Jose-Antonio Romero Movies

In this unlikely children's feature, the students must cope with an extraordinary chaos of violence and bullying not only from their fellow students, who at ages six through twelve are adept in the savage use of guns and knives, but from their principal, whose thuggish ways no doubt indicate the probable result of such an upbringing. Amid these scenes of horror, Cain, one of the younger students, is bright-eyed, optimistic and is forever emulating his "betters." Only the kids' schoolteacher fails to get embroiled in the ever-pervasive violence around him, but only because he is too clueless and inept to do so. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi

This moving French drama chronicles the touching relationship between a French officer and a retarded soldier. It is set during the Algerian War, circa 1961. Sergeant Dallers has just been stationed in a remote and primitive Algerian outpost. A highly educated man, he is at first distressed that his assigned partner, Lagrange, is mentally retarded and should never been drafted. Lagrange has had to put up with the bored pranks of the other soldiers for a while now because he wants them to like and accept him. He is so retarded that he cannot be trusted with a real gun and therefore carries a wooden one. In time Dallers comes to care about Lagrange and to become more understanding of his plight. Simple Lagrange becomes a hero toward the end of the film. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi

When successful Spanish research scientist Diego (Adria Collado) sees his spitting image get killed in a Buenos Aires car accident, he becomes convinced that the man was his long lost twin brother and sets out on a desperate search for his biological parents, in the process becoming embroiled in a vast conspiracy involving cloning and violent Russian heavies. Diego and his best friend Martin (Alfonso Lara) are watching television when they see a man who bears a striking resemblance to Diego get killed on television. Diego has long been the victim of repeated déjà vu, and now he's beginning to wonder if there may be a rational explanation for his many strange experiences. When Diego discovers that he was adopted as a young boy, he leaves his wife Susan (Lucia Jiminez) to travel to Argentina and get some answers. The situation grows increasingly complex when Diego comes into contact with the dead man's parents, who claim that their son was adopted as well. Ageing alcoholic Malcolm (Jose Maria Pau) may have just the answers they are searching for, but when he questions Diego about his wife Susan, Diego wonders how a the man could even know of his wife's existence. Meanwhile, back in Spain, things get complicated when Susan is contacted by a man named John (Andrew Bicknell), and becomes the unwitting target of Russian thugs-for-hire Djanov (Bruno Squarcia) and Cherkasov (Manuel Tomas del Estal Castano). ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi