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When a disturbed young man (Antonio Banderas) kidnaps and ties up a porn queen (Victoria Abril), a psychological power play ensues, with both serious sex and offbeat laughs in director Pedro Almodóvar's typically bizarre look at relationships. As the woman is held captive, she becomes torn by her growing bond with her abductor. The film was nominated for 14 Goya Awards -- the Spanish version of the Oscar -- including Best Picture.
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In the 1940s, Manuel Rodríguez Sánchez, known to the world as Manolete, owned the Spanish bullring. This searing biopic follows his notorious affair with movie siren Lupe Sino at the height of his fame, and his death in the ring at age 30.
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Family conflict threatens to ruin a collective same-sex marriage ceremony as a hotel owner tries to organize a wedding for her gay son and 19 other couples in this charming farce directed by Manuel Gómez Pereira.
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This zany comedy in Meet the Parents fashion is a cautionary tale of bringing home that special someone. Leni's family is a handful: there's her blind grandfather, the belly dancer sister with a 5-year-old daughter, the brother with a newfound relationship with religion, the pre-menopausal mother and the estranged father. Leni brings her fiancé, Rafi, to meet the family, but all chaos ensues when the Jewish clan discovers he's Palestinian.
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After losing his wife and home during a catastrophic hurricane, an English professor from Honduras immigrates with his daughter to California, where he begins working in the fields. But sometimes trouble follows a man, and tragedy soon strikes again.
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When their teenage daughter reports curious symptoms that point toward demonic possession, a desperate family calls a priest in to investigate and allows her exorcism to be secretly recorded.
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Hired by a family to investigate supernatural activity in their apartment, a paranormal research group find themselves haunted by a malevolent force. Their investigation is derailed as the strange manifestations become gradually more violent.
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Unemployed adman Roberto is struggling to revive his career when a whimsical visit to the spot where he and his wife honeymooned leads to a potentially deadly accident. Ever the spin doctor, he skillfully turns the event into a media feeding frenzy.
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After getting off to a rocky start, two exchange students in Barcelona -- Sun and Lucas -- find themselves falling in love. With only a year to be together, they're determined to make it the happiest one of their lives.
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For the students at a Catholic school for girls, one particular nun made their lives a living hell -- until she disappeared. But years later, when alumnae begin dropping off, the survivors can't help but feel a familiar, menacing presence among them.
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When the daughter of prominent Tokyo businessman Mr. Nagara (Takeo Nakahara) commits suicide, Nagara's heartbroken employee Ishida (Hideo Sakaki) hires part-time hit woman Ryu (Rinko Kikuchi) to kill the man (Sergi López) perceived as responsible for the daughter's death. Meanwhile, a curious sound engineer becomes obsessed with Ryu and her life in this lyrical and mysterious drama from acclaimed Spanish director Isabel Coixet.
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On the day they're celebrating their move into a beautiful new house, a Madrid couple and their teenage daughter become the targets of a brutal home invasion by a masked -- and violently determined -- trio of criminals.
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Director Fernando Trueba -- a staunch fan of Latin jazz -- gathers his favorite performers from around the world in a recording studio on Manhattan's 54th street and films them as they jam individually and collectively.
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Ever since her first sexual encounter at age 15, middle-class Barcelona Frenchwoman Valére (Belén Fabra) has reveled in her exploits and, at her grandmother's urging, begins writing about them in her diary in director Christian Molina's lush erotic escapade. After losing her job, Valére meets an older man and believes she has found true love. But when he turns out be a disappointment, Valére indulges her love of pleasure by working in a brothel.
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Stricken with a pathological fear she contracted from her mother's breast milk -- the "milk of sorrow," a condition suffered by women who were raped during Peru's civil wars -- Fausta (Magaly Solier) goes to extreme lengths to protect her own sexuality and safety. But when her anguished mother finally dies, Fausta finds herself compelled to embark on a frightening journey that could lead her to freedom and wholeness. Claudia Llosa directs this Oscar nominee for Best Foreign Film.
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Ricky hasn't seen his mother since she abandoned him as a kid, but he's hoping to open a lucrative brothel by the time she gets out of jail. His plan takes a dark turn when a rival thug demands a payoff and Ricky kidnaps a police officer's daughter.
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When Spanish police discover a crime scene in which a family has been brutally murdered, they turn their attention to the most riveting evidence -- 37 hours of videotape. Soon, new evidence comes to light that there may be more victims.
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Encyclopedia salesman Alfredo sees his fortunes change when he and his wife, Carmen, are asked to appear in so-called educational erotic films. But after Carmen becomes a porn star, she wants out while Alfredo convinces himself he's making high art.
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Something wicked is afoot in a small New York town, where the locals are being devoured by common garden slugs, and health inspector Mike Brady has an inkling as to why. As it turns out, toxic waste isn't only bad for the environment it's absolutely deadly for people.
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Emma Vilarasau stars as Claudia, a mother who's been abandoned by her husband and still mourns the death of her daughter, Angela, years ago. But one day, Claudia receives a call from a young girl who claims she's Angela. Could she really be alive? And can a cop named Massera and a journalist known as Quiroga help Claudia unravel the knotted truth?
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Space travel's biggest accomplishment is about to be its biggest disaster when a team of astronauts on the inaugural mission to Mars crashes onto the surface of the Red Planet, losing contact with Earth. With no other recourse and help millions of miles away, the crew is forced to make unimaginable choices in order to stay alive. Will they be able to survive as the minutes -- and oxygen -- slowly slip away?
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Two women meet in Rome and end up in a hotel room where they bare their bodies and souls to each other during one memorable, passionate night. As their steamy encounter brings them emotionally closer, they share their deepest secrets and desires.
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During a serious paintball competition, eight strangers fall under life-threatening attack by an invisible enemy in the woods. Reluctant to trust each other but too afraid to be alone, the group members struggle to make it through the ordeal alive.
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Distraught over the murder of his girlfriend, an artist gains a lust for revenge after striking a deal with an agent of the devil. But as his taste for blood transforms him into a monster, he begins to doubt he'll ever escape his infernal debt.
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After her mother's death, young Tristana goes to live with her guardian, an older man who breaks through his facade of respectability and seduces her. She repays him a hundredfold, preying on his jealousy and taunting him with perverse whimsies.
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