Antonio Banderas
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Since his wife was burned in a car crash, Dr. Robert Ledgard, an eminent plastic surgeon, has wanted to create a new skin with which he could have saved her. After twelve years, he cultivates a skin that is a real shield against every assault. Now, besides the years of study and experimentation, the unscrupulous doctor needs to find an accomplice, and a human guinea pig. Marrilia, the woman who looked after him from birth, is his most faithful accomplice....
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"It tells of a series of re-encounters experienced by Salvador Mallo, a film director in his physical decline. Some of them in the flesh, others remembered: his childhood in the '60s, when he emigrated with his parents to a village in Valencia in search of prosperity, the first desire, his first adult love in the Madrid of the '80s, the pain of the breakup of that love while it was still alive and intense, writing as the only therapy to forget the...
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"When a billionaire entrepreneur impulsively decides to create an iconic movie, he demands the best. Renowned filmmaker Lola Cuevas is recruited dto mastermind this ambitious endeavor. Completing the all-star team are two actors with enormous talent but even bigger egos: Hollywood heartthrob Félix Rivero and radical theatre actor Iván Torres. Both are legends, but not exactly best friends. Through a series of increasingly eccentric trials set by...
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Though Pablo is in love with Juan, his affection is not reciprocated. After taking up with Antonio, Pablo temporarily loses his memory when a jealous Antonio seeks out Juan and violence occurs. When Pablo's memory returns he discovers that Antonio has taken up with his sister Tina and he must rescue her, face Antonio, and his desire.
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Since his wife was burned in a car crash, Dr. Robert Ledgard, an eminent plastic surgeon, has wanted to create a new skin with which he could have saved her. After twelve years, he cultivates a skin that is a real shield against every assault. Now, besides the years of study and experimentation, the unscrupulous doctor needs to find an accomplice, and a human guinea pig. Marrilia, the woman who looked after him from birth, is his most faithful accomplice....
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Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953) tuvo toda una vida de atracción por los cuentos infantiles. La más conocida de todas sus músicas inspiradas en la literatura infantil es Pedro y el Lobo. A Prokofiev se le pidió que la escribiera para introducir al público joven en el funcionamiento de una orquesta y sus instrumentos. Pedro y el Lobo muestra la magnífica habilidad del compositor para dar vida a una historia simple, dando a cada personaje un motivo...
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Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953) tuvo toda una vida de atracción por los cuentos infantiles. La más conocida de todas sus músicas inspiradas en la literatura infantil es Pedro y el Lobo. A Prokofiev se le pidió que la escribiera para introducir al público joven en el funcionamiento de una orquesta y sus instrumentos. Pedro y el Lobo muestra la magnífica habilidad del compositor para dar vida a una historia simple, dando a cada personaje un motivo...
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Criterion collection volume 722
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A rambunctious dark comedy. An unbalanced but alluring former mental patient takes a B-movie porn star prisoner in the hopes of convincing her to marry him. A highly unconventional romance that came on the spike heels of Almodovar's international sensation Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, this is a splashy, sexy central work in the career of one of the world₂s most beloved and provocative auteurs.
11) Matador
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An ex-bullfighter who is obsessed with killing confesses to a string of murders he didn't commit. The attractive lawyer he hires winds up falling for him and reveals some dark secrets of her own. After the two begin a romantic relationship a police inspector begins to fathom who the real killer, or killers, may be.
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Chronicles the misadventures of a rag tag group of animals as they avoid being caught by a misguided millionaire and his underlings. Watch as Felix the jinxed Lynx and his crazy collection of comrades learn the value of working together in this unlikely tale of friendship and heroism.
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In the post-Spanish civil war years, Catalan kids would tell stories, known as "aventis, " these tales consisted of war stories, local gossip, fantasy and real events. Set in Barcelona during the mid 1980s, a doctor and a nun, who grew up together, and now are co-workers in a hospital, identify the corpse of one of the main characters of the "aventis" of their childhood. The discovery of this body, belonging to someone long presumed dead, leads the...
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Peter and the Wolf is a story about a young boy who conquers a wolf. The boy Peter is represented by a sprightly string quartet, and the Bird sings its trills and runs on the flute. Grandfather's grumbling presence is immediately recognizable on the bassoon and the Cat stalks and preens as a clarinet. Finally, there is the Wolf himself, whose sinister musical shape is three French horns.
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Since his wife was burned in a car crash, Dr. Robert Ledgard, an eminent plastic surgeon, has wanted to create a new skin with which he could have saved her. After twelve years, he cultivates a skin that is a real shield against every assault. Now, besides the years of study and experimentation, the unscrupulous doctor needs to find an accomplice, and a human guinea pig. Marrilia, the woman who looked after him from birth, is his most faithful accomplice....
18) Matador
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The story of a retired torero and a beautiful lawyer who both need death as an aphrodisiac. The lovers are brought together when a young bullfighting student confesses to a string of murders.
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"Dr. Robert Ledgard ... is a driven plastic surgeon haunted by personal tragedies. After many years of trial and error, he finally perfects a new skin--a shield which could have prevented the death of his wife in an accident years earlier. His latest "guinea pig" is a mysterious captive whose true identity masks a shocking mystery"--Container.
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While attempting to contact her ex-lover Iván, actress Pepa Marcos is enmeshed in a series of unexpected meetings with and revelations involving Iván, his mentally unbalanced ex-wife Lucía, his and Lucía's son Carlos, Carlos's fiancée Marisa, Lucía's lawyer Paulina Morales, and Candela, Pepa's model friend who has unwittingly become involved with Shiite terrorists.