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Conozco a los dos (1949)
Character: N/A
Twin brothers separated at birth accidentally meet each other 25 years later. Girlfriends and coworkers are confounded, wacky hijinks!
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Los miserables (1943)
Character: N/A
Police officer makes life hell for an ex-convict. Based on that novel.
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Los apuros de mi ahijada (1951)
Character: N/A
Irresponsible playboy-type needs to cut down on his nightclubbing and his expensive women-friends and buckle down to his Uni studies. Meanwhile, his godfather...
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Las cuatro milpas (1937)
Character: N/A
Bad dude tries to make time with a good dude's fiancée. When he can't get anywhere with her, he and his sidekick frame the good dude for a murder and a bunch of thefts.
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Bodas trágicas (1946)
Character: Padre Muñoz
Jalisco, 19th century. Diego, a wealthy landowner, secretly marries Amparo, defying her father Juan Manuel, who fiercely opposes the union. Juan Manuel still holds a grudge against Diego, having once been his employer when Diego was just a laborer. Their secret marriage stirs jealousy and resentment, particularly in Octavio, Diego’s servant, and his wife Laura, who harbors unspoken feelings for him. As Diego departs for a military mission in Guadalajara, Juan Manuel, unaware of the marriage, attempts to arrange a match between Amparo and the Spaniard José Luis.
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Mi madrecita (1940)
Character: N/A
Woman faces the vicissitudes of life with her three adult children well in the background. But when the chips are down...
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Ave sin rumbo (1937)
Character: Doctor Alvarez
A woman with a past meets a man with a past; the back story of each one represents an obstacle to their couple-bonding. Will they work through their traumas?
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El gallero (1948)
Character: N/A
In Michoacan in the 1920s, Gabriel, a young farmer and champion cockfighter, finds himself in violent opposition to Roman, who not only wants to beat Gabriel's fighting cock, but to steal Gabriel's wife Rosa.
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El calvario de una esposa (1936)
Character: Juez
Confederate Col. Lafe Harvey (Earl Ross) travels home after the Civil War, where he must tell his niece, Betty (Frances Grant), that her father is presumed dead. Soon after he returns, scavengers destroy the family home and he and Betty escape westward. Meanwhile, Gen. John Harvey (William Welch), Betty's father, has been seriously injured but is not dead. He arrives at the deserted plantation with the help of Union soldier Tom (Bob Steele), who then pledges to help John find his family
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Eterna mártir (1937)
Character: Jaime
A dedicated wife and mother takes the blame for embezzling money that was actually stolen by her husband in order to buy medicine and a doctor's care for the couple's seriously ill infant son. Consequently, the well-meaning woman is willingly sentenced to years in prison for a crime she did not commit-all because she believes her son will fare better if the bond between father and son remains intact. Upon her release, she soon discovers that no good deed goes unpunished. Her once loving husband has remarried a woman that her son calls Mother, After just a brief glimpse of her loved ones, she simply leaves without saying a word. Many years later, she becomes a patient at her son's busy medical practice just so that she can keep an eye on his progress in secret. In a cruel twist of fate, it is only after he diagnoses her as being terminally ill does does she reveal her true identity. The poor woman subsequently learns that her former father-in-law lied about her initial release from ...
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El gavilán (1940)
Character: Don Felipe Sandoval
A 1940 film directed by Ramón Pereda.
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Viviré otra vez (1940)
Character: Dr. Guzman (as Manolo Noriega)
Card-sharks blackmail a dissolute young man into participating in a big robbery; his brother takes the rap for him.
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Pepita Jimenez (1946)
Character: Ceferino
On March 22, four days after returning to his home in Andalusia, Luis de Vargas writes the first of his letters to his uncle and favorite professor at the seminary. He reports that his father intends to fatten him up during his vacation, to have him ready to return in the fall to finish his training for the priesthood. He mentions in passing that his father is courting a twenty-year-old, attractive widow, Pepita Jiménez; his father is fifty-five years old. Pepita had been married for only a short time to an eighty-year-old moneylender named Gumersindo. Luis is not eager to see his father marry again, but he promises his uncle not to judge Pepita before he knows her.
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La mujer que engañamos (1945)
Character: Padre Ramírez (as Manolo Noriega)
Woman chooses between two suitors. The lucky one is a cad and cheats on her, the one who was rejected hangs around in the background to set things right whenever she has a problem.
