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City of God from Miramax Films Price: $20.99 Customer Review:  More than a regular movie, "Cidade de Deus" is an experiment in filmmaking. With only one or two exceptions, all the actors were residents of the Rio de Janeiro neighborhood of the same name of the movie. They were all exhaustingly auditioned and trained to participate on the movie with the best and... |
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Amores Perros from Studio Home Entertainment Price: $11.24 Customer Review:  I've recently gone on a foreign language film binge, and this one settles with the cream, near the very top. Plot wise, there are three stories that interconnect on the basis of a big car accident, and each revolves around dogs and their owners. The first piece is about a guy who lusts after his... |
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I Am Cuba from Image Entertainment Price: $26.99 Customer Review: The film examines the ways the American-backed regime under Bautista affected individual Cubans. The oppressors here are the United Fruit Company, the men of the US Navy, American backed industrialists and military strongmen. The victims are tenant farmer families, poor women and men, as well as... |
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Cantinflas 4-Pack from Columbia Tristar Hom Price: $63.86 Customer Review: If you love Cantinflas like me or just have some young kids who love great cartoons (I'm 22 and still love them) you'll be excited to know that "The Cantinflas Show" educational cartoon show in which Cantinflas travels the world, meets famous artists and inventors, etc. It's a fanatstic series and... |
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Fitzcarraldo from Anchor Bay Entertainment Price: $31.48 Customer Review: This film is an amazing example of the power of lunacy. The story is slow, and may turn many viewers off, but if you don't mind allowing a plot to slowly meander it's way around the point, the end result is spectacular, and it's visual strength will astound you. The shot of Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald... |
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Black Orpheus - Criterion Collection from Criterion Collection Price: $23.96 Customer Review: tragic love triangle story of simple,passionate people in modern day Rio De Janeiro. You will be deeply affected by the plot,unfolding during carnival time,filmed on location.Artfully blending romance and reality,while allowing the viewer to set aside the appalling poverty of Rio's favellas. The... |
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O Fantasma from PICTURE THIS HOME VIDEO Price: $23.96 Customer Review: In 2000, Jo?o Pedro Rodrigues directed and co-wrote a dark and unusual film entitled "O Fantasma" ("Phantom" in English). The film's protagonist is a young man named S?rgio (Ricardo Meneses), who works as a garbage collector in Lisbon, Portugal usually during the predawn hours.... |
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Carandiru from Columbia Tristar Hom Price: $23.96 Customer Review: This movie has outstanding visual style and tells a story with humor and color. Most films I see about jail are dark and gritty. This was fun at some parts and helped the viewer develop a connection with its inmates, because of their humaness, not from emotional manipulation. It is a true story... |
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Foreign Land from Fox Lorber Price: $13.48 Customer Review: FOREIGN LAND / Brazil-Portugal 1995 13 December 2003 The best part of this film is how much it surprises. It's a B&W film from Brazil and deflates expectation as it starts out almost like a student film - slow, awkward and seemingly uninteresting, with so much of gritty grain that it is... |
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Guantanamera from New Yorker Films Price: $26.96 Customer Review: I visited Cuba in December '98 and was so impressed with the Cuban people and their ingenuity. This movie is a comedy that depicts everyday life for Cubans and their struggles with the overly-bureaucratic, centrally-planned economy. Its a story about a funeral procession of sorts that begins in... |
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Strawberry & Chocolate from Buena Vista Home Vid Price: $17.99 Customer Review: As, I'm assuming, the only Cuban-American to review this film online, I feel especially proud that my country was able to produce such an eloquent, intelligent and all around outstanding film. Many people unacquainted with our customs couldn't possibly begin to relish the cultural nuances that... |
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Aguirre, the Wrath of God from Anchor Bay Entertainment Price: $26.98 Customer Review: Oh boy oh boy! I just read that this film, Aguirre: the Wrath of God, is coming to DVD. I can't wait! This is probably Herzog's greatest film and a classic of recent German cinema. For those unfamiliar with Herzog's work, he also directed "Fitzcarraldo" and "Nosferatu" (a modern retelling of the... |
