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Student Academy Award winner Cary Joji Fukunaga makes his feature directorial debut with this epic dramatic thriller following a Honduran teenager who reunites with her long-estranged father and attempts to emigrate to America with him in order to start a new life. Inspired by the director's firsthand experience with Central American immigrants, Sin Nombre opens to find dejected teenager Sayra (Paulina Gaitan) biding her time in Honduras while dreaming of a brighter future. Upon reuniting with the father she hasn't seen in years, Sayra seizes the opportunity to finally make her dreams a reality. Her father has a new family in the United States, and he's preparing to travel with her uncle to Mexico, where they will then cross the border to freedom. Meanwhile, in Mexico, Tapachula teen Casper (aka Casper, played by Edgar Flores), has gotten caught up with the notorious Mara Salvatrucha street gang. He's just delivered a new recruit to the Maras in the form of desperate 12-year-old Smiley (Kristyan Ferrer), and though the youngster's initiation proves particularly rough, she adapts to gang life rather quickly. As involved as Casper is with the Mara, he does his best to keep his relationship with girlfriend Martha Marlene (Diana Garcia) a secret from the gang. Just as Martha encounters ruthless Mara leader Lil' Mago (Tenoch Huerta Mejía) and suffers a grim fate at the hands of the gang, Sayra and her relatives arrive at the Tapachula train yards and prepare to rush a U.S.-bound freight train with a horde of other immigrants. Rather than attempting to gain access to the cars, Sayra and the rest of the immigrants decide to ride atop the train. Little do they realize that their lives are now in danger, because Lil' Mago has recruited Casper and Smiley to rob the immigrants as they make their way to the United States. When dawn comes and Lil' Mago makes his move, Casper finally decides to stand up to the tyrannical gang leader. Now, as the train winds though the Mexican countryside, Sayra's only hope of surviving the journey and making her way to a new beginning is to align herself with Casper as he flees from the most feared gang in Tapachula.

 

 

 

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Sin Nombre (english)

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the devil's double

 

about a man forced to be sadaam's son's body double

if scarface had a son this dude would be it

all in english for those who don't like subtitles

 

 

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the ward

 

decent horror flick

reminded me of another movie but I don't want to give too much away

woman gets locked in a mental ward and the patients are killed off one by one by a ghost of the ward

 

 

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cell 211

 

film from spain about a guard getting locked in the prison on his first day during a prison riot

a little implausible but an interesting watch

 

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a better life

 

life of a mexican immigrant trying to make an honest living

 

 

also previous recommended stuff I liked

 

attack the block

insidious

perfume

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I need some serious help and I reckon this is the place to ask. There's this movie I'm trying to think of where there's a rich family, the young kid always wears some high class getup with vests and shit and they have a maid called Consuela just like the one in family guy. I think it's an older movie, late 90's early 00's?

I can't even remember the plot but I'm pretty sure the older son is gay or something like that. Am I mixing up 2 movies? I swear this exists but I've had this mental blank for like 2 days! Anyone have a name of such a movie?

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Oh and interesting side note to that movie:

 

The original version of the film featured a third story, concerning, among other things, a closeted football player played by actor James van der Beek.[1] But for unknown reasons, possibly that the character had an explicit sex scene with a male partner, the entire story was cut from the final version.[2]

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Perfect! Thank you, I could remember the style of the movie and I had a feeling it was Todd Solondz, or someone similar... Just lost my mind and couldn't think of anything.

That's probably why I thought I might be mixing up two movies, I knew there was more to it. Might re-watch that tonight.

 

Happiness is awesome, I love that movie. I haven't seen the other two but I'll check them out. Thanks man.

I watched this one last night, good movie, definitely worth checking out. I caught the end of it a while ago but stopped watching it because I didn't get the full story.

 

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Also this one. I usually hate Adam Sandler, he's annoying as fuck. But a mate said this was probably the best movie he's done and it's a semi-serious role.

 

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Perfect! Thank you, I could remember the style of the movie and I had a feeling it was Todd Solondz, or someone similar... Just lost my mind and couldn't think of anything.

That's probably why I thought I might be mixing up two movies, I knew there was more to it. Might re-watch that tonight.

 

Happiness is awesome, I love that movie. I haven't seen the other two but I'll check them out. Thanks man.

 

 

No prob! If you watch the other two, watch Welcome to the Dollhouse first, Palindromes is the sequel, and they are very tied together, I didn't know but was lucky to watch them in order not knowing.

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