08.4 Latin Treasures
Just a few samples of the wonderful cinema from places like Dominican Rep., Uruguay, Colombia, Puerto Rico, Spain, Venezuela, Cuba, Brazil, Mexico, Chile, Panama, Argentina, Bolivia and Latin USA.
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- DirectorErnesto AcherCarlos López PuccioJorge MaronnaStarsErnesto AcherCarlos López PuccioJorge MaronnaLive show by the group of Argentine musicians and comedians "Les Luthiers", filmed at the Coliseo Theater, Buenos Aires, on May 20, 1979.
- DirectorFederico CalduraLuca De RicoStarsArmando BenettiIgnazio ColnaghiCarlo DelfiniTopo Gigio sets off for the moon, embarking on a rocket of his own invention in the company of his inseparable Rosy and a new friend, Giovannino, a small worm that emerged from an apple.
- DirectorCarlos D. MarquezStarsSusana KleinCecilia GispertNelly HeringArgentine's answer to Peanuts and Charlie Brown is Mafalda. This episodic movie is compiled of several TV shorts based on the comic of the same name about young Mafalda and her friends, who deal with the world in their own way.
- DirectorAlejandro AgrestiStarsRodrigo NoyaAlejandro AgrestiJulieta CardinaliAn 8-year-old boy, raised by his grandmother, is surrounded by problems in his family he finds only himself capable of solving.
- DirectorAriel PilusoStarsSoledad PastoruttiEzequiel AbeijónCeleste García SaturFamed Argentine folk singer Soledad abandons her planned artistic tour throughout Spain to accompany her schoolmates on a trip to the city of Bariloche.
- DirectorDaniel BurmanStarsAlfredo CaseroFlorencia LojValentina AkiyamaThis is the story of Julián, an ophthalmologist who is upset due his wife recent death (a flight-attendant) and Teresa (an unhappy stewardess). Julián travels to Ushuaia, where he met his wife, to scatter her ashes and to end his own life by staying out in the open till he is dead. In a sky resort lift rise he meets Teresa where she also is trying to kill her self in the same way. They decide to get a drink and they star to get interested in each other. They spend the whole night together and they say goodbye. She is late to work and blames Julian but when she gets to the airport she find out about there is a terrorist threat. Meanwhile Julian crashes his car and his hospitalized for a while and starts forgetting about suicide and wants to meet Teresa again. Destiny will get them together again.
- DirectorLucho BenderStarsLuis MachínGastón PaulsSilkeShows how several characters spend Christmas Eve in Buenos Aires, and how their lives intersect.
- DirectorAlberto LecchiStarsAriadna GilGastón PaulsMalena SoldaFormer Argentine lovers reunite through the years at a concert, at the World Cup and during war with the Falkland Islands.
- DirectorFabián BielinskyStarsRicardo DarínGastón PaulsGraciela TenenbaumTwo con artists try to swindle a stamp collector by selling him a sheet of counterfeit rare stamps (the "nine queens").
- DirectorGuillermo CasanovaStarsHugo AranaJulio César CastroJulio CalcagnoA group of men travel across Uruguay to watch the sea.
- DirectorCésar CharloneEnrique FernándezStarsCésar TroncosoVirginia MéndezMario SilvaA small South American village is in a flurry over the Pope's 1988 visit.
- DirectorAlejandro DoriaStarsNorma AleandroLuis BrandoniAndrea Del BocaA middle class family needs to find the man who got their daughter pregnant and make him marry her.
- DirectorAlejandro DoriaStarsLuis BrandoniChina ZorrillaAntonio GasallaEach member of this family tries to endorse someone else to care for the old Mother.
- DirectorAlan ParkerStarsMadonnaJonathan PryceAntonio BanderasThe hit musical based on the life of Eva Perón (Evita Duarte), a B-picture Argentinian actress who eventually became the wife of Argentinian president Juan Domingo Perón, and the most beloved and hated woman in Argentina.
- DirectorPedro AlmodóvarStarsVictoria AbrilAntonio BanderasLoles LeónAn unbalanced but alluring former mental patient takes a porn star prisoner in the hopes of convincing her to marry him.
