Movies on DVD

Pedro Almodóvar directed this story of a woman and her circle of friends who find themselves suffering a variety of emotional crises. In Spanish with English subtitles.

A modern take on composer Manuel de Falla's gypsy ballet, dressed up in pink sunsets and hellishly red fires. Set in a dusty Andalusian village, El amor brujo (Love the Magician) is a seductive melodrama of a man whose beloved is haunted by the ghost of another.

Filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar takes a look at his own adolescence as well as confronting the issue of sexual misconduct in the Catholic Church in this stylish drama, which was chosen to open the 2004 Cannes Film Festival. In Spanish with English subtitles.

Uxbal is a man on the wrong side of the law who struggles to provide for his children on the dangerous streets of Barcelona. In Spanish with English subtitles.

Flamenco dance adaptation of García Lorca's play about a bride who elopes with her lover on her wedding day, presented as though in studio rehearsal. The drama is preceded by a slice-of-life sequence depicting the company's arrival, backstage preparations, and warm-up.

A lawman must side with a gang of criminals if he's to save his own life in this action drama from Spanish director Daniel Monzon. In Spanish with English subtitles.

During the Spanish Civil War, young Carlos is abandoned at a completely isolated orphanage. The tensions therein have been building for years, exacerbated by the unexploded bomb resting menacingly in the courtyard. Bullies scheme, tempers flare, and a ghost that visits Carlos's bed seems to be the key to it all. In Spanish with English subtitles.

A young Mexican couple is blocked from marrying by the demands of the young woman's cold and selfish mother. To be near his love, the young man marries her sister, and she expresses her passion for him through her cooking.

Explores Chile's bloody 1973 coup through the coming-of-age story of a pair of 12-year-old boys. From opposite extremes of society, Gonzalo and Pedro form an unlikely friendship as politics rip their world apart.

An inspirational adventure, based on the true story of Ernesto Guevara and Alberto Granado, whose thrilling and dangerous road trip across Latin America becomes a life-changing journey of self-discovery. In Spanish with English subtitles.

Caco, un hombre ya mayor y muy enfermo, decide terminar sus días junto a sus hijos, reencontrándose con quienes se ha distanciado por años, para esto decide volver, por unas horas a Valparaíso, la ciudad de sus bohemios recuerdos, y a Quintero su balneario familiar.

Set in 1944 Spain, against the backdrop of the anti-Franco guerrilla warfare. When young Ofelia and her mother go to live with her new stepfather on a rural military outpost, she finds herself in a world of unimaginable cruelty. In Spanish with English subtitles.

A crime-thriller about judicial cover-ups and corruption in Argentina, told through flashbacks. In Spanish with English subtitles.

A teenage Honduran girl forms an unlikely friendship with a Mexican gang member who is helping to smuggle her family into the United States. In Spanish with English subtitles.

In a private clinic Barco and Benigno strike up a friendship while caring for comatose women. In Spanish with English subtitles.

Rosario works in the United States illegally, while her son Carlito stays in Mexico. They hope to reunite some day.

Raimunda and Sole lost their parents in a fire in La Mancha. Their aunt, Paula, still lives in the village and continues to speak about her sister Irene as if she were still alive. When the old aunt dies the situation changes and the past returns. In Spanish with English subtitles.

[Special 2 disc set in German and English]
A middle-aged instructor at a boys' prep school becomes infatuated with a singer from a sleazy cafe. He is forced to leave his respectable job. He marries the singer and travels with her performing troupe, sinking ever lower. When she leaves him for someone new, he returns to his former school as a broken old man.

Follows the daring patrol of the U-96, one of the famed German U-boats known as the "gray wolves." The crew is graphically portrayed in a life-and-death struggle, challenging the British Navy at every turn. In German with English subtitles.

Only Trudi knows that her husband Rudi is suffering from a terminal illness. She decides not to tell him and convinces him to visit their family in Berlin. When Trudi dies suddenly, Rudi vows to make up for her lost life and takes his last journey to Tokyo in the midst of the cherry blossom festival.

Germany, 1936. Salomon "Sally" Sorowitsch is the king of counterfeiters. He lives a life of cards, booze, and women. Suddenly his luck runs dry when he is arrested by Superintendent Friedrich Herzog. In German with English subtitles.

The dramatic hours in Hitlers bunker, based on the book: "Until the final hour" by Hitler's secretary.

A vacationing family experiences a sadistic home invasion at the hands of two deceptively well-dressed young men.

Alex's proud, socialist mother falls into a coma for eight months. When she wakes, her heart is weak, so Alex has to keep the secret that the Berlin Wall has fallen and capitalism has triumphed. What begins as a little white lie turns into a major scam. In German with English subtitles.

Following the death of his wife, a distraught Turkish man rapidly begins to destroy himself. After a near-fatal car crash, he is hospitalized and soon befriends a suicidal woman while they both recover. Deciding to marry her in order to please her strict Muslim family, he starts to fall madly in love with her as fate slowly tries to tear them apart.

Set in East Berlin in 1984, a secret service agent assigned to monitor a playwright and his girlfriend begins to question his assignment and his loyalty to the government. In German with English subtitles.

Peter Lorre plays the cinema's first serial killer, a whistling pedophile hunted by the police and brought to trial by the forces of Berlin's underworld.

Critically acclaimed, this is the award winning true tale of a Jewish family who flee the Nazi regime in 1938 and learns to cope with their new life, and each other, on a remote farm in Kenya. In German with English subtitles.

In this pulse-raising thriller, time is running out. Lola has just received a frantic call from her boyfriend Manni, who's accidentally lost a small fortune he was to deliver to his mobster boss. If they cannot find a way to replace the money within 20 minutes, Manni will suffer severe consequences. In German with English subtitles.

A romantic fantasy about an angel who wishes he were mortal and is willing to fall from the sky if it means a chance to fall in love. Set in modern day Berlin, the film follows angel Damiel's path from heavenly flight to earthly delight in a manner that's comical, touching and entertaining.

Women become the victims of the Red Army invasion in Berlin in 1945. One of them, Anonyma, an educated woman, decides to look for an officer who can protect her. A complex symbiotic relationship develops between her and Russian officer Andrej that will force them to remain enemies until the bitter end.

At the heart of this film is the question of whether Leni Riefenstahl was a Nazi, as her detractors claim, or whether she was the victim of society-- a naive, young woman who made Triumph des Willens on assignment, and simply did a very good job.