 Movies from Mexico
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Amores perros (2000)
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| Three interconnected stories about the different strata of life in Mexico City all resolve with a fatal car accident. Octavio is trying to raise enough money to run away with his sister-in-law, and decides to enter his dog Cofi into the world of dogfighting. After a dogfight goes bad, Octavio flees in his car, running a red light and causing the accident. Daniel and Valeria's new-found bliss is prematurely ended when she loses her leg in the accident. El Chivo is a homeless man who cares for stray dogs and is there to witness the collision.
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Holy Mountain, The (1973)
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The story, loosely, is about an alchemist (played by Jodorowsky) who gathers some followers to accompany him to the Holy Mountain to seek eternal life. On the way we are told by various gods how life is on their particular planets, and it is different on each planet with outlandish environments and characters on each one. Just watch this film with your mind wide open and let it astound you. It certainly will. It is one of the most surreal and bizarre films you will ever see.
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Topo, El (1970)
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| The gunfighter El Topo (The Mole) and his young son ride through a desert to a village, whose inhabitants have been massacred. Bandits are nearby, torturing and killing the survivors. El Topo rescues a woman (Mara), who leads him on a mission to find and defeat the four master gunmen of the desert. Leaving his son with a group of monks, El Topo and Mara complete the mission, accompanied by a mysterious woman in black. The women leave El Topo wounded in the desert, where he is found by a clan of deformed people who take him to the remote cavern where they live. Awakening years later, he goes with a dwarf woman to a nearby town, promising to dig a tunnel through which the cave-dwellers can escape. They find the town run by a vicious sheriff and home to a bizarre religious cult. El Topo's son, now a man, is a monk in the town. The completion of the tunnel leads El Topo, the townspeople, and the cave-dwellers to a bloody and tragic end.
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