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La santa del barrio (1948)
Character: N/A
Wicked old lady arranges to sell the virginity of a young neighbor. Her boyfriend gets upset over this.
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Flor de caña (1948)
Character: N/A
Rural-community gal is being courted by a peon and by a land-owner.
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¡Ay qué rechula es Puebla! (1946)
Character: Rosita
Two charros from Hacienda A come a-courtin' to hacienda B, owned by a friend of their father's. Also a horse-race.
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Vuelva el sábado (1951)
Character: N/A
Young woman loses her secretarial job, so she tries to become a bill-collector.
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Cuarto de hotel (1953)
Character: N/A
Newlywed couple move from small town to Mexico City. Their first night in the city, they get separated by accident, and it takes them 90 minutes and lots of incidents before they find each other again.
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María Eugenia (1943)
Character: Mulata
Before marrying María Eugenia, landowner Carlos are away to visit her godmother to break the promise to marry his daughter. The godmother is dying, Carlos quiets and everything takes an unexpected course.
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Bodas trágicas (1946)
Character: Pepita
Jalisco, 19th century. Diego, a wealthy landowner, secretly marries Amparo, defying her father Juan Manuel, who fiercely opposes the union. Juan Manuel still holds a grudge against Diego, having once been his employer when Diego was just a laborer. Their secret marriage stirs jealousy and resentment, particularly in Octavio, Diego’s servant, and his wife Laura, who harbors unspoken feelings for him. As Diego departs for a military mission in Guadalajara, Juan Manuel, unaware of the marriage, attempts to arrange a match between Amparo and the Spaniard José Luis.
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Eterna agonía (1949)
Character: Mercedes
Convicted on flimsy evidence of complicity in a jewel robbery, there's nothing he can do afterward to put his life in order. Downward spiral.
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Médico de guardia (1950)
Character: La Cabaretera (Inés Rodríguez)
The director of a hospital deceives a poor couple in order to steal their newborn child and sell the baby to a wealthy couple.
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El mexicano feo (1984)
Character: N/A
Semi-employed street musician butts heads with his wife and grown(ish) children because of his irresponsible lifestyle. Then he lucks into a cushy government job.
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La razón de la culpa (1943)
Character: N/A
Roberto on a journey to Mexico knows to Maria de La Paz, a woman older than he, who falls in love, she also has feelings for him, but doesn't give him hopes cause she is married. Fate reunites them without imagine it, they will have to face a moral dilemma.
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María Cristina (1951)
Character: N/A
Decent, hard-working young woman gradually finds her way toward love and happiness. With occasional spasms of Afro-Cuban dancing.
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Qué hombre tan simpático (1943)
Character: Conchita
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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Cinco minutos de amor (1941)
Character: Sirvienta de Lulú (uncredited)
Bedroom farce, with three men claiming the same woman as their mistress.
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As negro (1954)
Character: N/A
Two poor children swear an oath: one will study, the other will work and support them both. The worker turns to crime...
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Todo un caballero (1947)
Character: Ana
An unmarried lawyer defends his ward's boyfriend, accused of murder. One of only a handful of films produced by RKO’s short lived Latin American production arm Ramex.
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Santa (1943)
Character: Flora
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 Hipolito.
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Suerte Te De Dios (1961)
Character: N/A
Two construction workers discover a stash of gold coins hidden in the walls of a building they're demolishing.
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Cinco en la cárcel (1968)
Character: N/A
Five criminals are arrested after a bank-robbery. One escapes, and the police officer in charge of transporting them arrests a new person at random to cover up for his negligence.
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Su última aventura (1946)
Character: Flora
All of Mexico asks the same question, who has won the lottery jackpot of five million pesos? If the lucky person who won them does not show up soon to collect the prize, it will have to be raffled again.
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La infame (1954)
Character: N/A
For love, the rules of society and justice are broken, leading to abduction, exposing life and freedom, facing everything to make a sick child a normal child.
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Ladrones de niños (1958)
Character: Consuelito, comadre
Kidnapping band has a system set up to transport infants and older children to black-market adoptive parents in the USA.
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Canto a mi tierra (1938)
Character: Pueblerina (uncredited)
Theatrical producers discover a new musical-theatre star in a small farming town.
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El día de la boda (1968)
Character: Enfermera en oficina
The love affairs of two couples, modern parents a couple of troubled teens.
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¡Qué lindo es Michoacán! (1943)
Character: Julia
When her father dies, a young woman must go to Michoacán to take charge of her lands, where she meets a young man and they both fall in love.
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La venganza de Huracán Ramírez (1969)
Character: N/A
Landru, a French businessman, arrives Mexico with the idea of promoting their fighters, what nobody knows is that besides Landru promoter and fighter is a mad scientist who seeks to alter human genetics mixing it with the animal to make stronger and fiercer to their gladiators.
