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	Title	Author	Year	Subtitles	Length	Rating
1	[Rec] ²	Jaume Balagueró	2009		85 mins	Like (0 likes)
Before their inevitable farewell, a young man of Mayan roots and Natan, his half Italian son, embark on an epic journey into the open sea. 2	Alamar	Pedro González-Rubio	2009		73 mins	Like (0 likes)
Viggo Mortensen plays the Spanish soldier-turned-mercenary Captain Alatriste, a heroic figure from the country's 17th century imperial wars. 3	Alatriste	Agustín Díaz Yanes	2006		147 mins	Like (0 likes)
4	Amb el 10 a l'esquena	Eduard Cortés	2003		86 mins	Like (0 likes)
1994. After the civil war, a soldier and a survivor of prison camp take revenge on a brutal sergeant. 5	Amnesia	Gonzalo Justiniano	1994	English	84 mins	Like (0 likes)
A woman married to a bank director sees how her life is destroyed in a matter of hours when the police discovers that her husband has escaped with money from the bank. 6	Amor Propio	Mario Camus	1994		111 mins	Like (0 likes)
7	Átame!	Pedro Almodóvar	1990	English	96 mins	Like (0 likes)
8	Ay, Carmela!	Carlos Saura	1990		102 mins	Like (0 likes)
Gustavo is a young Havana Communist who believes in the revolution; he hopes for a scholarship to study aeronautical engineering in Prague... 9	Azúcar amarga	Leon Ichaso	1996		105 mins	Like (0 likes)
10	Bombón el Perro	Carlos Sorin	2004	English	97 mins	Like (0 likes)
Two Latina sisters work as cleaners in a downtown office building, and fight for the right to unionize. 11	Bread and Roses	Ken Loach	200	English	110 mins	Like (0 likes)
Aging Cuban musicians whose talents had been virtually forgotten following Castro's takeover of Cuba, are brought out of retirement by Ry Cooder, who travelled to Havana in order to bring the musicians together, resulting in triumphant performances of extraordinary music, and resurrecting the musicians' careers. 12	Buena Vista Social Club	Wim Wenders	1999	English	105 mins	Like (0 likes)
13	Buena Vista Social Club (French Subtitles)	Wim Wenders	1999	French	105 mins	Like (0 likes)
After leaving jail, Víctor is still in love with Elena, but she's married to the former cop -now basketball player- who became paralysed by a shot from Víctor's gun... 14	Carne Trémula	Pedro Almodóvar	1997	English	103 mins	Like (0 likes)
In 1956, Ernesto 'Che' Guevara and a band of Castro-led Cuban exiles mobilize an army to topple the regime of dictator Fulgencio Batista. 15	Che: Part One	Steven Soderbergh	2008		134 mins	Like (0 likes)
In 1967, Ernesto 'Che' Guevara leads a small partisan army to fight an ill-fated revolutionary guerrilla war in Bolivia. 16	Che: Part Two	Steven Soderbergh	2008		135 mins	Like (0 likes)
This movie is about how life used to be in Mexico. It is a love story between Pedro and Tita, and why... 17	Como Agua para Chocolate	Alfonso Arau	1992	English	123 mins	Like (0 likes)
Carmen, a journalist with two children, is on her third marriage, to Antonio, a record producer. Over the course of a year... 18	Cómo ser mujer y no morir en el intento	Ana Belén	1991	English	83 mins	Like (0 likes)
An unusual ghost story set on the Peruvian seaside; a married fisherman struggles to reconcile his devotion to his male lover within his town's rigid traditions. 19	Contracorriente	Javier Fuentes-León	2009		100 mins	Like (0 likes)
A mysterious device designed to provide its owner with eternal life resurfaces after four hundred years, leaving a trail of destruction in its path. 20	Cronos	Guillermo del Toro	1993	English	94 mins	Like (0 likes)
21	Cuba Le Canta a Serrat	Joan Minguell	2005		52 mins	Like (0 likes)
The Vuillard family is no stranger to physical/mental illness, loss, and banishment. But when the matriarch becomes in need of a transplant, the whole family is forced to come together, emotional baggage and all, just in time for Christmas. 22	Cuento de Navidad	Paco Plaza	2005	English	71 mins	Like (0 likes)
