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- 25 watts
- Publication information: [Uruguay] : Cinemateca - Condor Video Chicago, Ill. : Distributed by Facets Video, [2004]
Physical description: 1 videodisc (94 min.) : sd., b&w 4 3/4 in. + contents insert
Description: Three young men in Montevideo drink beer, avoid responsibility, talk nonsense, encounter weird characters from the neighborhood and drift in a state of chronic boredom
Language: Soundtrack in Spanish with optional English subtitles
Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: DVD
- Abre los ojos
- Publication information: Santa Monica, Calif. : Artisan Home Entertainment, c1999
Physical description: 1 videocassette (ca. 117 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: César tries to make sense of his life after a car crash leaves his once-handsome face grotesquely disfigured. After he is placed into a psychiatric penitentiary for a murder he doesn't remember committing, César's only hope is to delve into the depths of his subconscious mind where the answer to ending his living nightmare lies in his dreams
Language: Spanish with English subtitles
Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: VHS
- All about my mother
- Publication information: Culver City, Calif. : Columbia TriStar Home Video, [2000]
Physical description: 1 videocassette (102 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: Manuela is the perfect mother. A hard-working nurse, she's built a comfortable life for herself and her teenage son. But when tragedy strikes and her son is killed in a car accident, her world crumbles
Language: In Spanish with English subtitles;Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired
Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: VHS
- Amores perros: Love's a bitch
- Publication information: [Vancouver, Canada] : Lion's Gate Home Entertainment Marina Del Rey, CA : Distributed by Studio Home Entertainment, c2001
Physical description: 1 videodisc (153 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in
Description: Three different people are catapulted into dramatic and unforeseen circumstances in the wake of a terrible car crash: a young punk stumbles into the sinister underground world of dog fighting an injured supermodel's designer pooch disappears into the apartment's floorboards and an ex-radical turned hit man rescues a Rotweiler with a gunshot wound
Language: Soundtrack in Spanish and French with subtitles in English and French closed-captioned for the hearing impaired
Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: DVD
- Atame!: Tie me up, tie me down
- Publication information: Burbank, CA : RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video, 1990, c1989
Physical description: 1 videocassette (105 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: A comedy in which an orphaned mental patient kidnaps a porn star in an irrationally inspired bid for love
Language: In Spanish with English subtitles
Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: VHS
- Azuloscurocasinegro: Darkbluealmostblack
- Publication information: [Culver City, Calif.] : Strand Releasing, [2007]
Physical description: 1 videodisc (105 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in
Description: Jorge finds himself in an awkward position when his convict brother asks him to impregnate his girlfriend who wants a baby, and Jorge finds himself falling for her
Language: Soundtrack in Spanish with English subtitles
Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: DVD
- Belle epoque
- Publication information: [Burbank, Calif.] : Columbia TriStar Home Video, [1994]
Physical description: 1 videocassette (ca. 109 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: Fernando, a handsome, young Spanish Civil War deserter who befriends a free-thinking artist, finds himself in a romantic dilemma when the artist's four beautiful daughters return to their country home. Which woman should he love?
Language: In Spanish with English subtitles
Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: VHS
- Bitter sugar: Azucar amarga
- Publication information: [S.l.] : First Look Pictures/Overseas Film Group, c1996
Physical description: 1 videocassette (102 min.) : sd., b&w 1/2 in
Description: A love story set against the political and economic tensions of contemporary Havana
Language: In Spanish with English subtitles
Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: VHS
- Bolivia
- Publication information: [United States] : New Yorker Video, [2005]
Physical description: 1 videodisc (71 min.) : sd., b&w 4 3/4 in. + 1 text (4 p.)
Description: A man must work as an illegal alien in Argentina in order to support his family in Bolivia. The film paints a portrait of struggle in the modern economy of Argentina and the mistreatment of illegal workers
Language: Soundtrack in Spanish with optional English subtitles
Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: DVD
- Butterfly
- Publication information: Burbank, Calif. : Miramax Home Entertainment : Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment, [2000], c1999
Physical description: 1 videodisc (ca. 94 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in
Description: A shy young boy is brought out of his cocoon by a wise teacher who shows him the wonder of the natural world around him, amidst the growing tensions and chaos of the Spanish Civil War in Galicia
Language: Spanish or French language with yellow English subtitles Closed-captioned
Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: DVD
- Cabeza de Vaca
- Publication information: [United States] : New Horizons Home Video, [1993]
Physical description: 1 videocassette (ca. 108 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: In 1528 a Spanish expedition founders off the coast of Florida. 600 lives are lost. One survivor, Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca, roams across the American continent searching for his Spanish comrades. Instead he discovers the Iguase, an ancient Indian tribe. Over the next eight years, Cabeza de Vaca learns their mystical culture, becoming a healer--and a leader. But soon this New World collides with the Old World as Spanish conquistadors seek to enslave the Indians, and Cabeza de Vaca must confront his own people and his past
Language: In Spanish with English subtitles
Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: VHS
- Carne trémula: Live flesh
- Publication information: Culver City, Calif. : MGM Home Entertainment [distributor], [1999]
Physical description: 1 videocassette (101 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: When, naive, lovestruck Victor attempts to seduce beautiful and wealthy but strung-out junkie Elena, all he gets for his trouble is a one-way, six-year ticket to prison, where he concentrates on strengthening his mind, his body, and his desire for vengeance on the man who put him there. After his release, Victor crosses paths with Elena, who is as beautiful as ever since she's cleaned up her act. Still madly in love with her, Victor will stop at nothing to win her over, even if it means revenge, for Elena has married the cop who sent him to prison
Language: In Spanish with English subtitles
Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: VHS
- Cilantro y perejil
- Publication information: [Phoenix, AZ] : Desert Mountain Media, [2006], c2002
Physical description: 1 videodisc (ca. 90 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in
Description: A female documentary director's latest project is to capture her sister's marital difficulties on film in hopes of shedding light on the travails of modern romance
Language: In Spanish with optional English subtitles
Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: DVD
- Como agua para chocolate: Like water for chocolate
- Publication information: Burbank, Calif. : Touchstone Home Video : Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment, [2000]
Physical description: 1 videodisc (105 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in
