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Pasionaria (1952)
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Musicians/dancers look for their big show-biz break while dealing with a melodrama/crime activity that involves an abusive husband, a lecherous employer and a heroin lab.
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Cuando el alba llegue (1950)
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Bad guy who runs a ritzy nightclub is trying to keep his younger brother out of the gutter and get him into a professional career. Unknowingly, he takes up with his brother's fiancee. Also other complications.
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Negra consentida (1949)
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Free-spirited young woman schemes different ways to trying to nudge her spinsterish older sister into falling in love and getting married.
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Póker de ases (1952)
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Four brothers try to manage their careers and love-lives under the close supervision of a domineering mother.
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Yo fui una callejera (1952)
Character: N/A
Teenaged slum-girl falls into show-biz by accident and rises to the tuxedos-and-furs class. Gangster drama and heartbreak, so she goes back to her own social class at the end, even though other options were available to her.
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Amor y venganza (1991)
Character: N/A
Young woman miraculously rises from runway model to internationally-acclaimed film star in a few months' time because she's sorta pretty and stuff. Then she decides to get even with an ex-boyfriend who left town for a job and forgot about her.
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Rosalinda (1945)
Character: N/A
Two adventurers visit a small coastal village in 1850 in hopes of getting access to a shipwreck that took place 100 years earlier. Also, local girlfriends.
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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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Venus de fuego (1949)
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Wholesome young man falls hard for a woman who's identified as a luxury commodity; gangster/pimp guy in her orbit convinces the nice boy to do crimes so he'll have enough money to move in her circle.
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Cuando tú me quieras (1951)
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A shoe-clerk's aunt and uncle send him to a remote fishing village to retrieve a distant cousin and bring her back to the bosom of the family.
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Amor de la calle (1950)
Character: Queta
El Pichi, El Trompas and El Orejas are street children who pick up a bill that Fernando has dropped, who prevents them from being arrested and offers them a job at a cake stand. Fernando meets Queta, El Pichi's sister, and they both feel attracted. This will lead Fernando to know the hardness of life for people in the suburbs.
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Ambiciosa (1953)
Character: Estela Durán
Young actress advances her career by choosing boyfriends judiciously.
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¡Acá las Tortas! (1951)
Character: María
College students, ready to start entering adult society, are ashamed of their working-class backgrounds.
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Lola Casanova (1949)
Character: Lola Casanova
Sonora Mexico, 1880s: Seri Indian tribe splits into two factions after a white woman comes to live in their settlement.
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Eterna agonía (1949)
Character: Margarita
Convicted on flimsy evidence of complicity in a jewel robbery, there's nothing he can do afterward to put his life in order. Downward spiral.
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La mujer desnuda (1953)
Character: Magda
A circus dancer marries a famous singer, but is threatened when a figure from her past blackmails her.
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Músico, poeta y loco (1948)
Character: N/A
An underaged heiress is sent to a reformatory by her unscrupulous guardians to prevent her from fulfilling the conditions of her father's will. Meanwhile, a street-vendor gets mistaken for an eminent psychologist and is hired to teach at that reformatory.
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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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El pecado de Laura (1949)
Character: Laura
José, a driver, and Laura, a dancer, were lovers. José couldn't dance with Laura due to his condition on his legs. Therefore, a man notices Laura's skill to dance and wants to do business with her, taking her on a dancing tour, which made José and Laura miss each other.
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As negro (1954)
Character: N/A
Two poor children swear an oath: one will study, the other will work and support them both. The worker turns to crime...
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Cortesana (1948)
Character: N/A
Young woman breaks up with her fiance to shack up with her sister's husband.
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Mi papá tuvo la culpa (1953)
Character: N/A
Two young sweethearts get married, and then are made to believe that she's his illegitimate half-sister.
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Quiero vivir (1953)
Character: Mercedes Rios
Man in the final stages of a fatal illness gets immersed in a new romance and a murder investigation.
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Gran Casino (1947)
Character: Camelia
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: Woman accusing her servant
Reporters compete for cash prize awarded for biggest scoop on New Year's Eve.
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