El camino del diablo (2008)
Actors:
Humberto Busto (actor),
Enrique Castillo (actor),
Nicholas Gonzalez (actor),
Octavio Gómez Berríos (actor),
Armando Hernández (actor),
Silverio Palacios (actor),
Luis Fernando Peña (actor),
Miguel Rodarte (actor),
Roberto Sosa (actor),
Gustavo Sánchez Parra (actor),
Jose Yenque (actor),
Jorge Zárate (actor),
Diana García (actress),
Paz Vega (actress),
Damián Alcázar (actor),
Plot: On May 15, 2001, 26 men from rural Veracruz entered "El Camino del Diablo," the deadliest stretch of desert in North America, heading for promised jobs in a Florida orange grove. Their guide, Jesus "Mendez" Ramos, predicted the crossing would take three hours. Instead, the men wandered in blistering heat for five days, realizing too late their coyote was not a real guide but a desperate, deluded, gangster-wanna-be. "The Devil's Highway," based on Luis Alberto Urrea's acclaimed book, weaves several true stories from both sides of the border with characters whose fates collide over five, harrowing days. We meet DON MOI, the recruiter for the shadowy system that delivers poor workers to the U.S.; RAY MUNOS, an assimilated, Mexican-American, Border Patrol Agent, torn between two cultures; retiring AGENT ELLIS, a cynical tracker of "illegals" who has an uncanny ability to "read" the desert; ISABEL URREA, a Mexican Consular official, who discovers the terrible truth of the men lost in the desert and tries to save them before it's too late; GIBRAN LANDA, a Veracruz farmer with a shady past, who becomes the reluctant leader of the lost men; CELIA, a stripper in a border town, whose bleak life is enlivened by her affair with a flamboyant "coyote"; and finally, and most memorably, JESUS MENDEZ RAMOS, the naive guide with the banda haircut, recruited from a brick factory, looking to impress a girl he loves, beginning a fatal walk he's not qualified to make. As the story lines intersect, and the tragedy unfolds, we are forced to consider the shared delusions of people on both sides of a tortured border and embrace the humanity we share with those who pursue their dreams by entering the killing ground known as El Camino Del Diablo.
Keywords: based-on-book, border, border-patrol, illegal-immigrant, immigration, mexico
Genres:
Drama,
Taglines: How much is YOUR dream worth?
Ash Wednesday: Capitulo Unus (2007)
Actors:
Ramiro Briones (actor),
Fred Cisneros (actor),
Francisco Javier Flores (actor),
Joel Federico Gonzalez (actor),
Juan Lauro (actor),
Gerardo Mendez (actor),
Julio Valdez (actor),
Alonso Wheeler (actor),
Claudette Flores (actress),
Robie Flores (actress),
Di Galvan (actress),
Christy Gomez (actress),
Karina Martinez (actress),
Tatiana Mello (actress),
Gabriela Mendoza (actress),
Plot: A mother's worst nightmare becomes the beginning for a ruthless killer's downfall. Ash Wednesday: Capitulo Unus is a highly stylized thriller of an underworld of unspoken brutality, secrets and shame. A seemingly innocent reckless act starts an explosive sequence of life-changing events for one family that leads to an international threat of a longstanding cold-blooded crime world.
Keywords: ash-wednesday, border, mexico
Genres:
Crime,
Drama,
Taglines: The cold-blooded crime world will never be the same.
Iremos a Beirute (1998)
Actors:
Val Araujo (actor),
Pedro Domingues (actor),
Claudio Jaborandy (actor),
João Andrade Joca (actor),
Guilherme Karan (actor),
Clauber Matheus (actor),
Ilya São Paulo (actor),
Daniele Ellery (actress),
Giovanna Gold (actress),
Renata Lessa (actress),
Mayra Fernanda Mota (actress),
Rejane Reinaldo (actress),
Conceição Senna (actress),
Geórgia Costa Araújo (producer),
Marcos Moura (producer),
Plot: In a mountainous town in the State of Ceará, Brazil, Ajax soccer team kids play a game to see who will win the heart of romantic Salma, sister of one of the players, and the coach's daughter, a Lebanese owner of Casa Beirute. Salma promises to choose one of the boys, after an important game, which is tragically interrupted by an accident. Twenty years later, still alone, she promotes a new game, and finds out the reason of such a long and painful indecision.
Genres:
Drama,