Ernesto Gómez Cruz
Biography: Ernesto Gómez Cruz (November 8, 1933 - April 6, 2024) was a prolific Mexican actor with more than 154 films. In his beginnings, he began as a photographer in his native Veracruz, where he met a friend who invited him to study dramatic art. In his notes from yesterday, he mentions that he wanted to be a singer, but his shyness and lack of preparation led him to abandon this path. He has more than two hundred films to his credit. He has worked with great directors such as Miguel Littin, Felipe Cazals, Arturo Ripstein and Luis Estrada; He has also worked with actors of the stature of Damián Alcázar, Ignacio López Tarso and Pedro Armendáriz Jr., among others. His long artistic career has allowed him to be deserving and awarded with different recognitions; one of the most recent was in 2014, at the 56th Ariel award, where he was awarded the Ariel de Oro. He is the second Mexican actor with the most Ariel awards and nominations. In 2018 the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences officially invited him to be a special part of its new members.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: November 08, 1933
Deathday: April 06, 2024
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Known For
The Crime of Padre Amaro
2002-10-01
The Crime of Padre Amaro
Overview: Sent to Mexico to help take care of aging Father Benito, young Father Amaro faces a moral challenge when he meets a 16-year-old girl who he starts an affair with. Likewise, the girl's mother had been having an affair with Father Benito. Father Amaro must choose between a holy or sinful life.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2002-10-01
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Bandidas
2006-01-18
Bandidas
Overview: When a ruthless robber baron takes away everything they cherish, a rough-and-tumble, idealistic peasant and a sophisticated heiress embark on a quest for justice, vengeance…and a few good heists.
Genres: Action Comedy Western Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-01-18
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The Sowing of Others
1981-01-01
The Sowing of Others
Overview: Short film. Unknown plot.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1981-01-01
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Latino Bar
1991-07-06
Latino Bar
Overview: A woman working in a caribean Cabaret meets a man in the harbour that just went out of jail. They recognise in each other common feelings of rage and fury and then they fall in love in a story without words.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-07-06
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Herod's Law
1999-11-09
Herod's Law
Overview: In the 1940s, a small Mexican town has seen its last three mayors assassinated in rapid succession. A naive janitor is recruited to become the new mayor, and he believes he will modernize the little town and usher in a reign of peace. But the system corrupts him very quickly, and he takes to abusing his power while associating with an unscrupulous assortment of opportunists, hypocrites and criminals.
Genres: Comedy Crime Mystery Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1999-11-09
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Los amorosos
2007-01-01
Los amorosos
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2007-01-01
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Tespis Teporocho
Tespis Teporocho
Overview: In "Tespis Teporocho", a boy who interacts with vagabonds thirsty for knowledge, finally absorb them from an unexpected teacher.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
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El lado oscuro de la noche
2011-01-01
El lado oscuro de la noche
Overview: Valeria and Pablo, her husband, own an important hotel chain, which she inherited and he manages. Valeria knows that she suffers from chronic insomnia but has managed to control it and live a normal life.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2011-01-01
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El Norte
1983-10-11
El Norte
Overview: Brother and sister Enrique and Rosa flee persecution at home in Guatemala and journey north, through Mexico and on to the United States, with the dream of starting a new life.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1983-10-11
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Juan Diego: El indio de Guadalupe
2016-12-31
Juan Diego: El indio de Guadalupe
Overview:
Genres: Drama TV Movie History
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2016-12-31
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Amor de mis amores
1999-12-31
Amor de mis amores
Overview:
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1999-12-31
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Midaq Alley
1995-05-05
Midaq Alley
Overview: Heated tempers, frustrated desires and dashed hopes plague a diverse group of individuals whose lives cross paths in Mexico City. There is the bar-owner's son, Chava, who yearns to emigrate to America. A poor barber, Abel, is madly in love with the gorgeous Alma, who eventually becomes a high-class prostitute. Finally, there is Susanita, the desperate spinster who pursues many love affairs in hopes of finding a husband.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1995-05-05
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A Wonderful World
2006-03-17
A Wonderful World
Overview: A fairy tale about the political and socioeconomic realities of Mexico.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2006-03-17
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El Infierno
2010-09-03
El Infierno
Overview: After being deported back to Mexico, a man has no choice but to join the vicious drug cartel that has corrupted his hometown in order to survive.
Genres: Action Crime Western Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2010-09-03
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Another Mexican
2010-11-12
Another Mexican
Overview: Antonio (Ricky Mergold) is a 16 year old boy from a village in the Mexican province, living the awakening of consciousness with the intensity of the contradictions that surround him: a dogmatic religion, mediocre educational institutions, corrupt politicians an a society full of conformity. His life changes when a young teacher with a genuine desire to teach their students comes to the town, a guide that encourages them to live with dignity and to be critical of the world around them. This story is full of drama and misadventures, which Antonio lives without proper orientation and promiscuity.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-11-12
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La casa de los cuchillos
1992-12-31
La casa de los cuchillos
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1992-12-31
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Emiliano Zapata
1970-11-20
Emiliano Zapata
Overview: This is the story of a man, Emiliano Zapata, and of a revolution, the Mexican Revolution.