Description: Romantic fantasy set in Mexico during the early 20th century. A young couple is blocked from marrying by the demands of the young woman's cold and selfish mother. To be near his love, the young man marries her sister, and she expresses her passion for him through her cooking
Language: In Spanish, or dubbed in English, with English subtitles
Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: DVD
- Crimen ferpecto: Perfect crime
- Publication information: [Los Angeles] : Tartan Video, 2007
Physical description: 1 videodisc (104 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in. + contents insert
Description: Rafael is a very charming salesman in the ladies department at a deluxe department store. When he doesn't get the position of manager his attitude changes. He becomes the prime suspect when his rival goes missing
Language: In Spanish with optional English subtitles
Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: DVD
- Crónicas: Chronicles
- Publication information: New York : Palm Pictures, [2005]
Physical description: 1 videodisc (98 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in
Description: Star anchorman Manolo Bonilla has flown to a small town in Ecuador with producer Marisa and cameraman Ivan on the trail of a child serial killer and rapist. The accidental death of a young boy brings the town to the verge of lynching Vinicio Cepeda, a humble traveling salesman. Manolo's intervention saves the man's life, and makes a great story for his show in Miami. Vinicio is put in jail for involuntary manslaughter and he offer Manolo information about the Monstruo in exchange for a news story on TV about his wrongful imprisonment. Manolo accepts, powerfully drawn to the dark side he senses in Vinicio. He begins to break the rules, determined to be the hero who single-handedly stops the killer
Language: In Spanish or English with optional English or Spanish subtitles
Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: DVD
- Derecho de familia: Family law
- Publication information: [New York] : IFC Films Santa Monica, CA : Genius Entertainment [distributor, 2007]
Physical description: 1 videodisc (100 min) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in
Description: Perelman Jr. chose a different path rather than follow in his father's shadow as an attorney. As he begins to raise a boy of his own, he realized that he and his father have more in common than he originally thought. Now, when his father reaches out to him, Perelman Jr. must question his role as a parent, son and husband
Language: In Spanish with optional English or Spanish subtitles closed-captioned
Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: DVD
- Diarios de motocicleta: the motorcycle diaries
- Publication information: Universal City, CA : Universal, 2005
Physical description: 1 videodisc (127 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in
Description: An inspirational adventure, based on the true story of two young men whose thrilling and dangerous road trip across Latin America becomes a life-changing journey of self-discovery
Language: Soundtrack in Spanish and French with subtitles in English and French closed-captioned
Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: DVD
- El abrazo partido: Lost embrace
- Publication information: [New York] : New Yorker Video, [2006]
Physical description: 1 videodisc (96 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in. + contents insert
Description: Ariel is a young man who lives in a Jewish working-class section of Buenos Aires. Since his father went missing in the war, his mother Sonia and brother Joseph work in the shopping and business district. With no interest in school or work, Ariel just ends up hangin out. He finally gets motivated by the idea of moving to Poland, so asks his grandmother, an ex-girlfriend, and Rabbi Benderson for help
Language: Soundtrack in Spanish with optional English subtitles
Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: DVD
- El abuelo: The grandfather
- Publication information: Burbank, CA : Miramax Home Entertainment : Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment, c1998
Physical description: 1 videodisc (146 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in
Description: When news of his son's death brings old Count Albrit home to Spain after years abroad, he's pleased to meet his two charming young granddaughters. But one of the girls is not his son's daughter, and therefore not his true heir. The determined Count sets out to discover which granddaughter is worthy of his love and name
Language: In Spanish with optional yellow English subtitles closed-captioned in English for the hearing impaired
Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: DVD
- El Amor brujo: Love, the magician
- Publication information: Beverly Hills, CA : Pacific Arts Video, c1987
Physical description: 1 videocassette (100 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: Set in Spain, a sizzling tale of young lovers separated by fate, but whose hearts still burn with a passion only for each other
Language: Spanish with English subtitles
Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: VHS
- El aura: The aura
- Publication information: [Solana Beach, Calif.] : Genius Entertainment, [2007]
Physical description: 1 videodisc (138 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in
Description: A quiet, cynic taxidermist, who suffers from epilepsy attacks, is obsessed with committing the perfect crime. He claims that the police are too stupid to find out about it when it's well executed, and that the robbers are too stupid to execute it the right way. He feels that he could do it himself by relying on his photographic memory and his strategic planning skills. He is invited on a hunting trip away from his home. Once there, an accident gives him the chance of a life time: the possibility to commit the perfect crime
Language: Spanish dialogue, English subtitles closed-captioned
Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: DVD
- El callejón de los milagros: Midaq Alley
- Publication information: [S.l.] : Venevision International, c2004
Physical description: 1 videodisc (140 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in
Description: Story of three neighbors whose lives are intertwined. Rutilio, the family man who experiences homosexual feelings that shatter his domestic life Susanita, the spinster who dreams of getting married and falls prey to a thief and Alma, the virgin who becomes a cocaine addicted prostitute
Language: In Spanish with English subtitles
Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: DVD
- El crimen del Padre Amaro: Crime of Padre Amaro
- Publication information: [Culver City, CA] : Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment, 2003
Physical description: 1 videodisc (119 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in
Description: Fr. Amaro, who is assigned to assist Fr. Benito in the parish work, falls in love with a 16 year-old girl whom he meets in town. Fr. Amaro discovers that Fr. Benito has had a long relationship with her mother and uncovers other cases of corruption involving the priest. The girl's boyfriend jealously denounces the scandal, but the Dioceses manages to keep it out of the newspaper
Language: Spanish or English, with English, French or Spanish subtitles
Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: DVD
- El espinazo del diablo: Devil's backbone
- Publication information: Culver City, Calif. : Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment, [2002]
Physical description: 1 videodisc (103 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in. + contents insert
Description: During the Spanish Civil War, young Carlos is abandoned at a completely isolated orphanage. The tensions therein have been building for years, exacerbated by the unexploded bomb resting menacingly in the courtyard. Bullies scheme, tempers flare, and a ghost that visits Carlos's bed seems to be the key to it all
Language: Spanish dialogue with English subtitles.
Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: DVD
- El espíritu de la colmena
- Publication information: [Chicago] : Public Media Home Vision, c1988
Physical description: 1 videocassette (93 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: Shortly after the Spanish Civil War, a six-year-old girl attends a traveling movie show of Frankenstein and becomes haunted by her memory of it
Language: Spanish dialogue with English subtitles
Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: VHS
- El espíritu de la colmena
- Publication information: Los Angeles, CA : Connoisseur Video Collection, c1988
Physical description: 1 videocassette (95 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: Shortly after the Spanish Civil War, a six-year-old girl attends a traveling movie show of Frankenstein and becomes haunted by her memory of it
Language: Spanish dialogue with English subtitles
Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: VHS
- El espíritu de la colmena: The spirit of the beehive
- Publication information: [Irvington, N.Y]. : Criterion Collection c2006
Physical description: 2 videodiscs (99 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([11 p.] : ill. 19 cm.)
Description: Shortly after the Spanish Civil War, a six-year-old girl attends a traveling movie show of Frankenstein and becomes haunted by her memory of it
Language: Soundtrack in Spanish with optional English subtitles
Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: DVD
- El flor de mi secreto: The flower of my secret
- Publication information: Culver City, Calif. : Columbia TriStar Home Video, c1996
Physical description: 1 videocassette (ca. 107 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: Leo writes romance novels, but with a loveless marriage, she finds herself fresh out of inspiration. Angel is a tough and gruff journalist with an iron will and a heart of gold. When their paths happen to cross, they discover something neither had expected, a real-life love affair
Language: In Spanish with English subtitles
Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: VHS
- El hijo de la novia
- Publication information: Culver City, Calif. : Sony Pictures Classics : distributed by Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment, [2002], c2001
Physical description: 1 videodisc (125 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in
Description: Rafael is a 42-year-old divorced father and restaurant owner who is overwhelmed with life. He feels guilty that he doesn't visit his mother, who is stricken with Alzheimer's disease he lives in his father's shadow he doesn't spend enough time with his daughter and he can't commit to his girlfriend. When a series of unexpected events happen, Rafael re-evaluates his life
Language: Spanish dialogue, English or French subtitles
Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: DVD
- El laberinto del fauno: Pan's labyrinth
- Publication information: Burbank, CA : New Line Home Entertainment, c2007
Physical description: 2 videodiscs (119 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in
Description: Set in 1944 Spain, against the backdrop of the anti-Franco guerrilla warfare. A young girl goes to live with her mother and her new stepfather on a rural military outpost. Following her discovery of a labyrinth and the local group of resistance fighters, she is involved in a series of strange encounters
Language: Soundtrack in Spanish with subtitles in English and Spanish closed-captioned
Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: DVD
- El mariachi
- Publication information: Burbank, Calif. : Columbia Tristar Home Video, 1993
Physical description: 1 videocassette (ca. 81 min.) : sd., col., stereo. 1/2 in
Description: All he wants is to be a mariachi, like his father, his grandfather and his great grandfather before him. But the town he thinks will bring him luck brings only a curse--of deadly mistaken identity. Forced to trade his guitar for a gun, the mariachi is playing for his life
Language: In Spanish with English subtitles
Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: VHS
- El mariachi: Desperado
- Publication information: Culver City, Calif. : Columbia TriStar Home Video, 1998
Physical description: 1 videodisc (ca. 81 min., 103 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in
Description: In El mariachi , a would-be musician is mistaken for a criminal and must fight for his life. Desperado tells the story of a guitar player out for vengeance against the men who murdered his girlfriend. In Bedhead , a young girl must use telekinetic powers to battle her brother
Language: First film in Spanish with Portuguese and French language tracks and English, Spanish, Portuguese subtitles 2nd film in English with Spanish and Portuguese language tracks and English, Spanish, Portuguese subtitles closed-captioned in English for the hearing impaired
Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: DVD
- El Norte: The North
- Publication information: Farmington Hills, Mich. : Distributed by CBS/Fox, 1984, c1983
Physical description: 1 videocassette (141 min.) sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: A brother and sister, two young Indians from Guatemala, set out to find a better life when their father is killed by government soldiers and their mother is taken away. Their journey to the north, the promised land, is frought with dangers and when they reach Los Angeles they are illegals submerged in an alien culture
Language: Spanish and English dialogue with English subtitles
Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: VHS
- El Norte: The North
- Publication information: [Los Angeles, Ca.] : Frontera Films, [2002?]
Physical description: 1 videocassette (141 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: A brother and sister, two young Indians from Guatemala, set out to find a better life when their father is killed by government soldiers and their mother is taken away. Their journey to the north, the promised land, is frought with dangers and when they reach Los Angeles they are illegals submerged in an alien culture
Language: Spanish and English dialogue English subtitles
Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: VHS
- El norte: The North
- Publication information: Melbourne : Force Video, [2006?]
