Carmen Montejo
Also Known As: María Teresa Sánchez González
Biography: Carmen Montejo (born María Teresa Sánchez González; May 26, 1925 - February 25, 2013) was a Cuban-born actress of telenovelas, stage and the Golden age of the cinema of Mexico. Real name: María Teresa Sánchez González Montejo started her career in radio as a child at the age of 6 in Cuba in a show titled Abuelita Cata transmitted on CMOX. While still in Cuba she was nicknamed "Muñeca" Sánchez in theatre and because of her golden curls as the Cuban Shirley Temple. She began acting studies in 1939 at Universidad de La Habana under Ludwing Shayovich. After concluding her collage studies her parents offered her a trip to the United States but instead she chose to go to Mexico for two months. After arriving in Mexico she obtained a job in radio claiming to be a famous star in Cuba with a role in the radionovela El diario de Susana Galván. In 1943 she obtained a role in the film Resurrección directed by Gilberto Martínez Solares and then Chano Ureta who changed her professional name to "Carmen Montejo" when she told him she lived across the Hotel Montejo. In Venezuela she participated in one of the first films shot in that country titled Páramo (1954). In theater she obtained the role of Adela in the 1946 production of The House of Bernarda Alba of Federico García Lorca. She co-starred with Virginia Fábregas and was directed by Ricardo Mondragón at the Palacio de Bellas Artes. She has also participated in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and The Trojans. In television she has performed roles in many telenovelas as well as the sitcom Tres Generaciones with Angélica María and Sasha Sokol in the 1980s. For her work in television, films and theatre, Montejo was inducted into the Paseo de las Luminarias. Carmen Montejo died on February 25, 2013, in Mexico City. She was 87.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Pinar del Río, Cuba
Birthday: May 26, 1925
Deathday: February 25, 2013
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Gender: Female
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Los adolescentes
Overview: Mexico's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1967
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1968-02-02
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Omen
Overview: While attending the birth of Isabel, the wife of foreigner Felipe, Mama Santos predicts that "something terrible is going to happen in the town." From this omen, calamities will torment the locals.
Genres: Comedy Drama Fantasy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1975-02-13
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Mimí Derba
Overview: Mimí Derba is a documentary about one of the pioneers in acting and film production in México. In 1917, along with photographer Enrique Rosas, she founded one of the first film production companies: Azteca Films. Alejandra Moya captures a brief glimpse into the first Mexican female director.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-10-18
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Adventures of Juliancito
Overview: Adaptation of the adventures of Tom Sawyer, played by actor Juliancito Bravo.
Genres: Adventure Drama Family
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1969-04-12
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The Death of a Stallion
Overview: When a dedicated jockey finds that the local politicians are not to be trusted and begins to feel his romance with a beautiful woman slowly slipping away, his last-ditch effort to risk it all for his trusted horse Palomo shows that sometimes animals are truly man's best friend.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1983-11-10
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The Vampire
Overview: A pretty young Mexican girl returns to her hometown to make funeral arrangements for her beloved aunt, who has just died. Soon she begins to hear disturbing stories about the town being infested by vampires, and she eventually begins to suspect that her remaining aunt and the mysterious next-door neighbor may be involved.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1957-10-04
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They Call Him Marcado
Overview: The Kid is a vicious psychopath given to laughing a lot, an actor manqué who leads a gang of looters and rapists, and is incestuous with his father to boot. The town’s resident Mater Dolorosa, madam of the brothel, hires her lover Marcado to kill the Kid, who is of course her son.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1971-12-25
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La recta final
Overview: A jockey is pushed by his former trainer, in order to win one last race after his downfall into alcohol and depression.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1966-01-01
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Remember to Live
Overview: In Guanajuato, a piano teacher delays her marriage to an engineer not to let her younger sisters alone. As he is love with her voice, he is mistaken for a sister whom he marries. The teacher then goes to the capital. There she becomes part of a family of young students, who believe she is the mistress of his father, so she suffers the scorn and reproach. Over the years the parents die and she renounces to the inheritance they leave her.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-02-05
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Magdalena’s True Vocation
Overview: Sex and middle class are the main topics in "La verdadera vocación de Magdalena". Hermosillo shows marriage as a matter of interests (economical and social) in the modern society. emphasizing the education, lose of tradition and customs in the gap generation of sixties youth and its parents. Angelica María, plays the best character in his career, being a kind and vulnerable girl raised in a hard moral education
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1972-11-02
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Corrupción oficial
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 1980-01-01
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Bamba
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 1949-06-02
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Entre hermanos
Overview: During the Mexican Revolution, brothers Ramón and Geraldo fall in love with Pilar who is uncertain of which brother she loves. Pilar ends up marrying Ramón but gets pregnant when Geraldo rapes her.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-05-18
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El Rey
Overview: Mexican Revolution era: a guerilla faction kidnaps two members of a governing family to negotiate a ransom.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1976-06-10
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Engagement ring
Overview: Newlyweds struggle with career issues and poverty.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-11-01
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A media luz
Overview: Tango singer exploits the women in his life. Learns a valuable life-lesson.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1947-01-15
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Coronation
Overview: The traumatic story of an old bourgueoise in Mexico City, his relationship with his crazy grandmother, his sexually troubled past and his sick crush on the young and beautiful maid of the house.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1976-06-03
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In the Palm of Your Hand
Overview: A con artist seduces the widow of a millionaire, only to learn she'd plotted with her lover to murder the late husband. A tense game of cat-and-mouse ensues—but who's the cat?
