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El Capitan Aventurero (1939)
Character: Sargento Carrasquilla
Don Gil de Alacala (José Mojica), a swashbuckler also known as Captain Adventure, must overcome a series of difficult trials and tribulations in order to save the love of his life, Carmina (Manolita Saval), who is engaged to marry a terrible nobleman. Based upon the libretto "Don Gil de Alcala" by Manuel Penella, this classic black-and-white romance also stars Margarita Mora, Carlos Orellana and Sara García.
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Anacleto se divorcia (1950)
Character: N/A
Anacleto and Baldomira are a couple who have problems because of gossip from their compadre who wants Baldomira. The marriage is separated for a short time because they realize that they love each other.
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Café de chinos (1949)
Character: N/A
Naive Chinese immigrant has feelings for a young woman of loose morals whom he hires at his restaurant.
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Cupido pierde a Paquita (1955)
Character: N/A
Rich family's maid thinks that maybe if she plays her cards right, she can land a moneybags husband. There's also a really cute auto mechanic, though, and...
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Las medias de seda (1956)
Character: N/A
Vineyard worker is happy when her long-estranged artist brother comes to visit her. But then...
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Cuando los hijos odian (1950)
Character: N/A
Woman and her daughter try to get on with their lives and run their family bakery while dealing with abusive alcoholic husband/father and other family problems.
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La casa de la zorra (1945)
Character: N/A
The owner of an illegal gambling casino witnesses all the problems in the life of her dissolute son and finally acts in a way that'll help him rehabilitate himself.
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La calle de los amores (1954)
Character: N/A
Hubby latches onto a series of side-pieces and wifey finds it increasingly hard to put up with his behavior.
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Simón Bolívar (1942)
Character: General José Antonio Páez
Biopic of the revolutionary Simón Bolívar who fought to end Spanish rule over much of Latin America.
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Amor Prohibido (1945)
Character: Don Pepe
Family life of a widowed father with four teenaged and young-adult children.
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¡Acá las Tortas! (1951)
Character: Don Chente Mendoza
College students, ready to start entering adult society, are ashamed of their working-class backgrounds.
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No te engañes corazón (1937)
Character: Don Boni
No te engañes corazón (released in English as Don't Fool Yourself Dear) is the first full-feature film of Cantinflas after becoming a star of the carpa circuit (folk theater). It was also one of the earliest films of Sara García and Carlos Orellana and the first where they share the screen. Don Boni (Orellana) is diagnosed with a deadly disease and decides to spend his last days doing good deeds. He leaves his wife and decides to help people. He then gets drunk and wakes up with a winning lottery ticket and realizes that the doctor who diagnosed him has been sent to prison for fraud.
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Miente y serás feliz (1940)
Character: Don Luis
A Spanish, Juan, is obsessed with telling the truth always. As a result he is consistently in the middle of troubles...
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Escuadrón 201 (1945)
Character: N/A
Fictional story about the Escuadron 201 de Caza (201st Mexican Fighter Squadron), which participated in military campaigns in the Phillipines during WWII. It focuses primarily on two brothers, one who has a promising future as a doctor, who volunteer for this unit after Mexico declares war on Germany after the sinking of Mexican merchants by U-boats. The story also follows another young man, the son of a Spanish immigrant baker. He volunteers to pay what he feels is an unpaid debt to their new adopted country.
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Qué hombre tan simpático (1943)
Character: Don Pancho
Amable is the drinking buddy of Paquito, a former medical student who plays Fanny's love, a cabaret singer and also with Conchita, a showgirl. One day, Paquito receives a telegram that his uncle Pancho vayaa asked to see his wife and other medical eminence to heal him his kidney ailment. Among all a hoax to mount Paquino not lose the inheritance from his uncle.
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Pobre diablo (1940)
Character: Ponciano Luque
An elderly homeless dude lucks into a situation where a young woman's uncle and her boyfriend ask him to impersonate her long-lost father and give her some nurturing parent attention.
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Pepita Jiménez (1946)
Character: Padre Belisario
On March 22, four days after returning to his home in Andalusia, Luis de Vargas writes the first of his letters to his uncle and favorite professor at the seminary. He reports that his father intends to fatten him up during his vacation, to have him ready to return in the fall to finish his training for the priesthood. He mentions in passing that his father is courting a twenty-year-old, attractive widow, Pepita Jiménez; his father is fifty-five years old. Pepita had been married for only a short time to an eighty-year-old moneylender named Gumersindo. Luis is not eager to see his father marry again, but he promises his uncle not to judge Pepita before he knows her.
