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Dueña y señora (1948)
Character: N/A
After his wife dies, the master of the house can... maybe... acknowledge that he had children with the houseekeeper. But will he?
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Arriba el norte (1949)
Character: N/A
Husband and wife are reunited after a twenty-year misunderstanding; their grown daughter has her eye on a fella.
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La Panchita (1949)
Character: N/A
Flirty young farmgirl has five or six suitors to choose between.
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Cuentan de una mujer (1959)
Character: N/A
Frivolous young society woman gains depth and maturity through contact with the director of an orphanage and his wards.
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Callejera (1949)
Character: N/A
Struggling songwriter "adopts" a teenaged girl to protect her from her abusive father.
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El pecador (1965)
Character: N/A
College professor has mid-life crisis, gets mixed up with prostitutes and gangsters.
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Las colegialas (1946)
Character: N/A
Girl goes to boarding school while her widowed father pursues a romance. His thing turns out badly, but she meets her future husband.
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Mi adorada Clementina (1953)
Character: N/A
A woman in an unhappy marriage trades places with her grandmother's ghost; Grandma whupps the girl's husband into line AND proves to her own husband that she was innocent of the infidelity that he was suspecting when she died, fifty years earlier.
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La sombra de los hijos (1964)
Character: N/A
Dying woman refuses to surrender to her unnamed movie disease until she can help her children through the big, big problems each one is facing.
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Los perversos a-go-go (1967)
Character: N/A
Priest is sympathetic and understanding toward mod-era young folks and their new world-view... but he gets in trouble with a biker gang and with a young woman who crushes unhealthily on him.
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La dama del alba (1950)
Character: N/A
Family rescues a woman from the river nearby where their daughter committed suicide years before. Unresolved mysteries. And meanwhile, there's a mysterious woman in black who shows up at the hacienda just before somebody dies.
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Un divorcio (1953)
Character: N/A
Divorced woman has to deal with blowback from the fact that her second marriage is only a civil union and not a church wedding. Meanwhile, her young-adult son is falling in love with a divorcee of his own, and faing severe opposition from his father over his choice of partners..
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Un milagro de amor (1949)
Character: N/A
Young man goes to Mexico City in search of opportunity and gets framed for another person's embezzlement at their place of employ. Meanwhile, back home, his fiancée the blind woman...
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El hombre de la isla (1960)
Character: Berta Shel
Berta is a German who comes to a small fishing village to marry Lorenzo, owner of an island and that only known her through his letters. The early days of their marriage are a constant disappointment, especially when it finds that her husband has no resemblance to the author of the letters. He lives embittered by an old story and is hated by all.
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Soledad (1947)
Character: Evangelina
Soledad, a maid born in Argentina, works at a Mexican farm. The son of her employer will deceive her, pretending to marry her and leaving her pregnant. When she finds out that she has been tricked, she runs away from the farm. During her flight she meets a group of artists that'll change her life.
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La mentira (1952)
Character: Verónica Castillo Blanco
When Demetrio arrives at the mine to meet his brother Ricardo, he finds out that Ricardo has committed suicide for the love of a woman. He promises to avenge the death of his brother..
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Casa De Muñecas (1954)
Character: N/A
Adaptation of the play by Henrik Ibsen. Mexican version of " A Doll's House." A spendthrift wife hides from her banker husband that she is in debt to a dishonorable employee her husband has fired.
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Después de la tormenta (1955)
Character: Rosa Rivero
This Mexican melodrama may have been released above the border as After the Storm. The principal characters are a pair of twin lighthouse keepers. They try their best to live together with their wives under the same roof, but the delicate balance is shattered when one of the brothers falls in love with his sister-in-law. When one twin is lost during a storm, the other assumes his identity, with the expected romantic complications. If Despues de la Termenta sounds familiar, it is because the screenplay was inspired by the 1946 Bette Davis vehicle A Stolen Life.
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La entrega (1954)
Character: N/A
Empire-building philanthropist has no time to indulge his wife's romantic fantasies.
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Juventud sin ley (1965)
Character: Elisa
Jorge is arrested and brought to trial, where it is known that he chose crime due to the abandonment of his father.
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Eugenia Grandet (1953)
Character: Eugenia Grandet
A miserly father quashes his daughter's marriage plans because he thinks her fiance is a fortune-hunter.
