Hurtado, Juan Motilla, Alex O'Dogherty, Jons Pappila, Manolo Solo, Enrico Vecchi, Julián Villagrán.
Plot:	Story of the rehabilitation process of a former drug addict, Daniel. As he struggles to escape drug addiciton, he meets a 15-year old girl with whom he falls in love.
Subjects:	Feature films. Spain
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Title:	Atame! / Tie me up, tie me down.
Director:	Pedro Almodovar.
Format:	1 videodisc (ca. 101 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. in. DVD (Region 1).
Imprint:	Troy, MI : Anchor Bay Entertainment, 2000
Language:	Spanish with English subtitles.
Notes:	Miramax Films ; El Deseo, S.A. presenta un film de Almodovar ; guion y direccion, Pedro Almodovar. Director of photography, Jose Luis Alcaine ; editor, Jose Salcedo ; music, Ennio Morricone. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1990. Participants: Victoria Abril, Antonio Banderas, Loles Leon.
Plot:	The controversial hit by Pedro Almodovar about Ricki, who falls in love with Marina, an ex-porn movie star, and proceeds to capture her and tie her up at her own apartment. She is torn between trying to escape and falling in love with him. Almodovar-s theme is not the domination of women, but the strangeness of love and possessiveness. The performances are outstanding. Antonio Banderas is psychopathic and vulnerable, Victoria Abril is fierce and funny (Sight and Sound). This is the uncut, unrated version of the film (also released in an R-rated version) which first earned an X from the MPAA for its sexual content. The film was later given an NC-17 when that rating was created.
Subjects:	Feature films. Spain,
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Title:	Ataque verbal
Director:	Luis Miguel Albaladejo
Format:	1 videodisc (ca. 83 min.) ; sd., col. 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 1)
Imprint:	Madrid. 1999
Language:	Spanish dialogue, with optional English or Spanish subtitles.
Notes:	Originally released as a motion picture in 1999. Director: Luis Miguel Albaladejo. Actores: Antonia San Juan, Sergi López, Antonio Resines, Fedra Lorente, Roberto Álvarez Adriana Ozores, Jorge Alcázar, Félix Álvarez, Melanie Beleña, Diana Cerezo, Elvira Lindo, Geli Albaladejo, Marta Fernández Muro, Lucrecia, Guión: Luis Miguel Albaladejo, Elvira Lindo. Música: Lucio Godoy.
Plot:	Seven pairs of people exchange a variety of thoughts, feelings, and concerns in this comedy-drama from Spain. Pepa (Antonia San Juan) wants her lover Teo (Sergi Lopez) to tell her that he loves her, only to be disappointed. Newly single Jorge (Antonio Resines) calls to have the water put in his name at his new apartment, only to discover that the customer service representative is his ex-wife Laura (Fedra Lorente). Angel (Roberto Alvarez) is about to receive a liver transplant when he receives a visit from Mercedes (Adriana Ozores), wife of the deceased donor -- who wants to say goodbye to the liver. Benito (Jorge Alcazar) and Jacinto (Felix Alvarez) discuss life at Boy Scout camp. Teenaged Susi (Diana Cerezo) confides to her best friend Virgi (Melany Belena) that she might be pregnant. Street sweepers Milagros (Geli Albaladejo) and Rosario (Elvira Lindo) find an abandoned infant and wonder if they should keep it. And Elke (Marta Fernandez-Muro) visits Cuba to see her significant other, Cari (Lucrecia). Ataque Verbal reunites much of the cast and crew from director Miguel Albaladejo's first film, 1999's surprise success Manolito Gafotas.    Ataque verbal es una comedia de catorce personajes que desarrollan breves situaciones que a veces se entrelazan unas con otras.    Teo y Pepa son dos amigos treintañeros que charlan sentados en una roca, en un paisaje espectacular. Teo es escritor, autor teatral, y le pregunta a su amiga: ¿Cuándo fue la vez que más te emocionaste simplemente hablando con alguien?    Jorge es un ejecutivo recién divorciado que se muda a un apartamento vacío. A lo triste de su situación se añade otra contrariedad: los del Canal de Isabel II no le enganchan el agua tal como le habían prometido unos días atrás. Llama para reclamar, y le atiende Laura, una mujer muy amable, pero que sólo puede recoger su queja. La charla se prolonga más de lo habitual, y ella acaba reconociéndole a él: hace mucho tiempo estuvieron enamorados.    