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El Cementerio De Las Aguilas (1938)
Character: Don Pedro de Zuñiga y Miranda
When the U.S. invasion and the landing of troops in 1847 begins, the former cadet Miguel de la Peña (Jorge Negrete) and his friend Agustin Melgar (Jose Macip) decide to return to the military college and fight heroically in the defense of the Mexican army.
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El secreto de mi mujer (1955)
Character: Don Adolfo
A couple suffers marital crisis, because they cannot have children. The wife harbors a long kept secret that might doom the marriage.
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Dios los cría (1953)
Character: Carlos Fernández Taboada (uncredited)
Mrs. Nínive Cánovas Cannesi (Marshall) comes back from a long tour visiting Europe and not even realizes that her house is being inhabited by two jobless and homeless bandits (Tin Tán and Tun Tún) with master keys who had been living there worry free. They all share the house for a period of time, unknowingly to each other, in a series of well crafted and perfectly timed scenes where Catita and Tin Tán can be in the same room without seeing each other... When Tin Tán notices her presence, poses as the help, intercepting the real employees and sending to the north pole, literally. So now that Catita has them at her service, she can take time for her real goal, the foundation of a House for old people so they can live happy until the day they die, but Tin Tán and Tun Tún keep getting in her way and complicating everything...
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Miente y serás feliz (1940)
Character: Toval
A Spanish, Juan, is obsessed with telling the truth always. As a result he is consistently in the middle of troubles...
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¡Que viene mi marido! (1940)
Character: Don Rogelio Nogales
Rom-com: collecting on a big inheritance "forces" a family to play games with their daughter's marital status.
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El vagabundo (1953)
Character: N/A
Homeless/unemployed dude has a spiritual awakening and rehabilitates himself working at a circus.
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¡Ay, qué tiempos señor don Simón! (1941)
Character: Don Roque (as J. Ortiz de Zárate)
A not very grief stricken young widow flutters her hand fan between a dashing young soldier and an elderly politician in this Belle Epoque era musical comedy.
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El rebelde (Romance de Antaño) (1945)
Character: Gobernador (uncredited)
After a vengeance taken too far costs his father his Hacienda and his life, young Juan Manuel Mendoza becomes a bandit. He will get a chance for revenge and for love after he infiltrates his enemy house as a piano teacher.
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El Mago (1949)
Character: Doctor (uncredited)
A slapstick fantasy of the amorous adventures of a magician a la Cantinflas.
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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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Soy un prófugo (1946)
Character: Don Prospero, gerente banco (uncredited)
A janitor in a large bank is accused of pulling of a major heist. He is forced to become a fugitive while hunting for the real culprits.
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Si yo fuera diputado (1952)
Character: Juez (uncredited)
Cantinflas is a unique barber, who trades with an elderly neighbor, a lawyer by profession, laws lessons in exchange for haircuts and shaved. It proposes advice to defend in court the disadvantaged neighborhood. His success deputy seeks the votes as the other candidate, Don Próculo, it is not accepted by anyone but his own bodyguards. Don Próculo will use know how much ruse to win the election by the Council, and also for the love of 'Sarita'
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El Supersabio (1948)
Character: Juez
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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