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Vivir a todo dar (1956)
Character: Profesor Escuela
Clavillazo is a likeable drifter who gets his diploma because his teachers want to lose sight of him. He lives on what he can find in the street. However, nothing can stop him from helping those around him.
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Doña Diabla (1950)
Character: (uncredited)
A woman, after committing a murder, flees into a church, confessing her life story to a priest.
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Cada hijo, una cruz (1957)
Character: (uncredited)
Sometimes parents make the mistake of loving one child more than the others. Don José places blind trust in his son Pepe, who turns out to be the one committing the most serious faults within the family, while Raymundo is the one who pays for them. Remake of Cuando los hijos se van (1941).
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Eugenia Grandet (1953)
Character: Padre Agustín
A miserly father quashes his daughter's marriage plans because he thinks her fiance is a fortune-hunter.
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Simitrio (1960)
Character: Mr. Principal
A blind teacher is the victim of endless pranks and pranks from his students.
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La perversa (1954)
Character: Juez
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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La dama del velo (1949)
Character: Detective de policía
Andrea loves Esteban. Esteban murders his wife and goes go jail. Andrea marries Esteban's lawyer. Twenty years later...
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La ilegítima (1956)
Character: Doctor
Family melodrama: manipulative parents ruin lives with their meddling.
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La virgen desnuda (1950)
Character: (uncredited)
Melodrama based on the homonymous novel by the Spanish writer José María Carretero Novillo (El Caballero Audaz), which tells a romantic story about a pair of lovers who endure great suffering in their attempt to be together.
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Qué hombre tan simpático (1943)
Character: Don Placido, cirujano
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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Arrabalera (1951)
Character: Don Juanito Dueñas
Working-class girl marries rich playboy, gets implicated in his criminal activities.
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Camelia (1954)
Character: Empresario (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: Juez (sin créditos)
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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Corazón salvaje (1956)
Character: Noel
On the Caribbean island of Martinique, two half-brothers are involved in the entanglements of a frivolous and calculating young woman.
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Para siempre amor mío (1955)
Character: N/A
A man, annoyed by his wife's interference in the family business, travels to Spain, where he becomes involved with another woman.
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¡Vaya tipos! (1955)
Character: N/A
Father and adult sons give help to an orphaned teenage girl.
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La marca del muerto (1961)
Character: Tío de Rosa (uncredited)
Mad scientist brings his dead mad scientist grandfather back to life and makes a Frankenstein-type monster out of him.
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Apasionada (1952)
Character: Antonio
Returning veteran with PTSD/amnesia returns home and gets tangled up in a criminal investigation.
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Confidencias de un ruletero (1949)
Character: Agente policía (uncredited)
Taxi driver takes the wrong passenger at the wrong time and gets caught up in a murder investigation.
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Serenata en México (1956)
Character: N/A
Mariachi with dual vocalists is broken up by a promoter who wants one of them as a solo act.
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Necesito dinero (1951)
Character: Don Servando
Manuel is a mechanic in love with the beautiful Maria Teresa. When the rich Jose Antonio courts his beloved Maria, Manuel realizes that he needs money and gets into trouble to get it.
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Gran Hotel (1944)
Character: Don Fulgencio (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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El Mago (1949)
Character: Empleado hotel (uncredited)
A slapstick fantasy of the amorous adventures of a magician a la Cantinflas.
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¡¡¡Mátenme porque me muero!!! (1951)
Character: (uncredited)
Tin Tan just won the lottery and wants to donate it to an orphanage. Sataela and Riverita want to keep the money for themselves. In an attenpt to do so, they convince him of having a terminal disease and suggest that committing suicide is his best option.
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Bugambilia (1945)
Character: Señor gobernador (uncredited)
In mid-nineteenth century Guanajuato, the beauty and charm of the young heiress Amalia conquers the lowly foreman Ricardo with fatal results. Prevented from consummating their love, Ricardo is going to Guanajuato where again later become the rich owner of a mine. On his return, fate has prepared a tragic encounter with Amalia.
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Quinceañera (1960)
Character: Don Juan
María Antonia, Beatriz and Leonor are three classmates who are anxiously awaiting the celebration of their 15th birthday. However, each of them will have to cope with their complicated personal situation.
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Por ellas aunque mal paguen (1952)
Character: Don Francisco Gutiérrez
Don Anastacio, an aristocrat passing through a rough patch,He will make marry his daughter Isabel with wealthy rancher. Isabel and her family refuse to work, Jose Manuel takes them to the ranch, where they are forced to work for food.
