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El Rey (1976)
Character: N/A
Mexican Revolution era: a guerilla faction kidnaps two members of a governing family to negotiate a ransom.
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Chistelandia (1958)
Character: N/A
Short-attention-span sketch comedy and black-out gags, assembled into a movie. Structured like TV show "Laugh-In". First of three in series.
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Vuelve Chistelandia (1958)
Character: N/A
Collection of comedy sketches and blackout gags edited into feature-length movie. Laugh-In style.
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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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Nunca me hagan eso (1957)
Character: N/A
Blowhard's mouth runs away with him and he's trapped into having to prove that he knows Maria Antonieta Pons, the big movie star and stuff.
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El cariñoso (1959)
Character: N/A
Romcom with music: owner of an auto-repair shop woos the owner of a beauty parlor.
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Las hijas del Zorro (1964)
Character: N/A
Two sisters. They ride horses, they wear black dominos, they carry bullwhips. Their dad was... Third of three movies in unofficial series; the first two didn't explicitly reference Zorro.
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Cuando los hijos se van (1969)
Character: N/A
Remake of an archetypal 1940s melodrama about parents sacrificing their own well-being for the convenience of ungrateful adult children.
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Cayó de la gloria el diablo (1972)
Character: Ingeniero
Subsistence-economy slum guy who sells used newsprint for a living breaks into showbiz with an inadvertantly-comical fire-eater act. The novelty of him wears off very quickly, and then...
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Échenme al gato (1958)
Character: N/A
Comical mix-up in the operating room: by mistake, a notorious gangster's arm is grafted onto an accident-victim's stump.
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Hay ángeles sin alas (1972)
Character: N/A
Loose-living gal hires two guys to pose as her husband and son for a week, while her sister the nun is visiting.
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En la vieja California (1963)
Character: N/A
Bastard son kidnaps legitimate heir in attempt to suborn their father's estate... but a surrogate comes forward to impersonate the real heir while the other problem getss resolved.
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Las coronelas (1959)
Character: N/A
Two young women 'forced' to masquerade as soldiers in military troop.
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La plaza de Puerto Santo (1978)
Character: N/A
The town's leading families decide to step down and let average citizens take responsibility for city government, from Mayor on down.
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Tin Tan y las modelos (1960)
Character: N/A
Ambitious non-starter gets a job as a bill-collector at a beauty-products company and tries to bluff his way into a management position, then tries a couple of other business schemes with minimal success.
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Manos arriba (1958)
Character: N/A
A tailor is mistaken for the leader of an agricultural union and gets tangled up in a price-fixing conspiracy.
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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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La risa de la ciudad (1963)
Character: N/A
The underside of Mexico City: street performers, factory workers, a drunk, an old man with civic pride, a pickpocket, and others live and interact in a shantytown near the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe.
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Tú, yo, nosotros (1972)
Character: Julián's father
Three interwoven stories where the characters experience deception, passion, love and rejection.
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Acto de posesión (1977)
Character: Pedro
Raquel's not able to have children, so she and her boyfriend manipulate another young woman into bearing his child.
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Cristo te ama (1975)
Character: N/A
A young woman is fired by her lover from her job in a bookstore and meets a trafficker she falls in love with. She becomes a heroin and prostitutes to buy the drug. The trafficker is arrested and she surrenders to the supplier in exchange for drugs. He pretends to care for a cemetery and demands money from him. She desperately kills him. When the trafficker leaves, he decides to rebuild his life and goes as a doctor to the mountains with the young woman. She also wants to quit the drug and succeeds with her help, but when boarding a vehicle they are killed by four gunmen. Source: http://www.imcine.gob.mx/cine-mexicano/pelicula2425
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¿Qué haremos con papá? (1966)
Character: N/A
The funny story of a man who loses his memory in an accident and can not remember who was married to another woman, then meets another woman he marries and starts another life and lives alternately with a family 15 days and 15 days with the another arguing that their travel is for work in the Crown Brewery, which is in Veracruz where he lives with one family and one in Mexico.
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Una noche embarazosa (1977)
Character: Doctor Perales
An Italian taxicab driver is used as a "breeding man" to save the inheritance of a wealthy family in Mexico.
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Las noches de Paloma (1978)
Character: N/A
While being shuttled from her convent/boarding school to her wedding, a young lady of the upper classes is kidnapped by bandits. She gets to see the world and meet interesting people.
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Vivir del cuento (1959)
Character: N/A
X has to postpone his marriage for 3 months in order to collect a huge inheritance... so he hires Y to keep his fiancee and her father busy during the hiatus.
