The Children of Sanchez 1978  R, 126 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Hall Bartlett
Cast: Anthony Quinn, Dolores del Rio, Katy Jurado, Lupita Ferrer, Stathis Giallelis, Lucia Mendez, Sergio Calderon, Patricia Reyes Spindola, Melanie Farrar, Carmen Montejo
After his wife dies, poor farmer Jesus Sanchez (Anthony Quinn) tries, often ineptly, to keep his family together in Mexico City.
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Hard Ground 2003  TV, 95 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Frank Q. Dobbs
Cast: Burt Reynolds, Bruce Dern, Amy Jo Johnson, Seth Peterson, David Figlioli, Martin Kove, Larry Hankin, Michael Shamus Wiles, Bill Henderson, Sergio Calderon, Randy Stripling, David Atkinson
John McKay (Burt Reynolds) is serving a life sentence for a crime he didn't commit. He becomes part of a major jailbreak orchestrated by Billy Bucklin (David Figlioli) who proceeds to wreak havoc on citizens of Arizona and then heads to Mexico to work with a revolutionary. Seeing a chance to redeem himself, John teams up with Sheriff Nate Hutchinson (Bruce Dern)–the man who sent John to prison–to bring Billy and his gang to justice.
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Men in Black 1997  PG-13, 98 min.
Genre: Action / Sci-Fi / Comedy
Director: Barry Sonnenfeld
Cast: Tommy Lee Jones, Will Smith, Linda Fiorentino, Vincent D'Onofrio, Rip Torn, Tony Shalhoub, Siobhan Fallon, Mike Nussbaum, Jon Gries, Sergio Calderon, Carel Struycken, Fredric Lehne, Richard Hamilton, Kent Faulcon, John Alexander
Federal agents–Agent K (Tommy Lee Jones) and Agent J (Will Smith)–are assigned to monitor alien activity in New York City. They uncover the diabolical plot of an intergalactic terrorist, Edgar (Vincent D'Onofrio), to destroy Earth. Now, Agent K and Agent J race against time to prevent Edgar from accomplishing his dastardly deed. The film won an Academy Award for Best Makeup and received two other nominations.
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 The Missing 2003  R, 138 min.
Genre: Drama / Adventure / Thriller / Western
Director: Ron Howard
Cast: Tommy Lee Jones, Cate Blanchett, Evan Rachel Wood, Eric Schweig, Jenna Boyd, Aaron Eckhart, Val Kilmer, Sergio Calderon, Jay Tavare, Steve Reevis, Rance Howard, Simon Baker
In 1885, Samuel (Tommy Lee Jones) returns to his home in New Mexico after a 20-year absence and finds that his daughter, Maggie (Cate Blanchett), needs him to track down Army deserters–led by an Aztec mystic, Chidin (Eric Schweig)–who have kidnapped Maggie's daughter. Father and daughter unite as they pursue Chidin in hopes of finding the young girl before she is sold to a prostitution ring across the border in Mexico.
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Nurses on the Line: The Crash of Flight 7 1993  PG, 87 min.
Genre: Adventure / Drama
Director: Larry Shaw
Cast: Lindsay Wagner, Robert Loggia, David Clennon, Hilary Edson, Farrah Forke, Jennifer Lopez, Paula Marshall, Tom Irwin, Joan McMurtrey, Pedro Armendariz Jr., Jay Patterson, Sergio Calderon
Medically trained personnel are flying to a medical station in the rain forest when their plane crashes in a Mexican jungle. Survivors aid the wounded until help arrives, and then difficult decisions must be made on how to evacuate. Based on a true story.
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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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The Ruins 2008 R, 91 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Carter Smith
Cast: Jonathan Tucker, Jena Malone, Shawn Ashmore, Laura Ramsey, Joe Anderson, Sergio Calderon, Jesse Ramirez, Balder Moreno, Dimitri Baveas, Patricio Almeida Rodriguez, Mario Jurado, Luis Antonio Ramos
American vacationers–Jeff (Jonathan Tucker), Amy (Jena Malone), Stacy (Laura Ramsey), and Eric (Shawn Ashmore)–meet Mathias (Joe Anderson) at a Mexican resort and agree to help him search for his brother who is missing in the jungle. They travel to an archeological dig and come upon a Mayan temple covered with vines. Villagers appear on the scene and start shooting at them. The group escapes by climbing the ruins, but even more dangers await at the top.
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Under the Volcano 1984 R, 112 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: John Huston
Cast: Albert Finney, Jacqueline Bisset, Anthony Andrews, Ignacio Lopez Tarso, Katy Jurado, James Villiers, Emilio Fernandez, Dawson Bray, Carlos Riquelme, Jim McCarthy, Jose Rene Ruiz, Eleazar Garcia Jr., Salvador Sanchez, Sergio Calderon, Araceli Ladewuen Castelun
World War II is about to begin, and the former British Consul in Mexico, Geoffrey Firmin (Albert Finney), is drinking himself to death over the state of the world and the infidelity of his former wife Yvonne (Jacqueline Bisset). Yvonne arrives in Mexico with Geoffrey's brother Hugh (Anthony Andrews) hoping to stop his drinking and to talk him into coming to the United States. But, Geoffrey has other plans for his future, and they don't include redemption. This is Malcolm Lowry's autobiography. Finney's performance is great, and he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor.
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| 1. The Children of Sanchez (1978)
2. Hard Ground (2003)
3. Men in Black (1997)
4. The Missing (2003)
5. Nurses on the Line: The Crash of Flight 7 (1993)
6. Old Gringo (1989)
7. The Ruins (2008)
8. Under the Volcano (1984)
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