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El testamento (1981)
Character: Don Justo
After the death of her husband the industrialist, unprepared trophy-wife takes over the management of his business concerns.
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El crepúsculo de un dios (1969)
Character: Conserje (sin créditos)
Sonia meets Roberto, a miserable actor with a few days left of life. Both fall in love, but soon after a policeman comes looking after Sonia, but is distracted by a countess during New Years Eve. Sonia and Roberto take this chance to escape.
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Caminando pasos... caminando (1977)
Character: N/A
In a community of the Matlatzinca ethnic group, a teacher tries to integrate the inhabitants into the struggle of a guerrilla group.
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El rencor de la tierra (1949)
Character: Peón (uncredited)
A couple is struck by tragedy and must prove how great their love is to overcome what happened together.
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Sed de amor (1959)
Character: Pescador (uncredited)
Pedro Ortiz, a brave charro, arrives to a fishing village that is passing hard times. There's no fish in the waters. His manners and his love for Maria, a local attractive widow, will get him into trouble
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Los Cacos (1972)
Character: N/A
A group of Soccer-loving friends devise a plan to make easy money.
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Fuego en el mar (1981)
Character: Anciano
Mariano works as chief driller on an oil platform in Campeche 14 days a month. However, he is obsessed with the idea that his wife Gloria is cheating on him while he is away. Therefore, time and again he asks her to stop working and get pregnant for the second time. However, Gloria refuses to be financially dependent on her husband. The couple's conflicts become more acute when engineer Becker, Gloria's former lover, starts working again in the offices where she works.
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Arrabalera (1951)
Character: Transeúnte (uncredited)
Working-class girl marries rich playboy, gets implicated in his criminal activities.
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Padre nuestro (1953)
Character: Cargador (uncredited)
Pops is dismissed from his banking job for embezzlement, and his family have to adjust to a more modest lifestyle.
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Duro pero seguro (1978)
Character: (uncredited)
Nicolasa sells tacos near a movie studio and her popularity threatens the restaurant's own studies. She drops the food when seeing actor Armando performing and the director expels her out.
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Sonatas (1959)
Character: Militar (uncredited)
In the fall of 1824 Javier Montenegro, Bradomin Marquis is spared death hanging by Captain Casares, and in return, the Marquis agrees to help him escape to America. Adaptation of "Sonata de Otoño" and "Sonata de Estío" of Ramón María del Valle-Inclan, which included elements Bardem later works of the author.
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Ante el cadáver de un líder (1974)
Character: N/A
A union leader dies in a sleazy hotel room, then the wife, mistress, police, co workers, reporters, colleagues, and political figures arrive to the hotel and each has its own intentions.
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La muñeca perversa (1969)
Character: Jardinero (uncredited)
A troubled woman commits a series of murders that exposes some dark family secrets.
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El principio (1973)
Character: Ranchero rajón
Mexico is in the midst of Revolution when the protagonist returns after studying in Paris to find his native town in Chihuahua occupied by Francisco Villa’s revolutionary forces. He visits his deserted home and remembers people and events from his adolescence that provide glimpses of pre-Revolutionary society under dictatorship: his uncle, the chief of police; his sister’s involvement with a liberal political association; bathing with the girls from a local brothel; a labor strike that ended in a massacre. Returning to the present he discovers that his father has been assassinated and, in the company of his father’s former servant, joins the revolutionary movement.
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Crisol (1967)
Character: Padre de Rosario
Hired killer is contracted to do a hit... against his better judgement.
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Los de abajo (1977)
Character: N/A
In this highly regarded Mexican war film, peasant Demetrio Macias leads a band of outlaws in a revolt against the Federales during the Mexican Revolution.
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Ojo por Ojo (1981)
Character: Pueblerino
A couple is attacked bu thugs and the woman is killed, the boyfriend plans his revenge.
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La tigresa (1973)
Character: N/A
Orphan girl grows up to take revenge on the men who killed her parents.
