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Mi mujer no es mía (1951)
Character: N/A
Bachelor pretends that he got married, thinking that will stop his aunt from trying to play matchmaker.
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El charro y la dama (1949)
Character: N/A
Bratty rich girl plays practical jokes on the man that she'll obviously end up marrying.
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Angélica (1952)
Character: N/A
An italian woman scapes from de WWII to Mexico where her uncle lives. She gets trapped in a brothel threatened to be involved in a crime that she was innocent. Meanwhile, she finds her true love who ignores where she lived and worked.
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Mujeres sin mañana (1951)
Character: Eduardo
Loosely-plotted melodrama about five "hostesses" and the owners of a waterfront nightclub.
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La noche y tú (1946)
Character: N/A
Tango singer exploits his popularity in high society to commit crimes.
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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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Recién casados... no molestar (1951)
Character: N/A
Newly-married woman discovers that her husband's a virgin and not the notorious Don Juan that she'd heard rumors about, and their marriage almost collapses because he's faithful and monogamous and good.
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Sublime melodía (1956)
Character: N/A
Young widow with kindergarten-age daughter butts heads with her mother-in-law.
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Lodo y armiño (1951)
Character: N/A
Wealthy libertine tries to seduce another man's mistress by threatening to send him to jail if she doesn't put out. Blowback from his sleazy behavior affects five other people; everybody suffers. Enormously.
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Doña Diabla (1950)
Character: Invitado a fiesta (uncredited)
A woman, after committing a murder, flees into a church, confessing her life story to a priest.
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Pecado Mortal (1955)
Character: Carlos
Juan Manuel intends his wife Clara, who is blind, sign the will in his favor, but she refuses. With them lives Soledad, goddaughter Clara. A day comes Carlos, nephew of Juan Manuel, who is interested in Soledad. Carlos is going to study medicine in the United States and maintains correspondence with Soledad. Juan Manuel shows interest in Soledad but prevents Clara meet her. She is the daughter of Clara, who hid that Juan Manuel had killed the father of Soledad and also caused her blindness.
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Amor y pecado (1956)
Character: Miguel
A dramatic encounter between passionate love and fraternal love. Two brothers fall in love with the same woman, played by the beautiful dancer Ninón Sevilla, an orphan they rescued during their childhood. Though she loves only one of them, she decides to give up her happiness rather than destroying the reason of the other she doesn't love.
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Después de la tormenta (1955)
Character: N/A
This Mexican melodrama may have been released above the border as After the Storm. The principal characters are a pair of twin lighthouse keepers. They try their best to live together with their wives under the same roof, but the delicate balance is shattered when one of the brothers falls in love with his sister-in-law. When one twin is lost during a storm, the other assumes his identity, with the expected romantic complications. If Despues de la Termenta sounds familiar, it is because the screenplay was inspired by the 1946 Bette Davis vehicle A Stolen Life.
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Eugenia Grandet (1953)
Character: Carlos Grandet
A miserly father quashes his daughter's marriage plans because he thinks her fiance is a fortune-hunter.
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Corazón de fiera (1951)
Character: N/A
Wanted criminal has plastic surgery, starts new life in a distant town. Old habits die hard.
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La estrella vacía (1960)
Character: Raúl Tovar
Mourners share their memories of a dead film-star at her wake, a la Citizen Kane. Only melodrama.
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La noche es nuestra (1952)
Character: Antonio
Journalist meets an unforgettable woman, tracks her down and discovers all her tragic past.
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Lola Casanova (1949)
Character: Juan Vega
Sonora Mexico, 1880s: Seri Indian tribe splits into two factions after a white woman comes to live in their settlement.
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Estafa de amor (1955)
Character: N/A
Bad woman plays three men off each other while enjoying the attentions of all three; a great many lives are disrupted as a result of her wickedness.
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El seductor (1955)
Character: Juan Alberto
A young artist's affair with a married woman destroys her family. Twenty-odd years later, her two daughters fall into his orbit.
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Un corazón en el ruedo (1950)
Character: N/A
Famous bullfighter rises from humble beginnings, finds himself enmeshed in an emotionally-draining romantic triangle.
