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El mexicano (1966)
Character: N/A
After USA's appropriation of Texas, a Mexican resident responds to prejudice and injustice by forming a band of bandits.
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El derecho a la vida (1959)
Character: Esteban Sáenz
Four interlocking stories about pregnancy all intersecting in an obstetrician's office.
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Cara de ángel (1956)
Character: N/A
Mischievous little girl pulls a variety of pranks for the purpose of preventing her parents from divorcing.
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Que hombre tan sin embargo (1967)
Character: N/A
Seemingly at random, a hobo dude attaches himself to an upper-middle-class family and starts influencing them for the better in their day-to-day activities
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El derecho de los pobres (1973)
Character: N/A
Kids in an Ecuadorian slum have a benevolent doctor who tries to help them forward in life. Also they play soccer.
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Una vez, un hombre... (1971)
Character: N/A
Young factory worker becomes apprentice to an alchemist, and he ends up going to the moon to repair equipment belonging to The Three Fates.
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Hay ángeles sin alas (1972)
Character: N/A
Loose-living gal hires two guys to pose as her husband and son for a week, while her sister the nun is visiting.
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La vuelta del Mexicano (1967)
Character: N/A
1850s. Seminary student abandons the priesthood to fight for social justice in formerly-Mexican territories of the SW USA. Sequel to El Mexicano (1966).
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Juegos de alcoba (1971)
Character: N/A
Anthology movie -- three anecdotes relating to liberated, post-sixties, sexual behavior. Swinging couples, hippie-style free-love, etc...
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El despertar del lobo (1970)
Character: Atenas Rubirosa
Young woman looking for a rich husband, sets her sights on a very pious and old-fashioned neighbor.
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Las Leandras (1961)
Character: N/A
Mistaken identity farce; theatre troupe moves into a rental mansion in order to convince someone that it's a finishing school for young ladies... but the site used to be an expensive brothel, and a former customer turns up at just the wrong moment. Wacky complications!
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Una lección de amor (1956)
Character: N/A
An older gentleman takes responsibility for molding a young showgirl's career; there seems to be a romantic link between them, but she has lots of side-pieces running around, and a serious boyfriend waiting in the wings...
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Sexo y crimen (1970)
Character: N/A
Industrialist blackmails unfaithful wife and her lover into helping him fake his own death.
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OK Cleopatra (1970)
Character: N/A
A horse jockey believes his dead uncle's spirit has entered a mare named Cleopatra, which belongs to a moneygrubbing rancher.
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La entrega (1954)
Character: Lic. Héctor Molina
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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La estrella vacía (1960)
Character: Rodrigo Lemus
Mourners share their memories of a dead film-star at her wake, a la Citizen Kane. Only melodrama.
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Amor en la sombra (1960)
Character: Octavio Morán
A daughter who idolizes her father discovers, just before he dies, that he was leading a double life and had a hidden lover.
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Prisionera del pasado (1954)
Character: N/A
Romance between a flamenco singer performing in Mexico and a gov't soldier during the Mexican Revolution.
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La culpa de los hombres (1955)
Character: Arturo Fonseca
A factory worker gets pregnant by the son of her boss, who forces his son to marry a rich girl he doesn't love.
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Las reglas del juego (1971)
Character: Padre de Gabriel
A couple is involved in a seduction game to get out of the monotony of their marriage.
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Estrategia matrimonio (1967)
Character: Damián Olaguíbel
Pragmatic young woman plots out her flirtations with five rich, eligible bachelors to play to the weaknesses of each one. Then she has to pick one for keeps.
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Para servir a usted (1971)
Character: Gaspar
Working-class dude gets a gig as a waiter doing banquet service, and loses his moral compass through his contacts with decadent rich folk.
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El medio pelo (1972)
Character: Don Abundio
A woman who fancies herself an aristocrat rejects a potential suitor because he's not of her class. Also: their adult children have their own drama, a bit inflected with hippie-ish values.
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Una joven de 16 años (1963)
Character: Federico del Valle
Papa hires a "boyfriend" to indulge her in her fantasies of old-fashioned romance.
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Secreto profesional (1955)
Character: Roberto
A film that tells how a woman who suffered blackmail her entire life kills a man. Her lawyer falls in love with her and does everything possible to uncover the truth, even though it is a professional secret that will make him lose everything.
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Yo pecador (1959)
Character: N/A
Biopic of a 1930s operatic tenor who ended up becoming a Franciscan monk and joining the priesthood.
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Las Fieras (1969)
Character: Marcos/Marcelo Diestefano
Historia de un grupo de estafadores internacionales y sus artimañas.
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Cuando el diablo sopla (1966)
Character: N/A
Two babies are switched in the cradle to gratify wealthy parents' preference for a boy. Nineteen years later, the babies meet...
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Primavera en el corazón (1956)
Character: N/A
Don Juan-type manipulates his roommate into helping him mount ridiculous schemes to get next to a girl he has his eye on.
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El día de la boda (1968)
Character: Ricardo Mendoza
The love affairs of two couples, modern parents a couple of troubled teens.
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Los Jóvenes (1961)
Character: Don Raúl, padre de Gabriel
A gang member is attracted to a beautiful young woman, but approaching her only causes problems that will be difficult to solve.
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Retorno a la juventud (1954)
Character: Juan Gaudio
An old professor in love with one of his students is rejected by her because of his advanced age. He then sells his soul in return for youth and a chance at love but things don't go as he planned.
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El criado malcriado (1969)
Character: Servando
Man hiding from the police is trapped into posing as a butler at a rich family's country estate.
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El Mártir del Calvario (1952)
Character: Jesús
The life of Jesus from the beginning of his ministry, his miracles, the Sermon on the Mount and his death on the cross.
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El hombre y el monstruo (1959)
Character: Samuel Magno
A failed pianist sells his soul to the devil in return for his becoming the greatest musician in the world. The catch: every time he plays he turns into a horrible monster.
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Cascabelito (1962)
Character: N/A
Two puppeteers with an orphan child, and with the help of a journalist, seek to stand out with their show.
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Aventuras de Joselito y Pulgarcito (1960)
Character: José Jiménez
Joselito lives with his grandmother in a fishing village. His father went to America long ago to make a fortune. One day, the boy decides to travel there to meet him. He takes courage and embarks on a fragile boat and miraculously is saved at sea by a vessel that leads him to Mexico where he meets Tom Thumb, a little newsboy who lives many adventures and helps him in the search.
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Senda prohibida (1961)
Character: Federico García
The story of Nora, a poor but ambitious young woman, who uses her beauty to seduce a rich and married lawyer.
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El mundo de los aviones (1969)
Character: N/A
The crazy adventures of a third-rate mechanic who works in a hangar at Mexico City airport. This mechanic spends his time telling fictional adventures to a little boy named "Memin," who calls himself "his co-pilot." One day, "Captain Thousand Hours" is forced to prove his courage to help a beautiful young woman named Sandra find her family. Forced by circumstances, Captain Thousand Hours must prove to "Memin" and his other friends that his experiences were real.
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El ángel exterminador (1962)
Character: Edmundo Nóbile
After a lavish dinner party, the guests find themselves unable to depart... and, over the next few days, all of their elaborate societal pretenses and façades deteriorate as they are reduced to living like animals.
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