Physical description: 1 videodisc (139 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in
Description: A brother and sister, two young Indians from Guatemala, set out to find a better life when their father is killed by government soldiers and their mother is taken away. Their journey to the north, the promised land, is frought with dangers and when they reach Los Angeles they are illegals submerged in an alien culture
Language: Soundtrack in Spanish, with English subtitles
Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: DVD
- El orfanato: The orphanage
- Publication information: [Burbank, CA] : New Line Home Entertainment : [Warner Home Video, distributor, 2008]
Physical description: 1 videodisc (105 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in
Description: Returning to her childhood home, Laura and her family unknowingly unleash a long-forgotten evil spirit and are thrust into a chilling nightmare
Language: Soundtrack in Spanish with optional English or Spanish subtitles closed-captioned
Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: DVD
- El Super
- Publication information: New York, N.Y. : New Yorker Video, c1989, 1979
Physical description: 1 videocassette (80 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: A humorous and touching view of Cuban exiles living in a basement apartment during a snowy winter in New York. El Super is the story of Roberto, a superintendent, who dreams of his warm and friendly homeland, and stubbornly refuses to assimilate into the new culture
Language: Spanish with English subtitles
Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: VHS
- El Topo
- Publication information: New York : ABKCO Films Troy. MI : Distributed by Anchor Bay Entertainment, [2007]
Physical description: 1 videodisc (124 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in
Description: The first part of the film follows El Topo, a gunfighter and his seven year old son on their journey across the desert as they come upon a massacre and hunt down the killers. The second part shows the death of El Topo, and the birth of his new son
Language: Soundtrack in Spanish and English with subtitles in English, Spanish, Portuguese and French closed-captioned
Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: DVD
- El verano de la Señora Forbes: The summer of Miss Forbes
- Publication information: New York, N.Y. : Fox Lorber Home Video [distributor], c1995
Physical description: 1 videocassette (87 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: Miss Forbes is a governess hired to look after two boys whose parents have taken a six-week vacation. By day, she runs the household with oppressive discipline. By night, she gets drunk on tequila. The boys spy on her nighttime binges and fantasize about her brutal death. But their plans for her death are not as grim as her ultimate fate
Language: In Spanish with English subtitles
Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: VHS
- Elisa, vida mia: Elisa, my love
- Publication information: Santa Monica, Calif. : Connoisseur Video Collection, c1995
Physical description: 1 videocassette (125 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: Elisa and her father, a famous novelist, are reunited after twenty years. In an isolated farmhouse in Segovia, they discuss their problems. A psychological, introspective drama
Language: In Spanish with English subtitles
Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: VHS
- En la ciudad sin límites: The city of no limits
- Publication information: Beverly Hills, Calif. : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, [2004]
Physical description: 1 videodisc (125 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in
Description: The mysterious ramblings of a dying old man hide a terrible secret that could scar his family forever
Language: Soundtracks in Spanish (5.1 surround) or English (stereo) with English or Spanish subtitles closed-captioned
Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: DVD
- Esperando al Mesías: Waiting for the Messiah
- Publication information: [Philadelphia, Pa.] : TLA Releasing, c2004
Physical description: 1 videodisc (98 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in
Description: A neurotic young Jewish man befriends a genial homeless man and a bisexual Christian woman, with unexpected consequences
Language: Soundtrack in Spanish, with optional English subtitles
Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: DVD
- Familia rodante: Rolling family
- Publication information: [United States] : Palm Pictures, 2006
Physical description: 1 videodisc (95 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in
Description: When Emilia, an Argentinian grandmother, is invited to be the matron of honor at the wedding of a distant niece, she invites her whole family to accompany her in a 1956 Chevy Viking camper on a cross-country journey to the border of Argentina
Language: Soundtrack in Spanish with English subtitles
Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: DVD
- Flores de otro mundo
- Publication information: Chatsworth, CA : Distributed by Image Entertainment, [2005]
Physical description: 1 videodisc (100 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in
Description: A group of women are brought by bus trip to a remote Spanish village overwhelmingly populated by men. The women dream of a better life while the men deal with more romantic yearnings
Language: Soundtrack in Spanish with optional English subtitles
Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: DVD
- Fresa y chocolate: Strawberry & chocolate
- Publication information: Burbank, Calif. : Miramax Home Entertainment : Distributed by Buena Vista Home Video, [1995]
Physical description: 1 videocassette (104 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: A young college kid meets a writer and a passionate woman who teach him the things that aren't taught in school
Language: In Spanish with English subtitles
Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: VHS
- Fábula de la bella palomera: The fable of the beautiful pigeon fancier
- Publication information: New York, NY : Fox Lorber Home Video, c1991
Physical description: 1 videocassette (73 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: Set on a panoramic Brazilian beach confronts the sexual and social tensions between classes in the romantic story of a wealthy aristocrat's obsessive desire
Language: In Spanish with English subtitles
Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: VHS
- Glue: historia adolescente en medio de la nada
- Publication information: Los Angeles, CA : Picture This! Home Video, [2007]
Physical description: 1 videodisc (100 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in
Description: Set in a small town in vast, empty Patagonia the gawky Lucas hangs out with his best friend Nacho and bespectacled, mousey gal pal Andrea. The threesome cope with the trials of burgeoning adolescence by getting high and getting off, mostly with each other
Language: Soundtrack in Spanish with optional English subtitles
Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: DVD
- Goya
- Publication information: [New York, N.Y.] : Sony Pictures Classics Culver City, Calif. : Columbia TriStar Home Video, [2000]
Physical description: 1 videodisc (105 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in
Description: In Bordeaux, France, in the early 1800's, Goya suffers from strange visions and nightmares. Goya reflects on his tumultuous career: a love affair with the beautiful Duchess of Alba and the evil crusade of Napoleon's French army
Language: In Spanish with optional English or Spanish subtitles closed-captioned in English for the hearing impaired
Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: DVD
- Habitaciones para turistas: Rooms for tourists
- Publication information: [S.l.] : Mirada : Condor Media, Inc., 2006
Physical description: 1 videodisc (93 min.) : sd., b&w 4 3/4 in
Description: Five girls, strangers to each other, travel to a small town near Buenos Aires to catch a train to an even more isolated spot. They arrive only to discover they have missed their connection. Forced to spend the night at a hostel for tourists owned by two brothers, they will become victims of bloody justice. This is more than what the flesh and blood can stand: the dark side of local hospitality. A story of hotel horror, exhuming Hitch and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, with a distinctively rural Argentinean flavor
Language: In Spanish with English subtitles
Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: DVD
- Hable con ella
- Publication information: Culver City, CA : Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment, c2003
