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El halcón solitario (1964)
Character: N/A
Chief of police fakes his death and returns as a masked avenger. On horseback. And stuff.
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¡Viva el amor! (1958)
Character: N/A
Man wants to dump wife for a new girlfriend; all three end up weekending in Acapulco together along with a gentleman the wife meets enroute, and all four explore the possibility of forming new relationships.
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Asesinos, S.A. (1957)
Character: N/A
Incompetent clown is drafted into a Murder Incorporated style squad of hitmen.
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Isla para dos (1959)
Character: N/A
Middle-aged painter and young musician fall hard for each other while on vacation. Then she discovers he's married.
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El sordo (1959)
Character: N/A
Craftsman who sculpts religious figures goes deaf. Lotsa pathos.
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Besito a papá (1961)
Character: N/A
A young man hires somebody to impersonate his father when it comes times to meet his girlfriend's parents.
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Cómicos y canciones (1960)
Character: El Jefe
Reporter/photographer team have risen to their level of incompetence at their newspaper.
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La chamaca (1961)
Character: N/A
Two young homeless people meet and fall in love, but bad luck separates them again every time they find each other.
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Rogaciano el huapanguero (1957)
Character: N/A
Itinerant folk-singer returns to his home town, gets caught in two intersecting love triangles. It ends badly.
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El fugitivo (1966)
Character: N/A
Drifter returns to his home town for revenge, but he get caught up in the town's interpersonal dramas.
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Una mujer para los sábados (1970)
Character: N/A
A young woman who lives with a married man falls in love with another, and maintains a friendly correspondence with him.
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Échenme al gato (1958)
Character: N/A
Comical mix-up in the operating room: by mistake, a notorious gangster's arm is grafted onto an accident-victim's stump.
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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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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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Manos arriba (1958)
Character: N/A
A tailor is mistaken for the leader of an agricultural union and gets tangled up in a price-fixing conspiracy.
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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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Pepito y los robachicos (1958)
Character: N/A
Good-hearted simpleton opens his home to a street urchin escaping from an Oliver Twist-style kid-gang of pickpockets beggars and paperboys.
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Los apuros de dos gallos (1963)
Character: N/A
Two con-artists run roughshod over the local economy of a small town they visit... but then they fall in love with two young women related to the rich landowners who are the target of their primary swindle.
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Pecadora (1947)
Character: N/A
Prostitution and drug-smuggling in Mexico City and Cd. Juarez.
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Los Beverly de Peralvillo (1971)
Character: El Bigos
El Borras marries La Pecas, unaware of her mother's (Doña Chole) scheme against Borras. That of Borras to provide for all her family members who are a lazy bunch composed of her father and brothers.
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Del suelo no paso (1959)
Character: Don Floripondio
Poetic-type dude gets mixed up with gangsters, a millionaire's dog and some stolen jewels.
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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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El jinete negro (1961)
Character: Don Arnulfo
A rancher disguises himself as a generous bandit and murders a tax collector, but is discovered.
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Muertos de Risa (1957)
Character: Police Chief Melquíades
Carnival worker is recruited by police to impersonate an old lady whose relatives want to kill her.
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Yo no me caso compadre (1960)
Character: N/A
Neither party pf an arranged marriage wants to comply with their parents' expectations, and he & she both come up with plans to sabotage the proceedings.
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Policías y ladrones (1956)
Character: N/A
When an inexperienced police officer discovers a corpse while inspecting a crime scene, he flees with no explanation. However, that action will help his unit to recover some stolen jewels during a robbery.
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Cómicos de la Legua (1957)
Character: Inspector (as Arturo Castro)
The guy that runs the concession stand at a vaudeville theatre gets tangled up with a gang of thieves.
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Alma de Acero (1957)
Character: Jefe de policía
Inspired by Alexander Dumas's novel The Corsican Brothers, Alma de Acero presents a delightful spin on the classic story of twin brothers (both played by Luis Aguilar) and their contrasting lives. As a singer in a nightclub, one brother has chosen a life of peaceful simplicity; the other, however, has chosen a troublesome lifestyle that leads to numerous run-ins with the law, forcing the vocalist to risk his own life to save his sibling.
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Pepito y el monstruo (1957)
Character: Commander Ponchito Bojorquez
The boy Pepito, is looking for work to help his grandmother, who is not receiving her pension. He wants to be a magician's assistant, and thus begin his problems because a crime happens and a monster appears.
