6.3

Letters to Juliet

2010, USA

• Actors: Amanda Seyfried, Marcia DeBonis, Gael García Bernal, Giordano Formenti, Paolo Arvedi, Dario Conti, Ivana Lotito, Luisa Ranieri, Marina Massironi, Lidia Biondi, Milena Vukotic, Luisa De Santis, Christopher Egan, Vanessa Redgrave, Remo Remotti, Angelo Infanti, Giacomo Piperno, Fabio Testi, Sara Armentano, Benito Deotto, Marcello Catania, Silvana Bosi, Elio Veller, Sandro Dori, Adriano Guerri, Stefano Guerrini, Daniel Baldock, Franco Nero, Robbie Neigeborn, Hilary Edson
• Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
• Director(s): Gary Winick
• Available languages:
  • English English.

An American girl on vacation in Italy finds an unanswered "letter to Juliet" -- one of thousands of missives left at the fictional lover's Verona courtyard, which are typically answered by a the "secretaries of Juliet" -- and she goes on a quest to find the lovers referenced in the letter.

  7.3

También la lluvia

2010, Spain, France, Mexico

• Actors: Gael García Bernal, Luis Tosar, Karra Elejalde, Juan Carlos Aduviri, Cassandra Ciangherotti, Raúl Arévalo, Carlos Santos, Vicente Romero, Milena Soliz, Daniel Currás, Sonia Ovando, Pau Cólera, Luis Bredow, Najwa Nimri, Jorge Ortiz
• Genre: History
• Director(s): Icíar Bollaín
• Available languages:
  • Spanish Spanish.

Spanish director Sebastián, his executive producer Costa and all his crew are in Bolivia, in the Cochabamba area, to shoot a motion picture about Christopher Columbus, his first explorations and the way the Spaniards treated the Indians at the time. Costa has chosen this place because the budget of the film is tight and here he can hire supernumeraries, local actors and extras on the cheap. Things go more or less smoothly until a conflict erupts over the privatization of the water supply. The trouble is that one of the local actors, is a leading activist in the protest movement.

  5.9

A Little Bit of Heaven

2010,

• Actors: Kate Hudson, Peter Dinklage, Lucy Punch, Gael García Bernal, Kathy Bates, Whoopi Goldberg, Beau Brasso, Rosemarie DeWitt, Treat Williams, Alan Dale, Romany Malco, Steven Weber, Johann Urb, Jaqueline Fleming, Monica Acosta, Donna DuPlantier, Jason Davis, James Hébert, Kim Ormiston, Christopher Reeves, Nick Jones Jr., Misty Ormiston, Elton LeBlanc, Cynthia LeBlanc, Mike Agresta, Charlotte Bass, Olga Wilhelmine, Jennie Parrish, John C. Klein, Nikki Ali
• Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
• Director(s): Nicole Kassell
• Available languages:
  • English English.

It's a comedy about a guarded woman who finds out she's dying of cancer, but when she meets her match, the threat of falling in love is scarier than death.

  6.9

Mammoth

2009, Sweden, Denmark, Germany

• Actors: Gael García Bernal, Michelle Williams, Marife Necesito, Sophie Nyweide, Thomas McCarthy, Natthamonkarn Srinikornchot, Jan David G. Nicdao, Martin Delos Santos, Maria Esmeralda del Carmen, Perry Dizon, Elmira Arikan, Doña Croll, Deborah Fronko, Bryan 'Buck' Glinski, David Hagman, Rudina Hatipi, Caesar Kobb, Pasakorn Mahakanok, Sarah Marlow, Raul Morit, Joseph Mydell, Zana Penjweni, Ofelia Ruivivar, Matthew James Ryder, Piromya Sootrak, Ian Stevens, Peter Tuinstra, Eliezer Meyer, Seth Mpundu
• Genre: Drama
• Director(s): Lukas Moodysson
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Leo and Ellen are a successful New York couple, totally immersed in their work. Leo is the creator of a booming website, and has stumbled into a world of money and big decisions. Ellen is a dedicated emergency surgeon who devotes her long shifts to saving lives. Their 8-year old daughter Jackie spends most of her time with her Filipino nanny Gloria, a situation that is making Ellen start to question her priorities. When Leo travels to Thailand on business, he unwittingly sets off a chain of events that will have dramatic consequences for everyone.