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La marcha a Zacatecas (1969)
Character: Notario
Villistas, army officers, heirs and heiresses all gather at the home of a recently deceased hacendado. Everybody has an agenda, everybody butts heads in comical ways. Or not so much.
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Con quien andan nuestros locos (1961)
Character: Mike
Sometimes a man will go to the ends of the earth to win the girl he loves! In this romantic comedy, billionaire Abundio Celso falls in love with the beautiful Claudia. But no matter how many gifts he gives her, he can't impress this girl
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Los Hijos de Satanás (1972)
Character: The Mayor
Two sworn enemies must put aside their differences and join forces to catch a gang of thieves led by a woman called "The Yara". They must fight to save their village from the bandits and do everything necessary to prevent The Yara from controlling their destinies.
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Tres amigos (1970)
Character: Licenciado
Man accused of murder, and the dead man's daughter, try to find proof of the real murderer's identity.
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Apolinar (1972)
Character: N/A
Tancredo, a poor man, is in love with a rich girl, who does not return his feelings. One day when she is bathing in a river, a flood sweeps her away and Tancredo is unable to save her. Mad with grief, he steals the sun. The gods call Apolinar to restore light to the earth, but he is obstructed by the magician of darkness, until by means of a telescope he is able to send a bag of light to Tancredo, now grown old. Tancredo goes to the seashore and opens the bag of light as an offering to his beloved, whereupon the sun returns to the earth.
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Tirando a gol (1966)
Character: Médico
Blended family comedy/drama -- the narrative hook is that the two original families are fans of opposing soccer teams.
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A Home of Our Own (1975)
Character: Hilario
The story of Father William Wasson, who founded and operated a home for abandoned and orphaned children in Mexico.
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La puerta (1969)
Character: Guest
At a high society gathering, a door inside the mansion leads to a strange hallway.
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Paraíso (1970)
Character: Caguamo
Problems arise between the divers Román and Lauro when the former falls in love with a prostitute on the beaches of Acapulco.
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Pantaleón y las visitadoras (1975)
Character: N/A
Pantaleón and the visitors is a peruvian film made in 1975 and based on the book of the same name by Mario Vargas Llosa. Directed by the novelist himself along with José María Gutiérrez Santos, it was released in Puerto Rico. Among its protagonists, José Sacristán, the Mexican Katy Jurado and Rosa Carmina and the Peruvian Camucha Negrete.
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En la mitad del mundo (1964)
Character: N/A
Mexican-Ecuadorian film from 1964, originally titled: ‘The Misadventures of Don Ventura’. A musical comedy created in the style of traditional classic Hollywood cinema of the 1950s, with the purpose of promoting Ecuador to the world through an idyllic vision of the country that erased economic, political and social conflicts, while offering its national and international viewers the idea of a harmonious nation in the process of modernization.
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Rocky Carambola (1979)
Character: N/A
The circus in which Rocky Carambola and Coco, his chimpanzee friend, work, arrives in a city where strange things happen.
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Si, Mi vida (1953)
Character: Locutor (uncredited)
Dr. Castellanos is saved from bankruptcy.
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Duro pero seguro (1978)
Character: Doctor Luis Frey
Nicolasa sells tacos near a movie studio and her popularity threatens the restaurant's own studies. She drops the food when seeing actor Armando performing and the director expels her out.
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El Niño y la Estrella (1976)
Character: N/A
Wanted to fly to the sky ...And one day he got it When a child dares to steal the keys to the orphanage, guarded by a soldier, is exposed to too many dangers. This is the story of that child, freeing his birds, he demanded to life and men, their own freedom. '
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Suerte te dé Dios (1961)
Character: N/A
Two construction workers discover a stash of gold coins hidden in the walls of a building they're demolishing.
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Agente 00 Sexy (1968)
Character: Colonel Gomez
The beautiful Agent 00 is sent by the girlfriend of a mafia boss to catch his band of miscreants.
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Los Asesinos (1968)
Character: Tom Foster
Starring Nick Adams in his final role, a lone cowboy rides into a small Western town that is besieged by a gang of hoodlums in search of treasure. The search leads to an all out war between the town bosses, a family of crooked ranchers and other unsavory characters. But when Shannon (Nick Adams) enters the picture, they may have met their match...
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La capilla ardiente (1981)
Character: Anciano
A young man with telekinetic powers comes to stay in an old house inhabited by two sisters and there he has to face supernatural phenomena that reach their culmination when he is saved from dying by an old man murdered some time ago.
