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El lunar de la familia (1953)
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Fernando Mendez's 1953 Spanish-language melodrama El Lunar de la Familia unfurls against the backdrop of a deceptively innocent-sounding family reunion. Two freewheeling, party-happy young men, Luis and his buddy Antonio, catch the train in to San Miguel, on a visit to Luis's grandmother, Doña Luisa, and his sister Esther. Unfortunately for the visitors, Luisa's goddaughter Rosita, is sitting near them in the same train car. She soon catches wind of the boys' wild tendencies, and makes a point of telling Luisa. Furious, the crotchety old woman decides to teach the bad boys a lesson by beating them senseless with her cane and forcing Luis to seek out a proper mate for Esther. Unfortunately, Esther has already fallen in love with Antonio - who could care less.
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La santa del barrio (1948)
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Wicked old lady arranges to sell the virginity of a young neighbor. Her boyfriend gets upset over this.
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Mujer (1947)
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Orphan girl grows up, meets the wrong man and falls into disgrace.
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Mi candidato (1937)
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Young silversmith runs for office, butts heads with political machine that's sucking the town dry.
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Cuatro vidas (1949)
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Romantic melodrama with murderous rivalries, set on a newly-cultivated wilderness plantation in Guatemala.
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Pancho Villa vuelve (1950)
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Two romantic rivals join the Mexican Revolution on opposing sides. The movie's more interested in the love triangle than in the war.
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El billetero (1953)
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Slum child, abandoned almost since birth, is reunited with his father.
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Encrucijada (1956)
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Three men in a mining community end up competing for the same woman.
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Tierra brava (1938)
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Financier threatens to foreclose on a cigar-factory's mortgage, but a secret benefactor pays off the owner's debt and saves the day.
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La Adelita (1937)
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Beautiful peasant girl runs afoul of her landlord's horny son and he poisons the well between her and her fiance, so she runs away and joins the Revolution.
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Cantaclaro (1946)
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A rootless wilderness-dude in the Venezuelan outback gets caught up in some human dramas despite himself.
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La carne manda (1948)
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Childhood friends move up the economic ladder from slumrat to middle class comfort, but the marriage between two of them is threatened by a bad woman from a nightclub.
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La calle de los amores (1954)
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Hubby latches onto a series of side-pieces and wifey finds it increasingly hard to put up with his behavior.
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Sangre en el barrio (1952)
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Slumlord and his daughter interfere in the lives of the proletariat for personal gratification.
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De pecado en pecado (1948)
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This post-World War II drama, (released to a world-wide audience on July 9, 1949), is definitively unique for the caliber of each of its contributing writers, who are clearly better-known for their cinematic talents in black and white . For instance, the film's Director Chano Urueta ( who became an acclaimed actor in his own right), actually co-wrote the script along with one of its principal actresses, namely Esther Fernandez, as well as adding in the literary abilities of a well-known movie-producer of the era named Luis Marique.
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Genio y figura (1953)
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When the pregnant Esther gets some bad news from her doctor, he advises her to visit a clinic in Mexico City, so she enlists husband Antonio to drive her there at once, along with her brother Luis. As soon as the men drop her off at the hospital, they hit a local nightclub and live it up, and as they are leaving the club in the company of a sexy dancer, they get thoroughly robbed: the criminals even steal the poor victims' clothes! Taken in to the police station and documented along the way, their photograph turns up in the paper the next day, which Esther of course sees. The men will have a lot to explain when they arrive at the clinic to pick up Esther.
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Flor de durazno (1945)
Character: Rina
City slicker scams on young farmgirl while her fiance's in USA on a work permit.
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Santa (1943)
Character: Santa
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 Hipolito
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Su última aventura (1946)
Character: Graciela Hernández
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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Las mañanitas (1948)
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Rom-com scheming; wealthy landowner wants to seduce one of his tenants, but she wants the other guy...
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El baúl macabro (1936)
Character: Alicia Monroy
A crazed scientist tries to keep his terminally ill wife alive by transfusing into her the blood of young women he murders.
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Los hijos de Rancho Grande (1956)
Character: Cruz
Sequel to Alla en el Rancho Grande, twenty years later -- sons and daughters of the original characters go through a courtship melodrama of their own.
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La Fuga (1944)
Character: Maria Ines Flores
A stagecoach full of conflictive passengers makes its dangerours way from Mexico to Veracruz during the days of the French Intervention.
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Los de abajo (1940)
Character: Camila
During the Mexican Revolution, the people tired of living in poverty and enduring the atrocities committed by the federals, decide to follow one of their own, General Demetrio Macias, a thief with tricks he learned in jail and who along with "La Pintada" decides to take his people to victory. Led by Captain Anastacio Montañez, the newly formed army fight and honor their code at the same time as they loot houses to spread the wealth.
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Reportaje (1953)
Character: Nurse
Reporters compete for cash prize awarded for biggest scoop on New Year's Eve.
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Allá en el Rancho Grande (1936)
Character: Cruz
Two good friends — the owner and general manager of a ranch — fall in love with the same girl at the same time. The owner tries to 'buy' the girl without knowing she is in love with the manager.
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Two Years Before the Mast (1946)
Character: Maria Dominguez
In 1834, Charles Stewart (Alan Ladd), the spoiled, dissolute son of a shipping magnate, is shanghaied aboard the Pilgrim, one of his father's own ships. He embarks upon a long, hellish sea voyage under the tyrannical rule of Captain Francis Thompson (Howard Da Silva), assisted by his first mate, Amazeen (William Bendix). One of his crewmates is Richard Henry Dana Jr. (Brian Donlevy).
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La mujer del puerto (1934)
Character: Mujer de cabaret
Her father dies... her fiance dumps her... and she can't find a job... so she covers the waterfront. And then one night...
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Doña Perfecta (1951)
Character: Rosario
Liberal farmer Pepe has arrived in Santa Fe to visit his aunt, Dona Perfecta. While he's there, Pepe is eager to teach the traditional-minded townspeople a new way of living. Unfortunately for Pepe the people of Santa Fe aren't eager to embrace change, and when the citizens begin to voice resentment Pepe is forced to seek refuge with his sympathetic aunt. Dona Perfecta is just as traditional as any of the other townspeople though, and only suffers Pepe due to the fact that he is family. When Pepe and his cousin Rosario fall deeply in love, the situation quickly comes to a head.
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Pancho Villa Returns (1950)
Character: Teresa Mota
It's 1913, and noble Mexican General Pancho Villa leads his troops against the assassins of President Madero.
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