Ángel es un señor que se repone de un trasplante de hígado. Mercedes es la viuda del donante, un militar que murió en acto de servicio. Apenada por la desaparición de su marido, ella se consuela visitando a Ángel. Pero también hay algo que la inquieta: sabe que su marido tenía una amante, y hay una idea que le ronda por la cabeza y no la deja tranquila... ¿Le estará visitando, ella también?    Benito y Jacinto son dos monitores de boy-scouts que comparten una diminuta tienda de campaña. Antes de dormirse charlan sobre los estrafalarios niños que tienen a su cargo ese verano: uno con poderes, una niña superdotada y un transexual de siete años.    Virgi es una chica de 16 años, muy gorda y muy inocente. Ha tenido un pequeño accidente (un coche la atropelló) y tiene todo el cuerpo vendado, ya que el choque la hizo rodar por el asfalto y se despellejó toda la piel del cuerpo. Así que parece una momia cebada. Susi, una amiga suya, muy pija y muy cotilla, viene a visitarla. En principio parece que se trate tan solo de una visita de cortesía, pero poco a poco se van desvelando las auténticas motivaciones de Susi: ha oído que Virgi no está realmente reponiéndose de un accidente, sino que se ha encerrado en casa para ocultar que está embarazada.    Rosario y Milagros son dos barrenderas que encuentran un bebé abandonado en un contenedor de basura. Tras la sorpresa inicial se inicia entre ellas una agria pero a la vez cómica discusión acerca de qué hacer con el recién nacido.    Elke es una lesbiana que ha vuelto a Cuba para reencontrar a Cari, una negrita preciosa a la que conoció dos años atrás. La búsqueda ha tenido éxito y las dos se cuentan todo lo que les ha pasado en esos dos años dosificándose la información, intentado sorprenderse la una a la otra. Elke es escritora, además de otras cosas que se reserva... Pero lo que no sabe es que la auténtica sorpresa se la va a dar Cari a ella.
Subjects:	Feature films. Spain.
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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:	Atlas de geografía humana
Director:
Format:	1 videodisc (ca. 101 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region All, PAL)
Imprint:	Madrid: Cameo Media S L, 2007
Language:	Spanish with English subtitles.
Notes:	Based on the novel by Almudena Grandes. Tornasol Films ; Messidor Films ; Milou Films presentan ; una película de Azucena Rodríguez ; guion, Nicolás Saad y Azucena Rodríguez ; productores, Gerardo Herrero, Marta Esteban, Rosalía Mera. Editing, Nacho Ruiz Capillas ; music, Luis Mendo y Bernardo Fuster ; cinematography, Xavier Giv. Performer David Selvas, Nacho Fresneda, Boris Ruiz, Alberto Jiménez
Plot:	Fran, Rosa, Ana and Marisa are working as a team on an Atlas Geography for an editorial group. At first their lives were quite similar, but now, their lives are about to change. While preparing the Atlas, they will be facing loves, hard times, infidelities and reconciliations. They will redefine their lives, and maybe even find love.
Subjects:	Feature films. Spain. Literary Adaptations.
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Title:	A través de tus ojos / Through your eyes
Director:	Rodrigo Fürth
Format:	1 videodisc (97 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD. Region 4. Widescreen.
Imprint:	San Luis, Argentina : AVH, 2007
Language:	Spanish and English with English subtitles.
Notes:	Originally released as a motion picture in 2006. Mateíne Producciónes ; producido por Rodrigo Fürth ; director, Rodrigo Fürth. Screenplay, Lucía Puenzo y Leonel D'Agostino ; director of photography, Julián Ledesma ; editor, Pablo Mari ; music, Fernando Manuel Diéguez. Participants: Pepe Soriano, Adriana Aizenberg, Marcos Dubuch, Miguel Ángel Porro, Toto López, Sandra Rodríguez, Jannette Clemenceau.
Plot:	Lito y Nilda travel to New York in an economic crisis. He reluctantly goes along with his wife's decision to know her dream destination. Once there, ignoring her spouse's warnings, Nilda goes off her diet and collapses, landing her in the hospital. Lito is overwhelmed. Alone, with no money, in the midst of this chaos, he comes to know an unexpected New York, hostile to his habits. While Lito's life in New York freezes, his ice factory in Buenos Aires dissolves--Translation by cataloger of container synopsis.
