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Cuando los hijos se pierden (1963)
Character: Lic. Adolfo Gómez Brinder
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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Cruel destino (1944)
Character: N/A
Two children grow up together and when the girl gets married, the young man realizes that he has always been in love with her.
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El testamento (1981)
Character: Don Pancho
After the death of her husband the industrialist, unprepared trophy-wife takes over the management of his business concerns.
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El derecho y el deber (1937)
Character: N/A
Officer comes home from the Revolution to discover that he's been declared dead and that his wife has remarried and given his lands to another man.
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Guadalupe La Chinaca (1938)
Character: N/A
1830s: An officer from the French army and a leader of the insurgency are both in love with Ms. Guadalupe.
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Los días del amor (1972)
Character: N/A
In the 1920s, Mexico was still in a state of near-chaos. Rebellions and revolutions had followed one after the other for decades. Though things were beginning to settle down some, it was still a time when one had the feeling that anything could happen.
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Eterna mártir (1937)
Character: Fernando Molina
A dedicated wife and mother takes the blame for embezzling money that was actually stolen by her husband in order to buy medicine and a doctor's care for the couple's seriously ill infant son. Consequently, the well-meaning woman is willingly sentenced to years in prison for a crime she did not commit-all because she believes her son will fare better if the bond between father and son remains intact. Upon her release, she soon discovers that no good deed goes unpunished. Her once loving husband has remarried a woman that her son calls Mother, After just a brief glimpse of her loved ones, she simply leaves without saying a word. Many years later, she becomes a patient at her son's busy medical practice just so that she can keep an eye on his progress in secret. In a cruel twist of fate, it is only after he diagnoses her as being terminally ill does does she reveal her true identity. The poor woman subsequently learns that her former father-in-law lied about her initial release from ...
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La esfinge maragata (1950)
Character: Antonio Salvadores
The action takes place on a Maragata hacienda that is sinking into misery, whose situation can only be solved through a marriage of convenience. But the marriageable girl, during a train trip, falls in love with a young poet and is reciprocated. Her family is opposed to this relationship, since they have promised her to marry a man of good standing.
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Y si ella volviera (1957)
Character: Pharmacist
Fishing captain suspects his wife of infidelity and runs her off. He sours on female companionship, but he gradually warms to the company of his village's new schoolteacher. Meanwhile...
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Ahora seremos felices (1939)
Character: N/A
Alma falls in love with Julio, a famous singer, but her parents oppose the idea thinking that it's just one more of her rich girl whims.
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La tía de las muchachas (1938)
Character: Doctor Fernando Rubio
Two middle-aged no-goodniks are trying to marry two young ladies; two age-appropriate young men concoct a scheme to prevent it, which involves one of them masquerading as the young ladies' aunt.
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Alma jarocha (1937)
Character: N/A
A group of students enjoy crazy adventures during their vacation in Orizaba, Veracruz.
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Siete muertes a plazo fijo (1950)
Character: El detective
On New Year's Eve, a banker and his wife invite several friends to have dinner in their apartment. Suddenly, an astrologer makes an appearance and predicts seven of the present people will die in the next weeks.
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La marca del muerto (1961)
Character: Alcaide
Mad scientist brings his dead mad scientist grandfather back to life and makes a Frankenstein-type monster out of him.
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La edad de piedra (1964)
Character: N/A
Capulina chip and are transported back to prehistoric times with a time machine. There they live crazy adventures.
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Cuartelazo (1977)
Character: Viejo en cementerio
Narration of one of the bloodiest episodes of the Mexican national history, The Tragic Ten, beginning when General Victoriano Huerta sent to kill President Francisco I. Madero, Vice President José María Pino Suárez and Senator Belisario Dominguez. The film recreates the moment of the execution at the hands of Huerta and his accomplices Bernardo Reyes, Félix Díaz and Manuel Mondragón.
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El valle de los miserables (1975)
Character: N/A
In 1909, former judge Cristóbal Zamarripa owns Valle Nacional, a tobacco plantation where he exploits workers with the support of the tyrant Porfirio Díaz, who sends him political prisoners as slaves. The others are lured with the promise of high wages, but end up owing everything to the company store. All are tortured, raped, or killed when they protest. Another landowner whose brother was killed by Zamarripa and who falls in love with one of his daughters is going to be punished, but he flees and becomes a revolutionary.
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El valle de los miserables (1975)
Character: Don Crispín
In 1909, former judge Cristóbal Zamarripa owns Valle Nacional, a tobacco plantation where he exploits workers with the support of the tyrant Porfirio Díaz, who sends him political prisoners as slaves. The others are lured with the promise of high wages, but end up owing everything to the company store. All are tortured, raped, or killed when they protest. Another landowner whose brother was killed by Zamarripa and who falls in love with one of his daughters is going to be punished, but he flees and becomes a revolutionary.
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Así es mi tierra (1937)
Character: Filomeno
With revolutionary Mexico as a backdrop, a successful local rancher returns triumphant from the war to the praise of townsfolk, and "El General" is ready to take a wife. However the senorita of choice already has fallen for a secret admirer, and a boyhood rival who is threatened by the General's popularity in turn plots against his life.
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Fe, esperanza y caridad (1974)
Character: Notario (segment "Esperanza")
Three episodes. Faith: a woman is attacked. Hope: a fakir is crucified. Charity: a woman faces bureaucracy.
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El gran perro muerto (1981)
Character: Sr. Pichardo
In a small town a dead dog lays on the middle of the main street. A bureaucratic process begins to determine who is responsible for removing it
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Llámenme Mike (1979)
Character: Judge
After being unjustly accused of corruption and seriously injured in prison, Miguel's personality will merge with the characters he reads in his police novels.
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Una gallega en La Habana (1955)
Character: N/A
Cándida's boyfriend left her in Spain to go to work to Havana. After twenty years without news, she decides to go look for him, although the only thing she knows of him is his name. In the port of Havana, she is confused with a jewel smuggler, which kicks off a series of comical events.
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Divorciadas (1943)
Character: N/A
Three newly unmarried women room together, start a business, share the ups and downs of their love lives
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Cruz Diablo (1934)
Character: Carlos
16th-century swashbuckler; evil nobleman usurps another man's title and properties and forces his daughter to marry a political ally. But Cruz Diablo will have revenge!
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Santa (1932)
Character: Jarameño
Santa is a beautiful and very humble young girl living in Chimalistac, a small and quiet spot south of the 1930's Mexico City. After Santa is cheated by arrogant soldier Marcelino, she's rejected by her family and friends and expelled of Chimalistac. Santa finds shelter in a whorehouse and becomes a cinic and bitter woman, mistreated by bullfighter "Jarameno" and silently loved by blind pianist Hipólito.
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Tívoli (1975)
Character: Pueyo
While trying to save the famous Tivoli burlesque theater, the participants uncover a web of commercial corruption.
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La lucha con la pantera (1975)
Character: Mercedes' Father
Three nymphets struggle to have a beneficial youth: Ana is suicidal, Mercedes is attracted to her brother William, and Patricia desires to be sexually abused.
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La última lucha (1959)
Character: Agente de policía
Slice-of-life melodrama: backstage at the wrestling arena.
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