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La cigüeña dijo sí (1960)
Character: N/A
Newlywed couple wait for their first baby, but the mother/in-law gets pregnant first.
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Nadie te querrá como yo (1972)
Character: N/A
A student-movement leftist becomes a nun and absorbs lots of deep, deep TV-movie spiritual lessons about God's glorious plan.
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Siete pecados (1959)
Character: N/A
Seven dresses/seven models at a fashion show, and each one represents one of the seven deadly sins.
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Prisionera del recuerdo (1952)
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Refugee from Spanish Civil War deals with PTSD and a romantic triangle while trying to find her father's murderer.
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Sabrás que te quiero (1958)
Character: N/A
Famous singer becomes desperate to figure out which of three women helped to launch his early career with anonymous mentoring and support.
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Secreto de confesión (1971)
Character: Don Ignacio Roldan
Young woman falls in love with a cub reporter who's investigating the illegal activities of her father. Then there's secret marriages and secret murders and secret babies and... family melodrama in full flower.
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Sin salida (1971)
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Ex-con trying to go straight is backed into a corner by "former associates."
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Después de la tormenta (1955)
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This Mexican melodrama may have been released above the border as After the Storm. The principal characters are a pair of twin lighthouse keepers. They try their best to live together with their wives under the same roof, but the delicate balance is shattered when one of the brothers falls in love with his sister-in-law. When one twin is lost during a storm, the other assumes his identity, with the expected romantic complications. If Despues de la Termenta sounds familiar, it is because the screenplay was inspired by the 1946 Bette Davis vehicle A Stolen Life.
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El cielo y tú (1971)
Character: Monseñor
Priest suffers a head injury, develops amnesia, ends up in a hippie commune.
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La ilegítima (1956)
Character: Don Alfonso
Family melodrama: manipulative parents ruin lives with their meddling.
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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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El monasterio de los buitres (1973)
Character: Pablo
In a remote Mexican monastery, a Father Prior subjects young seminarians to psychoanalysis to test their vocation. As sessions peel back secrets and doubts, faith, desire, and authority collide.
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Concurso de belleza (1958)
Character: N/A
Mom and Dad convince studious college girl to enroll in a beauty pageant, hoping to win big cash prize at the end of the rainbow.
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Las amiguitas de los ricos (1968)
Character: N/A
On Christmas Eve, Santa Claus engineers a miracle that will rehabilitate three kept women into orthodox 'decency' and marriage.
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Remolino de pasiones (1970)
Character: Alfonso Solórzano
A gigolo devises schemes to infiltrate the lives of a terminally ill wealthy man's wife and daughter.
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Historia de un amor (1956)
Character: Especialista médico (uncredited)
Elena (Libertad Lamarque), already a star, falls madly in love with Roberto. They make it to the altar. Elena and Roberto adopt a baby. The years go by and everything is happiness in the couple’s life—until one day the girl’s grandfather appears.
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Yo pecador (1959)
Character: N/A
Biopic of a 1930s operatic tenor who ended up becoming a Franciscan monk and joining the priesthood.
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La venenosa (1949)
Character: El tigre
A snake-charmer falls in love with a circus trapeze artist who trains her and has her debut in this discipline.
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La mano que aprieta (1966)
Character: Julio Arena
Two wrestling stars must investigate strange deaths and a secret criminal organization led by a madman who becomes invisible.
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Ama a tu prójimo (1958)
Character: Empresario
This film tells several short stories that end up lapsing in the emergency room of a hospital, because it is dedicated to nurses. Cantinflas appears at the end of the film playing the role of Luis, a man who has five daughters and looks forward to a boy, but fate plays a trick and the child dies at birth, but history gives a nice twist and a message of hope.
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El hombre que logró ser invisible (1958)
Character: Luis
A man is sentenced to prison for a murder he did not commit. Thanks to a serum invented by his brother, he manages to become invisible and escape from prison in order to prove his innocence, while his brother works feverishly to find an antidote. Theatrically released in USA in Spanish language only; later English-dubbed version syndicated directly to television.
