International Films

• La Ciénaga = The Swamp

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  Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV CIÉNAGA

  With a radical take on narrative, disturbing yet beautiful cinematography, and a highly sophisticated use of on- and offscreen sound, Martel turns her tale of a decaying bourgeois family, whiling away the hours of one sweaty, sticky summer, into a cinematic marvel.
  Language: Spanish, with optional English subtitles.
• El hijo de la novia = Son of the bride

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  Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV SON OF THE BRIDE

  Rafael is a 42-year-old divorced father and restaurant owner who is overwhelmed with life. He feels guilty that he doesn't visit his mother, who is stricken with Alzheimer's disease; he lives in his father's shadow; he doesn't spend enough time with his daughter and he can't commit to his girlfriend. When a series of unexpected events happen, Rafael re-evaluates his life.
  Language: Spanish, with optional English or French subtitles.
• Mi mejor enemigo: Patagonia, 1978 = My best enemy, Patagonia 1978

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  Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV MY BEST ENEMY

  Friendship develops between enemies when a Chilean army patrol lost within the Argentine border comes upon an Argentine army patrol in the same predicament.
  Language: Spanish, with optional English subtitles.
• Plata quemada = Burnt money

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  Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV BURNT MONEY

  Nene & Angel and their accomplice Cuervo participate in a botched bank robbery in 1965 Buenos Aires, then hide out from the police in Uruguay while the gang breaks down. (IMDB)
  Language: Spanish, with optional English subtitles.
• Un oso rojo = A Red Bear

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  Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV RED BEAR

  Seven years have passed since Bear was sent to prison for robbery and murder. The day of the robbery was his daughter Alicia’s first birthday and his ex-wife Natalia has never forgiven him. Now paroled, Bear thinks he might be able to start fresh -- but Natalia now lives with Sergio, and Alicia barely remembers her father at all.
  Language: Spanish, with optional English subtitles.
• El secreto de sus ojos = The Secret in Their Eyes

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  Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV SECRET IN THEIR

  Won the Oscar for Best Foreign Film in 2010. A retired legal counselor writes a novel hoping to find closure for one of his past unresolved homicide cases and for his unreciprocated love with his superior - both of which still haunt him decades later.
  Language: Spanish, with optional English subtitles.
• Tango

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  Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV TANGO

  Mario Suarez is a forty-something tango artist, whose wife Laura has left him. He leaves his apartment and starts preparing a film about tango.
  Language: Spanish, with optional English or French subtitles.

• Beira-mar = Seashore

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  Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV SEASHORE

  Two boys on the edge of adulthood find themselves exploring their relationship.
  Language: Portuguese, with optional English subtitles.
• Central Station

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  Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV CENTRAL STATION

  When a young boy witnesses his mother's accidental death, a lonely, retired school-teacher reluctantly takes the child under her wing.
  Language: Portuguese, with optional English subtitles.
• Cidade de Deus = City of God

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  Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV CITY OF GOD

  Two boys growing up in a violent neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro take different paths: one becomes a photographer, the other a drug dealer.
  Language: Portuguese, with optional English or French subtitles.
• Cidade dos homens = City of Men

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  Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV CITY OF MEN

  The City is a shantytown located in one of the many mountains of Rio de Janeiro. The Men are two 13-year-old kids, Laranjinha and Acerola. This series brilliantly mixes humor and reality to explore life in the 'favelas' and in particular the indomitable spirit of two best friends growing up in one of the most volatile communities in the world.
  Language: Portuguese, with optional English subtitles.
• Elite Squad: The Enemy Within

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  Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV ELITE SQUAD

  Captain Nascimento has risen in his career to become the commander-in-chief of Rio de Janeiro's BOPE (Special Police Operations Battalion) and later, a populist choice as the Sub-Secretary of Intelligence.
  Language: Portuguese, with optional English subtitles.
• Hoje eu quero voltar sozinho = I Want to Go Back Alone (The Way He Looks at Me)

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  Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV WAY HE LOOKS