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Ama a tu prójimo (1958)
Character: Chofer cruz roja (uncredited)
This film tells several short stories that end up lapsing in the emergency room of a hospital, because it is dedicated to nurses. Cantinflas appears at the end of the film playing the role of Luis, a man who has five daughters and looks forward to a boy, but fate plays a trick and the child dies at birth, but history gives a nice twist and a message of hope.
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Fe, esperanza y caridad (1974)
Character: Jacobo (segment "Caridad")
Three episodes. Faith: a woman is attacked. Hope: a fakir is crucified. Charity: a woman faces bureaucracy.
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Aquellos años (1974)
Character: Sr. Jecker
President Juárez fights against the conservatives, who have ordered an emperor to be brought from France to govern Mexico
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Las ficheras: Bellas de noche II (1977)
Character: Psicologo
Bellas de noche continues. The ex-fichera who bought the cabaret continues to work with several of her former companions, the waiter Fabian, the pugilist Bronco who returns to boxing, Carmen, his wife, who returns to booking, the drunk “La Corcholata”, in love with an old man, and a French woman and the pimp “El Vaselinas”, whose favors are disputed by all the women, but who loses his virility and fights to regain it.
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Un pirata de doce años (1972)
Character: N/A
In the sixteenth Captain Morgan pirate ship is sunk by the Spanish fleet. He and four companions make it to an island, but the beaches are occupied by the Spanish. The child Erick, son of John Goldark, King of the Pirates, who died trying to save his nephews Lady Harold and the Spanish prisoners, helping them into the jungle. Grateful Morgan and his friends save the captives. When it seems that children are lost flying the Spanish magazine. Then fight with cannibals and are again caught by the Spanish, but are saved by another pirate ship.
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Rage (1966)
Character: Old Man
Small-town doctor bitten by rabid dog, races the clock to get to the city and receive treatment.
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Once Upon a Scoundrel (1973)
Character: Víctor Cruz
After falling for Alicia, greedy and powerful Mexican landowner Carlos has her fiancé thrown in prison on a bogus charge. To trick Carlos into releasing her man, Alicia teams up with her Aunt Delfina and tries to convince Carlos that he's a ghost.
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El vampiro sangriento (1962)
Character: Justus
Count Cagliostro, whose family has tried for generations to rid the world of vampires, instructs his daughter and her fiance to protect several valuable documents.
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Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
Character: Bank Manager
As the west rapidly becomes civilized, a pair of outlaws in 1890s Wyoming find themselves pursued by a posse and decide to flee to South America in hopes of evading the law.
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River of Gold (1971)
Character: Priest
A pair of beach bums wind up in Acapulco, where they get involved in a search for a beautiful woman and a sunken treasure.
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The Wrath of God (1972)
Character: Tacho
Set in the 1920s, several foreigners held by a South American military group are offered possible freedom if they accept to topple a local crazed military leader.
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La Puerta y la Mujer del Carnicero (1969)
Character: Invitado (segment "La puerta")
A movie divided in two segments, the first "La puerta" (The Door) is about a high society gathering in which a door inside the mansion leads to a bizarre corridor where a naked and menacing human figure appears. The second "La mujer del carnicero" (The Butcher's Wife) is set during the Mexican revolution and is about horrifying hallucinations felt by a lieutenant after committing a murder.
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Longitud de Guerra (1976)
Character: Gral. Felipe Cruz
Based on the novel Tomochic by Heriberto Frías; tells the story of the rebellion of the inhabitants of the village of Tomochi, Chihuahua, against the government of Porfirio Diaz in 1891. Mexico's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1976.
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Mecánica Nacional (1972)
Character: Güero Corrales
A mechanic takes his family to a car race and a series of events occur which brings problems, betrayals, violence and the unexpected death of an elderly person.
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El gángster (1965)
Character: Ricky Rito
An old gangster returns from the United States to Mexico City to live with his sister-in-law and his two nephews, where he will face the daily life of a middle-class family.
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Historia de un canalla (1964)
Character: Gerente
A woman betrayed by a man falls into despair and kills him. What fate will the jury decide for her?
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El bueno para nada (1973)
Character: Benigno Saldaña (as Francisco Cordova)
Bumbling inventor/jack of all trades does sketch-comedy stuff for 65 minutes, then rescues Mexico City from a Mad Scientist triggering earthquakes.
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The Long Goodbye (1973)
Character: Doctor
In 1970s Hollywood, Detective Philip Marlowe tries to help a friend who is accused of murdering his wife.
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Los cachorros (1973)
Character: Profesor de educación física
After having his genitals brutally mutilated during childhood, a man must face prejudice and himself.
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La mansión de la locura (1973)
Character: Pseudo-Marshall
The inmates of an insane asylum take over the institution, imprison the doctors and staff, and then put into play their own ideas of how the place should be run.