- DirectorArne GlimcherStarsArmand AssanteAntonio BanderasPablo CalogeroTwo Cuban brothers bring a new music to the 1950s USA. They are as different as the problems that await them.
- DirectorTomás Gutiérrez AleaJuan Carlos TabíoStarsCarlos CruzMirta IbarraJorge PerugorríaIt is a satire about life in Cuba. The members of a funeral procession and some truck drivers who need to take the same route begin to talk about God and the world and they end up discovering that life for both groups has many similarities and many differences, depending on the point of view.
- DirectorJuan Carlos TabíoStarsVladimir CruzTahimi AlvariñoJorge PerugorríaA desperate group of people wait at a rundown Cuban transit station for the next bus to arrive. The problem is, it never shows up. While a number of busses pass by the station, and others that are either full or at the end of the line stop by, it soon becomes obvious that the bus everyone was waiting for has left them high and dry. While one of the would-be passengers, Emilio, uses his downtime to win the affections of the beautiful Jacqueline, most of the rest decide that if they're stuck without anywhere to go, they might as well make the station a better place to wait, and they begin forming a plan to turn the decrepit bus terminal into a showplace that people would look forward to visiting.
- DirectorGracia QuerejetaStarsMercedes SampietroJulieta SerranoMarta BelausteguiWhen three estranged sisters, Gloria, Ana and Lidia, meet up again on the death of their mother, Adela, they find themselves obeying her somewhat eccentric last wishes. Though their mother has spent the last 30 years without uttering a single word, she has left very clear written instructions of what she wants done after her death. Her ashes are to be divided in three, and delivered to three different people: their mother's best friend, Rafaela; Gloria's childhood companion, Santos, and finally the three girls' fugitive father, Joao. To do so, the three women must leave the urban cocoon of Madrid and head for their childhood home in the remote hinterland of Galicia. Gloria, single and 47, whose only interest is dancing boleros, Ana, a sophisticated, high-class prostitute, and Lidia, pregnant for the first time at 34 by a married man, make difficult travelling companions, accompanied as they are by three urns containing Adela's remains. As they move nearer their own past, the journey becomes the key which opens family secrets, bringing emotional discovery and reconciliation.
- DirectorAlexis ValdésStarsMaría Isabel Díaz LagoCarmen MachiJosé AliasMr. Arturo, an old rich Spanishman who arrives to Havana to marry Yoli, dies suddenly in bed. Yoli's family, afraid of losing all the money, convinces her ex-boyfriend Papito to go to Spain and get the money. Papito will have to be clever enough to deceive everybody and succeed in Spain.
- DirectorJames L. BrooksStarsAdam SandlerTéa LeoniPaz VegaA woman and her daughter emigrate from Mexico for a better life in America, where they start working for a family whose patriarch is a newly celebrated chef with an insecure wife.
- DirectorRick FamuyiwaStarsAmerica FerreraForest WhitakerCarlos MenciaThe weeks leading up to a young couple's wedding are comic and stressful, especially as their respective fathers try to lay their long standing feud to rest.
- DirectorAlfonso ArauStarsKeanu ReevesAitana Sánchez-GijónAnthony QuinnPaul Sutton, a young married soldier, befriends a pregnant lady who is petrified her father will disown her, and agrees to pose as her boyfriend. As time passes, they start growing fond of each other.
- DirectorMike NewellStarsJavier BardemGiovanna MezzogiornoBenjamin BrattFlorentino, rejected by the beautiful Fermina at a young age, devotes much of his adult life to carnal affairs as a desperate attempt to heal his broken heart.
- DirectorDago GarcíaJuan Carlos VásquezStarsMiguel VaroniJaime BarbiniJuan Fernando SánchezThis movie tells about three different kinds of love: teenage love, marriage love, and mature love, each one represented by three men: Óscar, Eduardo and Rubén, respectively. Óscar falls in love with his new neighbor, Elizabeth; Eduardo, Óscar's father, loves Myriam, but they divorce when he realizes his wife doesn't love him anymore; and Rubén, Eduardo's father, is in love with an old ex-job partner, Esperanza Arias. These three men find out that love is sometimes an obstacle, and these three women find out that perfect men only live in women's imagination.