A biography of artist Frida Kahlo, who channeled the pain of a crippling injury and her tempestuous marriage into her work. Director Julie Taymor was able to make a movie that is touching, informative, beautiful, and surrealistic like Frida Kahlos pictures. Starring Salma Hayek, who is stunning as Kahlo and deserved her Oscar nomination, and Alfred Molina as Rivera, who was convincing and almost unrecognizable. 

“Frida” chronicles the life Frida Kahlo shared unflinchingly and openly with Diego Rivera, as the young couple took the art world by storm. From her complex and enduring relationship with her mentor and husband to her illicit and controversial affair with Leon Trotsky, to her provocative and romantic entanglements with women, Frida Kahlo lived a bold and uncompromising life as a political, artistic, and sexual revolutionary.  Julie Taymor was able to make a movie that is touching, informative and beautiful, and surrealistic like Frida Kahlos pictures. (Won 2 Oscars)

Trailer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zudfarZ-ZNk

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Based on Mark Childress novel and directed by Antonio Banderas starring Melanie Griffith, David Morse and Lucas Black.

A backwoods Alabama boy named Peejoe -short for Peter Joseph- gets a quick education in grown-up matters like freedom in 1965. The catalyst is an unlikely source - his glamorous, eccentric aunt Lucille, who escapes from her abusive husband and takes off for Hollywood to pursue her dreams of TV stardom. A comedy film, that was funnier than I expected to be.

Trailer:

http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi2763981081/

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My favorite Shrek character gets his own movie. With the voices of Antonio Banderas and Salma Hayek. I like the trailer, the style and the humor of the last Shrek movies stayed.

Plot:

A story about the events leading up to the sword fighting cat’s meeting with Shrek and his friends.

Trailer:

http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi1536465945/

Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles

This is an atmospheric, highly gripping film involving vampires - not a “vampire movie”. Great cast!

Plot:

It hadn’t even been a year since a plantation owner named Louis had lost his wife in childbirth. Both his wife and the infant died, and now he has lost his will to live. A vampire named Lestat takes a liking to Louis and offers him the chance to become a creature of the night: a vampire. Louis accepts, and Lestat drains Louis’ mortal blood and then replaces it with his own, turning Louis into a vampire. Louis must learn from Lestat the ways of the vampire.

Trailer:

http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi244449561/

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Also know as “The skin I live in”. I know the book and i can not wait to see this movie. If you watch the trailer, you’ll get a vision of what to accept from this film by Pedro Almodóvar.

Plot:

Based on Thierry Jonquet’s novel “Mygale”, this revenge tale tells the story of a plastic surgeon (Banderas) on the hunt for the men who raped his daughter.

Trailer:

http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi461020441/

this movie never got the attention it deserved!

i think you can see the trilogy as a modern western.

Plot:

In this sequel to ‘Desperado’, a Mexican drug lord pretends to overthrow the Mexican government, and is connected to a corrupt CIA agent who at that time, demands retribution from his worst enemy to carry out the drug lord’s uprising against the government.

Trailer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPCxqwfV3ew