Asfalto 2000  N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Foreign / Thriller
aka: Asphalt
Director: Daniel Calparsoro
Cast: Najwa Nimri, Juan Diego Botto, Gustavo Salmeron, Alfredo Villa, Antonia San Juan, Roger Ibanez, Javier Nogueiras, Carla Calparsoro, Oliver G. Sarmiento, Jeff Bigot
Lucia (Najwa Nimri), a master at small-crime, her boyfriend Chino (Gustavo Salmeron), and their friend Charley (Juan Diego Botto) make a good crime team. But there are forces that may tear apart their friendship and success.
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Bordertown 2007  R, 114 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: Gregory Nava
Cast: Maya Zapata, Jennifer Lopez, Antonio Banderas, Sonia Braga, Martin Sheen, Zaide Silvia Gutierrez, Irineo Alvarez, Rene Rivera, Juan Diego Botto, Kate del Castillo, Randall Batinkoff, Karolinah Villarreal, Julio Cedillo, Brandon Smith
Lauren (Jennifer Lopez) is an American correspondent from a Chicago newspaper who is assigned to the border town of Juarez, Mexico, to investigate unsolved homicides involving many women. It appears that the police are covering up the brutal crimes, and when one of the victims, Eva (Maya Zapata), escapes her captors she gives Lauren her story. While tracking down the attackers, Lauren finds herself in grave danger from a web of corruption that extends over both sides of the border.
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Celestina 1996  N/R, 92 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Gerardo Vera
Cast: Penelope Cruz, Juan Diego Botto, Terele Pavez, Maribel Verdu, Jordi Molla, Nancho Novo, Nathalie Sesena, Carlos Fuentes, Candela Pena, Angel de Andres Lopez, Lluis Homar, Ana Risueno
Calisto (Juan Diego Botto) has fallen in love with Melibea (Penelope Cruz) and gets advice from his servants who suggest that Calisto use a sorceress, Celestina (Terele Pavez), to help him woo Melibea. Celestina does convince Melibea of Calisto's love, and Calisto awards her for her work. Now, the servants are jealous and kill Celestina, but it is Calisto who is blamed for the murder.
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 The Dancer Upstairs 2002 R, 128 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: John Malkovich
Cast: Javier Bardem, Juan Diego Botto, Laura Morante, Elvira Minguez, Alexandra Lencastre, Oliver Cotton, Luis Miguel Cintra, Javier Manrique, Abel Folk, Marie-Anne Verganza
Latin American policeman Rejas (Javier Bardem) tracks down a revolutionary guerilla leader while he balances his private world as a loving father, his liaison with his daughter's beautiful ballet teacher (Laura Morante), and the world of corruption in which he operates.
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Imperium: Augustus 2003 TV, 178 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: Augustus
Director: Roger Young
Cast: Peter O'Toole, Charlotte Rampling, Vittoria Belvedere, Benjamin Sadler, Massimo Ghini, Gottfried John, Ken Duken, Russell Barr, Juan Diego Botto, Valeria D'Obici
The oft-told tale of Augustus (Peter O'Toole), his "adoption" by Julius Caesar, and his teaming with Marc Antony (Massimo Ghini) to bring Caesar's assassins to justice is told in this made-for-TV epic.
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| 1. Asfalto (2000)
aka: Asphalt
2. Bordertown (2007)
3. Celestina (1996)
4. The Dancer Upstairs (2002)
5. Imperium: Augustus (2003)
aka: Augustus
6. Zorro: The Legend Begins (1990)
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