El Cortez
A neo-noir thriller about a vulnerable man caught between criminal schemes, law enforcement, and seductive danger, navigating a morally murky landscape with limited agency.
A man just released from a mental institution gets involved in a gold mine scheme while trying to avoid the cops, a wrathful drug dealer, and a sultry femme fatale.
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