Etiqueta: Violence
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Thermal Sensation (Sensación térmica) (Film)
Some people fall into the trap with a smile on their faces. Lucía is a young girl who takes advantage of a literature scholarship at CUNY to escape from her native Mexico and her dysfunctional family. Despite the cold, the rats infesting her small East Village apartment, and the consequential insomnia, Lucía can finally have…
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Until You Burn (Escupiré sobre sus tumbas) (TV series)
Some evils can only be corrected with revenge. United States 1940s. Lee Anderson is a Black man who looks white; he has light eyes and blonde hair. He decides to return from Europe and move to a town called Buckton, where his older brother, Tom, has arranged a job for him as a bookstore…
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Tostonazo
The hidden creativity and joy of a provincial city. The protagonist doesn’t have a name, he could be your friend, your cousin or even yourself, but we will call him Tostonazo. He is a young guy who doesn’t have a job and who is barely making a living in the city. Tostonazo does not…
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Love Stories in War Fields (Historias de amor en campos de guerra)
Is love stronger than war? The stories of women who share a common denominator: the same war. Six extraordinary women who, for various reasons, ended up being victims of an armed conflict from which they thought they could never escape, and who, in the midst of this drama, lived intense and memorable love stories.…
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Banana Street
Heroine or assassin? Isabel Tierra Frias is a twenty-five-year-old Mexican woman who learned to survive with her family in the slums and to deal with the impunity of abusers, criminals, and authorities. She is strong, brave, cunning, temperamental and, above all, aware of her reality. Despite this, she has no choice but to flee…
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The Desert and it’s Seed (El desierto y su semilla) (Film)
What does the skin hide? A cab ride to the hospital: Eligia's face is disintegrating from the acid thrown at her by her ex-husband while they were signing the divorce papers. Mario, her 22-year-old son, tries to wipe the acid off Eligia's face, but his own fingers burn. What follows is a failed attempt…
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The School of the Americas (La escuela de las Américas) (TV Series)
The facility that produced murderers. The School of the Americas (SOA) is the U.S. Army's training center founded in 1946. Hidden in plain sight in Columbus, Georgia, it has trained more than sixty thousand soldiers and police, mostly from Latin America. The purpose of the school is to train military personnel according to the…
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Sludge (Lodo)
The enigma surrounding a mysterious death. Following rowdy college years in Barcelona, Endika, a 22-year-old young man, travels back to his small hometown in Navarre (Northern Spain). He returns to the home of his aunt and grandmother, both of whom raised him as a child. His grandmother is a tyrannical landowner who pulls the…
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The Remil Saga (Saga del Inspector Remil) (TV Series)
The Dagger | The Wound | The Betrayal An infamous 21st century hero. They call him Remil for having been a "real son of a bitch" ("hijo de remil putas") soldier in the Malvinas war. He was one of the good ones, one of the brave ones. Remil was shot in the stomach and…
