Over His Dead Body

Giant

November 1956 •English

Wealthy rancher Bick Benedict and dirt-poor cowboy Jett Rink both woo Leslie Lynnton, a beautiful young woman from Maryland who is new to Texas. She marries Benedict, but she is shocked by the racial bigotry of the White Texans against the local people of Mexican descent. Rink discovers oil on a small plot of land, and while he uses his vast, new wealth to buy all the land surrounding the Benedict ranch, the Benedict's disagreement over prejudice fuels conflict that runs across generations.

West Side Story

December 1961 •English

In the slums of the upper West Side of Manhattan, tensions are high as a gang of Polish-Americans compete against a gang of recently immigrated Puerto Ricans, but this doesn't stop two romantics from each gang falling in love.

May Fools

January 1990 •French

An eccentric family is re-united during the 1968 general strike in France, after the death of the grandmother.

Pet Sematary

April 1989 •English

After the Creed family's cat is accidentally killed, a friendly neighbor advises its burial in a mysterious nearby cemetery.

Elizabethtown

October 2005 •English

Drew Baylor is fired after causing his shoe company to lose hundreds of millions of dollars. To make matters worse, he's also dumped by his girlfriend. On the verge of ending it all, Drew gets a new lease on life when he returns to his family's small Kentucky hometown after his father dies. Along the way, he meets a flight attendant with whom he falls in love.

Hope Floats

May 1998 •English

Birdee Pruitt has been humiliated on live television by her best friend, Connie, who's been sleeping with Birdee's husband, Bill. Birdee tries starting over with her daughter, Bernice, by returning to her small Texas hometown, but she's faced with petty old acquaintances who are thrilled to see Birdee unhappy -- except for her friend Justin. As he helps Birdee get back on her feet, love begins to blossom.

El tesoro del Yunque

November 2001 •Spanish

A group of children camp in the yard of their grandmother's house in the outskirts of El Yunque. Plunged into a fantastic collective dream, the children get lost in El Yunque and experience the adventure of finding their way home, as they meet themselves and three magical characters who represent our cultural mix: an indian, a black freed slave, and a Spanish gentleman.

La Cenicienta Boricua

November 2015 •Spanish

The famous fairy tale of Cinderella is adapted to our times, considering as background the present situation of Puerto Rican coffee growers. The story is set in Lares, Puerto Rico, at a time close to Christmas. Miosotis’s father has died and Ava Rice, his widow, wants to sell his family coffee farm to a foreign company, whose monopoly on the island continues to displace the country's coffee growers.

Tās dullās Paulīnes dēļ

December 1979 •Latvian

Snow Cake

September 2006 •English

A drama focused on the friendship between a high-functioning autistic woman and a man who is traumatized after a fatal car accident.

Mystic River

October 2003 •English

The lives of three men who were childhood friends are shattered when one of them suffers a family tragedy.

12 Angry Men

April 1957 •English

The defense and the prosecution have rested and the jury is filing into the jury room to decide if a young Spanish-American is guilty or innocent of murdering his father. What begins as an open and shut case soon becomes a mini-drama of each of the jurors' prejudices and preconceptions about the trial, the accused, and each other.

Kolya

May 1996 •Czech

After a fictitious marriage with a Russian emigrant, Cellisten Louka, a Czech man, must suddenly take responsibility for her son. However, it’s not long before the communication barrier is broken between the two new family members.

Things We Lost in the Fire

September 2007 •English

A recent widow invites her husband's troubled best friend to live with her and her two children. As he gradually turns his life around, he helps the family cope and confront their loss.

En el día menos pensado

December 1999 •Spanish

Two couples see their lives transformed after the tragedy of losing a child. Both families face the loss in their own way, allowing feelings of guilt, deny, and jealousy to surface, until family disintegration is almost inevitable.

El desvío... la escena del crimen

November 2005 •Spanish

Two stories intersect, with violence as a common axis. An inside look into the world of youth boxing, full of championship illusions, combined with jealousy and envy.

The Two Worlds of Angelita

October 1983 •Spanish

As experienced by 9 year old Angelita, the film portrays the hardship of migration endured by her family’s move from a small town in Puerto Rico to New York City’s Lower East Side.

Más allá del límite

March 2002 •Spanish

The story of Andrés, a heavyweight boxer preparing for a big match. It turns out, Andrés has a medical problem, which could kill him if he continues boxing. Mariano, his manager, refuses to tell him about his condition and lets Andrés continue his training.

Yuyo

January 1989 •Spanish

Based on Miguel Meléndez Muñoz's novel.

Cauce sin río

January 1991 •Spanish

Based on Enrique A. Laguerre's novel.