Subjects:	Feature films -- Argentina.
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Title:	El aura
Director:	Fabián Bielinsky
Format:	1 videodisc (134 min.) ; sd., col.; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 4, PAL)
Imprint:	San Luis, Argentina : AVH,2006
Language:	Spanish with optional English and Spanish subtitles.
Notes:	Videodisc release of the 2005 motion picture. Patagonik Film Group ; Tornasol Films ; un film de Fabián Bielinsky ; productores, Samuel Hadida, Gerardo Herrero, Mariela Besuievski ; producida por Pablo Bossi. Editors, Alejandro Carrillo Penovi , Fernando Pardo ; music, Lucio Godoy. Participants: Ricardo Darín, Dolores Fonzi, Alejandro Awada, Pablo Cedron, Jorge D'Elia, Manuel Rodal, Walter Reyno, Nahuel Perez Biscavart.
Plot:	A quiet, cynic taxidermist, who suffers from epilepsy attacks, is obsessed with committing the perfect crime. He claims that the police are too stupid to find out about it when it's well executed, and that the robbers are too stupid to execute it the right way. He feels that he could do it himself by relying on his photographic memory and his strategic planning skills. He is invited on a hunting trip away from his home. Once there, an accident gives him the chance of a life time: the possibility to commit the perfect crime.
Subjects:	Feature films, Argentina
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Title:	L'auberge espagnole / The Spanish apartment
Director:	Cédric Klapisch.
Format:	1 videodisc (122 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. (Region 1)
Imprint:	United States: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, c2003.
Language:	Dialogue in French with optional soundtrack in Spanish, and with optional English and Spanish subtitles.
Notes:	Ce qui Me meut présente une co-production franco-espagnole BAC Film, Studio Canal, France 2 Cinema, Mate Production, Castelao Productions avec la participation de Canal+, France 2, Via Digital, un film de Cédric Klapisch ; produit par Bruno Levy ; director, Cédric Klapisch. Director of photography, Dominique Colin ; editor, Francine Sandberg ; music, Loik Dury, Mathieu Dury ; costume designer, Anne Schotte ; production designer, François Emmanuelli. Note Originally released as a motion picture in 2002. Performer Romain Duris, Judith Godrèche, Audrey Tautou, Cécile De France, Kelly Reilly, Cristina Brondo, Federico D'Anna, Barnaby Metschurat, Christian Pagh, Kevin Bishop, Xavier de Guillebon.
Plot:	Xavier is a straight-laced French college senior who moves to Barcelona as part of a student exchange program, much to the dismay of his beautiful girlfriend. But sharing cramped quarters with students from all over Europe quickly leads to multi-cultural chaos as Xavier gets an eye-opening lesson on how to live, love, laugh and party.
Subjects:	Feature Films. Spain. France. Students, Foreign -- Drama.
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Title:	Aupa Etxebeste
Director:	Asier Altuna y Telmo Esnal
Format:	1 videodisc (97 min.) : sd. col. ; c2005. DVD (Region 2, PAL)
Imprint:	Girona: Eurocine Filmes , 2005
Language:	Spanish or Euskera with optional subtitles in English, Catalan and Spanish.
Notes:	Originally produced as a motion picture in 2005. Interpretación: Ramón Agirre (Patricio Etxebeste), Elena Irureta (María Luisa), Paco Sagarzazu (Luziano), Iban Garate (Iñaki), Iñake Irastorza (Axun), Patxi González (Exenarro), José Mari Agirretxe (Julian), Felipe Barandiaran (Juan), Ane Sánchez (Maite), Guillermo Toledo (Ladrón), Luis Tosar (Ladrón). Guión: Telmo Esnal, Asier Altuna y Pablo Bueno. Producción: José María Lara. Música: Javi Pez. Fotografía: Javier Aguirre. Montaje: Pite Piñas. Dirección artística: Pello Villalba. Vestuario: Nagore Aranburu.
Plot:	El mismo día en el que la familia Etxebeste va a salir de vacaciones, el padre, Patricio (Ra-món Agirre), recibe una llamada desde el ban-co para informarle de que todas sus cuentas han sido embargadas. Ya no tienen "un euro" para irse de vacaciones, pero tampoco pueden dejar de ir. Nadie en el pueblo puede sospechar cuál es su verdadera situación. Sin co-mentar nada a su familia, todos hacen el equipaje, meten las male-tas en el coche, se despiden de los del pueblo y toman rumbo a Marbella. Poco después de salir del pueblo, Patricio se desvía de la carretera para informar a su familia del plan alternativo: pasarán las vacaciones encerrados en su casa, mientras todo el pueblo creerá que disfrutan del sol y la playa.
