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El asalto (1965)
Character: N/A
Series western: decent guy with young son takes the rap for a bank robbery; justice-dude and sidekick smoke out his accomplices and the mastermind to clear the first guy's record.
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Ni solteros, ni casados (1972)
Character: N/A
Young couple's honeymoon is interrupted by an emergency at the groom's workplace. How long will it take them before they can make conjugal nookie?
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Las tres alegres comadres (1952)
Character: Rafael
When three poor young women fail in their attempts to break into films and night clubs in Mexico City, they separate from their boyfriends, form a trio and travel the country singing, dancing and bribing older men, but they fall into a trap when they invest their money in an unreliable business.
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El derecho de nacer (1952)
Character: Alfredo Martínez
In Santiago de Cuba in the early 1950s, history begins. A young woman of high society becomes pregnant with a false love, her father orders his black maid (Dolores) to kill the baby (Alberto), but she flees to Havana where Alberto becomes a renowned doctor.
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Tres contra el destino (1980)
Character: N/A
Three very poor children bond into a "family" unit. Grown up, they each try to help the others accomplish career goals. One's a girl, so there are romantic complications.
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El calvario de una esposa (1936)
Character: N/A
Confederate Col. Lafe Harvey (Earl Ross) travels home after the Civil War, where he must tell his niece, Betty (Frances Grant), that her father is presumed dead. Soon after he returns, scavengers destroy the family home and he and Betty escape westward. Meanwhile, Gen. John Harvey (William Welch), Betty's father, has been seriously injured but is not dead. He arrives at the deserted plantation with the help of Union soldier Tom (Bob Steele), who then pledges to help John find his family
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Las cautivas (1973)
Character: N/A
Raimundo, a wealthy man, died of a heart attack. The notary reads out Raimundo's will, leaving all his estate and companies to the widow, Luz, with the surprising clause that she will remain without a man for the period of two years, during which his trusted attorney, Arturo, will be in possession of the whole patrimony. Luz being much younger than her late husband, resents this clause that will keep her captive of the dead man for so long. Her attempts to seek release in the night spots of the town do not prove satisfying. Lucia, the maid, starts an extortion scheme against the widow, menacing to denounce the murder of Raimundo with venom, as Luz and Arturo were lovers. The faithful cook and the gardener are dismissed and Lucía literally takes her employer's image, clothes, and manners - forcing Luz to play humbly to her (progressively insane) demands.
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El cuarto cerrado (1952)
Character: Manuel
A man gives his testimony to a doctor, believing he hears the voice of his deceased wife, Diana.
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El Ceniciento (1952)
Character: Marcelito
Valentin reaches Mexico City to stay with his countrymen Marcelo and Sirenia, parents of thirteen children. Marcelo gladly serves Valentin until he realizes that he is poor and throws him out of the house. By a suggestion Sirenia, Marcelo employs Valentin as a servant and exploits it mercilessly. But with the help of Andres, the fate of Valentin takes an unexpected turn.
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El mariachi desconocido (1953)
Character: Don Manuel
This film is considered one of Tin Tan's funniest comedies. This time, the charismatic comedian incarnates a mariachi musician that lives the most entertaining an extraordinary adventures while traveling from Mexico to the paradisaic island of Cuba. An example of the excellent cinematographic comedy that only Tin Tan can achieve.
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Cantinflas y su prima (1940)
Character: N/A
Cantinflas appears flirting with a lady until her lover arrives. Angry, Cantinflas call the husband causing a number of situations.
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Las cariñosas (1953)
Character: Pedro Mendoza
When three beautiful young nurses from Jalisco, afflicted with a rare disease called "sexappealitis", create commotion among the patients in a hospital, they are forced to resign. They travel to Mexico City following the suggestion of a crazy scientist, who tells them they will be cured when they get married. But they are attracted to three men who are indifferent to their sexy looks, being themselves sick with "lovetitis".
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Amor a la vida (1950)
Character: Roberto Ancira
During the times of Venezuelan dictator Juan Vicente Gómez, an exhausted stranger arrives at a farm and starts to help the owner with the legal status of her land.
