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La santa del barrio (1948)
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Wicked old lady arranges to sell the virginity of a young neighbor. Her boyfriend gets upset over this.
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Mujer (1947)
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Orphan girl grows up, meets the wrong man and falls into disgrace.
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El amor no es negocio (1950)
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Brother and sister bumpkins move to the big city, where they fall into the orbit of a gigolo-pimp type.
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Las tres pelonas (1958)
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Pseudo-historical drama about a semi-civilian who decides to run guns across the border for Villa's troops.
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Cuando el alba llegue (1950)
Character: N/A
Bad guy who runs a ritzy nightclub is trying to keep his younger brother out of the gutter and get him into a professional career. Unknowingly, he takes up with his brother's fiancee. Also other complications.
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Los pobres van al cielo (1951)
Character: N/A
When their parents die, brother and sister run away rather than go to an orphanage. Childless elderly couple adopts them, the neighborhood priest takes an interest in their sad story, and it goes on from there...
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Salón de belleza (1951)
Character: N/A
Employees and clients at Merle's Beauty Stuff have illicit romances and cheating husbands and that kind of thing. Meanwhile, the cop that directs traffic outside gets an opportunity to become a movie star.
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Las coronelas (1959)
Character: N/A
Two young women 'forced' to masquerade as soldiers in military troop.
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La cama de piedra (1958)
Character: N/A
Antonio is happy and is about to get married, but he has an enemy who wants to kill him. He steals his knife known by the whole town and kills a drunkard with it. With this evidence Antonio is sentenced to fifteen years in prison.
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La carne manda (1948)
Character: N/A
Childhood friends move up the economic ladder from slumrat to middle class comfort, but the marriage between two of them is threatened by a bad woman from a nightclub.
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El último round (1953)
Character: N/A
Shady promoter hires a new boy for his boxing stable, but the young champ won't go along with his boss'es scams and machinations.
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México nunca duerme (1959)
Character: N/A
Fretful granny is upset when her granddaughter isn't home by 9 PM on Saturday night, so she teams up with a gangster to tour Mexico City nightclubs looking for her.
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Sentencia (1950)
Character: N/A
Historical drama, romantic triangle plus war/espionage intrigue during the Maximillian vs Juarez conflict of the 1860s.
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María Eugenia (1943)
Character: N/A
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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Gángsters contra charros (1947)
Character: Pancho Domínguez
Gangster Johnny Carmenta must confront the "Charro of the Slums" Pancho Domínguez, who has control over the city, but their rivalry gets worse when rumba dancer Rosa befriends both men.
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La perversa (1954)
Character: Detective de policía
A single, hard-working, girl looks to improve her situation by becoming a "kept woman". In doing so, she turns away from church and family, thereby violating the mandates of both God and Man.
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No matarás (1943)
Character: N/A
A mother stands by helplessly while a scandal involving marital infidelity, blackmail and murder takes shape around her daughter.
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La mujer X (1955)
Character: Alfonso
A woman accused of murder refuses to defend herself in any way, in order to avoid tarnishing the family name and the reputation of her long-lost son.
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Tormenta en la cumbre (1943)
Character: Amante (uncredited)
Young couple weather a marital crisis while older people who have already given up on life interfere from the sidelines.
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Eterna mártir (1937)
Character: N/A
A dedicated wife and mother takes the blame for embezzling money that was actually stolen by her husband in order to buy medicine and a doctor's care for the couple's seriously ill infant son. Consequently, the well-meaning woman is willingly sentenced to years in prison for a crime she did not commit-all because she believes her son will fare better if the bond between father and son remains intact. Upon her release, she soon discovers that no good deed goes unpunished. Her once loving husband has remarried a woman that her son calls Mother, After just a brief glimpse of her loved ones, she simply leaves without saying a word. Many years later, she becomes a patient at her son's busy medical practice just so that she can keep an eye on his progress in secret. In a cruel twist of fate, it is only after he diagnoses her as being terminally ill does does she reveal her true identity. The poor woman subsequently learns that her former father-in-law lied about her initial release from ...
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Que idiotas son los hombres (1951)
Character: N/A
After divorcing her cheating husband, a newly single still and beautiful woman, (played by Actress Rosa Carmina), travels to Acapulco. She soon becomes the center of attention and spoiled for choice when she finds herself wooed by no less than four handsome suitors, three of whom are very wealthy and prominent men. Initially torn between her head and her heart, but mindful of past mistakes, Carmina's character chooses love over money and picks a humble and hard-working waiter. Directed by Juan Orol, (Carmina's soon-to-be ex-husband in real-life), this drama features the long, drawn-out scenes and shadowy film noir techniques which he became well- known for.
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El Jorobado (1943)
Character: N/A
Historical drama/swashbuckler: Spain during the Inquisition.
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Amor perdido (1951)
Character: Andrés
Ernesto, a composer, is madly in love with Amalia. He decides to help her pay the rent and wants her to start singing at the cabaret where he works, but she ends up falling in love with another man.
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Amor salvaje (1950)
Character: Julio López
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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El amor de mi bohío (1947)
Character: Luis del Valle
El Amor de M Bohio, which translates to "The Love of My Hut" (or shack ) and it comes from the lyrics o a popular love ballad of the same name. It is Director Juan Orol's tale of a violent love triangle where two farm hands out to prove who is the most macho, and thereby win the affections of a woman. This tragic love story takes place on a tropical plantation located just outside of Havana, where its workers are housed in small, thatched-roof "bohios". The two rival suitors are driven by passion for the girl they both love, and soon engage in a series of challenges designed to help this young woman choose the right guy in the end. These competitions start out to include simple and benign activities at first, like dancing, singing and dueling guitars, or betting on the winning bird at a cock-fight, However, they soon escalate to more violent activities, like public brawls, and saber dueling, which set life changing events into motion for everyone.
