Elsa Cárdenas
Children of GIANT is a documentary film that unearths deeply wrought emotions in the small West Texas town of Marfa, before, during and after the month-long production of George Stevens' 1956 feature film, Giant. Based on the controversial Edna Ferber novel of the same name, the film, Giant did not shy from strong social-issue themes experienced throughout post-WWII America. George Stevens, its producer and director, purposely gravitated to the drought-ridden community of Marfa for most all of the exterior scenes.
In the beautiful hills of the Copper Canyon in Chihuahua, Mexico, a young boy (Emilio) is adopted by the mailman (Teo). As part of their daily tasks, they not only deliver the mail but read letters to the villagers, as well as take dictation, since most are illiterate. Young Emilio quickly learns to read and write but feels saddened by the mostly difficult stories sent by relatives, that moved north to Denver, Colorado in pursuit of a better future. One day Teo becomes disabled and Emilio takes over the mail route and with great imagination, he changes the letters to happy and optimistic stories. Within days, the village is transformed. The elders, once hopeless, lonely and sad, are now happy and enthusiastic, enjoying the "supposed" success their loved ones write from the United States. But the enjoyment is short lived, as they realize that all the wonderful stories are the same...
Mar de Amor is a Spanish-language telenovela produced by Nathalie Lartilleux with protagonists Zuria Vega, Mario Cimarro and Mariana Seoane and antagonists Ninel Conde, Marcelo Córdoba and Manuel Landeta. This is a remake of the 1978 Venezuelan telenovela María del Mar.
Elvis fans, thank your lucky stars. This jam-packed collection of pulse-raising performances from TV, movies, concerts and special events showcases the King delivering blistering renditions of 30 No. 1 hits. An outstanding introduction to the magic of Elvis Presley! This collection of 30 wonderful performances by the King of Rock 'n' Roll showcasing 21 of his #1 US and UK hits and 9 other classics. Culled from his TV guest appearances, movies, and concert films and television specials -- from 1956, the year his star ascended, to the 1970s when he reached the pinnacle of his career -- this is Elvis at his best. Highlights include Elvis singing "Don't Be Cruel" for his first appearance on "The Ed Sullivan Show" and his performance of "Stuck on You" for "Welcome Home, Elvis," a TV variety special hosted by Frank Sinatra.
Elvis fans, thank your lucky stars. This jam-packed collection of pulse-raising performances from TV, movies, concerts and special events showcases the King delivering blistering renditions of 15 No. 1 hits. Highlights include Elvis singing "Don't Be Cruel" for his first appearance on "The Ed Sullivan Show" and his performance of "Stuck on You" for "Welcome Home, Elvis," a TV variety special hosted by Frank Sinatra.
Luz Clarita is a Mexican telenovela produced by Televisa that aired on Canal de las Estrellas in 1996. The series, a remake of Andrea Celeste and Chispita, stars Verónica Merchant and César Évora, as well as child actors Daniela Luján and Ximena Sariñana. It has a dual storyline intended to attract both children and adults.
The misunderstanding between two people; lack of consideration in marriage; the false image that the children of the parents have; the easy door; the quick fix. It does not matter to debase, it does not matter to stain. A family watching at the apex of violence.
A policeman attempts to stop a crazy psychiatrist who's controlling the minds of their patients, forcing them to kill.
Fisherman organized into a labor collective face opposition from the capitalists who own the boats and the processing plants.It gets violent, and there's a love story mixed in there as well.
Paquito lives with his mother in poverty. When she dies, he looks for his father's love, who is a very wealthy man.
Party weekend in a working class apartment building; tenants get ready for a quinceanera AND a wake. Big fun!
Monte law begins as a love story in September in the Mexican Revolution years. To seal their oath to love a boy and girl names recorded on a stalk. Years pass and go their separate ways, but one day the man returns to the same place where the tree meets girl turned woman and resume their love, but soon has to leave again because he has to return to the revolution
A man is continuously vilified by the other members of the small community in which he lives. One day he meets a strange "doctor" who offers him a great ability with the gun through mysterious magical arts. The man accepts and his vengeance begins. But the price to be paid for the newly acquired skills could be too high.
Mano Negra sends a group of alien dwarves led by Aker to the state laboratory to kidnap the professor Arego and obtain the formula for the cultivation of microorganisms. The formula is divided among his four daughters and most work at a circus. The aliens take capsules that make themselves invisible, kidnap the girls and are eventually revealed to be blue-skinned, red-eyed monsters who are reduced to a puddle of green goo when killed.
A young heiress is kidnapped by two aspiring thieves who are then captured by a mad scientist. It's up to the police, Santo, and Blue Demon to rescue them.
