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Vivir a todo dar (1956)
Character: Señor Cura
Clavillazo is a likeable drifter who gets his diploma because his teachers want to lose sight of him. He lives on what he can find in the street. However, nothing can stop him from helping those around him.
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Rebelde Sin Casa (1960)
Character: N/A
Tin Tan interfered in a bank robbery, then got arrested when the perp.s escaped. Crooks and police are both after him...
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El Capitan Aventurero (1939)
Character: Sacerdote (uncredited)
Don Gil de Alacala (José Mojica), a swashbuckler also known as Captain Adventure, must overcome a series of difficult trials and tribulations in order to save the love of his life, Carmina (Manolita Saval), who is engaged to marry a terrible nobleman. Based upon the libretto "Don Gil de Alcala" by Manuel Penella, this classic black-and-white romance also stars Margarita Mora, Carlos Orellana and Sara García.
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Los Cristeros (1947)
Character: N/A
When the government places restrictions on the Catholic church's autonomy, an armed uprising takes place. Disagreements over the new laws create conflict within the protagonist's family.
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El ratón (1957)
Character: N/A
Amateur boxer turns pro, dealing meanwhile with an eventful personal life.
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Siempre tuya (1952)
Character: N/A
Husband and wife leave their farm and move to the big city. Husband becomes a famous ranchera singer.
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Cain y Abel (1954)
Character: N/A
Bohemian husband and strait-laced wife get divorced; each takes custody of one son. Twenty years later...
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El plagiario (1955)
Character: N/A
Gangster's daughter learns about her dad's illegalist lifestyle.
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Historia de un amor (1956)
Character: N/A
Singer relives her love-life in flashback: she adopts another woman's illegitimate daughter, she gets married, the grandparents of the baby raise a fuss, etc.
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La pantera negra (1957)
Character: N/A
Fed agent goes undercover as roving cowboy to solve rural crimes. "Mauricio Rosales" Series.
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Aquí está Heraclio Bernal (1958)
Character: N/A
Historical drama/biopic about 1880s Social Justice bandits in a mining community in Sinaloa. First of three in series.
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Las tres pelonas (1958)
Character: N/A
Pseudo-historical drama about a semi-civilian who decides to run guns across the border for Villa's troops.
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El zarco (1959)
Character: N/A
Upperclass girl and notorious bandit leader fall in love. She agrees to "let him kidnap her" so they can be together, but she gets disillusioned when she sees the sordidness of his Camp Of Banditry. Also he keeps killing off members of her family.
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El sordo (1959)
Character: N/A
Craftsman who sculpts religious figures goes deaf. Lotsa pathos.
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La sobrina del señor cura (1954)
Character: N/A
A pregnant parishioner can't get her boyfriend to marry her and the home office thinks that foundling girl the priest took in is too old now to live under the same roof with him. It's always something, ain't it?
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La abuelita (1942)
Character: N/A
Granny rules the roost, but little sister's a bit rebellious. She listens to Cuban music, she wears make-up, she goes out un-chaperoned... Granny sees her rubbing up against a married man and it shatters her health.
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Los pobres van al cielo (1951)
Character: N/A
When their parents die, brother and sister run away rather than go to an orphanage. Childless elderly couple adopts them, the neighborhood priest takes an interest in their sad story, and it goes on from there...
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El muchacho alegre (1948)
Character: N/A
Boisterous young charro has to prove to his girlfriend's parents that he's ready to settle down and be a responsible adult... but then somebody frames him for a murder and he has more immediate problems to deal with.
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Magdalena (1954)
Character: N/A
Family melodrama; one sister runs away with the other one's fiance. Twenty-odd years later, her daughter tries to make peace with the rest of the family. Plus accidental deaths and unwed motherhood and miraculous cures for blindness and near death experiences.
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Noches de ronda (1943)
Character: N/A
Homeless singer-songwriter-piano-player gets a career boost with the support of a crippled waitress, and romance blossoms. Once he starts up the ladder of success, she starts feeling insecure about all the beautiful non-deformed women he's surrounded with.
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Una pasión me domina (1961)
Character: N/A
Unscrupulous landowner and his family are trying to deny water rights to the townsfolk. Particular beef with the guy that runs the mill. Ultimately the Revolution rolls through town and helps put everything right.
