Crox Alvarado
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: San José, Costa Rica
Birthday: May 03, 1910
Deathday: January 30, 1984
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Diabolical Kidnapping
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Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1957-01-01
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Los chacales
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Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1963-01-01
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The Robot vs. The Aztec Mummy
Overview: A mad doctor builds a robot in order to steal a valuable Aztec treasure from a tomb guarded by a centuries old living mummy.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1958-07-17
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Naná
Overview: Based in the Émile Zola novel of the same name, which details the life of Nana, a French prostitute of the 19th century.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1944-06-02
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La corona de un campeon
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1974-01-01
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Yo maté a Rosita Alvírez
Overview: Based on the famous corrido, this film tells the story of Rosa, a young coquette who comes to town only to face two men, Hipolito and Marcos, who fight for her affection. Rosa plays with the feelings of both without realizing that this can end in tragedy for her and for the men. In the village dance passions are unleashed when Hipolito finds Rosa flirting with another man, to make him jealous
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-04-17
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Juan Colorado
Overview: Silvia's father wants to marry her off to Rafael who, out of jealousy, wants to finish off Juan. Silvia dresses up as Juan to save his skin.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1966-08-16
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La Lucha Invade el Cine Mexicano
Overview: Lucha libre is part of Mexican culture, but how did something that was shown in circuses and fairs become a cinematic genre? Join us to learn about this trajectory.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2024-03-28
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The Witches Attack
Overview: Santo must battle an evil witch and the demons and evil spirits she brings up from Hell.
Genres: Horror Fantasy Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1968-02-23
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The Body Snatcher
Overview: A detective and his cowboy friend team up to stop a mad scientist who is stealing the bodies of murdered wrestlers, and bringing them back to life while electronically replacing their minds with those of animals to make them stronger and live longer. Posing as a successful masked wrestler, the cowboy quickly attracts the attention of the scientist and his henchmen as their next experimental subject...
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1957-09-26
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El Cementerio De Las Aguilas
Overview: When the U.S. invasion and the landing of troops in 1847 begins, the former cadet Miguel de la Peña (Jorge Negrete) and his friend Agustin Melgar (Jose Macip) decide to return to the military college and fight heroically in the defense of the Mexican army.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-12-12
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The Magnificent Beast
Overview: The Magnificent Beast (Free Fight) is a 1953 Mexican film. It was directed by Chano Urueta. The first film of the Luchadores genre.
Genres: Action Drama Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1953-05-22
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La sombra blanca
Overview: Mexican feature film
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-01-01
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The Island of the Dinosaurs
Overview: A group of scientists in search of lost Atlantis are plane wrecked on an uncharted island full of stock footage monsters fresh from One Million BC. Occasionally we get an original papier mache monster peaking out from behind an alcove, but for the most part this is typical Mexican filmmaking for the period. With Armond Silvestre and Alma Delia Fuentes.
Genres: Fantasy Science Fiction Adventure
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1967-03-15
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The Aztec Mummy
Overview: A scientist discovers through hypnosis a mummy who watches over the jewels of an Aztec god for all eternity.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1957-11-13
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Caballo A Caballo
Overview: Two con-men end up at a country estate, where they thwart some jewel-thieves.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-06-06
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Tierra De Pasiones
Overview: Romantic melodrama; hero and rich landowner are both after the same woman.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-05-20
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Cortesana
Overview: Young woman breaks up with her fiance to shack up with her sister's husband.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-05-12
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Espuelas de oro
Overview: Adventures on horseback. Plus romances.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-05-15
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Si Adelita se fuera con otro
Overview: Young couple run off to join the Mexican Revolution, in part because she has a crush on Francisco Villa.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1948-04-29
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El desalmado
Overview: Fictional biography of a career criminal.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1950-06-28
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La ley de las pistolas
Overview: Fancy shooting-iron awarded as a prize in a marksmanship competition, passes from hand to hand.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-10-26
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Bala de Plata en el pueblo maldito
Overview: Cowboy hero tries to track down the deed to Pappy's mine.
Genres: Adventure Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-08-17
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El enmascarado de plata
Overview: Mysterious wrestler-dude teams up with a teenaged boy and fights supervillainous criminal gang.
Genres: Action Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-04-14
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Ambitious
Overview: Young actress advances her career by choosing boyfriends judiciously.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1953-02-26
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The Bat Woman
Overview: When a mad scientist begins kidnapping wrestlers and extracting their spinal fluid to create a race of Gill Men, two cops call in Batwoman to investigate. But when her mission leaves the scientist horrifically scarred, he seeks revenge.
