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Four mathematicians who do not know each other meet for an evening of puzzle-solving at the home of a man named Fermat; shortly upon their arrival their mysterious host is called away. They receive a phone call which gives them a riddle they are instructed to solve in one minute ; incorrect answers cause the walls of the room to shrink. Their dilemma is to answer the riddle or find an escape route before they are squeezed to death.
3) Magical girl
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A man searching to grant his ill daughter's wish, a disturbed woman, and a math teacher who has become a criminal find their paths crossing.
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"Viggo Mortensen stars as a successful doctor who conspires to escape his life by assuming the identity of his identical twin brother, a dying criminal. However, his plan backfires when he's plunged into the sordid depths of his brother's backwater village, a deadly place where unsettled scores soon embroil him in a desperate fight for survival"--Container.
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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.
9) Julia's eyes
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Spanish feature film. Julia, a woman suffering from a degenerative sight disease, finds her twin sister Sara hanged in the basement of her house. Everything points to suicide, but Julia is compelled to investigate what she intuitively feels is a murder case.
10) Jiron de niebla
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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.
11) Carancho
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Sosa is an ambulance-chasing lawyer. He's lost his license, so now he works the late-night streets of Buenos Aires, signing up injured clients for a predatory firm that will pay them perhaps a quarter, or a fifth, of what the insurance companies pay.
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The film, which is an example of Mexican entrepreneurship, was recognized at the Cineforo of the University of Guadalajara (UdeG) in the category of Best Mexican Film. With a dynamic script that transitions between different moments of climax, the film tells in 75 minutes the story of Myriam and Cšar, a couple who, in one night, face their fears, their ghosts and your darkest desires. A simple confusion by Cšar during a dinner that was supposed...
13) La civil
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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.
14) Cadejo blanco
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Sarita goes out dancing one night at the insistence of her free-spirited sister, Bea. Uncharacteristically, Sarita dances the night away, heading home alone when the party drags on too late. The next morning, after calling friends and neighbors, Sarita begins to panic when she realizes that Bea never made it home. The police are indifferent and unhelpful, but Sarita suspects that Bea's disappearance has something to do with Andrés, her sister's dangerous...
15) God's slave
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Ahmed, trained since childhood as an Islamic terrorist, is assigned to execute a suicide bombing at a synagogue. David is a cold-blooded Israeli special agent who will stop at nothing to prevent the attack. But neither man is defined solely by their extremist views. Ahmed, posing as a doctor, lives happily with his wife and young son; though David's marriage is on the rocks, he remains devoted to his wife and daughter. With time running out before...
16) Cannibal
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Carlos has two passions in life: his work as the most prestigious tailor in Granada, and his hobby killing, cooking, and eating beautiful women. He performs both with meticulous precision, and without guilt or remorse. But when Nina, a beautiful and innocent young immigrant, comes looking for her missing twin sister, she awakens in Carlos a kind of love he’d long since written off. Can this demon's love story survive on a foundation of secrets and...
17) Guilty men
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While Willington tries to win back the love of Mariana on the eve of her wedding to another man, the activities of paramilitary forces endanger the lives of everyone in town.
18) Backyard
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"The true story of the border town of Juarez, Mexico where since the mid-90's thousands of women have gone missing or turned up as sun-burnt corpses in the desert. Can new police captain Blanca Bravo stop the savagery?"--from www.imdb.com.
19) Chile '76
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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...
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"Javier Falcon, Chief of the Homicide Division in Sevilla, must solve two different cases in a short period of time. An old friend who has infiltrated an Islamic terrorist cell in Sevilla and whose son is now being aggressively recruited for their cause, seeks out Falcon's help. In the meantime, the Russian mafia that he's been investigating has kidnapped a child and the ransom they are demanding is far too high. As these cases intersect, Falcon must...
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