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El luchador fenómeno (1952)
Character: N/A
Amado is an employee of a brewery that dreams of success in football. Inveterate dreamer sends a letter to the pantheon of athletes. There champions Assembly decides to send the spirit of a great scorer for help. However, the devil, a fighter with no luck, decides to take the place of the player and turn beloved wrestling champion. This is one of the first incursions of Mexican cinema to the sub-genre of movies precursor struggle and many others that followed over the decades of the 50s and 60s.
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Acapulco 12-22 (1975)
Character: N/A
Tourist industry dudes moonlight as karate detectives, solving crimes committed among the mod young jet-setters.
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El mexicano (1966)
Character: N/A
After USA's appropriation of Texas, a Mexican resident responds to prejudice and injustice by forming a band of bandits.
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Dinamita Kid (1962)
Character: N/A
Young boxer on the rise butts head with dishonest promoters. Etc etc.
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El justiciero vengador (1962)
Character: N/A
White-hat with two sidekicks masquerades as a priest to break the stranglehold a blackhat has on a small town.
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El túnel 6 (1955)
Character: N/A
Engineering crew excavating a tunnel through a mountain, are trapped by a landslide.
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Mi compadre Capulina (1989)
Character: N/A
Baseball sketch, restaurant sketch, store-detective sketch, lucha libre sketch. Remake of No me defiendes, compadre.
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Una piedra en el zapato (1956)
Character: Villardel
Police procedural: some detail pertaining to a murder case is nagging at the back of a detective's mind "like having a stone in his shoe." Once he teases it to the surface, he solves the case.
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Asesinos, S.A. (1957)
Character: N/A
Incompetent clown is drafted into a Murder Incorporated style squad of hitmen.
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Vivo o muerto (1960)
Character: N/A
Cowboy/western: hero fakes cowardice to trap the bad guys into showing their hands.
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Mujeres sin mañana (1951)
Character: Juan
Loosely-plotted melodrama about five "hostesses" and the owners of a waterfront nightclub.
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A Sangre y Fuego (1988)
Character: N/A
Offbeat Mexican police officer must transport 3 convicts to a trial before a local drug kingpin kills them.
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El hombre del puente (1976)
Character: N/A
A man without identity/citizenship papers is stuck in the no-man's-land between two countries.
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Los tigres del ring (1960)
Character: N/A
Crooked promoter has a secret weapon who goes around beating fighters to death after their matches if they aren't in line with his rigging schedule. Part one of two.
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La puerta falsa (1977)
Character: N/A
Young heroin addict dies in the pursuit of his calling, and his brother goes on a vendetta against the narco gang that supplied his drugs.
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Rosa de dos aromas (1989)
Character: N/A
Two women meet by accident and discover that they both have 10 year+ relationships with the same man. Also, unrelated subplots involving other women.
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Furias desatadas (1957)
Character: N/A
College student enters the pro wrestling circuit, hoping to find out who killed his father. Third of four in a series.
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Los matones del norte (1985)
Character: N/A
Young man grows up thinking that his father's murderer is dead but wanting revenge against the guys who hired him to commit that crime.
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Extraños caminos (1993)
Character: N/A
During the rainy Christmas season, a troupe of five actors who are college students lose their way in the mountains of Hidalgo when they try to take a short cut. With their van in need of repairs, they are stranded in a village where a local boss, Don Elias, pays peasants to log the forest illegally. The five collegians have little sensitivity to village ways and are shocked to be treated as foreigners in their own country. When two of them witness assaults on the town's priest and on a harmless simpleton, and when Don Elias frames the troupe for murder, their cries of innocence fall on deaf ears. Vigilantes call for their deaths and give chase. Will anyone help them?
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Bonampak (1989)
Character: N/A
The film narrates the discovery of the last great Mayan city, which occurred during the spring of 1946. It is the story of Charles Frey, a smuggler of archaeological pieces who upon hearing some legends about the immense riches that the jungle regions of southeastern Mexico keep, decides to go looking for him. After several months and a point of giving up, Frey detects some archaeological evidence of the Mayan culture, so he continues his explorations until he finds the majestic city of Bonampak.
