A Funny Dirty Little War 1984  N/R, 80 min.
Genre: Foreign / Comedy
Director: Hector Olivera
Cast: Federico Luppi, Hector Bidonde, Victor Laplace, Rodolfo Ranni, Miguel Angel Sola, Julio De Grazia, Lautaro Murua, Jose Maria Lopez, Patricio Contreras, Graciela Dufau
In 1974 Argentina, right-wing and left-wing supporters of President Peron don't have much else in common in a small town. Thus, a revolution and subsequent war breaks out in this comedy with strong political overtones.
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Of Love and Shadows 1994  R, 104 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Betty Kaplan
Cast: Antonio Banderas, Jennifer Connelly, Stefania Sandrelli, Diego Wallraff, Camilo Gallardo, Patricio Contreras, Jorge Rivera Lopez, Angela Ragno, Alfredo Martin, Anita Lesa
General Pinochet ruled Chile with an iron fist in the early 1970s while the elite led sheltered lives and turned their eyes from the atrocities. Such is the case with Irene (Jennifer Connelly), a magazine editor who is engaged to an army officer. Things change when she meets Francisco (Antonio Banderas), a photographer and anarchist who fights for the people's rights. Irene falls in love with Francisco and joins in the fight for justice. Adapted from Isabel Allende's book, this film does not begin to do justice to the powerful story.
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The Official Story 1985  N/R, 110 min.
Genre: Foreign / Thriller
Director: Luis Puenzo
Cast: Norma Aleandro, Hector Alterio, Analia Castro, Chunchuna Villafane, Chela Ruiz, Hugo Arana, Guillermo Battaglia, Patricio Contreras, Maria Luisa Robledo, Jorge Petraglia
This film won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film. It is the story of a middle-class Argentinean family that unwittingly becomes wrapped up in dangerous politics when the wife (Norma Aleandro) suspects that her adopted five-year-old daughter's birth parents may have been murdered as political prisoners.
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Old Gringo 1989  R, 119 min.
Genre: Drama / Adventure
Director: Luis Puenzo
Cast: Jane Fonda, Gregory Peck, Jimmy Smits, Patricio Contreras, Jenny Gago, Jim Metzler, Anne Pitoniak, Pedro Armendariz Jr., Gabriela Roel, Sergio Calderon, Guillermo Rios, Samuel Valadez De La Torre, Pedro Damian, Stanley Grover, Josefina Echanove
A culture shock occurs when an American schoolteacher, Harriet Winslow (Jane Fonda), travels to Mexico to become a governess. Arriving at the hacienda, she realizes she is in the middle of a revolution and is kidnapped. Now she must choose a romantic alliance with either rebel General Tomas Arroyo or an American writer Ambrose "Old Gringo" Bierce (Gregory Peck) who has befriended Arroyo.
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| 1. A Funny Dirty Little War (1984)
2. Of Love and Shadows (1994)
3. The Official Story (1985)
4. Old Gringo (1989)
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