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El corsario negro (1944)
Character: N/A
This Mexican drama features murder, revenge, ruling power and romance in Eighteenth century Maracaibo.
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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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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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Chilam Balam (1955)
Character: N/A
Priest defies the gods by refusing to sacrifice his daughter. Also: conquistadores.
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El Látigo Negro (1958)
Character: N/A
When a ruthless gang terrorizes innocent townsfolk, a masked avenger known only as The Black Whip rises to deliver justice. Armed with his bullwhip and cunning disguise, he becomes the people's secret defender.
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Besito a papá (1961)
Character: N/A
A young man hires somebody to impersonate his father when it comes times to meet his girlfriend's parents.
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Rogaciano el huapanguero (1957)
Character: N/A
Itinerant folk-singer returns to his home town, gets caught in two intersecting love triangles. It ends badly.
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Sucedió en México (1958)
Character: N/A
Woman has plastic surgery and reevaluates her relationships with husband and lover while pretending to be a different person.
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El valor de vivir (1954)
Character: N/A
Concert pianist unjustly convicted of espionage. On release, he hooks up with a terminally-ill ballerina.
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Ángel del silencio (1979)
Character: N/A
Handicapped day-laborer crushes out on a ranchera singer, then has a chance to save her from ruffians. After that, he becomes a ward/employee of a Catholic orphanage and trains for lucha libre competition with an aging wrestler who mentors him.
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Los Perversos (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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El rayo del sur (1943)
Character: N/A
Latter part of the career of Padre Morelos, the 18th/19th century military leader. Sequel to... um... El Padre Morelos.
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El Buen Mozo (1946)
Character: Sr. Walter
Unscrupulous cad sleeps his way to the top of belle epoque Paris society.
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El criollo (1945)
Character: N/A
After the ending of the War Of Independence, a Mexican officer goes roguish to get personal revenge on an enemy combatant who killed his father and oppressed his townfolk.
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Guardián, el perro salvador (1950)
Character: N/A
Poor woman and her daughter hire on to rich family as servants. Husband/Daddy comes back from his foreign travels and crazy stuff happens! Death! Jail sentences! Inheritances!
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La reina del mambo (1951)
Character: N/A
Nightclub performer escapes from her abusive manager and starts life over in a new city.
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México nunca duerme (1959)
Character: N/A
Fretful granny is upset when her granddaughter isn't home by 9 PM on Saturday night, so she teams up with a gangster to tour Mexico City nightclubs looking for her.
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Nuestras vidas (1950)
Character: N/A
Frivolous woman falls in reallytruly love for the first time, but her past catches up with her and her fiancé kicks her to the curb. Then joining a convent and amnesia and stuff.
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La última noche (1948)
Character: N/A
Struggling musician takes sympathy on a homeless woman and they build a life together.
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Una mujer con pasado (1949)
Character: N/A
After cohabiting with a man without benefit of marriage, a young woman discovers the emotional cost of her sinful perversity.
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Chucho el Roto (1954)
Character: N/A
Humble craftsman runs afoul of a rich girl's father and ends up in prison; the ill-fated romance has repercussions over the course of twenty-odd years and ultimately drives him to a life of crime.
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Hermoso ideal (1948)
Character: N/A
Two Spanish children, boy and girl, make friends with a Mexican boy while on vacation. In adulthood, their friendship turns into a romantic triangle. Then bullfighting and the Foreign legion and stuff.
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Solamente una vez (1954)
Character: N/A
A couple suffers through slander and jealousy to maintain their love for one another.
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El derecho de nacer (1952)
Character: Don Rafael del Junco
In Santiago de Cuba in the early 1950s, history begins. A young woman of high society becomes pregnant with a false love, her father orders his black maid (Dolores) to kill the baby (Alberto), but she flees to Havana where Alberto becomes a renowned doctor.
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Doña Diabla (1950)
Character: Ernesto Solar Fuentes
A woman, after committing a murder, flees into a church, confessing her life story to a priest.
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Y tú, ¿qué haces? (1937)
Character: Manolo
A pro-Republican drama/propaganda film made during the Spanish Civil War.It tells the story of Manolo, a young worker who, after the military coup, joins the militias to fight for freedom.
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Orgullo de mujer (1956)
Character: Germán Montalvo
Everything is very quiet and peaceful in the city of Taxco, until there arrives a man called Ramón Durán who exploits abandoned mines. His presence in the community will initiate a lot of changes. Ada Montalvo is a beautiful young woman with a great heart, whose strong personality wakes up the admiration of a good looking millionaire Ramón. She is the woman he has always dreamed of. However, for Ada he is nothing more than an intruder who has arrived to ruin the calm life of Taxco with his money, and she does not hide the contempt she feels towards him, even though the circumstances force her to marry him...
