The Crime of Father Amaro 2002  R, 120 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Carlos Carrera
Cast: Gael Garcia Bernal, Sancho Gracia, Ana Claudia Talancon, Angelica Aragon, Luisa Huertas, Ernesto Gomez Cruz, Gaston Melo, Damian Alcazar, Andres Montiel, Gerardo Moscoso, Pedro Armendariz Jr., Veronica Langer
This film, based on an 1875 Portuguese novel, features Gael Garcia Bernal in the role of a newly ordained priest, Father Amaro, who is sent to a small, Mexican town to assist an elderly priest, Father Benito (Sancho Gracia), and to look into the activities of the town's other priests. It isn't long before Amaro falls in love with 16-year-old Amelia (Ana Claudia Talancon). As if this were not enough, Padre Benito has major drug connections as well as a mistress of his own–Amelia's mother, Sanjuanera (Angelica Aragon).
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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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To Love Too Much 2001  N/R, 100 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Ernesto Rimoch
Cast: Karina Gidi, Ari Telch, Jose Sefami, Daniel Martinez, Ana Guevara, Martin Altomaro, Maria Rojo, Luisa Huertas, Gabriela Roel, Raul Mendez
Beatriz (Karina Gidi) does not have a love life and even has given up on the hope of developing one. Then she meets Carlos (Ari Telch), and love blooms. One day he turns up missing, and Beatriz is saddened by her loss. But now that he is gone, other men beat a path to her doorway. Go figure.
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| 1. The Crime of Father Amaro (2002)
2. The Realm of Fortune (1986)
3. To Love Too Much (2001)
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