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Just Like Heaven (2012)
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Today Mexico City is a metropolis with many options, but during the 80s and a good chunk of the 90s this city was truly a cultural wasteland. There but a few choices for young people to gather and have fun, to share experiences and listen to music. Super Sound came out right from the middle of this wasteland. In this fantastic record store one could find not only the most diverse musical options, but also a group of employees who were also true fans of rock, punk, techno, or jazz music. This documentary shows how things were back then for young people and how the changes which are now part of our everyday cultural landscape began.
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La muerte del Palomo (1983)
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When a dedicated jockey finds that the local politicians are not to be trusted and begins to feel his romance with a beautiful woman slowly slipping away, his last-ditch effort to risk it all for his trusted horse Palomo shows that sometimes animals are truly man's best friend.
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Aquel famoso Remington (1982)
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Historical drama about the career of a hit-man who specialized in political assassinations in Mexico in the 1920s-30s.
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Porros: Calles sangrientas (1990)
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A gang instills terror in the classrooms, libraries, and school playgrounds. Led by Malvino, the so-called "Porros" extort and push young students into the degraded world of drugs, alcohol, & violence. They turn innocent kids into criminals & social scourges.
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La Noche del Ku Klux Klan (1980)
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A group of young Mexicans crosses the Rio Grande and ends up in a town where the Klan is actively persecuting drug smugglers and doesn't care at all about collateral damage.
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Más se perdió en Cuba (1995)
Character: N/A
Elpidio Valdés returns to the Cuban countryside to fight against the Spaniards. But they have a much more dangerous enemy: the Americans, who want to take over the island at any cost. Elpidio Valdés and his comrades-in-arms will try to prevent them from achieving their goal, with machetes in hand and bullets flying. It was conceived as a series for Spanish television and later shown as a feature film under the name Más se perdió en Cuba (More Was Lost in Cuba) in Spain and Elpidio Valdés contra el águila y el león (Elpidio Valdés Against the Eagle and the Lion) in Cuba.
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¡Vampiros en La Habana! (1985)
Character: Tio Werner Amadeus Von Dracula (voice)
Professor Von Dracula, a vampire scientist, leaves Transylvania for Cuba, where he invents "Vampisol," a potion that allows vampires to survive in sunlight. When the professor announces his intention to donate the formula free-of-charge to vampires all over the world, the Vampire Mafia from Chicago and the European Group of Vampires from Düsseldorf try to muscle in and steal the formula. The action escalates crazily as an assortment of bad guys, police, vampires and other monsters, and our hero and his girlfriend are all caught up in the chase.
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Más vampiros en La Habana (2003)
Character: Tio Von Dracula (voice)
In 1923 the scientist Von Dracula invented Vampisol, a drink that allowed vampires to live in the sun. La Capa Nostra and the European Vampire Group confront each other in Havana to control the Vampisol, but Pepe, Von Dracula's nephew, sang the Vampisol formula for free on Radio Vampiro Internacional. Now Pepe must face the Nazi vampires, who use the most powerful Vampisol: El Vampiyaba.
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Cocoon: The Return (1988)
Character: SPOI Janitor
The reinvigorated elderly group that left Earth comes back to visit their relatives. Will they all decide to go back to the planet where no one grows old, or will they be tempted to remain on Earth?
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Siete En La Mira 2 - La Furia de La Venganza (1986)
Character: Apache
A surviving member of the Siete En La Mira gang sets out to avenge his dead brother and recover the ashes from his cremation. The two lawmen that killed him are dead now themselves, but they have a third brother who wasn't involved in the original conflict.
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Buena Vista Social Club (1999)
Character: Self
In this fascinating Oscar-nominated documentary, American guitarist Ry Cooder brings together a group of legendary Cuban folk musicians (some in their 90s) to record a Grammy-winning CD in their native city of Havana. The result is a spectacular compilation of concert footage from the group's gigs in Amsterdam and New York City's famed Carnegie Hall, with director Wim Wenders capturing not only the music -- but also the musicians' life stories.
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