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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Santitos 1999  R, 105 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
aka: Traveling Saints
Director: Alejandro Springall
Cast: Dolores Heredia, Demian Bichir, Alberto Estrella, Roberto Cobo, Ana Bertha Espin, Fernando Torre Laphame, Juan Duarte, Maya Zapata, Georgina Tabora, Jose Sefami, Luis Felipe Tovar, Pedro Altamirano
After being told that her 14-year-old daughter, Blanca (Maya Zapata), died during a tonsillectomy, Esperanza (Dolores Heredia), tries to accept the tragedy. But, when the vision of Saint Jude appears and tells Esperanza that her daughter, in fact, did not die but has been sold into prostitution, Esperanza embarks on a journey to find Blanca.
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Under the Same Moon 2008  PG-13, 109 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: Misma Luna, La
Director: Patricia Riggen
Cast: Adrian Alonso, Kate del Castillo, Eugenio Derbez, Maya Zapata, Carmen Salinas, Maria Rojo, Angelina Pelaez, Gabriel Porras, America Ferrera, Jesse Garcia, Ignacio Guadalupe, Pailo Heitz
This story involves nine-year-old Carlitos Reyes (Adrian Alonso) and his mother Rosario (Kate Del Castillo) who works illegally in L.A. and sends money home to Mexico for her mother Benita (Angelina Pelaez) and Carlitos. When Benita dies unexpectedly, Carlitos gathers the money he has saved and sneaks across the border under the back seat of Marta (America Ferrera) and David's (Jesse Garcia) van. But the van is impounded at the border with Carlitos still inside–and Carlitos' troubles continue as he tries to reach his mother.
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| 1. The Blood Oranges (1997)
2. Bordertown (2007)
3. Santitos (1999)
aka: Traveling Saints
4. Under the Same Moon (2008)
aka: Misma Luna, La
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