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La venganza del resucitado (1962)
Character: N/A
Two families have made peace after generations of feuding... but some bad-hat strangers have come to town looking for the buried treasure that sparked the whole mess.
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Duelo indio (1961)
Character: Huascapili / abuelo Chon
A cabal of bad-hats is conspiring to dispossess the local Indians of their hereditary lands, but Pancho fights to defend them... while a messenger is securing copies of some needed legal documents. Etc. Second film of four in the series "Pancho Pistolas."
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¡Qué bonito amor! (1960)
Character: N/A
Bride backs out of her wedding at the last possible minute; she and her fiance get caught up in a power-struggle that ends with both running for mayor.
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La pequeña madrecita (1944)
Character: N/A
Little girl develops her maternal instincts with dolls and with an infant cousin while family tragedies erupt over and over again around her.
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La señora de enfrente (1945)
Character: N/A
Two travelers visiting a small town link up together and then run afoul of the gossip of church ladies.
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Los tigres del ring (1960)
Character: N/A
Crooked promoter has a secret weapon who goes around beating fighters to death after their matches if they aren't in line with his rigging schedule. Part one of two.
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Los miserables (1943)
Character: N/A
Police officer makes life hell for an ex-convict. Based on that novel.
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La vírgen morena (1942)
Character: N/A
Intensifying skirmishes between a brutally oppressive conquistador imperialist and the last holdouts of Aztec resistance... and meanwhile, miraculous visitations of The Virgin Mary to two of the downtrodden and conquered indigenous peons.
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La fe en Dios (1950)
Character: N/A
Criminal on the lam assumes the identity of a dead priest and takes his place in a rural parish.
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Cantaclaro (1946)
Character: N/A
A rootless wilderness-dude in the Venezuelan outback gets caught up in some human dramas despite himself.
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El rayo del sur (1943)
Character: N/A
Latter part of the career of Padre Morelos, the 18th/19th century military leader. Sequel to... um... El Padre Morelos.
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Regalo de reyes (1942)
Character: N/A
Class conflicts between two families; one's upper-class but decaying, one's industrious middle-class on the rise. Also Christmas.
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La reina del mambo (1951)
Character: N/A
Nightclub performer escapes from her abusive manager and starts life over in a new city.
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Hay un niño en su futuro (1952)
Character: N/A
Wacky rich woman subjects her husband, servants and friends to a series of elaborate masquerades, remodeling her house and wardrobe every couple of days to represent different historical eras or cultural milieux. Today she's Marie Antoinette, tomorrow she may be Pancho Villa's common-law wife or a nun.
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Caminito alegre (1944)
Character: N/A
An elderly homeless man is welcomed into an Old Folks' Home and becomes acquainted with the dramas of several of his companions.
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Amor del bueno (1957)
Character: N/A
Mother and son conspire against his sister when she marries against their wishes.
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Nuestras vidas (1950)
Character: N/A
Frivolous woman falls in reallytruly love for the first time, but her past catches up with her and her fiancé kicks her to the curb. Then joining a convent and amnesia and stuff.
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Enterrado vivo (1961)
Character: N/A
Final four episodes of Pancho Pistolas serial, reedited into feature format. PP finally thwarts the Four Bad Brothers in their plan to take over the lands belonging to local indigenous tribe and in getting that territory restored to tribal governance.
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Yo también soy de Jalisco (1950)
Character: N/A
A dizzy rich woman buys their horse, and three rubes get involved in the problems and intrigues brewing in her household.
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Las Islas Marias (1951)
Character: Miguel
Las Islas Marias stars Pedro Infante as a man who must face time in jail, even though he never committed the crime. While on the inside, he learns important life lessons that actually make him a better man.
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Pecado Mortal (1955)
Character: Benito
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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La mujer de todos (1946)
Character: General
A beautiful woman of affairs falls in love with a handsome young man of great promise. Fearing for his future, the man's father begs her to leave his son so that her reputation will not hold him back.
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La entrega (1954)
Character: N/A
Empire-building philanthropist has no time to indulge his wife's romantic fantasies.
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La mujer del puerto (1949)
Character: Don Antonio Méndez
Orphaned, abandoned by her fiance, forced into prostitution by the absence of "respectable" alternatives.And the-e-en...