Julia (Rojo) is a phone operator in Mexico City who divides her time between her job, her daughter and the danzon: a cuban dance very popular in Mexico and Central America... 23	Danzón	María Novaro	1991	English	120 mins	Like (0 likes)
Two different social classes get together at a family gathering in Mexico. Based on the TV project "Ruta 32". 24	Déficit	Gael García Bernal	2007	English	79 mins	Like (0 likes)
The dramatization of a motorcycle road trip Che Guevara went on in his youth that showed him his life's calling. 25	Diarios de Motocicleta	Walter Salles	2004	English	126 mins	Like (0 likes)
The guests at an upper-class dinner party find themselves unable to leave. 26	El Ángel Exterminador	Luis Buñuel	1962	English	83 mins	Like (0 likes)
A small South American village is in a flurry over the Pope's 1988 visit. 27	El baño del Papa	César Charlone Enrique Fernández	2007	English	90 mins	Like (0 likes)
28	El Calzonazos	Mariano Ozores	1974		92 mins	Like (0 likes)
Luis, a Spanish student,goes to London to get a course in Economics. He lives at a house the neighbour of her aunt, but when she broke up with her husband, Luis goes to live with her. 29	El Efecto Mariposa	Fernando Colomo	1995		110 mins	Like (0 likes)
After Carlos, a 12-year-old whose father has died in the Spanish Civil War, arrives at an ominous boy's orphanage he discovers the school is haunted and has many dark secrets that he must uncover. 30	El Espinazo del Diablo	Guillermo del Toro	2010	English	106 mins	Like (0 likes)
A sensitive seven-year-old girl living a small village in 1940 rural Spain is traumatized after viewing James Whale's "Frankenstein" and drifts into her own fantasy world. 31	El Espíritu de la Colmena	Víctor Erice	1973	English	97 mins	Like (0 likes)
32	El Hombre que se quiso matar	Rafael Gil	1970		91 mins	Like (0 likes)
In the fascist Spain of 1944, the bookish young stepdaughter of a sadistic army officer escapes into an eerie but captivating fantasy world. 33	El Laberinto del Fauno	Guillermo del Toro	2006	English	112 mins	Like (0 likes)
Mayan Indian peasants, tired of being thought of as nothing more than "brazos fuertes" ("strong arms"... 34	El Norte	Gregory Nava	1983	English	139 mins	Like (0 likes)
35	El Quijote de Miguel de Cervantes - Tranco I	Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón	1991		60 mins	Like (0 likes)
36	El Quijote de Miguel de Cervantes - Tranco II	Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón	1991		60 mins	Like (0 likes)
37	El Quijote de Miguel de Cervantes - Tranco III	Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón	1991		51 mins	Like (0 likes)
The artist, Antonio Lopez, tries to paint the quince tree he planted some time back in his garden. Throughout his life... 38	El Sol del Membrillo	Víctor Erice	1992	English	133 mins	Like (0 likes)
The brash James T. Kirk tries to live up to his father's legacy with Mr. Spock keeping him in check as a vengeful, time-traveling Romulan creates black holes to destroy the Federation one planet at a time. 39	El Viaje	Fernando Solanas	1992	English	206 mins	Like (0 likes)
The movie tells the story of a family of commediants that work in the towns of Spain during the 40's and 50's... 40	El Viaje a Ninguna Parte	Fernando Fernán-Gómez	1986		135 mins	Like (0 likes)
Diego, a cultivated, homosexual and skeptical young man, falls in love with a young heterosexual communist full of prejudices and doctrinary ideas... 41	Fresa y Chocolate	Tomás Gutiérrez Alea	1994	English	108 mins	Like (0 likes)
"A teenage summer in a small town in the desert, a dysfunctional family, a rock band, a can full of glue... 42	Glue	Alexis Dos Santos	2006	English	110 mins	Like (0 likes)
43	Golpes a mi Puerta	Alejandro Saderman	1994	English	95 mins	Like (0 likes)
