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Gabriel Retes

José Ignacio Gabriel Jorge Retes Balzaretti (March 25th, 1947 – April 20th, 2020) was a Mexican film director, writer, producer, and actor. His 1977 film Paper Flowers was entered into the 28th Berlin International Film Festival. His 1979 film Broken Flag was entered into the 11th Moscow International Film Festival. His 1999 film A Sweet Scent of Death was entered into the 21st Moscow International Film Festival. Born : 25th-Mar-1947

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Lo mejor de Teresa

Ambitious young woman decides to leave her backwards hometown and move to Mexico City to study for a scientific degree.
Released : 2nd-Feb-1977

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Omen

While attending the birth of Isabel, the wife of foreigner Felipe, Mama Santos predicts that "something terrible is going to happen in the town." From this omen, calamities will torment the locals.
Released : 13th-Feb-1975

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Everyone's Hell so Feared

The inner demons of an aspiring writer, whose dissatisfaction has pushed him to alcohol and drugs, lead him to his self-destruction under the guise of confusing political positions.
Released : 9th-Sep-1981

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Deceitful Appearances

The sexual misunderstandings caused by the real identity of a rich woman serve Hermosillo to satirize the moral and social hypocrisy of the provincial that every Mexican carries inside.
Released : 24th-Mar-1983

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The Living Forces

It narrates the phenomenon of the Mexican Revolution, satirically reflected through what happens in a town far from the places where the true Revolution was fiercely fought.
Released : 20th-Nov-1975

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They Call Him Marcado

The Kid is a vicious psychopath given to laughing a lot, an actor manqué who leads a gang of looters and rapists, and is incestuous with his father to boot. The town’s resident Mater Dolorosa, madam of the brothel, hires her lover Marcado to kill the Kid, who is of course her son.
Released : 25th-Dec-1971

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Bienvenido-Welcome

During a business trip a married man has an affair with a blonde who leaves him the message "Welcome to the world of Aids"
Released : 17th-Aug-1995

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The Perfect Woman

Marcela, a former film star, seeks tranquility in the suburbs after marrying a wealthy industrialist. Her past haunts her with admirers and daily violence. Overwhelmed by a distant husband, a demanding child, critical in-laws, and loneliness, she escapes to an imaginary world to avoid the grim and the ugly.
Released : 8th-Feb-1979

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Coup at Daybreak

The film follows the events of the night of February 4, 1992 in Caracas, Venezuela. That night a group of military rebels staged a coup d'etat. Venezuelans found themselves as virtual prisoners. As the coup starts and fighting takes place from a military base which is in the center of the city's most affluent areas, with both luxury high rises and palatial mansions. The area of La Carlota provides a wealth of very interesting, often flamboyant and typical characters of the Latin America upper middle and upper classes. They are among the most affected. Various vignettes in these different characters' homes are developed. These people's reactions, lifestyles, vices, and humanity come out in a very honest fashion under duress.
Released : 16th-Sep-1998

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House Arrest

Because of a millionaire fraud, a man is condemned to house arrest, and the only place where he can serve sentence is his mother’s house, affected with Alzheimer disease. The arrival of the man disrupts the life of the people who live with the elder woman. With turns of the screw, the story feels dramatic, but it also contains certain amount of irony. It talks about human and family relations with a total absence of violence.
Released : 5th-Dec-2008

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End of the Party

A motorcycle gang goes to a mansion where a party is being held and joy turns into tragedy.
Released : 13th-Jan-1972

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Puerto Padre

As a teenage orphan from Chira Island searches for his godfather on the mainland, his innocent memory of childhood is gradually replaced by an unsettling reality upon learning the truth about his origins.
Released : 25th-Mar-2014

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El viaje de Keta

Keta is a professional makeup artist with a big butt and large thighs, but she also has big dreams. The truth is that Keta with her overweight, her addiction to marijuana and her pink hair can not get a job anywhere, so she ends up as a drug dealer handing out goods to her neighbor - who is addicted to all kinds of painkillers-, to an actress of soap operas as schizophrenic as a cocaine addict; also going through a swinger couple, a prude housewife, a not so prude nun and a host of characters that will surely make more than one viewer is reflected.
Released : 17th-Oct-2018

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Borrar de la Memoria

A love story turned assassination against the backdrop of the 1968 student massacre whose unresolved status is finally resolved in tense life threatening conditions. The story of a stubborn journalist who undertakes the clarification and bringing to justice of the heinous murder of one student forty years later represents a dedicated effort to force a country from denial to reconciliation and closure of tragic social and political events in a country´s history. A nation cannot allow official cover-ups that seek to delete and erase from the collective memory events that prevent a nation´s march towards social justice.
Released : 14th-Oct-2010

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Almost Thirty

Hilarious romantic comedy which main essence is based on the maturation process that young people face when entering their thirties. When their options come to settling down and starting a family or pursuing and achieving what they've always dreamed of, even though this could become a risk for their economic and emotional stability.
Released : 4th-Oct-2013

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Mujeres en el acto

These women think, due to her social position, that they live in a “bubble of soap”. Nevertheless, when this mirage explodes, they remain in the air, in a free fall. Based on a novel by Ricardo Garibay.
Released : 29th-Aug-2006

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El Bulto

After being in a comma for 20 year, Lauro (Retes) wakes up in a very different Mexico than the one he lived on. Ideas, hopes, ways-of-life and customs have changed, and Mexicans of the nineties are strangers for a man sleeping since 1971. Lauro will have to deal with the changes brought by the History, and will have to accept that the future is never as we imagined it when we were young.
Released : 28th-Aug-1992

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Under California: The Limit of Time

