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Films to watch to impress your Spanish teacher.

by p.newhouse@talk21.com • Created 9 years ago • Modified 5 years ago
These films are pieces with a cultural or educational purpose.
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  • Ariel Mateluna, Matías Quer, and Manuela Martelli in Machuca (2004)

    1. Machuca

    20042h 1mNot Rated76Metascore
    7.7 (13K)
    Two 12-year-old Chilean children from different social classes become friends in 1973. They both discover each other's world as political tensions in their country increase.
    DirectorAndrés WoodStarsMatías QuerAriel MatelunaManuela Martelli
  • Gente de bien (2014)

    2. Gente de bien

    20141h 26m
    6.7 (515)
    Eric, 10, finds himself almost overnight living with Gabriel, his father, who he barely knows. The man has trouble keeping their heads above water and building a relationship with his son. Maria Isabel, the woman Gabriel works for as a carpenter, decides to take the child under her wing.
    DirectorFranco LolliStarsBrayan SantamariàCarlos Fernando PérezAlejandra Borrero
  • Alejandro Jodorowsky and Brontis Jodorowsky in El Topo (1970)

    3. El Topo

    19702h 5mNot Rated65Metascore
    7.2 (33K)
    A mysterious black-clad gunfighter wanders a mystical Western landscape encountering multiple bizarre characters.
    DirectorAlejandro JodorowskyStarsAlejandro JodorowskyBrontis JodorowskyJosé Legarreta
  • Pellet (2000)

    4. Pellet

    20001h 28m70Metascore
    7.3 (7.3K)
    Alfredo is a kid who begins in a new new school where he makes a friend, Pablo. Alfredo realizes that Pablo is a victim of home abuse by his father, and decides to involve his own family in order to help his friend.
    DirectorAchero MañasStarsJuan José BallestaPablo GalánAlberto Jiménez
  • José Luis García-Pérez in Cachorro (2004)

    5. Cachorro

    20041h 39mR63Metascore
    7.1 (3.7K)
    Pedro, a gay man with an active social life and many friends, takes in his nephew Bernardo for a couple weeks. When the arrangement becomes permanent , Pedro turns to his friends for guidance as he and Bernardo forge a household together.
    DirectorMiguel AlbaladejoStarsJosé Luis García-PérezDavid CastilloEmpar Ferrer
  • Norma Aleandro and Analia Castro in The Official Story (1985)

    6. The Official Story

    19851h 52mNot Rated
    7.7 (11K)
    During the final months of Argentinian Military Dictatorship in 1983, a high school teacher sets out to find out who the mother of her adopted daughter is.
    DirectorLuis PuenzoStarsNorma AleandroHéctor AlterioChunchuna Villafañe
  • Kate del Castillo in Under the Same Moon (2007)

    7. Under the Same Moon

    20071h 46mPG-1359Metascore
    7.3 (7.7K)
    After his grandmother passes away, a young Mexican boy illegally travels across the border to search for his undocumented mother living and working in the U.S.
    DirectorPatricia RiggenStarsEugenio DerbezKate del CastilloAdrian Alonso
  • Innocent Voices (2004)

    8. Innocent Voices

    20042hR66Metascore
    7.8 (8.5K)
    A young boy, in an effort to have a normal childhood in 1980's El Salvador, is caught up in a dramatic fight for his life as he desperately tries to avoid the war which is raging all around him.
    DirectorLuis MandokiStarsCarlos PadillaLeonor VarelaXuna Primus
  • The Fourth (2008)

    9. The Fourth

    20081h 35mNot Rated
    6.2 (73)
    A thriller about the dark and dangerous secrets shared by a 12 year old boy, his new teacher and the school principal, a catholic priest. Months after the death of his father, Simon (12) discovers the affair his Mother (Sarah) is having with a charming but enigmatic new teacher (Mario). The boy discovers the teacher's intentions and his dark secrets, but with his mother in love, it seams there is nothing he can do to show her that their lives are in danger.
    DirectorGustavo Torres GilStarsManuel BautistaClaudia CadavidKevin Leonardo Corredor
    El Cuarto (The Fourth) examines the culture of religion and superstition in Colombia, it's rigid grip on Society, and how it can be abused for the most heinous of criminal purposes.
  • The Tombs (1991)

    10. The Tombs

    19911h 30m
    6.1 (90)
    "El Pollo," a 13-year-old child in reform school, witnesses and experiences the brutalization of the guards and the other inmates.
    DirectorJavier TorreStarsNorma AleandroFederico LuppiJorge Mayor
    A look at how homeless children are treated in the criminal justice system of a South American country.

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