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Cuando los hijos se pierden (1963)
Character: Madre de Andrés (uncredited)
Young woman's parents don't supervise her activities closely enough; she ends up going to a beatnik nightclub and dancing the twist and getting raped.
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Ladronzuela (1949)
Character: N/A
Homeless girl placed in a court-appointed foster home under the care of a social worker.
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Teresa (1961)
Character: Sra. de López
Teresa is a beautiful and intelligent young woman, desperately seeking to leave the grinding poverty of the neighborhood where she lives.
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Reto a la vida (1954)
Character: Secretaria (sin créditos)
Self-righteous young Social Services woman puts all her faith in the institutional answers to questions of the Public Good, and she destroys a couple of lives in the process.
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Lágrimas robadas (1954)
Character: Invitada fiesta (uncredited)
Melodrama involving a young woman returning to Mexico from abroad after a failed romance and dealing with an unwanted pregnancy and a meddling Aunt.
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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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La Hermanita Dinamita (1970)
Character: Nana de Monchito
After accidentally hitting a boy with her car, a young woman pretends to be a nurse in order secretly help him to recover.
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Una mujer en la calle (1955)
Character: Criada (uncredited)
An unlikely friendship develops when respectable Doña Nena spends her days looking out her window across the street to the sex workers who spend their nights there. One night, she helps helps Alicia one of the girls, escape a police raid and spend several nights painting her portrait.
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La mujer legítima (1945)
Character: N/A
Widower wants to remarry, but his adult children are slow to warm to his new wife. One daughter in particular tries very hard to discredit her in his eyes.
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Duro pero seguro (1978)
Character: Doña Zenaida
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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Carta Brava (1949)
Character: Lupe
Safe-cracker sets up a gangster rival to get arrested; after some unrelated adventures, that guy escapes from jail and pays him back.
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Atrás de las nubes (1962)
Character: Nana (as Lola Tinoco)
All it says in my notes is "Like 'Juan Sin Miedo', only with soldiers." So... Army officer seeks revenge for... something...
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La vida no vale nada (1955)
Character: Irene
Pablo, a wandering laborer, has imprisoned himself in a hell of alcoholism. Cruz, a widow, reaches out to the troubled man, but even her compassion may not be enough to save him.
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Pecadora (1947)
Character: N/A
In Ciudad Juárez, a prostitute decides to go straight when her drug-dealer lover is trapped. She marries a rich man, but a pimp from her past reappears unexpectedly.
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Los desarraigados (1960)
Character: N/A
Family in crisis: the American Dream collapses for four members of a Mexican family in Texas, all at the same time.
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El ladrón (1947)
Character: Directora del orfanatorio
Bank employee is tempted to make use of banknotes scheduled for destruction.
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