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La estrella vacía (1960)
Character: Tomás Téllez
Mourners share their memories of a dead film-star at her wake, a la Citizen Kane. Only melodrama.
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Rata de puerto (1963)
Character: Pablo, "El Rata"
The son of a prostitute, longshoreman, fighter and bully.
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Los verduleros (1986)
Character: N/A
The adventures of two friends, one a chicken vendor in a market and the other a policeman. They have love affairs and capture criminals.
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Los Gavilanes (1956)
Character: Romulo
The story of two half brothers who do not know they are such, who fight over a woman and nearly kill each other. One of them belongs to Los Gavilanes, a group of men who live live hidden and looting to give to the poor. Revenge, love and hate will at the end bring out the truth and everyone will get what he deserves.
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Demonios sobre ruedas (1967)
Character: N/A
"Demons on Wheels". A gang of bikers terrorize a town and its inhabitants who can not do anything to prevent it.
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Descenso del pais de la noche (1974)
Character: N/A
A young woman of wealthy class rejects the world that surrounds her and dies, but in her wake a shaman resuscitates her. She is dedicated to transgressing all the rules of her society. In the end a strange character offers him a flower and they both love each other.
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Amor salvaje (1950)
Character: Hombre golpeado (as Wolf Rubinsky)
Alma leaves Panama to go live with her aunt Antonia and with Manuel, her husband. There she meets Julio, who tries to woo her.
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Ladrón de cadáveres (1957)
Character: Guillermo Santana
A detective and his cowboy friend team up to stop a mad scientist who is stealing the bodies of murdered wrestlers, and bringing them back to life while electronically replacing their minds with those of animals to make them stronger and live longer. Posing as a successful masked wrestler, the cowboy quickly attracts the attention of the scientist and his henchmen as their next experimental subject...
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El vagabundo (1953)
Character: N/A
Homeless/unemployed dude has a spiritual awakening and rehabilitates himself working at a circus.
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Música, mujeres y amor (1952)
Character: Javier (as Wolf Rubinskys)
Two women are installed in the cabin of a ship that was already occupied by two gentlemen.
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Una gringuita en México (1951)
Character: N/A
A USA girl decides to vacation in Mexico and experience first hand all the stereotypical scenes she's seen in movies. When she gets there, everything isn't all charros and bandidos, though -- surprise, surprise!
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¿Por qué ya no me quieres? (1954)
Character: Renato Mancera
Tired of struggling, Lilia, played by Sara Montiel, moves to the city to live with her aunt, a former actress. There she strives to become a singer and meets Raul a singer, played by Agustin Lara, who helps her succeed.
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El medallón del crimen (1955)
Character: Ramón Torres
Going out for a drink with the guys after work, a salaryman get in over his head with a gangster's moll and a murder.
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El demonio en la sangre (1964)
Character: N/A
Three episodes about the influence of Satan: a black boxer commits killings under the influence of his manager.A pair of lovers is haunted by the memory of a murdered wife.A wedding in the mountains is disrupted when the bride sees an apparation of the Devil who shares his expertise in astrology and the female heart.
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A garrote limpio (1985)
Character: Saúl Brook / Vicente Viveros
A series of murders have occurred in the uppermost circles of society. Detective Felipe Fierro vows to solve the killings, or die trying (which is a strong possibility).
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Nocaut (1984)
Character: Saúl Beltrán
Rodrigo Zaracho, once a promising boxer, is in decline. While fleeing from a gang that is chasing him, he remembers his past.
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Días de combate (1994)
Character: Leclerc
A novice private detective is on the trail of a serial strangler in Mexico City.
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Mexico, Mexico, ra, ra, ra! (1976)
Character: N/A
Librado, an unemployed man, lives in a crowded small house with numerous children and relatives, is beaten for stealing a car antenna. His godmother and her children try to settle in his place. She then is arrested at a supermarket for stealing, however, she offers herself and volunteers a friend of hers for sex to the policemen so she can be released. She is a maid of an employee who acts subservient to his boss, a mid-level government employee at once servile who delivers speeches on sexuality in educational texts and then discusses the matter with his brother, a corrupt inspector.