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El diario de mi madre (1957)
Character: Merida Valdés
Scheming secretary sabotages her boss's wedding plans and snags him for herself. She, him, his brother and the abandoned pregnant fiance all suffer as a result.
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La agonía de ser madre (1970)
Character: Ana
She has an incurable heart condition, her son's a shoplifter, her husband's an alcoholic, her daughter runs away from home...
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Cuando acaba la noche (1964)
Character: Lina
In a New York hospital, a man is cured of heroin addiction after a grueling three-month treatment. Although no longer an addict, he has complete amnesia: the only clues to his past are an expensive ring he was wearing when admitted, and a book of matches from a Puerto Rican nightclub. He pawns the ring and buys clandestine passage on a boat to Puerto Rico in search of his identity.
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¿Qué haremos con papá? (1966)
Character: Ramona
The funny story of a man who loses his memory in an accident and can not remember who was married to another woman, then meets another woman he marries and starts another life and lives alternately with a family 15 days and 15 days with the another arguing that their travel is for work in the Crown Brewery, which is in Veracruz where he lives with one family and one in Mexico.
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Azahares para tu boda (1950)
Character: Felicia
During the time of the Mexican Revolution, the eldest daughter of a conservative family must respect the decision of her parents, and follow the traditions of using the wedding flowers her mother used.
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Arrabalera (1951)
Character: Rosita Villaseñor
Working-class girl marries rich playboy, gets implicated in his criminal activities.
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¿Dónde vas, triste de ti? (1960)
Character: María Cristina
After the death of Queen Mercedes, Alfonso XII's first wife, the problem of the succession is raised. The monarchy needs a heir and the King choses María Cristina from Habsburd to be the futur spanish queen. But Mercedes memories will be against the marriage and the long-awaited son will born when Alfonso is already dead.
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Una mujer en la calle (1955)
Character: N/A
An implausible accident causes a street prostitute to become close friends with an aristocratic old lady.
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Medianoche (1949)
Character: Rosita
A villain has his cronies kidnap a teacher and pretends to be him, teaching in a hidden town.
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Negro es mi color (1951)
Character: Luna / Blanca del Río
Negro Es Mi Color (literally translates to "Black Is My Color"), the 1951 Tito Davison Mexican racial musical melodrama (about a light-skinned Mexican woman with dark-skinned parents who passes as "white"; a Mexican version of "Imitation of Life")
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De carne somos (1955)
Character: Linda
Woman becomes a prostitute so her writer BF can concentrate on his art instead of working for a living.
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La edad de la inocencia (1962)
Character: Elisa
A poor little girl slips in a circus one day and sees a puppets' show. Later she returns to the empty circus looking for a fairy she was fascinated by.
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Reclusorio (1997)
Character: Lic. Suarez (segment "La Prostituta violada")
The human and divine justice are exposed through five real life stories related to the legal processes of a prison. The cases presented are: "I want to stay in jail", "Blood between women", "The raped prostitute", "The kidnapped policeman", and "Euthanasia or murder?"
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La muñeca perversa (1969)
Character: Elena
A troubled woman commits a series of murders that exposes some dark family secrets.
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Atrás de las nubes (1962)
Character: Eloísa Reina
All it says in my notes is "Like 'Juan Sin Miedo', only with soldiers." So... Army officer seeks revenge for... something...
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El profe (1971)
Character: Hortensia
Mario Moreno portrays a professor in this movie. A small town in the middle of no where requests the school Mario Moreno is working in for a teacher. He ends up going to give the town a hand. When he arrives he comes to know the corrupt leaders who through out the movie try to make him leave. Although he is being harassed you can see how much he cares for the kids and their circumstances. He deals with problems by using his hilarious comments.
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Un Rincón Cerca del Cielo (1952)
Character: Margarita
On reaching the capital, Pedro Gonzalez gets a lowly job and marries Margaret. After losing that job, get a new one as a bodyguard but is fired again. With so much poverty and despair Pedro believes that his only way out is suicide.
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Rosario (1971)
Character: Rosario del Carmen Trejo de Rosell
Rosario and Carlos, husbands, are part of a theater company. In a scene of jealousy, she should shoot and kill him. Carlos has had an affair with Zulma, another acriz of the company. On opening day, in the final scene, Rosario accidentally kills her husband. Someone change the gun ...