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La mujer de dos caras (1957)
Character: Luis Figueroa
A beautiful woman will stop at nothing in her quest for money and power. Not even murder.
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¿Quién me quiere a mí? (1936)
Character: Alfredo Flores
In order to save her marriage, the famous soprano Marta Vélez decides to retire from the stage.
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Al caer la tarde (1949)
Character: N/A
A former farmhand now with money, wants to buy his former boss's farm and marry his daughter, but they refuse.
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La posesión (1950)
Character: Juez Enrique Composorio
Two old friends get hinky with each other over the deed to a tract of land, and their children's engagement gets broken over it.
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La agonía de ser madre (1970)
Character: N/A
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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La dama del velo (1949)
Character: Fiscal
Andrea loves Esteban. Esteban murders his wife and goes go jail. Andrea marries Esteban's lawyer. Twenty years later...
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Lola Casanova (1949)
Character: Néstor Ariza
Sonora Mexico, 1880s: Seri Indian tribe splits into two factions after a white woman comes to live in their settlement.
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Misericordia (1953)
Character: Don Romualdo, sacerdote
Faded rich family has a housekeeper who struggles to keep them fed and comfortable after their fortune disappears; she also sacrifices herself on behalf of sick and disabled friends.
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Estafa de amor (1955)
Character: N/A
Bad woman plays three men off each other while enjoying the attentions of all three; a great many lives are disrupted as a result of her wickedness.
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Las puertas del presidio (1949)
Character: Custodio de prisión
Unscrupulous boss frames an employee for a robbery so he can make time with the guy's sister.
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Tentación (1943)
Character: Don Pepe Villanueva
Upon reaching the capital, an old man and his daughter are victims of abuse, where their goodwill becomes the way to gain control of the low instincts of a man who sought favors he did for an uncontrolled temptation.
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No niego mi pasado (1952)
Character: Ramón Valdés
This is a film by Alberto Gout that deals with the story of a marriage in crisis. It all starts when Leonardo surprises his wife Susana with her lover and threatens him with death for stealing her.
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Sueños de gloria (1953)
Character: Don Guillermo Fernández
Auto mechanic invents a new-improved carburetor; industrial spies steal his invention, romance with a manufacturer's daughter, and he drives a cross-country race.
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Un corazón en el ruedo (1950)
Character: N/A
Famous bullfighter rises from humble beginnings, finds himself enmeshed in an emotionally-draining romantic triangle.
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La edad de la tentación (1959)
Character: N/A
By the negligence of parents who not assume their responsibility in sex education, many lives are ruined
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Maratón de baile (1958)
Character: N/A
Several couples are lured into becoming contestants in a dance marathon that awards a large cash prize to the couple still standing at the end of this grueling test of endurance.
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Arsenio Lupin (1947)
Character: Sherlock Holmes
Arsenio Lupin is an audacious Parisian thief who mocks the police, especially Inspector Ganimard, but turns over most of his ill-gotten gains to charity. One night, he attends a party disguised as a newspaper writer who also mocks Ganimard; the next morning, the host's wife and a male guest are found murdered, and Ganimard arrives to solve the crime. A Mexican version of the Arsene Lupin character, with Sherlock Holmes tossed in as a cameo at the end.
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Nunca es tarde para amar (1953)
Character: N/A
A widowed doctor with a sick child marries a famous singer unpremeditatedly, running at first everything fine until she begins to long for his former life and scenic successes representing the only reason for existence.
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Camelia (1954)
Character: Señor López Rueda (uncredited)
A sort of meta riff on Alexandre Dumas fils' novel The Lady of the Camellias (La Dame aux Camélias or Camille) here in Mexican melodrama form involving the doomed love of a bullfighter and a beautiful but ailing actress/courtesan.
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El hijo del diablo (1966)
Character: N/A
Victor Rincon is a smuggler who burns down the coastal ranch of an old man who refused to sell it to him for a low price. The Devil's son, immune to bullets, kills some of the man's henchmen to return his money to the smuggler.
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La familia Pérez (1949)
Character: N/A
Gumaro Pérez must fulfill all the whims of his wife, who is sworn lady of society even though the Pérez are not a wealthy family. In order not to look bad with his wife, Gumaro asks for a loan, but when he receives it, all his co-workers take it from him since he owes everyone money.