  A fun and tender story about friendship and the complications of young love. Leo is a blind teenager who's fed up with his overprotective mother and the bullies at school. Looking to assert his independence, he decides to study abroad to the dismay of his best friend, Giovana. When Gabriel, the new kid in town, teams with Leo on a school project, new feelings blossom in him that make him reconsider his plans.
  Language: Portuguese, with optional English subtitles.
• Lula, o filho do Brasil = Lula, Son of Brazil

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  Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV LULA

  A richly produced, deeply moving chronicle of the early years of Brazil’s most beloved leader, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who rose from extreme poverty to govern the largest nation in Latin America. An incredible, true tale of perseverance, family, love, honor and heroism.
  Language: Portuguese, with optional English subtitles.
• Orfeu negro = Black Orpheus

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  Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV BLACK ORPHEUS

  Against a background of the Rio carnival, a black tram driver accidentally kills his girlfriend, and after seeking her in the nether regions kills himself to be with her.
  Language: Portuguese and English, with optional English subtitles.
• De pernas pro ar

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  Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV DE PERNAS PRO

  After being left by her husband and fired from her work, a workaholic businesswoman is forced to go through a big change in her life and becomes a partner in a decadent sex shop.
  Language: Portuguese, with optional English or Spanish subtitles.
• Se eu fosse você = If I Were You

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  Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV IF I WERE YOU

  Comedy about a married couple who, to their surprise, somehow swap bodies to experience each other's life, complete with benefits and troubles. It appears to have happened at a bad time as the husband's advertising agency is experiencing difficulties and the wife is having to conduct a girl's choir in a concert. But the mind/body switch works to everyone's advantage in the end.
  Language: Portuguese, with optional English or Spanish subtitles.
• Se eu fosse você 2

  Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV IF I WERE YOU 2

  Claudio and Helena are on the verge of breaking up, until the couple experiences another strange phenomenon that looks to help them understand one another more.
  Language: Portuguese, with optional English or Spanish subtitles.
• Vidas sêcas = Barren Lives

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  Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV VIDAS SECAS

  This Brazilian Grapes of Wrath is set in the early 1940s, and describes two years in the life of an itinerant cowhand's family struggling to eke out an existence in the drought-ravaged, landowner-dominated sertão of the country's Northeast.
  Language: Portuguese, with optional English subtitles.
• Xingu

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  Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV XINGU

  The three Villas Boas brothers, Orlando, Claudio, and Leonardo, are on a mission to protect the indigenous Amazon natives. Seeking adventure, they join the March to the West, an expedition to explore the Amazon rainforest. After befriending the native tribes, they become the leading advocates for the creation of the Xingu National Park.
  Language: Portuguese, with optional English subtitles.

• File Under Miscellaneous

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  Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV FILE UNDER MISC.

  Set in a dystopic metropolitan hellscape: a spiritually exhausted and destitute Mi'gMaq man has resolved to assimilate into the ruling culture. He visits a surgical clinic - the display window littered with skin and limb samples - and undergoes a gruesome procedure to rid him of his red skin.
  Language: Micmac and English, with optional English subtitles.
• Gabrielle

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  Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV GABRIELLE

  The musically gifted but developmentally challenged Gabrielle lives in a group home with four other adults who have similar disabilities. Like all young women, Gabrielle wants her independence, but of course her situation is exceptional.
  Language: French, with optional English subtitles.

• No

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  Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV NO

  An ad executive comes up with a campaign to defeat Augusto Pinochet in Chile's 1988 referendum.
  Language: Spanish, with optional English or French subtitles.

• Sin nombre

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  Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV SIN NOMBRE

  A teenage Honduran girl forms an unlikely friendship with a Mexican gang member who is helping to smuggle her family into the United States.
  Language: Spanish, with optional English or French subtitles.

• Koyaanisqatsi

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  Call Number: MEDIA HM221.K693 2002

  This film presents a concert of visual images set to the music of Philip Glass that progresses from purely natural environments to nature as affected by man, and finally to man's own manmade environment that is devoid of nature.
  Language: English, with optional English or French subtitles.

