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3) Cantinflas
Publisher
Pantelion Televisa / Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
From his humble origins on the small stage to the bright lights of Hollywood, the comedian Cantinflas became famous around the world, one joke at a time.
Publisher
Distributed by Facets Video
Pub. Date
[2007], c1997
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (91 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
A look at the lives and thoughts of some young people in Havana in the 1990's as seen through the making of a film, The story of Yuliet Ortega & Fabiola Quiroz, as filmed by Carlos Marcovich. Cinematographer Carlos Marcovich first met Yuliet Ortega, a young prostitute from Havana, when he shot a music video starring model Fabiola Quiroz. When he realized that the two women had not seen their respective fathers for many years, he made this documentary...
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Language
Español
Formats
Description
Through parallel story threads set 40 years apart, this absorbing odyssey follows two Western scientists who travel deep into the Amazon jungle looking for a rare plant that possesses healing powers, with enigmatic shaman Karamakate as their guide. Nominated to for Best Foreign Language Feature at the 2016 **Academy Awards**, Best International Film at the **Film Independent Spirit Awards**, and winner of the **Sundance Film Festival**'s Alfred P....
Publisher
Zima Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
The unpublished material of this film, as well as the interviews with Chavela herself, her contemporaries, colleagues, and former partners, have resulted in an affectionate portrait of a charismatic and exceptional artist. She won a name for herself first in Mexico and later throughout the world for her performance of traditional rancheras.
Publisher
Women Make Movies
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (82 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
Academy Award nominated filmmaker Lourdes Portillo mines the complicated intersections of analysis and autobiography, evidence and hypothesis, even melodrama and police procedure in this documentary. Early one Sunday morning, the filmmaker receives a phone call informing her that her beloved Uncle Oscar Ruiz Almeida has been found dead of a gunshot wound to the head in Chihuahua, Mexico. His widow declares his death a suicide. Most of his family,...
8) Sea inside
Pub. Date
2017
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (126 min.) : sound, color ; 12 cm
Language
Español
Description
Based on a true story, Ramón Sampedro wants to end his life because a diving accident 28 years before that turned him into a quadriplegic. For most of those years he made the most of it: writing, developing a close relationships with his family, who all help to care for him. While grateful to his family and friends for their help, Ramón was always an active person. He has come to see his life as frustrating and pointless and wishes to die with what...
9) Neruda
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
An inspector hunts down Nobel Prize-winning Chilean poet, Pablo Neruda, who becomes a fugitive in his home country in the late 1940s for joining the Communist Party.
Publisher
Videomax
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (137 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
After the Cuban Revolution, Ernesto 'Che' Guevara is at the height of his fame and power. Then he disappears, re-emerging incognito in Bolivia, where he organizes a small group of Cuban comrades and Bolivian recruits to start the great Latin American Revolution. The story of the Bolivian campaign is a tale of tenacity, sacrifice, idealism, and guerrilla warfare that ultimately fails, bringing Che to his death.
Publisher
EPF Media
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (86 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
Profiles Bartolome, an elementary school teacher in the Mexicos Chiapas, Mexico, who becomes an inspiration to his students because of his humanistic approach to education based on curiosity and the love of nature.
Series
Publisher
Cohen Media Group
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (136 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
Narra de manera íntima la historia de un hombre bueno, el médico colombiano Héctor Abad Gómez, carismático líder social y hombre de familia, un destacado médico y activista por los derechos humanos en el Medellín polarizado y violento de los años 70. La trama relata la vida del doctor y padre de familia, preocupado tanto por sus hijos como por los niños de clases menos favorecidas. En su casa se respiraba la vitalidad y la creatividad características...
13) The Doors
Publisher
Zima Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017?]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (140 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
The story of the famous and influential 1960s rock band The Doors and its lead singer and composer, Jim Morrison, from his days as a UCLA film student in Los Angeles to his untimely death in Paris, France at age 27 in 1971.
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