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Mil estudiantes y una muchacha (1942)
Character: Don Amador
The dream of Atenodoro is to be a professor at the Faculty of Law. The students show enthusiasm for Ana, the professor’s daughter. Atenodoro resigns from his class, and the students try to make him return by pretending to be the rector and his family.
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Alejandra (1942)
Character: Cuñado de Elena
There's a lot of confusion about who Alejandra's parents are, and until those questions are resolved, she may not be able to get married.
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Odio (1940)
Character: N/A
A 1940 film directed by William Rowland.
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Morenita clara (1943)
Character: Notario (as Manolo Noriega)
Priest nags a crusty old man into reconciling with his daughter-in-law and granddaughter after the death of his son.
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El misterio del rostro pálido (1935)
Character: Justo
Dr. Forti carries out strange experiments, assisted by his son Pablo. They embark on an expedition to the jungle. Eight years later Forti returns without his son but strange things start to happen in the old house where they live.
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Cuatro noches contigo (1952)
Character: Don Nico, gerente hotel
Traveling salesman meets a young woman who's running away from home, and helps her evade detectives who are tracking her.
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El charro Negro (1940)
Character: Don Pedro
Masked cowboy avenger in the style of The Lone Ranger, first film in a series of four.
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A media luz (1947)
Character: Juan Pitas
Tango singer exploits the women in his life. Learns a valuable life-lesson.
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Los muertos hablan (1935)
Character: Profesor Jiménez
Professor Jiménez believes the human retina retains the image of the last thing a person sees before death. Only his student Eduardo stands by him in the face of widespread mockery. Together they will try and prove the professors theory but fate has a unpleasant way of helping them do this.
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El baúl macabro (1936)
Character: Dr. Monroy
A crazed scientist tries to keep his terminally ill wife alive by transfusing into her the blood of young women he murders.
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La reina de la opereta (1946)
Character: Don Luis de la Fuente
Mario marries Blanca, the queen of operetta, but after their daughter is born, they separate and she leaves on a world tour to continue her artistic career. Meanwhile, he stays behind and waits with the baby until they reunite again.
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El Mago (1949)
Character: Profesor escuela, cliente mago (uncredited)
A slapstick fantasy of the amorous adventures of a magician a la Cantinflas.
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¡A volar, joven! (1947)
Character: Doctor (uncredited)
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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Macario (1960)
Character: Abuelo enfermo (uncredited)
Poor, hungry peasant Macario longs for just one good meal on the Day of the Dead. After his wife cooks a turkey for him, he meets three apparitions, the Devil, God, and Death. Each asks him to share his turkey, but he refuses all except Death. In return, Death gives him a bottle of water which will heal any illness. Soon, Macario is more wealthy than the village doctor, which draws the attention of the feared Inquisition.
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El río y la muerte (1954)
Character: Pueblerino (uncredited)
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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Crepúsculo (1945)
Character: Papá de Lucía (as Manolo Noriega)
Doctor Alejandro Mangino falls in love with Lucía just before he goes on a round-the-world trip. Pining for her all the while, he returns to find that she’s married his best friend.
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Dos tipos de cuidado (1953)
Character: Rosario's Doctor
Jorge Bueno and Pedro Malo are best friends who consider giving up their womanizing ways when they each fall in love. As fate would have it, Pedro Malo unexpectedly marries Jorge Bueno's girlfriend, and the conflict between the former buddies begins.
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¡Arriba las mujeres! (1943)
Character: Don Próspero (as Manolo Noriega)
Movie in which funny situations based on the entanglements caused by a woman named Felicidad to her family because of her feminist ideology are presented, to the extent of bringing her daughters and herself to a divorce trial.
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Reportaje (1953)
Character: Police secretary (uncredited)
Reporters compete for cash prize awarded for biggest scoop on New Year's Eve.
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Con su amable permiso (1940)
Character: N/A
Unassuming elderly gent is installed as Mayor, by a cabal of financiers that expect to use him as a cat's paw.
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La ilusión viaja en tranvía (1954)
Character: Don Julio (uncredited)
Confronted with the unfortunate news that their favorite Streetcar, no. 133, is going to be decommissioned, two Municipal Transit workers get drunk and decide to "take 'er for one last spin," as it were. Unfortunately, the "one last spin" ends up being an all-night and all-day scramble to stay out of trouble, as they are confronted with situation after sometimes bizarre situation that prevents them from returning the "borrowed" Streetcar!