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Pistoleros de la frontera (1967)
Character: N/A
"The fastest gun of all" visits his home-town for a few days. All he really wants is to see his wife and som, talk with them about starting over someplace far away... but life interferes with his plans. Remake of The Gunfighter (1950).
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Hipócrita..! (1949)
Character: El rayas
A disfigured woman is helped by a talented composer to recover her face with plastic surgery. Then he discovers that she's a beautiful woman and a talented singer.
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Bajo un mismo rostro (1962)
Character: Inspector Maldonado
Two twin sisters have completely different ways of loving: to one love is profound, to the other is carnal.
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La Lucha Invade el Cine Mexicano (2024)
Character: Neutron
Lucha libre is part of Mexican culture, but how did something that was shown in circuses and fairs become a cinematic genre? Join us to learn about this trajectory.
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El rapto de las sabinas (1962)
Character: Rómulo
The Sabine tribe battles Romulus in the early days of Rome after Romans seize their women as unwilling brides.
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El patrullero 777 (1978)
Character: Mayor Urbano Malagón
Follows Diogenes as he goes about his day as a police officer. He's prone to do things the right way, surrounded by a pretty much corrupt & citizen distant police department, & always resolves his duties with a personal method.
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Sangre en el ring (1962)
Character: N/A
Boxing melodrama; heroic middleweight vs. crooked promoters. Sequel to Dinamita Kid.
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Caballero a la medida (1954)
Character: Chucho el Sacristán
Cantinflas works as a model of tuxedos in a prestigious store, your job is to use the smoking in the street along with an advertising sign on his back. The use of smoking gives you access to exclusive places and meet important people. During this time, Cantinflas was the manager of an amateur boxer, it is an attractive nurse assistant and occasionally attending a priest in the church and the orphanage. However, a Cantinflas day while wearing tuxedo, is a rich man, who mistakenly believe that Cantinflas is a millionaire too.
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La mujer de los dos (1996)
Character: Enrique
The boys in a famous pop-band all have girl troubles. And other problems. Sucks being them.
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El hombre sin rostro (1950)
Character: El Monstruo
A faceless killer who hunts women can only be stopped by a detective with a disturbing past.
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La oveja negra (1949)
Character: El Campeón Asesino
The Trevino family tries to overcome the irresponsible behavior of Don Cruz, an erratic father with numerous defects that contrast with his son Silvano, a young kid man that is incapable of passing judgment on his own father.
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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 vida no vale nada (1955)
Character: El caimán
Pablo, a wandering laborer, has imprisoned himself in a hell of alcoholism. Cruz, a widow, reaches out to the troubled man, but even her compassion may not be enough to save him.
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Mi campeón (1952)
Character: Pablo Rivas
Catita is a simple and poor woman who dreams of that her son stands out on something important to help her out of his humble. But she opposes to him being boxer, therefore constantly fighting with her husband.
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El señor doctor (1965)
Character: Papá de Beto
It's about a country doctor that comes to the city while a clinic is built in his home town... he rubs off his care and compassion on others at the hospital with his humor and wit.
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El gato sin botas (1957)
Character: Humberto Carrasco (picador)
Target of ridicule from fellow military academy, the cowardly Augustin did not want to return to their village for fear of confronting his grandfather, a revolutionary colonel. In love with the movie star Laura, Agustin flee to the capital but encounters the dangerous Humberto, another in love with the actress. Thanks to his "nine lives", he attains overcome perilous adventures and, incidentally, overcome their fears.
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Camino del infierno (1951)
Character: Tony
When a robbery goes wrong, the thief takes a singer as hostage, they fall in love and try to rebuild their lives, but tragedy surges in the most unexpected way.
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Neutrón el enmascarado negro (1962)
Character: Neutrón
Dr. Charon and his group of mad scientists built a neutron bomb with trying to blackmail the free world for global power. But the hero appears, Neutron, who, with the help of Dr. Thomas and reporter Nora spoil those plans.