Genres: War Action Drama History
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1970-11-20
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Los Abandonados – Die Niemandskinder von Camanducaia
1986-05-08
Los Abandonados – Die Niemandskinder von Camanducaia
Overview: Based on the true story of boys from Brazilian jails taken to the state border and abandoned without food or clothing to relieve overcrowding in prison. Once discovered it became a major scandal in the 70s.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1986-05-08
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In the Land of Light Feet
1982-08-10
In the Land of Light Feet
Overview: During his vacations, 12-year-old Manuel travels by train with his mother to the Sierra Tarahumara to spend a few days with his father, who works in the mountains with the indigenous people protecting nature. Manuel befriends Jesus, who takes him to his town and teaches him the customs of his own. Both children discover illegal loggers.
Genres: Adventure Drama Mystery
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1982-08-10
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The Fifth Commandment
2012-03-02
The Fifth Commandment
Overview: Víctor, a psychopath, loves carving crosses onto women post-mortem, blames paedophile priest and mother-in-denial for his behaviour, falls in love with one of his intended victims and decides to give up his adopted lifestyle. An alcoholic detective (he’s mourning his sister’s passing), eventually tracks down Víctor, and manages to break his habit with the bottle.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2012-03-02
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Mariana Mariana
1987-08-05
Mariana Mariana
Overview: The story runs in the 1940s Mexico City. A schoolboy (Carlos) falls in love with his best friend's mother (Mariana). Carlos is impressed because this family is not like the ordinary mexican families of the time, because they have many expensive American things, although they are not rich. The drama begins when Carlos gets out of school to go to declare his love to Mariana, and is discovered by his teachers.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1987-08-05
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Las Armas
2013-08-05
Las Armas
Overview: A group of peasants and teachers of education, tired of abuse, take up arms and decide to attack the Madera military barracks; most of them lose their lives.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2013-08-05
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The Cousin
2018-02-02
The Cousin
Overview: A married woman, who's husband leaves her alone way too many times, is seduced by a junior spoiled young man, leading her into the fullfillment of her unsatisfied needs.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2018-02-02
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El maestro prodigioso
2010-01-01
El maestro prodigioso
Overview: Three stories, each one with a teacher as the protagonist of the struggle against the many deficiencies of our country's educational system. The first story, Memorial of a Madman, is a testimony to the marginalized education offered in our rural communities. The Mission deals with the expulsion and death of the Jesuit teaching missionaries. The third one, The Prodigious Teacher, tells of the persecution and imprisonment of the free students and prodigious teachers of 1968.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2010-01-01
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13 Días antes de vivir
2000-01-01
13 Días antes de vivir
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2000-01-01
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La hija del odio
1993-01-01
La hija del odio
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1993-01-01
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Fraude en el sexenio
1998-01-01
Fraude en el sexenio
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1998-01-01
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El sexenio de la muerte
1997-01-01
El sexenio de la muerte
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1997-01-01
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The Stork's Mistake
1993-07-09
The Stork's Mistake
Overview: India María raises a kidnapped newborn and is pursued by criminals who want the boy.
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1993-07-09
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Manos mágicas
1998-01-01
Manos mágicas
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1998-01-01
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Vagabunda
1994-01-01
Vagabunda
Overview: Vagabunda is the story of young girl (Flor), well aware about her seductive skills, who arrives from an unknown place into a small town in Verazcruz where she is protected by the widowed father of a family who has two sons; one married and the other one lame. After weighting possibilities she ends up dividing the family to get the benefits of the family patrimony causing the married man to killed his pregnant wife, fact that is covered up by his father. At his sister in law's funeral, the head of the family announced his wedding with Flor which takes place before the burial. But since the now widowed son was cheating with Flor, he ends up being killed by his father as he did when killing his pregnant wife, Perla, giving this initial sensual movie a tragic end.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1994-01-01
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Para matar al presidente
1999-01-01
Para matar al presidente
Overview: Mexican feature film
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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Rulfo aeternum
1992-01-01
Rulfo aeternum
Overview: Adaptation of Juan Rulfo's classic short tale "La herencia de Matilde Arcángel". Tranquilino Herrera, a man of the time of the Mexican Revolution, tells the story of her beloved, Matilde Arcangel, who was stolen from him by his boss, from whom he gives birth a child.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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Perro rabioso III: Tras el rostro
1992-01-01
Perro rabioso III: Tras el rostro
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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Alto poder
1992-01-01
Alto poder
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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Odio, amor y muerte
1993-01-01
Odio, amor y muerte
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1993-01-01
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Nocturno a Rosario
1992-12-04
Nocturno a Rosario
Overview:
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1992-12-04
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Mafia En Jalisco
1991-01-01
Mafia En Jalisco
Overview: A battle between Jalisco mobsters & federal agents.
