Gastón Melo
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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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Para vestir santos
2004-01-01
Para vestir santos
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2004-01-01
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La India
1976-10-26
La India
Overview: Boy is traumatized from watching his sex-worker mother with her clients; he grows up with a particular grudge against that one guy that used to come to see her...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1976-10-26
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The Living Forces
1975-11-20
The Living Forces
Overview: It narrates the phenomenon of the Mexican Revolution, satirically reflected through what happens in a town far from the places where the true Revolution was fiercely fought.
Genres: Action Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1975-11-20
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Sea of Dreams
2006-11-09
Sea of Dreams
Overview: On an island across the sea lies a village full of romance, wonder and mystery; a timeless place where people carry strong beliefs that can fulfill the heart's deepest desires. A beautiful ...
Genres: Drama Fantasy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-11-09
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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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Mezcal
2007-06-15
Mezcal
Overview: A group of beings permeated by the lack of love, guilt, pain and a desire for revenge, meet on the day of a storm at a cantina in the mythical town of Parián, a place where all roads and all destinies converge. There they find consolation for their woes in mezcal and in the distress of the others.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-06-15
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Cinco mil dolares de recompensa
1974-04-18
Cinco mil dolares de recompensa
Overview: A gunfighter is appointed sheriff of a town that is terrorized by a gang of criminals.
Genres: Western Thriller Action
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1974-04-18
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Faith, Hope and Charity
1974-02-14
Faith, Hope and Charity
Overview: Three episodes. Faith: a woman is attacked. Hope: a fakir is crucified. Charity: a woman faces bureaucracy.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1974-02-14
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Un mundo raro
2001-03-09
Un mundo raro
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 2001-03-09
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Once Upon a Scoundrel
1973-01-01
Once Upon a Scoundrel
Overview: After falling for Alicia, greedy and powerful Mexican landowner Carlos has her fiancé thrown in prison on a bogus charge. To trick Carlos into releasing her man, Alicia teams up with her Aunt Delfina and tries to convince Carlos that he's a ghost.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-01-01
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La extinción de los dinosaurios
2015-11-05
La extinción de los dinosaurios
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2015-11-05
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Deep Crimson
1996-09-09
Deep Crimson
Overview: Driven by desire and desperate for self-love, Coral and Nicolás will abandon their past lives in a journey surrounded by murder.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1996-09-09
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Castle Chronicle
2014-05-30
Castle Chronicle
Overview: Dramatized series that shows a mosaic of stories, which run in parallel and sometimes intertwine, around Tepito and its identity as a neighborhood, revealing the social prejudices that manifest themselves in classism and racism, as part of a historical reality in Mexico.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2014-05-30
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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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Time without Pulse
2016-10-22
Time without Pulse
Overview: Bruno, 19 years old, has not begun his sexual life. He feels guilty about his brother's death and one of his exgirlfriends, who happens to be his first love, is back in town to help him out.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2016-10-22
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El ministro y yo
1976-07-01
El ministro y yo
Overview: Mateo Melgarejo is a notary public and scribe for the illiterate people of Santo Domingo, a neighborhood north of Mexico City's Zócalo. A squatter friend asks for his help in negotiating with the land census bureau to regularize a land title. After a great deal of frustration with the government bureaucracy, he writes a letter to the cabinet minister, earning an audience with him. The minister hires Melgarejo to reform the bureau, and the appointee proceeds to lecture the officials on their duties in a democratic society. At the end, he gives up the post, returning to Santo Domingo to help its poor residents.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1976-07-01
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The Edge of the Earth
1995-05-31
The Edge of the Earth
Overview: In a small town where nothing ever happens, the inhabitants learn about a place at the edge of the earth where money and women are abundant. When they see the oportunity to go and work illegaly in the United States, they jump at the chance. Meanwhile Andrés and Gregorio go to the town searching for treasures and they only find Matilde, the rest of the women in the town left, tired of waiting for the men to return.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1995-05-31
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Feral
2021-07-02
Feral
Overview: The mountains of Oaxaca harbor the remains of a ravaged and burnt shelter, once home to a psychoanalyst priest who used it to look after savage children, trying to re-integrate them into society. Through videotape diaries and interviews, the truth of what happened is shockingly revealed.
Genres: Horror Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2021-07-02
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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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Do You Hear the Dogs Barking?
1975-09-25
Do You Hear the Dogs Barking?
Overview: Carrying his son on his back, a man travels from place to place looking for a doctor to treat the sick boy. As they journey, the indio father tells the boy stories to keep him distracted. These stories reveal the life of native peoples in Mexico, both in the countryside and in cities, and they shed light on characteristic beliefs and rituals.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1975-09-25
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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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Actors, Inc.
2013-11-15
Actors, Inc.
Overview: Thomas is a young actor, the adopted son of Don Antonio, director and founder of the theatrical company to witch he belongs and where he presents his plays. When Don Antonio dies, Thomas is in the need to reestablish his artistic abilities and of the company to save the theater of falling in the hands of the very ambitious Mauro, nephew of Don Antonio who wants to tare it down in order to build a gymnasium. He sets up a web site where he offeres his services as an actor to anyone who needs them outside of the stage. Under those circumstances, Thomas knows Rebeca, mother of Lucia, who hires him to have Lucia fall in love in order to be able to collect an inherence.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2013-11-15
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