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Morir para vivir (1954)
Character: N/A
A voodoo warlock turns a girl into a zombie, by the orders of her stepmother, so she can continue her affair with the girl's boyfriend.
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Camelia (1954)
Character: Enrique
A sort of meta riff on Alexandre Dumas fils' novel The Lady of the Camellias (La Dame aux Camélias or Camille) here in Mexican melodrama form involving the doomed love of a bullfighter and a beautiful but ailing actress/courtesan.
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Piel canela (1953)
Character: N/A
Marucha (Sarita Montiel) has had a shattered face since childhood, but she has a beautiful figure and covers half of her face with her hair. She is a singer and performs in neighborhood theaters. Marucha and Ramon are professionals in crime.
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El vestido de novia (1959)
Character: Luciano Montes
A young professional hires a sex-worker to pass as his wife in a situation that requires him to seem married. Later they think about getting married for reals... but mostly they just recite monologues to each other.
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Paco, el elegante (1952)
Character: Ramon Colmenares, Novelas
Paco's ordered by a higher-up in his gang to beat up a journalist who wants to write exposes about Mexico City drug traffic, and that ends up opening a whole can of worms.
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La negra Angustias (1950)
Character: Manuel de la Reguera
When her father dies, a young Afro-Mexican woman joins the Revolution, the way he was planning to do, and becomes the leader of a Zapatista battalion.
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Socios para la aventura (1958)
Character: N/A
Young nightclub performer, down on her luck, falls in with a portrait-cartoonist who works the streets and a terminally-ill singer-songwriter and goes to live on their houseboat. They consider doing a crime.
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La infame (1954)
Character: Abogado Esteban Arizmendi
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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Vino el remolino y nos alevantó (1950)
Character: Capitán Márquez
Three generations of a stable, middle-class family in the capitol are scattered to the four winds by blowback from the Mexican Revolution.
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Ley fuga (1954)
Character: N/A
As he rises through the ranks of the police department, a young officer gets more deeply involved in manipulating gang activity for personal gain.
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La venenosa (1949)
Character: El terror
A snake-charmer falls in love with a circus trapeze artist who trains her and has her debut in this discipline.
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Nadie muere dos veces (1953)
Character: Arturo Robles
Big-league criminal escapes from jail, tracks down his ex-wife at a seaside resort. She kills him in self-defense, and then a guy who looks exactly like him comes along. Massive complications!
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Crimen en la alcoba (1946)
Character: Policía (uncredited)
A man's on trial for murder; a friend who could prove his innocence chooses not to come forward. An interested detective starts working to discover the how-come of all of that.
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Hipócrita..! (1949)
Character: El ronco
A disfigured woman is helped by a talented composer to recover her face with plastic surgery. Then he discovers that she's a beautiful woman and a talented singer.
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Los enredos de una gallega (1951)
Character: N/A
Cándida is a Galician who lives in Mexico and has been selling lottery tickets. Her dream is to buy an inn, but doesn't have enough money. In her quest for trying to get it, she runs into a scammer. In a stroke of luck, she wins first prize in the lottery, but the misfortune is merciless with her because she can't find the ticket.
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Las tres Elenas (1954)
Character: N/A
A woman married to a renowned doctor confesses to her mother that she has fallen in love with her daughter's young boyfriend.
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La Bruja (1954)
Character: Fedor
Thieves break into a scientist's laboratory to steal a secret formula, and in the process they kill his daughter. Enraged, he develops a formula that will turn an extremely ugly woman into a spectacular beauty, and then uses the woman to take his revenge on those responsible for his daughter's murder.
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Rostros olvidados (1952)
Character: Manuel Lazcano
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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Muñecos infernales (1961)
Character: Dr. Armando Valdés
Four men are cursed by a voodoo priest for stealing a sacred idol from his temple. Soon a band of murderous "doll men" are after the men and their families.
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Paraíso robado (1951)
Character: Julio Solorzano
A young woman loses her mind when she finds out that her uncle and his boyfriend met in a train accident.