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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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Pobre diablo (1940)
Character: Amigo de Luisa
An elderly homeless dude lucks into a situation where a young woman's uncle and her boyfriend ask him to impersonate her long-lost father and give her some nurturing parent attention.
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El cachorro (1966)
Character: N/A
El Cachorro is falsely accused of two murders; right after he's arrested flor those crimes, another murder is committed and he has to clear himself of that accusation. We never find out what happened about the first two deaths.
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Amor perdido (1951)
Character: Ernesto
Ernesto, a composer, is madly in love with Amalia. He decides to help her pay the rent and wants her to start singing at the cabaret where he works, but she ends up falling in love with another man.
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Acuérdate de vivir (1953)
Character: José Eduardo Pacheco
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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Patsy, mi amor (1969)
Character: N/A
Written by future Nobel-prize winner Gabriel García Márquez, this is the story of Patsy, a wealthy debutante with an acute sense of living and boundless curiosity. She falls in love with an older man (Julio Alemán) whom is married and mediocre, and thus learns the hard way about unhappiness, marring her rose colored world.
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...Y la mujer hizo al hombre (1975)
Character: N/A
A completely illiterate general from the Mexican Revolution “wins” a teacher in a game of dice. What happens to him with this woman is something unexpected.
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El negocio del odio (1972)
Character: N/A
An ambitious businessman searches for the perfect candidate to train and turn into a great boxing champion.
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3 citas con el destino (1954)
Character: Sebastián (segmento "México")
The story unfolds through the twists and turns of a strange curse attributed to a jewel that, passed from hand to hand, carries a deadly destiny. Its theme spans the three countries where it was filmed (Spain, Mexico, and Argentina), beginning in Spain and then moving to Mexico. The jewel, which takes on the character of another figure in the narrative as it travels through different parts of the world, arrives in Buenos Aires. The film ultimately presents the jewel's final destination in Mexico, where its owner dies, like others who were also marked by its malevolent influence.
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Santa (1943)
Character: Manuel de la Torre
Santa is a beautiful and very humble young girl living in Chimalistac, a small and quiet spot south of the 1930's Mexico City. After Santa is cheated by arrogant soldier Marcelino, she's rejected by her family and friends and expelled of Chimalistac. Santa finds shelter in a whorehouse and becomes a cinic and bitter woman, mistreated by bullfighter "Jarameno" and silently loved by blind pianist Hipolito.
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Morir de pie (1957)
Character: N/A
A young woman gives herself to her boyfriend but is forced to marry an army officer, who takes revenge on him.
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Dos fantasmas y una muchacha (1959)
Character: N/A
Two ghosts who died in a turn-of-the-century duel and now haunt a theater attempt to help a girl who's in danger from bank robbers.
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Crisol (1967)
Character: N/A
Hired killer is contracted to do a hit... against his better judgement.
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El as negro (1944)
Character: Piloto avión (uncredited)
This is the story of a convict fellow whose brother is a bright scientist that discovers a vaccine against a deadly infection. The clash between good and evil moves the convict to search into his soul and find the goodness that will lead him to the ultimate sacrifice.
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Caballo prieto azabache (1968)
Character: Coronel Jiménez
Standing before Pancho Villa's tomb, horse breeder Jesus harkens back to his youth, when he provided bed and board to a nondescript laborer named Doroteo Arango. In time, Arango would transform himself into gang leader Villa. When the Mexican Civil War erupts, a man named Fierro wants to execute Jesus for selling a horse to an anti-Villa buyer. But in repayment of Jesus's debt of kindness, Villa intercedes on his behalf.
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Los Asesinos (1968)
Character: Hill Carter
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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Triángulo (1972)
Character: Inspector Ojeda
The story of Mother and Daughter for a Husband and Stepfather who was killed by shotgun.
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La mano que aprieta (1966)
Character: Gerente hotel
Two wrestling stars must investigate strange deaths and a secret criminal organization led by a madman who becomes invisible.
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El Siete de Copas (1960)
Character: Hombre de Cocula
Professional gambler finds metaphysical meanings in the way he manages the workings of chance.
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¡¡¡Mátenme porque me muero!!! (1951)
Character: Tenor Riverita
Tin Tan just won the lottery and wants to donate it to an orphanage. Sataela and Riverita want to keep the money for themselves. In an attenpt to do so, they convince him of having a terminal disease and suggest that committing suicide is his best option.
