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Huellas del pasado (1950)
Character: Pepita
A young singer falls madly in love with a man, with whom she forms a family. Problems, however, are not long in coming when she receives unfair accusations.
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Cuatro copas (1958)
Character: N/A
Upper-crust city gal falls for a rough-edged working-class guy, so she follows him to his home town and masquerades as a peasant/Indian local to win him over. All very stalky and classist.
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Dos hijos desobedientes (1960)
Character: N/A
Meddling mom tries to set up her two cowboy sons to marry two sisters who are looking for domesticated, 'indoor' husbands that cook and keep house.
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El sordo (1959)
Character: N/A
Craftsman who sculpts religious figures goes deaf. Lotsa pathos.
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La hija del penal (1949)
Character: N/A
A young woman who was born and grew up on an island prison-colony decides to move to the island and try life in the real world. Romance, bad luck and astonishing coincidences wait in her path.
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Las Leandras (1961)
Character: N/A
Mistaken identity farce; theatre troupe moves into a rental mansion in order to convince someone that it's a finishing school for young ladies... but the site used to be an expensive brothel, and a former customer turns up at just the wrong moment. Wacky complications!
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El caso de la mujer asesinadita (1955)
Character: Teresa
Ghosts and premonitions; a married woman discovers the true love of her life while being plagued with supernatural phenomena relating to her imminent murder. It's a comedy.
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Carnaval en el trópico (1942)
Character: N/A
Three Mexican friends decide to go to Vercacruz Carnaval to celebrate. There they watch Cantinflas' show of torero and boxer.
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Los Beverly de Peralvillo (1971)
Character: Doña Chole
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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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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Sobre el muerto las coronas (1961)
Character: N/A
A family has their daughter marry a dying man in order to get an inheritance, but get into trouble when the man survives his illness.
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Yo hice a Roque III (1993)
Character: N/A
A lazy slob agrees to a fixed boxing match in order to be accepted by his family and friends.
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Fruto prohibido (1953)
Character: La actriz
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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La vorágine: abismos de amor (1949)
Character: N/A
It narrates the adventures of the poet Arturo Cova and his lover Alicia, a story of passion and revenge framed in the plain lands and the Amazon jungle where the two lovers scape from society, and which exposes throughout its plot the harsh living conditions of settlers and Indians enslaved during the rubber rush.
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Al son del mambo (1950)
Character: María La O
A fun musical comedy style of the 50s where the infectious rhythm of the son and the mambo, led by the hand by the incomparable Damaso Perez Prado, will a waste of good music and grace. With a formidable cast, and above all a fabulous collector's item.
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Polvora En La Piel (1992)
Character: N/A
Compilation tape of Hora Marcada episodes. Roxana Chavez is a young girl who's flirting with death, trapped in a dangerous liaison with boss Fernando Balzaretti. She has the power to seduce him but her life will shortly turn into a nightmare when she discovers a stranger waiting in her apartment. What does he have to do with her lover, and how can she escape this assassin's trap?
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Cabaret Shanghai (1950)
Character: Eva Romagnoli, mujer de la calle
Nightclub-owner/gangster discovers that his dame and his second-in-command are cheating on him.
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Las fuerzas vivas (1975)
Character: N/A
It narrates the phenomenon of the Mexican Revolution, satirically reflected through what happens in a town far from the places where the true Revolution was fiercely fought.
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Quisiera ser hombre (1988)
Character: Chona
Manuela (Lucerito) has a lot of difficulties to get work as a fashion designer, since the world of "haute couture" is preferred by men. She decides to change her appearance in order to have luck, so Manuela becomes Manuelito. Immediately find a job as an assistant of Miguel (Guillermo Capetillo), who is also a designer. Miguel offers to share his department, and Manuelito agrees because she/he doesn't have a place to live. This raises a number of funny situations, especially when Miguel is alarmed to know that he is falling in love with his "male friend"
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Cuando el diablo sopla (1966)
Character: N/A
Two babies are switched in the cradle to gratify wealthy parents' preference for a boy. Nineteen years later, the babies meet...
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El patrullero 777 (1978)
Character: Señora en delegación
Follows Diogenes as he goes about his day as a police officer. He's prone to do things the right way, surrounded by a pretty much corrupt & citizen distant police department, & always resolves his duties with a personal method.
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Caballero a la medida (1954)
Character: María
Cantinflas works as a model of tuxedos in a prestigious store, your job is to use the smoking in the street along with an advertising sign on his back. The use of smoking gives you access to exclusive places and meet important people. During this time, Cantinflas was the manager of an amateur boxer, it is an attractive nurse assistant and occasionally attending a priest in the church and the orphanage. However, a Cantinflas day while wearing tuxedo, is a rich man, who mistakenly believe that Cantinflas is a millionaire too.
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El Mago (1949)
Character: Mujer de Pedro, clienta de mago
A slapstick fantasy of the amorous adventures of a magician a la Cantinflas.
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Mi desconocida esposa (1958)
Character: Clara / Dorita
After moving from Guadalajara to Mexico City, a young woman gets embroiled in a series of puzzling mistaken-identity misadventures.
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Cri Cri el Grillito Cantor (1963)
Character: Cantante en la Carpa
Biography of the famous composer of children's music Gabilondo Soler. Starts from his childhood, when he worked as a pastor and grandmother tried to teach him to play the piano. Later he went to the city to study music theory and began writing his first songs.
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El gendarme desconocido (1941)
Character: Esposa de enfermo
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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¡Maldita Ciudad! Una comedia dramática (1954)
Character: Amalia, Betty's mother
A humble provincial writer who wants to publish his first book offers it to a film producer who is looking for locations for a film at that time. The novelist's family then moves to the big city, where they will have to face many adversities that will make them wish they had never left their village.
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Mi padrino (1969)
Character: N/A
Bumbling oaf takes custody of his god-daughter and helps her advance her singing career.
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