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Monte de piedad (1951)
Character: Padre Gabriel
Anthology-movie, series of anecdotes about the personal tragedies that lead people to take their values posessions to the state-run pawnshop.
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Vértigo (1945)
Character: N/A
Young woman's fiance unexpectedly falls in love with her mom, and ends up arranging the young woman's death.
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Eterna agonía (1949)
Character: Don Pio
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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Horas de agonía (1958)
Character: N/A
Nubile young woman seems to be quite free with her affections... but she has a deep, dark secret. Deep. Dark.
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Rincón brujo (1949)
Character: N/A
Young peasant woman allows an army officer to woo her, as a way of drawing attention away from her father's insurgent connections... while her own affections are torn between two brothers.
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El seminarista (1949)
Character: Don Pancho
Returning to his home town, seminarist Miguel is forced to trade the robes for a charro costume in order to solve several problems that appear in his way, including the female kind.
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El jinete negro (1961)
Character: Don Mateo, juez
A rancher disguises himself as a generous bandit and murders a tax collector, but is discovered.
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Cuando levanta la niebla (1952)
Character: N/A
One mental patient usurps the identity of another and starts a new life, passing himself off as a long-lost relative of a rich family.
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Amor a la vida (1950)
Character: Presidente Juan Vicente Gómez
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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Pobre diablo (1940)
Character: Ricardo
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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Las rosas del milagro (1960)
Character: Juan Bernardino
Before the Spanish Conquest, an Aztec princess does the Romeo and Juliet thing with the Prince of a neighboring tribe. Sixty years later, a colonized subject has visions of the Virgin Mary.
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El infierno de los pobres (1951)
Character: N/A
A young woman becomes pregnant but when his boyfriend leaves her she gets a job as a prostitute in order to provide for her child.
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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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La casa chica (1950)
Character: Dr. Carrasco
Amalia, aged, remember when Fernando Mendoza, his former medical school, came to San Esteban, the town where she lived. They worked together and became his love. Although he was engaged to another, Fernando decided to return to the city to complete his commitment to her and finally reunited with Amalia, but the facts do not happen as they had planned.
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La vorágine: abismos de amor (1949)
Character: N/A
It narrates the adventures of the poet Arturo Cova and his lover Alicia, a story of passion and revenge framed in the plain lands and the Amazon jungle where the two lovers scape from society, and which exposes throughout its plot the harsh living conditions of settlers and Indians enslaved during the rubber rush.
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El Cristo de mi Cabecera (1951)
Character: Padre Cruz
1830s, guerrillas in the hills resisting the French occupation. Meanwhile, their leader has a French officer and another guy chasing after his fiancé, and...
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El cobarde (1939)
Character: Doctor
Alberto is born in wartime, where his father dies a hero. He grows up effeminate. His mother sends him to military college where Fernando bullies him, but they become friends. When war comes, he has to face his fears.
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Fantasía ranchera (1947)
Character: N/A
Young composer in a small town where everyone is very nurturing of his talent finishes his first opera and goes to Mexico City to get it produced. Over half the movie is taken up with a performance of his masterpiece.
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La norteña de mis amores (1948)
Character: N/A
Child whose father was murdered grows up and seeks revenge, also falling in love with a new victim of the same bad guy.
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Tú, solo tú (1950)
Character: N/A
Small-town guy goes to The City to look up his absent girlfriend. He discovers she's become a sex-worker, so he gets a job at a riding stable and meets a new girl.
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¡Vaya tipos! (1955)
Character: N/A
Father and adult sons give help to an orphaned teenage girl.
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La extraña pasajera (1953)
Character: Auditor Camacho
Noir-style suspense thriller; three unrelated criminal schemes are happening on board an express train; all three get uncovered/solved/thwarted before they reach their destination.
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Acapulqueña (1959)
Character: N/A
Gloria sells dolls in benefit of UNICEF and is interested in putting on an international show. In a hotel in Acapulco the ranchero Javier, the Muslims Mustafa and Ali, the Brazilian Mr. Carioca and the charro José Lorenzo meet to carry out the project. Among the men there will be a series of entanglements to dispute the love of the young woman.