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El que con niños se acuesta... (1959)
Character: Don Felipe
Chón is rejected by his girlfriend Rosario's parents, so they both escape to the capital in search of his friend Manny, a millionaire philanthropist, who helps him but makes him adopt four children from his orphanage.
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La soldadera (1967)
Character: Primitivo
While waiting for a train which will take them on their honeymoon, two newlyweds, Juan and Lázara, are separated by a federal army commander who is going around enlisting men to fight against the revolutionaries. Traveling with the troops, Lázara follows Juan until he dies in a battle against the Villistas. From that moment on, the young woman's fate will be in the hands of whoever happens to win the latest contest, an uncertain fate for someone whose only wish is for a home of her own.
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El Rey de México (1956)
Character: Chofer de automóvil
A humble tramp is turned, for a couple of days, into the richest and most famous man in México.
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Pegando con tubo (1961)
Character: Don José Manzano
Developmentally-challenged guy and is caretaker get drafted into he police force and take part in the manhunt for a bank robber.
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Una golfa (1958)
Character: N/A
Trumpet-player in a club band falls for a streety young woman; she dumps him to become a kept woman... and his roommate the pianist is dealing weed... and...
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Esposa te doy (1957)
Character: Juez
Chofi marry Alberto and very much in love, but her mother continues to intervene in the couple's relationship, which will lead to divorce.
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El primer paso... de la mujer (1974)
Character: N/A
Three girls from different social classes are forced to take that first step into adulthood that leads them to live fun adventures and also unfortunate events.
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Del rancho a la televisión (1953)
Character: Municipal president
A young man goes to the capital to prove himself as an opera singer, after being rejected he must find other means to achieve fame
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El señor doctor (1965)
Character: Comisario del pueblo
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: Coronel (uncredited)
After hiding a murderer, a Catholic priest is forced into self-exile and decides to embark on a pilgrimage through the Mexican countryside.
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Mis abuelitas... no más! (1961)
Character: N/A
Bush-league actor allows two adorable grannies to believe he's their long-lost grandson. Then: complications!
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Por mis pistolas (1968)
Character: (uncredited)
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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Orgullo (1955)
Character: N/A
A tale of two families, the Mendozas and Alzagas, faced for generations by the water of a river separating their adjoining properties. Old grudges reappear when the two heirs fall in love.
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Pilotos de la muerte (1962)
Character: Dueño de Tienda
A couple of provincial gas station employees travel to the capital seeking fortune of vehicle mechanics accidental career passing drivers.
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El padrecito (1964)
Character: Nepomuceno
Young priest Father Sebastián is assigned to a parish in San Jeronimo el Alto, where he is not welcomed by the community, particularly the resident priest Father Damián. The newcomer gradually earns the trust of the people through humor, but firmly captures their hearts by saving the town fiesta by fighting a bull when the hired torero failed to show. Father Sebastián counsels the townspeople, lecturing them on their duties in a modern society. He used the collection plate to redistribute the town's wealth more evenly.
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Escuela de rateros (1958)
Character: Hombre arrestado (uncredited)
The police plan to capture a killer by using a double that looks exactly as one of his victims.
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Dicen que soy comunista (1951)
Character: Nabor Méndez
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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El hombre de papel (1963)
Character: Sr. Fernández (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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Qué perra vida (1962)
Character: N/A
Rich man's dog makes friends with two ragged buskers; when his owner dies, there are zany complications.
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Rateros último modelo (1965)
Character: N/A
Singing duo waiting for their big break, committing petty crimes to get by. Adopting a baby and meeting a priest's niece are civilizing influences.
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Un extraño en la casa (1968)
Character: Editor Castro
An American serial killer, known for his handiwork with a straight razor, manages to escape while being transported in Mexico and hides out inside a publisher's home, where he claims many more victims.
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Limosneros con garrote (1961)
Character: N/A
Low-rent vaudeville entertainers lose their venue and try to find mainstream jobs to support the foundling child they're raising.
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Dos criados malcriados (1960)
Character: N/A
Don Antonio quiere casar a una de sus dos hijas Tere o Lorena con un conde. Para eso alquila una mansión y contrata a los criados Viruta y Capulina, para atender al conde y a sus invitados. Pero los criados descubren que el conde y sus invitados son unos rateros.
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Club de señoritas (1956)
Character: Police Detective
Lonelyhearts advisor on a tv show becomes feminist icon and movement-leader.
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