Carlos Orellana
Also Known As: Carlos Orellana Martínez
Biography: Carlos Orellana was born on December 28, 1900 in Santiago Tezontlale, Hidalgo, Mexico as Carlos Orellana Martinez. He was an actor, director and writer.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Santiago Tezontlale, Mexico
Adult: No
Birthday: December 28, 1900
Age: 124 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: January 24, 1960
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Vuelven los García
Overview: Ruled by a tough grandma, the Garcías are three charro cousins who fall in love with young American-born Lupita and fight for her love until grandma quiets them.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1947-08-15
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The Three Garcías
Overview: Ruled by a tough grandma, the Garcías are three charro cousins who fall in love with young American-born Lupita and fight for her love until grandma quiets them.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1947-08-15
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Dos tipos de cuidado
Overview: Jorge Bueno and Pedro Malo are best friends who consider giving up their womanizing ways when they each fall in love. As fate would have it, Pedro Malo unexpectedly marries Jorge Bueno's girlfriend, and the conflict between the former buddies begins.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1953-11-05
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Qué hombre tan simpático
Overview: Amable is the drinking buddy of Paquito, a former medical student who plays Fanny's love, a cabaret singer and also with Conchita, a showgirl. One day, Paquito receives a telegram that his uncle Pancho vayaa asked to see his wife and other medical eminence to heal him his kidney ailment. Among all a hoax to mount Paquino not lose the inheritance from his uncle.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1943-03-19
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Simón Bolívar
Overview: Biopic of the revolutionary Simón Bolívar who fought to end Spanish rule over much of Latin America.
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 1942-01-01
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El Capitan Aventurero
Overview: Don Gil de Alacala (José Mojica), a swashbuckler also known as Captain Adventure, must overcome a series of difficult trials and tribulations in order to save the love of his life, Carmina (Manolita Saval), who is engaged to marry a terrible nobleman. Based upon the libretto "Don Gil de Alcala" by Manuel Penella, this classic black-and-white romance also stars Margarita Mora, Carlos Orellana and Sara García.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-10-07
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No te engañes corazón
Overview: No te engañes corazón (released in English as Don't Fool Yourself Dear) is the first full-feature film of Cantinflas after becoming a star of the carpa circuit (folk theater). It was also one of the earliest films of Sara García and Carlos Orellana and the first where they share the screen. Don Boni (Orellana) is diagnosed with a deadly disease and decides to spend his last days doing good deeds. He leaves his wife and decides to help people. He then gets drunk and wakes up with a winning lottery ticket and realizes that the doctor who diagnosed him has been sent to prison for fraud.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1937-05-19
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Calumnia
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 1939-01-01
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En un burro tres baturros
Overview: Three Spaniards emigrate to Mexico and become prosperous landowners.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1939-11-11
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Amor Prohibido
Overview: Family life of a widowed father with four teenaged and young-adult children.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-11-19
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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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Cinco minutos de amor
Overview: Bedroom farce, with three men claiming the same woman as their mistress.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1941-12-11
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La barca de oro
Overview: Ranch-heiress chooses a husband.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1947-08-13
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Santa
Overview: Santa is a beautiful and very humble young girl living in Chimalistac, a small and quiet spot south of the 1930's Mexico City. After Santa is cheated by arrogant soldier Marcelino, she's rejected by her family and friends and expelled of Chimalistac. Santa finds shelter in a whorehouse and becomes a cinic and bitter woman, mistreated by bullfighter "Jarameno" and silently loved by blind pianist Hipólito.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1932-03-30
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Escuadrón 201
Overview: Personal stories of a handful of Air Force recruits.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-11-30
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La Fuga
Overview: A stagecoach full of conflictive passengers makes its dangerours way from Mexico to Veracruz during the days of the French Intervention.
Genres: War Adventure Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1944-07-04
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Anacleto Gets Divorced
Overview: Anacleto and Baldomira are a couple who have problems because of gossip from their compadre who wants Baldomira. The marriage is separated for a short time because they realize that they love each other.
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 1950-09-07
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Miente y serás feliz
Overview: A Spanish, Juan, is obsessed with telling the truth always. As a result he is consistently in the middle of troubles...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1940-05-31
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When Children Sin
Overview: Bad girl makes lives miserable.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1952-11-20
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The Crying Woman
Overview: Llorona is a figure unique to Mexican folklore -- the wailing spirit of a woman who lost or killed her child and now returns to seek revenge and haunt the living. With its framing story and flashback structure, this film sets forth a couple of variations of the story.
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1933-03-31
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Café de chinos
Overview: Naive Chinese immigrant has feelings for a young woman of loose morals whom he hires at his restaurant.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-09-02
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¡Acá las Tortas!
