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El Lobo (2004)

Actors: Eduardo Albaladejo (miscellaneous crew), Guillermo S. Maldonado (editor), Julio Fernández (producer), Jorge Sanz (actor), Saturnino García (actor), Manuel Zarzo (actor), Santiago Ramos (actor), Patrick Bruel (actor), Alex O'Dogherty (actor), Eduardo Noriega (actor), Eduardo Noriega (actor), José Coronado (actor), José Luis García Pérez (actor), Martin Samper (miscellaneous crew), Alberto Marini (miscellaneous crew),

Plot: Based on a true story. In the 70's, during the last stages of Franco's dictatorship, Txema, a basque construction worker, is arrested because of his connection to some terrorists who have just committed a murder. The secret service see in him an ideal candidate to infiltrate the terrorist band ETA and become a mole, so they try to offer him a deal if he will do so. At first he's not too interested, but his financial problems (probably caused by the secret service itself) finally force him to take their money and accept the mission. He adopts the undercover name of "Lobo" (Wolf) and becomes an active member of the band, making all the right connections until he reaches the top and acquires the trust of its leaders. In the process, he discovers that the group has deep internal divisions between those who want to abandon the armed fight and become just a political party, and those who want to keep the terrorist activity until they can proclaim the independence of the Basque country. These divisions and power struggles are often resolved bloodily. After the band carries out their most daring and shocking crime yet, killing the prime minister Carrero Blanco, the military heads in Madrid become impatient and wish to launch an immediate attack on ETA and the basque country. Ricardo, the chief of the secret service, convinces them to wait until Lobo can complete his mission and enable them to dismantle the band. But when the Barcelona police manage to catch the leader of the band (who had been ratted out by another member who wanted his position), the generals, jealous of this success, decide they can't wait any more and that they will override the secret service and catch whatever ETA members are in Madrid at that point, dead or alive. And that includes Lobo, who is now left to his own devices to escape from both sides...

Genres: Thriller,

Quotes:

Nelson: You know what's that?::José María Loygorri, 'Txema': A bullet.::Nelson: I always keep one of these... for traitors.

Nelson: You can use all of your bullets except for this one. This one... is for Lobo.

Silver City (2004)

Actors: Maria Bello (actress), Thora Birch (actress), Billy Zane (actor), Sal Lopez (actor), Michael Murphy (actor), David Clennon (actor), Tim Roth (actor), Richard Dreyfuss (actor), Miguel Ferrer (actor), Chris Cooper (actor), James Gammon (actor), Danny Huston (actor), Kris Kristofferson (actor), Daryl Hannah (actress), Ralph Waite (actor),

Plot: Set against the backdrop of a mythic "New West," a satire that follows grammatically-challenged, "user-friendly" candidate Dicky Pilager, scapegrace scion of Colorado's venerable Senator Jud Pilager, during his gubernatorial campaign. When Pilager finds that he's reeled in a corpse during the taping of an environmental political ad, his ferocious campaign manager, Chuck Raven, hires former idealistic journalist turned rumpled private detective Danny O'Brien to investigate potential links between the corpse and the Pilager family's enemies. Danny's investigation pulls him deeper and deeper into a complex web of influence and corruption, involving high stakes lobbyists, media conglomerates, environmental plunderers, and undocumented migrant workers.

Keywords: archery, bar, black-sheep-of-family, campaign, candidate, cantina, changing-a-flat-tire, city-name-in-title, color-in-title, colorado
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Thriller,
Taglines: Vote early. Vote often. Vote Pilager '04. Campaigning in theatres.

Quotes:

Henry: [Holding the hand of a corpse just fished out of the lake with a fishing lure dangling from it] I'm surprised you caught anything with this lure!

Danny O'Brien: I always pictured you in some smoky hole in the wall, hunched over your computer, spewing your bile at the military-industrial complex.::Mitch Paine: Well, it is a hole in the wall - but I'm surrounded by a bunch of anti-tobacco Fascists.::Danny O'Brien: I think they call them "pro-oxygen" these days.

Mitch Paine: There is not a corrupt bone in Dickie Pilager's body, he's just - what? - user-friendly!