Subjects:	Feature films. Spain
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Title:	Ausentes / Missing
Director:	Daniel Calparsoro
Format:	1 videodisc (91 min.); col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 2), PAL standard, Dolby Digital
Imprint:	Madrid : Sogepaq, 2005
Language:	Spanish with optional English subtitles.
Notes:	Originally released as a motion picture in 2005. Director: Daniel Calparsoro. Actores: Alex Brendemühl, Ariadna Gil, Jordi Mollà Omar Muñoz, Nacho Pérez, Mar Sodupe, Productor: Juan Alexander. Guión: Daniel Calparsoro, Ray Loriga. Fotografía: Josep M. Civit. Música: Carlos Jean.
Plot:	Julía and Samuel move to an isolated estate on the outskirts of the city with their children. It seems to be the perfect place but very soon they find out that the idyllic estate holds something else. From the very first day Julia has the feeling that something strange is happening around her. Her fears increase when she finds out that the estate is completely deserted and nobody else lives there. Scared to death by the strangeness of this situation and made wary by the lack of understanding from Samuel and the children, Julia begins to feel that she is the centre of a distressing plot..
Subjects:	Feature films. Spain
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Title:	Avant garde and experimental films : Perro andaluz / Un chien andalou / An Andalusion dog :
Director:	Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali
Format:	1 videocassette (74 min.) ; sd., b&w ; 1/2 in.
Imprint:	[Sandy Hook, Conn.] : Video Yesteryear, 2000.
Language:	Silent with musical accompaniment.
Notes:	Besides Un chien Andalou, this video includes another four short films selected from the avant garde movement of the 1920's and 1930's.
Plot:	Un chien Andalou is a silent film with musical accompaniment.
Subjects:	Feature Films. Documentary films. Silent films. Short films. Spain. Surrealism in motion pictures..
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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:	Las Aventuras de Juan Quin Quin / The adventures of Juan Quin Quin
Director:	Julio Garcia Espinosa
Format:	1 videodisc (104 min.) : sd. b&w ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 1)
Imprint:	New York : First Run Features ; Northampton, Mass. : Icestorm, 2006 [Cuban masterworks collection]
Language:	Spanish with optional English subtitles.
Notes:	Based on a novel by Samuel Fejóo./ Originally released as a motion picture in 1967. El Institutio Cubano del Arte e Industria Cinematográficos presenta : guión de Julio Garcia Espinosa ; productor, Humberto Hernandez ; direccion, Julio Garcia Espinosa. Directory of photography, Jorge Haydu ; editor, Carlos Menendez ; music, Leo Brouwer. Participants: Julio Martinez, Erdwin Fernández, Adelaida Raymat, Enrique Santiesteban. Special features: Por primera vez" (The first time), a documentary by Octavio Cortazar about Cubans experiencing the medium of film for the first time; photo gallery; Julio Garcia Espinosa biography and filmography Note: "To find the Five beautifully restored classic films from revolutionary Cuba search this catalog for "Cuban masterworks collection" in Kwyword.
Plot:	Juan Quin Quin, a poor but shrewd farmer, lives on his wits in pre-revolutionary Cuba as a circus performer, bull-fighter, coffee planter, even playing the part of Christ in a traveling theatre company. Then he joins the Revolution.
Subjects:	Feature films. Cuba
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Title:	Ay, Carmela!
Director:	Carlos Saura.
Format:	1 videocassette (100 min.) ; sd., col. ; 1/2 in. VHS format
Imprint:	Madrid : RCA Columbia Pictures International Video, c1990.
Language:	Spanish.
Notes:	Based on the play by Jose Sanchis Sinisterra. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1990. Iberoamericana Film Internacional, S.A., Ellepi Films, Roma, presenta en asociacion con Television Española una produccion de Andres Vincente Gomez ; guion de Rafael Azcona y Carlos Saura ; direccion de Carlos Saura.Director of photography, Jose Luis Alcaine ; editor, Pedro G. del Amo ; music, Alejandro Masso. Cast: Carmen Maura, Andres Pajares.
