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Pedro infante vive? (1991)
Character: N/A
Reporter/photographer covering a Pedro Infante commemorative event discover an uncanny look-alike lurking on the periphery.
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El sexo de los ricos (1981)
Character: N/A
Newlywed couple loses their moral compasses while hubby climbs the career ladder in a corrupt office.
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Los Dos Matones (1983)
Character: N/A
That cartel guy wants to buy the Terraza family's ranch, but they don't want to sell. Can they hold out till their tough-guy older brother comes home to take charge of this situation?
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Muchachas, muchachas, muchachas (1968)
Character: N/A
A group of college girls are traveling through Guanajuato, Mexico when their car suddenly breaks down. In an attempt to get a male passer-by to help them, the girls (led by the voluptuous Rosa Maria Vazquez) strip down to their bras and panties. At first, they are snubbed by a gay couple, but eventually the young women receive help from a local 'farm worker' (Dominican actor Andres Garcia). From here, the coeds are taken to a local town, where they are mistaken for a group of strippers. To tantalize would-be beaus, the young lovelies parade around their apartment complex in bikinis. The coeds' leader begins to fall in love with the 'farm worker,' but it is later revealed that he is not what he appears to be.
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Nuestro Juramento (1980)
Character: Señor Godinez
"Nuestro Juramento" is the life of the singer, Julio Jaramillo, presented episodically, having as background his childhood, youth, his first loves, the apotheosis of his career and his dramatic end. The musicalization of the film has the singles taken from the singer's original recordings.
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El ganador (1992)
Character: N/A
A little girl who dresses as a boy to steal so she can support herself and her guardian who is like a father to her. One day while stealing meets a young man who gives her a job and becomes good friends with her.
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Las cautivas (1973)
Character: Policía
Raimundo, a wealthy man, died of a heart attack. The notary reads out Raimundo's will, leaving all his estate and companies to the widow, Luz, with the surprising clause that she will remain without a man for the period of two years, during which his trusted attorney, Arturo, will be in possession of the whole patrimony. Luz being much younger than her late husband, resents this clause that will keep her captive of the dead man for so long. Her attempts to seek release in the night spots of the town do not prove satisfying. Lucia, the maid, starts an extortion scheme against the widow, menacing to denounce the murder of Raimundo with venom, as Luz and Arturo were lovers. The faithful cook and the gardener are dismissed and Lucía literally takes her employer's image, clothes, and manners - forcing Luz to play humbly to her (progressively insane) demands.
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357 Magnum (1979)
Character: N/A
Two detectives infiltrate a smuggling gang to take revenge for the murder of their brother and his family.
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Las cenizas del diputado (1977)
Character: N/A
A political player is presumed dead in a traffic accident; his relatives all try to cash in on his estate while he goes into hiding with schemes of his own.
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Lagunilla, mi barrio (1981)
Character: N/A
After 42 years of working as an antiquarian , Abel is fired by the children of his recently deceased employer; however, after this unexpected situation that leaves him in solitude and with little chance to get a new job, he decides to start again as antiques dealer in the popular Lagunilla market . There he will find real friends ; a humble life and, above all , a new opportunity to fall in love regardless of social differences.
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La marcha a Zacatecas (1969)
Character: General Felipe Ángeles
Villistas, army officers, heirs and heiresses all gather at the home of a recently deceased hacendado. Everybody has an agenda, everybody butts heads in comical ways. Or not so much.
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Esos viejos raboverdes (1983)
Character: Inocencio
A club of elderly dudes plan a contest among themselves to see who can pull the most babes over a holiday weekend.
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Camino al infierno (1987)
Character: N/A
Happily married Jorge takes his family on vacation to the beach but three nuts show up to spoil their fun by raping his wife and killing everyone. Jorge manages to survive the ordeal and decides to take justice in his own hands.
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Para servir a usted (1971)
Character: Policía
Working-class dude gets a gig as a waiter doing banquet service, and loses his moral compass through his contacts with decadent rich folk.
