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1) Yo
Publisher
FiGa Films
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (80 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Español
Description
Winner of Best Film at the Morelia International Film Festival, "Yo" is based on a short story by Nobel laureate J.M.G. Le Clezio. "My name is Yo, I'm 15 years old, or that's what they tell me," explains the protagonist (Raul Silva) early on. A strong young man with limited mental skills, he says he is fifteen years old, although he seems to be older. He lives and works in his mother's restaurant by a busy freeway. Yo loves his mother but hates her...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
Middle-aged Magdalena has lost contact with her son after he took off with a friend from their town of Guanajuato to cross the border into the U.S., hopeful to find work. Desperate to find out what happened to him, and to know whether or not he's even alive, she embarks on an ever-expanding and increasingly dangerous journey to discover the truth. At the same time, a young man named Miguel has returned to Mexico after being deported from the U.S.,...
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
A stranger in a strange land, Bolivar De La Cruz has just crossed the border from Mexico in search of a better life. In contrast, restless, club-hopping second-generation immigrant Lola has the American Dream at her fingertips but feels like a stranger in her own life, forever caught between appeasing her old-world mother and following her heart. On the surface, despite their shared ethnic heritage, Bolivar and Lola have little in common. But when...
4) Bal?n Can?n
Publisher
On Screen Films
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
Chiapas, 1935. El presidente C?ardenas se encuentra entregando a los pobladores las tierras que los hacendados del lugar vend?en- despues de una persuasi?on muy conveniente- al gobierno. Una de las tierras, propiedad ca?nera de renombre, pertenece a Zoraida, qui?en se niega a deshacerse de sus tierras para poder entregarle todo a su ?unico hijo var?on, Ernesto.
5) Grey eyes
Publisher
Bayview Films
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
In a post-apocalyptic future, mankind is color blind. A brilliant scientist suddenly dies, leaving his precious briefcase, filled with a highly-addictive synthetic drug that allows people to see colors again, to Ana, a mere twelve-year-old girl. Possession of the briefcase makes her the target of a doctor with wicked plans for the drug, and her only hope to escape his pursuit relies on the aid of the dead scientist₂s two devoted bodyguards. Together,...
Series
Publisher
Kit Parker Films
Pub. Date
2002.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (159 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
Mexico's greatest super hero, the silver masked wrestler known as "El Santo," meets his foe, Argos, the Martian leader. With his "astral eye" Argos plans to destroy planet Earth unless he is obeyed. Meantime, Argos' alluring assistants, Aphrodite and Selene, are creating havoc in the city. Will Santo fall captive to their seductive powers? Can our hero, El Santo, locate the alien spacecraft, free the humans and save planet Earth?
Publisher
DistriMax
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (114 min.) : sound color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
"Un narcotraficante de poca monta decide usar el mismo mote de uno de los capos más sangrientos de la historia: "El Chochiloco" para incrementar su reputación en las calles. Buscando hacerse famoso decide secuestrar a un afamado periodista experto en narcotráfico. Antes de que las agencias del gobierno de Estados Unidos o la mafia de Columbia a la que ha traicionado lo atrapen decide contarle al periodista todo lo que sabe del narcotráfico;...
Publisher
Dark Sky Films
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
Thirty years ago, Dulce was accused of murdering her husband and two children in their home. Despite her pleas that a malevolent force in the house was responsible, Dulce was sentenced to the maximum penalty of imprisonment. Now, as part of her sentence, Dulce is sent back to the scene of the crime to live under house arrest. She is forced to confront the horrifying memory of what happened there, but this time around she₂s determined to unravel...
9) Chamaco
Publisher
Maya Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
A dad, his son, and a U.S. doctor unite to shape a young Mexican teenager into a new boxing idol and along the way, everyone discovers hidden strengths.
10) Soul man
Publisher
BayView Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
The story of Iris, a ballet dancer who is driven to search for Otis, an old friend she has not seen in ten years. Her investigations lead her to a psychiatric hospital where Otis has been hospitalized during that time. Once there, those responsible for the center warn that Otis has developed a mysterious alternative personality, which they have nevertheless managed to block. Following Otis's release, the medics also inform Iris about Otis's unpredictability....
11) Anastasia
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 videodiscs (approximately 95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
Princess Anastasia has been missing ever since the Russian revolution. Now she's living on the streets, and Vladimir is trying to convince her to claim a reward. This new edition features new extras including Anastasia's Music Box Favorites.
Publisher
Filmax
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (ca. 100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
The film is inspired by the Crying Woman legend (la Llorona) and legends about highway ghosts (very popular in México). While driving one night through the forests near Mexico City, Agata Hameran (Iliana Fox) has a terrible accident on kilometer 31 in which she loses her legs and falls into a coma. After that horrible night, her twin sister Catalina (also Iliana Fox) begins to feel a strong psychic connection with her sister, as Agata seems to be...
Publisher
MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (117 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
Julia, a woman suffering from a degenerative sight disease, finds her twin sister Sara hanged in the basement of her house. Everything points to suicide, but Julia is compelled to investigate what she intuitively feels is a murder case. As Julia begins to uncover clues to the truth of her sister's death, those close to her begin to disappear. Her sight gone and confined to her sister's house, Julia soon finds herself trapped in a nightmare from which...
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (125 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
The film centers on Karamakate, an Amazonian shaman and the last survivor of his people, and the two scientists who, over the course of 40 years, build a friendship with him. The film was inspired by the real-life journals of two explorers (Theodor Koch-Grünberg and Richard Evans Schultes) who traveled through the Colombian Amazon during the last century in search of the sacred and difficult-to-find psychedelic Yakruna plant.
15) Amok
Publisher
On Screen Films
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
Fullscreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 102 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
Una de esas historias que uno desearía, definitivamente, no tener que vivir. Trata la historia de amor del doctor Jorge Martell (Julián Soler), la señora Belmont y la señora Trevis (ambas interpretadas por María Félix), que cuando parecía terminar, Jorge se encuentra a Trevis en un transatlántico, siete años después de su amor en París. Dirigida por Antonio Momplet, el director sensación en ese momento por su recorrido mundial. Una cinta...
16) Cronos
Series
Criterion collection volume 551
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Director approved DVD special ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (92 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (37 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)
Language
Español
Description
In the darkness, a clock ticks. Aging antique dealer Jesús Gris marks his time with his granddaughter Aurora, and his wife Mercedes. Señor Gris comes to possess, quite accidentally, the ancient Cronos device. The invention of a sixteenth century alchemist who fled to Mexico during the Spanish Inquisition, it grants eternal life and youthful vigor to the user. The only drawbacks are marble white skin that burns under sunlight and an insatiable thirst...
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