Physical description: 1 videodisc (114 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in. + contents insert
Description: In a private clinic Barco and Benigno strike up a friendship while caring for comatose women
Language: In Spanish or French with English and French subtitles
Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: DVD
- High heels
- Publication information: [Burbank, CA] : Miramax Home Video Hollywood, Calif. : distributed and marketed by] Paramount [Home Video], 1992
Physical description: 1 videocassette (113 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: The husband of a TV anchorwoman, ex-lover of her long-estranged singer-actress mother, is mysteriously killed, and both mother and daughter come under suspicion in a frenzied investigation filled with romantic mix-ups and mistaken identities
Language: Closed-captioned;In Spanish with English subtitles
Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: VHS
- Ilona llega con la lluvia: Ilona arrives with the rain
- Publication information: Chicago, ILL. : Facets Video, [2003]
Physical description: 1 videodisc (124 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in. + contents insert
Description: A beautiful woman and her long lost lover reunite for a last caper in steamy, cosmopolitan Panama City. Tough-guy smuggler Magroll stumbles across Ilona, his long lost love and cohort. They have not seen each other in years. They begin to plot a new scheme - one in search of impossible wealth
Language: Spanish dialogue with English subtitles
Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: DVD
- Inconscientes: Unconscious
- Publication information: Santa Monica, CA : Distributed by Genius Entertainment, [2007]
Physical description: 1 videodisc (109 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences 4 3/4 in
Description: Set in Barcelona in the early 1900s. A very pregnant Alma searches for her missing psychiatrist husband. Along the way she recruits her love-struck brother-in-law Salvador and discovers a world where gender bending psychoanalysis turns the roles of sex and sexuality inside out
Language: Soundtrack in Spanish with English subtitles
Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: DVD
- Jews in space: Judíos en el espacio, o Por que es diferente esta noche a las demás noches
- Publication information: [Lisbon, Portugal] : Cinemateca [Chicago, Ill.] : distributed by Facets Video, 2007
Physical description: 1 videodisc (89 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in
Description: A Jewish family in Buenos Aires comes together to celebrate Passover, despite petty jealousy, mismatched romantic feelings, and a suicidal patriarch
Language: Soundtrack in Spanish with subtitles in English
Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: DVD
- La gran vida: Living it up
- Publication information: Culver City, CA : Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment, [2001], c2000
Physical description: 1 videodisc (113 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in
Description: A sexy waitress down on her luck meets a charming, big-spending millionaire. While the two indulge in a romance, complete with expensive dinners, hundreds of roses, and a champagne-filled swimming pool, the clock is ticking on a million-dollar debt to the mob. Secrets on both sides abound. Will this spicy fairy tale have a happy ending?
Language: Spanish (5.1 or 2-channel surround), English, and French language soundtracks with optional subtitles in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Korean and Thai closed-captioned in English for the hearing impaired
Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: DVD
- La Historia oficial: The official story
- Publication information: Beverly Hills, CA : Pacific Arts Video, c1986
Physical description: 1 videocassette (VHS) (112 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: The wife of a businessman in Argentina finds herself face to face with terror as she begins to discover that her own daughter, adopted at birth, may have been stolen
Language: In Spanish with English subtitles
Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: VHS
- La mala educación: Bad education
- Publication information: Culver City, Calif. : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, [2005]
Physical description: 1 videodisc (105 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in
Description: Traces the effects of sexual abuse and religious schooling on the lives of two lifelong friends
Language: Soundtrack in Spanish with optional English subtitles
Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: DVD
- La mujer de mi hermano: My brother's wife
- Publication information: Santa Monica, Calif. : Lions Gate Home Entertainment, [2006]
Physical description: 1 videodisc (ca. 93 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in
Description: After ten years of marriage, the stunning Zoe realizes that her marriage no longer carries the passion it once had. She finds herself in the arms of her husband's brother. Her decision launches them into a gauntlet of revenge, secrets, and despair
Language: Soundtrack in Spanish with optional English or Spanish subtitles
Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: DVD
- La niña santa: The holy girl
- Publication information: [United States] : HBO Video, [2005]
Physical description: 1 videodisc (ca. 104 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in. + contents insert
Description: The Holy Girl poignantly captures the lives of two teenager girls, Amalia, daughter to the owner of the hotel, and the girl's best friend Josefina, as they adjust to their growing sexuality and religious passion
Language: Soundtrack in Spanish with English, French or Spanish subtitles closed-captioned
Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: DVD
- La vida es silbar: Life is to whistle
- Publication information: [New York] : New Yorker Video, [2002]
Physical description: 1 videodisc (106 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in
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
Language: Spanish dialogue with optional English subtitles
Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: DVD
- Live-in maid: Cama adentro
- Publication information: Port Washington, NY : Koch Lorber Films : Distributed by Koch Entertainment, c2007
Physical description: 1 videodisc (87 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in
Description: When Buenos Aires is plunged into an economic meltdown, Bebe is unable to pay her longtime maid, Dora. The two realize that in order to survive, they must put aside their class resentments
Language: Soundtrack in Spanish with subtitles in English
Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: DVD
- Los lunes al sol: Mondays in the sun
- Publication information: [United States] : Studio Home Entertainment Marina Del Rey, CA : Distributed by Lions Gate Home Entertainment, [2003], c2002
Physical description: 1 videodisc (114 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in
Description: Laid off from the local shipyard, six men spend their days at the town bar, where they discuss their current state. Gruff puts up a tough front. The morose José openly worries about his wife, whom he fears might leave him. Amador, the oldest of the bunch, keeps reassuring everyone that his wife will be back any day now from her trip. Meanwhile, Lino refuses to give up hope of employment, going to interview after interview for jobs being offered to applicants half his age. Presiding over the glum bunch is Rico, the bar owner and the men's co-worker from their shipyard days
Language: Spanish dialogue, English subtitles
Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: DVD
- Los Olvidados
- Publication information: Los Angeles, Calif. : Connoisseur Video Collection, c1989
Physical description: 1 videocassette (VHS) (88 min.) : sd., b&w 1/2 in
Description: A drama that systematically resists conventional solutions to juvenile delinquency and poverty in order to dramatize the need for more radical solutions. Treats characters as morally responsible human beings
Language: In Spanish with English subtitles
Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: VHS
- Luis Buñuel's the exterminating angel
- Publication information: Las Cruces, NM : Hen's Tooth Video, [1991]
Physical description: 1 videocassette (93 min.) : sd., b&w 1/2 in
Description: Elegant guests at a dinner party are inexplicably held prisoner for several days without food, water or other essentials in a room in their host's house, until the veneer of civility wears thin
Language: In Spanish with English subtitles
Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: VHS
- Machuca
- Publication information: [Venice, Calif.] : Menemsha Films, [2007?]