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El circo (1943)
Character: Ricardo (as Gustavo Novaro)
A cobbler gets a job in a Circus as a janitor, recommended by the beautiful girl rider of the show. But later, he gets in trouble when he involves in dangerous acts, such as the trapeze. Obviously, our friend will risk his life by the love of his new girlfriend.
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Abajo el Telón (1955)
Character: Actor en teatro
Cantinflas, who owns a cleaning business, cleans the windows of the house of a famous French actress. While carrying out his work he observes how a man steals one of the famous actress necklaces, but he can only see his back.
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Reportaje (1953)
Character: Reporter
Reporters compete for cash prize awarded for biggest scoop on New Year's Eve.
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Teatro del crimen (1957)
Character: Pepe
In a music hall has committed a murder, the police will also find the murderer.
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Sombrero (1953)
Character: Napoleon Lopez
Mexican love stories follow a dying man, a bullfighter's sister and lovers from feuding villages.
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La Cucaracha (1959)
Character: Jacobo Méndez
The Mexican Revolution serves as a backdrop to a torrid love triangle composed of three freedom fighters: a colonel, a widow, and a fiery female soldier.
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La sombra del Caudillo (1960)
Character: Diputado
In 1920s Mexico, the candidates being chosen to succeed the current president, El Caudillo, find themselves at his mercy as he will resort to anything to accomplish his will, including kidnapping, betrayal, and murder.
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La señora Muerte (1969)
Character: N/A
A mad scientist teams with an evil, disfigured woman to kidnap and operate on young women to make her look beautiful again.
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El Mártir del Calvario (1952)
Character: Malco
The life of Jesus from the beginning of his ministry, his miracles, the Sermon on the Mount and his death on the cross.
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Los hijos de María Morales (1952)
Character: Tomás Gutiérrez
Two brothers known in town for their womanizing, drinking and rowdiness meet their matches when two girls who like them decide to tame the two machos.
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El Reventón (1977)
Character: N/A
Wild-partying hippie-artist-dilettantes end up forming a revolutionary terrorist cell. The misfit Gato loses a lot of money in bets and his father throws him out of his house. Ál leaves his girlfriend Laura for his lover, the married Adriana. Out of money Gato and Ál becomes urban guerrilla when they plan to kidnap Gato's rich father.
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Flor silvestre (1943)
Character: Hijo de Esperanza (uncredited)
The film features Fernandez himself as a character named Rogellio Torres. The lion's share of the footage, however, is devoted to the romance between Esperanza, granddaughter of a common laborer, and Jose Luis Castro, the firebrand son of a landowner. Joining a revolutionary movements, Castro is disowned by his father, but Esperanza remains loyally by his side. Later on, Castro's father is killed by outlaws; in seeking vengeance, he sacrifices his own life, while Esperanza carries on his revolutionary work with their young son in tow.
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Cruces sobre el yermo (1967)
Character: Doctor
After a long journey in search of the murderer of his father, a man abuses a beautiful girl next to marry.
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Invasión Siniestra (1971)
Character: Gen. Nord
Near the end of the 19th century, Prof. John Mayer and his assistant, the scientist Dr. Isabel Reed, accidentally invent a powerful ray. An alien travels to Earth to destroy the machine since it would be a threat to the universe. He initially possesses the mind of Thomas, a sex maniac and serial killer, to get close to Mayer during the demonstration of the machine to scientists and the military. Mayer's niece, Laura, meets an acquaintance of her uncle, the chemist Dr. Paul Rosten, and Mayer invites him to join the research. When Thomas gets close to Mayer, the alien also possesses his mind in order to destroy the device and his notes. Meanwhile, Thomas is not able to control his murderous impulses and attacks several women with a straight razor.
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Los hermanos Del Hierro (1961)
Character: Quarreling 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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El Robo de las Momias de Guanajuato (1972)
Character: Conde Cagliostro
The Count Cagliostro and scientist Raymond discovered a component that is only found in the mines of Guanajuato, this serves to create a formula to help them in their plans to conquer the world.
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