Mexico – MovieLog

Chappie (2015)

Sat, 22 Oct 2022 12:50:19 +0000

In the near future, crime is patrolled by a mechanized police force. When one police droid, Chappie, is stolen and given new programming, he becomes the first robot with the ability to think and feel for himself.

Chappie

I am discovery. I am wonder. I am chappie.

Neill Blomkamp

USA, Mexico, South Africa

7.1

IMDb

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Cronos (1993)

Sat, 22 Oct 2022 11:23:18 +0000

A mysterious device designed to provide its owner with eternal life resurfaces after four hundred years, leaving a trail of destruction in its path.

, p>, n 1535, an alchemist builds an extraordinary mechanism encapsulated into a small golden device. The invention, designed to convey eternal life to its owner, survives its maker until 1997, when it shows up with an antiques dealer. Fascinated with the strange device, Gris (Luppi) doesn’t note that there’s more than one person looking for it. The promise of eternal life has become an obsession for old and sick Mr. De la Guardia (Brook). He and his nephew (Perlman) will do anything to get the Chronos Invention.

, p>, n aging antique dealer named Jesus Gris happens upon an elegant mechanized scarab. When opened, it painfully stabs whomever is holding it, but the wound brings youthful vigor and a vampire’s need for blood. The device is relentlessly pursued by a dying tycoon named Dieter de la Guardia, whose nephew Angel, reluctant to see his uncle live a moment longer, must still do the old man’s bidding. Meanwhile, Gris’s desires endanger his own granddaughter, Aurora.

Cronos

Guillermo del Toro

Mexico

6.7

IMDb

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Borderland (2007)

Sat, 22 Oct 2022 11:01:06 +0000

Three college students, Phil, Ed, and Henry take a road trip into Mexico for a week of drinking and carefree fun only to have Phil find himself a captive of a group of satanic Mexican drug smugglers who kill tourists and whom are looking for a group of new ones to prepare for a sacrifice.

Borderland

Inspired by a true story.

Zev Berman

Mexico, USA

5.7

IMDb

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Santa Sangre (1989)

Fri, 21 Oct 2022 13:39:57 +0000

A young man is confined in a mental hospital. Through a flashback we see that he was traumatized as a child…

Santa Sangre

Forget Everything You Have Ever Seen

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Mexico, Italy

7.7

IMDb

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Evil That Men Do, The (1984)

Sat, 23 Sep 2017 12:18:32 +0000

Clement Moloch is a doctor but instead of using his skills to heal; he uses them to torture. He works for governments including the U.S. who wants insurgents dealt with. Now several of his victims want him dead and after several attempts fail. Holland, a retried killer for hire, is informed of the death of an old friend who was trying to kill Moloch. Holland initially stating that he is retired doesn’t take the job. But he changes his mind. He asks for woman and a child to accompany him so that he could appear to be a family man. And the woman who goes with him is the wife of his friend, who brings her daughter along. When Holland arrives he notices that Moloch is heavily protected so he starts by taking out his people.

Most criminals answer to the law. The world’s most savage executioner must answer to Bronson.

J. Lee Thompson

Charles Bronson, Theresa Saldana, Joseph Maher, José Ferrer, René Enríquez,

Mexico, USA, UK

5.4

IMDb

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