Genres: Crime Action Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1991-01-01
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Su herencia era matar
1993-01-01
Su herencia era matar
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1993-01-01
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El amarrador
1991-01-01
El amarrador
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1991-01-01
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Sandino
1990-01-01
Sandino
Overview: Narrative of a period of life (1926 - 1934) of the Nicaraguan revolutionary leader Sandino, who was known as "The general of free men."
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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Chacales de la frontera
1990-01-01
Chacales de la frontera
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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Invitación a morir
1991-01-01
Invitación a morir
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1991-01-01
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José, hijo del hombre
1989-01-01
José, hijo del hombre
Overview: Mexican feature film
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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Arizona
1984-01-01
Arizona
Overview: Tragedy strikes a group of immigrants crossing the border between Arizona and Mexico.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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Angeles Infernales
1992-01-01
Angeles Infernales
Overview: A gang of cross-dressers terrorize a city and a vengeful cop is after them.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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Zapata en Chinameca
1987-02-15
Zapata en Chinameca
Overview: Urbino Martínez, on his deathbed, regrets his wrongdoing after betraying Emiliano Zapata.
Genres: Action Drama History
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1987-02-15
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Operacion marihuana
1985-01-29
Operacion marihuana
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1985-01-29
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El puente II
1986-01-01
El puente II
Overview: Mexican feature film
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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Las Lupitas
1984-01-01
Las Lupitas
Overview: Mexican feature film
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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Pueblo de Boquilla
1981-01-01
Pueblo de Boquilla
Overview: Mexican feature film
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-01-01
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El guerrillero del norte
1983-01-01
El guerrillero del norte
Overview: The Mexican Revolution in the state of Sonora.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1983-01-01
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Visita al Pasado
1981-01-01
Visita al Pasado
Overview: Mexican feature film
Genres: Adventure Drama Family Fantasy Science Fiction
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1981-01-01
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The Evil That Men Do
1984-03-14
The Evil That Men Do
Overview: Professional killer Holland is forced out of retirement to break a Central American government's political torture ring when one of his friends, a Latin American journalist, is killed. The murderer, Doctor Clement Molloch, is the master sadist behind the political torture of innocent victims. Posing as a journalist, Holland lures Molloch out of his fortress-like headquarters by using his murdered friend's wife and daughter as bait. When Holland kidnaps Molloch's sister, the doctor is led on a wild chase that takes him to an abandoned opal mine where he finally comes face to face with Holland.
Genres: Action Adventure Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-03-14
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Erendira
1983-06-01
Erendira
Overview: While Erendira, a beautiful teenage girl, has a surreal mystical vision, her grandmother's house catches on fire and burns to the ground. Her grandmother holds Erendira responsible and, in order to extract restitution from the girl, forces her into prostitution. Erendira's surreal mystical experiences continue while her grandmother grows rich from exploiting her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1983-06-01
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La madre
1979-01-01
La madre
Overview: Mexican feature film
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-01-01
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Caminando pasos... caminando
1977-04-10
Caminando pasos... caminando
Overview: In a community of the Matlatzinca ethnic group, a teacher tries to integrate the inhabitants into the struggle of a guerrilla group.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1977-04-10
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Tacos al Carbón
1972-06-08
Tacos al Carbón
Overview: Tacos al carbón is a mexican movie released on june 8th 1972 on Mexico City.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1972-06-08
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Los perturbados
1972-07-14
Los perturbados
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1972-07-14
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La derrota
1973-01-01
La derrota
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1973-01-01
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Tú, yo, nosotros
1972-06-19
Tú, yo, nosotros
Overview: Three interwoven stories where the characters experience deception, passion, love and rejection.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1972-06-19
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Pasajeros en Transito
1978-01-01
Pasajeros en Transito
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1978-01-01
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Paty chula
1991-05-18
Paty chula
Overview: Paty, an employee of an advertising company, is summoned to a business dinner by Mr. Gutiérrez, a successful businessman. She cannot refuse the invitation since the signing of the contract depends on this meeting. In 1993 this film received the Ariel Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for best medium-length fiction film.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1991-05-18
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El extensionista
1991-02-28
El extensionista
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1991-02-28
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Mudstained Flower
2011-03-23
Mudstained Flower
Overview: A married, middle-aged well-known biochemist and university teacher Augusto, leaves his wife, his job and the comfort of his life to go after Marlene, a 14-year-old teenager with extraordinary beauty who burst into his life unexpectedly. One day, Marlene is taken from the custody of Augustus by Genaro, a psychotic sailor, who seduces and finally kidnaps her by taking to the ominous port of Tampico, where Augustus will seek her to try to free her, not without giving her life to pain and atonement, undergoing a deep personal transformation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2011-03-23
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Life Sentence
1979-08-09
Life Sentence
Overview: After being released from jail, "Tarzan" Lira seeks to rebuild his life as a bank employee. Unfortunately, it might not be as easy as he thinks.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1979-08-09
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Reed: Insurgent Mexico
1973-01-05
Reed: Insurgent Mexico
Overview: A dramatization of John Reed's newspaper accounts of the Mexican Revolution. Considered the first real film in Mexican cinema to be made on the Mexican Revolution.
