Also Known As: René Cardona Sr., Рене Кардона, Рене Кардона-старший, Рене Кардона-ст., René Cardona Andre
Biography: René Cardona (October 8, 1905 – April 25, 1988) was a Mexican director, actor, producer, screenwriter, and film editor, who was prominent during part of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema. René Cardona was born in Havana, Cuba, on October 8, 1905, and began medical school in Cuba, but due to the political problems of the island, he and his family moved to New York City in 1926, where he continued his studies. Economic circumstances experienced by his family caused him to leave his studies. He befriended famous actor Rodolfo Valentino and obtained work as an extra in several films, until 1929 when he produced, wrote, directed and starred in the first Spanish-language film made in Hollywood, Sombras habaneras (Havana Shadows). He also had the opportunity to work in various positions in the film industry such as second assistant, technical advisor and first assistant director, and learned film and lighting technique. In 1932, he moved to Mexico, where he debuted as an actor and met Julieta Zacarías, sister of the director Miguel Zacarías, and soon after married her. His wife's support would be central to his career in Mexican cinema, in films Mano a mano (1932) directed by Ramón Peón and Sobre las olas (1932) directed by Zacarías. At this early stage as an actor, Cardona participated in three key Mexican films Marihuana (1936), El baúl macabro (1936) and Allá en el Rancho Grande (1936), which officially inaugurate the golden age of Mexican cinema and made stars of its protagonists: Esther Fernández, Tito Guízar, and Cardona.
Department: Directing
Place of Birth: Havana, Cuba
Birthday: October 09, 1905
Deathday: April 25, 1988
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Gender: Male
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Overview: José Mojica plays a singing vacquero who stops off in la cantina to have muchas cervezas with los muchachos. While José is all beered up, he boasts that he can tame the wild mare -- a horse no man can ride -- owned by local ranchero Don Alvarado (a stolid performance by Carlos Villarias). While he's in the neighbourhood, José also boasts that he can tame the Don's daughter, a Mexican spitfire played by Mona Maris.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-12-26
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Overview: A maid with a checkered past falls in love with the son in the posh household where she works, and gives him a baby.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-09-19
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Overview: This fun comedy presents two masseurs who, by getting a job, dress up as women and thus live comic adventures.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1973-05-03
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Overview: Santo and Mantequilla Nápoles team up to end the curse of La Llorona by getting ahold of a special medallion. Unfortunately, La Llorona escapes in the process.
Genres: Action Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1974-08-29
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Overview: This is the Spanish-language version of Ten Cents a Dance (1931), shot concurrently with a different cast but the same director, Christy Cabanne (as "Wiliam Cabana"), and also Mexican director Eduardo Arozamena.
Genres: Crime Drama Music Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1931-05-08
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Overview: Mexican feature film
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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Overview: During a lull in the Mexican Revolution when Francisco Madero became president and attempted to implement land reforms, two former revolutionaries are pitted against each other for the love of the same woman.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1963-01-01
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 1978-01-01
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Genres: Drama Family History
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1971-12-16
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Overview: An outlaw and a scorned husband both team up to track down and kill the man that wronged them. Along the way, the two men meet a hired gun that loves money just as much as he loves the company of women, so the two men decide to hire him in order to help them on their mission. However, things become complicated when the man they all seek to kill has risen to become a wealthy sheriff with a small army of gunmen at his disposal.