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Sor Ye-yé (1968)
Character: Banquero
Maria is a young orphan who lives with her wealthy aunt. Maria sings in a cocktail bar with his friends, who form a rock band, and enjoy the night with them. One of his friends, Ernesto, is in love with her, though she does not seem to feel the same about him. In fact, multiple existential doubts and feel a strange emptiness in his life suddenly drive to enter a convent as a novice, breaking Ernestos' heart. However, with her cheerlul character, open and rebellious, not appear to conform to life in the cloister, and especially have problems with the novices director , who often punished for trying to take the right path. In the convent, which also functions as children's hospital, she meets a doctor with which it takes quite right for the contrast between his two characters, but his way with love and mutual respect.
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El Colmillo de Buda (1949)
Character: N/A
Burlesque version of The Moonstone; the Prince of Panchistan and his cohorts are in Mexico to retrieve a sacred relic. Wacky hijinks ensue.
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La niña popoff (1952)
Character: N/A
Malicious gossip drives a wedge between a rising star in musical comedy and her songwriter boyfriend.
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Bajo el manto de la noche (1962)
Character: Roland Carter
The vedette Miriam ignores her pretender Carlos because her daughter Margot, whom she passes as her sister, is in love with him.
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La noche y tú (1946)
Character: N/A
Tango singer exploits his popularity in high society to commit crimes.
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Padre nuestro (1953)
Character: Miembro consejo banco
Pops is dismissed from his banking job for embezzlement, and his family have to adjust to a more modest lifestyle.
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El ánima del ahorcado contra el latigo negro (1959)
Character: (uncredited)
A sinister legend comes to life when a ghostly figure haunts the countryside, spreading fear and chaos. The Black Whip confronts the supernatural threat head-on, battling both earthly enemies and a terrifying phantom.
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La infame (1954)
Character: Fiscal
For love, the rules of society and justice are broken, leading to abduction, exposing life and freedom, facing everything to make a sick child a normal child.
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La vírgen roja (1943)
Character: N/A
Aurora’s life changes when her younger sister is brutally assaulted and killed. Seeking justice, she tracks down the attacker and kills him, then escapes the law and rises as the feared outlaw “The Red Virgin".
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Los Reyes del Palenque (1979)
Character: N/A
Widow becomes professional singer to meet expenses. Love complications come along with the territory.
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Rocambole (1946)
Character: Milón
Convict breaks out of jail to undo aristocratic crimes involving a fortune in jewels, a servant wrongfully accused of theft, and a dispossessed young heiress.
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Dos caras tiene el destino (1952)
Character: Profesor Estrada
Ruined alcoholic doctor escapes a tropical plague and begins a new life back in civilization, taking over the identity of a dead man.
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Me importa poco (1960)
Character: N/A
Anthropologist goes to small town to do field work supporting her theories about the primitive/subhuman origins of machismo.
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Pistoleros de la frontera (1967)
Character: N/A
"The fastest gun of all" visits his home-town for a few days. All he really wants is to see his wife and som, talk with them about starting over someplace far away... but life interferes with his plans. Remake of The Gunfighter (1950).
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Jesús de Nazareth (1942)
Character: Poncio Pilato
The biblical story of The Messiah from his baptism through his crucifixion.
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El Portero (1950)
Character: Dr. Perfecto Lozano
Cantinflas works as a porter, who writes letters and speeches in his old writing machine to earn an extra money, despite the fact that he still goes to school. The sentimental issues come when Cantinflas falls in love of his pretty neighborhood (Silvia Pinal), who is handicapped and unable to walk. The thing wont be easy, because a young military man also has feelings for the girl. But the porter wants to see her happy, and he will become a sort of Cyrano De Bergerac, writing love letters to her signed by the young soldier. His plan is simple: to win money in the horse races in order to pay the operation which will make her walk again.
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Los Gavilanes (1956)
Character: Don Bernardo
The story of two half brothers who do not know they are such, who fight over a woman and nearly kill each other. One of them belongs to Los Gavilanes, a group of men who live live hidden and looting to give to the poor. Revenge, love and hate will at the end bring out the truth and everyone will get what he deserves.
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El Mago (1949)
Character: Mago Krishnar
A slapstick fantasy of the amorous adventures of a magician a la Cantinflas.
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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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Esposa te doy (1957)
Character: Don Marcelino de la Llave
Chofi marry Alberto and very much in love, but her mother continues to intervene in the couple's relationship, which will lead to divorce.
