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World Cinema / South America
In addition to hosting the exiled Luis Buñuel, Latin America had also produced several notable film-makers, including cult icon Alejandro Jodorowsky and the Cubans Tomas Gutiérrez Alea and Humberto Solas. But the recent surge of creative energy in Mexico, Brazil and Argentina has seen the emergence of a generation of politically aware film-maker... show more > Recommended World Cinema / South America Films
The Orphanage (2 discs)2007, Juan Antonio Bayona, DVD Chilling ghost story produced by Guillermo del Toro. Laura (Belen Rueda) has fond memories of the orphanage she grew up in. She was well cared for by the staff and she loved her fellow orphans like they were her own flesh and blood. Thirty years l...
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Save £12.00 Black Orpheus (Extended Edition)1959, Marcel Camus, DVD Making a huge impact on its release, Marcel Camus’ Oscar, Golden Globe and Palm D’Or winning film retells the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice against the vibrant backdrop of the Rio carnival. The infectious soundtrack by Antonio Carlos Jobim an...
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Save £12.50 The Motorcycle Diaries2004, Walter Salles, Daniela Thomas, DVD In 1952, two young Argentinian men, the medical student Ernesto 'Che' Guevara and friend Alberto Granada set out on a road trip to discover the real Latin America. Guevara's own journals form the basis of Salles's film of this journey of self-disc...
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Save £13.00 Y Tu Mama Tambien2001, Alfonso Cuaron, DVD Two adolescent friends go on a road trip during their summer holiday with an older, beautiful cousin-in-law. Tackling supposedly flippant topics like teenage lust alongside life, society, meaning and death, Cuaron crafts a sublime masterpiece that...
£12.99 Central Station1998, Walter Salles, Daniela Thomas, DVD Aka Central Do Brasil. A film which will win many hearts. Dora, a crusty middle-aged spinster, unwillingly becomes responsible for a small boy, Josue, when his mother dies, and the film charts the adventures and disappointments in the mini-Odyssey...
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Save £9.00 I Am Cuba (Soy Cuba) / The Siberian Mammoth1964; 2005, Mikhail Kalatozov, DVD I Am Cuba (Soy Cuba) is an extraordinary hymn to to the Castro revolution from Soviet director Mikhail Kalatozov, whose epic feature uses amazing camera techniques to beautiful, lyrical effect. The film takes in the decadence of Batista Havana as ...
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Save £3.00 The Exterminating Angel1962, Luis Bunuel, DVD Through a classic surrealist conceit, an elegant gathering of high society folk find that they are unable to leave the dinner party they are attending. Their impeccable bourgeois manners turn bestial as the servants disappear and the days pass. ...
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Save £6.00 Japon2002, Carlos Reygadas, DVD A man leaves Mexico city to end his life in remote countryside. He finds lodging with a widow in a ramshackle cottage overlooking a desolate canyon. Inspired by the breathtaking landscape, the woman's infinite humanity reawakens his dulled senses ...
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Save £3.00 Born and Bred2007, Pablo Trapero, DVD Pablo Trapero's touching film follows a grief-stricken man into Patagonia, where he takes a job at a remote airstrip and attempts to heal from his tragedy and loss through the mindless repetition of his chores and the undemanding cameraderie of hi...
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Save £10.00 Cronos (Special Edition)1992, Guillermo del Toro, DVD Fascinating fantasy from Mexico that pumps exciting new blood into the old vampire legend, packed with startling imagery and a strong visual style. A 16th century alchemist leaves a clockwork scarab-shaped device for a modern antique dealer and hi...
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Save £9.00 A Successful Man1985, Humberto Solas, DVD Aka Un Hombre de éxito. Spanning many decades of one wealthy Cuban family, A Successful Man follows the story of two brothers, Dario and Javier Arguelles, as they come struggle to come to terms with their differing political beliefs before, during...
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Save £0.50 XXY2007, Lucia Puenzo, DVD Drama from first-time Argentinian director Lucia Puenzo. Alex (Ines Efron) is a 15-year old with genital ambiguity. Her family have moved to a relatively uninhabited, remote island in an effort to keep her out of trouble, but when the first boy wh...
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Save £5.00 Like Water For Chocolate1992, Alfonso Arau, DVD A delicious love story with exquisite comedy adapted from Laura Esquivel's best selling novel. Young Tita is forced to nurse her sick mother and, until she dies, cannot marry the man she loves - who is now beginning to notice her sister! Consigne...
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Save £8.00 Glue2006, Alexis Dos Santos, DVD A tale of teenage self-discovery set in a small town in the middle of nowhere. The gawky Lucas, a 15 year old mass of hair and hormones, hangs out and gets off with his best friend, Nacho and mousy, bespectacled Andrea. A languid, heavily improvis...
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Save £0.50 The Twelve Chairs1962, Tomas Gutierrez Alea, DVD Aka Las Doce Sillas. On his mother-in-law's deathbed, Hippolito learns that to avoid their confiscation during the revolution, she hid her jewellery in one of the twelve English chairs that formerly stood in the blue salon of her villa. Seeing an ...
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