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Infamia (1991)
Character: N/A
MARÍA ROJO, who established herself as a great actress in "Rojo Amanecer", "Danzón" and "La Tarea", offers us yet another of her excellent performances in this stupendous film, based on a chilling true event that shook public opinion. Directed by Luis Carlos Carrera ("Benjamín's Woman"), INFAMIA tells the story of a young Chicana (Daniela Castro) who sees her life destroyed by the bureaucracy of a society that denies the rights of immigrants.
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Tres historias de amor (1978)
Character: N/A
Three people live in the same building: An anxious teenager, a girl who wants to be kidnapped by a prince, and a maid who wants to explore eroticism.
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Tempestad (1978)
Character: N/A
The emotional journeys of two women victimized by corruption and injustice in Mexico and of the love, dignity and resistance that allowed them to survive.
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El coyote emplumado (1983)
Character: Detective (as Jorge Feagan)
The outstanding comedian, "La India Maria," unknowingly ends up as a detective in Acapulco, pursued by smugglers of ancient artifacts.
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El Fiscal De Hierro 3 (1992)
Character: N/A
Mario Almada returns as "el fiscal de hierro", in this entry his family is kidnapped by gang leader Ramona Pineda.
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El héroe desconocido (1983)
Character: Pueblerino
An outcast, Rodolfo Martínez, whom no one loves and whom everyone despises and undervalues in his town of Valle Verde, in Mexico, decides to change his luck. He decides to invent that he has a very important ancestor and that is why he deserves a statue that will remind future generations of everything he has done. Rodolfo doesn't care what happens, all he wants is to stop being a failure and for people to see him as an equal.
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A Golpe de Hacha (1991)
Character: N/A
A woman is being stalked at night by an unseen assailant who’s chopping up people she knows.
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Morir de madrugada (1980)
Character: N/A
A successful lawyer has his life shattered when his beautiful wife is found murdered. An investigation reveals she was lying to him and leading a double life... but who killed her?
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Duro pero seguro (1978)
Character: Chucho el Remendado
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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El hijo de Lamberto Quintero (1990)
Character: N/A
Lamberto Quintero is assassinated and his son intends to avenge him following in his footsteps. The pair of father and son, Antonio Aguilar and Pepe Aguilar star in this action film.
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Dinastia sangrienta (1988)
Character: N/A
A dying woman tells her son Luis about the time when his father had destroyed the vampire Dracul, but now she fears he will return and Luis must stop him.
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Los leones del ring (1974)
Character: Pepe
Young wrestler runs afoul of gambling-syndicate Mafiosi; his twin brother and two friends meet at his funeral and decide to avenge his murder (which they don't even start doing until the sequel).
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Arizona (1984)
Character: N/A
Tragedy strikes a group of immigrants crossing the border between Arizona and Mexico.
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Hacer el amor con otro (1991)
Character: N/A
Two brothers live next door to a beautiful young woman and her still-attractive mother. Each decides to win one of them over, setting off a chain of mix-ups and misunderstandings that only come to an end once both romances finally take shape.
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Retrato de una mujer casada (1982)
Character: Juez
Irene is a young housewife and mother who tries to raise her young family, love her husband and keep her home all the while studying her masters' degree. Mario, her husband, is a good man, but he's tied by convention. When she has a strange mishap one day, her domestic life is catapulted in a whirl of horror and violence that will tear the fabric of her very existence apart.
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El año de la peste (1978)
Character: Quintanar, Turism Secretary
A terrible disease is found in a Mexican town. A doctor tries to alert the authorities when he discovers its epidemic nature. No one listen to him and soon after the disease spreads. The government tries to control the information in order to prevent panic.
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El maleficio 2: Los enviados del infierno (1986)
Character: N/A
Raul Araiza's chilling Spanish-language supernatural thriller tells the tale of two powerful beings, one good and one evil incarnate, fighting for control of Earth--and of a beautiful woman.