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El jardín de la tía Isabel (1972)
Character: N/A
A ship carrying Conquistadors is wrecked and the survivors are thrown ashore to struggle through the Yucatan jungle.
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La puerta y la mujer del carnicero (1969)
Character: Invitado (segment "La puerta")
A movie divided in two segments, the first "La puerta" (The Door) is about a high society gathering in which a door inside the mansion leads to a bizarre corridor where a naked and menacing human figure appears. The second "La mujer del carnicero" (The Butcher's Wife) is set during the Mexican revolution and is about horrifying hallucinations felt by a lieutenant after committing a murder.
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Santo vs. las mujeres vampiro (1962)
Character: Prof. Orlof
A professor recruits a professional wrestler to protect his daughter from vampires intent on kidnapping her and marrying her to the devil.
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La fièvre monte à El Pao (1959)
Character: N/A
After Caribbean despot Mariano Vargas is murdered at the hands of his enraged populace, his secretary Ramón Vázquez takes not just control but also Vargas' widow Inés, with whom he's been having an affair. Special military unit leader Alejandro Gual arrives to overthrow Vázquez by turning the people and Inés against him.
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Santo en el hotel de la muerte (1963)
Character: Mathias
Tourists visiting the pyramids in Mexico experience a string of deaths and disappearances while staying at a nearby hotel. Police investigators Fernando and Cornado are assigned to the case and attempt to solve the mystery with the help of reporter (and girlfriend of Fernando) Veronica and the wrestler Santo.
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Yesenia (1971)
Character: Julio
A beautiful gypsy named Yesenia has no set path in life. During a caravan trip she meets Osvaldo who is enrolled in the militia, they both fall in love despite their differences and social prejudices.
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Los cachorros (1973)
Character: Mr. Cuéllar
After having his genitals brutally mutilated during childhood, a man must face prejudice and himself.
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Doña Perfecta (1951)
Character: Don Anselmo (uncredited)
Liberal farmer Pepe has arrived in Santa Fe to visit his aunt, Dona Perfecta. While he's there, Pepe is eager to teach the traditional-minded townspeople a new way of living. Unfortunately for Pepe the people of Santa Fe aren't eager to embrace change, and when the citizens begin to voice resentment Pepe is forced to seek refuge with his sympathetic aunt. Dona Perfecta is just as traditional as any of the other townspeople though, and only suffers Pepe due to the fact that he is family. When Pepe and his cousin Rosario fall deeply in love, the situation quickly comes to a head.
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Cascabelito (1962)
Character: N/A
Two puppeteers with an orphan child, and with the help of a journalist, seek to stand out with their show.
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Pedro Páramo (1967)
Character: Padre Rentería
When his mother Dolores dies, Juan Preciado, son of Pedro Páramo, goes to Comala to claim his inheritance; but when he arrives he finds an abandoned and sinister place, inhabited by mysterious voices and whispers…
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Dicen que soy comunista (1951)
Character: Don Federico (jefe de Benito) (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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El gran autor (1954)
Character: Don Sergio
A story of passion and deceit, where love overcomes the misfortunes and finally triumphs.
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Las recién casadas (1962)
Character: N/A
Three newlywed couples and the priest who married them face problems imposed on them by unquestioning adherence to patriarchal values.
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The Big Cube (1969)
Character: Dr. Lorenz
A young woman and her drug addict boyfriend plot to drive the woman's stepmother insane with LSD in a plot to secure an inheritance.
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El ángel exterminador (1962)
Character: Dr. Carlos Conde
After a lavish dinner party, the guests find themselves unable to depart... and, over the next few days, all of their elaborate societal pretenses and façades deteriorate as they are reduced to living like animals.
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El Festín de la Loba (1972)
Character: Don Rubén
A woman with a troubled past introduces lust, depravity and sex to a religious commune.
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