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¡Paso a la juventud..! (1958)
Character: N/A
Champion diver on a Uni swim team trains for the Olympics and contends with his buffoonish room-mate.
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El Bello Durmiente (1952)
Character: Tracatá/Dr. Heinrich Wolf
A Mexican comedy loosely playing off of the tale of Sleeping Beauty. A caveman wakes up after a thousand year slumber. When he awakens he is seen as a wonder to behold, and discovers his ancient love and romantic rival are seemingly still alive as well.
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El revoltoso (1951)
Character: Roberto
Well-intentioned Tin Tan who is always making trouble for other people, sometimes on purpose and sometimes by accident.
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Trotacalles (1951)
Character: Carlos (uncredited)
In Mexico City, two sisters, Maria and Elena, fight over the love of pimp Rodolfo. Elena escapes her sad marriage to an old banker into Rodolfo's arms. Meanwhile, life is hard for sex worker Maria, who-along with her supportive group of fellow sex workers-must deal with exploitative clients.
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Los autómatas de la muerte (1962)
Character: Neutron / Carlos Márquez
The evil scientist Dr. Caronte plots to revive the brains of three dead scientists and use them to obtain the formula for the super-powerful neutron bomb. The resulting creation needs blood lots of blood, sending Caronte's midget assistant Nick and his legion of mutant monsters out to get fresh victims. However, the masked atom-superman Neutron vows to put a stop to Caronte's deeds.
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La isla de los hombres solos (1974)
Character: Colonel Venancio Salvatierra
Rene Cardona directs the film version of Jose Leon Sanchez's best-selling novel, which relates the author's 20 years of imprisonment on an island ruled by brutality. When a sadistic man declares himself the boss of an island pueblo, an innocent husband and wife become the victims of his selfish rule. Once the evil man's deeds reach the authorities on the mainland, however, he sinks further into madness and declares "his" island its own republic.
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Los Asesinos del Karate (1965)
Character: Neutron / Carlos Marquez
Superhero wrestler Neutron battles a gang of robotic assassins who use their hands and feet as deadly weapons.
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El señor fotógrafo (1953)
Character: Lepka
Cantinflas, a traveling photographer, is captured by some gangsters while trying to get some flowers for his girlfriend. The gangsters have confused him with the assistant of Dr. Penongo, a scientist who has discovered the formula of a new atomic bomb. Meanwhile, Penongo has suffered a car accident and has lost his memory ...
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Santo el enmascarado de plata vs. la invasión de los marcianos (1967)
Character: Argos
In this Mexican sci-fi fantasy, big beefy Martians invade the earth. Ostensibly, they have come to warn people about the dangers of nuclear testing and exploring space, but their real mission becomes manifest when they begin using their special powers and gadgets to exploit weak earthlings.
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El imperio de la fortuna (1986)
Character: Doctor
Poor Dionisio finds himself as recipient of the good fortune, but soon he forgets that everything that goes up also has to go down, and that in the depressing nothingness of his town it is easy to die.
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El sultán descalzo (1956)
Character: Hilario Trujeque
Jack-of-all-trades interferes in his neighbors' lives, then has to set everything straight.
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La Noche Avanza (1952)
Character: Bodoques
The arrogant Arizmendi, pelota champion, lives intoxicated by his success and disdain for women who love him. Arizmendi commits blackmail to lose a game. Convinced to get away with it, Arizmendi does not meet the covenant and must face the villainous revenge Marcial Gomez.
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Me traes de un ala (1953)
Character: Mayordomo
To conquer the beautiful vedette Rosita, journalist Tin Tan is subject to her whims. Fired along with his friend Narciso from the newspaper they worked, Tin Tan trying to sell a movie plot. A woman looking to buy it and Tin Tan will visit her in a gloomy mansion where a mess is unleashed.
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Pepe El Toro (1953)
Character: Bobby Galeana
The simple life and the values of loyalty and solidarity of the poor people in the environment of professional boxing, is the plot of this film, where Pepe el Toro shows the effort and tragedies that are experienced in this profession.
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