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42) Cocoon
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
Español
Description
A group of senior citizens are given a second chance at being young when the Antareans arrive from another planet. They must face the crucial decision about life and death for themselves and those they love.
Pub. Date
2010
Language
Español
Description
Recently retired criminal court investigator Benjamin, decides to write a novel based on an unresolved rape and murder case, which still haunts him. Ben shares his plans with Irene, a judge and former colleague he has secretly been in love with for years. But Benjamin's search for the truth puts him at the center of a judicial nightmare, as the mystery of the heinous crime continues to unfold in the present, and tests the limits of a man who seeks...
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
Español
Description
In 1952, twenty-three year old medical student Ernesto Guevara de la Serna (later better known as Ernesto Che Guevara) just one semester away from graduation, decides to postpone his last semester to accompany his twenty-nine year old biochemist friend Alberto Granado on his four month, 8,000 km long dream motorcycle trip throughout South America starting from their home in Buenos Aires. Their quest is to see things they've only read about in books...
46) Biutiful
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
Español
Description
Uxbal is a man on the wrong side of the law who struggles to provide for his children on the dangerous streets of Barcelona. As fate encircles him, Uxbal learns to accept the realities of life, whether bright, bad, or biutiful.
47) Ardor
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Español
Description
When a gang of ruthless bandits set fire to a remote family farm and kidnap the farm-owner's daughter Vania, help arrives in the form of Kai a mysterious man who emerges from the rain forest. With the grace of a jaguar, Kai rescues Vania and plunges into a lethal game of cat-and-mouse with the gangsters. With the hornet's nest now stirred Kai and Vania must decide how far they will go to preserve the farm and their vanishing way of life.
48) Innocent voices
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
Español
Description
In war torn 1980's El Salvador, Chava, an eleven-year-old boy, suddenly becomes the 'man of the house' in a time when the government's army is forcibly recruiting children for civil war. As his single mother fights to protect her children, their village becomes both playground and battlefield. This is about life, love, the hope of peace, and the ennobling power of the human spirit. Based on the true story of screenwriter Oscar Torres's embattled childhood....
50) Volver: Return
Publisher
Sony Pictures Classics
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
Español
Description
The central focus in Volver is a family of women: mother and grandmother Irene, her daughters Raimunda and Sole, and Raimunda's 14-year-old daughter Paula. Irene is dead: She died with the girls' father in a fire many years ago in their birth village in La Mancha. Raimunda lives in Madrid with Paula and her shiftless husband, who is malevolent, irrelevant, or absent. Separated Sole runs an unlicensed beauty parlor in her apartment. Their old aunt,...
Publisher
Vanguard Cinema
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
Español
Description
Filmed over the course of ten days, this follows four men into the world of illegal border-crossing from Mexico to the United States. Guapo, Oso, Tigre, Viejo take the 120 mile cross-desert journey that has been traveled innumerable times by nameless immigrants who - like these four from Michoacan, Mexico - all had a simple dream for a better life. Fighting dehydration and exhaustion while evading the U.S. Border Patrol through sub-zero temperature...
53) Official story
Publisher
KOCH Vision
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
Español
Description
An Argentine teacher believes her adopted daughter's parents may have been murdered political prisoners and begins a quest to learn the truth.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 15
Language
Español
Description
Una prosa exquisita y una narracion maravillosa han ayudado a hacer de Rudolfo Anaya uno de los mas importantes autores de la literatura hispana. En efecto, los cuentos de Anaya realmente relucen con una riqueza y una belleza obsesionante. Ganador del PEN Center West Award for Fiction para su novela inolvidable, Alburquerque, Anaya es tal vez mas amado por su bestseller clasico, Bendiceme, Ultima . Antonio Marez tiene seis anos cuando Ultima viene...
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
[2000?]
Language
Español
Description
Romantic fantasy set in Mexico during the early 20th century. A young couple is blocked from marrying by the demands of the young woman's cold and selfish mother. To be near his love, the young man marries her sister, and she expresses her passion for him through her cooking.
57) Sugar
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
Español
Description
Miguel 'Sugar' Santos is a talented Dominican baseball player who longs to break into the American big league and earn the money needed to support his impoverished family. He is a talented pitcher who might just have what it takes to earn a prized spot on a Major League Baseball team. Before that happens he'll have to prove his worth in the minor leagues. Advancing in baseball's minor league system at the tender age of 19, Miguel is warmly welcomed...
58) Carmen
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
Español
Description
During a trip to Spain, French writer Prosper Mérimée witnesses a fascinating story. Carmen has the nature of a free and enigmatic person. Her beauty inspires his characters and passion. Sergeant Jose becomes a victim and hero of extraordinary events, and has a turbulent love affair with Carmen. With each new lover Carmen takes, Jose becomes more jealous and steps toward a life of crime. After killing the latest lover, he tries to get away and start...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
Ryland Grace es el único superviviente en una misión desesperada. Es la última oportunidad y, si fracasa, la humanidad y la Tierra misma perecerán. Claro que, de momento, él no lo sabe. Ni siquiera puede recordar su propio nombre, y mucho menos la naturaleza de su misión o cómo llevarla a cabo. Lo único que sabe es que ha estado en coma inducido durante mucho mucho tiempo. Acaba de despertar y se encuentra a millones de kilómetros de su hogar,...
Author
Series
Language
Español
Description
"Durante unas placenteras vacaciones en Egipto, el detective Hércules Poirot coincide con Linnet y Simon, unos conocidos suyos que están de luna de miel en el país de los faraones. El encanto de tan maravillosos días se rompe cuando una mañana, en el transcurso de un crucero por el Nilo, la bella Linnet aparece muerta de un disparo en la cabeza. ¿Será capaz Poirot de encontrar al asesino de la joven esposa? ¿Será capaz de discernir entre...