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Dos monjes (1934)
Character: N/A
In a Gothic-styled monastery, a monk named Javier sees the face of another monk, Juan, and suddenly attempts to bludgeon him to death with a heavy crucifix. Both men then relate their own versions of a story of romantic rivalry between them.
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Cuando los hijos se van (1941)
Character: Don Claudio (as Manolo Noriega)
Unjustly accused of theft, the noble Raimundo is forced to leave his paternal home. A new incident, caused by the ambition of his brother José, causes Raimundo to be disowned by his girlfriend María and by his father, the just and strict Don Pepe. The only one who believes in Raimundo is his mother, Dona Lupita, a woman who suffers deeply because of the wrong decisions of her children.
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Allá en el Rancho Grande (1936)
Character: Don Rosendo
Two good friends — the owner and general manager of a ranch — fall in love with the same girl at the same time. The owner tries to 'buy' the girl without knowing she is in love with the manager.
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Cinco rostros de mujer (1947)
Character: Pedro, mayordomo (as Manolo Noriega)
"The great love of his life" happened five times; one of those women just wrote him a letter. Which one will it be?
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La zandunga (1938)
Character: Don Eulogio (as Manolo Noriega)
It is the story of a beautiful Tehuana woman who falls in love with a sailor who leaves with the promise of returning, but due to her delay she decides to accept a former suitor as her husband. Finally, when the marriage is about to materialize, the sailor returns creating an emotional conflict in her that is resolved thanks to her fiancé who, by intuiting her true feelings, leaves her free to stay with the sailor
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¿Qué te ha dado esa mujer? (1951)
Character: Señor Cura
This musical comedy tells the story of two men whose friendship (whose beginning is told in "A toda máquina") is affected by assumptions love triangles and misunderstandings between the two, however, the value of that friendship overcomes all difficulties.
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Romeo y Julieta (1943)
Character: (uncredited)
Verona's peace is disturbed by the rivalry between noble families: the Montesco and the Capuleto, irreconcilable enemies. The two families have continued fighting to make life unbearable in the Italian town. The Prince of Verona informs the chiefs that the two families respond with their lives if there are new struggles. At a ball in honor of Juliet, the daughter of Capuleto, incidentally meets Romeo, son of Montesco. Both fall in love immediately, not knowing that their love is impossible.
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Tarzan and the Mermaids (1948)
Character: Older Aquitanian
A high priest tries to force a young beauty to marry a pearl trader who is masquerading as the god Balu.
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Mujeres sin alma (1934)
Character: Bank employer
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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El rapto (1954)
Character: Don Gonzalo (uncredited)
In a small Mexican village the news shock neighbors, Ricardo Alfaro, a wealthy local rancher has disappeared without a trace. Taking advantage of the circumstance, Aurora Campos, a strong woman with overwhelming beauty, convinces the authorities to sell her the property in exchange for twelve thousand dollars. Soon after, when Ricardo suddenly reappears, a real battle is about to begin.
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La Barraca (1945)
Character: Tío Tomba
The film chronicles the adventures of a peasant family of the late nineteenth century to push through his work with the opposition and hatred of the rest of the villagers.
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El Supersabio (1948)
Character: Profesor (uncredited)
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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El ametralladora (1943)
Character: Inspector
Peasant farmer and landowner are rivals for a woman. Sequel to Ay Jalisco No Te Rajes.
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Ahí está el detalle (1940)
Character: Juez
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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Subida al cielo (1952)
Character: Licenciado Figueroa
Newlywed Oliverio receives disturbing news that his mother is on her deathbed. He travels to a remote part of Mexico to fetch a lawyer who can sort out her will. Leaving his wife behind, he embarks on a bus ride that’s interrupted by an increasingly absurd series of episodes, including an impromptu birthday celebration; a one-legged man writhing in the mud; come-ons from an insatiable small-town belle, Raquel; and Oliverio’s frequent, Freudian nightmares.
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En los tiempos de Don Porfirio (1940)
Character: N/A
In a Mexican city at the end of the 19th century, Don Francisco, a gambler and a bohemian, almost forgets his wedding and is late. The bride, who is pregnant, is sent to Paris by the snubbed family.
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