Physical description: 1 videodisc (116 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in
Description: Explores Chile's bloody 1973 coup through the coming-of-age story of a pair of 12-year-old boys. From opposite extremes of society, Gonzalo and Pedro form an unlikely friendship as politics rip their world apart
Language: Soundtrack in Spanish with English subtitles
Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: DVD
- Madeinusa
- Publication information: [New York] : Film Movement, [2006]
Physical description: 1 videodisc (95 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in
Description: Madeinusa is a girl aged 14 with a sweet Indian face who lives in an isolated village in the Cordillera Blanca Mountain range of Peru. This strange place is characterized by its religious fervor. From Good Friday at three o'clock in the afternoon (the time of day when Christ died on the cross) to Easter Sunday, the whole village can do whatever it feels like. During the two holy days sin does not exist: God is dead and can't see what is happening. Everything is accepted and allowed, without remorse. Year after year, Madeinusa and her sister Chale, and her father Don Cayo, the Mayor and local big shot, maintain this tradition without questioning it. However, everything changes with the arrival in the village of Salvador, a young geologist from Lima, who will unknowingly change the destiny of the girl
Language: Soundtrack in Spanish and Quechua with optional English subtitles Closed-captioned
Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: DVD
- Marcelino pan y vino: The miracle of Marcelino
- Publication information: Los Angeles, CA : Meridian Video Corporation, c1995
Physical description: 1 videocassette (89 min.) : sd., b&w 1/2 in
Description: Story of the miracle of a little boy, abandoned at a monastery, who is discovered to be talking with Jesus Christ
Language: In Spanish with English subtitles
Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: VHS
- Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios: Women on the verge of a nervous breakdown
- Publication information: New York : Orion Home Video, c1989
Physical description: 1 videocassette (88 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: Comedy about a woman who has been jilted by the love of her life, her friend who is in love with a terrorist, and her ex-lover's crazed wife
Language: In Spanish with English subtitles
Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: VHS
- Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios: Women on the verge of a nervous breakdown
- Publication information: Santa Monica, CA : MGM Home Entertainment Inc., c2001
Physical description: 1 videodisc (89 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences 4 3/4 in. + contents insert
Description: Comedy film about a woman who has been jilted by the love of her life, her friend who discovers her lover is a a Shiite terrorist, and her ex-lover's crazed wife
Language: Spanish, English or French language soundtracks with subtitles available in Spanish, English or French closed-captioned for the hearing impaired
Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: DVD
- Mujeres insumisas: Untamed women
- Publication information: Chicago, IL : Facets Video : Chicago Latino Cinema, [2000]
Physical description: 1 videocassette (116 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: Frustrated by their confined existences and being mistreated by their husbands, four housewives from a small Mexican town leave their husbands and children behind as they try to build new and more satisfying lives
Language: In Spanish with English subtitles
Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: VHS
- No habrá más penas ni olvido
- Publication information: Santa Monica, CA : Xenon Home Video, [1992]
Physical description: 1 videocassette (80 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: A civil war erupts in a quiet rural Argentine village when a local Peronist politician claims a municipal clerk is a communist
Language: In Spanish with English subtitles
Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: VHS
- Oedipo alcalde: Oedipus mayor
- Publication information: Chicago, IL : Facets Video, 2007
Physical description: 1 videodisc (100 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in
Description: A local mayor is sent to a small town in the Colombian Andes to negotiate peace with the guerrilla revolutionaries, while there begins a romance with a widow of a war lord
Language: Soundtrack in Spanish and English with optional Spanish and English subtitles
Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: DVD
- Pasión y crimen en Juárez
- Publication information: Chatsworth, CA : Woodhaven, 2003
Physical description: 1 videodisc (88 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in
Description: Based on the true story of the many women brutally murdered in Juarez, this harrowing drama chronicles the efforts of the police commander and the police chief to bring the criminals to justice
Language: Soundtrack in Spanish
Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: DVD
- Princesas
- Publication information: [New York, N.Y.] : IFC Films Santa Monica, CA : Distributed by Genius Entertainment, c2007
Physical description: 1 videodisc (114 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in
Description: Caye, a Madrid prostitute, comes to the aid of Zulema, a Dominican streetwalker beaten by a government official blackmailing her for free sex. They form a strong bond and imagine themselves as royalty, to offer them a glimpse of hope
Language: Soundtrack in Spanish with English or Spanish subtitles closed-captioned
Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: DVD
- Que he hecho yo para merecer esto?: What have I done to deserve this?