  6.1

The Limits of Control

2009, USA, Japan

• Actors: Isaach De Bankolé, Alex Descas, Jean-François Stévenin, Óscar Jaenada, Luis Tosar, Paz de la Huerta, Tilda Swinton, Youki Kudoh, John Hurt, Gael García Bernal, Hiam Abbass, Bill Murray, Héctor Colomé, María Isasi, Norma Yessenia Paladines, Alejandro Muñoz Biggie, Cristina Sierra Sánchez, Pablo Lucas Ortega, La Truco, Talegón de Córdoba, Jorge Rodriguez Padilla, Jon Ánder Aguirrezábal, Miguel Alcíbar, Floanne Ankah, Emma Caballero, José Corbacho, Richard Diment, Felipe García, Juan Carlos Garrido, Saskia Gonzalez
• Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
• Director(s): Jim Jarmusch
• Available languages:
  • English English.

A solitary man who does not speak Spanish is an underground courier. Two men who are both thuggish and philosophical send him to Madrid with cryptic instructions. Over the course of a few days, he receives his instructions from a series of distinctive individuals who provide words of philosophy or of warning and also give him a matchbox with a tiny piece of paper, which he reads then eats, accompanied by espresso served in two cups. He is quiet, self-contained, focused on his work. He has rules. He encounters and at times transmits a violin, diamonds, a guitar, and a map. Is he a smuggler? Merely an independent conduit? Or, something else?

  6.7

Rudo y Cursi

2008, Mexico, USA

• Actors: Gael García Bernal, Diego Luna, Guillermo Francella, Dolores Heredia, Adriana Paz, Jessica Mas, Salvador Zerboni, Tania Esmeralda Aguilar, Joaquín Cosio, Alfredo Alfonso, Fermín Martínez, Eduardo Von, Jorge Zárate, Axel Ricco, Harold Torres, Gabino Rodríguez, Alexander Da Silva, Armando Hernández, Alexandré Barceló, Jorge Mondragón, Enoc Leaño, José Carlos Rodríguez, Martín Altomaro, Pablo Lach, David Faitelson, Antonio Rosique, Claudia Becker, Manuel Teil, René Campero, Sonia Guerrero
• Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
• Director(s): Carlos Cuarón
• Available languages:
  • Spanish Spanish.

Mexican half brothers Beto and Tato - who will eventually be appropriately nicknamed Rudo (rough) and Cursi (corny), respectively - have a typical love/hate relationship with each other. They both work on a banana plantation and live with their extended family consisting of their mother, abusive stepfather, sister Nadia, and Beto's wife Toña and their children. The family are rural peasant class and are barely making ends meet. The brother's fortunes change when into their lives comes Batuta, a soccer scout. Despite their advancing ages, both Beto and Tato are naturally gifted at soccer, Beto as a goaltender and Tato as a striker. Playing professionally has always been Beto's dream, although Tato has other professional thoughts on his mind. Batuta eventually recruits both for different teams in Mexico City. Beto and Tato's fortunes rise and fall, the falls based on those things which hold more passion for the brothers. For Tato, he loves fast women, specifically television spokes-model Maya, but he loves singing even more. He would give up his soccer career for one in Mexican country singing, if only he was any good at it. For Beto, his passion is gambling. Although Beto is up front and straightforward about most things in life, he would lie and cheat to hide his gambling problem and debts. They just have to keep these alternate passions in check to make their soccer lives lucrative ones.

  5.4

Chevolution

2008, Mexico

• Actors: Gerry Adams, Antonio Banderas, Gael García Bernal, Ernesto 'Che' Guevara, Tom Morello, Miguel Nájera
• Genre: Documentary
• Director(s): Luis Lopez
• Available languages:
  • Spanish Spanish.

A documentary on the iconography of Che Guevara.

  6.6

Blindness

2007, Canada, Brazil, Japan

• Actors: Yûsuke Iseya, Jason Bermingham, Eduardo Semerjian, Don McKellar, Ciça Meirelles, Antônio Fragoso, Lilian Blanc, Douglas Silva, Daniel Zettel, Yoshino Kimura, Joe Pingue, Susan Coyne, Fabiana Guglielmetti, Mitchell Nye, Danny Glover, Alice Braga, Mark Ruffalo, Joe Cobden, Julianne Moore, Mpho Koaho, Sari Friedland, Gael García Bernal, Tom Melissis, Tracy Wright, Amanda Hiebert, Jorge Molina, Patrick Garrow, Gerry Mendicino, Matt Gordon, Sandra Oh
• Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
• Director(s): Fernando Meirelles
• Available languages:
  • English English.

A city is ravaged by an epidemic of instant "white blindness". Those first afflicted are quarantined by the authorities in an abandoned mental hospital where the newly created "society of the blind" quickly breaks down. Criminals and the physically powerful prey upon the weak, hoarding the meager food rations and committing horrific acts. There is however one eyewitness to the nightmare. A woman whose sight is unaffected by the plague follows her afflicted husband to quarantine. There, keeping her sight a secret, she guides seven strangers who have become, in essence, a family. She leads them out of quarantine and onto the ravaged streets of the city, which has seen all vestiges of civilization crumble.

