Gerardo Taracena
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Biography: Gerardo Taracena (born 1970) is a Mexican film and theatre actor and dancer. He is known for his roles in Apocalypto, Man on Fire, The Mexican and Sin Nombre as well as the Netflix series Narcos: Mexico. He was born in Mexico City.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Mexico City, Mexico
Birthday: January 01, 1970
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Gender: Male
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Apocalypto
Overview: Set in the Mayan civilization, when a man's idyllic presence is brutally disrupted by a violent invading force, he is taken on a perilous journey to a world ruled by fear and oppression where a harrowing end awaits him. Through a twist of fate and spurred by the power of his love for his woman and his family he will make a desperate break to return home and to ultimately save his way of life.
Genres: Action Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-12-07
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Chupa
Overview: While visiting family in Mexico, a lonely boy befriends a mythical creature hiding on his grandfather's ranch and embarks on the adventure of a lifetime.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-04-07
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Setback
Overview: A race against time between a man whose son requires urgent treatment and a stockbroker who suddenly lost his investors' money and ruined his own family.
Genres: Action
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2011-01-01
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For Old Times' Sake
Overview: Two old friends meet after years of not seeing each other: Miguel, a prisoner who is about to be killed by a troop of the Mexican Revolution; and Luciano, the General of the troop and the man tasked with commanding Miguel’s execution.
Genres: History Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2022-02-04
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Podcast, rapaces nocturnos
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Genres: Comedy Crime Horror
Original Language: es
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Héroes
Overview: During the Mexican-American War, a group of students from the Colegio Militar suffer the invasion, hunted by the enemy, and are persecuted in the place they consider their home, with those they consider their brothers under threat.
Genres: Action
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2023-09-07
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Saving Private Pérez
Overview: La vida ha llevado a Julián Pérez por caminos equivocados, pero el destino le presentará a este hombre la oportunidad de encontrar su redención cuando es enviado a la misión más peligrosa y noble de toda su vida, una misión ordenada por la única autoridad que todavía respeta, su madre, Doña Elvira. Julián debe viajar hasta el otro extremo del mundo, a un lugar llamado Irak, a traer de vuelta vivo, a su hermano menor el soldado de infantería Juan Pérez. Con la promesa hecha, Julián Pérez regresa a su natal Sinaloa donde reclutará a un comando de elite, destinado a cumplir una misión suicida: viajar a Irak y salvar al soldado Pérez.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2011-03-18
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The Violin
Overview: In an unnamed Latin American country that closely resembles Mexico, the government fights a rural insurgency with torture, assault, rape, and murder. Soldiers descend on a town, cutting off the rebels from their cache of ammunition hidden in a field. A family of grandfather, son, and grandson are among the rebels in the hills. The grandfather, with his violin over his shoulder, tries to pass the checkpoint, ostensibly to tend his corn crop. The commanding officer lets him pass but insists on a daily music lesson.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2005-03-11
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Get the Gringo
Overview: A career criminal nabbed by Mexican authorities is placed in a tough prison where he learns to survive with the help of a 9-year-old boy.
Genres: Action Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-03-15
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Los hijos de Don Gregorio
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2013-12-31
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Las amantes del narco II
Overview: Saúl Montemayor is suffering loss in drug shipments because he has a snitch in his criminal organization, so he will put a plan in place so that this does not continue to happen and he will use three of his lovers to be able to eliminate whoever gets in the way of his plans.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2018-01-01
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El vecindario 3
Overview: The adventures of Juan and the situations that he will find in the neighborhood where he lives to try to rescue him from the bad guys who want to turn it into a drug sales place.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2016-12-31
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Ladies Mafia
Overview: Tori, a beautiful young woman, accidentally ends up with a criminal's merchandise and is accused of the death of a member of a Colombian cartel: “El Jefe.” Desperate Tori asks for help from her friends Camila and Priz. The three decide to sell the product to a well-known local cartel to solve their problems and request the help of "Shakira", a hitwoman who knows the market, but they do not know that the buyer with whom they are doing business is the original owner of the merchandise.