- Publication information: New York, NY : Cinevista, c1988
Physical description: 1 videocassette (100 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: Gloria, a very resourceful working class housewife, is a true feminist heroine who's on the go 18 hours a day, trying to keep her outrageously wacky family afloat
Language: In Spanish with English subtitles
Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: VHS
- Quinceãñera
- Publication information: Culver City, Calif. : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, [2007]
Physical description: 1 videodisc (91 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in
Description: On the evening before Magdalena's 15th birthday, her simple, blissful life is complicated by the discovery that she's pregnant. Forced to leave her house, she finds a new family with her uncle and gay cousin
Language: Soundtrack in English, Spanish and Portuguese with subtitles in English, French, Portuguese and Spanish closed-captioned
Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: DVD
- Salon Mexico
- Publication information: Chicago, IL : Facets Video : Chicago Latino Cinema, [2000]
Physical description: 1 videocassette (110 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: The glamour and romance of a popular 1930's dance hall are replaced by violence and mystery when Maria and her lover Paco kill each other in a terrible fight. Inspector Castellon is called in to investigate the deaths, tracing the couple's stormy and passionate past as he interviews those who knew them
Language: In Spanish with English subtitles
Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: VHS
- Secuestro express
- Publication information: Burbank, CA : Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment, [2006]
Physical description: 1 videodisc (ca. 87 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in. + contents insert
Description: Carla and Martin are abducted by three men who make their living kidnapping young adults to extort quick money from their wealthy parents. The couple spend a terrifying night as they wait for Carla's father to hand over the ransom
Language: Soundtrack in Spanish with optional English subtitles closed-captioned
Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: DVD
- Seres queridos: Only human
- Publication information: Los Angeles, Calif. : Distributed by Magnolia Home Entertainment, [2006]
Physical description: 1 videodisc (ca. 86 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in
Description: When Leni comes home to introduce her fiance Rafi to her idiosyncratic Jewish family, everything goes smoothly until the lovers belatedly reveal that Rafi is Palestinian
Language: Soundtrack in Spanish with English subtitles. Closed-captioned
Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: DVD
- Sin remitente: No return address
- Publication information: Chicago, IL : Facets Video : Chicago Latino Cinema, [2000]
Physical description: 1 videocassette (97 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: A lonely, aging postal worker, Andres is disturbed by the loud parties thrown by his young neighbor, Mariana. When he alerts the police to one of her parties, she plots revenge, sending him anonymous love letters, inventing a suicidal secret admirer. He hires a detective to locate the phantom woman. Meanwhile, his neighbor finds herself involved in an unrequited love affair as heartless as her own hoax
Language: In Spanish with English subtitles
Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: VHS
- Sol de Otoño: Autumn sun
- Publication information: Bethesda, MD : Capitol Home Video, [1999]
Physical description: 1 videocassette (108 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: A love story set in Buenos Aires. Because of the impending visit from her American brother, a Jewish woman is forced to create a contrived relationship with a man of her own faith. Complications result
Language: In Spanish with English subtitles
Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: VHS
- Solas: Alone
- Publication information: [United States] : First Look Home Entertainment, [2003], c1999
Physical description: 1 videodisc (101 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in
Description: A touching story about women whose emotional lives are as rich as their surroundings are poor. Maria is a troubled woman who drinks, smokes, and steals, desperate for oblivion and angry at the entire world. Emotional rescue comes in the form of her own mother who comes to visit while her father is in the hospital. Her mother cooks, crochets and befriends the gentlemanly neighbor who lives downstairs, while patiently trying to reach out to her own daughter
Language: Soundtrack in Spanish with English subtitles
Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: DVD
- Soñar no cuesta nada: A ton of luck
- Publication information: Coral Gables, Fla. : Venevision International, c2007
Physical description: 1 videodisc (100 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in
Description: While on a rescue mission in the jungle, a group of Colombian soldiers find and decide to keep millions of dollars belonging to guerrillas. The exit to the jungle is blown up by rebels and the new millionaires have to find their way back to civilization which proves harder than expected. Based on a true story
Language: Soundtrack in Spanish with optional English subtitles
Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: DVD
- Sólo con tu pareja
- Publication information: [Irvington, N.Y.] : Criterion Collection, c2006
Physical description: 1 videodisc (94 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (27 p. : col. ill. 18 cm.)
Description: Don Juan-ish yuppie Tomás Tomás spends his nights juggling so many beautiful women that he can't keep their names straight -- until one of his many conquests, a spurned nurse, gives him a taste of his own medicine --Container
Language: Soundtrack In Spanish with optional English subtitles
Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: DVD
- Tango
- Publication information: Culver City, Calif. : Columbia Tristar Home Video, [1999]
Physical description: 1 videodisc (115 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in
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 Elena, a beautiful and talented young dancer who is the girlfriend of the powerful and dangerous Angelo Larroca, an investor in the picture. And Mario's creative vision is challenged by his investors when he plans a scene that recreates Argentina's dark years of political suppression and disappearances
Language: In Spanish with optional English, French or Spanish subtitles closed-captioned in English for the hearing impaired
Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: DVD
- Tango bar
- Publication information: Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, c1989
Physical description: 1 videocassette (90 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: Tango Bar burns with the white heat of Argentina's energetic, erotic national dance. Once, Ricardo, Elena and Antonio dazzled nightclub audiences with the feverish magic of the tango. That was before police-state intervention. And before Elena dropped Antonio for Ricardo. Now, as the three performers uneasily await their reunion, they look back on their years together ... and present a breathtaking, generations-spanning showcase of tangos and, well, tangles from the world-acclaimed dancers of the Tango Argentino revue
Language: In Spanish with English subtitles
Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: VHS
- Te doy mis ojos: Take my eyes
- Publication information: New York : New Yorker Video, [2006]
Physical description: 1 videodisc (ca. 106 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in. + contents insert
Description: A terrified Pilar hastily flees from her husband Antonio's rage in the middle of the night with her young son as if her life depends on it. Reaching her sister Ana's house, Pilar breaks down in turmoil. Banging on Ana's front door is Pilar's husband, Antonio, who in a fit of rage screams for Pilar to return home. With Ana's support, Pilar is determined to save herself from Antonio's rage. Yet the very passionate Antonio is far from a one-dimensional brute, and the bond between Pilar and Antonio is deep
Language: Soundtrack in Spanish with optional English subtitles
Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: DVD
- Temporada de patos
- Publication information: Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, [2006]
Physical description: 1 videodisc (ca. 88 min.) : sd., b&w 4 3/4 in
Description: This film takes you into one particular Sunday morning in the lives of two fourteen-year-old boys, Flama and Moko. With their neighbor Rita and pizza delivery boy Ulises, they create their own adventures to overcome their boredom
