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:610: 577 - Aunt Tula / La tía Tula (1964) - 6/10 - Tula is a single woman in her 30s who likes her independence and has no plans to marry. When her sister dies, she keeps a promise to her sister that she will look after the brother-in-law and two children left behind. The brother-in-law is a scumba...

:810: 575 - Main Street / Calle Mayor (1956) - 8/10 - Federico travels from Madrid to visit his friend Juan. He finds that his friend is hanging out with a group of men who are loud and obnoxious. They also like to play cruel pranks and after Federico returns home, they decide to have Juan pretend t...

:710: 568 - Ace High (1968) - 7/10 - A man named Cacopoulos escapes the noose and teams up with a pair of bounty hunters to exact his revenge on the people who set him up and put him in jail 15 years earlier. I enjoyed the parts with the two bounty hunters more than those with Cacopoulos. The film i...

:7510: 560 - Five Days, Five Nights / Cinco Dias, Cinco Noites (1996) - 7.5/10 - In the late 1940s, a political prisoner has escaped from prison and needs to leave the country. He hires a guide to lead him cross country to Spain, but isn't sure if he can trust him. He meets a few people during the j...

:710: 552 - Sunday Afternoon / Domingo à Tarde (1966) - 7/10 - A doctor reflects back on his relationship with a dying patient. The film is pretty melancholy and I didn't always care for the narration, but it was decent. :710: 553 - Acto da Primavera (1963) - 7/10 - Portuguese villagers reenact a pa...

:810: 544 - Gentleman Jim (1942) - 8/10 - Errol Flynn stars as James "Gentleman Jim" Corbett, a boxing champion from the 19th Century. Corbett is a bank clerk in San Francisco who comes from a relatively poor family, but certainly isn't shy. His forward manner helps him gain entrance to a ...

:710: 536 - The Pit and the Pendulum (1961) - 7/10 - In 1547, an Englishman travels to his brother-in-law's castle in Spain to try and find out more information about his sister's mysterious death. He is met with evasive answers in this Roger Corman gothic horror film. The movie lags at time, but it...

:6510: 532 - Jodorowsky's Dune (2013) - 6.5/10 - This documentary features interviews with Jodorowsky and many others who were involved in his Dune project. We also get a look at some of the storyboards and Jodorowsky explains his vision for the film. If the film had been made, I think it would have...

:5510: 525 - Eccentricities of a Blonde-Haired Girl (2009) - 5.5/10 - A man on a train relates his story to the stranger seated next to him. As a young man working as an accountant for his uncle, he fell in love with a young woman he spotted on a balcony across the street. He eventually gets to know...

:610: 518 - Pursued (1947) - 6/10 - As a boy, Jeb Rand saw his whole family killed, though he repressed those memories. He was taken in by a widow who lived nearby and was raised with her son, Adam, and daughter, Thor. Jeb and Thor fall in love, but Adam is resentful. Then there is the man who keeps...

:510: 515 - Tepepa (1969) - 5/10 - A Mexican revolutionary battles a police chief while an English doctor seeks to kill the revolutionary for his own reasons. Orson Welles co-stars as the police chief and gives a lackluster performance. The whole film is rather dull and overlong. The soundtrack is d...

:8510: 510 - Pellet / El bola (2000) - 8.5/10 - Pellet is a 12 year old boy without any real friends, though he sometimes hangs out with other boys from school who engage in a dangerous game. His home life is tough, but his life outside improves when a new boy joins his class and they become friends...

:3510: 503 - Bilbao (1978) - 3.5/10 - A man becomes obsessed with a prostitute and eventually kidnaps her. I couldn't really get into this one. :610: 504 - Days of Hope /Espoir - Sierra de Teruel (1940) - 6/10 - Republican soldiers battle against Franco's forces during the Spanish Civil War. It was ...

:7510: 500 - The Unforgiven (1960) - 7.5/10 - The Zachary family is a respected ranching family, living peacefully and happily until a stranger arrives and turns some of the people in the area against them. He tells a story that the adopted daughter Rachel (Audrey Hepburn) was actually a Kiowa baby ...

:6510: 492 - To Be and to Have / Être et avoir (2002) - 6.5/10 - A teacher in rural France has been teaching for 35 years, the last 20 in the same small school with kids ranging in age from 4-13. He is getting close to retirement, though he still enjoys his profession. The film follows the teacher a...