Alejandro Parodi
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Biography: Alejandro Parodi Montaño (1928 - 2011) was a Mexican actor. Parodi made professional studies in photography, cinematography and theater. He studied drama with the teacher Seki Sano, in addition to having been a disciple of Alex Phillips. He taught at the Universidad Iberoamericana; with studies in Madrid, Spain. He participated in works of Spanish and German cinema. He alternated with actors such as Geraldine Chaplin, Gian Maria Volonté, Dean Stockwell, Marhe Keller, Kris Kristofferson, among others. He worked with directors such as: Miguel Littín, Arturo Ripstein, Felipe Cazals, Alfredo Gurrola and Alejandro Pelayo.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Mexico
Adult: No
Birthday: July 23, 1928
Age: 96 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: August 26, 2011
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Volantín
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1963-09-23
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The Fight with the Panther
Overview: Three nymphets struggle to have a beneficial youth: Ana is suicidal, Mercedes is attracted to her brother William, and Patricia desires to be sexually abused.
Genres: Thriller Drama Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1975-07-31
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Romelia's Secret
Overview: The way three different generations of women view virginity and the mystery that a love story hides.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1988-12-04
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El principio
Overview: Mexico is in the midst of Revolution when the protagonist returns after studying in Paris to find his native town in Chihuahua occupied by Francisco Villa’s revolutionary forces. He visits his deserted home and remembers people and events from his adolescence that provide glimpses of pre-Revolutionary society under dictatorship: his uncle, the chief of police; his sister’s involvement with a liberal political association; bathing with the girls from a local brothel; a labor strike that ended in a massacre. Returning to the present he discovers that his father has been assassinated and, in the company of his father’s former servant, joins the revolutionary movement.
Genres: Action Drama History
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1973-12-03
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Encuentro con la muerte
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Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-09-07
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La mujer del puerto
Overview: Perla, a prostitute and the star in a miserable cabaret in the docks, falls in love with a sailor without knowing that he is her brother. Tomasa, Perla's mother, tries to prevent this incestuous relationship at all costs, but fails to do so. Set in a sordid environment, the director makes no concessions in this tragic love affair, which is narrated from three different points of view.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1996-03-27
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Servicio secreto
Overview: Two secret agents are after a couple of car thieves who belong to a band of criminals headed by Ernesto. The band has kidnapped the son of Daniel, a boxer who is about to fight for the world title. The agents must destroy Ernesto's band and rescue Daniel's son before the fight so Daniel doesn't lose his chance at the title under the kidnapper's threats.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1962-01-01
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Thursday night
Overview: A group of friends plan to steal a companýs payroll, they succeed, but they have a fatal accident in the getaway car.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1962-01-01
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Lamberto Quintero
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Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1987-05-19
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Ángel de fuego
Overview: The young trapeze artist Alma is part of the show of a miserable traveling circus. In an act of desperation, Alma commits incest with her father, a sick clown obsessed with the woman who abandoned them. Determined to have his child, Alma leaves the circus and joins a group of preachers led by Refugio, a woman who performs puppet shows with biblical passages in poor neighborhoods.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1991-01-02
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Knock Out
Overview: Rodrigo Zaracho, once a promising boxer, is in decline. While fleeing from a gang that is chasing him, he remembers his past.
Genres: Thriller Drama Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1984-11-22
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Alsino and the Condor
Overview: Alsino, a boy of 10 or 12, lives with his grandmother in a remote area of Nicaragua. He's engulfed in the war between rebels and government troops when a US advisor orders the army to open a staging area by the boy's hamlet. Alsino tries to be a child, climbing trees with a girl, looking through his grandfather's trunk of mementos and trying to fly; he goes to town to sell a saddle, has his first drink and is taken to a brothel. But the war surrounds him. The US advisor takes Alsino on a chopper flight, but he's unimpressed. The soldiers' cruelties awake rebel sympathies in Alsino, and after an army assault backfires, the lad is fully baptized into the conflict.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1982-12-01
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Call Me Mike
Overview: After being unjustly accused of corruption and seriously injured in prison, Miguel's personality will merge with the characters he reads in his police novels.
Genres: Crime Mystery Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1979-03-07
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The Widow of 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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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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De ida y vuelta
Overview: After working for three years in the USA, Filiberto returns to his home town in Mexico. A proud man, he is searching for the recognition that will give him a new position in life. However, he finds that things have changed. His mother is dead, and Luis, his best friend, is married to his ex-girlfriend. Filiberto gets involved in the town’s disputes over a water spring.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2001-10-18
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Santo in the Hotel of Death
Overview: Tourists visiting the pyramids in Mexico experience a string of deaths and disappearances while staying at a nearby hotel. Police investigators Fernando and Cornado are assigned to the case and attempt to solve the mystery with the help of reporter (and girlfriend of Fernando) Veronica and the wrestler Santo.