Genres: Drama War History
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1973-01-05
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Cháman, viento de muerte
2000-01-01
Cháman, viento de muerte
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2000-01-01
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Los Caifanes
1967-08-17
Los Caifanes
Overview: A couple on the verge of getting married gets mixed up with a gang of thugs in this routine crime drama that underscores the Socio-economic disparity in the Mexican culture. The upper-class couple rides along with outsiders who go club-hopping and resort to petty thievery. After their adventure, the couple questions whether or not they are right for each other.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1967-08-17
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Los confines
1987-05-17
Los confines
Overview: Mix magical universe of Juan Rulfo, in which Juan Preciado, "Pedro Paramo", located incestuous siblings "Talpa" while Juvencio Nava, of "Diles que no me maten", flee several men who pursue for killing Colonel Terrones.
Genres: Thriller Horror Fantasy Mystery
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1987-05-17
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Living Is What Matters
1987-10-21
Living Is What Matters
Overview: A drifter named Candelario asks to spend the night at the hacienda of Don Lazaro. Once there, he gets the offer to stay and work as a laborer with a fixed salary. Over time, Candelario is gaining the confidence of his employer, and becomes indispensable. The situation will change radically when Don Lazarus discovers that Candelario is having a love affair with his wife.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1987-10-21
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La viuda de Montiel
1979-11-30
La viuda de Montiel
Overview: Mexican drama film directed by Miguel Littín. It is based on a short story of the same name by Gabriel García Marquez. It was entered into the 30th Berlin International Film Festival
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1979-11-30
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La ley del ejecutor
1988-01-01
La ley del ejecutor
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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A Shred Of Mist
2014-04-10
A Shred Of Mist
Overview: After the dead of his mother, Daniel is put under the care of his aunt Elizabeth, a foreign woman with a severe character, who subjects the child to multiple abuses and psychological torture.
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-04-10
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Familia Gang
2014-03-25
Familia Gang
Overview: A senior official of the Mexican political system decides to fake the capture and death of The Coyote, public enemy number one in Mexico, to make this happen, he cuts a deal with his family, who require a dead body to pose as a double. Topillero is responsible of executing the plan. But on this journey he is reunited with his wife and son, whom he abandoned years ago.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-03-25
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El rutas
1988-01-01
El rutas
Overview: The film got its inspiration from a real life character that killed policemen in the streets. The film narrates just how this man was pushed to committing crime.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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El baile de la iguana
2005-01-01
El baile de la iguana
Overview: Mexican feature film
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2005-01-01
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The Realm of Fortune
1986-11-28
The Realm of Fortune
Overview: Poor Dionisio finds himself as recipient of the good fortune, but soon he forgets that everything that goes up also has to go down, and that in the depressing nothingness of his town it is easy to die.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1986-11-28
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Así es la Suerte
2011-08-18
Así es la Suerte
Overview: Ramiro is a theater actor who lives estranged from his father and half brother. One morning, he runs into a suicide, who says he is an evil omen. Despite Ramiro´s efforts, the young man dies before his eyes, which leads him to believe that he has caught his bad luck. From then on, his life turns upside down, at the same time as he gets together with his family to fulfill his father´s last wish: to find the love of his life and say goodbye to her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2011-08-18
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De la infancia
2010-03-14
De la infancia
Overview: Niebla, a teenage gangster, is killed in a shootout and his ghost returns to help Francisco, a ten-year-old boy who is the victim of constant abuse and violent attacks by his father, Basilio, an abusive and violent thief, adored and feared by his son.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2010-03-14
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Pachito Rex: I'm Leaving but Not for Good
2001-11-09
Pachito Rex: I'm Leaving but Not for Good
Overview: The attack on a popular singer known as Pachito -who becomes the favorite candidate to win the presidential election in an imaginary Latin American country- is the starting point of several stories, including: the alleged murderer, a police officer investigating the disappearance of the murdered body and an architect hired to design the mausoleum to the memory of the possible dictator.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-11-09
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Baroque
1989-10-10
Baroque
Overview: A series of images, music and sounds which transport through Mexico's history, without any narrative sequence. The film spins constantly round the question 'Where are the singers from?'
