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Vuelve el ojo de vidrio (1970)
Character: N/A
Upon hearing the news of Madero's death, Porfirio Alcalá and his four cousins interrupt their peaceful lives as farmers to again join the Mexican Revolution.
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Carne de presidio (1952)
Character: Señor director carcel
Pedro is found guilty of murder after accidentally killing a friend's husband. His own family will face difficult times, as will he when he entrusts his freedom to the one he shouldn't.
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El testamento (1981)
Character: Don Agustín
After the death of her husband the industrialist, unprepared trophy-wife takes over the management of his business concerns.
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Sangre en Rio Bravo (1966)
Character: N/A
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 nuevo modo de amar (1968)
Character: N/A
A phony psychic convinces a young widow that her nest husband will die soon after the wedding... so she tells her fiancé to take a number, and marries a rando to sidestep that problem.
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Una lección de amor (1956)
Character: N/A
An older gentleman takes responsibility for molding a young showgirl's career; there seems to be a romantic link between them, but she has lots of side-pieces running around, and a serious boyfriend waiting in the wings...
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Vivir para amar (1980)
Character: N/A
Bar-band yout gets groomed for stardom: exploitative management and loss of personal authenticity are the result. Can he pull out of his Siempre En Domingo death-spiral?
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La Martina (1972)
Character: Don Fernando
Martina is a liberal woman who arrives to a small town, with his godfather. Here, Martina will met with her secret love, a typical "macho-ranchero" man, demanding her hand in matrimony. But he rejects Martina, claiming that she's not virgin and will return her to the godfather. When the godfather dies, Martina finds herself alone, and she'll begin a sexual adventure with almost the last men in the town, even with the shy chaplain.
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Esposas Infieles (1956)
Character: N/A
A bunch of stories where wives are unfaithful for different reasons: money, revenge or pleasure.
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Viaje a la luna (1958)
Character: Presidente
In this movie a couple of comedians try to disappear for a while and end up in an asylum, where confused as the mad, and try to escape, but one of them falls in love and that complicates things.
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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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La Güera Rodríguez (1978)
Character: Don Mariano Briones
In 1809, a woman participates in the conspiracy for the independence of Mexico and her husband blames her for infidelity.
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La adúltera (1956)
Character: Amigo de Raúl
Jilted lover takes revenge on her ex's new wife.
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Nunca es tarde para amar (1953)
Character: N/A
A widowed doctor with a sick child marries a famous singer unpremeditatedly, running at first everything fine until she begins to long for his former life and scenic successes representing the only reason for existence.
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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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Fruto prohibido (1953)
Character: Felipe, mayordomo
A writer is given custody of his editor's daughter after she is orphaned. Once she grows up, they become romantically involved.
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Ladrón de cadáveres (1957)
Character: Police Chief
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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Cómicos de la Legua (1957)
Character: El abandonado (as Eduardo Arcaraz)
The guy that runs the concession stand at a vaudeville theatre gets tangled up with a gang of thieves.
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El medallón del crimen (1955)
Character: Ramiro
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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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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Rigo es amor (1980)
Character: El Gallino
Rigo and la Tulipana meet at the cabaret where they work, he as a singer and she as a fichera. They live an intense love, but Rigo's alcoholism is a source of constant tension.
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El matrimonio es como el demonio (1967)
Character: Antonio Ancira
The story of a Playboy bachelor who does not know the good that is, until he is married. Slowly, the man discovers that having a woman is not easy, but sometimes ... being faithful recomended. After sympathetic experiences and funny situations, he realizes that there are two uncorrectable errors committed by the man in your life: Being born and married!
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La gran aventura (1969)
Character: N/A
A humorous adventure story about two boys chasing after their dog who was kicked out of the church, and facing all kinds of, some real and some imagined, trouble, both for them and the dog.
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Ella y Yo (1951)
Character: Agente viajero
Pedro Muñoz is a womanizer that does not escape one until Irene Garza arrives and makes him to see his luck, while the aunt of her tries to separate them.
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El año de la peste (1978)
Character: Dr. Luis Mario Zavala
A terrible disease is found in a Mexican town. A doctor tries to alert the authorities when he discovers its epidemic nature. No one listen to him and soon after the disease spreads. The government tries to control the information in order to prevent panic.
