The Vivero Letter (2000)

Director
H. Gordon Boos

Main cast
Robert Patrick; Chiara Caselli; Fred Ward; John Verea; Daniela Alviani

Genres
Thriller, Action, Adventure

Description
A man in Central America finds his brother's murdered body. It turns out that his brother has been murdered because he knows the whereabouts of a lost city in the jungle. The man teams up with a search expedition and goes off to hunt for these ancient ruins. Unfortunately, almost every member of the group has plans to double-cross the others. All is resolved in bloody fashion in the middle of the jungle wilderness.


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