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El mexicano (1966)
Character: N/A
After USA's appropriation of Texas, a Mexican resident responds to prejudice and injustice by forming a band of bandits.
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El señor Tormenta (1963)
Character: N/A
Wrestling melodrama: crooked gamblers, boy/girl stuff and a priest who needs money to run his orphanage.
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El justiciero vengador (1962)
Character: N/A
White-hat with two sidekicks masquerades as a priest to break the stranglehold a blackhat has on a small town.
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Alias El Alacrán (1963)
Character: N/A
Itinerant gunslinger poses as local gal's fiance to protect her from an itinerant blackhat.
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Hombres de roca (1966)
Character: N/A
Cowboy drifter goes home for a visit, gets into trouble messing around with another man's woman.
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Dos hijos desobedientes (1960)
Character: N/A
Meddling mom tries to set up her two cowboy sons to marry two sisters who are looking for domesticated, 'indoor' husbands that cook and keep house.
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El asaltacaminos (1962)
Character: N/A
Young man puts on the Black Mask Of Vengeance to solve some tangled legal problems concerning a contested inheritance and several murdered family members. It took him four feature-length movies to do it. (Series: "El Relampago.")
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Herencia trágica (1960)
Character: N/A
Masked horseman avenges the deaths of family members and resolves questions about a contested inheritance. One of four in a series ("Relampago").
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La muerte en el desfiladero (1963)
Character: N/A
Masked horseman avenges the deaths of family members and resolves questions about a contested inheritance. One of four in a series ("Relampago").
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El Bronco Reynosa (1961)
Character: N/A
Star of cowboy-movies returns to his home and locals expect him to be heroic like he is onscreen.
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Cómicos y canciones (1960)
Character: Charrascas
Reporter/photographer team have risen to their level of incompetence at their newspaper.
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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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Lauro Puñales (1969)
Character: N/A
One of Zapata's field marshals runs afoul of dictator Huerta's stooges in his home town.
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Peregrina (1974)
Character: N/A
Biopic: the last year or so in the life of Felipe Carrillo Puerto, Governor of Yucatan in the early 1920s.
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La cosecha de mujeres (1981)
Character: N/A
A crew of female migrants come to town to help harvest produce and to lively up the men in town.
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El norteño (1963)
Character: N/A
Lawman on horseback cracks a case involving stolen gold bullion, the title to a mine, an evil twin and a plucky pre-adolescent boy. First in a series.
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Pueblo de odios (1962)
Character: N/A
Bad hats try to manipulate townsfolk and neighboring Apache tribal settlement into a range war.
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Tierra sangrienta (1979)
Character: N/A
Trio of gunslinger/thieves set their sights on a rich family with lots of money flowing through their hacienda.
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..Y mañana serán mujeres (1955)
Character: N/A
Grad student takes a summer gig acting as house mother/chaperone to a group of teenaged girls vacationing at a country villa.
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La reina del cielo (1959)
Character: N/A
A tribe of Venezuelan Indians in the jungle, commanded by chief Coromoto live with fear because of the presence of a Spanish colony settled in the outskirts. Coromoto's fears are increased because of the presence of a snake and the prophecies of the sorcerers. His government is threatened by the rebellious character of Piache, a warrior who also has his followers. One day Coromoto and his people have a vision in the lake of the Virgin Mary, but he doesn't trust on it, thinking that it's a negative spirit despite its beauty. However, the tribe exiled a woman, Guaita and his little son Jesus. Guaita and Jesus run away to the Spanish colony, where they're received in the local governor's house. The governor and a soldier, Bartolome offer to help Guaita and Jesus. Maybe the father of the child is a Spaniard known by Bartolome and his brother.
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Sed de amor (1959)
Character: José
Rosaura, a devout religious woman, lives in a fishing village with her sister María who stopped believing in God since her jealous husband was murdered. Even though Rosaura is wanted by the fisherman José, she rejects him. Pedro, a horseman, arrives at her place and begins to harass María until he manages to possess her. The man is a criminal who usually cheats with fishermen and hurts those who dare to confront him with his ax. When the evildoer tries to abuse Rosaura, José, the fisherman, does what is necessary to avenge the insult. Furthermore, other men are already looking for Pedro.
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Las Islas Marias (1951)
Character: Ricardo
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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Talpa (1956)
Character: Esteban
Produced on a grand scale, the Mexican Talpa relates the simple story of two brothers. The older of the siblings, Tanilo (Victor Manuel Mendoza) is a well-to-do family man; the other, Estaban (Jamie Fernandez), is one step above a wastrel. When Tanilo is felled by illness, Estaban is forced to take over the family's blacksmith business. He also inaugurates a romance with Tanilo's attractive young wife Juana (Lilia Prado). Punishment is eventually doled out in a manner which suggests that God Himself is exacting retribution on the adulterous couple. Originally released at 87 minutes, Talpa was pared down to 73 minutes for American consumption.
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Pecado Mortal (1955)
Character: Jose María
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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Chicano (1976)
Character: N/A
Fictionalized account of the political struggle over land-grants led by Reies Lopez Tijerina in New Mexico in the 70s.
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El impostor (1960)
Character: N/A
An academic and his family go back to the land, then get involved in politics.
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Los triunfadores (1978)
Character: N/A
A group of friends go to the United States to hit it big as a musical group and follow the American Dream.
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Juana la Cubana (1994)
Character: N/A
The beautiful nightclub singer/dancer Juana the Cuban moonlights as freedom fighter “Commander Zeta”, joining forces with the C.I.A. to overthrow the brutal regime of a military dictator (played by Erik Estrada) who plans to unleash bacteriological warfare on the U.S.A.
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La huella macabra (1963)
Character: Inspector Portillo
(Sequel to El Rostro Infernal.) Count Brankovan, a vampire, returns from the dead to avenge himself himself on some humans who previously had been bugging him.
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El regreso del monstruo (1958)
Character: Don Esteban
Mad scientist is trying to transplant the soul of an animated, talking skeleton into a living body. Also, there's a monster. Number three of three in Zorro Escarlata series.
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Nido de águilas (1965)
Character: N/A
Driven from their homestead by bandits, three brothers and sisters form an outlaw crew of their own and hide out in the mountains, orchestrating their revenge.
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Que me maten en tus brazos (1961)
Character: N/A
Card-shark takes a job as bodyguard-bouncer-etcetera in an upscale casino. Meanhile, a love triangle and the Mexican Revolution.
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Crimen en Chihuahua (1996)
Character: Don Jesús
A med student goes on vacation to see his family, only to be gunned down. As the only survivor, he seeks revenge for their deaths.
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Los fenómenos del fútbol (1964)
Character: N/A
Working class family owns a restaurant: one brother's a rising star in local soccer, one's a priest/semi-pro boxer, sister's an aspiring ranchera singer and the other brother's a waterboy at the stadium.
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Las rosas del milagro (1960)
Character: Nanoaltzin
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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Canción del alma (1964)
Character: N/A
Life in a theatre-people hotel, mostly focusing on a singer and her young-adult daughter who just graduated from an expensive private school.
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Vuelta al paraíso (1960)
Character: N/A
All men who arrive on a small island fall in love with the daughters of an old fisherman who live there.
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Noches violentas (2000)
Character: Don Gonzalo
A police commander is framed for murder and he must find the real killer.
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El moro de Cumpas (1977)
Character: N/A
In the city of Aguaprieta, two horses are part of the largest event in the region. The unbeatable horse Moro from the city of Cumpas faces the imposing Zaino de Aguaprieta. Two in a decided race in just 450 rods.
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Calibre 44 (1960)
Character: Raúl
The film tells the story of two twins separated in childhood who reunite when they are older. One of them has grown between outlaws and has become one of them, a murderous bandit who frightens the region. The other has grown, without knowing it, in exactly the ranch of the man who murdered his father and has become the loving foreman of the farmer's daughter, now deceased.