Dickie Pilager: ['accidentally' conducting an impromptu press conference] I repeat - I'm not raising taxes. We can't just keep throwing the taxpayers' hard-earned money at these perceived - and some of them I admit are real - so-called social problems. We have to get our priorities straight. Education is a priority. Affordable housing for our working people is a priority. Health care is a priority. Our economy is a priority. The environmental - the whole environmental... arena - that's a big priority. Building new roads and maintaining the present - keeping the infrastructure in place, where it belongs, that's a priority...::Nora Allardyce: What isn't a priority?::Dickie Pilager: [stumped] What's not a priority... is those matters which are of less of a - not that they're not important but - if you're going to have a front burner, which is where you want your priorities, it's like... cooking... there needs to be something sitting on the back one. And that's where your other organizations, your church people and your... organizations formed to help these things, will be happy to pitch in if only government would get out of their way...

Dickie Pilager: [conducting a press conference] In the case of capital offenses I am absolutely in favor of the death penalty. You hear stories about frontier justice - you can bet that the wrongdoers, the folks who couldn't play by the rules, had some respect for that. And there was no - [starts floundering] it didn't cost the taxpayer - if they had had taxpayers back then... those were the good old days, I suppose - [gathers steam again] and all you needed was a good strong rope and a tree to hang it from!::Reporter #1: So you'll be proposing tougher criminal legis...::Dickie Pilager: My message to criminals is this: straighten up or get out. There's no place for you in our state. You do the crime, and by God, you're gonna have to face your lumps.::Nora Allardyce: But the majority of those serving time for drug possession are...::Dickie Pilager: You want to change the behavior? Stiffen the consequences!::Nora Allardyce: There have been reports, Mr. Pilager, that before you became involved in politics you had considerable experience with...::Dickie Pilager: Look, if you're up in a helicopter, airplane, something that flies, you don't want your pilot intoxicated with drugs, do you? And it's that way with our schoolchildren... Junior can't read if he's high on crack. Yeah, air is thin enough up here! [points to another reporter] Yes?

Chuck Raven: 'Environmental Heritage Initiative'...::Chandler Tyson: We thought it sounded better than 'Developers' Bill of Rights.'

Maddy Pilager: You know, the Amazon women amputated one of their breasts. [Draws back imaginary bow and arrow] Got in the way of the bowstring.

Wes Benteen: People want to back a winner. They need to feel a part of something bigger than they are. They used to advertise the quality of a product - - tastes great, whitens your teeth, shaves close, rides like a dream - - Now what do they push? America's number one soft drink. Best-selling mid-sized utility vehicle. It isn't "buy the product." It's "Join the club." You make people feel part of a winner, they'll follow you anywhere.

Wes Benteen: American's don't have the patience for underdogs that they used to. A coach goes three seasons without a ring, he's out on his ass... as he should be.

Sheriff Joe Skaggs: Throw a dead body into a cave and three days later it comes back out into the world, all on its own. [laughing] Sure a lot of people will buy that.

Los lobos de Washington (1999)

Actors: Francisco Maestre (actor), José Sancho (actor), Mariano Barroso (producer), Alberto San Juan (actor), Pablo Blanco (editor), Mariano Barroso (director), Javier Bardem (producer), Javier Bardem (actor), Javier Cámara (actor), Eduard Fernández (actor), Ernesto Alterio (actor), Manuel Morón (actor), Adolfo Fernández (actor), Bingen Mendizábal (composer), Juan Carlos Vellido (actor),

Plot: Alberto and Miguel have a bar, but things are not going very well. They need to get out of this black hole and they need money to do it. Alberto is divorced and alcoholic, Miguel has a big secret... Their old friend Claudio is very rich. Why not steal some of his money? Troubles grow when Claudio's wife is planning to steal this money too... The Washington wolfs, in a circus near all this, are the silent witnesses of all that happens that night.

Keywords: alcohol, betrayal, male-frontal-nudity, male-nudity, money, thief
Genres: Action, Thriller,
Taglines: Una manada de hombres.