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Muchachas de uniforme (1951)
Character: Lucila
Orphan Manuela's passionate crush on her teacher Lucila scandalizes their all-girl Catholic school.
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Cri Cri el Grillito Cantor (1963)
Character: Margarita
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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Corona de lágrimas (1968)
Character: Doña Refugio
Doña Refugio works in an office until the bounce and has three children: Fernando who is studying to be a lawyer, doctor and Nacho Edmundo to work in a company as a truck driver gas. Things become difficult within the family and each seek solutions to economic oppression living.
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Hasta el viento tiene miedo (1968)
Character: Bernarda
A group of college students, led by Claudia, decide to investigate a local tower that has figured prominently in disturbing reoccurring dreams Claudia has been having. They are suspended from school for their antics, but Claudia learns from one of the female staff members that the person in the dream is a student who killed herself years before and that the headmistress has seen her ghost.
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La carcel de Laredo (1985)
Character: N/A
Unhappy about his daughter's choice of boyfriends, a wealthy big-wheel arranges to have the young man arrested for cocaine trafficking and continues pulling strings after his arrested, tried and incarcerated.
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Ahora soy rico (1952)
Character: Marga
Pedro Gonzalez first gets into trouble as part of a criminal gang and then works honourably to become rich. Money is his undoing allowing him to become a womanizer and drinker, almost losing his wife. Finally he rejoins her, they have a son and he pays for his mistakes.
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Nazarín (1959)
Character: Beatriz
After hiding a murderer, a Catholic priest is forced into self-exile and decides to embark on a pilgrimage through the Mexican countryside.
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Tiempo de morir (1966)
Character: Mariana Sampedro
A man comes home after serving 18 years in jail for murder in this routine western. Although the man killed in self defense, rumors in town circulated that he murdered the victim in cold blood. The ex-con wants to get his life together, but the two sons of the slain man are gunning for the man who killed their father.
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El libro de piedra (1969)
Character: Julia Septien
Julia, a governess, comes to work for a bourgeois family that lives in a forested property they have recently bought. Julia is to take care of a little girl named Silvia, whose unusual demeanor may find its roots in the family garden.
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La tercera palabra (1956)
Character: Margarita Luján
The English-language title of this Mexican musical was The Third Word. Singer Pedro Infante stars as a pampered young man who is sheltered by his doting aunts. Deciding that their darling boy needs an education, the ladies hire pretty schoolteacher Marga Lopez. Upon discovering that her pupil is 28 years old, Marga is momentarily nonplused, but then settles into her duties. Inevitably, romance blossoms between Pedro and Marga, much to the aunts' dismay.
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El hijo desobediente (1945)
Character: Waitress
A poor young man is mistaken for a millionaire when he travels to the city to fulfill his dream of being a singer.
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Los tres García (1947)
Character: Lupita Smith García
Ruled by a tough grandma, the Garcías are three charro cousins who fall in love with young American-born Lupita and fight for her love until grandma quiets them.
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Vuelven los García (1947)
Character: Lupita
Ruled by a tough grandma, the Garcías are three charro cousins who fall in love with young American-born Lupita and fight for her love until grandma quiets them.
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Cartas Marcadas (1948)
Character: N/A
A tale of intrigue and deceit concerning two young lovers who, despite the fact that their relationship was originally founded on greed, soon discover that their feelings for one and other have grown more genuine than they ever expected.
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Doña Macabra (1972)
Character: Armida, Doña Macabra
The story of Armida (named ¨Doña Macabra¨ by her neighbors) and Demetria, two old women who live in an old house with Octavio, a kind of mad scientist. Their lives take an unexpected turn when the nephew of Armida, Lucila, recently married with Othón, arrive to the house looking for and old treasure, believed to be buried in the house. They will find a lot of dark and unexpected secrets.
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Arrabalera (1950)
Character: Rosita
Disenfranchised working-class woman leaves a bad man and finds a good one. Twenty years later...
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El día de las madres (1969)
Character: N/A
Three interwoven stories about generational conflicts beween single mothers and their adolescent/adult children.
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Salón México (1949)
Character: Mercedes Gómez
Mercedes works as a cabaret performer to pay for her sister's studies. Problems begin when Mercedes and Paco, her exploiter, win a dance contest, but he refuses to share the prize with her.
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