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Jairo, sick of living on the fringes of society, fed up with poverty and a terrible family life, enters the world of crime as a Hired Assassin. Once he is really deep into the world of killing for money and dying if necessary, he decides to change the course of his life. But it is too late: he is on a road of no return, and there is no way he can escape his fate.

An exiled woman returns to her home in Argentina to visit her dying father and leads a double life, one of which involves strange sexual behavior.

Three people and a baby set off on separate journeys, along the same road; their disparate dreams and stories intertwine amidst the breathtaking deserted Patagonic route.

Ivan, Julia and Kike were born and grew up in Culebra where they shared a close friendship. Ivan and Julia are a couple but Kike is in love with Julia. They are separated when Ivan is drafted and sent to Vietnam. When Ivan is reported MIA for several years, Julia becomes closer with Kike. Ivan returns, takes Julia to New York and marries her, leaving Kike behind. Much later, Ivan is diagnosed with cancer, and this time it is he who decides to return to Culebra with Julia. With her help, he begins to participate in Culebra's social needs. He even ventures in a small boat and that is when he stumbles on Cayo, a small island closeby. Here he finds peace of mind, and the island has a healing effect on him. When federal authorities try to keep Ivan away from Cayo, they find themselves face to face with a community that will defend Ivan's need to visit the island. Based on a true story of love and friendship that will touch your heart, this wrenching drama was filmed in the beautiful natural scenery of Culebra, Puerto Rico.

A teenage street urchin tries to save his new love from prostitution.

From absolute poverty to absolute power! "El Don" is the saga of a common man with uncommonly fierce ambition who rises to rule an empire of unspeakable evil only to discover that the love he thought he had forgotten still rules what is left of his heart.

Oliver, an 11-year-old boy thrown out of his home by his abusive stepfather, joins a gang of street children and is exposed to narcotics, violence and sexual predators, and the world of crime seems to be the only road available.

In the middle of the 'Corralito', Argentina's bank freeze, Jordi travels to Buenos Aires in pursuit of a government contract. To enter into the high spheres of political power, he will have to pay something more than money. Just how far is he willing to go?

Passion: of people for the land and sea, of corporations for riches, and of men and women for each other. 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. She is 21 and beautiful. Meanwhile, banana prices fall, 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? What of the coast: can its beauty be saved?

The town of Papayal is located in the Amazon jungle. It is ruled by violence, greed and vice. It has grown around mines where gold is extracted, and where mercury has severely destroyed the environment. Apart from the local bar and brothel, the settlers have nothing to do but work on the mines. Every once in a while a man called Fellini arrives and projects films. One day the mother of teenager Isabel and her lover steal the gold from miner El Gallego and flee from Papayal. The girl is forced to pay their debt, by working on the brothel. Isabel tries to escape, but she is caught by the police, and meets Cae, a young man who is bought by a trader to work in the gold mines. Back on Papayal, Isabel falls in love with Cae, who tells her that both her mother and her lover have been killed.

Two months to the end of classes at the Spanish Liceo of Lisbon and time to choose the travel destination Prom. That caused a civil war between those who proposes a cultural trip to Paris, and those who prefer to enjoy a week in Benidorm.

After living in Madrid for many years as a teacher, Lucia returns to her hometown after her father's death results in the inheritance of his tomato farm. While fighting the community's racism toward the new illegal workers, Lucia falls in love with the farm's accountant, Curro, a man who shares her cause. The couple is forced to confront the racism of the town and as tensions come to head, they will have to make some decisions that could cost them everything.

Gonzalo is in the middle of an exam. He doesn't care if he fails or passes, he doesn't care if his mother gets angry, even though that's what he wants. He doesn't like what's around him and has decided that his world is going to stop.

Juan Carlos (David Tenreiro) y Alboroto (Juan Diaz) ocupan un apartamento libre de renta propiedad del tío de Carlos. Deciden rentar habitaciones para obtener dinero extra. Su ambición los meterá en más problemas de los esperados.

