261. Tear This Heart Out ( Arráncame la vida )
Year of Release: 2008
Overall Rating: 3.5 out of 4 stars
Language: Spanish
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Roberto Sneider
Actors: Ana Claudia Talancón, Daniel Giménez Cacho, José María de Tavira, Mariana Peñalva, Irene Azuela, Jake Koenig
262. After Lucia ( Después de Lucía )
Year of Release: 2013
Overall Rating: 3.5 out of 4 stars
Language: Spanish
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Michel Franco
Actors: Tessa Ia, Gonzalo Vega Jr., Tamara Yazbek, Hernán Mendoza, Juan Carlos Barranco, Paloma Cervantez
Plot: Winner of the Prix Un Certain Regard at Cannes and the special Jury prize at the Chicago International Film Festival, the critically acclaimed After Lucia is directed by Michel Franco (Daniel & Ana). The story follows the relationship between Roberto and his 17-year-old daughter, Alejandra. Roberto is very depressed after his wife Lucia dies in a car accident and decides to move away with his daughter to a new city. They try hard to adjust to their new life and Alejandro does her best to help, but struggles as she becomes the victim of bullying at her new school. To protect her father, she decides not to tell him anything, but as the bullying gets worse her situation becomes more and more desperate.
263. Neruda
Year of Release: 2016
Overall Rating: 3.5 out of 4 stars
Language: Spanish
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Pablo Larraín
Actors: Gael García Bernal, Luis Gnecco, Alfredo Castro, Antonia Zegers, Pablo Derqui, Mercedes Morán
Plot: In the 1940s, an investigator is sent to hunt down Childean's Nobel Prize-winning poet, Pablo Neruda, after the poet becomes a fugitive after joining the Communist party.
264. Inspector Sun and the Curse of the Black Widow
Year of Release: 2023
Overall Rating: 3.5 out of 4 stars
Language: Spanish
Genre: Animation
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Julio Soto Gurpide
Actors: Ronny Chieng, Iain Batchelor, Vicente Gil, Juan Rueda, Isabel Donate, Jesús Barreda
265. Lucia, Lucia ( hija del caníbal, La )
Year of Release: 2003
Overall Rating: 2.4 out of 4 stars
Language: Spanish
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Antonio Serrano
Actors: Cecilia Roth, Carlos Álvarez-Nóvoa, Kuno Becker, Margarita Isabel, Max Kerlow, Mario Iván Martínez
266. We Are What We Are ( Somos lo que hay )
Year of Release: 2010
Overall Rating: 2.4 out of 4 stars
Language: Spanish
Genre: Drama/Horror
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Jorge Michel Grau
Actors: Paulina Gaitan, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Adrián Aguirre, Miriam Balderas, Francisco Barreiro, Carmen Beato
Plot: A family must fend for themselves in the city after their fathers dies...
things are complicated by the fact they were raised as cannibals.
267. Labyrinth of Passion ( Laberinto de pasiones )
Year of Release: 1990
Overall Rating: 2.4 out of 4 stars
Language: Spanish
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Actors: Cecilia Roth, Imanol Arias, Helga Liné, Marta Fernández Muro, Fernando Vivanco, Antonio Banderas
268. Miss Bala
Year of Release: 2011
Overall Rating: 2.3 out of 4 stars
Language: Spanish
Genre: Drama/Action
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Gerardo Naranjo
Actors: Stephanie Sigman, Irene Azuela, Miguel Couturier, Jose Yenque, Noe Hernandez, James Russo
Plot: Despite being surrounded by violence and dangerous drug cartels, a young woman in Mexico refuses to give up on her dream of becoming a beauty queen.
269. Veronica
Year of Release: 2018
Overall Rating: 2.3 out of 4 stars
Language: Spanish
Genre: Drama/Horror
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Paco Plaza
Actors: Sandra Escacena, Bruna González, Claudia Placer, Iván Chavero, Ana Torrent, Consuelo Trujillo
Plot: After playing with an Ouija Board during a solar eclipse, Verónica begins to experience strange occurrences in her home. Often left to care for her younger sisters and brother while her mother is at work, the events become more disturbing and violent as time goes by. Speaking with a blind nun at her school, she realizes the only way to stop things is to set things right, and goes back the Ouija Board one more time.
270. Battle in Heaven ( Batalla en el cielo )
Year of Release: 2004
Overall Rating: 2.2 out of 4 stars
Language: Spanish
Genre: Documentary/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Carlos Reygadas
Actors: Marcos Hernández, Anapola Mushkadiz, Pilles Laurent, Diego Martínez Vignatti, Anapola Mushkadiz, Bertha Ruiz