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La Momia Azteca (1957)
Character: Dr. Eduardo Almada
A scientist discovers through hypnosis a mummy who watches over the jewels of an Aztec god for all eternity.
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La ausente (1952)
Character: Jaime
After arguing with her husband, a woman runs out of the house in the car and dies in a mysterious accident
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Camino del infierno (1951)
Character: León
When a robbery goes wrong, the thief takes a singer as hostage, they fall in love and try to rebuild their lives, but tragedy surges in the most unexpected way.
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Calabacitas Tiernas (¡Ay qué bonitas piernas!) (1949)
Character: Announcer (uncredited)
A man hired to impersonate a bankrupt business mogul who is currently on the run from creditors sets out organize a musical starring beauties from Brazil, Mexico, and Spain in this Spanish-language comedy starring popular funnyman Tin Tan. Now, as the hapless imposter attempts to finance a musical without any money, he also discovers just how difficult it can be to juggle three beautiful starlets who all have eyes for their presumably wealthy producer.
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La venenosa (1958)
Character: N/A
A snake charmer's assistant (who later becomes a trapeze artist) brings bad luck in the circus to those who fall in love with her. Her decision to become a trapeze artist comes after the accident that the main character has during a presentation.
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Por la puerta falsa (1950)
Character: Ramón
Bernardo is in love with Adela and although she does not belong, he has always helped her family although they only care about money and not the virtues of man.
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En la palma de tu mano (1951)
Character: Leon Romano
A con artist seduces the widow of a millionaire, only to learn she'd plotted with her lover to murder the late husband. A tense game of cat-and-mouse ensues—but who's the cat?
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Face of the Screaming Werewolf (1964)
Character: Dr. Edmund Redding
Experimenting in hypnotic regression to past lives, Dr. Edmund Redding of the Cowan Institute in Pasadena has discovered that Ann Taylor is a reincarnated Aztec woman. Via her recovered memories, she is able to lead Redding and his associates to a hidden chamber in the Great Pyramid of Yucatan, where they hope to find the lost treasure of the Aztecs. Instead, they find two mummified bodies - one of a modern man, quite dead, and the other of an ancient Aztec, quite alive. They are able to return safely to Pasadena with both finds, but a rival professor, Janney, kills Redding and steals the body of the modern man-mummy. This he subjects to a resurrection experiment, which works - only the mummy proves to be a werewolf. Two supernatural menaces roam the city that night. This film is composed of footage from two unrelated Mexican horror movies, LA CASA DEL TERROR and LA MOMIA AZTECA, plus new footage shot in the U.S. by Jerry Warren.
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The 50 Worst Movies Ever Made (2004)
Character: Dr. Eduardo Almada (archive footage)
There are some movies that are so bad they're good. And there are some movies that are so bad- that they're just bad...
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Club de señoritas (1956)
Character: Roberto Villarreal
Lonelyhearts advisor on a tv show becomes feminist icon and movement-leader.
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Attack of the Mayan Mummy (1964)
Character: Dr. Edmund Redding
A scientist hypnotically regresses a woman to a previous life, a Mayan princess, who leads him to a secret tomb where the princess was buried - and the mummy of an ancient warrior, cursed to live after death and guard the treasure buried with her. Edited by Jerry Warren from the Mexican horror film LA MOMIA AZTECA, and following its general plot but with 36 minutes of new, American-made footage added and English narration in lieu of dubbed dialogue for the Mexican footage.
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Yambaó (1957)
Character: Jorge
A freed slave, who is descended from a murdered witch, plots revenge with her grandmother on a sugar plantation's inhabitants. Complications ensue due to her love for the master of the estate.
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La maldición de la momia azteca (1957)
Character: Dr. Eduardo Almada
The evil Dr. Krupp, once again trying to get possession of the Aztec princess Xochitl's jewels, hypnotizes her current reincarnation, Flor, to get her to reveal the jewels' location - Xochitl's tomb. Confusion reigns as Krupp and his thugs are opposed by Flor's lover, Dr. Almada, his assistant, and wrestling superhero, El Angel. Krupp finally meets his match, however, when he comes up against Popoca, the warrior mummy who guards Xochitl's tomb.
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