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Las tres alegres comadres (1952)
Character: Hombre en accidente
When three poor young women fail in their attempts to break into films and night clubs in Mexico City, they separate from their boyfriends, form a trio and travel the country singing, dancing and bribing older men, but they fall into a trap when they invest their money in an unreliable business.
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Doña Diabla (1950)
Character: Teniente
A woman, after committing a murder, flees into a church, confessing her life story to a priest.
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Una mujer decente (1950)
Character: Amigo de Armando
Rosa, a working-class young woman, falls in love with the physician Armando de la Vega. After they spend a night together, she discovers that she is pregnant. Armando, however, marries another woman, and the couple leaves for Paris, where he remains for several years. Upon his return, disillusioned with his marriage, he meets the famous cabaret star Alma Rosa, not realizing that she is Rosa, now performing under a stage name.
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Amor de la calle (1950)
Character: González, detective
El Pichi, El Trompas and El Orejas are street children who pick up a bill that Fernando has dropped, who prevents them from being arrested and offers them a job at a cake stand. Fernando meets Queta, El Pichi's sister, and they both feel attracted. This will lead Fernando to know the hardness of life for people in the suburbs.
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La entrega (1954)
Character: Sr. Cruz
Through hard work, the Spaniard Alejandro has become wealthy and powerful. In contrast, the banker Don Victorino—who once refused a loan to the then-poor Alejandro—has fallen on difficult times. Victorino is married to Ana, who spends her life playing the piano, and they are the parents of the proud Julia, who is engaged to Enrique Régules. Julia is forced to marry Alejandro in order to save her family’s financial situation. Despite her husband’s blunt and often harsh honesty, Julia gradually finds herself falling in love with him, and vainly tries to make him jealous with Licenciado Héctor, who courts her. Julia becomes nervously ill, troubled by the fact that Alejandro does not love her in the romantic, storybook way she longs for.
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El pueblo sin Dios (1955)
Character: Raúl
Unscrupulous rich guy owns all the businesses in border towns, is challenged by town's new priest.
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La malcasada (1950)
Character: Mesero (el chato)
A woman leaves her life as a cabaret performer behind thanks to a man who, after finding her unconscious, takes her to his home.
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El crucifijo de piedra (1956)
Character: N/A
A young prostitue woman arrives severely injured to a hospital and finds a chance to have a new life when the grandmother of another woman who has just died there mistakenly takes her as her grandaugther and takes her to live with her.
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Cuando acaba la noche (1950)
Character: Gangster
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: Esbirro de Daniel
A diamond smuggler from the city is on the lam and takes the identity of a rural schoolteacher, teaching in a small town.
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Para siempre amor mío (1955)
Character: N/A
A man, annoyed by his wife's interference in the family business, travels to Spain, where he becomes involved with another woman.
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Nocturno de amor (1948)
Character: N/A
Luis Aguilar is a talented piano student who struggles to make ends meet. At the conservatory he meets the beautiful, rich, and also talented piano student Marta Reyes and romance ensues. One day, a full scholarship to study piano abroad is announced and both Luis and Marta fill out the necessary paperwork--but only one place is available. Luis is torn apart by his love for both the piano and Marta.
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Apasionada (1952)
Character: Director de pelicula
Returning veteran with PTSD/amnesia returns home and gets tangled up in a criminal investigation.
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Extraña cita (1947)
Character: Señor de la Maza
After her father's death, María Eugenia is pressured by Don Remigio Pérez who her father owed debts to, to marry her. Instead, the kindly Roberto de los Ríos pays off her debts and she goes to live at his country house with his two twin nephews Carlos and Leonardo. However, she faces an attempt to murder.
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Un rincón cerca del cielo (1952)
Character: Don Antonio
An honest man emigrates to the capital in search of a better life, but ends up mired in extreme poverty along with his family; forced to overcome tragedy and despair to find, even in misery, a glimmer of hope.
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Mi desconocida esposa (1958)
Character: Detective
After moving from Guadalajara to Mexico City, a young woman gets embroiled in a series of puzzling mistaken-identity misadventures.
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Paraíso robado (1951)
Character: Inspector romero
A young woman loses her mind when she finds out that her uncle and his boyfriend met in a train accident.
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El hombre sin rostro (1950)
Character: Hombre en cabaret (uncredited)
A faceless killer who hunts women can only be stopped by a detective with a disturbing past.
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Cinco rostros de mujer (1947)
Character: Jugador de cartas
"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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Ahora soy rico (1952)
Character: Don Antonio (uncredited)
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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El rebozo de Soledad (1952)
Character: Médico hospital
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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Calabacitas Tiernas (¡Ay qué bonitas piernas!) (1949)
Character: Arquitecto
A man hired to impersonate a bankrupt business mogul who is currently on the run from creditors sets out organize a musical starring beauties from Brazil, Mexico, and Spain in this Spanish-language comedy starring popular funnyman Tin Tan (Germán Valdés). Now, as the hapless imposter attempts to finance a musical without any money, he also discovers just how difficult it can be to juggle three beautiful starlets who all have eyes for their presumably wealthy producer. Another common English translation of the title of this film is Tender Pumpkins or Tender Little Pumpkins (although a direct translation is Baby Zucchini).
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Trotacalles (1951)
Character: Priest
In Mexico City, two sisters live radically different lives: Maria, who—along with her supportive group of fellow sex workers—must deal with unscrupulous, abusive clients and her exploitative pimp, Rudy, and Elena, a society woman trapped in a marriage of convenience, who falls prey to Rudy’s fortune-seeking seduction.
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Lluvia roja (1950)
Character: Soldier
Colonel Montero kills a man, which triggers a series of events, deaths and reprisals in 1923 Mexico. The people want revenge, and Montero will do everything possible to protect his beloved Elisa, who loves him despite his crimes.
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Marejada (1952)
Character: Don Jesús
Recently-graduated doctor assigned to a small, backward fishing community.
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Pepe El Toro (1953)
Character: Don Pancho
The simple life and the values of loyalty and solidarity of the poor people in the environment of professional boxing, is the plot of this film, where Pepe el Toro shows the effort and tragedies that are experienced in this profession.
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