Luis Puenzo

Alicia Marnet de Ibáñez is a high school history professor and a well-to-do housewife in Buenos Aires, circa 1983, after the fall of the "junta militar" that had taken over the government since 1976. She has a husband, Roberto, who is a succesful lawyer and a five-year-old adopted daughter. (imdb)

This is a compilation of five documentaries about the holocaust, all produced by Steven Spielberg and based in pertaining documents the Institution Survivors of the Visual Shoah History Foundation. An authentic historical document, therefore discloses stories of survivors who had ahead lived deeply in the skin or of the proper eyes the horrors of the holocaust. Each documentary is directed by a famous foreign director.

In a city in South America an outbreak of bubonic plague occurs. While people try to flee and the military close the city an idealistic doctor decides to stay and help the sick. In the ever changing circumstances he puts up a brave fight, being helped by others but also involving them without being able to control the situation. Based on the novel by Albert Camus "the Plague". (imdb)

When school teacher Harriet Winslow goes to Mexico to teach, she is kidnapped by Gen. Tomas Arroyo and his revolutionaries. An aging American, Ambrose "Old Gringo" Bierce also in Mexico, befriends Gen. Arroyo and meets Harriet. Bierce is a famous writer, who knowing that he is dying, wishes to keep his identity secret so he can determine his own fate... (imdb)

A Spanish novelist is asked to write captions and commentary for a cache of unsent letters and photos by an Argentinian killed during the Spanish Civil War. Traveling to Argentina, she discovers parallels between herself and the woman who was the subject of the photos/addressee of the unsent letters, especially when she meets people who knew her and the Argentinian.