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Morenita clara (1943)
Character: Don Juan, abuelo
Priest nags a crusty old man into reconciling with his daughter-in-law and granddaughter after the death of his son.
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El caudillo (1957)
Character: N/A
Bad-hat townsfolk want to dispossess local Indians of their tribal lands; priestess and white ally fight back. One of four in a series.
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Pepito as del volante (1957)
Character: Pancho
Pepito's father dies in rollover the Ferrari that is winning a race car, so Pepito is about his grandfather and asks him to equip a car to get him to compete.
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Su última aventura (1946)
Character: Don Sebastián
All of Mexico asks the same question, who has won the lottery jackpot of five million pesos? If the lucky person who won them does not show up soon to collect the prize, it will have to be raffled again.
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Los dineros del diablo (1953)
Character: Don Teodoro
Los dineros del diablo (The Devil's Money) is a Mexican drama film directed by Alejandro Galindo. It was released in 1953 and starring Amalia Aguilar and Roberto Cañedo.
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3 Lecciones de Amor (1959)
Character: Señor juez
The rigid professor Germán, president of the League of Honor and Modesty, hates statues of naked women, but the spirit of his ancestor Casanova leads him to episodes of debauchery and conquest. Married to the rigid Severa, he becomes a corrupt mayor. Only the moralistic Rosa will be able to free him from these strange influences to improve his life and that of the town.
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La barranca sangrienta (1962)
Character: Señor cura
Alberto and Leonor have a son, they find out that one of the masked men who attacked them was her nephew, things get difficult for them when they find out about a testament left by her grandmother.
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El Asesino X (1955)
Character: Padre Juan
A murderer turns himself to the police, but claims amnesia and insists he's unable to tell them anything about his crime.
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La venenosa (1949)
Character: Dr. Koll
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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Dos caras tiene el destino (1952)
Character: Chiclero anciano
Ruined alcoholic doctor escapes a tropical plague and begins a new life back in civilization, taking over the identity of a dead man.
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La mujer sin cabeza (1944)
Character: N/A
A magician suspected of having killed a colleague is arrested by the police, but his assistant helps him escape.
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Guadalajara pues (1946)
Character: Don Atilano (as A. Soto Rangel)
Curious film about the Mexican immigrant stunned by the dollar and the English language. The plot deals with a serious social mood, but narrated as a tale of romantic entanglements. Agustin Isunza is a funny former farm worker, whose employers, young and attractive blond Joan Page and Clifford Carr, dazzle the sibling pair starring Luis Aguilar and Amanda del Llano. Miguel Inclan, a rich potter from the area, has put his eye on them to marry their children, Katy Jurado and Raul Guerrero.
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¡Qué lindo es Michoacán! (1943)
Character: Licenciado
When her father dies, a young woman must go to Michoacán to take charge of her lands, where she meets a young man and they both fall in love.
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Miguel Strogoff (1944)
Character: Agente
A Russian courier has to deliver a message from the Czar to the Grand Duke across enemy lines .On the way he encounters adventures and colorful characters.
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Jesús de Nazareth (1942)
Character: Sacerdote
The biblical story of The Messiah from his baptism through his crucifixion.
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Una cita de amor (1958)
Character: Priest
The story of the doomed love between Soledad and Román. She is the daughter of a rich man that wants to marry her with Ernesto, nephew of his friend, the judge. Román owns a little ranch. A brawl in the town will unleash several deaths that will affect the already difficult relationship.
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Enamorada (1946)
Character: Juez (uncredited)
In Mexican Revolution times, a guerrilla general and his troops take the conservative town of Cholula, near by Mexico City. As the revolutionaries mistreat the town's riches, General Reyes falls for beautiful and wild Beatriz Peñafiel, the daughter of one of the town's richest men.
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Ansiedad (1953)
Character: N/A
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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Río escondido (1948)
Character: Maestro Monroy
Called by the Mexican President himself, a rural teacher goes to work in a village that is dominated by a malevolent chieftain.
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Viva Mi Desgracia (1944)
Character: Don Marcial
After drinking a special concoction made of various types of alcohol, the once-timid Ramon (Pedro Infante) suddenly turns into a brawler and extroverted ladies' man. With his newfound confidence, Ramon attempts to win the heart of the woman (María Antonieta Pons) he loves. Full of enjoyable songs and funny scenes, this entertaining Mexican musical centers on a wealthy man who finally realizes that money can't buy him love.
