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Magallanes (2015)
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Genre: Drama
Country: Peru, Argentina, Spain
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Magallanes (Damián Alcázar) sees his humdrum life turn upside down the day Celina (Magaly Solier), a women he met in the violent years when he was a soldier with the Peruvian Army, jumps into his taxi in a Lima street. This unexpected re-encounter after 25 years with the dark past that unites them prompts Magallanes to embark on a daring plan to help Celina get money and find his own redemption.
Style:
tense, suspense, serious, suspenseful, psychological, melancholic, crime thriller, noir
Plot:
revenge, secret, blackmail, colonel, redemption, guilt, war, taxi driver, memory, war veteran, secrets, moral ambiguity, character study, justice, post war, forgiveness, urban, survivor, reconciliation, political violence, intimate, investigation, corruption, poverty, female protagonist ...
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