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Pobre, pero honrada (1973)
Character: Pueblerino chismoso
Beloved Mexican screen star La India Maria portrays a poor but honorable woman who causes a stir around town when she decides to become a witch doctor in this classic comedy from director Fernando Cortes. When the real medical practitioner in town discovers that there's a new shaman around, the comic trouble that follows is sure to keep viewers in stitches.
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Triángulo (1972)
Character: Psiquiatra Arana
The story of Mother and Daughter for a Husband and Stepfather who was killed by shotgun.
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Cadena perpetua (1979)
Character: N/A
After being released from jail, "Tarzan" Lira seeks to rebuild his life as a bank employee. Unfortunately, it might not be as easy as he thinks.
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Misterio (1980)
Character: Executive producer
A soap opera actor is mixed in a real drama very similar to what he represents in his work.
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Antonieta (1982)
Character: Gerente Hotel
Anna is a psychologist undertaking research about famous suicidal women. She takes a specific interest in the case of Antonieta Rivas Mercado, who killed herself in 1931 in the Cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris.
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El Embustero (1984)
Character: N/A
In order to remain unnoticed in the eyes of justice, a clever rogue poses as a generous teacher at a small town school.
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La pachanga (1981)
Character: N/A
In a building, at the same time a girl's birthday is celebrated and an old man who died of cold is being watched.
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El Profeta Mimí (1973)
Character: Detective de policia
Childhood trauma and religious repression causes a little boy to grow up into a murderer.
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Ruby Cairo (1992)
Character: Undertaker
Baseball cards and a food-aid worker help a woman follow her shady husband's money trail around the world.
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El santo oficio (1974)
Character: Padre Oroz
A plague is spreading through 16th century Mexico, and the Inquisition of the Roman Catholic Church is rooting out Jews, for they are believed to be its cause. At his father's funeral, a monk observes his family practicing Jewish burial rite, and he reports them, leading to devastating consequences for the whole family.
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El Quelite (1970)
Character: (uncredited)
Agapito, leader of the revolutionary movement of his state, comes to a town, kills all the federales, and gets a girl who was promised to him for his heroic deeds.
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La primavera de los escorpiones (1971)
Character: Periodista
A lady photographer and her preteen son on vacation at a beautiful Mexican resort, befriend two men whose homosexual relationship is going through some tough times.
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Cananea (1978)
Character: Presidente municipal
Based on a true story in the American owned Cananea mine. It depicts how the owner profits while the Mexican workers struggle to survive and are exploited for their labour.
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Tonta tonta, pero no tanto (1972)
Character: Delegado
María Nicolasa Cruz, an illiterate young Mazahua woman, travels to Mexico City in search of a better life, only to be swept into a chain of misunderstandings and conspiracies that make her an unlikely suspect in thefts and murders. Amid discrimination, corruption, and absurdity, her innocence ultimately exposes an international criminal network and changes not only her own future but that of her entire community.
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El bueno para nada (1973)
Character: Trabajador de procuraduría
Bumbling inventor/jack of all trades does sketch-comedy stuff for 65 minutes, then rescues Mexico City from a Mad Scientist triggering earthquakes.
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La casta divina (1977)
Character: Don Ambrosio
Chronicle Caste War in Yucatan held in the nineteenth century, where the land and the people were the property of the landowners, who called themselves " divine caste ". On one hand, General Salvador Alvarado organized the revolution; on the other, the landowners hire Colonel Ortiz Argumedo to organized the defense of their autonomy. Don Wilfrido, one of the masters, do not hesitate to send his son to fight to maintain their wealth and privileges.
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El patrullero (1991)
Character: N/A
A naïve rookie in the Mexican highway patrol must adapt in order to survive as he contends with widespread corruption, dangerous drug runners and the consequences of his often morally gray actions.
