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Las tres pelonas (1958)
Character: N/A
Pseudo-historical drama about a semi-civilian who decides to run guns across the border for Villa's troops.
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Café Colón (1959)
Character: N/A
Expensively-kept woman unexpectedly falls for a Zapatista general. She sells her jewels to help finance the revolution and ends up fighting on the front lines. Yeah, right.
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De tal palo tal astilla (1960)
Character: N/A
Two couples get their babies confused in the maternity ward. twenty years later, the children are both identical to the father... in the other family.
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El último mexicano (1960)
Character: N/A
After the US annexation of Texas, a landowner from Guanajuato faces problems from bigoted new neighbors.
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Cómicos y canciones (1960)
Character: Presidiario
Reporter/photographer team have risen to their level of incompetence at their newspaper.
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María Pistolas (1963)
Character: N/A
Tomboyish gal becomes a player in the Mexican Revolution. Then: boyfriends.
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Mi ley es un revólver (1965)
Character: N/A
Masked justice on horseback, again: guy plays it meek & mild in his civilian identity so no-one will suspect him of being Mr. Cowboy Hero.
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Alma grande (1966)
Character: N/A
Yaqui Indian fights for justice in Northern Mexico. Adaptation of popular comic-book, first in series.
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Pueblo en armas (1959)
Character: N/A
Appointed by the dictator Huerta, a local official tries to use his authority to pressure a young woman into marrying him. Meanwhile, counter-revolution is brewing.
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La maldición del oro (1965)
Character: N/A
Local rowdies roll a drunk and get away with his life savings. Felipe Reyes El Justiciero rides into town on his faithful sidekick Macario and sets things aright.
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Hay ángeles sin alas (1972)
Character: N/A
Loose-living gal hires two guys to pose as her husband and son for a week, while her sister the nun is visiting.
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Ángel del infierno (1959)
Character: N/A
Young woman moves to a remote border town to take charge of properties she inherited from her father.
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La contrabandista (1982)
Character: N/A
After her family all are killed in a home invasion, young woman moves to the city, gets involved with a high-level drug-smuggling tycoon. And also a taxi driver.
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Los Perversos (1967)
Character: N/A
Priest is sympathetic and understanding toward mod-era young folks and their new world-view... but he gets in trouble with a biker gang and with a young woman who crushes unhealthily on him.
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Fuera de la ley (1966)
Character: N/A
Three outlaws get arrested, and the fourth tries several times to break them out of jail. Also, there are can-can girls.
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Los dos carnales (1983)
Character: N/A
Pre-teen, and his orphaned best-bud, live by their wits while his mom is serving a prison sentence.
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Marcelo y María (1966)
Character: N/A
Late 16th century: two Azteca teens are very much in love, but older folks have designs on each of them. This can't end well...
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Martín Santos, El llanero (1961)
Character: N/A
A farmer aspires to marry the daughter of the local aristocrats, but she think he's beneath her. It take a long time for things to settle into a groove so life can run smoothly again for all concerned.
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Los falsos héroes (1962)
Character: N/A
Three spoiled rich kids live profligately and set a bad example for an ambitious middle-class friend.
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Nos lleva la tristeza (1965)
Character: N/A
Love in bloom between two ranching families: boy A and girl B, boy B and girl A, the surviving grandparent of each family, their elderly man-baby house stewards, and the prize racehorse from each family all end up pairing off together. Transitory problems, inevitable happy solutions.
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Paloma brava (1961)
Character: N/A
Paloma is bound and determined to kill the heck out of the guy that dishonored her sister, but mistaken identities and stuff.
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Pedro El De Guadalajara (1983)
Character: N/A
Innocent trucker is blackmailed into transporting drugs from Tijuana to Guadalajara. He gets killed at a police checkpoint and his partners goes after the gangsters that exploited him. Part of the "Camelia La Texana"series.
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Viva la parranda (1960)
Character: N/A
Three con-artists chase after the absconded girlfriend of one and butt heads with two female swindlers working the same marks.
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The Mighty Jungle (1964)
Character: N/A
A South American expedition is in search of fortune thought to be hidden in an Lost Aztec city. While trudging through the jungles the main character in the story becomes detached from the group. He develops a fever and in a desperate attempt to cool his fever, he gorges himself on some jungle fruit.
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El pueblo sin Dios (1955)
Character: Jugador
Unscrupulous rich guy owns all the businesses in border towns, is challenged by town's new priest.