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Primavera en el corazón (1956)
Character: N/A
Don Juan-type manipulates his roommate into helping him mount ridiculous schemes to get next to a girl he has his eye on.
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Buenas y con... movidas (1983)
Character: N/A
Sex-worker tries to pose as a society matron long enough to receive a visit from her daughter, the daughter's fiancé and his family.
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El fantasma de la opereta (1960)
Character: Don Quique
Aldo and his girlfriend Lucy reopen an abandoned opera house, but find out that the place is inhabited by a group of Phantoms wearing the Claude Rains 1943 Phantom of the Opera costume.
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Los enredos de una gallega (1951)
Character: N/A
Cándida is a Galician who lives in Mexico and has been selling lottery tickets. Her dream is to buy an inn, but doesn't have enough money. In her quest for trying to get it, she runs into a scammer. In a stroke of luck, she wins first prize in the lottery, but the misfortune is merciless with her because she can't find the ticket.
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La escondida (1956)
Character: Señor Ariza
Amid the Mexican Revolution, a woman rises from the depths of poverty and becomes a courtesan who is much-sought-after by high-society men, but she cannot forget her love for a rebel leader.
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The Brave One (1956)
Character: Ticket seller (uncredited)
A young Mexican boy tirelessly tries to save his pet bull from death at the hands of a celebrated matador.
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Un Quijote sin mancha (1969)
Character: Licenciado en delegación
A lawyer trying to fix everyone's problems, instead causes problems, which always end up in funny situations.
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Mi desconocida esposa (1958)
Character: Gregorio Salas
After moving from Guadalajara to Mexico City, a young woman gets embroiled in a series of puzzling mistaken-identity misadventures.
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Su Excelencia (1967)
Character: Don Salustio Menchaca, embajador de Los Cocos
Lopitos, who is horribly inefficient but quick-witted, is invited (because of the current ambassador's superstition about 13 sitting down to a meal) to a banquet attended by the ambassadors of both superpowers. After the news of a series of coups d'état in Los Cocos arrives throughout the meal, Lopitos becomes the official ambassador. At a summit of world leaders, the representatives of the two world superpowers court the allegiances of third-world diplomats to tilt the balance of global power in their favor. The last diplomat to remain unaligned, Lopitos instead harangues the superpowers for infringing on the rights of developing countries to self determination, talking to them with his point of view as a citizen not as ambassador because he arranged his demise as ambassador one day before his speech.
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Abajo el Telón (1955)
Character: Artista en teatro (uncredited)
Cantinflas, who owns a cleaning business, cleans the windows of the house of a famous French actress. While carrying out his work he observes how a man steals one of the famous actress necklaces, but he can only see his back.
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Cri Cri el Grillito Cantor (1963)
Character: Empresario De Carpa
Biography of the famous composer of children's music Gabilondo Soler. Starts from his childhood, when he worked as a pastor and grandmother tried to teach him to play the piano. Later he went to the city to study music theory and began writing his first songs.
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Ahora soy rico (1952)
Character: Dr. Velasco
Pedro Gonzalez first gets into trouble as part of a criminal gang and then works honourably to become rich. Money is his undoing allowing him to become a womanizer and drinker, almost losing his wife. Finally he rejoins her, they have a son and he pays for his mistakes.
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Mi campeón (1952)
Character: Señor Maccini (uncredited)
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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Escuela de vagabundos (1955)
Character: Audifas
Alberto Medina is a famous composer whose car breaks down while he is on a trip. While looking for help, he finds the Valverdes' house and is welcomed in by Emilia, the mother of the family, who is known for taking in tramps.
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Por mis pistolas (1968)
Character: Don Chuchito
Fidencio Borer, an apothecary in a village on the northern border of Mexico, discovers some old title of a mine in Arizona and decides to claim them. Trying to cross the border is a border guard intercepted by exaggerating in the line of duty. On the way is captured by a tribe of Apaches and is about to be burned alive, but thanks to the Great Head Horse Lying having toothache and learns that the prisoner it can heal, ordered his release on the condition that the cure. Fidencio would take the wheel and gets the eternal friendship of the Chief apache.