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El tahúr (1979)
Character: N/A
Three childhood friends; when they grow up, the poor boy is shut out from the possibility of romancing the girl because of class issues. He leaves town, learns to play pro-level poker, wins a fortune, then goes home to ruin his rival's life.
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Maten al León (1977)
Character: Barrientos
A pilot is called back to his homeland, the Latin American republic of Arepa, by the rich islanders to participate in a complot to kill the dictator known as El León (The Lion).
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Rojo amanecer (1990)
Character: Don Roque
On October 2, 1968, a student uprising descends into violence after the Mexican government begins to use lethal force against the protesters.
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La viuda negra (1983)
Character: N/A
Intrigues and secrets come together because of a woman, who has the protection of the parish priest.
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Música de Viento (1989)
Character: N/A
Mr. Quevedo is a public relationist in a real estate company managed by Mr. Cepeda. Mr. Cepeda has become rich through fraudulent practices. Mr. Martinez is a client who was victimized by Mr. Cepeda; thus he appears one day at the real estate office looking for Mr. Cepeda but instead he found Mr. Quevedo and appoints him with a gun, Mr. Quevedo farts unintentionally due to the menacing situation. Mr. Quevedo teaches the audience to bravely act according to the own values.
—Elizabeth Kahl
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Principio y fin (1994)
Character: Absalón
The film tells the story of the Boteros, a middle-class Mexican family struggling against poverty after their father's death. Ignacia (Egurrola) is the Boteros mother, a desperate woman who chooses to sacrifice the destiny of her three older children, in order to protect Gabriel (Laguardia) the youngest one. She believes Gabriel will climb the social structure and bring back the lost fortune to the family. But destiny has other plans for the Boteros and tragedy will overcome eventually. Based on the novel of Nobel Prize winner Naguib Mahfouz.
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De todos modos Juan te llamas (1976)
Character: N/A
Analytical view of one of the least reported conflicts of national cinema: the Cristero movement that developed in the regions of western Mexico between 1926 and 1929, highlighting the inability to be faithful to both the Church and the State.
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Puerto Escondido (1992)
Character: Man at the pawn shop
Targeted by a dirty cop after witnessing a murder, bank clerk Mario flees to Puerto Escondido, Mexico, where a couple of oddball Italian expats drags him into a journey of self-discovery and bad decisions.
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Kino (1993)
Character: Priest Goñi
Propped up on his deathbed, a 17th century Spanish missionary named Father Kino (Enrique Rocha) looks back on his remarkable life and relives one of his greatest challenges: bringing the teachings of Christianity to California's native population while convincing the Spanish military to respect the Indians' traditions.
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SOS Conspiracion Bikini (1967)
Character: SOS agent 4
Secret Organizational Service (S.O.S.) is an international crime syndicate, quite successful with their feminine agents operating under the guise of a fashion model agency led by Lady Bristol and her associate Luigi. The International Service is the governmental secret service decided to put a term to SOS's action. An agent has infiltrated SOS - but she is in danger, after sending a coded message to her supervising Inspector. So, agents Alex Dinamo is to join forces with Adriana, and give the undercover agent a hand.
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Canoa: memoria de un hecho vergonzoso (1976)
Character: Comandante
A group of students arrives in a small town during a hiking expedition. Once there, the local priest accuses them of being communist agitators on the run from an army crack-down against student demonstrations in nearby Mexico City and rallies the townsfolk to lynch them. Based on a true story.
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El imperio de la fortuna (1986)
Character: Juez Veedor
Poor Dionisio finds himself as recipient of the good fortune, but soon he forgets that everything that goes up also has to go down, and that in the depressing nothingness of his town it is easy to die.
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Los confines (1987)
Character: Guadalupe Terreros
Mix magical universe of Juan Rulfo, in which Juan Preciado, "Pedro Paramo", located incestuous siblings "Talpa" while Juvencio Nava, of "Diles que no me maten", flee several men who pursue for killing Colonel Terrones.
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