Carolina Barret
Biography: The beautiful actress Carolina Barret (October 20, 1916 - October 13, 2009) was an actress of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema as a supporting character with an extensive career and designated as an honorary member of the Mexican Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. In addition to dedicating her life to Mexican cinema, she participated in several U.S. productions. In his last years he made some telenovelas. ARIEL AWARDS. - 1947 Actress Canaima (Winner). - 1956 Supporting actress Espaldas mojadas (Winner). - 1974 Female co-actress Calzonzín inspector (Nominated).
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: October 21, 1916
Deathday: October 13, 2009
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Todo un caballero
1947-07-17
Todo un caballero
Overview: An unmarried lawyer defends his ward's boyfriend, accused of murder. One of only a handful of films produced by RKO’s short lived Latin American production arm Ramex.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1947-07-17
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Black Pit of Dr. M
1959-05-13
Black Pit of Dr. M
Overview: Two doctors make a pact in which they swear that the first to die will return - if possible - to tell the other how to get a glimpse of the afterlife while still alive.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1959-05-13
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Escándalo de estrellas
1944-12-01
Escándalo de estrellas
Overview: The story of the adventures and entanglements of the son of a famous film producer who is forced to study law.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1944-12-01
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Hombres del aire
1939-01-01
Hombres del aire
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1939-01-01
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Lazos de fuego
1948-01-01
Lazos de fuego
Overview: Mexican movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-01-01
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Qué hombre tan simpático
1943-03-19
Qué hombre tan simpático
Overview: Amable is the drinking buddy of Paquito, a former medical student who plays Fanny's love, a cabaret singer and also with Conchita, a showgirl. One day, Paquito receives a telegram that his uncle Pancho vayaa asked to see his wife and other medical eminence to heal him his kidney ailment. Among all a hoax to mount Paquino not lose the inheritance from his uncle.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1943-03-19
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Los amantes
1956-11-09
Los amantes
Overview: Mexican feature film
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1956-11-09
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Como yo te quería
1945-09-26
Como yo te quería
Overview: Romantic comedy/drama.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-09-26
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La santa del barrio
1948-12-25
La santa del barrio
Overview: Wicked old lady arranges to sell the virginity of a young neighbor. Her boyfriend gets upset over this.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-12-25
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Tragic Weddings
1946-05-30
Tragic Weddings
Overview: Jalisco, 19th century. Diego, a wealthy landowner, secretly marries Amparo, defying her father Juan Manuel, who fiercely opposes the union. Juan Manuel still holds a grudge against Diego, having once been his employer when Diego was just a laborer. Their secret marriage stirs jealousy and resentment, particularly in Octavio, Diego’s servant, and his wife Laura, who harbors unspoken feelings for him. As Diego departs for a military mission in Guadalajara, Juan Manuel, unaware of the marriage, attempts to arrange a match between Amparo and the Spaniard José Luis.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1946-05-30
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Cinco rostros de mujer
1947-02-26
Cinco rostros de mujer
Overview: "The great love of his life" happened five times; one of those women just wrote him a letter. Which one will it be?
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1947-02-26
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Inspector Calzonzin
1974-05-02
Inspector Calzonzin
Overview: Mexico's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1974
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1974-05-02
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El mexicano feo
1984-06-28
El mexicano feo
Overview: Semi-employed street musician butts heads with his wife and grown(ish) children because of his irresponsible lifestyle. Then he lucks into a cushy government job.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1984-06-28
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La infame
1954-01-21
La infame
Overview: For love, the rules of society and justice are broken, leading to abduction, exposing life and freedom, facing everything to make a sick child a normal child.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1954-01-21
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As negro
1954-11-11
As negro
Overview: Two poor children swear an oath: one will study, the other will work and support them both. The worker turns to crime...
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1954-11-11
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Flor de caña
1948-11-10
Flor de caña
Overview: Rural-community gal is being courted by a peon and by a land-owner.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1948-11-10
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Pancho López
1957-02-08
Pancho López
Overview: A couple of people cover up their own mishandling of other people's money by claiming to have been robbed by a masked bandit. When the law comes looking into the situation, it becomes necessary to find someone to impersonate that bandit. Remake of El Tigre De Jalisco (1947).
