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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The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada 2005 R, 121 min. Genre: Drama
Director: Tommy Lee Jones Cast: Tommy Lee Jones, Barry Pepper, Julio Cedillo, Dwight Yoakam, January Jones, Melissa Leo, Levon Helm, Mel Rodriguez, Vanessa Bauche, Cecilia Suarez
Ranch foreman Pete Perkins (Tommy Lee Jones) believes that Border Patrolman Mike Norton (Barry Pepper) has killed his best friend, Melquiades Estrada. In the meantime, the body was buried in the west Texas desert, was found, and once again buried in the town cemetery. Pete kidnaps Norton and forces him to dig up the body and then help him bring the corpse across the border into Mexico to be buried in his hometown.
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| 1. Bordertown (2007)
2. The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (2005)
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