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Dos mexicanos en Sevilla (1942)
Character: N/A
After many setbacks, Mr. Prudenciano, in Mexico, came to the conclusion that he had no great future as a bullfighter. He sold what little he had and, along with his wife, settled in Seville. Things didn’t go much better for him in Spain either, although at least he can spend all day doing what he likes best: doing nothing.
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Enrédate y verás (1948)
Character: Farid Bashar
A young woman disguises herself as a soldier when her boyfriend arrives to propose.
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Romance de fieras (1954)
Character: Don Carlos Narváez
Newly-graduated lawyer gets caught up in the personal drama surrounding a rich industrialist and his sociopathic son.
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Crimen en la alcoba (1946)
Character: Don Trinidad Rojas
A man's on trial for murder; a friend who could prove his innocence chooses not to come forward. An interested detective starts working to discover the how-come of all of that.
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La Fuga (1944)
Character: Neftali
A stagecoach full of conflictive passengers makes its dangerours way from Mexico to Veracruz during the days of the French Intervention.
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La paloma (1937)
Character: Coronel Refugio Romero
Dazzled by the Empress Carlotta's graciousness, magnanimity and charm, a young officer in the Mexican army switches his allegiance to the Imperial government with Maximilian as figurehead. Bad move, space cadet.
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Dos corazones y un cielo (1959)
Character: Don Atanasio Turrubiates
Husband and wife share the spotlight as two of Mexico's most famous ranchera singers, but when they decide to pursue solo careers, a Spanish theatrical empresario and an Italian female chocolatier will threaten their marriage.
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El Signo de la Muerte (1939)
Character: Dr. Gallardo
Two journalists, Carlos and Lola, investigate the murder of a young woman whose body appeared with her heart torn out, in what seems to be a human sacrifice. The investigation leads the reporters to a museum, whose director is the famous Doctor Gallardo.
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Dos tipos de cuidado (1953)
Character: Don Elías
Jorge Bueno and Pedro Malo are best friends who consider giving up their womanizing ways when they each fall in love. As fate would have it, Pedro Malo unexpectedly marries Jorge Bueno's girlfriend, and the conflict between the former buddies begins.
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Tizoc (1957)
Character: Don Pancho García
An Indian arouses envy for his expertise in hunting animals without ruining their skins, for his wisdom and his kindness.
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¡Arriba las mujeres! (1943)
Character: Laureano
Movie in which funny situations based on the entanglements caused by a woman named Felicidad to her family because of her feminist ideology are presented, to the extent of bringing her daughters and herself to a divorce trial.
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Del rancho a la televisión (1953)
Character: Mr. Cecilio Zarraga
A young man goes to the capital to prove himself as an opera singer, after being rejected he must find other means to achieve fame
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Reportaje (1953)
Character: Policeman
Reporters compete for cash prize awarded for biggest scoop on New Year's Eve.
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La Llorona (1933)
Character: Mario - criado
Llorona is a figure unique to Mexican folklore -- the wailing spirit of a woman who lost or killed her child and now returns to seek revenge and haunt the living. With its framing story and flashback structure, this film sets forth a couple of variations of the story.
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Los tres García (1947)
Character: Priest
Ruled by a tough grandma, the Garcías are three charro cousins who fall in love with young American-born Lupita and fight for her love until grandma quiets them.
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Vuelven los García (1947)
Character: Priest
Ruled by a tough grandma, the Garcías are three charro cousins who fall in love with young American-born Lupita and fight for her love until grandma quiets them.
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Santa (1932)
Character: Hipólito
Santa is a beautiful and very humble young girl living in Chimalistac, a small and quiet spot south of the 1930's Mexico City. After Santa is cheated by arrogant soldier Marcelino, she's rejected by her family and friends and expelled of Chimalistac. Santa finds shelter in a whorehouse and becomes a cinic and bitter woman, mistreated by bullfighter "Jarameno" and silently loved by blind pianist Hipólito.
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¡Maldita Ciudad! Una comedia dramática (1954)
Character: Lucas
A humble provincial writer who wants to publish his first book offers it to a film producer who is looking for locations for a film at that time. The novelist's family then moves to the big city, where they will have to face many adversities that will make them wish they had never left their village.
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Los paquetes de Paquita (1955)
Character: N/A
Maid tries to smooth over the difficulties in her employers' marriage while juggling five or six potential boyfriends of her own.
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