Carlos Arruza

En février 1836, le général Sam Houston, qui commande les Texans révoltés contre l'autorité mexicaine, est poursuivi par les troupes du général Santa Anna. Il passe le Rio Grande pour former une armée et confie au Colonel Travis le soin d'arrêter Santa Anna le plus longtemps possible. Dans le fort Alamo, Travis rentre en conflit avec James Bowie, alcoolique et insubordonné. Davy Crockett doit souvent s'interposer entre les deux hommes. Travis attend un important renfort, mais celui-ci est intercepté par Santa Anna. La garnison ne peut compter que sur elle-même, et les hommes de Travis comprennent qu'ils sont condamnés à périr sous les assauts des Mexicains…

The film evokes all the aspects of bullfighting - its history, the bulls, the toreros, the arena, the audience - and involves numerous matadors from the era.

Eight years in the making, Boetticher’s portrait of his longtime friend, the famous bullfighter Carlos Arruza, was a labor of love that the renowned director of westerns pursued despite contending with illnesses, bankruptcy, jail time, and lucrative offers from Hollywood. The result is an astonishing work of poetry, immediacy, and violence that fearlessly wrestles with the filmmaker’s own ambivalence about the titular matador’s triumphs prior to his death by automobile accident at the age of 46.

The life of the famed Mexican bullfighter Luis Procuna, from his boyhood through his training and the triumphs that followed as Procuna rose to the peak of his profession. Written by Jim Beaver

Alice is a drag queen who has a son who will be a father. The girlfriend wants an abortion. In the conversation between father and son, a secret is revealed and a decision is made.

Professional bullfighter pretends to his girlfriend that he's a doctor, because her father hates bullfighters and would never let her marry one. Meanwhile...