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El Infierno (2010)

★ 7.9 · 762 ratings on TMDB

Mexico 2010, Hell... nothing to celebrate

El Infierno poster★ 7.9

After being deported back to Mexico, a man has no choice but to join the vicious drug cartel that has corrupted his hometown in order to survive.

DirectorLuis Estrada
CastAngelina Peláez, Damián Alcázar, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Elizabeth Cervantes, Ernesto Gómez Cruz, Joaquín Cosío
GenresAction, Comedy, Crime, Drama
The emergence reading

El Infierno keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E11/E12 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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