HBO Latino has a strong lineup to help you spend the holidays and kick off the New Year with with exciting new premieres this December and January. Icebox, a captivating film about a young boy from Honduras who escapes gang violence and flees to America where he gets caught in the immigration system, premieres on December 7th. December also brings the season three finale of Magnifica ‘70.

The award winning High & Mighty also premieres on HBO Latino and features Jorge Diaz as Chelo Chavez, a man who discovers he has superpowers, but only when he’s drunk or high. True Detective also returns for its third season with Oscar-winner Mahershala Ali, who follows a child-murder case in Arkansas that unfolds over the course of 35 years.

All programming can also be streamed on HBO NOW, HBO GO, HBO On Demand and partners’ streaming platforms.

Original Programming

Icebox (12/07) – Riveting feature film about a young boy from Honduras who flees gang violence at home and, after escaping across the U.S.-Mexican border, gets trapped inside America’s rigid and terrifying immigration system. ​

Magnifica ‘70 Season 3 Finale (12/17) – Set in São Paulo in the 1970s, Magnífica 70 follows Vicente, a government film censor whose fascination with a risqué movie – and its lead actress – takes him out of his safe middle class life and into the city’s red light district. From the seedy “Boca de Lixo” neighborhood, home to the film industry at the time, Magnifica unfolds as a universal and timeless story – the clash between desire and the forbidden, between control and freedom.

Carmen Ejogo

True Detective (01/13) – The award-winning HBO drama returns for a third season, this year focusing on a macabre child-murder case in Arkansas that plays out over the course of 35 years, and starring Mahershala Ali, Stephen Dorff and Carmen Ejogo.

Estrenos*

High & Mighty (12/14) – After surviving a shooting totally unscathed, a lovable lush discovers he has superhuman powers…but only when he’s high or drunk. (USA; Comedy)

En el séptimo día/On the Seventh Day (12/21) – A group of undocumented Mexican immigrants work long hours, six days a week, then spend their only day of rest on the soccer fields of Brooklyn. (USA; Drama)

El Río/The River (01/04) – An introvert city teenager is sent to his father’s ranch. While trying to figure out his place as the boss’s son he finds himself in a world of normalized violence. (Ecuador/Bolivia; Drama)

Biutiful/Beautiful (01/11) – This is the journey of Uxbal (Javier Bardem), a conflicted man who struggles to reconcile fatherhood, love, spirituality, crime, guilt and mortality amidst the dangerous underworld of modern Barcelona. (USA; Drama)

Veneno, Primera Caída: El Relámpago de Jack (01/18) – The origin and rise of the most famous Dominican wrestler of all time, Rafael Sánchez aka Jack Veneno, who brought joy to the people, high ratings to TV, and fame to his archnemesis, José Manuel Guzmán aka Relámpago Hernández. (Dominican Republic; Sport/Drama)

Sin Rodeos/Empowered (01/25) – A visit to a healer leaves a woman saying anything that comes to mind. Starring Maribel Verdú. (Spain; Comedy)

Short Films

Vida en Marte/Life on Mars (12/01) – Ana and Luis meet again after 20 years and talk about their lives, as well as their shared past. (Spain; Romance/Comedy)

Mi Tesoro/My Treasure (12/01) – A cleaning woman steals a Salvadoran Civil War map and hunts for a treasure with the hopes of reuniting with her son. (El Salvador; Drama/Comedy)

Lesson #7 (01/01) – A mother and her adult daughter sift through their true feelings for one another, in this short comedy. (USA; Comedy)

Señora Genvese/Mrs. Genovese (01/01) – After watching an infomercial about traveling, an old woman decides to escape from the retirement home to make her dreams come true. (Guatemala; Comedy/Action)