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Yo no creo en los hombres (1955)
Character: Presidente tribunal
In Havana, humble office girl Maria Caridad becomes the victim of rich playboy Arturo who seduces her and takes her to bed under false pretenses.
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La virgen que forjó una patria (1942)
Character: Primer familiar
On the eve of the Grito de Dolores and faced with the threat of being arrested by the viceregal government, Miguel Hidalgo suggested to Captain Allende that the flag of the insurgent movement be the banner of the Virgin of Guadalupe.
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Camino del infierno (1951)
Character: Don Fermín
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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Tambien de dolor se canta (1950)
Character: Adaptador
The movie starts with Braulio Peláez (Pedro Infante), a schoolteacher, having just fallen off his horse, representing the situation he and his family are in. The next scenes introduce the viewer to his family and their poor financial and social situation. As Braulio stumbles around looking for his glasses, he causes a famous film star, Alfonso de Madrazo (Rafael Alcaide) to crash his car. Braulio offers him to eat at his house as an apology. Braulio's sister and mother, big film fans, immediately recognise Alfonso and attempt to get him to bring the girl, Luisa Peláez (Irma Dolores) to Mexico City to become a film star. Alfonso agrees and tells them to come to the capital.
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Calabacitas Tiernas (¡Ay qué bonitas piernas!) (1949)
Character: Policía
A man hired to impersonate a bankrupt business mogul who is currently on the run from creditors sets out organize a musical starring beauties from Brazil, Mexico, and Spain in this Spanish-language comedy starring popular funnyman Tin Tan. Now, as the hapless imposter attempts to finance a musical without any money, he also discovers just how difficult it can be to juggle three beautiful starlets who all have eyes for their presumably wealthy producer.
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El gendarme desconocido (1941)
Character: Secuaz de Riquelme (uncredited)
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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La Red (1953)
Character: N/A
Antonio dives for sponges which are sold by his sweetheart Rossana. One day, the escaped prisoner José-Luis appears and is hid by his friend Antonio. Although José-Luis does not want to betray his friend, a love affair with tragic consequences between him and Rossana develops. The Net was one of Mexico's entries at the 1953 Cannes Film Festival.
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Ensayo de un crimen (1955)
Character: Judge
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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Si yo fuera diputado (1952)
Character: Agente ministerio público
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 hombre de papel (1963)
Character: Casero (uncredited)
A deaf and mute vagabond finds a large denomination bill in a Mexico City dump, and while he tries to buy something with it, others try to con him into giving it away.
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Rosenda (1948)
Character: Presidente Municipal
A ruffian sends his assistant to force a peasant girl to marry him, but while he is bringing her to him, he falls in love with her.
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Besos prohibidos (1956)
Character: Empresario
Nightclub singer has to choose between marrying again or reuniting with her divorced husband.
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El enamorado (1952)
Character: N/A
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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Que Dios me perdone (1948)
Character: Sebastián, the butler
Lena, a beautiful and mysteriously sinister refugee haunted by her past, is chased into the arms of a rich, unsuspecting industrialist not for love, but for information.
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En los tiempos de Don Porfirio (1940)
Character: don Germán
In a Mexican city at the end of the 19th century, Don Francisco, a gambler and a bohemian, almost forgets his wedding and is late. The bride, who is pregnant, is sent to Paris by the snubbed family.
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La intrusa (1954)
Character: Padre de Rosaura (uncredited)
Upon her arrival to the village San Ignacio, Gabriela meets Raúl, owner of a residence that her grandfather administrates. He doesn't reveal his real identity and they fall madly in love. Tania, Raúl's sister-in-law, secretly loves him and she decides to separate them by simulating a car accident from which Gabriela temporarily becomes paralized. Aware that they will marry, Tania makes the girl believe that Raúl is marrying her out of compassion, causing Gabriela to disappear from the residence...
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Ni sangre ni arena (1941)
Character: Presidente municipal (uncredited)
Cantinflas enjoys the bullfight show, and wants to crash in every of these spectacles. Also, there's a professional bullfighter, Manolete, who is identical to Cantinflas. Manolete has to give a bullfight show in a village, but Cantinflas arrives first as a stowaway in a train, and he'll be mistake by the real bullfighter. Cantinflas will give us a demonstration of courage.
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Pepe El Toro (1953)
Character: Licenciado
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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