7.6

Babel

2005, France, USA, Mexico

• Actors: Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Mohamed Akhzam, Peter Wight, Harriet Walter, Trevor Martin, Matyelok Gibbs, Georges Bousquet, Claudine Acs, André Oumansky, Michael Maloney, Dermot Crowley, Wendy Nottingham, Henry Maratray, Linda Broughton, Jean Marc Hulot, Aline Mowat, Liliane Escoza, Lynsey Beauchamp, Michel Dubois, Shirley Dixon, Patrick Lebre, John O'Mohoney, Mary Mitchell, Edward Lyon, Robert Fyfe, Abdelaziz Merzoug, Omar El Mallouli, El Hassan Ait Bablal, Sfia Ait Benboullah
• Genre: Drama
• Director(s): Alejandro González Iñárritu
• Available languages:
  • English English.

4 interlocking stories all connected by a single gun all converge at the end and reveal a complex and tragic story of the lives of humanity around the world and how we truly aren't all that different. In Morocco, a troubled married couple are on vacation trying to work out their differences. Meanwhile, a Moroccan herder buys a rifle for his sons so they can keep the jackals away from his herd. A girl in Japan dealing with rejection, the death of her mother, the emotional distance of her father, her own self-consciousness, and a disability among many other issues, deals with modern life in the enormous metropolis of Tokyo, Japan. Then, on the opposite side of the world the married couple's Mexican nanny takes the couple's 2 children with her to her son's wedding in Mexico, only to come into trouble on the return trip. Combined, it provides a powerful story and an equally powerful looking glass into the lives of seemingly random people around the world and it shows just how connected we really are.

  5.9

The Alamo

2003, USA

• Actors: Dennis Quaid, Billy Bob Thornton, Jason Patric, Patrick Wilson, Emilio Echevarría, Jordi Mollà, Leon Rippy, Tom Davidson, Marc Blucas, Robert Prentiss, Kevin Page, Joe Stevens, Stephen Bruton, Laura Clifton, Ricardo Chavira, Steven Chester Prince, Craig Erickson, Nick Kokich, Richard Nance, Jett Garner, Estephania LeBaron, Afemo Omilami, Edwin Hodge, Emily Deschanel, Blue Deckert, Turk Pipkin, Brandon Smith, Tommy G. Kendrick, W. Earl Brown, Tom Everett
• Genre: Drama, History, War, Western
• Director(s): John Lee Hancock
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Historical drama detailing the 1835-36 Texas revolution before, during, and after the famous siege of the Alamo (February 23-March 6, 1836) where 183 Texans (American-born Texans) and Tejanos (Mexican-born Texans) commanded by Colonel Travis, along with Davey Crockett and Jim Bowie, were besieged in an abandoned mission outside San Antonio by a Mexican army of nearly 2,000 men under the personal command of the dictator of Mexico, General Santa Anna, as well as detailing the Battle of San Jacinto (April 21, 1836) where General Sam Houston's rag-tag army of Texans took on and defeated Santa Anna's army which led to the indepedence of Texas.

  6.0

Die Another Day

2002, UK, USA

• Actors: Pierce Brosnan, Halle Berry, Toby Stephens, Rosamund Pike, Rick Yune, Judi Dench, John Cleese, Michael Madsen, Will Yun Lee, Kenneth Tsang, Emilio Echevarría, Mikhail Gorevoy, Lawrence Makoare, Colin Salmon, Samantha Bond, Ben Wee, Ho Yi, Rachel Grant, Ian Pirie, Simón Andreu, Mark Dymond, Deborah Moore, Oliver Skeete, Joaquín Martínez, Michael G. Wilson, Daryl Kwan, Vincent Wong, Sai-Kit Yung, Manolo Caro, Sarllya
• Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
• Director(s): Lee Tamahori
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Pierce Brosnan gives one last mission as James Bond. Starting off in North Korea, Bond is betrayed and captured. 14 months later, Bond is set free, but traded for Zao who was captured by MI6. When back in his world, Bond sets off to track down Zao. Bond gets caught up in yet another scheme which sends him to millionaire Gustav Graves. Another MI6 agent known as Miranda Frost is also posing as a friend of Graves. Bond is invited to a presentation held by Graves about a satellite found in space which can project a huge laser beam. Bond must stop this madman with a fellow American agent, known as Jinx. Whilst Bond tries to stop Graves and Zao, will he finally reveal who betrayed him?

  7.7

Y tu mamá también

2001, Mexico

• Actors: Ana López Mercado, Diego Luna, Gael García Bernal, Nathan Grinberg, Verónica Langer, María Aura, Giselle Audirac, Arturo Ríos, Andrés Almeida, Diana Bracho, Emilio Echevarría, Marta Aura, Maribel Verdú, Juan Carlos Remolina, Liboria Rodríguez, Silverio Palacios, Mayra Serbulo, Andrea López, Amaury Sérbulo, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Jorge Vergara
• Genre: Comedy, Drama
• Director(s): Alfonso Cuarón
• Available languages:
  • Spanish Spanish.

In Mexico City, late teen friends Tenoch Iturbide and Julio Zapata are feeling restless as their respective girlfriends are traveling together through Europe before they all begin the next phase of their lives at college. At a lavish family wedding, Tenoch and Julio meet Luisa Cortés, the twenty-something wife of Tenoch's cousin Jano, the two who have just moved to Mexico from Spain. Tenoch and Julio try to impress the beautiful Luisa by telling her that they will be taking a trip to the most beautiful secluded beach in Mexico called la Boca del Cielo (translated to Heaven's Mouth), the trip and the beach which in reality don't exist. When Luisa learns of Jano's latest marital indiscretion straight from the horse's mouth, she takes Tenoch and Julio's offer to go along on this road trip, meaning that Tenoch and Julio have to pull together quickly a road trip to a non-existent beach. They decide to head toward one suggested by their friend Saba, who seems a little confused himself of this beach's location. On the road trip, which ends up not being totally harmonious, the three go on a trip of discovery. For Luisa, she has to figure out what to do with her immediate future based on the news from Jano and a secret she is keeping. And Tenoch and Julio have to figure out what their friendship really means as they grow up.

  8.2

Amores perros

2000, Mexico

• Actors: Emilio Echevarría, Gael García Bernal, Goya Toledo, Álvaro Guerrero, Vanessa Bauche, Jorge Salinas, Marco Pérez, Rodrigo Murray, Humberto Busto, Gerardo Campbell, Rosa María Bianchi, Dunia Saldívar, Adriana Barraza, José Sefami, Lourdes Echevarría, Laura Almela, Ricardo Dalmacci, Gustavo Sánchez Parra, Dagoberto Gama, Gustavo Muñoz, Carlo Bernal, Rodrigo Ostap, Edgar González, Hilda González, Patricio Castillo, Ana María González, Roberto Medina, Ángeles Marín, Carlos Samperio, Kazuyo Togawa
• Genre: Drama, Thriller
• Director(s): Alejandro González Iñárritu
• Available languages:
  • Spanish Spanish.

Three interconnected stories about the different strata of life in Mexico City all resolve with a fatal car accident. Octavio is trying to raise enough money to run away with his sister-in-law, and decides to enter his dog Cofi into the world of dogfighting. After a dogfight goes bad, Octavio flees in his car, running a red light and causing the accident. Daniel and Valeria's new-found bliss is prematurely ended when she loses her leg in the accident. El Chivo is a homeless man who cares for stray dogs and is there to witness the collision.