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1) The witches
Language
English
Description
The tale of a young orphaned boy who, in late 1967, goes to live with his loving Grandma in the rural Alabama town of Demopolis. As the boy and his grandmother encounter some deceptively glamorous but thoroughly diabolical witches, she wisely whisks him away to a seaside resort. Regrettably, they arrive at precisely the same time that the world's Grand High Witch has gathered her fellow cronies from around the globe, undercover, to carry out her nefarious...
2) Tango
Series
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (115 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
Set in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the film tells the story of director Mario Suarez's quest to make the ultimate tango film. Lonely after his wife (one of the film's stars) has left him, Mario must find the themes that will hold the film together, while simultaneously permitting his musicians and dancers the freedom of expression that is necessary to satisfy the tango-hungry Argentine audience. Things become complicated when Mario falls in love with...
Series
Criterion collection volume 427
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (88 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (28 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm).
Language
Español
Description
Upper-class geometry professor Juan and his wealthy, married mistress María José, driving back from a late-night rendezvous, accidentally hit a cyclist and run. The resulting tale of guilt, infidelity, and blackmail reveals the wide gap between the rich and the poor in Spain and surveys the corrept ethics of a society seduced by decadence.
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1 videodisc (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Español
Description
Illegally adopted as a child after her mother's death, Mariana is disowned by her adopted mother when she turns 18. She falls into an underground urban lifestyle, reliant on a drug-dealing boyfriend. When things turn explosive, she flees the city and the law on a quest to find her biological father.
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Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
A nameless washed-up computer programmer walks off into the endless pampas after the train he is on breaks down in the middle of nowhere. We follow him as he wanders through forgotten towns, deserted hotels, abandoned highways and broken dreams, encountering along the road a succession of equally lost souls, including a globe-trotting gambler, a circus owner who performers left him "because the whole country was a circus" and a tarot reader with large...
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (58 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
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Español
Description
Revered by generations of Mexicans for his determined fight against the oppressors of Mexico's peasant class. This documentary incorporates both actual footage and reenactments of Zapata's exploits.
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1 videodisc (approximately 108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Español
Description
Fifteen-year-old Tristan (Fernando Ramallo) is passionate about two things other boys his age are not-- growing up and penning his own biography.
Tristán esta a punto de cumplir los quince años. Disfruta de la buena vida que sus padres han construido para el. Y sin embargo, no falta demasiado para que su entorno de protección, cariño y comodidades se desmorone al morir sus padres en un accidente automovilístico. A partir de ahí aprenderá lo...
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (106 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
Three characters in present-day Havana must choose between clinging to their self-restricting beliefs, or getting rid of them to live more freely. Ballerina Mariana has promised God celibacy if she gets the role of "Giselle"; social-worker Julia always faints after hearing a certain word; and pot-smoking percussionist Elpidio was abandoned by his mother, coincidentally named Cuba, some time ago and has not yet gotten over the loss.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
Over the course of a summer vacation, a young boy searches for the answers to a number of puzzling family mysteries. Javi and his friend Carlos visit an old house on the outskirts of a small Spanish village. According to his brother Juan, this is a haunted house and one can hear the voices of the dead.
11) Nobody's life
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
Emilio seems to have it all - great job, beautiful house, loving wife, and adoring son. Things aren't always what they seem to be. When a sexy young student enters his life, the balance that keeps his secret hidden falls apart.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (117 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
Two childhood friends reunite as adults after embarking on different journeys. Joaquín is a man that has been depressed for 8 years now, and his life makes a twist when Mara, his childhood friend, comes home. She has been gone the whole time that Joaquín has been depressed.
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1 videodisc (73 min.) : sound, color w/black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
A vibrant celebration of artists and musicians in Havana, Cuba's capital. Musicians, painters, sculptors, writers, and filmmakers reveal and reflect on Cuba's precarious political climate, its African heritage, the ironies of tourism, and how to live with dignity in the face of the United States embargo.
15) Cinco amigas
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1 videodisc (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Español
Description
Five very different girls, from a veterinary student to a tattoo artist, decide to put together a band, but encounter some unexpected obstacles along the way. Despite their differences, the girls become close friends, and their lives are forever changed.
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1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Español
Description
Mecha is a middle-aged woman with several bored teenagers, a husband who dyes his hair, and the tedious problem of sullen servants - nothing a few drinks can't cure. To avoid the hot and humid weather, they spend their summers at a country estate. Mecha's cousin, Tali, lives in a nearby city, has a crew of small, noisy children she is trying to deal with. Before long, the restlessness of domesticity strains both families' nerves, exposing secrets...
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Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
"As Julia (Lisa Owen) and Moisés (Jesus Ochoa), a couple in its 30s, realize they have departed from the dreams of their youth, they engage in a quest to recover the passion they had for each other. The result is a love triangle with unpredictable consequences"--Http://www.premiereweekend.org.
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1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Español
Description
An inexplicable crack in the Pyrenees Mountains provokes excitement and scientific curiosity. As the geological fracture deepens and widens, the European community begins to disassociate itself from the calamity, and panic ensues among tourists and residents attempting to escape. When Spain and Portugal physically separate from the continent, the detached Iberian peninsula aimlessly floats off to sea, becoming home to a group of god-like humans.
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English
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A young man undertakes a dangerous quest to rescue his sister from an Apache tribe, with the help of an old prospector and his dog.
1975 American Western Adventure Family film directed by Earl Bellamy and written by Douglas C. Stewart and Eleanor Lamb. The film stars Richard Boone, Stewart Petersen and Henry Wilcoxon.
In the rugged setting of the late 19th century, the Sutter family leads a quiet life in their remote cabin near the Utah-Arizona...
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