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Death March (2013)

Actors: Carlo Aquino (actor), Adolfo Alix Jr. (director), Luis Alandy (actor), Sid Lucero (actor), Jacky Woo (actor), Sam Milby (actor), Benjamin Gonzales Tolentino (editor), Felix Roco (actor), Zanjoe Marudo (actor), Jason Abalos (actor), Rody Vera (writer), Benjamin Alves (actor), Timothy Mabalot (actor), Babit de Luna (actor),

Genres: Drama,

From Mexico with Love (2009)

Actors: Ron Yuan (miscellaneous crew), Gene LeBell (actor), Ron Yuan (actor), Angélica Aragón (actress), David Albert Pierce (miscellaneous crew), Bruce McGill (actor), Henry Kingi (actor), Carl Ciarfalio (actor), Steven Bauer (actor), Stephen Lang (actor), John Frizzell (composer), Jossara Jinaro (miscellaneous crew), Kuno Becker (actor), Eddy Donno (actor), Michael Klesic (actor),

Plot: Hector, a young Mexican national and border-crossing migrant farm laborer, has boxing abilities just like his late father had. He could perhaps be good if he learned to think along with his pummeling, then he could do better for his ailing mother than pull in a few side dollars from small-time, illegal gambling fights. Getting on the bad side of racist Texas farmer Big Al and his cocky, pugilist son Robert, puts Hector in touch with an alcoholic trainer named Billy who, nevertheless, can teach him to be better. It all comes down to an arranged, high-stakes match between Hector and the 20-pounds more muscular Robert in which Hector's only hope is to demonstrate he can keep his head in the game.

Keywords: border-patrol, boxer, boxing, chess, convertible, cucumber, death, death-of-mother, farm, father-son-relationship
Genres: Action, Drama,
Taglines: Some dreams are worth fighting for

Quotes:

[Opening lines]::Tito: [voiceover] How much is a man worth? Four bucks an hour, for the lucky ones. How do you feed your family? Where do you find hope when your name isn't even worth writing down? There's a big fence separating the rich and the poor, bigger than the one dividing the land and much harder to climb. Where does a man get his strength to survive? From his will to fight. It come from a people of fighters, who fight because they have to. How much is a man worth? Depends on which side of the fence you're on the day you were born.

Big Al Stevens: Can't you control your animals?

Billy: I'll tell you what. I'll give you a choice. You play me in chess or you box El Angelito.::Hector: Okay. I'll box El Angelito. W-w-wait, uh, who is El Angelito?

Billy: Only thing guaranteed in life's a hangover, kid.

Billy: The old guys - Joe Louis, Jack Dempsey, Ray Robinson, Rocky Marciano, Muhammad Ali - you know what set those guys apart from the rest of the boxing world? Brains. A chump don't become champ without 'em.

Billy: Any piece of meat can fight, kid. Boxing is thinking. You gotta read the other guy like a chessboard. Always think two, three moves ahead of you.

Hector: I wanna take on Robert and you can get me there, right?::Billy: [laughs] That's powerful ambitious, right there! That's just this side of stupid!

[Without warning, Billy slaps Hector hard across the face]::Hector: [incredulous] What'd you do that for?::Billy: [flatly and without blinking] A wasp.

Billy: This fighter has all the speed you're gonna have to deal with with Robert.::Hector: [espying his latest opponent] I ain't fighin' no girl. Come on!::Billy: Yes, you are.::Hector: Whadda ya want me to kiss her or something?::Billy: I don't care what you do with her - after you spar with her.

[while playing chess, Billy slaps Hector hard across the face without warning]::Hector: [incredulous] What the hell was that?::Billy: The wasp again.::Hector: I didn't hear no wasp.::Billy: What, do you want me to let him sting you? Huh?

Black & Blue (2009)

Actors: Tina Pavlides (producer), Jesse Hlubik (actor), Richard McHugh (composer), Cathy Baron (actress), Daniel Galo (actor), Carolina Hoyos (actress), Jill Maxcy (director), Tate Ammons (actor), Misty Madden (actress), Dave Coleman (miscellaneous crew), Tony Collucci (actor), Zia Domic (actress), Tim Swain (producer), G. Hannelius (actress), Liz Maccie (writer),

Plot: With a meth-addict for a mother and a non-existent father, AMBER (17) doesn't have much in this world, except for one thing...her music. Through circumstances beyond her control Amber ends up on the streets on Los Angeles. Navigating her way through the world of the homeless, Amber finds solace in a run-down music store where she meets an old-time blues musician, BILLY. Billy's life has become outdated. Not needed. And unnecessary. Having lost his daughter many years ago, Billy unknowingly looks to heal some of his wounds by helping Amber. Living on the streets there is also a group of kids that perform music on the Long Beach Promenade for money. Amber finds herself being drawn to this group. She eventually starts to hang with these kids, using her musical abilities to pay her way. Over the course of a month, Amber finds that sometimes we can find acceptance in the most unexpected places. That sometimes things aren't always so black and white because sometimes the pain we all carry within ourselves can make life so much more, Black and Blue.

