800 Bullets 2002  N/R, 124 min.
Genre: Comedy / Western
Director: Alex de la Iglesia
Cast: Sancho Gracia, Angel de Andres Lopez, Carmen Maura, Eusebio Poncela, Luis Castro, Manuel Tallafe, Enrique Martinez, Luciano Federico, Eduardo Gomez, Terele Pavez, Gracia Olayo, Ramon Barea
Twelve-year-old Carlos (Luis Castro) searches for and finds his grandfather, stuntman Julian Torralba (Sancho Gracia), who plies his trade at Texas, Hollywood–a dilapidated movie set in the Almerian desert. Trouble brews just as the two begin to bond when Carlos' uptight mother (Carmen Maura) bursts onto the scene with intentions of tearing down the ghost town and turning it into a profit-making amusement park.
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Common Wealth 2000 R, 106 min.
Genre: Foreign / Comedy
aka: The Community
Director: Alex de la Iglesia
Cast: Carmen Maura, Eduardo Antuna, Maria Asquerino, Jesus Bonilla, Marta Fernandez Muro, Paca Gabaldon, Ane Gabarain, Sancho Gracia, Emilio Gutierrez Caba, Kiti Manver, Terele Pavez, Enrique Villen
Real estate agent Julia (Carmen Maura) moves into a luxury apartment that she is trying to sell. The apartment is in an old, rundown building inhabited by oddballs who keep a watchful eye on her. First, the dead owner of the apartment is found followed by finding a hidden fortune. But now she finds that she is being held captive by the other inhabitants of the building who all know of the money and have agreed to share it among themselves. And the terror begins in this dark comedy/thriller.
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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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Django, Kill...If You Live, Shoot! 1967  N/R, 120 min.
Genre: Foreign / Western
Director: Giulio Questi
Cast: Tomas Milian, Piero Lulli, Milo Quesada, Roberto Camardiel, Ray Lovelock, Marilu Tolo, Sancho Gracia, Mirella Pamphili, Miguel Serrano, Francisco Talturri
Mexica outlaw Django (Tomas Milian) is left for dead after a shootout by fellow gang members who robbed a gold-carrying stagecoach. But Django digs himself out of his shallow grave and heads out for revenge. A violent, dark, weird spaghetti Western.
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Outlaw Justice 1999 R, 90 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Bill Corcoran
Cast: Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson, Travis Tritt, Waylon Jennings, Danny Sullivan, Sancho Gracia, Jonathan Banks, Jorge Bosso, Eduardo Hererra, Tony Isbert
After a gunslinger is shot while surrendering, the old gang is re-formed by two "retired" gunfighters (Nelson and Kristofferson) to avenge the shooting.
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| 1. 800 Bullets (2002)
2. Common Wealth (2000)
aka: The Community
3. The Crime of Father Amaro (2002)
4. Django, Kill...If You Live, Shoot! (1967)
5. Outlaw Justice (1999)
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