Language: Soundtrack in Spanish with optional English, French or Spanish subtitles closed-captioned
Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: DVD
- Tesis: Thesis
- Publication information: [Huntington Beach, Calif.] : Tanelorn Films : Distributed by Vanguard Films, c1999
Physical description: 1 videodisc (121 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in
Description: Angela, a university student in Madrid, is writing a thesis on violence in the media. During her research she discovers a snuff movie, a film in which a murder has actually been committed on film. She soon uncovers evidence that the film was shot on the university campus, and that school administrators may be involved in a series of disappearances of students
Language: Spanish with English subtitles
Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: DVD
- The garden of delights
- Publication information: Los Angeles, Calif. : Connoisseur Video Collection : Tamarelle's International Films [distributor], 1988
Physical description: 1 videocassette (95 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: A ruthless tycoon suffers amnesia and paralysis and loses his ability to communicate after an auto accident. His greedy family tries to shock his memory back, in order to get his signature and his Swiss bank account. Meanwhile, he tries to capture his own identity and plots his twisted revenge
Language: In Spanish with English subtitles
Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: VHS
- The green wall
- Publication information: [Chicago, Ill.] : Facets Video New York : Attera Films, Inc. [distributor], c1990
Physical description: 1 videocassette (110 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: The story of a young settler who tries to escape the bureaucracy of life in Lima with his wife and son by starting a farm in the Peruvian jungle, only to experience more problems and setbacks
Language: In Spanish with English subtitles
Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: VHS
- The hunt
- Publication information: [S.l.] : Film Forum, 1989
Physical description: 1 videocassette (93 min.) : sd., b&w 1/2 in
Description: Four men, three of whom are veterans of the Spanish Civil War, go rabbit hunting. As the day progresses, bitterness overwhelms them until they senselessly kill each other
Language: In Spanish with English subtitles
Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: VHS
- This strange passion
- Publication information: Las Cruces, NM : Distributed by Hen's Tooth Video, [1989]
Physical description: 1 videocassette (88 min.) : sd., b&w 1/2 in
Description: A psychological study of a man obsessed. Francisco's romantic love and marriage fades as a paranoid obsession with his wife's supposed infidelity causes him to display fits of jealousy and repentance for his unfounded suspicions
Language: In Spanish with English subtitles
Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: VHS
- Todo sobre mi madre
- Publication information: Culver City, Calif. : Columbia TriStar Home Video, c2000
Physical description: 1 videodisc (102 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in
Description: Manuela is the perfect mother. A hard-working nurse, she's built a comfortable life for herself and her teenage son. But when tragedy strikes and her son is killed in a car accident, her world crumbles
Language: Soundtrack In Spanish with subtitles in English and French closed-captioned
Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: DVD
- Tristana
- Publication information: Las Cruces, N.M. : Hen's Tooth Video, [1992]
Physical description: 1 videocassette (98 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: A scathing examination of moral decay set in 1920's Spain. Tristana, a victim of her own captivating beauty, is desired by two men. One is her lecherous guardian whose physical advances repulse her and cause her to have nightmares of his death by decapitation. The other is a young artist who wants to marry her but lacks the courage
Language: In Spanish with English subtitles
Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: VHS
- Ultima llamada: The last call
- Publication information: Chicago, IL : Facets Video : Chicago Latino Cinema, [2000]
Physical description: 1 videocassette (94 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: For actor Gilberto Cortes, nothing is more important than his young son Mario. But when he takes on the role Valentín Sanchez in the play Bandera Negra , his life takes a turn far more dramatic than any part he has performed. Gilberto's attachment to the play becomes so strong that it seems to shape his relationship with his son. As Mario grows from a boy to a young man, a tragic turn of events leaves him condemned and his father fighting for his salvation
Language: In Spanish with English subtitles
Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: VHS
- Un Señor muy viejo con unas alas enormes: A very old man with enormous wing[s]
- Publication information: New York, NY : Fox Lorber Home Video, [1991]
Physical description: 1 videocassette (86 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: Amid the debris of a Columbian cyclone lands a man whose seemingly miraculous anatomy attracts the curious and devout from around the world. Silent and disheveled, this fantastical creature is housed in a chicken coop as onlookers wait for his heavenly message which turns out to be a very mixed blessing
Language: Spanish with English subtitles
Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: VHS
- Viridiana
- Publication information: Las Cruces, NM : Distributed by Hen's Tooth Video, [1992]
Physical description: 1 videocassette (90 min.) : sd., b&w 1/2 in
Description: Viridiana, about to take final religious vows, visits her uncle at his country estate. He drugs her and attempts rape, finds he cannot go through with it, and hangs himself, leaving the estate to Viridiana and his illegitimate son, Jorge. While Jorge purues plans to modernize the estate, Viridiana attempts to convert it into a haven for derelicts. Left alone, the beggars take over the house for a feast which becomes an orgy one of the beggars rapes Viridiana when she and Jorge return home. After the beggars are dispersed by police, Viridiana assumes more modern dress and joins in a card game with Jorge and his mistress. A powerful film widely considered to one of Buñuel's most important works
Language: In Spanish with English subtitles
Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: VHS
- XXY
- Publication information: [New York] : Film Movement, c2008
Physical description: 1 videodisc (ca. 91 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in
Description: The dramatic story of a 15-year-old hermaphrodite, born with what the doctors call 'ambiguous genitalia,' whose parents moved from Buenos Aires to an isolated cabin outside of Piriápolis, Uruguay, to protect their child from prejudice
Language: Soundtrack in Spanish with English subtitles closed captioned
Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: DVD
- Y tu mamá también
- Publication information: Santa Monica, CA : Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment, c2002
Physical description: 1 videodisc (ca. 105 min.) : col., sd. 4 3/4 in. + contents insert
Description: Two teens set off on a wild cross-country trip with seductive, 28-year-old Luisa. Lisa schools them in the finer points of passion, but will their mutual desire for her destroy their friendship forever?
Language: In Spanish with English subtitles closed-captioned in English fro the hearing impaired
Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: DVD
- Yanco
- Publication information: [S.l. : s.n., 198-?]
Physical description: 1 videocassette (90 min.) : sd., b&w 1/2 in
Description: A young Indian boy in a village near Mexico City learns to play a home-made violin, nicknamed Yanco. When the old man who is his teacher dies the boy is kept from having the violin. However, each night he borrows it to play beautiful music, thus frightening the superstitious villagers. The film has only music, background dialogue and natural sounds hence there are no subtitles
Language: No dialogue, but occasional Spanish with English subtitles
Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: VHS
- ︠I︡A-- Kuba: I am Cuba
- Publication information: New York : Milestone Film & Video, 1995
Physical description: 1 videocassette (141 min.) : sd., b&w 1/2 in
Description: Four main stories show the rise of the Communist revolution in Cuba, including Battista's Havana and the grinding poverty and oppression of the Cuban people
Language: Dialogue in Spanish and Russian, subtitles in English
Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: VHS
Ken Orenic
Reference Librarian
630.942.2338
orenick@cod.edu
January, 2014
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