Genres: Action Horror Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1963-01-25
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Mujeres engañadas
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1961-01-01
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La mujer X
Overview: A woman accused of murder refuses to defend herself in any way, in order to avoid tarnishing the family name and the reputation of her long-lost son.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1955-04-06
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El buen ladrón
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 1957-05-23
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Cuartelazo
Overview: Narration of one of the bloodiest episodes of the Mexican national history, The Tragic Ten, beginning when General Victoriano Huerta sent to kill President Francisco I. Madero, Vice President José María Pino Suárez and Senator Belisario Dominguez. The film recreates the moment of the execution at the hands of Huerta and his accomplices Bernardo Reyes, Félix Díaz and Manuel Mondragón.
Genres: History Action Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1977-05-04
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His Most Serene Highness
Overview: This historical drama depicts the waning days of the life of Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, who waged a war against the United States that ultimately cost his nation half of its territory
Genres: History
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2000-08-17
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El fistol del diablo IV
Overview: Part of a series of films based on portions of the Manuel Payno novel "El fistol del diablo". All were directed by Fernando Fernández and star Roberto Cañedo.
Genres: Mystery Crime Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1962-01-05
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Astucia
Overview: Historical melodrama on horseback, 1840s or so in central Mexico. Pulpy, Zorro-ish...
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1986-11-06
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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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El misterio del Trinidad
Overview: The strange relation between two brothers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2003-04-29
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The Infernal Coffin
Overview: An obscure old dark house horror melodrama from Mexico. Based on the novel "El fistol del diablo" by Manuel Payno.
Genres: Mystery Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1962-01-05
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Pepito as del volante
Overview: Pepito's father dies in rollover the Ferrari that is winning a race car, so Pepito is about his grandfather and asks him to equip a car to get him to compete.
Genres: Drama Adventure Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1957-06-20
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Death Squad
Overview: Mario Balbuena, a honest cop, becomes the victim of an ambush by drug dealers and dirty cops, after that, he recruits a group of sleazy criminals in order to strike his revenge.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1985-01-01
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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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Die Frau des Reporters
Overview: In the spring of 1980, Esther Jochmann, a young Austrian woman, flies to San Salvador. Her husband, a journalist, has been killed. She has to identify his corpse so that the authorities will allow it to be transferred to Europe. She learns that Archbishop Oscar Romero, who was also a victim of an assassination, had granted a taped interview to her husband. Padre Manuel hands the tape over to her. Esther accompanies the Padre and John, an American reporter, who are trying to find the murderers.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1986-03-23
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The Year of the Plague
Overview: A terrible disease is found in a Mexican town. A doctor tries to alert the authorities when he discovers its epidemic nature. No one listen to him and soon after the disease spreads. The government tries to control the information in order to prevent panic.
Genres: Thriller Science Fiction Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1978-02-12
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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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Los amigos
Overview: Ambition, social climbing and insincerity shape the emotional climate among a circle of young professionals launching their careers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1968-11-17
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Mis abuelitas... no más!
Overview: Bush-league actor allows two adorable grannies to believe he's their long-lost grandson. Then: complications!
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 1961-03-30
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Good Love
Overview: Mother and son conspire against his sister when she marries against their wishes.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1957-02-28
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Difficult Days
Overview: Two shareholder brothers close several factories due to economic problems, except for their chemical plants.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1988-07-07
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Las Poquianchis
Overview: During the mid-1970s, in the Mexican state of Guanajuato, authorities discover a clandestine burial ground. The corpses are from murdered prostitutes. The suspects are three sisters known as "Las Poquianchis".
Genres: Crime Drama History Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1976-11-17
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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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Venganza en el circo
Overview: Criss-crossing love affairs and jealousies result in a murder attempt.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1954-02-17
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El hijo de Lamberto Quintero
Overview: Lamberto Quintero is assassinated and his son intends to avenge him following in his footsteps. The pair of father and son, Antonio Aguilar and Pepe Aguilar star in this action film.
Genres: Drama Action Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1990-11-15
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Dying in the Gulf
Overview: The story of the oil leader Lázaro Pizarro, of his political and personal wars, the use of crime to settle conflicts and the course of his power between the basements and the domes of Mexican politics, have a narrative record made in the Gulf of accuracy and dexterity
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1990-03-08
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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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The Beginning and the End
Overview: The film tells the story of the Boteros, a middle-class Mexican family struggling against poverty after their father's death. Ignacia (Egurrola) is the Boteros mother, a desperate woman who chooses to sacrifice the destiny of her three older children, in order to protect Gabriel (Laguardia) the youngest one. She believes Gabriel will climb the social structure and bring back the lost fortune to the family. But destiny has other plans for the Boteros and tragedy will overcome eventually. Based on the novel of Nobel Prize winner Naguib Mahfouz.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1994-06-24
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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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Prefiero a tu papá
Overview: Theatre director macks on his sons' girlfriends.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1952-10-17
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