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Casa de vecindad (1951)
Character: Ropavejero (uncredited)
Personal dramas among the residents of an apartment house.
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La posesión (1950)
Character: Sixto Rosales
Two old friends get hinky with each other over the deed to a tract of land, and their children's engagement gets broken over it.
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La fuerza del deseo (1955)
Character: Velador
Wicked girl uses nude modeling as a way to seduce a wealthy painter into marriage, while still trying to keep an artschool stud piece on the side.
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Reto a la vida (1954)
Character: Comprador (sin créditos)
Self-righteous young Social Services woman puts all her faith in the institutional answers to questions of the Public Good, and she destroys a couple of lives in the process.
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Sed de amor (1959)
Character: Amigo de Tomás (uncredited)
Pedro Ortiz, a brave charro, arrives to a fishing village that is passing hard times. There's no fish in the waters. His manners and his love for Maria, a local attractive widow, will get him into trouble
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El monasterio de los buitres (1973)
Character: Camilo
In a remote Mexican monastery, a Father Prior subjects young seminarians to psychoanalysis to test their vocation. As sessions peel back secrets and doubts, faith, desire, and authority collide.
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La mujer del carnicero (1969)
Character: Villista
During the Mexican Revolution, a butcher is forced to hide stolen train gold, but his wife pushes him into murder to keep it. Sparking guilt, paranoia, and a trap that tightens around them.
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Héroe a la fuerza (1964)
Character: N/A
Child suffers a brain injury and falls into a coma. When he regains consciousness, twenty years later, he has to deal with having become a grown-up 'overnight'.
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Dos de abajo (1983)
Character: Melquiades
Two bozo construction workers discover a cache of 19th century gold coins while demolishing a building.
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Fray Don Juan (1970)
Character: N/A
A Dominican friar finds himself wrapped in tangled skirts because he is mistaken for his twin brother, a womanizer.
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El Tigre De Santa Julia (1974)
Character: N/A
Band of ex-soldiers embark on a life of crime; their leader, meanwhile, wants to track down the man who murdered his parents.
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Sangre en Rio Bravo (1966)
Character: Bulmaro
Foreign mining concern resorts to illegal tactics to buy up land; two brothers are orphaned and dispossessed and they become outlaws in revenge.
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Un hombre peligroso (1965)
Character: N/A
Sequel to El Zurdo: ten years later, El Zurdo returns to his home town. The little boy whose father he killed in part one has grown up, and still wants revenge... but doesn't recognize him. Meanwhile, his ex-girlfriend, now a widow, needs help protecting her property and her person from the predatory owner of a neighboring ranch.
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Retorno a Aztlán (1990)
Character: N/A
When King Motecuzoma dies in 1468, a drought sets upon the Mexicas' land. The younger Motecuzoma sends a retinue to collect tributes from the peasants and make an offering to Coatlicue at Aztlán, the home of their ancestors. The peasant Ollin finds a discarded tribute and makes his own journey to Aztlán to appease his rulers.
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Las rosas del milagro (1960)
Character: N/A
Before the Spanish Conquest, an Aztec princess does the Romeo and Juliet thing with the Prince of a neighboring tribe. Sixty years later, a colonized subject has visions of the Virgin Mary.
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Aquel famoso Remington (1982)
Character: N/A
Historical drama about the career of a hit-man who specialized in political assassinations in Mexico in the 1920s-30s.
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Camelia (1954)
Character: (uncredited)
A sort of meta riff on Alexandre Dumas fils' novel The Lady of the Camellias (La Dame aux Camélias or Camille) here in Mexican melodrama form involving the doomed love of a bullfighter and a beautiful but ailing actress/courtesan.
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El medio pelo (1972)
Character: N/A
A woman who fancies herself an aristocrat rejects a potential suitor because he's not of her class. Also: their adult children have their own drama, a bit inflected with hippie-ish values.
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El medio pelo (1972)
Character: Luis González
A woman who fancies herself an aristocrat rejects a potential suitor because he's not of her class. Also: their adult children have their own drama, a bit inflected with hippie-ish values.
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Contrabando Humano (1982)
Character: N/A
Two brothers that run a trucking business get involved with ferrying undocumented immigrants into the US after rescuing a group of people from an unscrupulous gang that cheated them out of their traveling money.
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El negocio del odio (1972)
Character: N/A
An ambitious businessman searches for the perfect candidate to train and turn into a great boxing champion.