Genres: Action Western Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1974-05-23
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Overview: Directed by René Cardona, and written by René Cardona Jr., «El Pequeño Robin Hood» is a 1975 Adventure/Comedy/Drama/Family film . René Cardona III and Patricia Aspíllaga are starring, alongside René Cardona, Arturo Cobo, Jorge Russek and Alfredo Wally Barrón.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1975-08-07
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 1971-10-09
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-09-07
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Overview: Soledad, a maid born in Argentina, works at a Mexican farm. The son of her employer will deceive her, pretending to marry her and leaving her pregnant. When she finds out that she has been tricked, she runs away from the farm. During her flight she meets a group of artists that'll change her life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-11-28
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Overview: The story is about a fugitive who lives apart from society in a jungle area with the company of his grandson
Genres: Drama Action Adventure
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1973-05-03
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Overview: The love between María Ángela and Fernando is impossible because there's an ancient history of hate between their families. His father killed hers, and other family members have killed each other for years. When María Ángela's grandfather finds she's in love with Fernando, he frames the young man and forces her to marry Manuel. Maria Ángela finds that Manuel doesn't love her and together plan her escape with Fernando. But things go wrong and the lovers find their destiny in The Spirit's Canyon.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1943-02-25
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Overview: 1862. Commodore Sir Francis and inventor Douglas initiated on behalf of the Royal Society of London Geography of a balloon ride under the command of Dr. Ferguson, who plans to cross Africa from east to west. But to accomplish this feat will have to overcome numerous adventures in which their lives are at serious risk.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1975-12-04
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Overview: An evil priestess and her twin sister battle for control of a powerful crystal.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Adventure
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1982-12-17
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Overview: Santo battles a mad scientist reviving the dead
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1971-12-02
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Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1966-04-20
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Overview: Adaptation of Dumas' swashbuckler classic.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1942-04-29
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Overview: Ranchera comedy.
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 1942-10-08
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Overview: Policeman goes undercover to bust drug-smuggling ring.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-06-04
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Overview: Career-biography of a fictional ranchera singer, played by Rosita Quintana.
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 1955-06-04
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Overview: Three boys grow up to be a priest, a military commander and the town mayor.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1941-01-22
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Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1962-11-30
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Overview: Romantic triangle during the Mexican Revolution.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1947-05-26
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Overview: Ranch-heiress chooses a husband.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1947-08-13
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Overview: A tale of intrigue and deceit concerning two young lovers who, despite the fact that their relationship was originally founded on greed, soon discover that their feelings for one and other have grown more genuine than they ever expected.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1948-03-14
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Overview: Mexican feature film
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1959-01-01
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Overview: Sixteenth century swordsmen adventure.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-08-13
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Overview: A prostitute enters a brothel and establishes a rivalry faking love with the old owner.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1985-06-28
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Overview: Three newly unmarried women room together, start a business, share the ups and downs of their love lives
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 1943-12-09
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Overview: A woman with a dubious reputation causes problems in an aristocratic marriage.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-08-25
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Overview: In 1661 Mexico, the Baron Vitelius of Astara is sentenced to be burned alive by the Holy Inquisition of Mexico for witchcraft, necromancy, and other crimes. As he dies, the Baron swears vengeance against the descendants of the Inquisitors. 300 years later, a comet that was passing overhead on the night of the Baron's execution returns to earth, bringing with it the Baron in the form of a horrible, brain-eating monster that terrorizes the Inquisitor's descendants
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1962-11-09
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Overview: After one is arrested - possibly unjustly - for murder, the lives of two brothers spiral out of control.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1979-12-13
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Overview: A crazed scientist tries to keep his terminally ill wife alive by transfusing into her the blood of young women he murders.
Genres: Mystery Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1936-09-04
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Overview: A young French woman travels to South America for a job offer and ends up a prisoner in a slave camp for women by a sadistic gangster.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-09-13
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Overview: Pili and uncle Angel travel to Mexico to see Mili dancing at her debut in a theater in the capital. When Mili finds out the bad economic situation of her uncle, she decides to seek work. Meanwhile, Pili works in a department store and meets Rodolfo, the grandson of Mrs. Caceres, owner of the store, which she takes for the chauffeur of the lady. In turn, Ms. Caceres hires Mili to dance at her party, where she meets and falls for Rodolfo. Rodolfo, who does not know of the existence of a twin sister, is convinced that the girl in the party is Pili. And the sisters do not know they are in love with the same man, which will lead to an unexpected conflict.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1967-07-06
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Overview: Sequel to Alla en el Rancho Grande, twenty years later -- sons and daughters of the original characters go through a courtship melodrama of their own.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-06-25
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Overview: Bumbling detective solves a murder on board a train.
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 1952-09-03
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Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1947-11-06
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Overview: Two poor children swear an oath: one will study, the other will work and support them both. The worker turns to crime...
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1954-11-11
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Overview: Two good friends — the owner and general manager of a ranch — fall in love with the same girl at the same time. The owner tries to 'buy' the girl without knowing she is in love with the manager.
Genres: Comedy Music Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1936-10-07
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Overview: Follows an "unlucky" gun across the paths of five owners.