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Retorno al quinto patio (1951)
Character: N/A
After getting out of prison, Ramon Vallarta tries to put his life back together, establishing himself in a new career and reconciling himself with his former sweetheart. Also other stuff. Sequel to Quinto Patio.
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Bajo la influencia del miedo (1956)
Character: Malato
Tony Carpio becomes a dangerous criminal and gains power by fixing boxing matches while seeking revenge on the ones who sent him to serve 5 years in jail, this includes his former lover, the rapacious Marbella.
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Plazos traicioneros (1958)
Character: N/A
A down in his luck film director falls in love with an attractive waitress and decides to launch her as a big singing star. Once the goal is reached, the girl runs away and becomes involved with a gangster who leads her into prostitution.
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Yo quiero ser mala (1950)
Character: El nicho
In this Romantic-Comedy from Director Rene Cardona, Actress Maria Elena Marques plays a hard-living woman named Leticia, who suffers from a recently broken heart after being deceived by her ex-boyfriend. Soured on anything to do with love and while drinking away her sorrows, she sets out to marry the very first man she sees. This man just happens to be a nice guy named Roberto, (Abel Salazar). Although the pair's mutual attraction to each other is obvious, Roberto has no idea what he is in for, and he soon proposes. Not long after the marriage, Leticia starts to take advantage of both Roberto and her new Father-in-Law (played by Oscar Pulido), who shows kindness towards the girl. Predictably, marital bliss soon turns into discord, and the couple agree to divorce after a year passes. Their love-hate relationship and pending break-up provides a perfect backdrop for several comedic situations before the two realize that they are actually in love.
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Song of Mexico (1945)
Character: Ramon Carranza
Actress Carol Adams retires from the theater when she becomes engaged to businessman Gregory Davis, but is increasingly frustrated by Greg's unwavering devotion to his business. Tired of being ignored, Carol leaves her engagement ring with Greg's secretary, Sarah Anderson, and flies to Mexico City to repair her broken heart and visit her friends, Anita and Arturo Martinez. On the plane, Carol meets Ramon Carranza, a handsome singer and movie star who is wildly popular in Mexico.
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El charro del arrabal (1949)
Character: Pancho Domínguez
The plot revolves around Pancho Domínguez, alias “El Charro del Arrabal” (José Pulido), a former cattle rustler turned gangster who controls an extortion racket in the city. The story intensifies when he becomes involved in a turbulent romance with the rumbera Rosa (Rosa Carmina) and clashes with political and criminal rivals.
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Cuatro contra el mundo (1950)
Character: Antonio Gil
After ambushing a brewery’s money truck, four gangsters hide out in the attic of a gangster’s lover while the police search the city. As the heat closes in, jealousy, desire, and mistrust begin to fracture the gang from within.
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Había una vez un marido (1953)
Character: Antonio
Due to confusion, Rafael is believed responsible for the death of Teresa. His wife Lilia and his brother looking for the real culprits.
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Gran Hotel (1944)
Character: Anunciador restaurante (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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Una gallega baila mambo (1951)
Character: N/A
Ladylike widow hires a roughneck neighbor to help her marry off her daughter and collect an inheritance by impersonating her husband.
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Ten Days To Tulara (1958)
Character: Mexican captain
Director George Sherman's 1958 western about gold thieves in Mexico stars Sterling Hayden, Grace Raynor and Rodolfo Hoyos.
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Dicen que soy comunista (1951)
Character: Camarada Leobardo Tolentino (uncredited)
A worker overwhelmed by the economic crisis and the cost of living is accidentally propaganda of a political party, apparently from left, who convinces him to join their ranks and defending the working class. After entering through a ritual as mysterious as typical, you will realize demagoguery and arrangements existing between union leaders to maintain the status quo unchanged and profit from mafia practices.
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Ahí viene Martín Corona (1952)
Character: Diego
Martin Corona, player and womanizer, defends the underprivileged, the poor and the needy. He will have to defend a Spanish girl and her servant from the clutches of the villainous of the town. Not only will he have to fight the bad guy, but against the pride of the girl who initially believes that he is the bad character and distrusts him. She was very proud to put him at her feet, but there was a problem, Martin Corona was due more to his people than anyone and she was not willing to risk losing it, so before marrying him, made him swear he would not intervene In other problems.
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El enmascarado de plata (1954)
Character: N/A
This cult-classic was Director Rene Cardona's attempt to capitalize on the popularity of professional wrestling and on of its biggest stars of the 1950's, known as "El Santo". However it is not about wrestling. It chronicles the adventures of a crime-fighting duo known as El Enmascadero de la Plata ( The Silver Mask), and his adolescent sidekick Pecas (Freckles), as they take on a murderous Mad Doctor and an evil gang-leader called El Lobo
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Massacre (1956)
Character: Self
Lawmen and their captured gunrunners take refuge at a deserted mission to fend off attacking Indians. Western.
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El enamorado (1952)
Character: Diego
Martin retired from his job as a hero because of his marriage to Rosario, a beautiful and ambitious girl who passed through the workshop where he works. However, Martin has to return in principle to help a friend from robbers.
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