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Guide Picks - Top Spanish-Language Videos (Latin America)
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These are among the best or best-known films produced in or about Mexico. If you're interested in the viewing a film because you enjoy or are hoping to improve your Spanish, make certain you avoid buying a version that has been dubbed into English.
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1) Como agua para chocolate
A visually delightful tale about a rural Mexican woman growing up in a dysfunctional family, this film was nominated for the 1993 Golden Globe for best foreign film. It is based on the novel by Laura Esquivel.
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2) Traffic
This widely acclaimed Steven Soderbergh film interweaves four stories about the drug war. Most of the film is in English, but portions shot in Mexico are in subtitutled Spanish. Puerto Rican actor Benicio Del Toro won an Academy Award for his role, making him the first actor to win an Oscar for a Spanish-speaking part.
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3) Men with Guns
This 1997 film about the plight of Mexico's indigenous population was directed and written by John Sayles. It is performed in Spanish and several indigenous languages that have seldom been heard in a major motion picture.
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4) Salvador
This dramatic and politically loaded Oliver Stone film is based on the story of a journalist who witnessed tumultuous historic events in El Salvador. Mostly in English, it was nominated by the Academy in 1987 for best original screenplay.
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5) El Mariachi
Made for only $7,000, this film won the 1993 Audience Award at the
Sundance Film Festival.
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6) El norte
This film, in both English and Spanish, tells the story of Guatemalans who leave oppression and poverty in their homeland only to find that life in the United States is far from ideal.
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7) Los olvidados
This offbeat film tells the story of youths living in the slums of Mexico. The title means "The Forgotten."
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7) Guantanamera
This satire on life in Cuba combines elements of a road movie with a funeral procession.
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8) Buena Vista Social Club
Cuban musicians tell their stories to the camera in this English-language documentary that highlights the Caribbean country's rich musical traditions.
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9) La historia oficial
Here is the tale of an Argentine teacher who learns the ominous truth about her government. It earned an Oscar for best foreign language film of 1986.
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10) Tango
Argentine/Spanish production tells the story or a tango artist who films a movie about the tango.
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