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Dos tipos de cuidado (1953)
Character: Doctor
Jorge Bueno and Pedro Malo are best friends who consider giving up their womanizing ways when they each fall in love. As fate would have it, Pedro Malo unexpectedly marries Jorge Bueno's girlfriend, and the conflict between the former buddies begins.
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Una golfa (1958)
Character: N/A
Trumpet-player in a club band falls for a streety young woman; she dumps him to become a kept woman... and his roommate the pianist is dealing weed... and...
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Un Rincón Cerca del Cielo (1952)
Character: Don Tenen
On reaching the capital, Pedro Gonzalez gets a lowly job and marries Margaret. After losing that job, get a new one as a bodyguard but is fired again. With so much poverty and despair Pedro believes that his only way out is suicide.
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Doña Bárbara (1943)
Character: Coronel Pernalete
A woman hardened by her past now runs a ranch she acquired through manipulation and bribery.
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¡Ay, amor... cómo me has puesto! (1951)
Character: Don Manuel
A low-class baker accidentally gets to know an attractive but bitter fiancée. By getting her snobby, dead-pan family to spend some time with his scumbag friends, he changes their lives, while at the time stealing the girl's heart.
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¡Arriba las mujeres! (1943)
Character: Juez Leobardo (as A. Soto Rangel)
Movie in which funny situations based on the entanglements caused by a woman named Felicidad to her family because of her feminist ideology are presented, to the extent of bringing her daughters and herself to a divorce trial.
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Reportaje (1953)
Character: Police secretary who draws naked women
Reporters compete for cash prize awarded for biggest scoop on New Year's Eve.
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Sombrero (1953)
Character: Professor
Mexican love stories follow a dying man, a bullfighter's sister and lovers from feuding villages.
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Bugambilia (1945)
Character: Señor Cura
In mid-nineteenth century Guanajuato, the beauty and charm of the young heiress Amalia conquers the lowly foreman Ricardo with fatal results. Prevented from consummating their love, Ricardo is going to Guanajuato where again later become the rich owner of a mine. On his return, fate has prepared a tragic encounter with Amalia.
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Maclovia (1948)
Character: Don Justo
On a small Mexican island dwells a group of Indians who live in the traditional manner and who disdain outsiders. The beautiful Maclovia and the poverty-stricken Jose Maria are in love, but her father refuses to allow their marriage, or even any communication between them, due to Jose Maria's lack of means.
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La sombra del caudillo (1960)
Character: Director de la Cooperativa
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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Ahora soy rico (1952)
Character: Zapatero
Pedro Gonzalez first gets into trouble as part of a criminal gang and then works honourably to become rich. Money is his undoing allowing him to become a womanizer and drinker, almost losing his wife. Finally he rejoins her, they have a son and he pays for his mistakes.
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María Candelaria (Xochimilco) (1944)
Character: Doctor (uncredited)
A young journalist asks an old artist about the portrait of a naked Indian woman that he has in his study. The artist tells the story of Maria Candelaria, a young Indian woman who was rejected by her own people for being the daughter of a prostitute. She is protected by a young Indian man, Lorenzo Rafael, who has fallen in love with her.
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La Devoradora (1946)
Character: Don Manuel Ortega
After her lover commits suicide, Diana involves her fiancé and his nephew in a scheme to help her disappear with the corpse.
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Camino del infierno (1951)
Character: Dr. Fausto
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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Cuidado con el amor (1954)
Character: Don Hilario
Salvador accompanied by two friends of his father whom he calls uncles, they arrive at a fair in the village, there he meets Ana. When he wins a bet he is paid with a mortgaged house, to his surprise upon entering the hom he realizes that Ana and her mother live in it, provoking a funny entanglement with an explosive final.
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Canaima (1945)
Character: Manuel Ladera
College-educated emigre has to get macho when he returns home to the Venezuelan outback.
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Deseada (1951)
Character: Don Anselmo
A man comes to a village to marry a girl, but upon meeting the bride's sister, he falls in love with her.