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Paraíso (1970)
Character: El Toronjo
Problems arise between the divers Román and Lauro when the former falls in love with a prostitute on the beaches of Acapulco.
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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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Tierra de hombres (1958)
Character: Fidel
On his family's farm, Gilberto keeps weapons to support the revolutionaries. When his father find out, he runs out from the hacienda to join them.
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Violación (1989)
Character: M.P. (as Jose Chavez Trowe)
In Mexico City, a woman is raped every 9 minutes. This film details some of the legal and social problems in the country and how it's often difficult for women to find justice. Awarded Best Film by Mexican Cinema Journalists and nominated for three Ariel Awards.
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¿Por qué ya no me quieres? (1954)
Character: Fan de Lilia
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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Las viudas del cha-cha-cha (1955)
Character: N/A
Two married couples' lives are disrupted when the husbands disappear while on vacation. When the men are reported dead, the two women start a dance band... And then...
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Sonatas (1959)
Character: Primer sargento
In the fall of 1824 Javier Montenegro, Bradomin Marquis is spared death hanging by Captain Casares, and in return, the Marquis agrees to help him escape to America. Adaptation of "Sonata de Otoño" and "Sonata de Estío" of Ramón María del Valle-Inclan, which included elements Bardem later works of the author.
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Chanoc (1967)
Character: N/A
Chanoc, along with his godfather, Tsekub Baloyán, investigate a series of mysterious deaths linked to a gang that extracts uranium.
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De sangre chicana (1974)
Character: N/A
Young Mexican-American studies for his MD and triumphs as a professional wrestler while his brother and sister stagnate in the barrio.
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Las Fuerzas Vivas (1975)
Character: N/A
It narrates the phenomenon of the Mexican Revolution, satirically reflected through what happens in a town far from the places where the true Revolution was fiercely fought.
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Al Diablo Las Mujeres (1955)
Character: Gestas
Small-town elects a female mayor. She suppresses all the time-honored masculine pastimes, and the men rebel.
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Los Reyes del Palenque (1979)
Character: N/A
Widow becomes professional singer to meet expenses. Love complications come along with the territory.
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La casa del Sur (1976)
Character: El Gordo
Indian village experiences forced relocation; their experience is paralleled by that of other groups dating back to the 18th century.
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Sol en llamas (1962)
Character: N/A
A powerful rancher loses his power and wealth during the Revolution, and his daughter falls in love with a revolutionary.
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La maldición del monasterio (1989)
Character: Fisherman
When the townspeople of a small Mexican village start disappearing, the locals point the suspicion at two young visitors. The only solution is for the two to unearth the legend of a madman in this supernatural thriller.
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La extraña pasajera (1953)
Character: Subteniente (sin créditos)
During a long train trip, the Police has discovered jewelries in the personal bag of an actress, but she turns out to be innocent.
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La mujer y la bestia (1959)
Character: Ferrocarrilero asesinado (uncredited)
Dedicated, saintly nurse has a twin sister who is a Bad Girl.
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El llanto de la tortuga (1975)
Character: Fisherman
Two young, millionaire couples are commemorating the birthday of one of them. Jealousy, desire and ambition will end in tragedy and a dead man.
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Asesinos de la noche (1957)
Character: Gómez, esbirro de Rafael
After serving a prison sentence, a guy goes after the gang-leader who framed him.
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El monstruo de los volcanes (1963)
Character: N/A
A yeti-like monster is stalking the mountains of rural Mexico, sometimes displaying the powers of hypnosis. It ultimately plays a part in destroying two shady characters.
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Me importa poco (1960)
Character: N/A
Anthropologist goes to small town to do field work supporting her theories about the primitive/subhuman origins of machismo.
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El rey del tomate (1963)
Character: Bandido
El rey del tomate ("The Tomato King") is a 1964 Mexican comedy-drama film, directed by Miguel M. Delgado and starring Eulalio González, Luz Márquez, and Emma Roldán.
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Paraíso escondido (1961)
Character: N/A
Luis lives in the jungle with his parents and his many pets. His favorite pet is his monkey named Pancho. He finds a hide out where he and his friend Marta are able to discover new creatures and enjoy nature. His father Lorenzo orders him to get rid of his pets starting with his pet monkey.
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El fugitivo (1966)
Character: Ramiro
Drifter returns to his home town for revenge, but he get caught up in the town's interpersonal dramas.