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The Return of a Man Called Horse (1976)
Character: Lame Wolf
Lord John Morgan has returned to civilized life in England, but finds he has nothing but disdain for that life. Yearning to embrace the simplicity of the American West, and the Sioux tribe he left behind, Morgan returns to the their land only to discover that they've been decimated by ruthless, government-backed fur traders. Led by Horse, they fight to repossess their land.
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Astucia (1986)
Character: Caporal
A landowner known as Bulldog seeks to take over a ranch, but is opposed by the Brotherhood of the Blade, a group of tobacco smugglers made up of skilled horsemen who operated during the turbulent times of General Antonio López de Santa Anna.
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Fe, esperanza y caridad (1974)
Character: Isaac Herrera (segment "Caridad")
Three episodes. Faith: a woman is attacked. Hope: a fakir is crucified. Charity: a woman faces bureaucracy.
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El Portero (1950)
Character: Vecino (uncredited)
Cantinflas works as a porter, who writes letters and speeches in his old writing machine to earn an extra money, despite the fact that he still goes to school. The sentimental issues come when Cantinflas falls in love of his pretty neighborhood (Silvia Pinal), who is handicapped and unable to walk. The thing wont be easy, because a young military man also has feelings for the girl. But the porter wants to see her happy, and he will become a sort of Cyrano De Bergerac, writing love letters to her signed by the young soldier. His plan is simple: to win money in the horse races in order to pay the operation which will make her walk again.
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El profe (1971)
Character: Pueblerino (uncredited)
Mario Moreno portrays a professor in this movie. A small town in the middle of no where requests the school Mario Moreno is working in for a teacher. He ends up going to give the town a hand. When he arrives he comes to know the corrupt leaders who through out the movie try to make him leave. Although he is being harassed you can see how much he cares for the kids and their circumstances. He deals with problems by using his hilarious comments.
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Mr. Horn (1979)
Character: Nana
Western saga based on the legend of frontier folk hero Tom Horn, including his role in the trackdown of Geronimo in the 1880s with his mentor and pal, Al Sieber, the fabled Indian scout, his later days as a Pinkerton detective, and the way he was used by both sides in turn-of-the-century cattle wars, leading to his tragic death.
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The Last Sunset (1961)
Character: Man in saloon (uncredited)
At a Mexican ranch, fugitive O'Malley and pursuing Sheriff Stribling agree to help rancher Breckenridge drive his herd into Texas where Stribling could legally arrest O'Malley, but Breckenridge's wife complicates things.
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La ilusión viaja en tranvía (1954)
Character: Pasajero (uncredited)
Confronted with the unfortunate news that their favorite Streetcar, no. 133, is going to be decommissioned, two Municipal Transit workers get drunk and decide to "take 'er for one last spin," as it were. Unfortunately, the "one last spin" ends up being an all-night and all-day scramble to stay out of trouble, as they are confronted with situation after sometimes bizarre situation that prevents them from returning the "borrowed" Streetcar!
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La Cucaracha (1959)
Character: Soldado (uncredited)
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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Cananea (1978)
Character: Tendero
Based on a true story in the American owned Cananea mine. It depicts how the owner profits while the Mexican workers struggle to survive and are exploited for their labour.
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El tejedor de milagros (1962)
Character: Pueblerino (uncredited)
Arnulfo is a man weaving baskets. Remedios has given birth in front of the house of a woman and her aid, but the village is spread the word that the child born as a child God and an atheist would think exploit to their advantage the "miracle ".
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El tragabalas (1966)
Character: Pueblerino (uncredited)
Piporro doesn’t need to use his gun to get away with murder.
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Como agua para chocolate (1992)
Character: Nicolás
Tita is passionately in love with Pedro, but her controlling mother forbids her from marrying him. When Pedro marries her sister, Tita throws herself into her cooking and discovers she can transfer her emotions through the food she prepares, infecting all who eat it with her intense heartbreak.
