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- Cassandra Webb is a New York metropolis paramedic who begins to demonstrate signs of clairvoyance. Forced to challenge revelations about her past, she needs to safeguard three young women from a deadly adversary who wants them destroyed.
- As the Mayan kingdom faces its decline, a young man is taken on a perilous journey to a world ruled by fear and oppression.
- A cryptic message from James Bond's past sends him on a trail to uncover the existence of a sinister organisation named SPECTRE. With a new threat dawning, Bond learns the terrible truth about the author of all his pain in his most recent missions.
- A team of commandos on a mission in a Central American jungle find themselves hunted by an extraterrestrial warrior.
- Rambo returns to the jungles of Vietnam on a mission to infiltrate an enemy base-camp and rescue the American POWs still held captive there.
- The young warrior Son Goku sets out on a quest, racing against time and the vengeful King Piccolo, to collect a set of seven magical orbs that will grant their wielder unlimited power.
- In the beautiful and dangerous Amazon rainforest, dissimilar people must make their choices between business, science, and love.
- Three journalists in a romantic triangle are involved in political intrigue during the last days of the corrupt Somoza regime in Nicaragua before it falls to a popular revolution in 1979.
- After their family is killed in a government massacre, siblings Enrique and Rosa flee Guatemala and embark on a perilous journey to "El Norte": the United States.
- Three groups of adventurers all vying to find treasure in the jungle clash against each other, the merciless natives, and the dangerous wildlife.
- An original story by renowned novela dame Delia Fiallo. Ana Paula fights to set herself free from her powerful, short-tempered husband Rogelio, whom she met while working at the Hacienda del Fuerte. She finally decides to quit and meets Gustavo, a handsome young engineer who rescues her from an accident. They fall in love, but a cruel twist of fate soon tears them apart.
- Daniel Northcott began documenting his surroundings at 7 when he got his dad's video camera. He filmed his family and friends growing up then traveled, capturing meaningful moments with new people and places.
- In 1985, a group of criminals mock the security of the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City to extract 140 pre-Hispanic pieces from their showcases.
- The true story of five young British freestyle footballers' journey across the Americas to Argentina in the hope of meeting their hero, Diego Maradona.
- Cristina is a wealthy woman who loses her sight and is forced to give up her daughter. She is married to Federico Rivero.
- At the Mexican-Guatemalan border, young teenage lovers Sabina and Jovany, both Hondurans, accidentally meet again after some years apart. She plans to get to the United States and dreams about being a great singer; he commits all the required atrocities to be accepted by the gang La Mara Salvatrucha. Sabina and Jovany clash with the most adverse conditions at the border, including white slavery, Mexican and American migratory agents Burrona and Patrick, brothel matron Doña Lita, Don Nico the Mexican Consul in Tecún Umán, the drug-trafficking networks, the army, and La Mara Salvatrucha.
- An unworldly, closed-minded American travels to a small village in exotic Chiapas, Mexico at his estranged mother's behest when his half-sister disappears during a local epidemic of kidnapping attributed to the legendary J-ok'el, the weeping woman who drowned her own babies centuries ago and whose spirit has returned to claim more children for her own.
- Lucrecia and Julian are children when a tragedy happens in Lucrecia's family: her younger brother drowns in river near their home.
- When the U.S. forces withdraw from Java, ahead of the Japanese invasion, U.S. Navy doctor Corydon M. Wassell coordinates the remaining wounded servicemen and leads them to safety towards the last Allied evacuation points.
- At the beginning of this century some owners of rubber plantations in the Amazonas jungle convert a village into one big prison. But the inhabitants have other plans...
- Adventurer Shark comes to a small village near a diamond-miners' camp, and local police arrest him, accusing him of having committed a bank robbery in a neighboring town. The police also confiscate the diamond mine for the state, which incites the miners to revolt, but they're defeated. Shark, Father Lizzardi, Castin, his daughter, and Djin, a whore Castin loves, flee into the jungle and fight for their lives.
- Rowdy Roddy Piper and Sonny Chiba battle an army of immortal ninja warriors.
- Unique story of a village's attempts to solve drought by appealing to the powers of a mysterious mountain-dwelling diviner.
- The story of a love that struggles with a past destiny.
- An 18-minute helicopter-based aerial visit across the archaeological ruins in Mexico.
- After living in poverty, Rafaela decides to become a doctor and work at a hospital to carry on. She didn't imagine that at the hospital she would find her true love and the envy of people who never liked her.
- Beneath the emerald coast of southern Mexico, where sunlight bathes the coastal compound in a warm embrace, a family grapples with the void left by their departed patriarch.
- An intimate and discerning depiction of the impact of migration on families and villages left behind by loved ones who have traveled North for work.
- Jan. 1 1994: The Day the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) went in effect. A few minutes after midnight in Southeastern Mexico, several thousand Indian soldiers take over half the state of Chiapas, declaring a war against global corporate power and for humanity. They call themselves the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN). Zapatista is the definitive look at the uprising in Chiapas. it is the story of the Mayan peasant uprising, armed with sticks and their word against a first world military. It is the story of a global movement that has fought 175,000 federal troops to a standstill and transformed Mexican culture and international political cultural forever. Transcribed from back of VHS box.
