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Common Ground

7.8 2002 Movie Drama

In Buenos Aires, a few days before traveling to Spain with his beloved wife Liliana Rovira to visit their son Pedro, the leftist Literature professor Fernando Robles is compulsory retired in the University, and he concludes that it is impossible to live with his pension. The crisis in Argentina does not allow Fernando to get a new job, and his wife decides to sell her family's apartment and move to a small farm near Villa Dolores to reduce their expenses. Fernando comes up with the idea to grow lavender and sell the oil to the perfume industry.

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6.7 FILM

Faced with his own mortality, an ingenious alchemist tried to perfect an invention that would provide him with the key to eternal life. It was called the Cronos device. When he died more than 400 years later, he took the secrets of this remarkable device to the grave with him. Now, an elderly antiques dealer has found the hellish machine hidden in a statue and learns about its incredible powers. The more he uses the device, the younger he becomes...but nothing comes without a price. Life after death is just the beginning as this nerve-shattering thriller unfolds and the fountain of youth turns bloody.

Cronos

1993 Drama
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The story focuses on Felipe Mentor, an ambitious and successful entrepreneur forties. Her company, called Mentor, is ascendant, to signing an agreement with a prestigious firm. Personally, Philip is married to a beautiful and charming woman named Luz, who seems to be the perfect woman. She runs her innermost desires and shown to Felipe madly in love and happy. This is because light works for a firm called Hit Life, a company that makes the dreams and aspirations of people from becoming reality.

The Corporation

2012 Drama
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4.7 FILM

Julia works as a waitress on the night shift of the Comodoro Rivadavia casino. There, she meets Gwynfor, a customer who offers an interesting work opportunity in the oil industry. And so, what starts out as a morning appointment, résumé in hand, becomes a nightmarish journey in the middle of the arid landscape of Patagonia, a space Ulises Rosell uses with the cinematic power of a western, with the inclemency of the sun and the darkness of night ravaging the protagonists. Inspired by the stories of captive women from the 19th century,

To the Desert

2017 Crime
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Atilio begins a new life when his daughter moves him to a nursing home, where he meets Beto, a clever and resourceful man. Together, they sneak out to visit Atilio’s late wife’s grave and accidentally witness a money laundering operation in the cemetery, involving hidden cash in a coffin. Inspired by the chance to change their lives, Atilio, Beto, and Doña Rosa—a sharp woman from the home—team up to investigate the scheme, hoping to seize the opportunity and find new purpose.

The Righteous

2024 Comedy
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5.7 FILM

Winter, 1944. Lucía at 21 returns to her small village in the mountains. She again meets Manuel, a young iron-smith who helps "those in the mountain", the "maquis", the anti-Franco resistance. Lucía is attracted to Manual, because of his smile and the bravery of those men who continue fighting for their ideas, even at the cost of their own lives. When Manuel is pursued (by Franco's Civil Guard) he flees to the mountain and Lucía discovers the reality of political repression, the silence, the horror and fear.

Broken Silence

2001 Drama
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Albert Teixidó (Bert) travels to the island of Mallorca after receiving a mysterious letter from his childhood friend Bernardo, who disappeared months earlier in the Tramontana mountains. On the island, he searches for clues to locate his friend, clues that will lead him to reveal forgotten events from the past and coincidences from the present, provoking Bert's obsession with continuing the search. This all culminates in an obsessive and metaphorical initiatory journey into the unknown.

Bert

1998 Drama
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Sebastián Pagani, a young film director, returns to his hometown to film a story of Haroldo Conti. There he expected a ghost from the past: recently, a childhood friend just committed suicide in mysterious circumstances. Pagani gets to know details about his death only multiply the enigmas. Slowly, he begins to become disenchanted with their own project to become more involved in research on the last day of the suicide. But towards the end, both concerns come together in unexpected ways. The Turn is a sad irony about memory and identity

Otra vuelta

2005 Drama

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Corporate billionaire Edward Cole and working class mechanic Carter Chambers are worlds apart. At a crossroads in their lives, they share a hospital room and discover they have two things in common: a desire to spend the time they have left doing everything they ever wanted to do and an unrealized need to come to terms with who they are. Together they embark on the road trip of a lifetime, becoming friends along the way and learning to live life to the fullest, with insight and humor.

The Bucket List

★ 7.2 2007 Drama

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When elderly pensioner Umberto Domenico Ferrari returns to his boarding house from a protest calling for a hike in old-age pensions, his landlady demands her 15,000-lire rent by the end of the month or he and his small dog will be turned out onto the street. Unable to get the money in time, Umberto fakes illness to get sent to a hospital, giving his beloved dog to the landlady's pregnant and abandoned maid for temporary safekeeping.

Umberto D.

★ 7.9 1952 Drama

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