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La Gata (1956)
Character: N/A
In a country house dedicated to breeding bulls, bound for bullfighting, a love story emerges, conditioned by social class differences.
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Celos (1936)
Character: Loco (uncredited)
Story about the rocky relationship between an engaged couple after the husband-to-be discovers a picture of his fiancée with an old boyfriend. He becomes consumed with jealousy and attempts to find out as many details as possible about her life before they met.
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Mi madrecita (1940)
Character: Don Adolfo
Woman faces the vicissitudes of life with her three adult children well in the background. But when the chips are down...
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No te engañes corazón (1937)
Character: Señor Monforte, casero (uncredited)
No te engañes corazón (released in English as Don't Fool Yourself Dear) is the first full-feature film of Cantinflas after becoming a star of the carpa circuit (folk theater). It was also one of the earliest films of Sara García and Carlos Orellana and the first where they share the screen. Don Boni (Orellana) is diagnosed with a deadly disease and decides to spend his last days doing good deeds. He leaves his wife and decides to help people. He then gets drunk and wakes up with a winning lottery ticket and realizes that the doctor who diagnosed him has been sent to prison for fraud.
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Morenita clara (1943)
Character: Padre de Rosita
Priest nags a crusty old man into reconciling with his daughter-in-law and granddaughter after the death of his son.
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Luponini (El terror de Chicago) (1935)
Character: Padre de Luponini
Luponini, a bank employee, becomes a robber due to a broken heart. His criminal career, successful at first, is soon threatened by the betrayal of one of his accomplices and the contempt of Luisa, his ex-wife.
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Ella y Yo (1951)
Character: Cura (uncredited)
Pedro Muñoz is a womanizer that does not escape one until Irene Garza arrives and makes him to see his luck, while the aunt of her tries to separate them.
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La rebelión de los fantasmas (1949)
Character: Zut Auk Amen
When an old house is about to be demolished to make room for a new radio station the famous ghosts which resides in the house start a revolt to alter the decision.
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El Portero (1950)
Character: Miembro del patronato (uncredited)
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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El fantasma del convento (1934)
Character: Padre Prior
Alfonso, Eduardo and Cristina get lost when visiting a forest. A strange monk finds them and takes them to an ancient convent. There, the three amigos suffer personality changes, specially Cristina who tries to seduce Alfonso in a strange coincidence to a story told by an old monk. After some efforts to escape, Alfonso is trapped inside a jail and more strange and macabre situations happen.
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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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El Peñón de las Ánimas (1943)
Character: (uncredited)
The love between María Ángela and Fernando is impossible because there's an ancient history of hate between their families. His father killed hers, and other family members have killed each other for years. When María Ángela's grandfather finds she's in love with Fernando, he frames the young man and forces her to marry Manuel. Maria Ángela finds that Manuel doesn't love her and together plan her escape with Fernando. But things go wrong and the lovers find their destiny in The Spirit's Canyon.
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La Llorona (1933)
Character: Don Fernando de Moncada
Llorona is a figure unique to Mexican folklore -- the wailing spirit of a woman who lost or killed her child and now returns to seek revenge and haunt the living. With its framing story and flashback structure, this film sets forth a couple of variations of the story.
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¡Vámonos con Pancho Villa! (1936)
Character: General Huertista
The 1910 Mexican Revolution is on its way when six brave peasants, known as "Los Leones de San Pablo", decide to join Pancho Villa's army and help end the suffering in their community by assisting in the struggle. Together, they will endure the tragedies and hardships of a civil war.
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El hombre inquieto (1954)
Character: Invitado a boda (uncredited)
Adult street urchin passes himself off as rich man's long-lost son.
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Seres queridos (2004)
Character: Night Security
A mismatched couple discovers that whatever can go wrong will go wrong during a family visit.
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Cruz Diablo (1934)
Character: Marqués Pedro de la Florida
16th-century swashbuckler; evil nobleman usurps another man's title and properties and forces his daughter to marry a political ally. But Cruz Diablo will have revenge!
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La diosa arrodillada (1947)
Character: N/A
Antonio, a millionaire, gifts his wife a statue of a naked, kneeling woman for their wedding anniversary.
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Los tres García (1947)
Character: Don Julian
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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Una noche con Adela (2023)
Character: N/A
After her night shift ends, Adela goes on a drug-fueled, violent rampage of furious revenge on those who ruined her in this remarkably paced, audacious debut.
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El Supersabio (1948)
Character: Profesor (uncredited)
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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Gente Pez (2001)
Character: N/A
A group of guys face the problems of daily life in a shared house
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El Bruto (1953)
Character: Don Pepe
A tough young man, who helps to kick poor people out of their houses, falls in love with a girl. She lives with her father in the building about to be demolished.
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La otra (1946)
Character: Invitado a fiesta (uncredited)
A mousy, poor manicurist seeks to switch places with her more glamorous, wealthy twin sister.
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