Alfredo del Diestro
Biography: Actor and film director, born in Valparaíso Chile, October 7, 1885, died in Mexico City in 1951. Son of Spanish merchant Juan del Diestro and Italian pianist Matilde Cavaletti, Alfredo del Diestro spent his adolescence in Havana with his parents. In 1900 he returned to Colombia with the theatrical company Juan del Diestro, formed by him and his younger brother Juan. The company remained in the country until 1903, when it resumed its transhumance through Central America and the Caribbean. In Havana he met the Mexican actress Emma Roldán, and married her. In 1920, when he was doing a season at the Municipal Theater of Cali, he met Francisco Antonio Posada, who proposed him to co-direct with the Spaniard Máximo Calvo the silent feature film María. Del Diestro did the art direction, directed the dialogues and the staging. He returned to Mexico in 1924, where he continued working in film. His most outstanding performance was in the feature film Allá en el rancho grande, made in 1936.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: October 07, 1885
Deathday: February 20, 1951
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Hombres del aire
1939-01-01
Hombres del aire
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 1939-01-01
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Prisoner 13
1933-05-31
Prisoner 13
Overview: Colonel Carrasco's wife Marta leaves him taking his young son. The child, Juan, grows into an admirable and well-mannered young man. Having been promoted to a higher rank of power amidst the Mexican Revolution, the indulgent and corrupt Colonel accepts a bribe to free a revolutionary, Felipe Martinez, from his prison. Martinez has been sentenced to execution at the hands of a firing squad. Carrasco asks to have the revolutionary replaced by absolutely anyone. In a twist of fate, that anyone turns out to be his own long lost son Juan. Upon receiving this news, Marta races to the prison and explains the predicament to Carrasco. He subsequently desperately attempts to prevent the gunning down of his son by his very own government officials.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1933-05-31
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El compadre Mendoza
1934-04-05
El compadre Mendoza
Overview: In the midst of the Mexican Revolution, the landowner Mendoza manages to get along with both the government and the revolutionary group. For the former, he is a supporter of Huerta. For the latter, he is a Zapata supporter. Depending on the political preference of whoever visits him at his hacienda, he has portraits of Huerta or Zapata put up, and organizes a party in honor of his visitors. However, time goes by and the situation becomes untenable. For whom will he take sides?
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1934-04-05
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Adios mi chaparrita
1941-01-01
Adios mi chaparrita
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1941-01-01
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Adam, Eve and the Devil
1945-08-10
Adam, Eve and the Devil
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Genres: Comedy Drama Fantasy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1945-08-10
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La casa del ogro
1939-01-20
La casa del ogro
Overview: Lives of the tenants in a shabby-genteel apartment house. Miserly landlord learns valuable life lessons.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1939-01-20
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El rápido de las 9.15
1941-09-11
El rápido de las 9.15
Overview: Every passenger boarding The Express has a story.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1941-09-11
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The Crying Woman
1933-03-31
The Crying Woman
Overview: Llorona is a figure unique to Mexican folklore -- the wailing spirit of a woman who lost or killed her child and now returns to seek revenge and haunt the living. With its framing story and flashback structure, this film sets forth a couple of variations of the story.
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1933-03-31
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La paloma
1937-08-20
La paloma
Overview: Dazzled by the Empress Carlotta's graciousness, magnanimity and charm, a young officer in the Mexican army switches his allegiance to the Imperial government with Maximilian as figurehead. Bad move, space cadet.
Genres: War Drama History
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1937-08-20
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Se la llevó el Remington
1948-11-04
Se la llevó el Remington
Overview: While tracking down the three men that killed his father, a notorious bad-ass commits other misdeeds, seemingly based on his desire to wreck as many lives as possible. Doesn't really have anything to do with the historical figure known as Remington, though they used his name for the character here.
Genres: Western Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-11-04
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Those Who Dance
1930-12-05
Those Who Dance
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Genres: Romance Crime Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1930-12-05
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Ni sangre ni arena
1941-05-22
Ni sangre ni arena
Overview: Cantinflas enjoys the bullfight show, and wants to crash in every of these spectacles. Also, there's a professional bullfighter, Manolete, who is identical to Cantinflas. Manolete has to give a bullfight show in a village, but Cantinflas arrives first as a stowaway in a train, and he'll be mistake by the real bullfighter. Cantinflas will give us a demonstration of courage.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1941-05-22
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Juarez and Maximilian
1934-06-28
Juarez and Maximilian
Overview: The story of Mexican President Benito Juárez and the emperor Maximilian of Habsburg and the empress Carlota.
Genres: History War Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1934-06-28
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Madre a la fuerza
1940-08-01
Madre a la fuerza
Overview: A 1940 film directed by Robert Quigley.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1940-08-01
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El jefe máximo
1940-10-01
El jefe máximo
Overview: A 1940 film directed by Fernando de Fuentes.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1940-10-01
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The Underdogs
1940-06-01
The Underdogs
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1940-06-01
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Mi viuda alegre
1942-02-22
Mi viuda alegre
Overview: A 1942 film directed by Miguel M. Delgado.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1942-02-22
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Shadow of Pancho Villa
1933-02-08
Shadow of Pancho Villa
Overview: A 1933 film.
Genres: War Drama Adventure
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1933-02-08
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Las mujeres mandan
1937-09-28
Las mujeres mandan
Overview: Aging bank-teller gets mixed up with a nightclub singer.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1937-09-28
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El padre Morelos
1943-04-22
El padre Morelos
Overview: Biography of early-1800s Mexican priest/statesman.
Genres: History Adventure Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1943-04-22
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Un milagro de amor
1949-12-09
Un milagro de amor
Overview: Young man goes to Mexico City in search of opportunity and gets framed for another person's embezzlement at their place of employ. Meanwhile, back home, his fiancée the blind woman...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1949-12-09
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La norteña de mis amores
1948-12-25
La norteña de mis amores
Overview: Child whose father was murdered grows up and seeks revenge, also falling in love with a new victim of the same bad guy.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1948-12-25
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Ahí viene Vidal Tenorio
1949-06-15
Ahí viene Vidal Tenorio
Overview: Two military goons slaughter a young man's parents and siblings. A few years later, the same guys rape and murder his wife, then use their young son for target practice. Enough is enough.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1949-06-15
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Law of the Harem
1931-10-09
Law of the Harem
Overview: When Renée Duval, a Frenchwoman who had been on her way to Venice, is discovered by Al-Hadi, an Arabian prince in the wreckage of an ambushed caravan it is just the beginning of a breathless adventure that will put both their lives at risk!
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1931-10-09
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La noche del pecado
1933-12-25
La noche del pecado
Overview: La noche del pecado is a Mexican and North American co-production directed by Miguel Contreras Torres with Ernesto Vilches, Ramón Pereda, Medea de Novara and produced by Contreras Torres in 1933.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1933-12-25
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Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
1935-06-20
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
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Genres: Drama History
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1935-06-20
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María
1922-10-20
María
Overview: María tells the tragic love story of María, a beautiful young woman, and her half brother Efraín, a handsome young man from Valle del Cauca. They both fall in love and live their romance on the farm "El Paraíso", in Valle del Cauca, but not everything is rosy, since Efraín must go to Bogotá because of study reasons leaving María with pain in her soul. Some time later, María becomes ill and Emma tells her brother about the situation.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1922-10-20
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