Two men share an odd friendship while they care for their girlfriends who are both in deep comas. 44	Hable con ella	Pedro Almodóvar	2002	English	112 mins	Like (0 likes)
A patient in a mental hospital claims to be an extraterrestial. Could he be right? 45	Hombre Mirando al Sudeste	Eliseo Subiela	1986	English	105 mins	Like (0 likes)
Jose Luis is an executive at his parents underwear factory where his girlfriend Sylvia works on the shop floor... 46	Jamón, Jamón	Bigas Luna	1992	English	95 mins	Like (0 likes)
A city without a voice... 47	La Antena	Esteban Sapir	2007	English	90 mins	Like (0 likes)
The life of two women and their families in a small provincial town of Salta, Argentina. 48	La Ciénaga	Lucrecia Martel	2001	English	103 mins	Like (0 likes)
49	La Colmena	Mario Camus	1982	English	112 mins	Like (0 likes)
A 9-year-old girl weathers big changes in her household as her parents become radical political activists in 1970-71 Paris. 50	La Culpa	Narciso Ibáñez Serrador	2006	English	72 mins	Like (0 likes)
51	La Fuente de la Edad	Julio Sánchez Valdés	1991	English	84 mins	Like (0 likes)
An examination on the effect of Franco-era religious schooling and sexual abuse on the lives of two longtime friends. 52	La Mala Educación	Pedro Almodóvar	2004	English	106 mins	Like (0 likes)
53	La Pasión del Rey	Gérard Corbiau	2000		115 mins	Like (0 likes)
A pious plantation owner attempts to teach Christianity to 12 of his slaves by inviting them to participate in a reenactment of the Last Supper. 54	La Última Cena	Tomás Gutiérrez Alea	1976	English	120 mins	Like (0 likes)
Discovering covert and faulty intelligence causes a U.S. Army officer to go rogue as he hunts for Weapons of Mass Destruction in an unstable region. 55	La Zona	Rodrigo Plá	2007	English	97 mins	Like (0 likes)
A camp melodrama/comedy about Sexilia (a nymphomaniac), Sadec (a gay Islamic terrorist), Riza Niro (the son of the emperor of Tiran)... 56	Laberinto de Pasiones	Pedro Almodóvar	1975	English	100 mins	Like (0 likes)
A story of a teenager and the strange events that take place in his small town. 57	Lake Tahoe	Fernando Eimbcke	2008	English	89 mins	Like (0 likes)
58	Las Acacias	Pablo Giorgelli	2011		82 mins	Like (0 likes)
The story of a boy and his family during the Spanish Civil War. 59	Las Bicicletas son para el Verano	Jaime Chávarri	1984		103 mins	Like (0 likes)
60	Las Huellas Borradas	Enrique Gabriel	1999		98 mins	Like (0 likes)
Spain, 1960's. People from a very poor family work in the country, at the service of a rich family of landowners... 61	Los Santos Inocentes	Mario Camus	1984		107 mins	Like (0 likes)
Madeinusa is a girl aged 14 with a sweet Indian face who lives in an isolated village in the Cordillera Blanca Mountain range of Peru... 62	Madeinusa	Claudia Llosa	2006	French	100 mins	Like (0 likes)
The real-life story of Spaniard Ramon Sampedro, who fought a 30 year campaign in favor of euthanasia and his own right to die. 63	Mar Adentro	Alejandro Amenábar	2004	English	125 mins	Like (0 likes)
A globetrotting hitman and a crestfallen businessman meet in a hotel bar in Mexico City in an encounter that draws them together in a way neither expected. 64	Matador	Pedro Almodóvar	1986	English	100 mins	Like (0 likes)
65	Miss Ameriguá	Luis R. Vera	1994	English	97 mins	Like (0 likes)
A woman's lover leaves her, and she tries to contact him to find out why he's left. She confronts his wife and son... 66	Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios	Pedro Almodóvar	1988	English	82 mins	Like (0 likes)
67	Para Entrar a Vivir	Jaume Balagueró	2006	English	68 mins	Like (0 likes)
In Spain, the sports journalist Juan has a perfect life with his wife Sonia: they have just had a baby and moved to an old house that needs to be repaired in a fancy neighborhood... 68	Películas para no dormir: La habitación del niño	Álex de la Iglesia	2006	English	77 mins	Like (0 likes)