Genres: Adventure Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1968-03-28
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The Curse of the Aztec Mummy
Overview: The evil Dr. Krupp, once again trying to get possession of the Aztec princess Xochitl's jewels, hypnotizes her current reincarnation, Flor, to get her to reveal the jewels' location - Xochitl's tomb. Confusion reigns as Krupp and his thugs are opposed by Flor's lover, Dr. Almada, his assistant, and wrestling superhero, El Angel. Krupp finally meets his match, however, when he comes up against Popoca, the warrior mummy who guards Xochitl's tomb.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1957-12-11
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The Specter's Road
Overview: A group of people, including Capulina and Viruta, head towards the city by train. A heavy storm interrupts their journey and now they must take a haunted path to reach they city. (English Subtitled)
Genres: Comedy Horror Mystery
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1967-12-28
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The Skulls of Terror Return
Overview: A group of friends form a masked gang nicknamed 'The Skulls of Terror' and confront a local political boss. Originally produced as a six-hour collection of serial chapters (1943), then edited down (1944) into a 3-hour feature... then re-released (1950s?) as two 90-minute features. The first one seems to have disappeared, this is the second one.
Genres: Western Horror Mystery Adventure
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1944-09-17
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Herencia trágica
Overview: Masked horseman avenges the deaths of family members and resolves questions about a contested inheritance. One of four in a series ("Relampago").
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-06-02
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La muerte en el desfiladero
Overview: Masked horseman avenges the deaths of family members and resolves questions about a contested inheritance. One of four in a series ("Relampago").
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-04-05
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El jinete negro
Overview: Masked horseman avenges the deaths of family members and resolves questions about a contested inheritance. One of four in a series ("Relampago").
Genres: Adventure Drama Western
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1958-11-22
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The Mark of Satan
Overview: Cowboy avenger vs the supernatural.
Genres: Mystery Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1957-12-12
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El Bronco Reynosa
Overview: Star of cowboy-movies returns to his home and locals expect him to be heroic like he is onscreen.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1961-08-24
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Juan Pistolas
Overview: Picaresque adventures of two small-time crooks, ligging around on the periphery of the Mexican revolution.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Drama Western
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1966-10-13
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El tigre de Guanajuato: Leyenda de venganza
Overview: Man tracks down the five people responsible for killing his father. Semi-sorta sequel to Juan Sin Miedo (1964).
Genres: Western
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1965-08-12
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Los alegres Aguilares
Overview: Identical cousins with mismatched Odd Couple personalities.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-06-15
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El asaltacaminos
Overview: Young man puts on the Black Mask Of Vengeance to solve some tangled legal problems concerning a contested inheritance and several murdered family members. It took him four feature-length movies to do it. (Series: "El Relampago.")
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-10-26
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Duelo en El Dorado
Overview: Saloon-owner's a hard guy and none too law-abiding; his twelve year old son comes to live with him and he starts changing his ways... but his past is likely to catch up with him.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-07-17
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El rifle implacable
Overview: Two young women need a hired gun to protect their ranch from marauders; the feistier of the two arranges for a gunman who has the right stuff to be busted out of jail so he can work for them.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1965-05-20
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Duelo indio
Overview: A cabal of bad-hats is conspiring to dispossess the local Indians of their hereditary lands, but Pancho fights to defend them... while a messenger is securing copies of some needed legal documents. Etc. Second film of four in the series "Pancho Pistolas."
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-05-12
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El caudillo
Overview: Bad-hat townsfolk want to dispossess local Indians of their tribal lands; priestess and white ally fight back. One of four in a series.
Genres: Adventure Drama Western
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1957-07-10
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Rosa de las nieves
Overview: Mexican movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-01-01
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The Devil Is a Woman
Overview: A woman, after committing a murder, flees into a church, confessing her life story to a priest.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1950-01-28
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The Midnight Ghost
Overview: A young orphan girl begins to witness strange phenomena in the house where she lives with her godparents.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1940-06-06
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The She-Wolf
Overview: A wealthy, young Mexican woman is under a werewolf's curse.
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1965-07-01
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Face of the Screaming Werewolf
Overview: Experimenting in hypnotic regression to past lives, Dr. Edmund Redding of the Cowan Institute in Pasadena has discovered that Ann Taylor is a reincarnated Aztec woman. Via her recovered memories, she is able to lead Redding and his associates to a hidden chamber in the Great Pyramid of Yucatan, where they hope to find the lost treasure of the Aztecs. Instead, they find two mummified bodies - one of a modern man, quite dead, and the other of an ancient Aztec, quite alive. They are able to return safely to Pasadena with both finds, but a rival professor, Janney, kills Redding and steals the body of the modern man-mummy. This he subjects to a resurrection experiment, which works - only the mummy proves to be a werewolf. Two supernatural menaces roam the city that night. This film is composed of footage from two unrelated Mexican horror movies, LA CASA DEL TERROR and LA MOMIA AZTECA, plus new footage shot in the U.S. by Jerry Warren.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-01-01
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El hijo del charro negro
Overview: The son of a famous vigilante returns to his home town... but he's all citified and pantywaisted. Or is he?