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Domingo salvaje (1967)
Character: N/A
Repressed middle-aged Catholic gets into a troublesome relationship with the prostitute next door and her little boy.
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Historia de un gran amor (1942)
Character: Dr. Trajano
Manuel leaves town leaving Soledad in deep sadness. After several years of absence, the young man returns to find Soledad married to Antonio. However, the woman continues to be in love with him and both are determined to consummate their love.
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Gran Casino (1947)
Character: Fabio
After the mysterious disappearance of an oil well owner, one of his workers, Gerardo assumes the business management. Soon, the owner's sister arrives from Argentina, and, believing that Gerardo killed her brother to keep the wells for himself, she starts working as a singer under a false name in the same casino her brother disappeared, in order to find out what exactly happened.
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Juan Colorado (1966)
Character: N/A
Silvia's father wants to marry her off to Rafael who, out of jealousy, wants to finish off Juan. Silvia dresses up as Juan to save his skin.
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Barrios bajos (1937)
Character: Floreal
A melodrama telling the story of Ricardo, a young bourgeois who flees from justice for a crime of passion. It was made during the Spanish Civil War.
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Yesenia (1971)
Character: N/A
A beautiful gypsy named Yesenia has no set path in life. During a caravan trip she meets Osvaldo who is enrolled in the militia, they both fall in love despite their differences and social prejudices.
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El mundo de los vampiros (1961)
Character: Sr. Colman
A vampire uses two sisters to seek revenge from the last member of a family that persecuted the undead in Europe, but his plan is threatened by a man who knows how to destroy him with a peculiar piece of music.
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Romeo y Julieta (1943)
Character: Paris
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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Emiliano Zapata (1970)
Character: N/A
This is the story of a man, Emiliano Zapata, and of a revolution, the Mexican Revolution.
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El Mártir del Calvario (1952)
Character: Poncio Pilatos
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 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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Deseada (1951)
Character: Don Lorenzo
A man comes to a village to marry a girl, but upon meeting the bride's sister, he falls in love with her.
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Naná (1944)
Character: Van Doeuvres
Based in the Émile Zola novel of the same name, which details the life of Nana, a French prostitute of the 19th century.
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La Barraca (1945)
Character: Pimento
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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Viva Maria! (1965)
Character: Don Alvaro
1907 Central America: Maria II is the daughter of an Irish terrorist. After her father's death, she meets Maria I, a performer, and decides to stay with the circus, and on her debut as a singer, unintentionally invents the striptease and makes the circus famous. Their inadvertent encounter with a socialist revolutionary lands them leading a revolution against the dictator, the capitalists, and the Church.
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Vainilla, bronce y morir (1957)
Character: Manuel, padre
A beautiful woman, fatally ill of the heart, is torn between the love of a poor sculptor and a forced marriage with the sadistic son of a millionaire.
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Corazón salvaje (1968)
Character: Don Tomás
Calculating Aime sends her sister Monica to distract a love-struck smuggler, Juan del Diablo, when he threatens to reveal their affair to Aime's new rich husband. They are discovered alone together and to save Monica's virtue, Juan del Diablo promises to marry Monica.
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El puerto de los siete vicios (1951)
Character: Inspector Manrique
Career criminals vie for ownership of a disreputable waterfront dive and for the love of the cabaret-gal that sings there.
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Los Ángeles de Puebla (1968)
Character: Priest
An angel who is three good deeds short of earning his wings chooses the city of Puebla to carry out her mission.
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Amok (1944)
Character: Sr Belmont
A doctor embezzles the proceeds of his Parisian clinic in order to better support the manipulative woman with whom he is having an affair. After losing all the money while gambling, he is forced to flee to an undeveloped region of India. There, he tries to mitigate the onslaught of a disease the natives term "Amok," while his past mistakes still plague him.
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El ángel exterminador (1962)
Character: Leandro Gómez
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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Que Dios me perdone (1948)
Character: Luigi Martino
Lena, a beautiful and mysteriously sinister refugee haunted by her past, is chased into the arms of a rich, unsuspecting industrialist not for love, but for information.
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La otra (1946)
Character: Licenciado de la Fuente
A mousy, poor manicurist seeks to switch places with her more glamorous, wealthy twin sister.
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Los bárbaros del norte (1962)
Character: N/A
Townsfolk expect that when the dead sheriff's son comes home, people will quit doing crimes... but he turns out to be an inept comedian type bozo guy.
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