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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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Mi mujer no es mía (1951)
Character: N/A
Bachelor pretends that he got married, thinking that will stop his aunt from trying to play matchmaker.
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Una mujer que no miente (1945)
Character: N/A
Headmistress of a girl's school and one of her pupils get into romantic-comedy trouble trying to keep their lies straight.
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El diablo en persona (1982)
Character: Don Gaspar
Young rural-gentry dude sows wild oats, settles down to raise a family, and fights in the Revolution, all at the same time.
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El charro y la dama (1949)
Character: N/A
Bratty rich girl plays practical jokes on the man that she'll obviously end up marrying.
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Las 5 noches de Adán (1942)
Character: N/A
Globe-hopping playboy bachelor is getting on in years, so he invites his five international children to come live with him.
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Yo fui una usurpadora (1946)
Character: N/A
Brilliant young doctor discovers his wife doesn't want to bear children, so he finds someone else to exxperience fatherhood with.
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La pícara Susana (1945)
Character: N/A
Socialist librarian gets mixed up in the family life of a spoiled rich girl and her screwball family.
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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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Tú y la mentira (1958)
Character: N/A
Struggling musician finally reaches the big time, then a scheming gold-digger gets her hooks into him.
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Bambalinas (1957)
Character: N/A
The story of a famous singer who reaches the highest position in the world of varieties, but is forced to cede her throne to the young star of the moment, repeating the same situation that she starred in in her youth.
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María Eugenia (1943)
Character: Martín (as Alfredo Varela Jr.)
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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Mi niño Tizoc (1972)
Character: Bureaucrat
Tizoc wishes to eat a chicken by himself and have his own piñata. At Christmas his father Carmelo grants his wish.
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El gran campeón (1949)
Character: Salivas
El Kid Azteca not only fights to become someone in life; he also fights for the love of Avelina, who shows no interest in him when she sees that fame has gone to his head.
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Pueblo quieto (1955)
Character: N/A
Son of a first family returns to his home town, reconciles with his pops, pitches woo at the young lady from another First Family and gets rampy with his rival for her affections.
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Esperanza (1974)
Character: Zubieta
A circus fakir performs a crucifixion act to earn enough money to secure a home for his mother. As the spectacle intensifies, the boundary between devotion, showmanship, and danger begins to blur.
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Nosotras las sirvientas (1951)
Character: N/A
A peasant woman arrives in the capital and is run over by a young man, who, to compensate her, gives her a job as a maid.
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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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Las cariñosas (1953)
Character: Covarrubias
When three beautiful young nurses from Jalisco, afflicted with a rare disease called "sexappealitis", create commotion among the patients in a hospital, they are forced to resign. They travel to Mexico City following the suggestion of a crazy scientist, who tells them they will be cured when they get married. But they are attracted to three men who are indifferent to their sexy looks, being themselves sick with "lovetitis".
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El jinete negro (1961)
Character: José Bermúdez
A rancher disguises himself as a generous bandit and murders a tax collector, but is discovered.
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Un Latin lover en Acapulco (1967)
Character: N/A
Roberto is tired of his life as an office worker in Mexico City, so he moves to Acapulco to try his luck as a "Latin lover".
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Amor a la vida (1950)
Character: González
During the times of Venezuelan dictator Juan Vicente Gómez, an exhausted stranger arrives at a farm and starts to help the owner with the legal status of her land.
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El Gran Makakikus (1944)
Character: N/A
Uncultured nouveau- riche wants to be received in high society. Loose adaptation of Moliere.
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Albur de amor (1947)
Character: N/A
Dark romantic melodrama, played out with high-stakes card games and cockfights.
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Préstame tu cuerpo (1958)
Character: N/A
Heaven Can Wait scenario; a young woman dies forty years ahead of schedule because her guardian angel made a mistake... so the divine powers that be put her back on earth in a new body.
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El Beisbolista Fenomeno (1952)
Character: Nicanor Buenavista
The soul of a dead baseball player finds a human host to occupy so it can achieve some career goals it hadn't accomplished during its lifetime. Riotous hijinks ensue.
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Mil estudiantes y una muchacha (1942)
Character: Alejandro / Doña Rosa
The dream of Atenodoro is to be a professor at the Faculty of Law. The students show enthusiasm for Ana, the professor’s daughter. Atenodoro resigns from his class, and the students try to make him return by pretending to be the rector and his family.
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Mi papá tuvo la culpa (1953)
Character: N/A
Two young sweethearts get married, and then are made to believe that she's his illegitimate half-sister.
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Cuando viajan las estrellas (1942)
Character: N/A
A Hollywood star travels to Mexico to take flamenco dancing lessons for her next movie. In the airport she meets a Mexican rancher, and while both dislike each other at first, things may change.
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La vida en broma (1950)
Character: Nicomedes
Many many mistaken identities and impostures overlapping among a group of husbands, wives and others.