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Cuando ¡Viva Villa..! es la muerte (1958)
Character: Compadre Medina
The third and final chapter of director Ismael Rodríguez's series about Pancho Villa. Several stories about the life and death of the famous mexican revolutionary general.
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Robinson Crusoe (1954)
Character: Pirate
The titular adventurer, after defying his parents to go to sea, survives a shipwreck and becomes a castaway on a deserted island for nearly thirty years, learning to build a new life from scratch, discovering companionship with a native man he names Friday, and eventually returning to civilisation a changed man, finding wealth and new challenges.
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Ama a tu prójimo (1958)
Character: Detective de policía (uncredited)
This film tells several short stories that end up lapsing in the emergency room of a hospital, because it is dedicated to nurses. Cantinflas appears at the end of the film playing the role of Luis, a man who has five daughters and looks forward to a boy, but fate plays a trick and the child dies at birth, but history gives a nice twist and a message of hope.
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The Black Scorpion (1957)
Character: Train conductor (uncredited)
Volcanic activity frees giant scorpions from the earth who wreak havoc in the rural countryside and eventually threaten Mexico City.
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Ánimas Trujano (1961)
Character: Brujo
Animas Trujano is a colorful but irresponsible Indian in a small Mexican village. He hopes above all things someday to be chosen mayordomio of his village, a place of great honor usually conferred upon the wealthiest and most respected citizens. Animas has a loyal wife, but cheats on her and gambles away every cent they raise. Chances arise for Animas to turn over a new leaf and even hope realistically for the honor of mayordomio.
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Balún Canán (1977)
Character: Indio Felipe
Based on Rosario Castellanos' novel, Balún Canán is about the turmoil created by the Cardenas’ land reforms. Events occur in Chiapas on the border with Guatemala, mainly in a town called Comitán. Zoraida struggles and fights to keep her properties, inheritance for her only son. For her actions, the sorcerers of Chacjatal cast a death spell over her son.
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Salvador (1986)
Character: Jail Guard
In 1980, an American journalist covering the Salvadoran Civil War becomes entangled with both the leftist guerrilla groups and the right-wing military dictatorship while trying to rescue his girlfriend and her children.
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The Culpepper Cattle Co. (1972)
Character: Cantina Bartender (as Jose Chavez)
Working as an assistant on a long cattle drive, the young Ben Mockridge contends between his dream of being a cowboy and the harsh truth of the Old West.
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Villa!! (1958)
Character: Col. Martinez
Biographical south-of-the-border cowboy western adventure thriller of Mexican revolutionary leader Pancho Villa
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El gallo de oro (1964)
Character: N/A
A poor, but very lucky man in the cock fighting business, is hired by a rich man, but both are in love with the same woman.
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El analfabeto (1961)
Character: Asaltante (uncredited)
Inocencio Prieto y Calvo receives a letter telling him he is the heir to his uncle's fortune of two million pesos. Not being able to read he has no idea of who sent the letter or its content. So he goes to the drugstore because the pharmacist can read the letter to him. But while waiting to be helped he sees that a young girl can read. He figures he has to be able to discover the letter's content by himself and decides he will save the letter and go to school, and wait to read the letter on his own.
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Operacion Marihuana (1985)
Character: N/A
Thousands of peasants are kidnapped by the mafia and are forced to work in marijuana fields. Facing violence, death, & desperately fighting for their lives.
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Once Upon a Scoundrel (1974)
Character: N/A
After falling for Alicia, greedy and powerful Mexican landowner Carlos has her fiancé thrown in prison on a bogus charge. To trick Carlos into releasing her man, Alicia teams up with her Aunt Delfina and tries to convince Carlos that he's a ghost.
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The Bees (1978)
Character: Father
Corporate smuggling of South American killer bees into the United States results in huge swarms terrorizing the northern hemisphere. A small team of scientists work desperately to destroy the threat, but the bees soon mutate into a super-intelligent species that threatens the world.
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El hombre que logró ser invisible (1958)
Character: Prison Male Nurse
A man is sentenced to prison for a murder he did not commit. Thanks to a serum invented by his brother, he manages to become invisible and escape from prison in order to prove his innocence, while his brother works feverishly to find an antidote. Theatrically released in USA in Spanish language only; later English-dubbed version syndicated directly to television.
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Los Fernández de Peralvillo (1954)
Character: Portero (uncredited)
A young man fails as a seller of household goods and his sister, tired of poverty, elopes with a criminal.
