Nicotina 2003  R, 92 min.
Genre: Foreign / Comedy / Action / Drama
Director: Hugo Rodriguez
Cast: Diego Luna, Marta Belaustegui, Lucas Crespi, Jesus Ochoa, Rafael Inclan, Rosa Maria Bianchi, Daniel Gimenez Cacho, Carmen Madrid, Enoc Leano, Norman Sotolongo, Martha Tenorio, Jose Maria Yazpik, Eugenio Montessoro, Alexis Sanchez, Jorge Zarate
Mexico City computer hacker Lolo (Diego Luna) and his cohorts–Tomson (Jesus Ochoa) and Nene (Lucas Crespi)–make a deal to deliver a CD-ROM containing computer access to Swiss bank accounts in exchange for diamonds. The deal sours when Lolo delivers the wrong CD-ROM to Russian mobster Svoboda (Norman Sotolongo), and greed escalates into flying bullets leaving bodies in their wake.
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No One Writes to the Colonel 1999 N/R, 118 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Arturo Ripstein
Cast: Fernando Lujan, Marisa Paredes, Salma Hayek, Rafael Inclan, Ernesto Yanez, Daniel Gimenez Cacho, Esteban Soberanes, Patricia Reyes Spinola, Odiseo Bichir, Julian Pastor
Based on a novella by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, this is a powerful story of hope and despair in the face of poverty, sickness, and aging. Set in Mexico in the late 1940s, this is the story of the Colonel (Fernando Lujan), who fought in the war to overthrow the clerical rulers years before. Now he dresses up each week and goes to the pier awaiting the arrival of a letter that announces his pension–a letter that he knows will never arrive.
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| 1. Nicotina (2003)
2. No One Writes to the Colonel (1999)
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