Genres: Drama Action Adventure Western
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1964-04-02
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Overview: Unassuming elderly gent is installed as Mayor, by a cabal of financiers that expect to use him as a cat's paw.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1940-11-13
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Overview: Husband and wife team of hooded avengers, First of three in series.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-06-01
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Overview: Adventure film about two sisters looking revenge against the man who murdered their father.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-04-26
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Overview: Young gunslinger gets his hero on. #2 in a series ("El Puma.")
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 1959-12-03
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Overview: Prison colony on an island: the staff Doctor has some neuroses he's trying to overcome, and his "weakness" makes him vulnerable to exploitation by a sociopathic prisoner.
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 1969-07-03
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Overview: Western with romance subplot.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-04-20
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Overview: Career-thief hides from the police by joining a convent.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1970-09-03
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Overview: Comic-book adaptation: Tarzan-type in the Mexican outback.
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1970-11-05
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Overview: Cowboy-justice dude has to figure out who the masterminds are behind a string of murders.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-08-31
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Overview: Two charros from Hacienda A come a-courtin' to hacienda B, owned by a friend of their father's. Also a horse-race.
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 1946-01-31
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Overview: Alcoholic hobo drifts across the border and has a series of random adventures.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-01-16
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Overview: Plantation owner is way too much into his peasant girls. It causes problems.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1940-09-11
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Overview: Mexican movie
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 1946-01-01
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Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1954-01-01
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Overview: In the port of Havana, two biracial children, Mateo (Ricardo Román) and Caridad (Ninón Sevilla) grow up together. She is the daughter of a white man who died in a shipwreck and of a black laundress of African origin. Over the years, Mateo falls for Caridad, but she doesn't love him back because she has fallen for a Mexican captain, Martin (Pedro Armendáriz), who she happened to meet at the port. The captain also fell in love with Caridad and proposes that they live together and she accepts. Caridad works in a cabaret in the port and the owner, Guevara (René Cardona), feels an attraction for the girl, and in a moment of jealousy, tries to kill Martin. Martin falls into financial trouble and has to mortgage his boat to Guevara. When Martin returns to Veracruz, Mexico, Guevara feels that he's the new owner of Caridad.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1954-07-16
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Overview: 'Prisión de Mujeres' is a film by Fernando A. Rivero that narrates a harsh reality: the strength of women in a prison, how they lose their dignity and do not stop for anything.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1977-09-15
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Overview: An airplane goes down in the ocean during a storm and a few survivors find refuge on a small tour boat. Swept out to sea, these people slowly starve to death in the hot sun with barely any food or clean water. With no place to turn, the boat survivors resort to cannibalism to stay alive...that is ..until the rescue planes come to pick them up and the man eating sharks decide its time to eat as well.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-07-21
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Overview: A rare and impossible to find Mexican adventure / fantasy / horror.
Genres: Horror Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1964-12-11
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Overview: The love affairs of two couples, modern parents a couple of troubled teens.
Genres: Romance Drama Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1968-10-31
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Overview: The story of a Playboy bachelor who does not know the good that is, until he is married. Slowly, the man discovers that having a woman is not easy, but sometimes ... being faithful recomended. After sympathetic experiences and funny situations, he realizes that there are two uncorrectable errors committed by the man in your life: Being born and married!
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1967-03-22
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Overview: Two clumsy and absent-minded spies (Capulina and Chespirito) are hired to save the world from a nuclear attack.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1968-08-29
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Genres: Adventure Comedy Crime Family
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1967-11-09
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Overview: Son of a ranching family returns home after studying in the city for a law degree. He sides with the peons in a labor dispute and his father disowns him; he sets up a law office in another town. First of three movies in a masked-avenger series.
Genres: Western Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1959-09-09
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Overview: Chronicle Caste War in Yucatan held in the nineteenth century, where the land and the people were the property of the landowners, who called themselves " divine caste ". On one hand, General Salvador Alvarado organized the revolution; on the other, the landowners hire Colonel Ortiz Argumedo to organized the defense of their autonomy. Don Wilfrido, one of the masters, do not hesitate to send his son to fight to maintain their wealth and privileges.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1977-11-17
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Overview: Three married couples gather to celebrate the eighteenth anniversary of their marriage mourning the absence of a friend who was best man at all three weddings.
