Catalog Search Results
Description
A choir of creatures introduces a world delicately constructed by fantasy, mystery, and magical realism in Francisca Alegra̕₂s poignant and stunning debut feature. It begins in a river in the south of Chile where fish are dying due to pollution from a nearby factory. Amid their floating bodies, long-deceased Magdalena bubbles up to the surface gasping for air, bringing with her old wounds and a wave of family secrets. The shocking return sends...
2) Presagio
Description
Camilo, un joven escritor, despierta de un extra�o sue�o que le anticipa la muerte de su esposa y su hijo en un misterioso accidente en la ruta. Afrontando su dura situaci�n, intenta refugiarse en la escritura, comenzando una nueva obra literaria que se volver� su verdadera pesadilla cuando un misterioso hombre, que oculta su rostro bajo un paraguas, lo acecha y lo provoca "oblig�ndolo" a terminar su libro.
3) El gangster
Description
Our story centers around Tony Wall, an ex-gangster who was active during Chicago's prohibition period but has decided he is tired of living on the wrong side of the law. So, after paying his debt to the North American justice system and now desiring peace and tranquility, he moves back to the old country, followed by his ex-criminal companions Romo, Rito, Chuck and Maggie.
Description
Lili and Eduardo meet for the first time after connecting on a dating app. Eduardo arrives late but with a good reason in a place like Mexico City: he was mugged and they took his phone so he couldn't text her to say he was running late. While at first, everything seems to be going fine, when Lili finds Eduardo's phone in his jacket, things take an unexpected and terrifying turn for the worse.
5) Chile '76
Description
Set during the early days of Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship, Chile '76 builds from a quiet character study to a gripping suspense thriller as it explores one woman's precarious flirtation with political engagement. Carmen leads a sheltered upper-middle-class existence. She heads to her summer house in the off-season to supervise its renovation, while also performing local charitable works through her church. Her husband, children, and grandchildren...
6) La soldadera
Description
A simple country girl named Lazara is caught up in the Mexican Revolution when her new husband, Juan, is forced to join the federal army on the eve of their honeymoon. Refusing to be separated from Juan, she chooses to follow him, traveling with the troops. Adoration and money only bring partial contentment for her. Another part of her longs for a life of sanctity and purity that only a life with God can bring.
Description
EXTRAORDINARY STORIES plays out as a series of nested Borgesian narratives that zigzag across different characters, locations, and genres. Thick with incidents and ironic twists, this novelistic 18-chapter experience refuses easy resolutions to its many mysterious tales but supplies satisfaction at every turn.
Description
EXTRAORDINARY STORIES plays out as a series of nested Borgesian narratives that zigzag across different characters, locations, and genres. Thick with incidents and ironic twists, this novelistic 18-chapter experience refuses easy resolutions to its many mysterious tales but supplies satisfaction at every turn.
Description
EXTRAORDINARY STORIES plays out as a series of nested Borgesian narratives that zigzag across different characters, locations, and genres. Thick with incidents and ironic twists, this novelistic 18-chapter experience refuses easy resolutions to its many mysterious tales but supplies satisfaction at every turn.
10) Dhogs
Description
The intimacy of a hotel room. The immensity of a desert. A desolate gas station. In these picturesque settings, hideous crimes occur under the cold stare of unexpected protagonists that show the dark, twisted and perverse sides of human existence.
11) La civil
Description
The film unfolds with documentary-like precision as it details the human impact of drug cartels in Northern Mexico. Cielo learns her daughter Laura has been kidnapped when a baby-faced teenager orders her to pay 150,000 pesos if she wants to see Laura again. With no police support, Cielo embarks on her own investigation, peeling back layers of Mexico's societal corruption in an increasingly desperate effort to save her child.
Description
Dr. Frederic Treves discovers Joseph (John) Merrick in a sideshow. Born with a congenital disorder, Merrick uses his disfigurement to earn a living as the "Elephant Man." Treves brings Merrick into his home, discovering that his rough exterior hides a refined soul and that Merrick can teach the stodgy British upper class of the time a lesson about dignity. Merrick becomes the toast of London and charms a caring actress before his death at 27.
13) Sin la Habana
Description
Leonardo and Sara, a young Afro-Cuban couple, are desperate to leave the island. They decide that the best way to emigrate is for Leonardo to seduce a foreign woman, get legal status in another country, and then send for Sara. The woman they choose is Nasim, an Iranian-Canadian divorceþe who is running from an oppressive past and yearning to have fun for the first time in her life.
Description
Upon the empire's fall to invading conquistadors, the sixteenth-century Incas quickly concealed a sacred manual containing the secrets behind their deadly fighting technique. But after centuries of careful safeguarding, the manual is again at risk of falling into the wrong hands, leaving its rightful guardian to battle the world's greatest assassins to protect the ancient secrets within.
15) Flesh to play
Description
Roberta es una adolescente con una inusual malformación en el rostro que le impide valerse por sí misma. O al menos eso es lo que le ha hecho creer su padre, un cirujano retirado y bastante conservador que cuida de ella y de su retorcida felicidad. Esto construirá una falsa realidad dentro de su antigua casa, privándolos del mundo exterior haciéndoles creer que no hay nada fuera que valga la pena. La apariencia grotesca de su hija causa tanto...
16) Nocturno
Description
The intimate encounter between two lonely people seeking to settle accounts with the past. It₂s a dark nightmare between the two. Ana, a mysterious nurse, is hired to take care of Oli, an old sick man in his last days. The relationship becomes uncomfortable when she reveals a past that they had apparently shared.
17) Los conductos
Description
Medelln̕, Colombia. Pinky is on the run. He has just freed himself from the grip of a religious sect. He finds a place to squat and a job in a tee-shirt factory. Misled by his faith, he questions everything. But as he tries to put back together with the pieces of his broken life, violent memories return to haunt him and ask for Revenge. Winner of the Best First Feature prize at the 2020 Berlin Film Festival.
Description
"Alfredo Díaz (Luis Luque) a cop who falls in depression after discovering that his wife has been cheating on him. Mariano Silverstein (Diego Peretti), a psychologist, tries to help Alfredo deal with his problem. When Alfredo is invited to dinner to Silverstein's home, he unmasks Silverstein's wife, who also has an affair, which causes the psychologist and the cop to switch roles. Díaz takes Silverstein with him on many adventures and both have...
19) Jiron de niebla
Description
Daniel is forced to live with his aunt after the death of his mother who suffered from schizophrenia, being a victim of the grudges and fears of the spinster. As she grows up and when her aunt stands between her dreams, she kills her only to begin to be tormented by a strange presence.
20) Sublime
Description
Sublime is a thoughtful and tender handling of a teen's emerging sexuality. Shy sixteen-year-old Manuel comes alive when he, his best friend Felipe, and other buddies form a garage rock band. The two boys, friends since childhood, have a close, easy relationship made even more intense with the band and their music making. Strains develop for Manuel when his best mate starts dating a girl. Manuel also begins to date a female classmate, yet all the...
In Interlibrary Loan
Didn't find what you need? Items not owned by Ajax Public Library can be requested from other Interlibrary Loan libraries to be delivered to your local library for pickup.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request