Genres: Drama Action Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2011-01-01
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Without a Trace
Overview: A woman steals from her drug-dealer boyfriend and runs away. She meets a sympathetic woman on the way who helps her escape.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2001-03-23
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Come Out and Play
Overview: A couple take a vacation to a remote island - their last holiday together before they become parents. Soon after their arrival, they notice that no adults seem to be present - an observation that quickly presents a nightmarish reality.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-10-09
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Richness of Internal Space
Overview: Locked up and isolated, constantly exposed and threatened to be killed, for the first time in his life Lazaro understood that he was a free man.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2013-07-26
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Sobreviviendo mis XV
Overview: Quinceañeras, a magical age... except when your family wants to put you in a bulky dress and make you waltz in front of everyone, which is exactly what happens to Danae shortly after she transfers to a very proper private school. Now Danae has to manage to balance the demands of her family, those of her new friends and organize a cool, but traditional, but modern, but emotional, but aesthetic, but also grandmother-pleasing Quinceañera party... without dying in the process.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2023-09-21
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Potosí
Overview: Potosi, a rural town in Latin America, is the crossfire of the ravaging that has devastated the north of the country. An accident along a deserted road connects three stories, an 82 year old goat herder that has not shot his gun in 40 years, a woman who is a victim of domestic violence and a humble peasant living on guard to protect his family from the country’s war against organized crime.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-07-21
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La Ramona
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Original Language: es
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Flying low
Overview: Chuyín Venegas and Cornelio Barraza were the biggest stars of popular music and cinema of the 80's. "The Goldfinches of Rosarito" had no equal as musical superstars, but after ten years of success, they parted ways. Now held in a mansion in Paris, Chuyín is launching a new album and international tour. But the ghosts of the past and the loneliness will make him change his solo plans and return to the seaside village where he and Cornelius met as children, to live the last musical adventureof "The Goldfinches of Rosarito".
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 2013-11-15
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Mexican Gangster
Overview: Tells the story of the most prominent bank robber in the history of Mexico, his crimes, his different personalities, his career as a charro with a mariachi band, his getaways and the strange relationship he had with the one who finally came to stop him. Based on the true story of Alfredo Ríos Galeana.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2014-11-15
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Familia Gang
Overview: A senior official of the Mexican political system decides to fake the capture and death of The Coyote, public enemy number one in Mexico, to make this happen, he cuts a deal with his family, who require a dead body to pose as a double. Topillero is responsible of executing the plan. But on this journey he is reunited with his wife and son, whom he abandoned years ago.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-03-25
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A Shred Of Mist
Overview: After the dead of his mother, Daniel is put under the care of his aunt Elizabeth, a foreign woman with a severe character, who subjects the child to multiple abuses and psychological torture.
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-04-10
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The Walls Talk
Overview: A tragic and epic love that transcends time and generations unites Maria and Javier forever. During important periods in Mexico (The War of Independence, the Revolution and current times) these souls play out their destiny facing political squabbles, social pressures, family hatred and historical battles, seeking to make a relationship flower which seems fated to die.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2012-12-07
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Chilango Chronicles
Overview: Confusion and eccentricity are all part of life in the vast human ocean of Mexico City -- including the three very different personalities portrayed in this urban fable. By the end of the day, their paths are destined to cross. "El Jairo" (Rodrigo Ostap) is a schizophrenic obsessed with UFOs; Claudia (Regina Orozco) is a woman addicted to pornography; and Juvenico (Patricio Castillo) is a retired teacher trying to come to grips with the future.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2010-08-13
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De ida y vuelta
Overview: After working for three years in the USA, Filiberto returns to his home town in Mexico. A proud man, he is searching for the recognition that will give him a new position in life. However, he finds that things have changed. His mother is dead, and Luis, his best friend, is married to his ex-girlfriend. Filiberto gets involved in the town’s disputes over a water spring.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2001-10-18
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El último chichiluco
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 2009-05-11
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The Load
Overview: Late sixteenth century. A Tameme Indian man and a noble Spanish woman flee through the forests of the New World in search of freedom. Their frantic journey softens the tension between them and dissolves their longstanding differences and creates intimate bonds that threaten their very survival.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2016-03-09
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Die Legende der Maske
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Genres: Drama Adventure TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2014-10-04
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Presencias
Overview: A man who loses his wife and goes to seclude himself in a cabin in the woods, where strange things happen.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2022-09-07
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Ramona
Overview: Ramona is 84, and she has announced that she is ready to die. While her family is making the preparations, however, she changes her mind.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-10-22
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From Inside
Overview: Carmen Altamirano was buried alive at 2 years old by her parents. 30 years later, she will have to dig up her past.