Keywords: color-in-title
Genres: Drama,
Taglines: On the streets you've got nowhere to turn--You've got to turn your life around.

Geld oder Leben (2008)

Actors: Wolfram Berger (actor), Daniel Rohr (actor), Mona Petri (actress), Kurt Bigger (actor), Markus Merz (actor), Brigitte Beyeler (actress), Pablo Aguilar (actor), Isabella Schmid (actress), Hans-Peter Ulli (actor), Heidi Diggelmann (actress), Karin Lanz (actress), Roger Mäder (producer), Siegmund Tischendorf (actor), Sebastian Arenas (actor), Marcello Montecchi (actor),

Genres: Action,

The Dead Sleep Easy (2007)

Actors: Aaron Aguilera (actor), Martin Kove (actor), Dave Courtney (actor), Ian Hodgkinson (actor), Lee Demarbre (editor), Lee Demarbre (director), Talia Russo (actress), Robert Menzies (producer), Alex Lora (actor), Oren Hawxhurst (actor), Ian Driscoll (writer), Joey Munoz (actor), Michael Dubue (composer), Phil Caracas (actor), Aaron Katz (actor),

Plot: Everyone just calls him The Champ - because that's what he was, once. Twenty years ago, he crossed the border the wrong way, a young gringo with stars in his eyes. He became a star of the Lucha Libre - Mexican wrestling - but he lost control for a moment. Broke a guy's neck. And the guy just happened to be the nephew of the local mob boss. The Champ has spent most of the last two decades paying for that mistake, working for the mob. He's done it all: enforcement, collections, assassinations, and underground bare knuckle fights where people bet on men like roosters. What he hasn't done, he's seen. He thought nothing could shock him. He thought wrong. The mob is deep in the pollero (human smuggling) business. About a million Mexicans cross the border into the States every year. The polleros charge $1200 a head or more to get them there. You do the math. It's a big enough business that the mob has partnered with a bloodthirsty splinter group of the Minutemen. The mob sends The Champ to chaperone a group of migrants across the border. The Champ makes the handoff to the Minutemen, then walks away. That's when he hears the gunfire. The Minutemen massacre the illegals - and it doesn't even take them 60 seconds. The event sets The Champ on a collision course with powerful forces on both sides of the border as he seeks justice for the murdered Mexicans - and redemption for himself. He's finally found something worth living for. And to get it, all he has to do is die.

Keywords: female-nudity, human-smuggling, lucha-libre, mexican-wrestler, mexico, migrant, shot-in-the-head, strip-joint, stripper, very-little-dialogue
Genres: Action, Drama,

Joe Citizen (2006)

Actors: Thomas Daniel (actor), Twink Caplan (actress), Robert F. Kennedy (actor), Joe Kidd (actor), Michel Shane (producer), Anthony Romano (producer), Eric Feliciano (actor), Mike Allen (actor), Joseph Ferrante (actor), George Alan (actor), William Nero Jr. (actor), Haley Nero (actress), Katie Garfield (actress), Carlos Azucena (actor), Stephanie Cotton (actress),

Plot: This is the suspenseful story of Joe McKinley, a young, ambitious attorney who relates to the masses. As a controversial politician, he runs against the New Jersey Governor whom he continuously tries to prove is corrupt. With courage, he stands up against abuse of power, rampant crime, human rights violations, poverty, and terrorism. Or does he really have a hidden agenda along with secrets of his own to hide? When a sex scandal and violent crime implications overshadow Joe's cause, his true intentions are revealed.

Keywords: 911, anti-war-protest, aristocrat, armed, assassin, auction, blackmail, character-name-in-title, charity, chase
Genres: Drama, Mystery, Thriller,
Taglines: A Great Leader is everything but Average

I'm in the Band (2006)

Actors: Bobby Reed (actor), Kiran Kaur Saini (miscellaneous crew), Matthew Prater (actor), Jim Revis (miscellaneous crew), Kelli Nordhus (actress), Mary McNeill (actress), Ryan Hoffman (producer), Shanna Olson (actress), Robert Romeo (producer), Bruce Adel (actor), Anthony Aniano (actor), Paul Sincoff (director), Chris Peckover (producer), Jed Williams (actor), Alex Baker (actor),

Plot: Jon, the bass player in an up-and-coming rock band, struggles to gain respect as he search for Justine, the girl of his dreams and the only person to validate his existence. In a world full of sex, drugs, and rock 'n roll, Jon can't seem to catch a break, and can never seem to convince anyone that he is, in fact, in the band.

