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Jimmy Burns is an expatriate American living in Mexico who has an uncommonly astute eye for the absurd little details that comprise your average American. For a time, Jimmy spent his days unearthing pre-Colombian artifacts. Now he makes a living doing small trucking jobs and helping out with the occasional missing person situation-whatever it takes to remain "the very picture of an American idler in Mexico, right down to the grass-green golfing trousers.†?...
2) Gringo
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Grit and gunfights in the Old West. A man wakes up without his memory and in the desert. Taken in by a rancher, the stranger becomes a ranch hand as he struggles to find out who he once was. Surprising, he finds himself quick on the draw and an expert shot. As the rancher is besieged by a corrupt land owner, the stranger known only as Gringo, finds his memory slowly returning. And it isn't pleasant. Someone will have to pay for what has happened to...
3) Gringo
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[2018]
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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.
6) The Gringos
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We have two cowboys who have gone to the gold fields and had the good fortune to make a bundle from their mine. Dade Hunter is the quieter, steady one; Jack Allen is the firebrand who is always getting into trouble. They decide to spend the winter in a very young and raw San Francisco. Jack loves the gambling life there, but Dade gets tired of it all pretty quickly and rides out exploring, ending up in Palo Alto, where he makes friends with Don Andres,...
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2023.
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A feature-length documentary that raises urgent questions about one of the most powerful globalizing forces of our time: tourism. Spanning South America, Africa and Asia, the tourist pathway known as the GRINGO TRAIL has facilitated both life-altering adventures and the despoiling of many once virgin environments. The film follows stories along the trail to reveal the complex relationships between colliding cultures: host countries hungry for financial...
8) Gringo Rebel
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Gringo Rebel, first published in 1960, is the account of Swedish-born adventurer Ivor Thord-Gray of his time in 1913-1914 in revolutionary Mexico. Thord-Gray first served as an artillery officer in Francisco 'Pancho' Villa's forces, and later served as a cavalry officer in Carranza's army under Obregón. He formed close bonds with his Yaqui and Tarahumara scouts, and later prepared a Tarahumara-English Dictionary, and other books about Mexican archaeology....
9) Red Gringo
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2016.
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Reminiscent of Searching for Sugarman, RED GRINGO follows Dean Reed, a North American singer who became a pop idol during the ʼ50s and ʼ60s in Chile and the Americas. There, the surprising political transformation he undergoes after learning of the brutality and repression of U.S.-supported regimes in South America earns him the nickname "Red Elvis.". Official Selection at the Seattle International Film Festival.. "... A fascinating look back at...
10) Gringo Favelado
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2015.
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Rio de Janeiro is known as The Marvellous City, but beyond the white sand beaches, sexy bodies and samba music Rio is on the brink of disaster.. As the Olympics loom on the horizon, Rio has been trying to tackle its chronic problems with violence by installing Pacifying Police Units inside the lawless favelas (slums), but the program produces controversial results. GRINGO FAVELADO takes a look under the skin of this stunning and enigmatic metropolis...
11) Get the gringo
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[2012]
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A career criminal nabbed by Mexican authorities is placed in a tough prison where he learns to survive with the help of a 9-year-old boy.
12) Gringo Trails
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Are tourists destroying the planet-or saving it? How do travelers change the remote places they visit, and how are they changed? From the Bolivian jungle to the party beaches of Thailand, and from the deserts of Timbuktu, Mali to the breathtaking beauty of Bhutan, GRINGO TRAILS traces stories over the course of thirty years to show the dramatic long-term impact of tourism on cultures, economies, and the environment. Directed by prominent anthropologist...
14) Gringo Favelado
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Gringo Favelado explores life in Rio's notorious favela communities through the eyes of three British expats who decided to call them home.
15) One Tough Gringo
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Enrique Cortes nodded as he rode with Salazar. The two men rode their horses outside the church grounds. Cortes had rode with Salazar for quite some time since his youth, and was now a young man of barely 21. Admittedly, he did not like Salazar, or his methods to keep power. Cortes grew to manhood with a healthy respect of what Salazar was capable of. He only rode with him because he felt he had no choice. After all, Salazar was a wealthy man, and...
17) The Gringo Amigo
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Irish immigrant Michael Callahan gets the gold fever and stakes a claim in California. Just when persistence and ingenuity finally payoff, he is jumped by thieves intent upon taking his gold and his life.
18) Get The Gringo
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A career criminal nabbed by Mexican authorities is placed in a tough prison where he learns to survive with the help of a young boy.
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The Director of Engineering in Fundidora, a huge steel plant, announces that the whole department will disappear since a joint venture with Dillon Corp, an American engineering company, will be created to handle all future expansions of the Mexican steel conglomerate. The new company formed with American and Mexican personnel will be called Dillmex and invites the employees to join it. The basic idea is to have a Mexican working alongside with an...
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Las obras que componen este volumen, "El cazador de gringos" (2005), "Los corolarios de la oruga" (2007) y "Anela" (2004), poseen personajes al margen de la sociedad, llenos de anhelos que esperan en otros parajes, pero a la vez se saben incapaces de aprehenderlos, por lo que optan por mantenerse inmóviles, omitir el paso del tiempo voluntariamente, evitar el cambio. En este sentido, estos personajes se asemejan a héroes trágicos en una cruzada...
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