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2023-11-02
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At the Frontera
Overview: When an ATF agent out of Houston is tasked to team up with the Mexico City District Attorney on a human trafficking case, he uncovers family ties with a serpentine real-estate developer. Now he must work with a criminal defense attorney to stop the reign of tyranny.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-01-25
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Tratante de blancas
Overview: The story of a woman who is kidnapped along with other women and sold for sexual exploitation. Government authorities are involved in this business, and they are capable of anything to continue generating profits.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2018-01-01
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Zhai
Overview: I am not what happened to me... I am what I choose to become.
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 2017-06-01
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Para armar un helicóptero
Overview: Oliverio lives in a building taken over by immigrants from the Mexican countryside who work constantly to provide the basic services lacking in the dwelling.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-10-09
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El Infierno
Overview: After being deported back to Mexico, a man has no choice but to join the vicious drug cartel that has corrupted his hometown in order to survive.
Genres: Action Crime Western Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2010-09-03
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Tlatelolco, Summer of 68'
Overview: As Mexico prepares to host the 1968 Olympics, students and civilians are uniting on the streets to protest the authoritarian government. Tensions are running high and the eyes of the world are on Mexico and President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz. Ana Maria, a student photographer and daughter of a high-ranking official, finds herself embroiled in the movement and is swept off her feet by Félix, a working-class architecture student. This film remembers the events that led to one of the darkest chapters in Mexico’s recent history: the massacre at Tlatelolco, 10 days before the opening of the Olympic Games.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2013-05-19
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4 Maras
Overview: Mexican feature film
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2012-07-05
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La Niña De La Mina
Overview: Arter a tourist disappears inside a mine in Guanajuato, Mat Medina a young expert in mine engineering is hired to make a security diagnostic in the mines of a big company.
Genres: Thriller Horror Mystery
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2016-06-24
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A World for Raúl
Overview: When thirteen-year-old Raúl is asked to entertain the local landowner's son, a game of power and pride starts between the two boys.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-07-15
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Number Eighty
Overview: Chano is deported back to Mexico after living most of his life as an ilegal immigrant in the USA. Now, away from his wife and kids, he lives alone and depressed in the country where he is supposed to belong. While rebuilding an old motorcycle with Don Memo, a retired motorcycle racer, with whom he is forced to work, he will discover where his real home is.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2016-03-04
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Sanguinarios del M1
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 2010-01-01
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Don't Blame the Kid
Overview: After a one-night stand results in pregnancy, a young woman decides to become partners with the emotionally immature father-to-be.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2016-05-13
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Quite Like Paradise
Overview: Ugo Conti, charismatic Italian aristocrat and influencer, arrives in Mexico where he seduces the Mexican high society. When he meets Frida Becker again, the love of his past, he will end up in the center of a struggle for political power.
Genres: Drama Crime Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2024-09-12
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Snail House
Overview: Sofia leaves the city to a provincial town. There she meets Nico and the inhabitants of Casa Caracol, an alternative hostel in the middle of the jungle. Nodding party nights and brotherhood, Sofia falls in love with Nico and joins the "magical" village life.
Genres: Adventure Crime Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2017-10-22
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Sin Nombre
Overview: Sayra, a Honduran teen, hungers for a better life. Her chance for one comes when she is reunited with her long-estranged father, who intends to emigrate to Mexico and then enter the United States. Sayra's life collides with a pair of Mexican gangmembers who have boarded the same American-bound train.