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Un gallo en corral ajeno (1952)
Character: N/A
A wealthy sculptor takes in a thief as a servant on her ranch, hoping to reshape him, but their situation is disrupted when she discovers a major robbery has taken place on her estate.
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Nocturno de amor (1948)
Character: N/A
Luis Aguilar is a talented piano student who struggles to make ends meet. At the conservatory he meets the beautiful, rich, and also talented piano student Marta Reyes and romance ensues. One day, a full scholarship to study piano abroad is announced and both Luis and Marta fill out the necessary paperwork--but only one place is available. Luis is torn apart by his love for both the piano and Marta.
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Duro pero seguro (1978)
Character: Director Alejandro Ramírez
Nicolasa sells tacos near a movie studio and her popularity threatens the restaurant's own studies. She drops the food when seeing actor Armando performing and the director expels her out.
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Las mañanitas (1948)
Character: N/A
Rom-com scheming; wealthy landowner wants to seduce one of his tenants, but she wants the other guy...
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En Carne Viva (1951)
Character: Chipo
A beautiful cabaret dancer falls in love with a sailor who promises to return and marry her. Trouble ensues.
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La posada sangrienta (1943)
Character: N/A
Young couple are trapped in an isolated mansion while members of a criminal gang are killing each other off on the premises.
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Al Diablo Las Mujeres (1955)
Character: Alfonso
Small-town elects a female mayor. She suppresses all the time-honored masculine pastimes, and the men rebel.
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Las Fieras (1969)
Character: Mr. Arthur Dereck
Historia de un grupo de estafadores internacionales y sus artimañas.
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Yo quiero ser tonta (1950)
Character: Pascasio
Dreamer father wants son to become a bullfighter, and daughter to become a singer, so they become instant millionares, although their talent is not apparently there.
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Al Son De La Marimba (1940)
Character: N/A
Shabby-genteel big city family tries to marry their daughter off to a wealthy landowner from the southern provinces.
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Soy puro mexicano (1942)
Character: Pepe
Band of outlaws stumble across an espionage ring of Axis agents embedded in an out-of-the-way hacienda.
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La corte de Faraón (1944)
Character: José the Chaste
The wise men of the kingdom interpret a dream of Pharaoh and decide that Putifar, a victorious general, should marry Lota, a virginal slave.
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Fe, esperanza y caridad (1974)
Character: Zubieta (segment "Esperanza")
Three episodes. Faith: a woman is attacked. Hope: a fakir is crucified. Charity: a woman faces bureaucracy.
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Viva Mi Desgracia (1944)
Character: Pipo Ramírez
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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El río y la muerte (1954)
Character: Chinelas
A useless and bloody vendetta has been going on for ages between two families in this Mexican village. Men, sons, have killed each other for generations, for a so-called conception of honor in a revenge that never ends since it is also triggered by people of the village. Now, today, there are only two sons left, one in each family. One has become a doctor in the big city and his culture is modern. The other last one - of the other family - hasn't left the village and is waiting for the doctor to come "home" as he plans to kill him, to settle this war on this matter of honor once and for all. And the people of the village want blood.
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Cuando los hijos se van (1941)
Character: Tomás Rosales (as Alfredo Varela Jr.)
Unjustly accused of theft, the noble Raimundo is forced to leave his paternal home. A new incident, caused by the ambition of his brother José, causes Raimundo to be disowned by his girlfriend María and by his father, the just and strict Don Pepe. The only one who believes in Raimundo is his mother, Dona Lupita, a woman who suffers deeply because of the wrong decisions of her children.
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Tiburoneros (1963)
Character: Chilo
Aurelio is a shark fisherman who works very hard to send money to his family in the city and keep Manela, his young lover on the coast. One day, he decides to move to the big city.
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Tambien de dolor se canta (1950)
Character: Novio de Luisa
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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Canaima (1945)
Character: Arteaguita
College-educated emigre has to get macho when he returns home to the Venezuelan outback.
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El gendarme desconocido (1941)
Character: Bermúdez
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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El Supersabio (1948)
Character: Pepe Montes
Cantinflas is the apprentice of a renowned scientist, Prof. Arquimides Monteagudo (Carlos Martinez Baena). But Cantinflas has the soul of a poet rather than a serious researcher, and he wants to find the formula that achieves the immortality of the roses. Nevertheless, after the death of Prof. Monteagudo, Cantinflas will be chased by a ferocious corporative group, who wants to steal the secret formula of a cheaper fuel named "carburex", because they think that our friend is the only person who knows the composition
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El ametralladora (1943)
Character: Pascualito
Peasant farmer and landowner are rivals for a woman. Sequel to Ay Jalisco No Te Rajes.
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Ahí está el detalle (1940)
Character: Escribiente
Cantinflas, the boyfriend of the servant of a rich industrial man, gets into the house in order to kill a mad dog. Suddenly this man appears so the servant tells him that Cantinflas is his wife's brother (Leonardo), who had been lost for years. The rich man then remembers that his father in law's testament could only be paid when all brothers get together, so treats Cantinflas, a real bum, as a king.
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