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El gendarme desconocido (1941)
Character: Doctor (uncredited)
A gang of thieves has jeopardized the city and even the police, whose chief urges their forces to captured the band within 48 hours. Meanwhile, band members meet in a cafe run by a widow and her daughter and her suitor, Cantinflas, who maintains a scuffle with the robbers running all at the station. Since then, Cantinflas become a member of the police force for special missions.
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Escuela de rateros (1958)
Character: Banquero (uncredited)
The police plan to capture a killer by using a double that looks exactly as one of his victims.
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Dicen que soy mujeriego (1949)
Character: Priest
Pedro has had many lovers but he only loves one of them, but this romance stop going on for his flirts with other women.
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El ametralladora (1943)
Character: Sr. Salas
Peasant farmer and landowner are rivals for a woman. Sequel to Ay Jalisco No Te Rajes.
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La trepadora (1944)
Character: N/A
Romantic triangles between city folk and country folk, with new money/old money issues complicating the story.
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Las abandonadas (1945)
Character: Director colegio
A young woman, abandoned by her womanizing fiancé, is forced to provide for the upbringing of her son and combat the difficulties of being an unmarried mother during the strife of early 20-century Mexico.
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Mexicanos al Grito de Guerra (1943)
Character: Sandoval
In times of the French Intervention, a student of Nunó, author of the Mexican National Anthem, falls in love with the niece of the French Ambassador, which causes quite amusing complications.
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Besos prohibidos (1956)
Character: Director del penal
Nightclub singer has to choose between marrying again or reuniting with her divorced husband.
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The Big Steal (1949)
Character: Pedro (uncredited)
Army Lieutenant Halliday, accused of stealing the Army payroll, pursues the real thief on a frantic chase through Mexico aided by the thief's ex-girlfriend and is in turn being chased by his accuser, Capt. Blake.
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The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
Character: El Presidente
Two jobless Americans convince a prospector to travel to the mountains of Mexico with them in search of gold. But the hostile wilderness, local bandits, and greed all get in the way of their journey.
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Las tres perfectas casadas (1953)
Character: Francisco
Three married couples gather to celebrate the eighteenth anniversary of their marriage mourning the absence of a friend who was best man at all three weddings.
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Pablo y Carolina (1957)
Character: N/A
Torn between three lovers and bored by her typewriting classes, Carolina (Dillian) writes a passionate love letter to fictional Pablo Garza from Monterrey. The letter is sent by mistake and received by real Pablo Garza's girlfriend. Pablo himself (Infante) flies to Mexico City looking for an explanation. Carolina is rehearsing a musical show for her school dressed as a man. When Pablo meets her, she pretends to be her brother Anibal, a shy and feminine sailor. Pablo likes Anibal and invites "him" to a cabaret. After that, Carolina falls inlove with Pablo but resists to unveil her real self. Meanwhile, Pablo feels himself confused, because young "Anibal" is cute as an angel and has "those blue eyes..."
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Un día de vida (1950)
Character: N/A
A story about two men caught in the Mexican revolution: close friends before, but now on the opposite sides. One of them is military officer, while the other one expects capital punishment. The prisoner's mother comes to visit his son, unaware that his former best friend is now his enemy.
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El vividor (1956)
Character: N/A
Con-artist cleans up his act to score points with a new girlfriend.
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Víctimas del pecado (1951)
Character: Director de prisión
A nightclub performer decides to raise the baby boy she found abandoned in a trash can, putting her job and social life in jeopardy.
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Garden of Evil (1954)
Character: Priest (uncredited)
A trio of American adventurers marooned in rural Mexico are recruited by a beautiful woman to rescue her husband from Apaches.
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Pueblerina (1949)
Character: Priest
Aurelio Rodríguez is released from jail, and tries to start a new life by marrying Paloma and working his land. But the local landowners, the brothers González, interfere with his plans.
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Ni sangre ni arena (1941)
Character: Juez
Cantinflas enjoys the bullfight show, and wants to crash in every of these spectacles. Also, there's a professional bullfighter, Manolete, who is identical to Cantinflas. Manolete has to give a bullfight show in a village, but Cantinflas arrives first as a stowaway in a train, and he'll be mistake by the real bullfighter. Cantinflas will give us a demonstration of courage.
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