Santo, the saint of the wrestling ring, faces off against an evil voodoo priestess intent on making a more powerful atomic bomb!
Satan, a wrestler who sold his soul to the Lord of Darkness for fame but was thwarted by Santo's ancestor, who is now rising after a hundred years with his army of mummies to take revenge.
Blue Demon and pals square off against the Black Hand's army of super powered midgets. Five luchadores (Blue Demon, Mil Mascaras, El Medico Asesino, La Sombra Vengadora, Tinieblas plus Black Shadow) face off against a mad scientist and his army of powerful wrestling midgets.
In 'Santo Frente a la Muerte'(1969, a Spanish/Mexican/Colombian co-production), a group of international criminals steal a large emerald from a heavily guarded Colombian mine and they plan to sell it on the black market. Unfortunately, the evil Dr. Igor is also manipulating other criminals, as well as the ones who stole the emerald, for his own benefit. Santo, a Mexican wrestler/Interpol agent(a cinematic one, anyway) works with the Colombian authorities in an attempt to recover the emerald and to stop Dr. Igor and his subordinates, as well.
Aging outlaw, Pike Bishop prepares to retire after one final robbery. Joined by his gang, Dutch Engstrom and brothers Lyle and Tector Gorch, Bishop discovers the heist is a setup orchestrated in part by a former partner, Deke Thornton. As the remaining gang takes refuge in Mexican territory, Thornton trails them—resulting in fierce gunfights with plenty of casualties.
A new adventure of secret agent Alex Dynamo on land, in the air, and in the treacherous swamps. Alex Dynamo goes up against the S.O.S. organization, a sinister group of beautiful girls driven by a lust for blood.
One of Zapata's field marshals runs afoul of dictator Huerta's stooges in his home town.
A mad scientist teams with an evil, disfigured woman to kidnap and operate on young women to make her look beautiful again.
A group of scientists in search of lost Atlantis are plane wrecked on an uncharted island full of stock footage monsters fresh from One Million BC. Occasionally we get an original papier mache monster peaking out from behind an alcove, but for the most part this is typical Mexican filmmaking for the period. With Armond Silvestre and Alma Delia Fuentes.
Taggart's family is slaughtered by a rival rancher. Taggart mortally wounds the rancher and kills his son. Before he dies the rancher hires three bounty hunters to avenge him with the promise of $5000 as a reward. Taggart must flee into Apache territory to escape the wrath of the trio of hired killers.
Romantic complications and silliness when two farmhands are sent to the next town to track down their employer's daughter and baby-mama from thirty years earlier.
(Sequel to El Rostro Infernal.) Count Brankovan, a vampire, returns from the dead to avenge himself himself on some humans who previously had been bugging him.
Mike works on a boat in Acapulco. When the bratty daughter of the boat owner gets him fired, Mike must find new work. Little boy Rauol helps him get a job as a lifeguard and singer at a local hotel. Clashes abound when Mike runs into the rival lifeguard, who is the champion diver of Mexico.
A group of would-be beneficiaries gather for the reading of a will, and discover that they must spend the night in a spooky castle to gain their inheritance. A spooky housekeeper and a man who seems to be a vampire are just two of the obstacles that might deter them.
American engineer Steve Corey comes to Mexico to work at one of the mining projects owned by Katherine Beckman and her half-brother Paul. He meets Katherine, and the man he is replacing, Bill Maxton, tells him that Katherine is his for the asking..."all you have to do is touch her---she goes off like fireworks. There were plenty of guys before me, and there'll be plenty after me." Steve finds Katherine as advertised but he falls in love with her. Once he sees that the romance is for real, brother Paul is more than a little displeased at this turn of events and brings back one of Katherine's earlier flames, Gus Cole, to tempt Katherine away from Steve.
Investigating a series of kidnappings leads a police inspector to confront a scientist trying to gain immortality.
Bad hats try to manipulate townsfolk and neighboring Apache tribal settlement into a range war.
A young man hires somebody to impersonate his father when it comes times to meet his girlfriend's parents.
An orphan trains a racehorse so he can win the money to build a new church.
Borderline mentally-ill woman with neurotic compulsion to behave like a child and the psychiatrist who looooves her.
Young woman is sorta trapped into working as a bar-girl because of her unwitting complicity in a murder. Meanwhile, the tough broad who owns the bar faces problems of her own, mostly centered around a philandering boyfriend and an over-ambitious adopted daughter.
A young Mexican boy tirelessly tries to save his pet bull from death at the hands of a celebrated matador.
Bad woman plays three men off each other while enjoying the attentions of all three; a great many lives are disrupted as a result of her wickedness.