In this whimsical tale for children, a little girl finds herself in a strange land where her only hope of getting home lies in the hands of an eclectic group of newfound friends. After chasing her most beloved toy into the garbage pail, Alicia ends up trapped in the unfamiliar surroundings of a garbage dump. Her only friends are the discarded items that live there, including self-important do-gooder Toaster and valiant trenchcoat Detective Glup. They're desperate to help little Alicia find her way home, but they've got problems of their own. The wicked Don Bater is tirelessly working to lure Glup and his band of rubble-rousers into the incinerator, and the group's only hope is to outsmart him at his own nasty game. Packed with adventure, Glup is a clever, beautifully-animated, heart-warming story of friends, family and the incomparable joy of coming home. -------- A veces uno encuentra amigos en los sitios mas improbables. En este imaginativo cuento, una nina se encuentra en una tierra desconocida, y su regreso a casa depende de un eclectico grupo de nuevos amigos. Siguiendo a su juguete mas querido al bote de la basura, Alicia termina atrapada en el extrano mundo de un basurero. Sus unicos amigos son los articulos desechados que viven alli, entre ellos la engreida y santurrona Tostadora, y el valiente impermeable, Detective Glup. Estan ansiosos de ayudar a la pequena Alicia a volver a su casa, pero tienen sus propios problemas. El malvado Don Bater trata incansablemen...

A smart poor girl and a inmature rich boy get their life twisted when they accidently have a baby.

What if everything in life was down to chance? What if we couldn't escape fate? What do Galois, Bauhaus and The Unbearable Lightness of Being have in common? What if the sweat in our brow could save us from the dust we are destined to return to?

"Óscar. The Color of Destiny" is a revealing portrayal of a forgotten icon of French Surrealism: Spanish painter Óscar Domínguez, contemporary of Picasso. The film rediscovers the life of a talented artist who was ignored after he committed suicide, fifty years ago, victim of a serious illness which had disfigured his body: the Elephant Man's disease. The film is stirring and touching and compels admiration for the bohemian painter whose fate was self-destruction, after a wild crazy life. Lucas Fernández turns the life of a debauchee, who regarded himself a monster because of his disfiguring disease, into a universal story where art is the product of love and loneliness, of sex and violence before, during and after the Nazi invasion of Paris.

Herbert Biberman struggles as a Hollywood writer and director blacklisted as one of The Hollywood Ten in the 1950s.

"Punto y raya" is the story of a young Colombian recruit who, while patrolling his country's border, is befriended by a Venezuelan adversary, and the tragic consequences of their relationship.

A well renowned photographer, diagnosed with a terminal illness, dreams about a picture he has never taken, and travels to the end of the world to find that distant place.

Dos cincuentones, Augusto (taxista) y Julio (ex-cineasta) aceptan efectuar una operación clandestina a cambio de dinero. Junto a Melquíades (suegro de Augusto) y las prostitutas Lola y Emma, enfrentaran a un grupo de traficantes que se les interpone.

Well-known Latin funnyman Javier Gurruchagaen stars as unlikely police detective Robert Ruperez, nicknamed R2. This unsophisticated small-time cop dreams of becoming a suave ace detective like those he sees in the movies and embraces his job with hilarious enthusiasm, adopting a wide variety of disguises to solve the most minor cases. Then one day his life unexpectedly changes when a millionaire's wife is threatened with kidnapping and for some reason calls on R2 for help. Hurled into a dangerous world he's only imagined, R2 is launched on the kind of crime-fighting adventure he's always dreamed about!

Un asesinato, dos torpes detectives, seis sospechosos, mil carcajadas. Con su investigación Sánchez y Mejía nos llevan por un mundo de corrupción, amores, traición y sexo. Película costarricense nominada para el "Golden India Catalina" como mejor película 2002 en el Festival de Cine de Cartagena.