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Rostro infernal (1963)
Character: Inspector Portillo
Investigating a series of kidnappings leads a police inspector to confront a scientist trying to gain immortality.
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El ataúd infernal (1962)
Character: Federico Ramírez
An obscure old dark house horror melodrama from Mexico. Based on the novel "El fistol del diablo" by Manuel Payno.
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Lucio Vázquez (1968)
Character: N/A
Blending historical fact and adventure fiction, Emiliano Zapata's (fictional) right-hand man takes leadership of his regiment after he's killed.
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El jinete negro (1958)
Character: Jonas Pantoja
Masked horseman avenges the deaths of family members and resolves questions about a contested inheritance. One of four in a series ("Relampago").
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La sombra del murciélago (1968)
Character: N/A
A former wrestler called "the bat" lives in hiding after being disfigured and plans to kidnap a beautiful female singer and a lucha libre star known as Blue Demon.
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Los albañiles (1976)
Character: Perez Gomez
When a worker is found murdered on the construction side, the investigation swiftly turns from things criminal to the political circumstances surrounding the building itself. Widespread corruption and neglect by the builder himself are seen to have brought the situation about. Much of the movie is filmed using hand-held cameras, and the majority of the dialogue is in the difficult-to-understand and very slangy Spanish dialect of Mexico City's bricklayers.
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La venganza de Gabino Barrera (1971)
Character: N/A
Alicia, the wife of the vengeful Gabino Barrera, is killed by an escaped convict. Stripped of the one woman he's ever loved, Gabino vows to make the killer pay and pursues him. As he gets closer to his prey, Gabino turns deadlier.
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El jinete sin cabeza (1957)
Character: Fernando
A mute phantom hero takes on skull-masked killers, a disembodied living hand and a corpse that won't stay in its grave. This is the first in a trilogy of horror/western hybrids that also includes the films La marca de Satanás ("The Mark of Satan") and La cabeza de Pancho Villa ("The Head of Pancho Villa").
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El fistol del diablo IV (1962)
Character: Federico Ramírez
Part of a series of films based on portions of the Manuel Payno novel "El fistol del diablo". All were directed by Fernando Fernández and star Roberto Cañedo.
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Las chivas rayadas (1964)
Character: N/A
The comical misadventures of two brothers who are part of the local soccer team and their family.
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Caballo prieto azabache (1968)
Character: Rodolfo Fierro
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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La soldadera (1967)
Character: Juan
While waiting for a train which will take them on their honeymoon, two newlyweds, Juan and Lázara, are separated by a federal army commander who is going around enlisting men to fight against the revolutionaries. Traveling with the troops, Lázara follows Juan until he dies in a battle against the Villistas. From that moment on, the young woman's fate will be in the hands of whoever happens to win the latest contest, an uncertain fate for someone whose only wish is for a home of her own.
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Robinson Crusoe (1954)
Character: Friday
An English slave trader is marooned on a remote tropical island, forced to fend for himself and deal with crushing loneliness.
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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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No hay cruces en el mar (1968)
Character: Pedro
A mute fisherman helps another whose boat capsizes, he dies and leaves behind a girl whom he raises as his own daughter.
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Una cita de amor (1958)
Character: Román
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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Sombra Verde (1954)
Character: Bernabé
With the purpose of using barbasco roots in the production of cortisone, a pharmaceutical company sends a scientist to investigate the possibilities of exploitation in Veracruz, but the man gets lost in the jungle and lives a strange romantic adventure in a remote location called Paradise.
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El río y la muerte (1954)
Character: Romulo Menchaca
A useless and bloody vendetta has been going on for ages between two families in this Mexican village. Men, sons, have killed each other for generations, for a so-called conception of honor in a revenge that never ends since it is also triggered by people of the village. Now, today, there are only two sons left, one in each family. One has become a doctor in the big city and his culture is modern. The other last one - of the other family - hasn't left the village and is waiting for the doctor to come "home" as he plans to kill him, to settle this war on this matter of honor once and for all. And the people of the village want blood.