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La oveja negra (1949)
Character: Cliente en bar (uncredited)
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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El Cuatrero (1987)
Character: N/A
Gambler-horsethief-womanizer ends up hiding out in a church-run orphanage. Spiritual regeneration stuff happens.
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La pachanga (1981)
Character: N/A
In a building, at the same time a girl's birthday is celebrated and an old man who died of cold is being watched.
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Las pirañas aman en cuaresma (1969)
Character: N/A
Backwards fishing village is home to a widow and her teenaged daughter. Neighbors suspect the mother of having murdered her husband. A tourist in town gets it into his head to put the smooth big city moves on both women. And the-e-en...
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River of Gold (1971)
Character: Rodrigo
A pair of beach bums wind up in Acapulco, where they get involved in a search for a beautiful woman and a sunken treasure.
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The Last Sunset (1961)
Character: Man at Cock Fight (uncredited)
At a Mexican ranch, fugitive O'Malley and pursuing Sheriff Stribling agree to help rancher Breckenridge drive his herd into Texas where Stribling could legally arrest O'Malley, but Breckenridge's wife complicates things.
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La ilusión viaja en tranvía (1954)
Character: Policía (uncredited)
Confronted with the unfortunate news that their favorite Streetcar, no. 133, is going to be decommissioned, two Municipal Transit workers get drunk and decide to "take 'er for one last spin," as it were. Unfortunately, the "one last spin" ends up being an all-night and all-day scramble to stay out of trouble, as they are confronted with situation after sometimes bizarre situation that prevents them from returning the "borrowed" Streetcar!
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La puerta y la mujer del carnicero (1969)
Character: Villista (segment "La mujer del carnicero")
A movie divided in two segments, the first "La puerta" (The Door) is about a high society gathering in which a door inside the mansion leads to a bizarre corridor where a naked and menacing human figure appears. The second "La mujer del carnicero" (The Butcher's Wife) is set during the Mexican revolution and is about horrifying hallucinations felt by a lieutenant after committing a murder.
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Días de otoño (1963)
Character: Taxista (uncredited)
Luisa is a small-town girl who works in the bakery of the widower Don Albino. Luisa dreams of marrying and loves children. Just as Don Albino shows interest in her, Luisa announces that she will marry soon with Carlos, the driver of a rich house whom she met recently...
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Gringo mojado (1984)
Character: El Indio
A man goes to Mexico to attend his father's funeral, 30 years after his father supposedly died.
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Joselito vagabundo (1966)
Character: N/A
Rene, a street urchin, is coerced by the head of a gang of thieves, Frank, who wants to force him to remain in their organization. One day, Rene meets Anita, a young aristocrat to whom Frank attempted to rob. And because she feels sympathy for him, the boy will have the opportunity to change his life and leave the country to make a deal with a rich heir, Fernando de Ponce, which proposes Rene to supplant him before his old aunt, who does not know him.
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El Quelite (1970)
Character: Celerino Tamalantes
Agapito, leader of the revolutionary movement of his state, comes to a town, kills all the federales, and gets a girl who was promised to him for his heroic deeds.
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El escapulario (1968)
Character: Bandido
A woman who is about to die calls the town's priest and hands him a scapulary, saying that she knows of its great powers. Anybody who does not believe in them will end up dead.
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Run for the Sun (1956)
Character: Pedro
Mike, a Hemingway-esque adventure novelist, is spending his days in a self-imposed exile somewhere in Central America. A reporter for Sight Magazine, Katie, has tracked him down in the hope of getting the biggest scoop of her career. Mike falls for Katie. On a flight to Mexico City, their plane crashes near a remote hideaway of Nazi war criminals in hiding. The Nazis want to stay hidden and plan to dispose of their new guests
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La fièvre monte à El Pao (1959)
Character: N/A
After Caribbean despot Mariano Vargas is murdered at the hands of his enraged populace, his secretary Ramón Vázquez takes not just control but also Vargas' widow Inés, with whom he's been having an affair. Special military unit leader Alejandro Gual arrives to overthrow Vázquez by turning the people and Inés against him.
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Me llaman el cantaclaro (1964)
Character: Don Chucho
The story of the ruthless female boss of a hacienda who meets her match in the city-educated Santos Luzardo.