  7.6

Babel

2005, France, USA, Mexico

• Actors: Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Mohamed Akhzam, Peter Wight, Harriet Walter, Trevor Martin, Matyelok Gibbs, Georges Bousquet, Claudine Acs, André Oumansky, Michael Maloney, Dermot Crowley, Wendy Nottingham, Henry Maratray, Linda Broughton, Jean Marc Hulot, Aline Mowat, Liliane Escoza, Lynsey Beauchamp, Michel Dubois, Shirley Dixon, Patrick Lebre, John O'Mohoney, Mary Mitchell, Edward Lyon, Robert Fyfe, Abdelaziz Merzoug, Omar El Mallouli, El Hassan Ait Bablal, Sfia Ait Benboullah
• Genre: Drama
• Director(s): Alejandro González Iñárritu
• Available languages:
  • English English.

4 interlocking stories all connected by a single gun all converge at the end and reveal a complex and tragic story of the lives of humanity around the world and how we truly aren't all that different. In Morocco, a troubled married couple are on vacation trying to work out their differences. Meanwhile, a Moroccan herder buys a rifle for his sons so they can keep the jackals away from his herd. A girl in Japan dealing with rejection, the death of her mother, the emotional distance of her father, her own self-consciousness, and a disability among many other issues, deals with modern life in the enormous metropolis of Tokyo, Japan. Then, on the opposite side of the world the married couple's Mexican nanny takes the couple's 2 children with her to her son's wedding in Mexico, only to come into trouble on the return trip. Combined, it provides a powerful story and an equally powerful looking glass into the lives of seemingly random people around the world and it shows just how connected we really are.

  7.7

Y tu mamá también

2001, Mexico

• Actors: Ana López Mercado, Diego Luna, Gael García Bernal, Nathan Grinberg, Verónica Langer, María Aura, Giselle Audirac, Arturo Ríos, Andrés Almeida, Diana Bracho, Emilio Echevarría, Marta Aura, Maribel Verdú, Juan Carlos Remolina, Liboria Rodríguez, Silverio Palacios, Mayra Serbulo, Andrea López, Amaury Sérbulo, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Jorge Vergara
• Genre: Comedy, Drama
• Director(s): Alfonso Cuarón
• Available languages:
  • Spanish Spanish.

In Mexico City, late teen friends Tenoch Iturbide and Julio Zapata are feeling restless as their respective girlfriends are traveling together through Europe before they all begin the next phase of their lives at college. At a lavish family wedding, Tenoch and Julio meet Luisa Cortés, the twenty-something wife of Tenoch's cousin Jano, the two who have just moved to Mexico from Spain. Tenoch and Julio try to impress the beautiful Luisa by telling her that they will be taking a trip to the most beautiful secluded beach in Mexico called la Boca del Cielo (translated to Heaven's Mouth), the trip and the beach which in reality don't exist. When Luisa learns of Jano's latest marital indiscretion straight from the horse's mouth, she takes Tenoch and Julio's offer to go along on this road trip, meaning that Tenoch and Julio have to pull together quickly a road trip to a non-existent beach. They decide to head toward one suggested by their friend Saba, who seems a little confused himself of this beach's location. On the road trip, which ends up not being totally harmonious, the three go on a trip of discovery. For Luisa, she has to figure out what to do with her immediate future based on the news from Jano and a secret she is keeping. And Tenoch and Julio have to figure out what their friendship really means as they grow up.

  8.2

Amores perros

2000, Mexico

• Actors: Emilio Echevarría, Gael García Bernal, Goya Toledo, Álvaro Guerrero, Vanessa Bauche, Jorge Salinas, Marco Pérez, Rodrigo Murray, Humberto Busto, Gerardo Campbell, Rosa María Bianchi, Dunia Saldívar, Adriana Barraza, José Sefami, Lourdes Echevarría, Laura Almela, Ricardo Dalmacci, Gustavo Sánchez Parra, Dagoberto Gama, Gustavo Muñoz, Carlo Bernal, Rodrigo Ostap, Edgar González, Hilda González, Patricio Castillo, Ana María González, Roberto Medina, Ángeles Marín, Carlos Samperio, Kazuyo Togawa
• Genre: Drama, Thriller
• Director(s): Alejandro González Iñárritu
• Available languages:
  • Spanish Spanish.

Three interconnected stories about the different strata of life in Mexico City all resolve with a fatal car accident. Octavio is trying to raise enough money to run away with his sister-in-law, and decides to enter his dog Cofi into the world of dogfighting. After a dogfight goes bad, Octavio flees in his car, running a red light and causing the accident. Daniel and Valeria's new-found bliss is prematurely ended when she loses her leg in the accident. El Chivo is a homeless man who cares for stray dogs and is there to witness the collision.