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Ni Chana Ni Juana (1984)
Character: N/A
Juana, a peasant girl, is mistaken for her twin sister, Chana, whom she has never met and who is now a famous singer, and is kidnapped in her place by Chana's ex-husband.
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El rey del barrio (1950)
Character: Antonio's Minion (uncredited)
A poor man becomes a modern Robin Hood, robbing the rich to give to the poor.
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El patrullero (1991)
Character: N/A
A naïve rookie in the Mexican highway patrol must adapt in order to survive as he contends with widespread corruption, dangerous drug runners and the consequences of his often morally gray actions.
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Pedro Páramo (1967)
Character: Pueblerino (uncredited)
When his mother Dolores dies, Juan Preciado, son of Pedro Páramo, goes to Comala to claim his inheritance; but when he arrives he finds an abandoned and sinister place, inhabited by mysterious voices and whispers…
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Si yo fuera diputado (1952)
Character: Cargador (uncredited)
Cantinflas is a unique barber, who trades with an elderly neighbor, a lawyer by profession, laws lessons in exchange for haircuts and shaved. It proposes advice to defend in court the disadvantaged neighborhood. His success deputy seeks the votes as the other candidate, Don Próculo, it is not accepted by anyone but his own bodyguards. Don Próculo will use know how much ruse to win the election by the Council, and also for the love of 'Sarita'
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Presagio (1975)
Character: N/A
While attending the birth of Isabel, the wife of foreigner Felipe, Mama Santos predicts that "something terrible is going to happen in the town." From this omen, calamities will torment the locals.
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Corazón salvaje (1968)
Character: Martín (sin créditos)
Calculating Aime sends her sister Monica to distract a love-struck smuggler, Juan del Diablo, when he threatens to reveal their affair to Aime's new rich husband. They are discovered alone together and to save Monica's virtue, Juan del Diablo promises to marry Monica.
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El infierno de todos tan temido (1981)
Character: Tato
The inner demons of an aspiring writer, whose dissatisfaction has pushed him to alcohol and drugs, lead him to his self-destruction under the guise of confusing political positions.
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Los albañiles (1976)
Character: Darío
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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Calzonzín inspector (1974)
Character: N/A
A rumor reaches a small town, San Garabato, that a government infiltrator will arrive to check the conditions of the community. Quickly, the municipal president, Don Perpetuo del Rosal, orders the imprisonment of those who might give a bad image. An indigenous man named Calzonzin arrives in town, pursued by two men. He is quickly taken as the infiltrated inspector, and protected by all the local authorities.
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Tlayucan (1962)
Character: Pueblerino
Desperate because of his son's illness, the peasant Eufemio steals a pearl from the image of Santa Lucía in the village church.
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Tarahumara (Cada vez más lejos) (1965)
Character: Viejo Muracá
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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Los renglones torcidos de Dios (1983)
Character: Cosme
Newly-committed to a mental institution, a woman tries to convince her doctors that her husband conspired to have her put away for selfish reasons unrelated to her mental health.
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La tijera de oro (1960)
Character: Bigotes (uncredited)
The charitable Emilio is a jealous barber tries to prevent at all costs the rich toting Mario mess with his girlfriend Rosita. Although Emilio help with money from neighbors, gets entangled in a misunderstanding and ends up in jail but his friends are out of charge so much trouble.
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El imperio de la fortuna (1986)
Character: Viejo
Poor Dionisio finds himself as recipient of the good fortune, but soon he forgets that everything that goes up also has to go down, and that in the depressing nothingness of his town it is easy to die.
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Salón México (1949)
Character: Hombre en cabaret (uncredited)
Mercedes works as a cabaret performer to pay for her sister's studies. Problems begin when Mercedes and Paco, her exploiter, win a dance contest, but he refuses to share the prize with her.
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