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La casa colorada (1947)
Character: N/A
Mexican Revolution: rich man's son kills somebody over a woman, runs off to the war, goes home afterwards. Many complications, much melodrama.
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Mujeres sin mañana (1951)
Character: Domingo
Loosely-plotted melodrama about five "hostesses" and the owners of a waterfront nightclub.
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La fe en Dios (1950)
Character: N/A
Criminal on the lam assumes the identity of a dead priest and takes his place in a rural parish.
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Pecadora (1947)
Character: N/A
Prostitution and drug-smuggling in Mexico City and Cd. Juarez.
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El muchacho alegre (1948)
Character: N/A
Boisterous young charro has to prove to his girlfriend's parents that he's ready to settle down and be a responsible adult... but then somebody frames him for a murder and he has more immediate problems to deal with.
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Cuando acaba la noche (1950)
Character: Bernabé
Newspaper reporter interests himself in contesting a manslaughter verdict on behalf of the son of a woman who saves his life.
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Medianoche (1949)
Character: Romeo
A villain has his cronies kidnap a teacher and pretends to be him, teaching in a hidden town.
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Kid Tabaco (1955)
Character: N/A
Tony Ray is not enough to impress Diana thus decides to become a boxer. At last he can have it all: money and feel worthy enough to propose.
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El Beisbolista Fenomeno (1952)
Character: N/A
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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Carta Brava (1949)
Character: Tío de Carta Brava
Safe-cracker sets up a gangster rival to get arrested; after some unrelated adventures, that guy escapes from jail and pays him back.
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Hombres sin alma (1951)
Character: Santo niño
Final installment in Juan Orol's Percal trilogy. In this film, Malena is freed from prison by a gangster but a rival mobster will make things impossible for them.
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Vino el remolino y nos alevantó (1950)
Character: Mayor
Three generations of a stable, middle-class family in the capitol are scattered to the four winds by blowback from the Mexican Revolution.
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El Reino de los Gángsters (1948)
Character: N/A
Johnny Carmenta is a gunman who heads a gang of gangsters. Carmenta secretly acts as a kind of El Zorro, helping the unprotected.
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Canto a mi tierra (1938)
Character: Espectador teatro (uncredited)
Theatrical producers discover a new musical-theatre star in a small farming town.
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¡Qué lindo es Michoacán! (1943)
Character: Crisóforo
When her father dies, a young woman must go to Michoacán to take charge of her lands, where she meets a young man and they both fall in love.
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El río y la muerte (1954)
Character: Filegonio Menchaca
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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Abajo el Telón (1955)
Character: Detective de policía (uncredited)
Cantinflas, who owns a cleaning business, cleans the windows of the house of a famous French actress. While carrying out his work he observes how a man steals one of the famous actress necklaces, but he can only see his back.
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Estrellas solitarias (2015)
Character: N/A
To the beat of punk and pop, Valentina and Joana pursue their most intimate and deepest dreams. On the road to success, they will find obstacles that will test their friendship. The harshness and absurdity of their lives, fuses with the sweet and sour story of a world where the party seems to go on forever.
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La sombra del Caudillo (1960)
Character: Coronel Saldívar
In 1920s Mexico, the candidates being chosen to succeed the current president, El Caudillo, find themselves at his mercy as he will resort to anything to accomplish his will, including kidnapping, betrayal, and murder.
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Dicen que soy comunista (1951)
Character: Camarada Buenaventura
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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Nosotros los pobres (1948)
Character: Ledo
Carpenter Pepe El Toro lives peacefully with his daughter Chachita in an impoverished Mexico City neighborhood. He pursues a romance with the pretty Celia, but tragedy comes knocking on his door when he is falsely accused of having perpetrated a felony.
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Ustedes los ricos (1948)
Character: Ledo, El Tuerto
Pepe el Toro is married to Celia la Chorreada and they have two children.
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Rosenda (1948)
Character: Teniente Solórzano
A ruffian sends his assistant to force a peasant girl to marry him, but while he is bringing her to him, he falls in love with her.
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Ni sangre ni arena (1941)
Character: Miembro cuadrilla (uncredited)
Cantinflas enjoys the bullfight show, and wants to crash in every of these spectacles. Also, there's a professional bullfighter, Manolete, who is identical to Cantinflas. Manolete has to give a bullfight show in a village, but Cantinflas arrives first as a stowaway in a train, and he'll be mistake by the real bullfighter. Cantinflas will give us a demonstration of courage.
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