Genres: Documentary Drama Music History
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1989-10-10
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Mister barrio
1992-01-01
Mister barrio
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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Santos Peregrinos
2004-11-26
Santos Peregrinos
Overview: When greed comes calling, say goodbye to saintliness. An irresistible comedy about what happens when the residents of a Mexico City apartment building discover that three religious figurines passed down through the decades from Emiliano Zapata are full of solid gold. Tempers fly, libidos flare and no one emerges unscathed, including viewers overcome by a heavenly dose of hilarity in Santos Peregrinos.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2004-11-26
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Desires
1977-01-01
Desires
Overview: Snippets of a family drama involving a rebellious son coming to his depressing home village, his father, and a jaded ex-lover, mixed with various surrealist scenes and statements about sin.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1977-01-01
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The Prophet Mimi
1973-12-27
The Prophet Mimi
Overview: Childhood trauma and religious repression causes little boy to grow up and murder .
Genres: Drama Thriller Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1973-12-27
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Días de Combate
1982-09-30
Días de Combate
Overview: A private detective starts a game of cat and mouse with a psychopath who strangles women who leaves messages on the bodies of his victims.
Genres: Crime Thriller Mystery
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1982-09-30
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Las delicias del poder
1999-01-01
Las delicias del poder
Overview: A political candidate has an accident that will bring her out of the campaign unless her twin sister may be able to supplant her while she recovers.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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Alta Tensión
1997-06-06
Alta Tensión
Overview: A retired man that used to work for the National Electricity Company fight with his sons who want to get his money.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1997-06-06
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Teo's Journey
2008-10-10
Teo's Journey
Overview: Separated from his father after illegally crossing the Mexico-U.S. border, young Teo and his new friend, Chuy, set off on a dangerous quest across the desert to find his dad in this touching tale of courage, adventure and friendship.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2008-10-10
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A Married Woman
1982-01-28
A Married Woman
Overview: Irene is a young housewife and mother who tries to raise her young family, love her husband and keep her home all the while studying her masters' degree. Mario, her husband, is a good man, but he's tied by convention. When she has a strange mishap one day, her domestic life is catapulted in a whirl of horror and violence that will tear the fabric of her very existence apart.
Genres: Thriller Drama Mystery
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1982-01-28
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Cosa fácil
1982-12-09
Cosa fácil
Overview: This is a story of revenge, as detective Shayne's own clients sabotage his actions, and leave him blind in one eye. The cases then become personal and Shayne vows to destroy the guilty.
Genres: Thriller Action Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1982-12-09
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Rattlesnake
1977-09-01
Rattlesnake
Overview: A filmmaker is commissioned to film a documentary on the social reality of the Lacandon people in the state of Chiapas. As he enters the harsh living conditions of this indigenous community, his social conscience forces him to confront his superiors, who threaten to destroy his material.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1977-09-01
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Canoa: A Shameful Memory
1976-03-04
Canoa: A Shameful Memory
Overview: A group of students arrives in a small town during a hiking expedition. Once there, the local priest accuses them of being communist agitators on the run from an army crack-down against student demonstrations in nearby Mexico City and rallies the townsfolk to lynch them. Based on a true story.
Genres: History Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1976-03-04
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All Souls' Day
1988-10-27
All Souls' Day
Overview: Two families gather at a cemetery to honor their departed.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1988-10-27
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La sangre de un valiente
1993-05-21
La sangre de un valiente
Overview: General Pershing invades Mexican territory in retaliation for Villa's attack on the town of Columbus.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-05-21
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El águila descalza
1971-12-08
El águila descalza
Overview: Shmuck makes a superhero costume, rides his bike to crime scenes. He gets involved with something big involving US capitalists taking over local Mexican businesses.
Genres: Drama Comedy Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1971-12-08
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Cayó de la gloria el diablo
1972-05-11
Cayó de la gloria el diablo
Overview: Subsistence-economy slum guy who sells used newsprint for a living breaks into showbiz with an inadvertantly-comical fire-eater act. The novelty of him wears off very quickly, and then...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-05-11
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Uno y medio contra el mundo
1973-11-01
Uno y medio contra el mundo
Overview: Small-time crook teams up with a street urchin for mutual support on the margins of society.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1973-11-01
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Crazy Carnival
2006-03-04
Crazy Carnival
Overview: In a seedy brothel, their frustrations parade: A poet who has never published, a revolutionary who came late to history, a provocative angel, a bureaucrat with delusions of a dancer, a greedy Chinese man and his timorous wife, Monica, a prostitute with low professional esteem, a group of prostitutes of dubious sensuality and, finally, a priest with a stench of holiness and another with redeeming instincts. But a stranger with the air of a princess appears, and upsets the balance of the establishment.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2006-03-04
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La revancha
1985-02-21
La revancha
Overview: Industrial spies are holed up in a safe-house after killing a half-dozen people to steal some data. On their way to the private airfield where their handlers are waiting to extract them, they run afoul of a small-town wedding. Unfortunately, it's the wedding of the town's chief of police.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-02-21
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El complot mongol
1977-03-28
El complot mongol
Overview: In the context of a visit by the President of the United States to Mexico, there is a threat that China will attack his life. Policeman Filiberto is commissioned to avoid it, at any cost. His searches in the Chinatown will lead him to endanger his life, while he will find love in the young Marta.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1977-03-28
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The Coming of the King Olmos
1975-09-11
The Coming of the King Olmos
Overview: After spending some time with the Mennonite community in Chihuahua, Reynaldo Olmos goes back to Mexico City and establishes a ministry in the poorest of poor neighborhoods. Is he sincere, or is this a scam?
