What is a direct translation of the movie title "Amores Perros."
There's a famous Mexican movie with the title "Amores Perros." A literal word-for-word translation of this title, I think, would be "Loves, dogs" (not "loves dogs," but rather two plural nouns put next to each other). The English translation that is given is "Love's a B-----," but I'm not seeing that. I know often movies just have different titles from one language to the next, but it does seem like this is supposed to mean the same thing. Is it a Mexican expression? Because if I wanted to say "love's a b-----" in Spanish, I feel like I would say "el amor es una perra." And notice also that "b-----" is "perra," not "perro." Can someone help me understand this title and its translation?
[Pardon the censoring, Spanishdict does not permit profanity.]
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From Wikipedia
Amores perros is a 2000 Mexican drama thriller film directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu and written by Guillermo Arriaga. Amores perros is the first installment in González Iñárritu's "Trilogy of Death", succeeded by 21 Grams and Babel.[4] It is an anthology film constructed as a triptych: it contains three distinct stories connected by a car accident in Mexico City. The stories centre on a teenager in the slums who gets involved in dogfighting; a model who seriously injures her leg; and a mysterious hitman. The stories are linked in various ways, including the presence of dogs in each of them. The title is a pun in Spanish; the word "perros", which literally means "dogs", can also be used to refer to misery, so that it roughly means 'bad loves' with canine connotations. The film was released under its Spanish title in the English-speaking world, although it was sometimes translated as Love's a Bitch in marketing.
Great answer ken!
Perro can have a negative connotation and is used in everyday life.
Hace un día de perros.
A really bad day, bad weather.
Hence: amores perros , a really bad relationship
Great answer, ken 
