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El abandonado (1949)
Character: N/A
Based on a popular song. An unhappy love affair becomes an excuse for heavy drinking and all-round debauchery.
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Mexico lindo y querido (1961)
Character: N/A
Tourist's eye overview of some highlights of Mexican history and folk culture, all expressed through interpretive dance.
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Hay un niño en su futuro (1952)
Character: N/A
Wacky rich woman subjects her husband, servants and friends to a series of elaborate masquerades, remodeling her house and wardrobe every couple of days to represent different historical eras or cultural milieux. Today she's Marie Antoinette, tomorrow she may be Pancho Villa's common-law wife or a nun.
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Pobre corazón (1950)
Character: N/A
Woman discovers she's dying of an incurable illness, so she tries to make her husband hate her; dumping her on moving on would be better for him than watching her decline and feeling sad.
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Música y dinero (1958)
Character: N/A
Restaurant/nightclub is sinking into bankruptcy and management team pull wacky shit to try to get back on their feet.
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Tres angelitos negros (1960)
Character: Señor cura
Three Black Angels (Spanish: Tres angelitos negros) is a 1960 Mexican comedy film directed by Fernando Cortés and starring Miguel Aceves Mejía, Yolanda Varela and Pedro Vargas.
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Burlada (1951)
Character: Pedro
Fancy gentleman uses his charms to exploit a bunch of women.
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Ojos de juventud (1948)
Character: Cantante
A bad woman exploits her husband's love. Infidelity, illegitimate children, self-sacrificing fatherhood... Also: Cabarets!
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La noche es nuestra (1952)
Character: Cantante
Journalist meets an unforgettable woman, tracks her down and discovers all her tragic past.
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El jibarito Rafael (1968)
Character: N/A
Relates the life of one of Puerto Rico's most loved and revered composer and songwriter, Rafael Hernández.
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Flor de canela (1959)
Character: N/A
Nightclub entertainer discovers the truth about her birth mother while making the right choice in her love life, choosing the good guy over the slimy, exploitative hoodlum.
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Cuando Mexico canta (1958)
Character: Pedro Vargas
Lorenzo Inclán, a famous Mexican songwriter, is torn between helping a girl become a famous singer or having a romantic relationship with her.
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Perdida (2009)
Character: N/A
This film traces the unbelievable true story of the Calderón family, who built grand movie palaces in Mexico and the U.S., employing thousands to produce incomparable, hugely successful, and often reprehensible populist-genre films that were utterly and uniquely Mexican.
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Por qué peca la mujer (1952)
Character: Pedro
Working-class girl-next--door type is seduced into a high-glam lifestyle when an oily promoter helps launch her as a nightclub singer; she throws over her decent-simple-guy boyfriend and loses her moral compass.
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El rey de San Gregorio (2005)
Character: N/A
Pedro and Cati live in the San Gregorio township. They must fight for their love despite the over-protection and fears of their families.
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Bodas de oro (1956)
Character: N/A
On their anniversary, a lomg-married couple reminisce about the history of their marriage
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Piel canela (1953)
Character: Cantante
Marucha (Sarita Montiel) has had a shattered face since childhood, but she has a beautiful figure and covers half of her face with her hair. She is a singer and performs in neighborhood theaters. Marucha and Ramon are professionals in crime.
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Fantasía ranchera (1947)
Character: N/A
Young composer in a small town where everyone is very nurturing of his talent finishes his first opera and goes to Mexico City to get it produced. Over half the movie is taken up with a performance of his masterpiece.
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Yo quiero ser mala (1950)
Character: Pedro Vargas
In this Romantic-Comedy from Director Rene Cardona, Actress Maria Elena Marques plays a hard-living woman named Leticia, who suffers from a recently broken heart after being deceived by her ex-boyfriend. Soured on anything to do with love and while drinking away her sorrows, she sets out to marry the very first man she sees. This man just happens to be a nice guy named Roberto, (Abel Salazar). Although the pair's mutual attraction to each other is obvious, Roberto has no idea what he is in for, and he soon proposes. Not long after the marriage, Leticia starts to take advantage of both Roberto and her new Father-in-Law (played by Oscar Pulido), who shows kindness towards the girl. Predictably, marital bliss soon turns into discord, and the couple agree to divorce after a year passes. Their love-hate relationship and pending break-up provides a perfect backdrop for several comedic situations before the two realize that they are actually in love.
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Revancha (1948)
Character: Cantante
A man steals to buy medicine for his sick mother but when she dies he gets into drug trafficking at a local cabaret.
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Había una vez un marido (1953)
Character: N/A
Due to confusion, Rafael is believed responsible for the death of Teresa. His wife Lilia and his brother looking for the real culprits.