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La rebelión de los colgados (1954)
Character: Doctor
A peasant who works in a mahogany camp in the Mexican jungles with his family is disgusted with the miserable living conditions imposed upon himself and his co-workers, the peasant finally spearheads a revolt against the sadistic bosses.
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Pilotos de la muerte (1962)
Character: El Barbas
A couple of provincial gas station employees travel to the capital seeking fortune of vehicle mechanics accidental career passing drivers.
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La tercera palabra (1956)
Character: Administrador Roldán
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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La viuda negra (1977)
Character: N/A
Intrigues and secrets come together because of a woman, who has the protection of the parish priest.
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Escuela de rateros (1958)
Character: Toño
The police plan to capture a killer by using a double that looks exactly as one of his victims.
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Ensayo de un crimen (1955)
Character: Gordo Azuara (uncredited)
A bizarre black comedy about a man whose overwhelming ambition in life is to be a renowned serial killer of women, and will stop at nothing to achieve it - but not everything goes according to plan...
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Zorro, The Gay Blade (1981)
Character: Don Jose
George Hamilton stars in a dueling dual role as twin sons of the legendary Zorro. Soon after the dashing Don Diego Vega inherits his father's famous sword and costume, a broken ankle prevents the masked avenger from fulfilling his heroic duties. When his flamboyantly fashion-conscious brother assumes the secret identity to continue an ongoing fight for justice, the results are nothing short of hilarious!
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¡Maldita Ciudad! Una comedia dramática (1954)
Character: Movie Director
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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El bombero atómico (1952)
Character: Sargento Policía
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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Si yo fuera diputado (1952)
Character: Doctor
Cantinflas is a unique barber, who trades with an elderly neighbor, a lawyer by profession, laws lessons in exchange for haircuts and shaved. It proposes advice to defend in court the disadvantaged neighborhood. His success deputy seeks the votes as the other candidate, Don Próculo, it is not accepted by anyone but his own bodyguards. Don Próculo will use know how much ruse to win the election by the Council, and also for the love of 'Sarita'
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El barrendero (1982)
Character: Don Chafas
A cheerful sweeper collects garbage dancing, and the maids of the neighborhood get jealous because he invites another woman out.
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Cárcel de Mujeres (1951)
Character: Teniente
Evangelina murders her lover Alberto. In prison she meets Dora, Alberto's girlfriend, who was deprived of her freedom for his illicit business. An interesting story is about to be woven.
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El Campeón Ciclista (1957)
Character: Don Cosme Morales
Cleto, a poor newspaper boy, dreamed of becoming a cyclist and inventor. His latest invention is delivering newspapers by rockets. When he finds the owner of the newspaper, dismisses him. But Cleto do not give up and shows Don Macario his latest invention: " The telemirófono ", a device that allows you to see the person talking on the phone...
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Vainilla, bronce y morir (1957)
Character: Papá de Enrique
A beautiful woman, fatally ill of the heart, is torn between the love of a poor sculptor and a forced marriage with the sadistic son of a millionaire.
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El señor fotógrafo (1953)
Character: Coronel
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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El carita (1974)
Character: N/A
Door-to-door salesman of beauty products gets involved in comical misadventures and riotous high jinks. Also throwing buckets of water and handfuls of colored goop.
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Pablo y Carolina (1957)
Character: N/A
Torn between three lovers and bored by her typewriting classes, Carolina (Dillian) writes a passionate love letter to fictional Pablo Garza from Monterrey. The letter is sent by mistake and received by real Pablo Garza's girlfriend. Pablo himself (Infante) flies to Mexico City looking for an explanation. Carolina is rehearsing a musical show for her school dressed as a man. When Pablo meets her, she pretends to be her brother Anibal, a shy and feminine sailor. Pablo likes Anibal and invites "him" to a cabaret. After that, Carolina falls inlove with Pablo but resists to unveil her real self. Meanwhile, Pablo feels himself confused, because young "Anibal" is cute as an angel and has "those blue eyes..."
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Conserje en Condominio (1974)
Character: Lic. Rufino
After reading in the newspaper, Úrsulo runs to seek employment. It is the position of caretaker of a luxury apartment building habited by people more heterogeneous: the professional model, the spiritualist, hippies and all turn to him to solve their problems. But someone in the building, kidnapped an important person and Úrsulo becomes a private investigator.
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