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Language
English
Description
On the eve of his marriage, the Counselor makes a risky decision to dealve into the cocaine trade along the Texas-Mexico border. His hope is that this one-time deal will set him and his fiancée on a path to financial freedom, but instead he ends up in a brutal game that threatens to destroy everything and everyone he loves.
2) The marksman
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
[English/Spanish version].
Language
English
Description
Jim is a former Marine who lives a solitary life as a rancher along the Arizona-Mexican border. But his peaceful existence soon comes crashing down when he tries to protect a boy on the run from members of a vicious cartel.
3) Gringo
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
While in Mexico, mild mannered businessman Harold Soyinka finds himself at the mercy of his back-stabbing business colleagues, local drug lords, and a morally conflicted black-ops mercenary. Crossing the line from law-abiding citizen to wanted criminal, Harold battles to survive his increasingly dangerous situation.
4) Borderline
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Two agents both assigned to infiltrate a drug-smuggling ring on the Mexican border, fall in love. Each believes the other is a criminal and they are ultimately forced to make an escape together.
5) Misfire
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Hardened DEA agent Cole descends into the dangerous underworld of Tijuana, Mexico, in search of his journalist ex-wife, who he believes has been abducted by a cartel boss.
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
A haunting horror fairytale set against the backdrop of Mexico's devastating drug wars; follows a group of orphaned children who are unexpectedly given three magical wishes. As they run from the cartel that murdered their parents and the ghosts that haunt them, they must decide how to use this special gift to save their own lives and the people they love.
8) Heli
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Español
Description
When Heli's twelve-year-old sister inadvertently involves him in Mexico's brutal drug world, Heli must do everything it takes to protect his family. As he descends further into inescapable and nightmarish corruption and violence, it threatens to tear his life apart.
10) El Mariachi
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
Special edición.
Language
Español
Description
"All he wants is to be a mariachi, like his father, his grandfather and his great grandfather before him. But the town he thinks will bring him luck brings only a curse of deadly mistaken identity. Forced to trade his guitar for a gun, the mariachi is playing for his life"--Container.
12) Traffic
Series
Criterion collection volume 151
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Presents a mix of interrelated stories: a Mexican policeman finds himself and his partner caught in an often deadly web of corruption; a pair of DEA agents work undercover in a sordid and dangerous part of San Diego; a wealthy drug baron living in upscale, suburban America is arrested and learns how quickly his unknowing and pampered wife takes over his business; and the U.S. President's new drug czar must deal with his increasingly drug-addicted...
14) Traffic
Series
Criterion collection volume 150
Pub. Date
[2002]
Edition
Special edition.
Language
English
Description
Traffic is a mural of a war being fought and lost. In a culture devoted to instant gratification and the quick fix, it poses unanswerable questions about greed, corruption, economic inequity, pleasure, self-medication, dependency, and addiction. The stories of a well-meaning politician with a wayward daughter, a rich suburban homemaker who sees her comfortable life hijacked by two earnest DEA agents, and a conscientious and honorable Mexican police...
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