Etiqueta: Discrimination
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The Nazi Code (El código nazi)
Mexico's false neutrality in World War II. Mexico, 1940´s. Lorenzo Blanquet is a spy and right-hand man of Secretary of Defense Lázaro Cárdenas. He accepts the assignment given to him by a Jewish refugee, which is to kill the man who ratted him out to Hitler's regime, a German in charge of murdering thousands…
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Teresa Lanza’s Mysterious Disappearance (El oscuro adiós de Teresa Lanza)
They are all lying. Only one is the real culprit. On a typical winter Friday in an idyllic upper-class residential neighborhood, Lourdes Ros, the editor of a prestigious book publishing house, invites her four best friends to dinner. Five successful and professionally recognized women. But the meeting will not be as pleasant as they…
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The Ones in Saint Patrick’s Batallion (Los del San Patricio)
The story of the men whose morality made them move to the opponent side. The real story of John Riley and his colleagues, the irishmen who fought in 1846 within the side of the Americans during the Mexican-American War. They, who had escaped from hunger and the oppression in Ireland, could not remain submissive in…
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Desert Blood (Sangre en el desierto)
There are dead girls who do not make any noise… Ivon Villa is a lesbian professor living in Los Angeles who returns home to El Paso to adopt a baby boy from Cecilia, a Mexican maquiladora living across the border in Juarez. Cecilia is found dead in the desert, with the baby disemboweled, a victim of…
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A Fighting Chance
A true to life story of the hardships faced by young people from poverty-stricken neighborhoods. 17-year-old Mexican-American Miguel Angel trains every day after school at the Packing Shed. He dreams of becoming a worldwide-known boxing champion so he can get his family out of poverty. However, the city is threatening to take the Packing Shed…
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Cayetana’s daughter (La hija de Cayetana) (Film)
The black duchess that nobody knew about. A surprising and forgotten episode starring one of the most celebrated women of Spanish history: Cayetana de Alba, the unforgettable muse of Goya. Eccentric, capricious and free, for more than two hundred years her power has remained immutable. However, few know that the duchess adopted a black…
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Operations (Maniobras)
Operations is a story about the excess in power and gender violence, based in real events: tough, strong and exciting. The story deals with the army’s abuse of power. The female soldier who is harasses, Belén, will fight next to her boyfriend, David, to get over this reality: she will speak up in search of…
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Father Cigarette (El padre pitillo)
Don Froilán is a priest in a small village, in which he is known as “Father Cigarette”, as he always has a lit cigarette in his mouth. Given his good-natured disposition, he sees himself one day taking in a deviant girl called Rosita, kicked from her house by his step-father Aniceto after losing her honor…