Plot:	Set in Spain in 1938 during the civil war, the story concerns a group of traveling entertainers caught between two warring factions. They are arrested by Franco-s troops and about to die when they-re saved by an officer who loves the theater and wants them to put on a show for his troops.
Subjects:	Feature films. Spain. Literary adaptation.
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Title:	Ayer Amargo.
Director:	Amilcar Tirado.
Format:	1 videocassette (110 min.) ; sd., col. ; 1/2 in. VHS format.
Imprint:	San Juan, Puerto Rico : Distributor, Ateneo Puertorriqueño, c2000.
Language:	Spanish
Notes:	Mitchell Productions, Inc ; written and produced by Jeronimo Mitchell Meléndez ; directed by Amilcar Tirado. Colección cine nuestro Videocassette release of the 1959 motion picture production. Credits Editor, Amilcar Tirado ; Photography, Agustin Martínez Solares. Performer Marta Romero, Arturo Correa, Roberto Rivera Negrón.
Plot:	Follows the life of a loving couple that is childless. Doubts about the doctor-s determination that it is Juana who is infertile are dispelled by the illegitimate son her husband Manolo fathered with a prostitute. He hopes to raise him as their mutual son, but the boy-s arrival marks a profound change in the couple-s life, as Juana struggles with her relationship with the child and her husband.
Subjects:	Feature films. Puerto Rico.
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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:	Azucar amarga / Bitter sugar
Director:	Leon Ichaso
Format:	1 videodisc (102 min.) : sd. (stereo.), b&w ; 4 3/4 in. (Region 1)
Imprint:	New York : New Yorker Video, 2001
Language:	Spanish with optional English subtitles.
Notes:	Originally released as a motion picture in 1996. Azucar Films presents a film by Leon Ichaso ; produced by Jaime Piña, Leon Ichaso ; story by Pelayo García, Leon Ichaso ; screenplay by Leon Ichaso, Orestes Matacena ; directed by Leon Ichaso. Director of photography, Claudio Chea ; edited by Yvette Pineyro ; story by Pelayo Garcá, Leon Ichaso ; music, Manuel Tejada. Special features: original theatrical trailer, cast and director profiles, scene selections. " First Look Pictures, Overseas Film Group."--Container. Participants: René Lavan, Mayte Vilan, Miguel Gutierrez, Larry Villanueva.
Plot:	An idealistic young Cuban Communist sours on the political conditions in his country and is willing to let his girlfriend and family go to take action.    Un hombre cubano joven idealista llega a un acuerdo con sus pasiones politica y romanticas en medio de las ruinas de la revolucion cubano.    This visceral, energizing look at contemporary Cuba is an impassioned love story set against the political and economic tensions of Havana. Gustavo, an ideal young Communist with a glorified vision of Castro's regime, falls in love with Yolanda, a disenchanted dancer who longs to escape to Miami. Despite their radically opposed beliefs, the young couple is inseparable. The city begins to erupt around Gustavo when his rebellious musician brother injects himself with the AIDS virus in suicidal protest, and his father realizes that he will earn more money as a hotel bar pianist than as a doctor.
Subjects:	Feature films. Cuba. Socialism and youth
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Title:	Azuloscurocasinegro
Director:	Daniel Sánchez Arévalo
Format:	1 videodisc (105 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD
Imprint:	United States] : Strand Releasing, 2007
Language:	Spanish, with English subtitles.
Notes:	DVD release of the 2006 motion picture. Strand Releasing ; Tesela PC, S.R.L., et al. ; produced by José Antonio Félez ; written and directed by Daniel Sánchez Arévalo. Pascal Gaigne, music ; Nacho Ruiz Capillas, editor ; Juan Carlos Gómez, director of photography. Participants: Quim Gutiérrez, Marta Etura, Antonio de la Torre, Héctor Colomé, Raúl Arévalo, Eva Pallarés. Audience: Unrated; This film contains mature subject matter.
Plot:	When his father suffers a debilitating stroke, Jorge is forced to put his life and career on hold. He takes over his father's janitorial position, cares for his father and studies at night. He finds himself in an awkward position when his convict brother asks him to impregnate his girlfriend who wants a baby, and Jorge finds himself falling for her. To further complicate matters, Jorge's childhood love returns to his life wanting the same.
Subjects:	Feature films. Spain
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