Genres: Comedy, Short,

Carlitopolis (2006)

Actors: Nicolas Schmerkin (producer), Luis Nieto (actor), Luis Nieto (producer), Luis Nieto (writer), Luis Nieto (director), Luis Nieto (editor), Carlito (actor),

Genres: Comedy, Short,

Palindromes (2004)

Actors: Ellen Barkin (actress), Jennifer Jason Leigh (actress), Angela Pietropinto (actress), Nathan Larson (composer), Richard Riehle (actor), Richard Masur (actor), José Tejada (miscellaneous crew), Debra Monk (actress), Payton Dunham (miscellaneous crew), Alicia Van Couvering (miscellaneous crew), Jean Pesce (miscellaneous crew), Derrick Tseng (producer), Mike S. Ryan (producer), Shannon Dennard (miscellaneous crew), Bill Buell (actor),

Plot: A fable of innocence: thirteen-year-old Aviva Victor wants to be a 'mom'. She does all she can to make this happen, and comes very close to succeeding, but in the end her plan is thwarted by her sensible parents. So she runs away, still determined to get pregnant one way or another, but instead finds herself lost in another world, a less sensible one, perhaps, but one pregnant itself with all sorts of strange possibility. She takes a road trip from the suburbs of New Jersey, through Ohio to the plains of Kansas and back. Like so many trips, this one is round-trip, and it's hard to say in the end if she can ever be quite the same again, or if she can ever be anything but the same again.

Keywords: abortion, abortion-clinic, abortionist, absurdism, actor, adoption, albino, albino-girl, anesthetic, angel
Genres: Comedy, Drama,

Quotes:

Joyce Victor: Am I terrible mother?::'Mark' Aviva Victor: Everybody makes mistakes...

'Dawn' Aviva Victor: I want to have lots and lots of babies so that way I will always have someone to love.

Mark Wiener: People always end up the way they started out. No one ever changes. They think they do but they don't. If you're the depressed type now that's the way you'll always be. If you're the mindless happy type now, that's the way you'll be when you grow up. You might lose some weight, your face may clear up, get a body tan, breast enlargement, a sex change, it makes no difference. Essentially, from in front, from behind. Whether you're 13 or 50, you will always be the same.::'Mark' Aviva Victor: Are you the same?::Mark Wiener: Yeah.::'Mark' Aviva Victor: Are you glad you're the same?::Mark Wiener: It doesn't matter if I'm glad. There's no freewill. I mean, I have no choice but to chose what I choose, to do as I do, to live as I live. Ultimately, we're all just robots programmed abritrarily by nature's genetic code::'Mark' Aviva Victor: Isn't there any hope?::Mark Wiener: For what? We hope or despair because of the way we've been programmed. Genes and randomness, that's all there is and none of it matters.::'Mark' Aviva Victor: Does that mean you're never going get married and have children?::Mark Wiener: I have no anent desire to get married or have kids. But that's beyond my control. Really, it makes no difference. Since the planet's fast running out of natural resources and we won't make it into the next century.::'Mark' Aviva Victor: What if you're wrong? What if there is a God?::Mark Wiener: That makes me feel better.

Mark Wiener: People always end up the way they started out. No one ever changes. They think they do, but they don't. If you're the depressed type now, that's the way you'll always be. If you're the mindless, happy type, that's the way you'll be when you grow up. You might lose some weight, your face might clear up, get a body tan, a breast enlargement, a sex change - makes no difference. Essentially... from in front, or from behind... whether you're thirteen or fifty, you'll always be the same.

Joyce Victor: [Talking about Aviva's unborn fetus] It's not a baby. It's just a tumor.

Skippy: My name is skippy just like the peanut butter!

'Mark' Aviva Victor: I know. I believe you because pedophiles love children.

Mama Sunshine Aviva: Last year, our special daughter Nainika ran away and... she didn't even have any legs. She wanted to return to her birthplace in India. Poor child. She didn't even make it as far as India, Tennessee.

A Grande Noitada (1997)

Actors: Mauro Alice (editor), Ruthinéa de Moraes (actress), Othon Bastos (actor), Denoy de Oliveira (composer), Denoy de Oliveira (director), Sara Silveira (producer), Denoy de Oliveira (writer), Ítalo Rossi (actor), Flávio Porto (actor), Ester Góes (actress), Renato Borghi (actor), Maracy Mello (producer), Maracy Mello (actress), José Rubens Chachá (actor), Luciano Chirolli (actor),

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