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Two Mules for Sister Sara (1970)
Character: Juan's Father
When a wandering mercenary named Hogan rescues a nun called Sister Sara from the unwanted attentions of a band of rogues on the Mexican plains, he has no idea what he has let himself in for. Their chance encounter results in the blowing up of a train and a French garrison, as well as igniting a spark between them that survives a shocking discovery.
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El alegre divorciado (1976)
Character: Don Felipe Aguirre
Ramón y Socorro, a 50-year-old couple, owners of a tavern, embarks on a long trip to Mexico to attend the wedding of their son, Carlos, with Gloria, the daughter of an important Mexican businessman. Upon arriving in Mexico, Ramón discovers that in this country there is a divorce. Fed up with his wife, he decides to divorce without taking into account that he will soon pay the consequences of this act.
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La vida cambia (1976)
Character: Don Bernardo
An unhappy marriage is complicated when hubby starts an affair with his sister-in-law. Darkest before the dawn...
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Tívoli (1975)
Character: Quijanito
While trying to save the famous Tivoli burlesque theater, the participants uncover a web of commercial corruption.
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Presagio (1975)
Character: Padre Ángel
While attending the birth of Isabel, the wife of foreigner Felipe, Mama Santos predicts that "something terrible is going to happen in the town." From this omen, calamities will torment the locals.
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Romance sobre ruedas (1969)
Character: N/A
A sporty new car is gifted to two young men who work at an auto factory, and they have to time-share it between them.
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Doña Macabra (1972)
Character: Octavio
The story of Armida (named ¨Doña Macabra¨ by her neighbors) and Demetria, two old women who live in an old house with Octavio, a kind of mad scientist. Their lives take an unexpected turn when the nephew of Armida, Lucila, recently married with Othón, arrive to the house looking for and old treasure, believed to be buried in the house. They will find a lot of dark and unexpected secrets.
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El águila descalza (1971)
Character: Encargado de Manicomio
Shmuck makes a superhero costume, rides his bike to crime scenes. He gets involved with something big involving US capitalists taking over local Mexican businesses.
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The Desperate Mission (1969)
Character: Father Augustine
A man who has lost everything joins others paid to convey a wealthy man's wife - and a mysterious treasure - to safety in San Francisco.
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Calzonzín inspector (1974)
Character: Don Perpetuo del Rosal
A rumor reaches a small town, San Garabato, that a government infiltrator will arrive to check the conditions of the community. Quickly, the municipal president, Don Perpetuo del Rosal, orders the imprisonment of those who might give a bad image. An indigenous man named Calzonzin arrives in town, pursued by two men. He is quickly taken as the infiltrated inspector, and protected by all the local authorities.
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Tlayucan (1962)
Character: Rito, sacristán
Desperate because of his son's illness, the peasant Eufemio steals a pearl from the image of Santa Lucía in the village church.
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Los hermanos Del Hierro (1961)
Character: Hiring Man
Northern Mexico, early 20th century. Reynaldo del Hierro is murdered while riding with his sons Reynaldo and Martín, whose mother instills in them the need for revenge.
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La Bataille de San Sebastian (1967)
Character: Kino
Leon Alastray is an outlaw who has been given sanctuary by Father John, whom he then escorts to the village of San Sebastian. The village is deserted, with its cowardly residents hiding in the hills from Indians, who regularly attack the village and steal all their supplies. When Father John is murdered, the villagers mistakenly think the outlaw is the priest. Alastray at first tells them he is not a priest, but they don't believe it, and an apparent miracle seems to prove they are correct. Eventually, he assists them in regaining their confidence and defending themselves.
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Tarahumara (Cada vez más lejos) (1965)
Character: Don Celedonio
An anthropologist goes to the mountains to study the problems of the indigenous people and finds out that they are being dispossessed of their lands.
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El ángel exterminador (1962)
Character: (uncredited)
A formal dinner party starts out normally enough, but after the bourgeois group retire to the host’s music room, they inexplicably find themselves unable to leave.
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Dos criados malcriados (1960)
Character: N/A
Don Antonio quiere casar a una de sus dos hijas Tere o Lorena con un conde. Para eso alquila una mansión y contrata a los criados Viruta y Capulina, para atender al conde y a sus invitados. Pero los criados descubren que el conde y sus invitados son unos rateros.
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La coquito (1977)
Character: N/A
La Coquito is a Cuban cuplés, coveted by men for her beauty and sensuality. After great hardship in Cuba, she accepts the proposal of a Spanish businessman to work in Madrid. There she meets various men who will compete for her love.
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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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