Genres: Thriller Adventure Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1975-09-11
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Nosotros los pelados
1984-06-14
Nosotros los pelados
Overview: Slice-of-life comedy/melodrama aout life in a working-class neighborhood.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1984-06-14
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The Gates of Paradise
1971-06-19
The Gates of Paradise
Overview: Due to betting problems, Andrés and his lover, Blanca, flee the city and travel through several states of the country; During their journey they get involved with a couple of hippies with whom they live for a time until the tragedy is complete.
Genres: Drama Action Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1971-06-19
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Maten al León
1977-01-27
Maten al León
Overview: A pilot is called back to his homeland, the Latin American republic of Arepa, by the rich islanders to participate in a complot to kill the dictator known as El León (The Lion).
Genres: Drama Adventure Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1977-01-27
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There's Always a First Time
1971-02-25
There's Always a First Time
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1971-02-25
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Los gemelos alborotados
1982-03-04
Los gemelos alborotados
Overview: Gumaro and his buddy Chon are among the First Citizens locally. One day, unexpectedly, twin brothers of both of them turn up in town. Adaptation of A Comedy Of Errors.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-03-04
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Long live Tepito!
1981-01-15
Long live Tepito!
Overview: Slice of life covering four or five days in a badly run-down neighborhood. Matriarch of a slum family dies unexpectedly; relatives from neighboring blocks cope with the loss and arrange her funeral.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1981-01-15
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Peregrina
1974-07-04
Peregrina
Overview: Biopic: the last year or so in the life of Felipe Carrillo Puerto, Governor of Yucatan in the early 1920s.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-07-04
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Trampas de amor
1969-06-22
Trampas de amor
Overview: Love, infidelity and desire are the protagonists of three stories full of entanglements and romance.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1969-06-22
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Viaje al paraíso
1985-09-08
Viaje al paraíso
Overview: Family plans for a quiet weekend at the beach, but everything goes wrong.
Genres: Crime Drama Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1985-09-08
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Zone of Silence
1990-01-01
Zone of Silence
Overview: Several fantastic stories occur in the Mexican "Zone of Silence." It begins in the 1920s when a man steals a train and then flees to enter the present. Another man finds a colonizer guarded by a ghost treasure, two girls are attacked by an evil car and finally a man steals money, then he flees to enter the past.
Genres: Mystery Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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Trail of Death
1981-11-29
Trail of Death
Overview: Thriller directed by Arturo Ripstein.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1981-11-29
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Satanic Sect: Messenger of the Lord
1990-01-01
Satanic Sect: Messenger of the Lord
Overview: A satanic preacher comes to a small town where he unleashed the terror of the inhabitants.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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The Throne of Hell
1994-01-17
The Throne of Hell
Overview: A group of archeologists excavating Aztec ruins in Mexico City uncover a bizarre statue, which unleashes satanic powers and possesses the chief archaeologist. The demonized man goes on a rampage of bloody murders while being pursued by one of his female colleagues and a police officer. Horribly burned in an explosion, he still continues his ungodly crimes, including crucifying a woman upside down. A bishop sends for a mystic called “The Angel”, a character who dresses in medieval clothing and is armed with a demon-destroying sword. The possessed archeologist transforms into a club-wielding monster and challenges The Angel in a duel to the death.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1994-01-17
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Roots of Blood
1979-05-30
Roots of Blood
Overview: A deadly riot breaks out after unfair labor practices at a garment factory raises tensions between Mexican and Chicano workers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1979-05-30
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La muerte de Pancho Villa
1974-05-01
La muerte de Pancho Villa
Overview: After the Revolution, Villa works on defining his legacy... and then he gets assassinated.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1974-05-01
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The Human Hyena
1995-04-21
The Human Hyena
Overview: The dead body of a young man who was kidnapped is found, the police looks for the kidnappers as a web of corruption its uncovered in the police department.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-04-21
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La Generala
1971-01-01
La Generala
Overview: During the Mexican Revolution, a hardened and rich lady landowner is overtaken by the violence of the times. Losing her land and house, she falls in love with a revolutionary leader that is killed by a sadistic and corrupt federal officer. She takes the revolutionary flag and leads a rampage of violence and destruction.
Genres: Action Crime Drama Romance Thriller War Western
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1971-01-01
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El guapo
2007-03-17
El guapo
Overview: Unattractive man receives a large inheritance on condition that he use the money to get plastic surgery and create a better life for himself.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2007-03-17
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Los Cacos
1972-12-28
Los Cacos
Overview: A group of Soccer-loving friends devise a plan to make easy money.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1972-12-28
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Las caguamas ninja
1991-01-01
Las caguamas ninja
Overview: A group of workers at a beer factory fight crime together.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1991-01-01
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El Quelite
1970-12-10
El Quelite
Overview: Agapito, leader of the revolutionary movement of his state, comes to a town, kills all the federales, and gets a girl who was promised to him for his heroic deeds.