Overview: College students, ready to start entering adult society, are ashamed of their working-class backgrounds.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-10-12
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From the Village to TV
Overview: A young man goes to the capital to prove himself as an opera singer, after being rejected he must find other means to achieve fame
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1953-01-22
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Storm in the souls
Overview: Lives in a "model factory," designed to create a progressive community among the workers.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-06-24
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Cupido pierde a Paquita
Overview: Rich family's maid thinks that maybe if she plays her cards right, she can land a moneybags husband. There's also a really cute auto mechanic, though, and...
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-10-19
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Las medias de seda
Overview: Vineyard worker is happy when her long-estranged artist brother comes to visit her. But then...
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-11-02
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Beneath the Sky of Mexico
Overview: Romantic triangle. One of the guys is a very bad man.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-10-22
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Dos corazones y un cielo
Overview: The marriage of a husb-and-wife singing duo hits the rock, brother-in-law tries to restore family harmony.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1959-10-27
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La paloma
Overview: Dazzled by the Empress Carlotta's graciousness, magnanimity and charm, a young officer in the Mexican army switches his allegiance to the Imperial government with Maximilian as figurehead. Bad move, space cadet.
Genres: War Drama History
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1937-08-20
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Damned City!
Overview: A humble provincial writer who wants to publish his first book offers it to a film producer who is looking for locations for a film at that time. The novelist's family then moves to the big city, where they will have to face many adversities that will make them wish they had never left their village.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1954-02-28
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Los paquetes de Paquita
Overview: Maid tries to smooth over the difficulties in her employers' marriage while juggling five or six potential boyfriends of her own.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1955-02-04
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Pobre diablo
Overview: An elderly homeless dude lucks into a situation where a young woman's uncle and her boyfriend ask him to impersonate her long-lost father and give her some nurturing parent attention.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1940-04-24
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Hooray for Women!
Overview: Movie in which funny situations based on the entanglements caused by a woman named Felicidad to her family because of her feminist ideology are presented, to the extent of bringing her daughters and herself to a divorce trial.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1943-07-09
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Un principe de la iglesia
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 1952-01-01
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El cardenal
Overview: Mexican feature film
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-12-31
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The Sign of Death
Overview: Two journalists, Carlos and Lola, investigate the murder of a young woman whose body appeared with her heart torn out, in what seems to be a human sacrifice. The investigation leads the reporters to a museum, whose director is the famous Doctor Gallardo.
Genres: Comedy Horror Mystery
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1939-12-23
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Castle of the Monsters
Overview: A couple are forced to stay in a scary castle, and the castle is filled with monsters!
Genres: Science Fiction Fantasy Horror Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1958-10-16
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Juarez and Maximilian
Overview: The story of Mexican President Benito Juárez and the emperor Maximilian of Habsburg and the empress Carlota.
Genres: History War Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1934-06-28
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Tizoc
Overview: An Indian arouses envy for his expertise in hunting animals without ruining their skins, for his wisdom and his kindness.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1957-10-23
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Secreto Eterno
Overview: The Story of a Woman's Redemption
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1942-03-16
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Pepita Jimenez
Overview: On March 22, four days after returning to his home in Andalusia, Luis de Vargas writes the first of his letters to his uncle and favorite professor at the seminary. He reports that his father intends to fatten him up during his vacation, to have him ready to return in the fall to finish his training for the priesthood. He mentions in passing that his father is courting a twenty-year-old, attractive widow, Pepita Jiménez; his father is fifty-five years old. Pepita had been married for only a short time to an eighty-year-old moneylender named Gumersindo. Luis is not eager to see his father marry again, but he promises his uncle not to judge Pepita before he knows her.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1946-02-22
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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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La canción del milagro
Overview: A 1940 film directed by Rolando Aguilar.
Genres: Family Drama Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1940-05-10
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Crimen en la alcoba
Overview: A man's on trial for murder; a friend who could prove his innocence chooses not to come forward. An interested detective starts working to discover the how-come of all of that.
Genres: Crime Mystery Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1946-10-16
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Cuando los hijos odian
Overview: Woman and her daughter try to get on with their lives and run their family bakery while dealing with abusive alcoholic husband/father and other family problems.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1950-02-09
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It Happened in Havana
Overview: Wicked man seduces an innocent country girl into a life of degradation and nightclubs.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1938-12-05
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La casa de la zorra
Overview: The owner of an illegal gambling casino witnesses all the problems in the life of her dissolute son and finally acts in a way that'll help him rehabilitate himself.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1945-12-06
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La calle de los amores
Overview: Hubby latches onto a series of side-pieces and wifey finds it increasingly hard to put up with his behavior.
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 1954-08-18
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Romance de fieras
Overview: Newly-graduated lawyer gets caught up in the personal drama surrounding a rich industrialist and his sociopathic son.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1954-06-24
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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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Tú y las nubes
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Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1955-12-01
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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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