Damian is a married artist living in Los Angeles with his wife. After Damian accidentally hits a woman with his car and flees the scene, he seeks atonement and travels alone to Mexico, both to find peace and to reconnect with his family roots. Assisted by local guide Arce, Damian locates his grandmother's resting place and searches for redemption through a long trek in the arid wilderness of his ancestral land.
Released : 8th-Sep-1998

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The Comet

After witnessing the arrest of her father for publishing "subversive" material against the dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz, Valentina escapes taking a sack of gold coins with her in order to hand it over to rebel Francisco I. Madero, who is in San Antonio, Texas. That is how Valentina begins a long journey as a member of a traveling circus, where she finds love next to Victor, who, fascinated by the cinematographer, films everything that occurs before his eyes, in times of great political turbulence.
Released : 15th-Jan-1999

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Green Stones

Mariana is the adopted daughter of a businessman. When her father dies she searches for an stolen car while looking for her own identity.
Released : 16th-Feb-2001

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Cristo 70

Running from the law, young crooks hole up in a small town... and get hooked into performing in the town's Passion Play.
Released : 25th-Mar-1970

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Given In Love

A romance between the painters and writers: Dr. Atl and Nahui Olin arises in this era, the 20's, while Jose Vasconcelos founded the Ministry of Education and call all the intellectuals of the country for this project. Mr. President Alvaro Obregon, who feels devotion for the intellectuals allows one of the most important cultaral crusades of our history. In this liberal atmosphere where gays, the divorce, the vote for women, began to be accepted, several of our protagonists are given in love within a whirl of ideas, passions, political and ideological propositions.
Released : 6th-Mar-2016

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The Encounter of a Lonely Man

Alberto is a journalist who remembers an event 15 years ago, when his friend Gabriel saved a girl from a fire suffering third-degree burns. When he tells the story to his friends, one of them asks him to write it with realism, so Alberto comes back to his old town to meet Gabriel again.
Released : 23rd-Oct-1974

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Caribe

Vicente and Abigail run a banana plantation in Limon Province, on the Caribbean coast of Costa Rica. Abigail's half-sister Irene, about whom Abigail knew nothing, comes to introduce herself. Banana prices start falling, threatening the plantation's finances. An oil company works with the government to get off-shore drilling rights, over local objection. Vicente is at the center of each cross-current. Will he fall for Irene? Can he save the plantation? Will he sell out to corporate offers?
Released : 1st-Jan-2004

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Futuro sangriento


Released : 1st-Jan-1991

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Triángulo

The story of Mother and Daughter for a Husband and Stepfather who was killed by shotgun.
Released : 15th-Jun-1972

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El cielo y tú

Priest suffers a head injury, develops amnesia, ends up in a hippie commune.
Released : 29th-Jul-1971

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The Naked City

A gritty tale of survival set against a city ripe with violence and corruption. The Naked City tells the tale of Alfonso and Aurelia, who with their infant daughter flee the scene of a traffic accident they inadvertently caused, leaving several people seriously injured. On the run, they check into a hotel in a different part of the town. By coincidence, or fate, the hotel is about to be attacked by a violent gang, who resume to hold everyone hostage, moving room to room raping, killing and brutalizing the guests. When it is turn to visit with the young couple it is their time to decide to succumb to the violence, or fight back.
Released : 3rd-Nov-1989

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Los cacos

A group of Soccer-loving friends devise a plan to make easy money.
Released : 28th-Dec-1972

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Juegos de alcoba

Anthology movie -- three anecdotes relating to liberated, post-sixties, sexual behavior. Swinging couples, hippie-style free-love, etc...
Released : 17th-Feb-1971

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Cómo Filmar Una XXX

Ulises Alpuyeca, a film initiate, wants to make his debut feature and he accepts the first opportunity offered to him to direct a film, without knowing that it is foing to be a porn movie. Gudelio Medina, photographer and Ulysses's old mate, convinces him to do it. All participants in the film, start, unaware of the main porn star gender, making room for hilarious entanglements, but once committed to the project they must discover how to shoot a porn movie and in the process, just maybe, discover love.
Released : 29th-Nov-2017

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The Cornered Beast

A man who pretends to be a Dutch immigrant, is discovered by the Israelite Secret Service that he is a German Nazi War Criminal who escaped to Mexico.
Released : 31st-Jul-1975

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Paper Flowers

On the thinnest of pretexts, a horde of homeless people descend on the apartments of two members of the comfortable middle class and proceed to loot and vandalize both homes, leaving the next morning with many of the belongings they found there, as well as one of the residents who has opted to join them. This political allegory is based on two plays by the Chilean playwright Egon Wolff.
Released : 1st-Feb-1978

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The Cubs

After having his genitals brutally mutilated during childhood, a man must face prejudice and himself.
Released : 10th-May-1973

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Taken Identity

Felino, his girlfriend and his two friends, have their film rejected from every film festival, so they decide to submit it as major filmmaker Tomas Guevara latest film.
Released : 11th-Nov-2020

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Ya somos hombres


Released : 27th-Apr-1971

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Vile

After a life full of guilt for having been an executioner, Abel Carbajal receives a visit from Ángela, a young woman seeking revenge against him. Unknowingly, both will find their own redemption.
Released : 5th-Sep-2020

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Letters from Marusia

Chronicle of the repression that a foreign company exerts on the miners of a small nitrate town in Chile, whose workers decide to claim their most essential rights. A reflection of the historic union struggles in the northern Chile that ended with terrible repressive acts.
Released : 26th-Dec-1975

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At a Lame Pace

Ragtag crew of indigents from an asylum for the handicapped form a squadron to defend the Church during the Cristero Uprising.
Released : 29th-May-1980

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