Genres: Comedy Drama War
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1970-12-10
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La guerra es un buen negocio
1982-07-17
La guerra es un buen negocio
Overview: Comatose little village gets rich overnight selling minerals to arms manufacturers.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1982-07-17
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En la cuerda del hambre
1979-12-25
En la cuerda del hambre
Overview: Owners of two small farms try to move forward in life by wholesaling their own produce instead of relying on dishonest brokerages. When that doesn't work, they hatch a kidnapping scheme, and the movie shifts its focus to the rich people who have been profiting off their poverty.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1979-12-25
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The One Who Came from Heaven
1975-03-06
The One Who Came from Heaven
Overview: People's hero is Anapu... He extracts the water from a rock, befriends, and baptize and get it to Mary Magdalene, konsolerar the oppressed, makes peace with the warring brothers, raises the dead, licking men and women clean. In between, he makes a lot of soul searching as he wanders through the village, mingling with the various common folk and natives, and discuss their problems, future hazards and their lack of unity, the locals often break out of ethnic song and dance. While tracking a fascist military and his girlfriend to him..
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1975-03-06
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Una papa sin catsup
1995-07-06
Una papa sin catsup
Overview: Gloria's grandmother is kidnapped by "La greñas", a gang leader, and is forced to impersonate her to save her grandmother's life.
Genres: Music Action Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1995-07-06
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The Eve
1982-10-07
The Eve
Overview: Aging politicians who have faded from the public eye hold a cocktail party to celebrate one friend's appointment to the President's Cabinet. Illusions are indulged, illusions are shattered.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1982-10-07
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Cómo Filmar Una XXX
2017-11-29
Cómo Filmar Una XXX
Overview: Ulises Alpuyeca, a film initiate, wants to make his debut feature and he accepts the first opportunity offered to him to direct a film, without knowing that it is foing to be a porn movie. Gudelio Medina, photographer and Ulysses's old mate, convinces him to do it. All participants in the film, start, unaware of the main porn star gender, making room for hilarious entanglements, but once committed to the project they must discover how to shoot a porn movie and in the process, just maybe, discover love.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2017-11-29
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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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The Recourse to the Method
1978-06-06
The Recourse to the Method
Overview: Set in the early 1900s, this film charts the rule of a Latin American dictator as he moves from being a charming despot to a tyrannical ruler before he is finally ousted, only to die in obscurity in Paris. Early in his regime, the resources and agricultural products his country sells command high prices, and he is a reasonably confident, even gentle, ruler who likes to take long vacations with his daughter in Paris. After World War I, with falling prices and a number of coup attempts behind him, his rule becomes quite cruel.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1978-06-06
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Highway Patrolman
1991-12-28
Highway Patrolman
Overview: A naïve rookie in the Mexican highway patrol must adapt in order to survive as he contends with widespread corruption, dangerous drug runners and the consequences of his often morally gray actions.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1991-12-28
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Mundo mágico
1983-12-29
Mundo mágico
Overview: Anthology movie that presents 3 stories about romance.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1983-12-29
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Una buena forma de morir
1994-11-11
Una buena forma de morir
Overview: After his wife is murdered by gang members, a man must take revenge.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1994-11-11
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Mexico, Mexico, ra, ra, ra!
1976-02-04
Mexico, Mexico, ra, ra, ra!
Overview: Librado, an unemployed man, lives in a crowded small house with numerous children and relatives, is beaten for stealing a car antenna. His godmother and her children try to settle in his place. She then is arrested at a supermarket for stealing, however, she offers herself and volunteers a friend of hers for sex to the policemen so she can be released. She is a maid of an employee who acts subservient to his boss, a mid-level government employee at once servile who delivers speeches on sexuality in educational texts and then discusses the matter with his brother, a corrupt inspector.
Genres: Crime Drama Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1976-02-04
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Lost Objects
1992-07-11
Lost Objects
Overview: Juan and Pilar return to Mexico City on the same train. Destiny cross their paths in a taxi stop, off the train station. A cab arrives and they take each other's baggage by mistake. After that, they spend two days looking for each other, trying to recover their stuff. In the meantime, Juan reads Pilar's diary and she listens to his thoughts recorded on tape. Love begins to grow between these two proper strangers.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1992-07-11
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Sin salida
1971-09-16
Sin salida
Overview: Ex-con trying to go straight is backed into a corner by "former associates."
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1971-09-16
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Violent Stories
1985-08-29
Violent Stories
Overview: Five surreal short stories make up this Mexican anthology film.