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El señor doctor (1965)
Character: Isidro Martínez
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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Nazarín (1959)
Character: Capataz (uncredited)
A Catholic priest in a poor community lives a charitable life in accordance with his religious principles, but others do not return the favor.
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Romancing the Stone (1984)
Character: Santos
Though she can spin wild tales of passionate romance, novelist Joan Wilder has no life of her own. Then one day adventure comes her way in the form of a mysterious package. It turns out that the parcel is the ransom she'll need to free her abducted sister, so Joan flies to South America to hand it over. But she gets on the wrong bus and winds up hopelessly stranded in the jungle.
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Camino del infierno (1951)
Character: Joselito (esbirro) (sin créditos)
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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Doña Perfecta (1951)
Character: Soldado (uncredited)
Liberal farmer Pepe has arrived in Santa Fe to visit his aunt, Dona Perfecta. While he's there, Pepe is eager to teach the traditional-minded townspeople a new way of living. Unfortunately for Pepe the people of Santa Fe aren't eager to embrace change, and when the citizens begin to voice resentment Pepe is forced to seek refuge with his sympathetic aunt. Dona Perfecta is just as traditional as any of the other townspeople though, and only suffers Pepe due to the fact that he is family. When Pepe and his cousin Rosario fall deeply in love, the situation quickly comes to a head.
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The Last of the Fast Guns (1958)
Character: Jose Garcia
A rich, dying Easterner hires gunfighter Brad Ellison to find his brother and heir in Mexico. En route, it becomes clear to Ellison that his is a dying profession. At a remote rancho, Ellison enlists ranch foreman Miles Lang to help him search the hills where the missing man is rumored to have lived. They find nothing ...except that someone wants to kill them; and Ellison becomes wrapped in a maze of double crosses.
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The Professionals (1966)
Character: Revolutionary
An arrogant Texas millionaire hires four adventurers to rescue his kidnapped wife from a notorious Mexican bandit.
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La tercera palabra (1956)
Character: Pueblerino (uncredited)
The English-language title of this Mexican musical was The Third Word. Singer Pedro Infante stars as a pampered young man who is sheltered by his doting aunts. Deciding that their darling boy needs an education, the ladies hire pretty schoolteacher Marga Lopez. Upon discovering that her pupil is 28 years old, Marga is momentarily nonplused, but then settles into her duties. Inevitably, romance blossoms between Pedro and Marga, much to the aunts' dismay.
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A.T.M. ¡A toda máquina! (1951)
Character: Esbirro de Pepe (uncredited)
A drifter lands a job as an officer in México City's elite motorcycle police unit and gets home with a mate of this unit. The mate is in love with a girl, but he and she are always making jealous to each other. The drifter and the mate get involved themselves in a fight to become the winner of conquering ladies and performing unit acrobatic tricks, interfering with their friendship and profession.
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El revoltoso (1951)
Character: Prisoner (uncredited)
Well-intentioned Tin Tan who is always making trouble for other people, sometimes on purpose and sometimes by accident.
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El hombre y el monstruo (1959)
Character: Chief of Detectives
A failed pianist sells his soul to the devil in return for his becoming the greatest musician in the world. The catch: every time he plays he turns into a horrible monster.
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La Joven Mancornadora (1961)
Character: N/A
Young woman disguised as a man sets out to kill two brothers that she believes cheated her father out of his property. She discovers they were innocent of that, and takes a job on their farm, provoking some gender-fluid wooing confusion from both of them.
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El último cartucho (1965)
Character: N/A
Dishonest business practices and corrupt local government lead a large number of townsfolk to set up an alternative village out in the countryside, from which to practice banditry and improvised social justice.
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Demonoid (1981)
Character: Pepe
A British woman visits her husband at the Mexican mine he is attempting to reopen and discovers that the workers refuse to enter the mine, fearing an ancient curse. The couple enter the mine to prove there is no danger and inadvertently release a demon which possesses people's left hands and forces them to behave in a suitably diabolical manner.
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The Wild Bunch (1969)
Character: Juan Jose
An aging group of outlaws look for one last big score as the "traditional" American West is disappearing around them.
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El bombero atómico (1952)
Character: Policía (uncredited)
Cantinflas is a clumsy fireman, who one day receives the visit of his little goddaughter, whose mother recently died in the jungle. After having work in a few fires, Cantinflas decided to quit and become a policeman, because is less dangerous. Everything goes well until a gang of gangsters kidnap the girl, because of a monetary inheritance.