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-02-08
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Cinco en la cárcel
1968-12-05
Cinco en la cárcel
Overview: Five criminals are arrested after a bank-robbery. One escapes, and the police officer in charge of transporting them arrests a new person at random to cover up for his negligence.
Genres: Drama Action Adventure
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1968-12-05
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El metiche
1972-09-21
El metiche
Overview: Clownish simpleton can't resist meddling in his neighbors' business. Pretty much a remake of El Reveltoso.
Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1972-09-21
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¡Ay qué rechula es Puebla!
1946-01-31
¡Ay qué rechula es Puebla!
Overview: Two charros from Hacienda A come a-courtin' to hacienda B, owned by a friend of their father's. Also a horse-race.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1946-01-31
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La vida tiene tres días
1955-09-01
La vida tiene tres días
Overview: Big-city songwriter and small-town music student conduct a romance by mail, then finally meet.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-09-01
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Ladrones de niños
1958-07-17
Ladrones de niños
Overview: Kidnapping band has a system set up to transport infants and older children to black-market adoptive parents in the USA.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1958-07-17
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Damned City!
1954-02-28
Damned City!
Overview: A humble provincial writer who wants to publish his first book offers it to a film producer who is looking for locations for a film at that time. The novelist's family then moves to the big city, where they will have to face many adversities that will make them wish they had never left their village.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1954-02-28
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Beautiful Michoacán
1943-10-10
Beautiful Michoacán
Overview: When her father dies, a young woman must go to Michoacán to take charge of her lands, where she meets a young man and they both fall in love.
Genres: Western Music Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1943-10-10
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¡Arriba las mujeres!
1943-07-09
¡Arriba las mujeres!
Overview: Movie in which funny situations based on the entanglements caused by a woman named Felicidad to her family because of her feminist ideology are presented, to the extent of bringing her daughters and herself to a divorce trial.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1943-07-09
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La razón de la culpa
1943-04-02
La razón de la culpa
Overview: Romantic comedy.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1943-04-02
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Vuelva el sábado
1951-09-23
Vuelva el sábado
Overview: Young woman loses her secretarial job, so she tries to become a bill-collector.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-09-23
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Cuarto de hotel
1953-08-13
Cuarto de hotel
Overview: Newlywed couple move from small town to Mexico City. Their first night in the city, they get separated by accident, and it takes them 90 minutes and lots of incidents before they find each other again.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1953-08-13
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Así es mi tierra
1937-09-15
Así es mi tierra
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1937-09-15
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El día de la boda
1968-10-31
El día de la boda
Overview: The love affairs of two couples, modern parents a couple of troubled teens.
Genres: Romance Drama Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1968-10-31
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Gran Hotel
1944-08-14
Gran Hotel
Overview: Cantinflas is a vagrant being evicted for not paying rent, after wandering gets a job at the 'Grand Hotel' through a friend, that's confused by Count Zapatini, who is undercover in the hotel, stealing a gem making this funny movie more complicated.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1944-08-14
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41: El hombre perfecto
1982-11-03
41: El hombre perfecto
Overview: Widowed,middle-aged sadsack has never known love in any of his marriages.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1982-11-03
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The Unknown Policeman
1941-10-22
The Unknown Policeman
Overview: A gang of thieves has jeopardized the city and even the police, whose chief urges their forces to captured the band within 48 hours. Meanwhile, band members meet in a cafe run by a widow and her daughter and her suitor, Cantinflas, who maintains a scuffle with the robbers running all at the station. Since then, Cantinflas become a member of the police force for special missions.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1941-10-22
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¡A volar, joven!
1947-12-23
¡A volar, joven!