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Así es mi tierra (1937)
Character: Carolina (uncredited)
With revolutionary Mexico as a backdrop, a successful local rancher returns triumphant from the war to the praise of townsfolk, and "El General" is ready to take a wife. However the senorita of choice already has fallen for a secret admirer, and a boyhood rival who is threatened by the General's popularity in turn plots against his life.
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Gran Hotel (1944)
Character: Vecina (uncredited)
Cantinflas is a vagrant being evicted for not paying rent, after wandering gets a job at the 'Grand Hotel' through a friend, that's confused by Count Zapatini, who is undercover in the hotel, stealing a gem making this funny movie more complicated.
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¡A volar, joven! (1947)
Character: Margarita
Cantinflas is a private in the military, who doesn't know anything about discipline or following rules. He only wants to think about his girlfriend, the maid in an opulent hacienda. The owner of the hacienda has an ugly and shy daughter, who is in love with Cantinflas. The problems arrive when the family arranges a wedding between the ugly girl and Cantinflas, who in order to avoid the commitment gets himself arrested. During his punishment, Cantinflas learns to fly with a silly and poorly trained flight instructor.
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Viva Mi Desgracia (1944)
Character: Gracia
After drinking a special concoction made of various types of alcohol, the once-timid Ramon (Pedro Infante) suddenly turns into a brawler and extroverted ladies' man. With his newfound confidence, Ramon attempts to win the heart of the woman (María Antonieta Pons) he loves. Full of enjoyable songs and funny scenes, this entertaining Mexican musical centers on a wealthy man who finally realizes that money can't buy him love.
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Pancho López (1957)
Character: N/A
A couple of people cover up their own mishandling of other people's money by claiming to have been robbed by a masked bandit. When the law comes looking into the situation, it becomes necessary to find someone to impersonate that bandit. Remake of El Tigre De Jalisco (1947).
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Aventura en Río (1953)
Character: Luisa
Tourist gets bonked on the head, suffers an amnesiac fugue, wanders away from her husband and children, becomes an evil prostitute-y thief-y saloon gal.
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¡Arriba las mujeres! (1943)
Character: Tacha
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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Cinco rostros de mujer (1947)
Character: Rosita
"The great love of his life" happened five times; one of those women just wrote him a letter. Which one will it be?
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Tiempo de morir (1966)
Character: Sonia's Mother
A man comes home after serving 18 years in jail for murder in this routine western. Although the man killed in self defense, rumors in town circulated that he murdered the victim in cold blood. The ex-con wants to get his life together, but the two sons of the slain man are gunning for the man who killed their father.
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Espaldas mojadas (1955)
Character: Margarita Frías
Mexican worker Rafael Améndola runs from the police and cross the Mexican-American border, helped by Frank Mendoza, a partner of an American called Mr. Sterling, who gives work to illegal migrants. Once in the United States, Rafael does not adapt to his new life. English translation of title is “Wet Backs”.
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Canaima (1945)
Character: Juanifacia
College-educated emigre has to get macho when he returns home to the Venezuelan outback.
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El gendarme desconocido (1941)
Character: Cabaretera
A gang of thieves has jeopardized the city and even the police, whose chief urges their forces to captured the band within 48 hours. Meanwhile, band members meet in a cafe run by a widow and her daughter and her suitor, Cantinflas, who maintains a scuffle with the robbers running all at the station. Since then, Cantinflas become a member of the police force for special missions.
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¡Maldita Ciudad! Una comedia dramática (1954)
Character: Josefina
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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Tívoli (1975)
Character: Mrs. Quijanito
While trying to save the famous Tivoli burlesque theater, the participants uncover a web of commercial corruption.
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Amok (1944)
Character: Rosa, sirvienta
A doctor embezzles the proceeds of his Parisian clinic in order to better support the manipulative woman with whom he is having an affair. After losing all the money while gambling, he is forced to flee to an undeveloped region of India. There, he tries to mitigate the onslaught of a disease the natives term "Amok," while his past mistakes still plague him.
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Calzonzín inspector (1974)
Character: Doña Pomposa
A rumor reaches a small town, San Garabato, that a government infiltrator will arrive to check the conditions of the community. Quickly, the municipal president, Don Perpetuo del Rosal, orders the imprisonment of those who might give a bad image. An indigenous man named Calzonzin arrives in town, pursued by two men. He is quickly taken as the infiltrated inspector, and protected by all the local authorities.
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Escándalo de estrellas (1944)
Character: Lola Gutiérrez
The story of the adventures and entanglements of the son of a famous film producer who is forced to study law.
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El metiche (1972)
Character: N/A
Clownish simpleton can't resist meddling in his neighbors' business. Pretty much a remake of El Reveltoso.
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Misterios de ultratumba (1959)
Character: La Gitana
Two doctors make a pact in which they swear that the first to die will return - if possible - to tell the other how to get a glimpse of the afterlife while still alive.
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