Genres: Action Crime Drama Horror Thriller Science Fiction
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1985-08-29
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The Mexican
2001-03-01
The Mexican
Overview: Jerry Welbach, a reluctant bagman, has been given two ultimatums: The first is from his mob boss to travel to Mexico and retrieve a priceless antique pistol, known as "the Mexican"... or suffer the consequences. The second is from his girlfriend Samantha to end his association with the mob. Jerry figures alive and in trouble with Samantha is better than the more permanent alternative, so he heads south of the border.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-03-01
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Tiempo de lobos
1985-01-03
Tiempo de lobos
Overview: Two young emigres return home from USA to their family farm to visit for a week.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1985-01-03
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Dos pistoleros violentos
1985-08-30
Dos pistoleros violentos
Overview: Two little boys grow up and go after the two blackhats that killed their parents.
Genres: Western
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1985-08-30
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Figuras de la Pasión
1984-01-01
Figuras de la Pasión
Overview: This fairy type of movie is divided in episodes (Figuras) that are settle either on a jail or an play, in this surrealistic film we are immerse in a Dogville type of stage were the combination of Poetry, testaments and political discourse of the mix of characters of the daily basis and religious figures such as Judas, the virgin, the labor workers, homosexuals, drag queens. Ironically 'Figuras de la passion' has been banned for several years as a product of the attack and angriness of right – winged parties and scholars.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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La loteria
1993-01-01
La loteria
Overview: Four stories that tell the tales of lottery winner. Each story features a different cast of street vendors.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-01-01
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El primer paso... de la mujer
1974-05-02
El primer paso... de la mujer
Overview: Three girls from different social classes are forced to take that first step into adulthood that leads them to live fun adventures and also unfortunate events.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1974-05-02
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Crónica de familia
1986-10-07
Crónica de familia
Overview: Esteban and María are a young couple of lovers, both belonging to aristocratic families. When María announces she's moving to London to study, the sullen Esteban decides to follow her, and both opt to steal from their parents to escape and be free, with shocking results.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1986-10-07
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Ya la hicimos
1994-03-04
Ya la hicimos
Overview: Virginia and Nacho, is a poor marriage, living precariously on their meager salaries, insufficient to support his child nine years of age. Until fortune smiles and Nacho wins a late model car. But sometimes it's better that luck will smile.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1994-03-04
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The Overturning Of The Heart
1996-10-18
The Overturning Of The Heart
Overview: 1941, Jose Antelmo Cruz regrets his past while writing a novel and falling in love with a prostitute.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1996-10-18
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They Call Me Violence
1989-01-01
They Call Me Violence
Overview: Female-lead action film.
Genres: Action
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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Sweet Release
1997-01-01
Sweet Release
Overview: The love secrets of a large family are revealed during a trajinera tour on Xochimilco, culminating in a suicide attempt during a jackpot drawing.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1997-01-01
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El valle de los miserables
1975-04-16
El valle de los miserables
Overview:
Genres: Drama Action Adventure Crime Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1975-04-16
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Neighborhood Rats
1988-01-01
Neighborhood Rats
Overview: Mexican feature film
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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La combi asesina
1982-01-01
La combi asesina
Overview: Mexican feature film
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1982-01-01
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Santo: la leyenda del enmascarado de plata
1993-01-01
Santo: la leyenda del enmascarado de plata
Overview:
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1993-01-01
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Those Years
1974-03-21
Those Years
Overview: President Juárez fights against the conservatives, who have ordered an emperor to be brought from France to govern Mexico
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1974-03-21
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Letters from Marusia
1975-12-26
Letters from Marusia
Overview: Chronicle of the repression that a foreign company exerts on the miners of a small nitrate town in Chile, whose workers decide to claim their most essential rights. A reflection of the historic union struggles in the northern Chile that ended with terrible repressive acts.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1975-12-26
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What if we talk about August?
1980-01-01
What if we talk about August?
Overview: It tells the story of two young people who, in the context of the 1968 student movement, awaken to love life and social conscience.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-01-01
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Everyone's Hell so Feared
1981-09-09
Everyone's Hell so Feared
Overview: The inner demons of an aspiring writer, whose dissatisfaction has pushed him to alcohol and drugs, lead him to his self-destruction under the guise of confusing political positions.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1981-09-09
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The Perfect Dictatorship
2014-10-16
The Perfect Dictatorship
Overview: TV MX, the most powerful Mexican Television Corporation, discloses a scandalous story involving Governor Carmelo Vargas in serious crimes and illicit business. Governor Vargas worried about his political future, decides to clean his image and negotiates a billionaire secret agreement with the owners of the TV Corporation. Carlos Rojo, an ambitious young news producer, and Ricardo Diaz, TV network star reporter, are responsible for making a dirty campaign to change the image the public has of the corrupt Governor and make him, at any cost, a political star and a great presidential candidate. Mexican Television believes that democracy is a farce and has already placed one President... Will they do it again?
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2014-10-16
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