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Huellas del pasado (1950)
Character: Marcos
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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Mujeres sin mañana (1951)
Character: Horacio
Loosely-plotted melodrama about five "hostesses" and the owners of a waterfront nightclub.
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El rayo del sur (1943)
Character: N/A
Latter part of the career of Padre Morelos, the 18th/19th century military leader. Sequel to... um... El Padre Morelos.
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Simón Bolívar (1942)
Character: Mariscal Antonio José de Sucre
Biopic of the revolutionary Simón Bolívar who fought to end Spanish rule over much of Latin America.
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La Diana cazadora (1957)
Character: Doctor
A great love story based on the idea and development of the famous monument that decorating Mexico City.
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La posesión (1950)
Character: Lic. Gregorio Muñoz
Two old friends get hinky with each other over the deed to a tract of land, and their children's engagement gets broken over it.
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Un minuto de bondad (1954)
Character: Juez
A young woman tries to stop the sale of a house that serves as a shelter for orphaned children and retired actors.
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Maternidad imposible (1955)
Character: N/A
Mother and child are separated during the Spanish Civil War. Believing the mother to be dead, the child is sent to a refugee orphanage in Mexico, then adopted. Meanwhile, Mama recovers from her injuries, and...
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Monte de piedad (1951)
Character: Amigo de Rodrigo
Anthology-movie, series of anecdotes about the personal tragedies that lead people to take their values posessions to the state-run pawnshop.
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Reto a la vida (1954)
Character: Padre Lorenzo
Self-righteous young Social Services woman puts all her faith in the institutional answers to questions of the Public Good, and she destroys a couple of lives in the process.
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Las rosas del milagro (1960)
Character: Obispo
Before the Spanish Conquest, an Aztec princess does the Romeo and Juliet thing with the Prince of a neighboring tribe. Sixty years later, a colonized subject has visions of the Virgin Mary.
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Felipe de Jesús (1949)
Character: Capitan Matias de Landecho
Biography of the first Catholic Saint to be born in Mexico.
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Amelia (1966)
Character: N/A
After going through the stages of courtship and marriage, Amelia and Jorge's apparent perfect love ends in estrangement, boredom, abandonment, and tragedy.
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Ladrones de niños (1958)
Character: El General, jefe de policía
Kidnapping band has a system set up to transport infants and older children to black-market adoptive parents in the USA.
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Cada loco con su tema (1939)
Character: Arturo Íñigo
Julio Cesar (Enrique Herrera), writer of soap operas, is very upset nerves. Dr. Jimenez (Alberto Galán) recommends an institution that will give he a therapy to cure these scares. To avoid exposure to bad publicity, is camouflaged by the pseudonym Justiniano Conquian . By chance, a taxidermist (Joaquin Pardavé) also named. His case is different: it is a millionaire heir heritage potential, but will only be legally recognized if it meets a peculiar condition in the will, having to spend a whole month in the gloomy castle Conquian, competing with other heirs of fortune. Dr. Jimenez is bribed by a cousin of Justinian to send the false Conquian scares Castle into thinking that is the sanatorium.
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¡A volar, joven! (1947)
Character: Capitan
Cantinflas is a private in the military, who doesn't know anything about discipline or following rules. He only wants to think about his girlfriend, the maid in an opulent hacienda. The owner of the hacienda has an ugly and shy daughter, who is in love with Cantinflas. The problems arrive when the family arranges a wedding between the ugly girl and Cantinflas, who in order to avoid the commitment gets himself arrested. During his punishment, Cantinflas learns to fly with a silly and poorly trained flight instructor.
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La oveja negra (1949)
Character: Sotero
The Trevino family tries to overcome the irresponsible behavior of Don Cruz, an erratic father with numerous defects that contrast with his son Silvano, a young kid man that is incapable of passing judgment on his own father.
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Gran Casino (1947)
Character: José Enrique Irigoyen
After the mysterious disappearance of an oil well owner, one of his workers, Gerardo assumes the business management. Soon, the owner's sister arrives from Argentina, and, believing that Gerardo killed her brother to keep the wells for himself, she starts working as a singer under a false name in the same casino her brother disappeared, in order to find out what exactly happened.
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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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Los olvidados (1950)
Character: School Principal
A group of juvenile delinquents live a violent life in the infamous slums of Mexico City; among them Pedro, whose morality is gradually corrupted and destroyed by the others.
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El rebozo de Soledad (1952)
Character: Dr. Alfonso Gómez Ugarte
Alberto Robles, a young doctor, is faced with the decision to surrender to a life full of comforts and luxuries or to continue dedicating himself body and soul to serving those who need it most.
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Mujeres sin alma (1934)
Character: Martín Gómez
Julian gets framed for stealing a company check by his superior Carlos who's courting his wife Olga together trying to get him outa the way so they can be together, setting him up, the deed does the job and Julian lands in jail.
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Muertos de miedo (1958)
Character: Col.
A young woman hires Viruta y Capulina to find a notorious jewel thief, known as Rostov.
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El Supersabio (1948)
Character: Fiscal
Cantinflas is the apprentice of a renowned scientist, Prof. Arquimides Monteagudo (Carlos Martinez Baena). But Cantinflas has the soul of a poet rather than a serious researcher, and he wants to find the formula that achieves the immortality of the roses. Nevertheless, after the death of Prof. Monteagudo, Cantinflas will be chased by a ferocious corporative group, who wants to steal the secret formula of a cheaper fuel named "carburex", because they think that our friend is the only person who knows the composition
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Mexicanos al Grito de Guerra (1943)
Character: Gen. Juan Prim
In times of the French Intervention, a student of Nunó, author of the Mexican National Anthem, falls in love with the niece of the French Ambassador, which causes quite amusing complications.
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Miguel Strogoff (1944)
Character: Militar
A Russian courier has to deliver a message from the Czar to the Grand Duke across enemy lines. He encounters many colorful characters along the way.
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El gran calavera (1949)
Character: Gregorio de la Mata
Portrayal of a family’s attempt to change the spending habit of the indulgent and hedonistic patriarch, Alfredo. The family decides to try to fool him into spending less by telling him that his large fortune is gone.
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Ahí está el detalle (1940)
Character: Leonardo del Paso
Cantinflas, the boyfriend of the servant of a rich industrial man, gets into the house in order to kill a mad dog. Suddenly this man appears so the servant tells him that Cantinflas is his wife's brother (Leonardo), who had been lost for years. The rich man then remembers that his father in law's testament could only be paid when all brothers get together, so treats Cantinflas, a real bum, as a king.
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Las tres perfectas casadas (1953)
Character: Doctor (uncredited)
Three married couples gather to celebrate the eighteenth anniversary of their marriage mourning the absence of a friend who was best man at all three weddings.
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La noche avanza (1952)
Character: Luis
Marcos is an arrogant jai-alai player who seduces and discards women until he himself becomes the object of a cunning revenge.
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