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El Siete Machos (1951)
Character: (uncredited)
Rosario, the niece of the rancher, returns to the ranch after ten years of absence. She takes in Margarito, a worker at the ranch, who is immediately smitten by her. Rosario is rescued from a runaway horse by the Seven Men, an outlaw a la Robin Hood that steals from the rich and gives to the poor. He also happens to be the twin brother of Margarito, unbeknownst to him. The confusion between Margarito and the Seven Men generates great comical situations in the film.
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Verano violento (1960)
Character: Lupe Gómez
During the Mexican Revolution, Beatriz's body is discovered by some kids. The police began to investigate the history of Beatriz.
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Rapiña (1975)
Character: (uncredited)
Two humble indigenous woodcutters discover the wreckage of a plane that has crashed at the top of the mountains and decide to steal the belongings of all the occupants killed in the accident.
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Two Mules for Sister Sara (1970)
Character: Horacio
When a wandering mercenary named Hogan rescues a nun called Sister Sara from the unwanted attentions of a band of rogues on the Mexican plains, he has no idea what he has let himself in for. Their chance encounter results in the blowing up of a train and a French garrison, as well as igniting a spark between them that survives a shocking discovery.
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Murder in Three Acts (1986)
Character: Watchman
In Acapulco, Hercule Poirot attends a dinner party in which one of the guests clutches his throat and suddenly dies. The causes seem to be natural until another party with most of the same guests produces another corpse.
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The Children of Sanchez (1978)
Character: N/A
Hall Bartlett directs the rural drama The Children of Sanchez, based on the tome The Children of Sanchez: Autobiography of a Mexican Family written by Oscar Lewis in the '60s. Anthony Quinn stars as the widowed Jesus Sanchez, a poor farmer struggling to provide for his family in Mexico City. Also starring Lupita Ferrer as Consuelo and Stathis Giallelis as Roberto. This is the last film in the 50-year career of international star Dolores del Rio, who plays the Grandma. Jazz-pop performer Chuck Mangione was nominated for a Golden Globe and won a Grammy award for his original musical score.
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Los diablos del terror (1959)
Character: Viejo Rodríguez (uncredited)
A federal policeman arrives in a town ravaged by a cult of hooded men who leave a satanic face on their victims.
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El gran calavera (1949)
Character: Prisionero (uncredited)
Portrayal of a family’s attempt to change the spending habit of the indulgent and hedonistic patriarch, Alfredo. The family decides to try to fool him into spending less by telling him that his large fortune is gone.
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El sabor de la venganza (1971)
Character: N/A
A vengeful widow hires a professional killer to train her son so that he can hunt down and kill the men who murdered her husband. The quest for revenge soon becomes an obsession.
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Caboblanco (1980)
Character: Bustamante
Giff Hoyt, a cafe owner in Cabo Blanco, Peru after World War II is caught between refuge-seeking Nazis and their enemies. After the murder of a sea explorer is passed off as accidental death by the corrupt local police, Giff becomes suspicious. The police chief also intimidates a new arrival Marie, and Giff intervenes to help her. Giff suspects Beckdorff, a Nazi refugee living in the area. Beckdorff, it emerges, is seeking to uncover sunken treasure.
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El bruto (1953)
Character: Amigo de Pedro (uncredited)
A tough young man, who helps to kick poor people out of their houses, falls in love with a girl. She lives with her father in the building about to be demolished.
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The Desperate Mission (1969)
Character: First Monk
A man who has lost everything joins others paid to convey a wealthy man's wife - and a mysterious treasure - to safety in San Francisco.
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Tlayucan (1962)
Character: Don Pedro (uncredited)
Desperate because of his son's illness, the peasant Eufemio steals a pearl from the image of Santa Lucía in the village church.
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La Bataille de San Sebastian (1967)
Character: Antonito
Leon Alastray is an outlaw who has been given sanctuary by Father John, whom he then escorts to the village of San Sebastian. The village is deserted, with its cowardly residents hiding in the hills from Indians, who regularly attack the village and steal all their supplies. When Father John is murdered, the villagers mistakenly think the outlaw is the priest. Alastray at first tells them he is not a priest, but they don't believe it, and an apparent miracle seems to prove they are correct. Eventually, he assists them in regaining their confidence and defending themselves.
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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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Marejada (1952)
Character: Presidente municipal
Recently-graduated doctor assigned to a small, backward fishing community.
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