Genres: Drama Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2009-03-20
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The Marquez-Castillo Siblings
Overview: A group of four siblings compete for the heritage of their father.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2019-08-16
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Deseo
Overview: Eight short stories of seduction and illicit encounters between lovers, filled with humor and eroticism, which use a circular structure located in the cosmopolitan atmosphere of a colonial city of Mexico.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2013-09-13
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The Mexican
Overview: Jerry Welbach, a reluctant bagman, has been given two ultimatums: The first is from his mob boss to travel to Mexico and retrieve a priceless antique pistol, known as "the Mexican"... or suffer the consequences. The second is from his girlfriend Samantha to end his association with the mob. Jerry figures alive and in trouble with Samantha is better than the more permanent alternative, so he heads south of the border.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-03-01
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La hora de Salvador Romero
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2017-12-12
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Lunik 3
Overview: In 1959, in the midst of the cold war, where the two most powerful nations try to show their supremacy through the space race, the arrival of a Soviet Technological Exhibition to Mexico City will allow a Mexican agent, due to his charm and wit, to change forever the destiny of the conquest of the cosmos.
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Original Language: es
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Waiting For Gordo
Overview: An out of luck journalist, a shady lawyer and a mysterious bachelor await for the arrival of "El Godo", an elusive acquaintance with contacts in the squalid and ruthless world of Mexican politics.
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 2018-01-01
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El Día de la Unión
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2018-09-14
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Sound of Freedom
Overview: The story of Tim Ballard, a former US government agent, who quits his job in order to devote his life to rescuing children from global sex traffickers.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-07-03
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Man on Fire
Overview: Jaded ex-CIA operative John Creasy reluctantly accepts a job as the bodyguard for a 10-year-old girl in Mexico City. They clash at first, but eventually bond, and when she's kidnapped he's consumed by fury and will stop at nothing to save her life.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-04-23
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Boys on Film 14: Worlds Collide
Overview: Worlds collide in more ways than one in this stunning collection. Confidence is violated, classes clash and desire is concealed, yet love still triumphs regardless of the consequences. Boys On Film 14: Worlds Collide features nine new, powerful, and dramatic short films: Lee Haven Jones's "Want It" starring Jamie Cutler and Alan Turkington; Sophy Holland and Alicya Eyo's "Brace" starring Jake Graf and Harry Rundle; Mauro Mueller's "A World For Raúl" starring Alexandré Barceló and Adrián Alonso; Dennis Shinners's "Barrio Boy" starring Dennis Garcia and Dan Leonard; Darwin Serink's "Aban + Khorshid" starring Mojean Aria and Bobby Naderi; Jan-Dirk Bouw's "I ♥ Hooligans"; Christopher Bradley's "The Violation" starring Slade Pearce, Elaine Hendrix, and Shayne Topp; Rafael Aidar's "The Package" starring Jefferson Brito and Victor Monteiro; and Søren Green's "An Afternoon" starring Ulrik Windfeldt-Schmidt and Jacob Ottensten.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-01-22
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Influence
Overview: Leonora, a 16 year old teenager with a dangerous gift, when she draws a person, either by divination or by the action of the same drawing this person dies. Grandma knows and doesn't want to expose the world to such evil power. Leonora lives locked at the top of a huge apartment building believing that she's a Princess and the world is full of monsters and other dangers so she thinks one day her Prince savior will come.
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 2019-10-04
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The Daughter of the Puma
Overview: A novel by Monica Zak, based on a true story, inspired this 1994 Danish-Guatemalan coproduction, a political thriller about Guatemala.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1994-09-30
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Princesas de cartón
Overview: Regina, a young female singer has a big secret that will turn her life upside down.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2014-01-01
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Los Kokainos
Overview: Tania wants to be a journalist and write about how bad people live under the current government. This is how she gets to know the hell of drugs and gangs.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2012-12-31
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