Bandidos 1991  N/R, 95 min.
Genre: Foreign / Action
Director: Luis Estrada
Cast: Pedro Armendariz Jr., Ernesto Yanez, Gabriela Roel, Bruno Rey, Jorge Russek, Damian Alcazar, Daniel Gimenez Cacho, Felipe Cazals, Julian Pastor, Alan Gutierrez
The 1910 Mexican Revolution resulted in bandits looting across the countryside. A group of young boys follow behind the adults, picking up what was missed. Before long, the youngsters are looting on their own, which doesn't set well with the adult bandits.
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No One Writes to the Colonel 1999 N/R, 118 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Arturo Ripstein
Cast: Fernando Lujan, Marisa Paredes, Salma Hayek, Rafael Inclan, Ernesto Yanez, Daniel Gimenez Cacho, Esteban Soberanes, Patricia Reyes Spinola, Odiseo Bichir, Julian Pastor
Based on a novella by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, this is a powerful story of hope and despair in the face of poverty, sickness, and aging. Set in Mexico in the late 1940s, this is the story of the Colonel (Fernando Lujan), who fought in the war to overthrow the clerical rulers years before. Now he dresses up each week and goes to the pier awaiting the arrival of a letter that announces his pension–a letter that he knows will never arrive.
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The Realm of Fortune 1986 N/R, 132 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Arturo Ripstein
Cast: Ernesto Gomez Cruz, Blanca Guerra, Alejandro Parodi, Zaide Silvia Gutierrez, Margarita Sanz, Ernesto Yanez, Alberto Estrella, Luisa Huertas, Eduardo Lopez Rojas, Ignacio Retes
This is the tale of the rise and fall of a mentally weak peasant who, at the story's beginning, lives with his mother and reports the news while walking the town. He also announces cock fights, a sport he loves. He is given an near-dead cock and makes it into a great fighter, which, in turn, makes him rich. But what goes up must come down, sometimes with tragic results.
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| 1. Bandidos (1991)
2. No One Writes to the Colonel (1999)
3. The Realm of Fortune (1986)
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