Ayos lang, pare ko (1997)

Actors: Ogie Alcasid (actor), Dindo Arroyo (actor), Carlos Padilla Sr. (actor), Joey Padilla (actor), Dennis Roldan (actor), Boy Roque (actor), Zandro Zamora (actor), Gelli De Belen (actress), Lucita Soriano (actress), Humilde 'Meek' Roxas (writer), Nonong Buencamino (composer), Bebong Osorio (director), Ernie David (actor), Romy Diaz (actor), Rudy Fernandez (actor),

Genres: Action, Comedy,

Trampa mortal (1992)

Actors: Javier Montaño (actor), Jorge Luke (actor), Felicia Mercado (actress), Miguel A. Saldaña (actor), Francisco Javier López (writer), Antonio Farré (actor), Vicente Huezo (actor), Jesse James Costa (actor), José Esqueda (miscellaneous crew), Raúl Leobardo Cornejo (actor), Jorge Alberto Cano Jr. (director), Jorge Higuera (actor), Laura Escajadillo (miscellaneous crew), Jorge Higuera (miscellaneous crew), Gabriela Fraire (actress),

Genres: Action,

Okay ka, fairy ko! (1991)

Actors: Charito Solis (actress), Romy Diaz (actor), Larry Silva (actor), Ruffa Gutierrez (actress), Debraliz (actress), Dexter Doria (actress), Ruby Rodriguez (actress), Vic Sotto (actor), Tetchie Agbayani (actress), Panchito (actor), Ruben Rustia (actor), Nonong de Andres (actor), Phillip Salvador (actor), Lily Y. Monteverde (producer), Nova Villa (actress),

Genres: Comedy, Family, Fantasy,

Demasiado miedo a la vida o Plaff (1988)

Actors: Raúl Pomares (actor), Daisy Granados (actress), Juan Carlos Hernández (actor), Juan Carlos Tabío (director), Jorge Cao (actor), Luís Lima Barreto (actor), Thais Valdés (actress), Miriam Socarras (actress), Jacqueline Arenal (actress), Alicia Bustamante (actress), Néstor Jiménez (actor), Rolando Núñez (actor), José Luis Rodríguez (actor), Idalmis Del Risco (actress), Ricardo Ávila (actor),

Genres: Comedy,

Sinatra (1988)

Actors: Maribel Verdú (actress), Teresa Alcocer (editor), Silvia Solar (actress), Carlos Lucena (actor), Alfredo Landa (actor), Juan Torres (actor), Mercedes Sampietro (actress), Luis Ciges (actor), Antonio Molino Rojo (actor), Manuel Alexandre (actor), Ana Obregón (actress), Queta Claver (actress), Joaquín Sabina (actor), Núria Casanueva (miscellaneous crew), Joaquín Gómez (actor),

Genres: Drama,

Viva Max (1969)

Actors: Jonathan Winters (actor), Harry Morgan (actor), Larry Hankin (actor), Peter Ustinov (actor), Keenan Wynn (actor), Ted Gehring (actor), Jerry Paris (director), John Astin (actor), Kenneth Mars (actor), Don Diamond (actor), Paul Sand (actor), Alice Ghostley (actress), Bud Molin (editor), Gino Conforti (actor), David Berlatsky (editor),

Plot: When his girlfriend tells him that his men wouldn't follow him to a house of ill repute, Max, a general in the Mexican army decides to perform some great act of heroism. He takes his men over the border into Texas and re-captures the Alamo. This upsets the Texans greatly. The Texas National Guard is sent to retake the mission. Normally this would be easy as Max's men have left all of their ammunition back in Mexico, but the State department insists that no one be killed and so the National Guard also goes in with unloaded weapons.

Keywords: 1960s, absurdism, alamo, based-on-novel, baylor-university, border-crossing, border-guard, character-name-in-title, fictional-war, general
Genres: Comedy,
Taglines: Some heroes are born...some are made...some are mistakes

Quotes:

Mexican Soldier: Halt, who goes there, please? [to General Hallson on the other side of the door]::General Billy Joe Hallson: John Wayne!::Mexican Soldier: [opens door] Richard Widmark!

El caballo del pueblo (1935)

Actors: Juan Carlos Thorry (actor), Manuel Romero (director), Alberto Soifer (composer), Manuel Romero (writer), Luis Bayón Herrera (writer), Pedro Quartucci (actor), Olinda Bozán (actress), Ángel Magaña (actor), Lalo Malcolm (actor), Enrique Serrano (actor), Irma Córdoba (actress), Francisco Múgica (editor), Pedro Maratea (actor), Vicente Forastieri (actor), Juan Mangiante (actor),

Genres: Comedy, Musical,