Overview: Cantinflas is a private in the military, who doesn't know anything about discipline or following rules. He only wants to think about his girlfriend, the maid in an opulent hacienda. The owner of the hacienda has an ugly and shy daughter, who is in love with Cantinflas. The problems arrive when the family arranges a wedding between the ugly girl and Cantinflas, who in order to avoid the commitment gets himself arrested. During his punishment, Cantinflas learns to fly with a silly and poorly trained flight instructor.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1947-12-23
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Viva Mi Desgracia
1944-01-01
Viva Mi Desgracia
Overview: After drinking a special concoction made of various types of alcohol, the once-timid Ramon (Pedro Infante) suddenly turns into a brawler and extroverted ladies' man. With his newfound confidence, Ramon attempts to win the heart of the woman (María Antonieta Pons) he loves. Full of enjoyable songs and funny scenes, this entertaining Mexican musical centers on a wealthy man who finally realizes that money can't buy him love.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1944-01-01
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Time to Die
1966-08-11
Time to Die
Overview: A man comes home after serving 18 years in jail for murder in this routine western. Although the man killed in self defense, rumors in town circulated that he murdered the victim in cold blood. The ex-con wants to get his life together, but the two sons of the slain man are gunning for the man who killed their father.
Genres: Western Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1966-08-11
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Los apuros de Narciso
1940-07-19
Los apuros de Narciso
Overview: A 1940 film directed by Enrique Herrera.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1940-07-19
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Canto a mi tierra
1938-11-11
Canto a mi tierra
Overview: Theatrical producers discover a new musical-theatre star in a small farming town.
Genres: Music Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1938-11-11
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Cinco minutos de amor
1941-12-11
Cinco minutos de amor
Overview: Bedroom farce, with three men claiming the same woman as their mistress.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1941-12-11
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¡Cuando la tierra tembló!
1942-04-04
¡Cuando la tierra tembló!
Overview: A 1942 film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1942-04-04
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María Eugenia
1943-04-01
María Eugenia
Overview: Before marrying María Eugenia, landowner Carlos are away to visit her godmother to break the promise to marry his daughter. The godmother is dying, Carlos quiets and everything takes an unexpected course.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1943-04-01
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The Last Adventure
1946-10-17
The Last Adventure
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Comedy Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1946-10-17
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The Revenge of Hurricane Ramírez
1969-02-27
The Revenge of Hurricane Ramírez
Overview: Landru, a French businessman, arrives Mexico with the idea of promoting their fighters, what nobody knows is that besides Landru promoter and fighter is a mad scientist who seeks to alter human genetics mixing it with the animal to make stronger and fiercer to their gladiators.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Fantasy Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1969-02-27
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Espaldas mojadas
1955-06-16
Espaldas mojadas
Overview: 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.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1955-06-16
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The Living Coffin
1959-12-03
The Living Coffin
Overview: A cowboy and his sidekick meet a ranching family that is haunted by spirits and vampires.
Genres: Horror Western
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1959-12-03
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Santa
1943-06-10
Santa
Overview: 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
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1943-06-10
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Tivoli
1975-06-26
Tivoli
Overview: While trying to save the famous Tivoli burlesque theater, the participants uncover a web of commercial corruption.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1975-06-26
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El cuerpazo del delito
1970-07-09
El cuerpazo del delito
Overview: Anthology film: three "sophisticated" rom-com scenarios.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1970-07-09
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María Cristina
1951-11-15
María Cristina
Overview: Decent, hard-working young woman gradually finds her way toward love and happiness. With occasional spasms of Afro-Cuban dancing.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-11-15
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Suerte te dé Dios
1961-05-11
Suerte te dé Dios
Overview: Two construction workers discover a stash of gold coins hidden in the walls of a building they're demolishing.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1961-05-11
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Adventure in Rio
1953-05-02
Adventure in Rio
Overview: Tourist gets bonked on the head, suffers an amnesiac fugue, wanders away from her husband and children, becomes an evil prostitute-y thief-y saloon gal.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1953-05-02
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Opio
1949-06-04
Opio
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Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1949-06-04
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Eterna agonía
1949-06-22
Eterna agonía
Overview: Convicted on flimsy evidence of complicity in a jewel robbery, there's nothing he can do afterward to put his life in order. Downward spiral.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1949-06-22
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Canaima
1945-10-04
Canaima
Overview: College-educated emigre has to get macho when he returns home to the Venezuelan outback.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1945-10-04
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