Federico Luppi
1) Cronos
Series
Criterion collection volume 551
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2010
Language
Español
Description
In the darkness, a clock ticks. Aging antique dealer Jesús Gris marks his time with his granddaughter Aurora, and his wife Mercedes. Señor Gris comes to possess, quite accidentally, the ancient Cronos device. The invention of a sixteenth century alchemist who fled to Mexico during the Spanish Inquisition, it grants eternal life and youthful vigor to the user. The only drawbacks are marble white skin that burns under sunlight and an insatiable thirst...
2) Elsa & Fred
Publisher
DistriMax Inc
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
Español
Description
Elsa & Fred is a story about two people who, at the end of the road, discover that it's never too late to love-- or dream. Elsa is 82 years-old, while Alfredo is a bit younger than her. After losing his wife, Alfredo feels disturbed and confused, so his daughter suggests it would be best if he moved into a smaller apartment. There he'll meet Elsa. From that moment on, everything changes. Elsa bursts into his life like a whirlwind, determined...
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
Español
Description
Dr. Fuentes is a man in search of his legacy, 7 medical students he trained to work in impoverished native villages in Mexico. But early in his odyssey he begins to suspect that men with guns got there first, and with every step he is confronted by bloody realities he had long ignored. Now, his is an almost desperate quest, but for a mythical village deep in the rainforest, one last refuge of hope called Cerca del Cielo.
Series
Criterion collection volume 666
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
Español
Formats
Description
The most personal film by Guillermo del Toro is also among his most frightening and emotionally layered. Set during the final week of the Spanish Civil War, The tale of a ten-year-old boy who, after his freedom-fighting father is killed, is sent to a haunted rural orphanage full of terrible secrets. Del Toro effectively combines gothic ghost story, murder mystery, and historical melodrama in a stylish concoction that reminds us that the scariest monsters...
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
Español
Description
The most personal film by Guillermo del Toro is also among his most frightening and emotionally layered. Set during the final week of the Spanish Civil War, The tale of a ten-year-old boy who, after his freedom-fighting father is killed, is sent to a haunted rural orphanage full of terrible secrets. Del Toro effectively combines gothic ghost story, murder mystery, and historical melodrama in a stylish concoction that reminds us that the scariest monsters...
6) Machuca
Publisher
Menemsha Films, Inc
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
Español
Description
In 1973, the Chilean military, under the direction of General Augusto Pinochet and backed by the CIA, overthrew the shaky socialist government of democratically elected President Salvador Allende. The coup led to the murder of 3,000 leftist Allende supporters and the detention of an estimated 250,000 political prisoners. Set against the background of the political instability that led to that crisis, Andrés Wood's Machuca is a story of the friendship...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Classics
Pub. Date
c2001, 2004
Language
Español
Description
"What is a ghost? A tragedy condemned to repeat itself time and again? An instant of pain, perhaps. Something dead which still seems to be alive. An emotion suspended in time. Like a blurred photograph. Like an insect trapped in amber." So says Casares, but ten-year-old Carlos disagrees. Thanks to the Civil War, Carlos his arrived at the desolate Santa Lucia School, now a makeshift shelter for war orphans, where an unexploded bomb rests in...
8) Swindled
Publisher
TLA Releasing
Pub. Date
2005
Language
Español
Description
The slick small-time criminal Ernesto sees his life change after meeting the elderly El Manco who has connections to the mysterious Federico, the king of all con men.
9) Cronos
Series
Criterion collection volume 551
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
Español
Description
An aging antique dealer Jesús Gris marks his time with his granddaughter Aurora, and his wife Mercedes, but after he discovers the ancient Cronos device, a sixteenth-century invention that grants eternal life and vigor to the user, Señor Gris discovers the drawbacks are marble white skin that burns under sunlight and an insatiable thirst for human blood; meanwhile, a dying industrialist obtains the alchemist's journal, learns of the device, and...
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
Español
Appears on list
Description
An elderly physician that trains young people to provide health care to the poor people of a agricultural country finds out that many of his former students are being killed. He goes there to find out why these men with guns are killing anyone they want.
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Multiple
Formats
Description
"Throughout a career that encompasses both visually arresting art-house hits and big-budget Hollywood spectacles, director Guillermo del Toro has continually redefined and elevated the horror genre with his deeply personal explorations of myths and monsters. These three Spanish-language films, each a tale of childhood in troubled times, showcase his singular fusion of the fantastic and the real. Drawing inspiration from a rich variety of sources,...
Publisher
Wellspring Media
Pub. Date
[2004], c2002
Language
Español
Description
Fernando, a respected university professor, and Lili, his devoted wife, have lived happily together in Buenos Aires for many years. Without warning, they find their comfortable life threatened when Fernando is forced into early retirement as a result of Argentina's economic crisis. Facing an uncertain future, the couple relocates to the countryside where they bravely set out on a new chapter of their lives.
Publisher
Binge Box
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Crimson Peak: When her heart is stolen by a seductive stranger, a young woman is swept away to a house atop a mountain of blood-red clay; a place filled with secrets that will haunt her forever. Between desire and darkness, between mystery and madness, lies the truth.
Cronos: In the darkness, a clock ticks. Aging antique dealer Jesús Gris marks his time with his granddaughter Aurora, and his wife Mercedes. Señor Gris comes to possess, quite accidentally,...