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-10-01
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The Headless Rider
Overview: A mute phantom hero takes on skull-masked killers, a disembodied living hand and a corpse that won't stay in its grave. This is the first in a trilogy of horror/western hybrids that also includes the films La marca de Satanás ("The Mark of Satan") and La cabeza de Pancho Villa ("The Head of Pancho Villa").
Genres: Mystery Western Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1957-09-18
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El sargento Capulina
Overview: Bank janitor has comical misadventures and ends up training in a Police Academy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1983-01-26
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El tigre de Santa Julia
Overview: Band of ex-soldiers embark on a life of crime; their leader, meanwhile, wants to track down the man who murdered his parents.
Genres: History
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1974-01-23
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Borrasca humana
Overview: A 1940 film directed by José Bohr.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1940-08-02
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Horizontes de sangre
Overview: Bad Comanches persuade good Apaches to go on the warpath.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1962-10-25
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Miracle Roses
Overview: Before the Spanish Conquest, an Aztec princess does the Romeo and Juliet thing with the Prince of a neighboring tribe. Sixty years later, a colonized subject has visions of the Virgin Mary.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1960-08-18
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The Net
Overview: Antonio dives for sponges which are sold by his sweetheart Rossana. One day, the escaped prisoner José-Luis appears and is hid by his friend Antonio. Although José-Luis does not want to betray his friend, a love affair with tragic consequences between him and Rossana develops. The Net was one of Mexico's entries at the 1953 Cannes Film Festival.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1953-06-08
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Los tigres del ring
Overview: Crooked promoter has a secret weapon who goes around beating fighters to death after their matches if they aren't in line with his rigging schedule. Part one of two.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1960-03-30
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Santo vs. Capulina
Overview: Calpuina is a night-watchman in a wharehouse, a perfect job for him. When some thieves break in and steal some crates, El Santo is after them because they are using the wharehouse for diamond smuggling. Capulina hinders their capture. Then he decides that he will put on a wrestler's mask and help El Santo to caputre the crooks.
Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1969-12-04
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Canción del alma
Overview: Jose and Esperanza got married just before the Revolution blew up, and they got separated in the chaos, each assuming the other was dead. Six or eight years later...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1938-02-07
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La malagueña
Overview: Traveling salesman falls for shopkeeper's daughter in one of the towns on his route. Bad news: she already has two suitors among the local fellers.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1947-09-24
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In the Flesh
Overview: A beautiful cabaret dancer falls in love with a sailor who promises to return and marry her. Trouble ensues.
Genres: Drama Romance Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-02-24
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The Skulls of Terror
Overview: Feature-length version of a serial, originally in twelve chapters. Three-hour runtime, later re-edited into two 90 minute features called Las Calaveras Del Terror and Vuelven Las Calaveras Del Terror. Good guys vs bad guys for possession of a map showing the location of a lost mine.
Genres: Western Horror Mystery Adventure
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1944-09-17
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Una rosa sobre el ring
Overview: After killing an opponent in a freak wrestling accident, El Enmascarado Negro has a midlife crisis and considers retiring from show business.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1973-08-09
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Enterrado vivo
Overview: Final four episodes of Pancho Pistolas serial, reedited into feature format. PP finally thwarts the Four Bad Brothers in their plan to take over the lands belonging to local indigenous tribe and in getting that territory restored to tribal governance.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1961-06-24
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Furias desatadas
Overview: College student enters the pro wrestling circuit, hoping to find out who killed his father. Third of four in a series.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1957-06-26
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Yolanda
Overview: About the Russian dancer Yolanda who arrives in Mexico with her company in 1909. There she falls in love with the young cadet Julio. However, the influential Carlos opposes this love. He wants Yolanda for himself and threatens her with a possible deportation to Siberia if she rejected his romantic advances.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1943-01-14
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El torneo de la muerte
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 1960-12-08
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Attack of the Mayan Mummy
Overview: A scientist hypnotically regresses a woman to a previous life, a Mayan princess, who leads him to a secret tomb where the princess was buried - and the mummy of an ancient warrior, cursed to live after death and guard the treasure buried with her. Edited by Jerry Warren from the Mexican horror film LA MOMIA AZTECA, and following its general plot but with 36 minutes of new, American-made footage added and English narration in lieu of dubbed dialogue for the Mexican footage.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-01-01
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Reportaje
Overview: Reporters compete for cash prize awarded for biggest scoop on New Year's Eve.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1953-11-13
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Pasiones tormentosas
Overview: In a small tropical town, two sisters fight over the love of a young man named José. Fabiola is a noble woman but Sandra will do anything to get him, including witchcraft.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1946-09-25
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Jesus of Nazareth
Overview: The biblical story of The Messiah from his baptism through his crucifixion.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1942-03-26
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Tuya en cuerpo y alma
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1945-06-01
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El tiro de gracia
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1961-02-15
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El hotel de los chiflados
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 1939-01-01
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