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Las aguas bajan negras (1948)
Character: N/A
During the first Carlist war, Beatriz, daughter of an Isabeline colonel, secretly marries a Carlist captain who gets killed. Years later she returns to Rubiercos, an Asturian lost hamlet where she left her daughter, to find a troubled village where traditional rural lifestyle is threatened by the emerging coal mining industry and a new way of life darkening the river waters.
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Magdalena (1954)
Character: N/A
Family melodrama; one sister runs away with the other one's fiance. Twenty-odd years later, her daughter tries to make peace with the rest of the family. Plus accidental deaths and unwed motherhood and miraculous cures for blindness and near death experiences.
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El hombre del puente (1976)
Character: N/A
A man without identity/citizenship papers is stuck in the no-man's-land between two countries.
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Dios nos manda vivir (1954)
Character: N/A
Everything-but-the-kitchen-sink melodrama: young widow suffers everything life can throw at her.
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Esos de Pénjamo (1953)
Character: N/A
When he hears how his grandfather left illegitimate children scattered all over the county, a young landowner is seized with an obsessive desire to make babies.
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Una leyenda de amor (1982)
Character: Doña Ana de Montesinos
The romance between two young people intensifies the bitter feud between their rival families, which has been going on for three generations.
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La fuerza del deseo (1955)
Character: Laura
Wicked girl uses nude modeling as a way to seduce a wealthy painter into marriage, while still trying to keep an artschool stud piece on the side.
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Adulterio (1945)
Character: Laura
Man commits suicide over his wife's infidelity. His father spends the rest of his life trying to figure out which of son's two children is illegitimate.
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La casa de la Troya (1948)
Character: Carmiña
Adaptation of the novel by Alejandro Pérez Lujín, centered on the university adventures in Santiago de Compostela of Gerardo Roquer from Madrid, who stays in a boarding house known as "La Casa de la Troya".
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El cuarto cerrado (1952)
Character: Diana
A man gives his testimony to a doctor, believing he hears the voice of his deceased wife, Diana.
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Trágico terremoto en México (1987)
Character: Sarita
Based on the tragedy that Mexico City suffered after the 1985 earthquake , praising and thanking the efforts of locals and foreigners in helping to rescue the living and the dead from the rubble.
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Inmaculada (1950)
Character: Consuelo
A single mother discovers her daughter getting ready to elope with an unworthy boyfriend, so she sits the girl down and tells her the whole entire story of her own very unhappy marriage.
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Para siempre amor mío (1955)
Character: Yolanda
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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Papá en onda (1971)
Character: N/A
Fiftyish head of household tries to hang onto his fun-loving youth while imposing his most rigid value judgements on his young-adult children.
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La huella de unos labios (1952)
Character: María
Woman prostitutes herself to the man who murdered her fiance, to get evidence of his guilt and bring him to trial.
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El medallón del crimen (1955)
Character: María González
Going out for a drink with the guys after work, a salaryman get in over his head with a gangster's moll and a murder.
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Secreto profesional (1955)
Character: Mariana viuda de Peralta
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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El secreto de la solterona (1945)
Character: Felicidad
A homeless orphan girl is adopted by a wealthy man against his wife wishes. When the man dies, the girl endures endless humiliations under the wife's harsh grip, so she finds solace with mysterious old maid who lives near by.
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Las Fuerzas Vivas (1975)
Character: N/A
It narrates the phenomenon of the Mexican Revolution, satirically reflected through what happens in a town far from the places where the true Revolution was fiercely fought.
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Retorno a la Juventud (1954)
Character: Inés Montecruz
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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La vida no vale nada (1955)
Character: Cruz
Pablo, a wandering laborer, has imprisoned himself in a hell of alcoholism. Cruz, a widow, reaches out to the troubled man, but even her compassion may not be enough to save him.
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Canaima (1945)
Character: Aracelis Vellorini
College-educated emigre has to get macho when he returns home to the Venezuelan outback.
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La diosa arrodillada (1947)
Character: Elena
Antonio, a millionaire, gifts his wife a statue of a naked, kneeling woman for their wedding anniversary.
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Secreto entre mujeres (1949)
Character: N/A
A big ol' player has different stages of a thing happening with each of the five women in a household.
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La casa de los millones (1942)
Character: Adelina
A capricious "new rich" makes her employees suffer with her moods, until she hires a poor servant that can make her open up.
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Una mujer sin amor (1952)
Character: Rosario
After indulging in an affair with a man (a friend of the family) she truly loves, a woman returns to her young son and husband for good, and loses contact with the man. Her husband is unaware of the affair. Twenty years later, there is news that the friend has died and left all of his money to the younger son in the family, which leads us to question this younger son's biological origin.
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El gran calavera (1949)
Character: Virginia de la Mata
Portrayal of a family’s attempt to change the spending habit of the indulgent and hedonistic patriarch, Alfredo. The family decides to try to fool him into spending less by telling him that his large fortune is gone.
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Las vírgenes locas (1972)
Character: Luz Guardiola
Handsome young swindler throws himself into the clutches of three rich spinsters who live in their own little fantasy world on their crumbling estate.
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La intrusa (1954)
Character: Gabriela Almeida
Upon her arrival to the village San Ignacio, Gabriela meets Raúl, owner of a residence that her grandfather administrates. He doesn't reveal his real identity and they fall madly in love. Tania, Raúl's sister-in-law, secretly loves him and she decides to separate them by simulating a car accident from which Gabriela temporarily becomes paralized. Aware that they will marry, Tania makes the girl believe that Raúl is marrying her out of compassion, causing Gabriela to disappear from the residence...
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