69	Perdona Bonita, pero Lucas me quería a mí	Dunia Ayaso & Félix Sabroso	1997		86 mins	Like (0 likes)
When Prince Fabious's bride is kidnapped, he goes on a quest to rescue her... accompanied by his lazy useless brother Thadeous. 70	Princesas	Fernando León de Aranoa	2005	English	113 mins	Like (0 likes)
Alejandro is an elderly writer, and is driving back to the small costal village where he was born and raised... 71	Regreso a Moira	Mateo Gil	2006	English	75 mins	Like (0 likes)
Simon, a deeply religious man living in the 4th century, wants to be nearer to God so he climbs a column... 72	Simón del Desierto	Luis Buñuel	1965	English	45 mins	Like (0 likes)
Honduran teenager Sayra reunites with her father, an opportunity for her to potentially realize her dream of a life in the U.S... 73	Sin Nombre	Cary Fukunaga	2009	English	96 mins	Like (0 likes)
This study of Cuba--partially written by renowned poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko--captures the island just before it made the transition to a post-revolutionary society... 74	Soy Cuba	Mikhail Kalatozov	1964	English	141 mins	Like (0 likes)
This film examines the creation and exhibition of the propaganda film I Am Cuba, a Soviet/Cuban collaboration unknown in the West until the 1990s. 75	Soy Cuba, O Mamute Siberiano	Vicente Ferraz	2005	English	90 mins	Like (0 likes)
A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent-film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity. 76	Sugar	Anna Boden	2008	English	60 mins	Like (0 likes)
77	Tales From Borges - Rosendo's Tale	Gerardo Vera	1990	English	52 mins	Like (0 likes)
As a director and his crew shoot a controversial film about Christopher Columbus in Cochabamba, Bolivia, local people rise up against plans to privatize the water supply. 78	También la lluvia	Icíar Bollaín	2010		103 mins	Like (0 likes)
79	Tierna es la Noche	Leonardo Henríquez	1990	English	80 mins	Like (0 likes)
80	Tierra y Libertad	Ken Loach	1995	Spanish	109 mins	Like (0 likes)
Young Esteban want to become a writer and also to discover the identity of his father, carefully concealed by the mother Manuela. 81	Todo sobre mi madre	Pedro Almodóvar	1999	English	101 mins	Like (0 likes)
A serial killer is obsessed with 's disco dancing character from . 82	Tony Manero	Pablo Larraín	2008	English	97 mins	Like (0 likes)
An affair between the second in line to Britain's throne (Franco) and the princess of the feuding Irish (Myles) spells doom for the young lovers. 83	Tristana	Luis Buñuel	1970	English	92 mins	Like (0 likes)
A look at a few chapters in the life of Poppy, a cheery, colorful, North London schoolteacher whose optimism tends to exasperate those around her. 84	Un Día de Suerte	Sandra Gugliotta	2002	English	95 mins	Like (0 likes)
Set in the Basque region, a story of the rivalry of two families, period 1870-1935 85	Vacas	Julio Medem	1992	English	90 mins	Like (0 likes)
The film centers on a contemporary married couple, charting their evolution over a span of years by cross-cutting between time periods. 86	Valentín	Alejandro Agresti	2002	English	86 mins	Like (0 likes)
After her death, a mother returns to her home town in order to fix the situations she couldn't resolve during her life. 87	Volver	Pedro Almodóvar	2006	English	121 mins	Like (0 likes)
88	Werther	Pilar Miró	1986	English	105 mins	Like (0 likes)
When his long-lost brother resurfaces, Jacobo, desperate to prove his life has added up to something... 89	Whisky	Juan Pablo Rebella & Pablo Stoll	2004	English	99 mins	Like (0 likes)
90	Whisky Romeo Zulu	Enrique Piñeyro	2004	French	105 mins	Like (0 likes)
In Mexico, two teenage boys and an attractive older woman embark on a road trip and learn a thing or two about life, friendship, sex, and each other. 91	Y tu mamá también	Alfonso Cuarón	2001	English	105 mins	Like (0 likes)

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