Miguel Couturier
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Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: January 01, 1945
Deathday: January 03, 2012
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El tesoro del Pilar
2000-01-01
El tesoro del Pilar
Overview: A group of youngsters find a letter in a bottle that belonged to Ernest Hemingway and supposedly leads to a hidden treasure.
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2000-01-01
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2033
2009-09-24
2033
Overview: In 2033, Mexico City is a hot, mechanical and chaotic megacity ruled by the military and a tyrannical government. It is an oppressed society with its religious faith and liberty of expression stolen. Pablo, the main character, is a young finantial yuppie that gets shelter in drugs and alcohol. He leaves his privileged life in order to help the unprotected and destroy the system that controls the population.
Genres: Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2009-09-24
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Miss Bala
2011-10-14
Miss Bala
Overview: The story of a young woman clinging on to her dream to become a beauty contest queen in a Mexico dominated by organized crime.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2011-10-14
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The Legend of La Llorona
2011-10-21
The Legend of La Llorona
Overview: Based on a famous Mexican legend, a group of kids must stop the ghost of a woman whose guilt over the drowning of her own children leads her to abduct youngsters who wander the woods at night.
Genres: Family Animation Fantasy Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2011-10-21
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The Book of Stone
2009-04-19
The Book of Stone
Overview: Julieta is a young child psychologist hired by millionaire Eugenio Ruvalcaba, to work with his only daughter, Sylvia, who has severe emotional problems, while staying in their isolated island mansion. Once there, she finds out there's much more to Sylvia's imaginary friend than what everybody knows... and the results can be horrifying... Remake of Carlos Enrique Taboada's classic film from 1969.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2009-04-19
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File of Attempted Murder
2010-08-27
File of Attempted Murder
Overview: Tells the story behind an assassination attempt perpetrated in 1897, by a dipsomaniac man, against the President of the Mexican Republic, General Porfirio Diaz.
Genres: War History Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2010-08-27
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First Movement for Twenty Men in an Empty Room
2008-03-07
First Movement for Twenty Men in an Empty Room
Overview: Don Plascencio has a collection of men he uses like radio stations: in a routine aural examination each man plays a different musical piece instead of the usual heartbeat.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2008-03-07
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Desterrados
2014-02-02
Desterrados
Overview: Andrés returns home on the occasion of his mother’s death. As he is reunited with his family, he discovers a new conflict which, once revealed, will force him to decide if he will stay and face it or run away again in order to save himself.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-02-02
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Zapata: The dream of a hero
2004-03-20
Zapata: The dream of a hero
Overview: This fictionalized portrayal of Emiliano Zapata as an Indigenous Mexican shaman, directed by Alfonso Arau, was reportedly the most expensive Mexican movie ever produced, with a massive ad campaign, and the largest ever opening in the nation's history. Unusual in the Mexican film industry, Zapata was financed independently.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2004-03-20
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Two Embraces
2007-05-26
Two Embraces
Overview: Mexican director Enrique Begne's drama Two Embraces (AKA Dos Abrazos, 2007) follows four lonely and disenfranchised urbanites in contemporary Mexico City: a preteen boy under tremendous emotional strain, the pretty cashier with whom he is infatuated, an enraged and embittered cabbie, and the estranged daughter of one of his fares. Per the film's title, these characters pair off, finding unexpected hope and salvation in one another.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2007-05-26
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The Other Family
2011-03-25
The Other Family
Overview: Jean Paul and Chema have been together ten years. They have successful careers, a comfortable home and many friends. But that's all turned turned upside down when close friend Ivana rescues Hendrix from his broken home and asks them to care for the boy. Hendrix's mother Nina is a drug addict who suffers at the hands of her abusive partner Patrick. The men begin to consider making Hendrix part of their family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2011-03-25
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Angel Dust
2007-04-01
Angel Dust
Overview: In the city of Latinopolis a man named Sacro is hired by a powerful company to carry out a very dangerous mission with the help of Caos, an angel hunter. Meanwhile in another part of the city Susana and Miguel, two Alter-globalization supporters are looking for their sister Susana, who mysteriously disappeared. In their search they will cross paths with an assorted mix of characters that are lost somehow in this unbelievable but true story of craziness and love.
Genres: Science Fiction Action
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2007-04-01
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Christmas, Inc.
2008-12-01
Christmas, Inc.
Overview: With Christmas approaching, Santa Claus has to contend with the fact that the North Pole is melting and find a way to rid the holiday of its capitalist nature.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2008-12-01
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The Magic Hour
2000-10-01
The Magic Hour
Overview: Minerva, a middle age writer, decides to break the uncertainty that prevents her from creating the novel that for years she has nested in her mind. Unintentionally, she returns to the port where she was born and she encounters a past full of ghosts and chimeras. Paradoxically, she founds herself because of this journey back home, so she begins writing the story of her life, of her own childhood, with its magical past and tragedy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2000-10-01
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Once Upon a Time in Mexico
2003-09-11
Once Upon a Time in Mexico
Overview: A corrupt CIA agent Sands hires hitman El Mariachi to assassinate a Mexican general hired by a drug kingpin attempting a coup d'état of the President of Mexico.
Genres: Action Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-09-11
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