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Longitud de Guerra (1976)
Character: Jerónimo
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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Santo vs. las mujeres vampiro (1962)
Character: Insp. Carlos
A professor recruits a professional wrestler to protect his daughter from vampires intent on kidnapping her and marrying her to the devil.
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Mi campeón (1952)
Character: Espectador del fútbol americano (uncredited)
Catita is a simple and poor woman who dreams of that her son stands out on something important to help her out of his humble. But she opposes to him being boxer, therefore constantly fighting with her husband.
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Emiliano Zapata (1970)
Character: N/A
This is the story of a man, Emiliano Zapata, and of a revolution, the Mexican Revolution.
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Emiliano Zapata (1970)
Character: The President
This is the story of a man, Emiliano Zapata, and of a revolution, the Mexican Revolution.
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El rebozo de Soledad (1952)
Character: Mauro
Alberto Robles, a young doctor, is faced with the decision to surrender to a life full of comforts and luxuries or to continue dedicating himself body and soul to serving those who need it most.
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La rebelión de los colgados (1954)
Character: Urbano
A peasant who works in a mahogany camp in the Mexican jungles with his family is disgusted with the miserable living conditions imposed upon himself and his co-workers, the peasant finally spearheads a revolt against the sadistic bosses.
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La cabeza de Pancho Villa (1957)
Character: Eduardo Jimenez
Rival factions struggle over a box that was entrusted by Pancho Villa to several members of his higher command. Second of three films in series "El jinete sin cabeza."
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Una bala es mi testigo (1960)
Character: N/A
Cowboy goes to track down the man who murdered his brother, but it turns out to be someone other than the one he was looking for. Together, they set things straight and take care of the real murderer.
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Quién sabe? (1967)
Character: General Elías
El Chuncho's bandits rob arms from a train, intending to sell the weapons to Elias' revolutionaries. They are helped by one of the passengers, Bill Tate, and allow him to join them, unware of his true intentions.
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El alazán y el rosillo (1966)
Character: Juventino Torres
Two rival landowners: one is exploiting the local peasantry and dispossessing them of their land, and the other believes in fair play and justice for all.
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El rapto (1954)
Character: (uncredited)
In a small Mexican village the news shock neighbors, Ricardo Alfaro, a wealthy local rancher has disappeared without a trace. Taking advantage of the circumstance, Aurora Campos, a strong woman with overwhelming beauty, convinces the authorities to sell her the property in exchange for twelve thousand dollars. Soon after, when Ricardo suddenly reappears, a real battle is about to begin.
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La malquerida (1949)
Character: Marcial (uncredited)
Emilio Fernandez directs Dolores Del Rio and Pedro Armendariz in a classic tale of family and obsession. Raimunda's daughter Acacia hates her stepfather Esteban, and in order to escape her suffocating home life she's accepted a marriage proposal from a man she doesn't even love. But Esteban has become obsessed with Acacia, and in order to ensure that she doesn't leave he's plotting to murder the girl's unsuspecting fiancée. As Esteban's true nature emerges, mother and daughter must band together to support one another and make sure that their family bond remains strong even in the darkest of times.
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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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Damiana... y los hombres (1967)
Character: N/A
Damiana, a girl who has grown up with her grandmother and a friend, is discovered by photographer and launched as supermodel.
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El bruto (1953)
Character: Julián García (uncredited)
A tough young man, who helps to kick poor people out of their houses, falls in love with a girl. She lives with her father in the building about to be demolished.
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La Bataille de San Sebastian (1968)
Character: Golden Lance
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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Un día de vida (1950)
Character: Teniente
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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Tarahumara (Cada vez más lejos) (1965)
Character: Corachi
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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Massacre (1956)
Character: Juan Pedro
Lawmen and their captured gunrunners take refuge at a deserted mission to fend off attacking Indians. Western.
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