• Amores perros

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  Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV AMORES PERROS

  Three lives become inextricably linked in the wake of a terrible car crash: a young punk stumbles into the sinister underground world of dog fighting; an injured supermodel's pooch disappears into the apartment's floorboards; and an ex-radical turned hit man rescues a gun-shot Rottweiler.
  Language: Spanish or French, with optional English subtitles.
• Cronos

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  Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV CRONOS

  Kindly antiques dealer Jesús Gris happens upon an ancient golden device, and soon finds himself possessor and victim of its sinister, addictive powers, as well as the target of a mysterious, crude American named Angel.
  Language: Spanish, with optional English subtitles.
• La dama del Alba

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  Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV DAMA DEL ALBA

  Adapted from the play by Alejandro Casona, the story takes place three years after Martín's wife Angelica has mysteriously disappeared in the river when a vagabond woman arrives.
  Language: Spanish; no subtitles available.
• Como Agua Para Chocolate = Like Water for Chocolate

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  Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV LIKE WATER FOR

  Romantic fantasy set in Mexico during the early 20th century. A young couple is blocked from marrying by the demands of the young woman's cold and selfish mother. To be near his love, the young man marries her sister, and she expresses her passion for him through her cooking.
  Language: Spanish or dubbed English, with optional English subtitles.
• La Joven = The young one

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  Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV YOUNG ONE

  A game warden and an orphaned thirteen-year old girl are the only inhabitants of an isolated island off the Carolina coast. The warden is obsessed by the girl, and when a black musician on the run from a lynch mob arrives on the island, the warden wants him out of the way.
  Language: Spanish or English.
• Bella

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  Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV BELLA

  An international soccer star is on his way to sign a multimillion dollar contract when a series of events unfold that brings his career to an abrupt end. A beautiful waitress, struggling to make it in New York City, discovers something about herself that she’s unprepared for. In one irreversible moment, their lives are turned upside down
  Language: English, with optional Spanish subtitles.
• El crimen del Padre Amaro = The crime of Padre Amaro

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  Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV CRIME OF PADRE

  A recently ordained priest is sent to a small parish church in rural Mexico to help an aging priest. Upon arriving at his new post, he meets a beautiful young woman with a religious passion that borders on obsession. When the priest crosses the line that separates temptation from sin, he finds himself torn between the divine and the carnal, the righteous and the unjust.
  Language: Spanish or English, with optional English
  or French subtitles.
• Diarios de motocicleta = The Motorcycle Diaries

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  Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV MOTORCYCLE

  An inspirational adventure, based on the true story of two young men whose thrilling and dangerous road trip across Latin America becomes a life-changing journey of self-discovery.
  Language: Spanish or French, with optional English or French subtitles.
• Guten Tag, Ramón = Buen Día, Ramón

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  Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV GUTEN TAG

  Ramon, a young Mexican boy, tries to cross the border for the fifth time but fails. His friend tells him about his aunt living in Germany and that she has a better life over there. Ramon then goes to Germany to find his friend's aunt.
  Language: Spanish and German, with optional English subtitles.
• Roma

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  Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV ROMA

  With his eighth and most personal film, Alfonso Cuaron recreated the early 1970s Mexico City of his childhood, narrating a tumultuous period in the life of a middle-class family through the experiences of Cleo, the indigenous domestic worker who keeps the household running. Charged with the care of four small children abandoned by their father, Cleo tends to the family even as her own life is shaken by personal and political upheavals.
  Language: Spanish with English, French, Spanish subtitles.
• Y tu mamá también = And Your Mother Too

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  Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV Y TU MAMÁ

  Two teens set off on a wild cross-country trip with seductive, 28-year-old Luisa. Luisa schools them in the finer points of passion, but will their mutual desire for her destroy their friendship forever?
  Language: Spanish, with optional English subtitles.

• Whisky

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  Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV WHISKY

  When Jacobo, a sock factory owner, hears about the impending visit of his brother, who he hasn't seen in years, he enlists the aid of his assistant Marta to pretend to be his wife.
  Language: Spanish, with optional English subtitles.

• Desde allá = From Afar

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  Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV FROM AFAR

  Armando, a 50 year man, seeks young men in Caracas and pays them just for company. One day he meets Elder, a 17 years boy that is the leader of a criminal gang, and that meeting changes their lives forever.
  Language: Spanish, with optional English subtitles.