Jorge Luke Movies

A wedding that will bring two powerful families together is threatened by the jealousy and greed of a murderous third party in this tense, Spanish-language thriller. Bernardo (Valentin Trujillo) and Priscilla are about to exchange wedding vows - and when they do, the combined fortune of their properties will be extraordinary. But Bernardo isn't the only man who longs to take Priscilla's hand in marriage, because the nefarious Aurelio is out to win her heart as well. But Aurelio's love is driven by greed, not genuine affection. Aurelio wants the expansive properties for his own gain, and he's willing to kill in order to accomplish his goal. Unfortunately for Aurelio, Bernardo isn't willing to let go of his woman, or his money, without a fierce fight. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

This is the third film based on Tom Clancy's high-tech espionage potboilers starring CIA deputy director Jack Ryan. Harrison Ford, returning to the Ryan role after his first go-round in 1992's Patriot Games, is assigned to a delicate anti-drug investigation after a close friend of the President (a Reaganesque Donald Moffat) is murdered by a Colombian drug cartel. When Ryan discovers that the President's wealthy friend was in league with the cartel, the President's devious national security adviser (Harris Yulin) and an ambitious CIA deputy director (Henry Czerny) send a secret paramilitary force into Colombia to wipe out the drug lords. The force is captured and then abandoned by the President's lackeys. It falls to Ryan to enter Colombia and rescue them, aided only by a renegade operative named Clark (Willem Dafoe), with both his life and career on the line. ~ Don Kaye, Rovi

In Central America, the peasants are nearly all "Indios," or people whose cultural values are those of indigenous people (rather than European or Spanish). Since the landowning and propertied classes abuse them horribly, these same ruling-class types live in perpetual fear of a bloody uprising. As a result, they suppress and abuse the peasants even more. Ironically, for the most part these peaceable people only want to be left alone. Those who do want to foment revolution have virtually no weapons and few allies to help them. In this action/adventure movie, based on a true incident, a group of Guatemalan peasants who have sought refuge in Mexico are sought out by Guatemalan death squads, and those who aren't tortured and killed are taken away in captivity. The hero in the story is a Mexican hunter whose family is mistakenly included in the raid and who teams up with a few of the survivors to win his family back and take revenge. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi

A brave shark fisherman is forced to contend with baddies on land. ~ Kristie Hassen, Rovi

The long arm of the Inquisition, or the "Holy Office," reached at least as far as 16th-century Mexico (known as New Spain at the time). Many Spanish Catholics of Moorish or Jewish origin found it expedient to flee to the New World to escape the suffocating attentions of the Inquisition. In Spain, simply being descended from these suspect peoples is sufficient to guarantee a gruesome death by immolation. In the New World, it took slightly more. This 1974 Mexican film deals with the suffering of one family of conversos who are secretly practicing Judaism and are betrayed to the Inquisition by a family member. Interestingly, a small family clan of such secret Jews was discovered in New Mexico as recently as the late 1980s. They managed to keep their faith a secret for nearly five hundred years. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi

Escape Sangriento concerns an unjustly incarcerated man named Pedro Montes (Mario Almada). Filled with a desire to settle the score, Montes enlists the help of other inmates in order to succeed in a complicated prison break. Once on the outside, Montes must figure out who set him up to take the fall for his wife's murder. ~ Perry Seibert, Rovi

Arturo Ripstein directs Foxtrot, a drama filmed in Mexico that borrows much material from The Rules of the Game. Wealthy European aristocrat Liviu (Peter O'Toole) and his wife, Julia (Charlotte Rampling) escape the harsh reality of WWII by vacationing on a tropical island. Due to unforeseen circumstances involving their ship, they end up stranded on the island along with their servants, Eusebio (Jorge Luke) and Larsen (Max Von Sydow). They run around lawlessly and slowly run out of food. Soon the servants revolt and the wealthy couple discover that they can't escape the war. Foxtrot was released with additional footage under the title The Other Side of Paradise. Features the title song written by Jay Livingston and Ray Evans. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, Rovi

In this film, a tough shark hunter races to beat a group of gangsters to a fortune in sunken treasure. ~ Iotis Erlewine, Rovi

In this, the first of a two-part Soviet-made historical epic, the life of journalist John Reed is chronicled. Much of the story centers around his love affair with a wealthy woman as he endeavors to write about the Mexican labor riots and revolutions from 1910-1915. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi