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Huellas del pasado (1950)
Character: Isabel / Issa Valetti
A young singer falls madly in love with a man, with whom she forms a family. Problems, however, are not long in coming when she receives unfair accusations.
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Otra primavera (1950)
Character: N/A
His wife dies and now he's free to marry his mistress and adopt their children officially. How will this play out?
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Cuatro copas (1958)
Character: N/A
Upper-crust city gal falls for a rough-edged working-class guy, so she follows him to his home town and masquerades as a peasant/Indian local to win him over. All very stalky and classist.
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La cigüeña dijo sí (1960)
Character: N/A
Newlywed couple wait for their first baby, but the mother/in-law gets pregnant first.
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Canta mi corazón (1965)
Character: N/A
Teen-pop singer launches his career. Family conflicts and girlfriend troubles.
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La loca de los milagros (1975)
Character: N/A
Retired singer with a history of mental illness acts as housemother for a gaggle of young adult 'friends' who exploit and disrespect her.
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Sabrás que te quiero (1958)
Character: N/A
Famous singer becomes desperate to figure out which of three women helped to launch his early career with anonymous mentoring and support.
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Bambalinas (1957)
Character: N/A
The story of a famous singer who reaches the highest position in the world of varieties, but is forced to cede her throne to the young star of the moment, repeating the same situation that she starred in in her youth.
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Soledad (1947)
Character: Soledad / Cristina Palermo
Soledad, a maid born in Argentina, works at a Mexican farm. The son of her employer will deceive her, pretending to marry her and leaving her pregnant. When she finds out that she has been tricked, she runs away from the farm. During her flight she meets a group of artists that'll change her life.
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Creo en ti (1960)
Character: N/A
A rich young woman marries a man who will disappoint her emotionally and financially.
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La dama del velo (1949)
Character: Andrea del Monte
Andrea loves Esteban. Esteban murders his wife and goes go jail. Andrea marries Esteban's lawyer. Twenty years later...
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Amor en la sombra (1960)
Character: Claudia Montes
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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La loca (1952)
Character: Elena Prim viuda de Villaseñor
Mentally-ill woman went over the edge 15 years earlier, as a result of family traumas and the disappearance of her daughter. Now, present day, evil relatives are trying to take control of money she's inherited...
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Rosas blancas para mi hermana negra (1970)
Character: Laura
The story revolves around Laura, a white singer, and Angustias, her longtime black friend, with both mothers dedicated to the education of their daughters: Alicia and Roberta. Trouble ensues when Laura’s daughter, Alicia, falls in love with Ricardo, a young black medical student.
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La mujer X (1955)
Character: Adriana
A woman accused of murder refuses to defend herself in any way, in order to avoid tarnishing the family name and the reputation of her long-lost son.
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México de mis amores (1979)
Character: N/A
Anthology of clips from classic-era Mexican films, with reality-footage of elderly actors discussing their memories of the period.
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Canción del alma (1964)
Character: N/A
Life in a theatre-people hotel, mostly focusing on a singer and her young-adult daughter who just graduated from an expensive private school.
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Cita en la Frontera (1940)
Character: N/A
Two middle-aged brothers fall in love with a tango singer they have met in a gambling hall, after she is stranded in their border mining town, causing them to turn against each other.
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Acuérdate de vivir (1953)
Character: Yolanda
In Guanajuato, a piano teacher delays her marriage to an engineer not to let her younger sisters alone. As he is love with her voice, he is mistaken for a sister whom he marries. The teacher then goes to the capital. There she becomes part of a family of young students, who believe she is the mistress of his father, so she suffers the scorn and reproach. Over the years the parents die and she renounces to the inheritance they leave her.
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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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Bodas de oro (1956)
Character: N/A
On their anniversary, a lomg-married couple reminisce about the history of their marriage
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Negro es un bello color (1974)
Character: Eugenia
An affluent Mexican performer is troubled when her son announces his intentions to marry a Black American woman, and her daughter exhibits erratic behavior.
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La mamá de la novia (1978)
Character: N/A
Mother and daughter are both pop singers, but mom wants her little girl to get married. Wacky complications.
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La infame (1954)
Character: Cristina Ferrán
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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El hijo pródigo (1968)
Character: Alegría Román
Suffering mother is reunited with her son after a long absence... and he turns out to be a real rotter.
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Historia de un amor (1956)
Character: Elena Ramos
Elena (Libertad Lamarque), already a star, falls madly in love with Roberto. They make it to the altar. Elena and Roberto adopt a baby. The years go by and everything is happiness in the couple’s life—until one day the girl’s grandfather appears.
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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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El fin de la noche (1944)
Character: Lola Morel
A singer is trapped in France by the unforeseen outbreak of World War II and a man who serves the German occupiers demands, in exchange for safe conduct for herself and her daughter, to act as a spy and informer for members of the Resistance.
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Romance musical (1947)
Character: Mecha Garay
A man thinks he's being cheated and hires a detective to watch over his wife on a cruise, but she hires a singer to impersonate her.
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Bello recuerdo (1961)
Character: Lucy
Back from vacation, Lucy, a school's music teacher, misses a boy. People say he will not return because he recently lost his father. She is very affected by his favorite student, so she decides to go to see him, finding the house in utter ruin. But chance makes Lucy forced to take the child and immediately found in him the son that was kidnapped years ago in America when she was a famous artist.
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Ayúdame a vivir (1936)
Character: Luisita
While studying at a Catholic boarding school, the young Luisa meets a boy, Julio, who talks to her from the street and through the gate. However, the girl's arrogant older brother removes her from the establishment and takes her to live in her family house. The beginning of love between Luisa and Julio is made even more difficult by what seems to be the beginning of a disease in her.
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Ansiedad (1953)
Character: María de Lara
Twins (both played by Infante) are separated while very young, one raised as a singer by their widowed mother and another as the heir to one of Mexico's richest families. Their paths cross in the future, but they are unable to recognize each other due to their very different social backgrounds.
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Rostros olvidados (1952)
Character: Rosario Velazquez
A woman looses her baby girl in a train accident but, years later, the girl's father reveals that the baby survived and was raised by him with two other daughters.
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Puerta cerrada (1939)
Character: Nina Miranda
Nina Miranda leaves jail after spending 20 years imprisoned for a murder that she insists she did not commit and recalls the time of her youth.
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Gran Casino (1947)
Character: Mercedes Irigoyen
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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Reportaje (1953)
Character: Unemployed Singer
Reporters compete for cash prize awarded for biggest scoop on New Year's Eve.
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El alma del bandoneón (1935)
Character: Elda
Two brilliant tango singers struggle to the top of their profession and cope with obstacles to their personal romance.
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La cabalgata del circo (1945)
Character: Nita
The lives, loves and vicissitudes of a group of circus performers in the Argentine Pampas around the turn of the century are played out in this drama with songs.
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Eclipse de sol (1943)
Character: Sol Bernal
A vaudeville singer secretly marries a wealthy landowner, who soon returns to his ranch, fearing the rejection of his snobbish family. To teach him a lesson, she shows up at his estancia pretending to be a maid.
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Caminito de Gloria (1939)
Character: N/A
A young woman travels with her uncle to the city, there she works with a singer who she will have to replace. Later, she goes blind.
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Mi campeón (1952)
Character: Cantante
Catita is a simple and poor woman who dreams of that her son stands out on something important to help her out of his humble. But she opposes to him being boxer, therefore constantly fighting with her husband.
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Madreselva (1938)
Character: Blanca
A film star enjoys a romance with the daughter of a puppeteer, but his criminal past threatens to ruin it.
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La sonrisa de mamá (1972)
Character: Angéloca Zamora
Angelica Zamora is a famous actress and singer, ignored by her three children Julio, Clotilde and Felipe. After learning of a serious illness that leaves her little time to live, her children and their friends intend to make her spend her best moments without being aware of the disease she suffers. Julio will even propose to someone to please his mother.
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¡Tango! (1933)
Character: Elena
¡Tango! follows a formula established by Carlos Gardel with films such as Luces de Buenos Aires (The Lights of Buenos Aires, 1931) in which a melodramatic story is interspersed with tango songs. However, the film had less dialog and more music, making it more like a musical revue. This format would be copied by many subsequent films. The plot is derived from tango songs. Many of these songs tell of the seduction of an innocent slum girl by a rich man who promises her a glamorous life, but who abandons her when her looks fade. The stylized and sentimental plot of ¡Tango! revolves around a young man who is abandoned by his girlfriend for an older rich man and is heartbroken. The film follows his misfortunes.
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La ley que olvidaron (1938)
Character: María
The employee of a boarding house raises the daughter of a single mother and loves her so much that she kidnaps the girl and goes to jail.
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La casa del recuerdo (1940)
Character: N/A
An old woman remembers when her daughter fell in love with a young neighbor, and she and her husband did everything to break that relationship.
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Música de Siempre (1958)
Character: N/A
Producer, director and projectionist watch an assortment of musical numbers and brainstorm about framing narrative that could contain them all.
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Besos brujos (1937)
Character: Marga
A singer is kidnapped by a rancher and her boyfriend comes to rescue her.
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Una vez en la vida (1941)
Character: María Cristina Campos
A woman helps a man escape from the police and ends up falling in love with him.
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