- The complex and beautiful hieroglyphic script of the ancient Maya was until recently one of the last great untranslated writing systems. Based on the best-selling book by Michael Coe, called by the New York Times "one of the great stories of 20th century scientific discovery", Breaking the Maya Code traces the epic quest to unlock the secrets of the script across 200 years, nine countries and three continents.
- A group of semi-slave laborers rebel against the appalling work conditions in a logging camp deep in the Mexican jungle.
- This story is about gender violence, discrimination, and crime. The danger a woman faces when in the migrant caravans through Mexico. An immigrant story through the eyes of an autistic little girl.
- Mateo and Ruth planned a trip across Chiapas that never took place. In the hope of getting her back, Mateo follows that same route, guided by the poems of Jaime Sabines, which are the common thread of their love story.
- Esperanza and Marcos are two persons who believe in destiny and true love. Their paths, once separated, become one through the power of coincidences.
- Lola and her boyfriend, the police officer Jorge, are on the run from their archenemy El Maestro.
- In this sequel to THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE, John Huston portrays a tequila-swigging crocodile hunter who heads into the jungles of Mexico. He has been warned that only native Indians can survive there...
- Julieta is a young child psychologist hired by millionaire Eugenio Ruvalcaba, to work with his only daughter, Sylvia, who has severe emotional problems, while staying in their isolated island mansion. Once there, she finds out there's much more to Sylvia's imaginary friend than what everybody knows... and the results can be horrifying...
- A deadly outbreak affects the south of the country, so the police and and health authorities sends three young doctors to vaccinate people across the region and teach preventive health measures. When they reach a village called Aquazul, the population is mysteriously apprehensive and even the town doctor warns them not to try to vaccinate the inhabitants, but the doctors insist. Thus begins a series of strange events--extraordinary phenomena outside reality, all related to a famous "boy" who confronts his rigid scientific arguments against the possibilities of faith.
- Mexican and Latin-American classic. Four independent stories based on writer Francisco Rojas Gonzáles's work, depicting the reality of Mexican indian people: Las Vacas, Nuestra Señora, El Tuerto and La Potranca. In El Tuerto, crosseyed boy is made fun of by his mates. His religious mother asks God to make the boy's eyes equal. The outcome is tragic.
- A young filmmaker travels to Chiapas to film natives of Lacandona Jungle. In spite of being financed by the censorious Mexican Government, he expects that some of the truth about the living conditions of poor native people come to surface.
- Lola becomes involved in a chase to death as she becomes the target of an arms dealer and must fight him.
- Chano is a kid from a remote indigenous community in the mountains of México, he has the responsibility to walk for hours to take to the Sunday street market the idols of the "Tecuanes" that are handcrafted by Cenobio, his grandfather. The old sick man Cenobio shared with Chano the legend and the ancestral tradition of the Tecuanes "Cuilli and Macuilli". Days later Chano sells the idols to a couple of tourists and by using the argument that the legend is interesting, the tourists suggest Chano to go to sell the idols to the city making him believe that he will improve his life conditions. Chano convinces Cenobio to go to the city leaving behind his mother and brother. In the meantime the idols and their story are given, stolen and used by different owners to achieve their purposes, ambitions and needs. Chano and Cenobio arrive to the city with great ingenuity, ignored by the inhabitants of the large city. They establish in the outskirts areas, working as labourers and loaders at the street market of Tepito The idols and legend change from different owners until they are registered by an important foreign film director that usurped the Legend of "Cuilli and Macuilli" Months later he takes the legend to theaters, getting a great acceptance and commercial success. When the director and his girlfriend are leaving the film festival they bump into a couple of beggars, Chano offers him the idols of "Cuilli and Macuilli" to the couple. During the development of the story, the legend of "Cuilli and Macuilli" is told by different characters that have the idols in their power, with the personal vision of each one. On this journey many rites and traditions from Guerrero are recreated. Such as the "Fight of the Tiger" in Chilpancingo, The Tigrada in Chilapa, The Rain Request in Zitlala and the processions of the Holy week in Taxco.
- Two men seek help for their dying child in Mexico City.
- 'Mom' is a dialogue between a mother and a son in order to discover what is behind the veneration and violence surrounding the mother figure.
- Set in 1934 and meant to dramatize social injustices, this melodrama examines an official's attempt at land reform. The landowners are against any reform and are also not interested in ending the exploitation of their workers. On the opposite side of the fence, the Native Americans have almost no way to better their living conditions or fight oppression. They are also plagued by "superstition," which leads to misguided actions that only make things worse. Violence and sexual encounters are interspersed throughout the story.
- An American couple travels to Chiapas, Mexico where they have a life changing encounter with a shape-shifting witch.
- Deep within the jungles of Mexico and Guatemala, and extending into the Yucatán Peninsula lie the fabled pyramids,temples and palaces of the Maya. This short film explores what happened to the ancient people and places
- Amidst the hostile beauty of the jungle surges the love story of how coffee first made its way to Chiapas in 1800s.
- A Tsotsil Maya massacre survivor becomes a spokesperson for her people amid a Mexican indigenous movement led by women.