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Nadie muere dos veces (1953)
Character: Cantante
Big-league criminal escapes from jail, tracks down his ex-wife at a seaside resort. She kills him in self-defense, and then a guy who looks exactly like him comes along. Massive complications!
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Canto a mi tierra (1938)
Character: Pedro
Theatrical producers discover a new musical-theatre star in a small farming town.
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Música en la noche (1958)
Character: N/A
An ingenious actor has an idea of making musical numbers without a dialogue when he arrives with a violin and a ladder.
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Soy puro mexicano (1942)
Character: N/A
Band of outlaws stumble across an espionage ring of Axis agents embedded in an out-of-the-way hacienda.
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A La Habana me voy (1950)
Character: Himself
Backstage musical: showbiz couple fusses and breaks up, then resolve their problems just before the end.
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Pensión de artistas (1956)
Character: N/A
Between-engagements troupers at a theatrical boarding-house con a rich acquaintance into financing a show.
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Cada quien su musica (1959)
Character: N/A
Unscrupulous promoter creates hostilities that ruin the friendships between six young musicians.
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Rostros olvidados (1952)
Character: Cantante
A woman looses her baby girl in a train accident but, years later, the girl's father reveals that the baby survived and was raised by him with two other daughters.
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Reportaje (1953)
Character: Pedro, unemployed singer
Reporters compete for cash prize awarded for biggest scoop on New Year's Eve.
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Cri Cri el Grillito Cantor (1963)
Character: (uncredited)
Biography of the famous composer of children's music Gabilondo Soler. Starts from his childhood, when he worked as a pastor and grandmother tried to teach him to play the piano. Later he went to the city to study music theory and began writing his first songs.
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Teatro del crimen (1957)
Character: Himself
In a music hall has committed a murder, the police will also find the murderer.
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La feria de San Marcos (1958)
Character: N/A
Two men and two women meet and pair off (m/w x 2) during the town Festival in San Marcos. Later, weddings.
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Espaldas mojadas (1955)
Character: Worker
Mexican worker Rafael Améndola runs from the police and cross the Mexican-American border, helped by Frank Mendoza, a partner of an American called Mr. Sterling, who gives work to illegal migrants. Once in the United States, Rafael does not adapt to his new life. English translation of title is “Wet Backs”.
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Tambien de dolor se canta (1950)
Character: Cantante
The movie starts with Braulio Peláez (Pedro Infante), a schoolteacher, having just fallen off his horse, representing the situation he and his family are in. The next scenes introduce the viewer to his family and their poor financial and social situation. As Braulio stumbles around looking for his glasses, he causes a famous film star, Alfonso de Madrazo (Rafael Alcaide) to crash his car. Braulio offers him to eat at his house as an apology. Braulio's sister and mother, big film fans, immediately recognise Alfonso and attempt to get him to bring the girl, Luisa Peláez (Irma Dolores) to Mexico City to become a film star. Alfonso agrees and tells them to come to the capital.
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Perdida (1950)
Character: Cantante
Her stepfather rapes her and she runs away to home. After that, she's exploited by a series of men, and...
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Carne de horca (1953)
Character: Mocuelo
Andalusia, Spain, 19th century. The roads are infested with bandits who sow panic among travelers. Although most of them are ruthless killers, Lucero is a true champion of the disinherited.
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El hombre de papel (1963)
Character: Cura
A deaf and mute vagabond finds a large denomination bill in a Mexico City dump, and while he tries to buy something with it, others try to con him into giving it away.
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Besos prohibidos (1956)
Character: Cantante
Nightclub singer has to choose between marrying again or reuniting with her divorced husband.
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Locos por la televisión (1958)
Character: Self
Nightclub owners try to scrape up enough money to sponsor a variety show on TV to publicize their artists and their venue.
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Aventurera (1950)
Character: Himself - Singer
Left alone after her mother runs off with another man and her father kills himself, Elena attempts to make a new life for herself in a new city. Believing he's a friend, Elena goes to dinner with "Pretty Boy" Lucio, but he drugs her champagne and sells her to Rosaura, who runs a brothel out of her nightclub. Elena becomes a sensation as a dancer, but all the while she nurtures plans of revenge against those who have conspired against her.
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Víctimas del pecado (1951)
Character: Cantante
A nightclub performer decides to raise the baby boy she found abandoned in a trash can, putting her job and social life in jeopardy.
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Un pecado por mes (1949)
Character: N/A
Paloma and Marcelo are in love, but only dare meet once a month- see, she doesn't know that he is only pretending to be the son of rich ranchers, and he doesn't know that she is only pretending to be the daughter of the great business tycoon B. Quintana... she is in reality just an employee! But when a desperate Marcelo must take a job at Quintana's company, both their lies begin to unravel.
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