Genres: Drama Romance Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1953-06-08
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Overview: An American serial killer, known for his handiwork with a straight razor, manages to escape while being transported in Mexico and hides out inside a publisher's home, where he claims many more victims.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1968-10-10
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Overview: A 1941 film directed by Gilberto Martínez Solares.
Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1941-11-06
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Overview: A retired mercenary known as 'The Executioner', is forced to take one more case especially when his girlfriend is kidnapped and raped, he then wages a one-man war against the mob with his execution style.
Genres: Thriller Action Crime Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1987-02-19
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Overview: Career criminal hooks up with famous singer because she looks like a long-term meal ticket.
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 1956-05-27
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Overview: Husband, sterile wife, fertile mistress, daughter.
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 1943-08-12
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Overview: Three punk cholos in Tijuana steal cassocks from a church so they can do crimes better.
Genres: Action
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1983-07-02
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Overview: A 1932 film.
Genres: Drama Action Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1932-12-10
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Overview: The wife of a philandering husband tries to engineer a situation in which she can photograph him in a compromising position in order to file for divorce. Meanwhile, subplots.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1974-09-18
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Overview: Beauty-products czar can't attend an important industry function, so he hires a look-alike as a stand-in. The body double will have to learn to behave like a massive queen for the imposture to work...
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 1973-03-28
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1976-06-30
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Overview: Classic legend of a playboy meeting supernatural comeuppance.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1937-03-12
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 1942-03-18
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Overview: A tragicomic piece based on a novella by Manuel Ibo Alfaro.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1936-07-08
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Overview: Peasant woman leads a regiment during the final days of the Mexican Revolution. Also, romantic entanglements.
Genres: Drama Action War
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1961-05-21
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Overview: Male half of a young couple gets distracted from his family duties and considers abandoning his wife and daughter.
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 1938-02-02
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Overview: Mentally-ill eldest son creates havoc within an old-money farming family.
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 1978-04-27
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Overview: Behind the scenes at a popular TV variety show, highly fictionalized.
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 1984-09-20
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Overview: Martine is a young woman plagued both by poverty and by uncaring, problem parents who in no way can provide the kind of nurturing that Martine needs during her adolescent years. As a result of her family situation, Martine runs away from home and gets involved with a group of teens and young adults from the wrong side of the moral tracks.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-07-24
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Overview: Hall Bartlett directs the rural drama The Children of Sanchez, based on the tome The Children of Sanchez: Autobiography of a Mexican Family written by Oscar Lewis in the '60s. Anthony Quinn stars as the widowed Jesus Sanchez, a poor farmer struggling to provide for his family in Mexico City. Also starring Lupita Ferrer as Consuelo and Stathis Giallelis as Roberto. This is the last film in the 50-year career of international star Dolores del Rio, who plays the Grandma. Jazz-pop performer Chuck Mangione was nominated for a Golden Globe and won a Grammy award for his original musical score.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-06-16
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1987-03-12
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Overview: The legend of their beach days, plus nights of sex.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1980-08-07
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Overview: Pastora Heredia is a beautiful gypsy with great character who always tries to help the needy. One day she gots the notice of the death of his grandfather, a millionaire who lived in Mexico and that since his father was angry, she knew nothing of him. However, as Pastora was his only granddaughter and sole heir of all his property, it does not hesitate to cross the pond to claim his inheritance. But once there is that Don Guillermo, grandfather, not dead.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1956-12-10
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Overview: Confederate Col. Lafe Harvey (Earl Ross) travels home after the Civil War, where he must tell his niece, Betty (Frances Grant), that her father is presumed dead. Soon after he returns, scavengers destroy the family home and he and Betty escape westward. Meanwhile, Gen. John Harvey (William Welch), Betty's father, has been seriously injured but is not dead. He arrives at the deserted plantation with the help of Union soldier Tom (Bob Steele), who then pledges to help John find his family
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1936-09-05
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-02-05
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Genres: Drama Action Adventure Crime Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1975-04-16
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Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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Overview: It narrates the adventures of the poet Arturo Cova and his lover Alicia, a story of passion and revenge framed in the plain lands and the Amazon jungle where the two lovers scape from society, and which exposes throughout its plot the harsh living conditions of settlers and Indians enslaved during the rubber rush.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1949-04-20
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Overview: Mexican feature film
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1954-01-01
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