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En la Puta Vida (Tricky Life) from Venevision Intl Price: $17.96 |
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Dust to Dust (Por la Libre) from Fox Home Entertainme Price: $13.48 Customer Review: this movie is really good. it is about a road trip taken by two fighting cousins whom are on a journey to fufill a wish left by their deceast grandfather in his will. they encounter obstacles on the way and discover a secret the granfather had been hiding all his life. osvaldo benavides (rocco)... |
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Camila from Facets Video Price: $26.96 Customer Review: Simply the Great sensual filmaking ever done. Love and sexuality are the hardest to convey to a general audience, and this movie conveys it beyond perfection. |
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Lo Mejor Del Chavo 8 Video 1 from Xenon Entertainment Price: $14.98 Customer Review: El Chavo Del Ocho volume 1 is so cool! It brings back memories of my youth in Chihuahua Mexico. Too bad Mexico dont have these types of programs any more.If you have any small children at home they will love el chavo!this dvd lasts aprox 2 hours and it has lots of material from the earliest episodes... |
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Son of the Bride from Columbia Tristar Hom Price: $26.96 Customer Review: What a wonderful film! Rafael, stressed and overworked, is rapidly screwing up all the important relationships in his life. He's already divorced, is about to lose his lovely girlfriend, nearly stands up his about-10yo daughter, and doesn't understand why his charming father would want a church... |
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Bus 174 from Hart Sharp Video Llc Price: $22.49 |
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Bitter Sugar from New Yorker Films Price: $17.96 Customer Review:  1. This is a good (not great movie) 2. To enjoy without bias, ignore the reviews (rhetoric) of ignorant Americans who have never been to Cuba and the "reviews" or better said - EXTREME bias of the ultra-rightist Cuban exiles who wish it was still 1958 when they prostituted themselves and the... |
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Todo el poder from Fox Home Entertainme Price: $13.48 Customer Review: This is an amazing movie. It shows how life can be hard in Mexico city and how the diverse characters deal with it. As always, Demian Bichir has managed to show everyone what a great actor he is! |
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Without a Trace (Sin Dejar Huella) from Fox Home Entertainme Price: $13.48 Customer Review: "Without a Trace" from Mexican director, Maria Navaro, is a road trip film, but the difference here is that the story centres (as one would expect with Navaro) on women. Ana/Marilu (Aitana Sanchez-Gijon) is intelligent, educated and has some nefarious doings with fake Mayan art. A border patrol... |
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Santo: The Monsters Box Set 1 from Ventura Distribution Price: $40.49 Customer Review: Being from Puerto Rico, I was exposed to wrestling all my life, from these mexican wrestlers to the WWF/WCW wrestlers and also to the local wrestling federations (owned by Vince McMahon). Anyway, because of my exposure to wrestling, these films have a great place in my heart. The pure cheesiness of... |
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Central Station from Columbia/Tristar Studios Price: $25.16 Customer Review: Central Station was definitely the best brazilian movie I have ever seen in my life. It seems to me that part of the jury who decided which film should win the best foreign film oscar the year it was nominated for the award, didn't really understand that the movie was related to a very... |
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La Violetera/El Ultimo Cuple from C.A.V. Distribution Price: $9.86 Customer Review: These two films starring Sarita Montiel were the two most successful Spanish films ever. In the years 1957 and 1958 each played for over a year in one theater in Madrid before general distribution. The music is great but the recorded sound on this DVD is marginal. The video quality is not too good.... |
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Aventurera from Facets Video Price: $26.96 Customer Review: Just released today on DVD by Facets Video so I ran straight down to rent it. Unabashedly campy, Aventurera pays definite homage to the Hays-Code American film noir style of the 1940s, while still maintaining the very Mexican form of the cabaretera drama. According to the DVD special feature... |
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