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-06-21
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La Casa Que Arde de Noche
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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El Bronco
Overview: Boxer fights his way up toward a world championship and faces ups and downs in his love life.
Genres: Drama Action Adventure
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1982-02-10
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El camino de los gatos
Overview: Love story and family-melodrama set during the Mexican War Of Independence, 1860s.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1944-11-26
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The Cubs
Overview: After having his genitals brutally mutilated during childhood, a man must face prejudice and himself.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1973-05-10
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The Prophet Mimi
Overview: Childhood trauma and religious repression causes little boy to grow up and murder .
Genres: Drama Thriller Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1973-12-27
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Angel Face
Overview: Mischievous little girl pulls a variety of pranks for the purpose of preventing her parents from divorcing.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-03-01
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Doña Macabra
Overview: The story of Armida (named ¨Doña Macabra¨ by her neighbors) and Demetria, two old women who live in an old house with Octavio, a kind of mad scientist. Their lives take an unexpected turn when the nephew of Armida, Lucila, recently married with Othón, arrive to the house looking for and old treasure, believed to be buried in the house. They will find a lot of dark and unexpected secrets.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1972-09-30
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The Great Victory
Overview: The adventures and misadventures the popular singer Rigo Tovar, his relationships, trips and unparalleled successes
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1981-06-10
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Corazones rotos
Overview: Many stories of families within an urban complex.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-02-08
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The Faces of the Moon
Overview: The Faces of the Moon is the story of five women from five different countries (Argentina, Uruguay, Mexico, USA and Spain), invited to Mexico City to be the jury of the Third Annual Latin American Women's Film Festival. In six vertiginous days these women share their past experiences, their ghosts and, their expectations. The group views and critiques the festival's film entries, and, in the process, the women reveal their personal, political and national histories.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2002-05-17
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En la trampa
Overview: Oscar Cardenas is a free young man who dreams of being a racer. One day he is trapped by Isabel Salas, a young secretary, who while finds a husband, she is sleeping with her boss. Oscar and Isabel end at the altar. From that moment Oscar, is falling into the traps that the 'society' puts over him...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1979-03-08
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No matarás
Overview: A mother stands by helplessly while a scandal involving marital infidelity, blackmail and murder takes shape around her daughter.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1943-08-19
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La infame
Overview: For love, the rules of society and justice are broken, leading to abduction, exposing life and freedom, facing everything to make a sick child a normal child.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1954-01-21
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La pequeña enemiga
Overview: Doctor-husband-father tries to juggle home life and mistress.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-05-10
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El plagiario
Overview: Gangster's daughter learns about her dad's illegalist lifestyle.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-04-28
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La sospechosa
Overview: After a trip to Europe, Regina de Alba comes home and finds out her mother is nowhere to be found. When her step-father's criminal past becomes known, her suspicions increase.
Genres: Mystery Crime Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1955-06-03
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Dos diablitos en apuros
Overview: Two kids embark on far-fetched desperate schemes to prevent their parents from divorcing.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-01-17
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Perverse Doll
Overview: A troubled woman commits a series of murders that exposes some dark family secrets.
Genres: Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1969-12-26
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El potro salvaje
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1958-03-31
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Misericordia
Overview: Faded rich family has a housekeeper who struggles to keep them fed and comfortable after their fortune disappears; she also sacrifices herself on behalf of sick and disabled friends. Is there no end to her nobility of spirit?
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1953-03-13
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Monte de piedad
Overview: Anthology-movie, series of anecdotes about the personal tragedies that lead people to take their values posessions to the state-run pawnshop.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-08-01
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Mujeres sin mañana
Overview: Loosely-plotted melodrama about five "hostesses" and the owners of a waterfront nightclub.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-09-05
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Mamá, soy Paquito
Overview: Paquito lives with his mother in poverty. When she dies, he looks for his father's love, who is a very wealthy man.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1984-04-21
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Prisión de mujeres
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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Resigned for Reasons of Health
Overview: A mid-level government bureaucrat is forced to think hard about his ideas on governmental corruption and his own integrity.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1976-09-02
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The Hex
Overview: Horror tv movie from Mexico
Genres: Horror TV Movie
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1983-09-30
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Yo fui una usurpadora
Overview: Brilliant young doctor discovers his wife doesn't want to bear children, so he finds someone else to exxperience fatherhood with.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-10-23
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Estafa de amor
Overview: Bad woman plays three men off each other while enjoying the attentions of all three; a great many lives are disrupted as a result of her wickedness.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1955-06-29
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We the Poor
Overview: Carpenter Pepe El Toro lives peacefully with his daughter Chachita in an impoverished Mexico City neighborhood. He pursues a romance with the pretty Celia, but tragedy comes knocking on his door when he is falsely accused of having perpetrated a felony.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1948-03-25
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¿Qué te ha dado esa mujer?
Overview: This musical comedy tells the story of two men whose friendship (whose beginning is told in "A toda máquina") is affected by assumptions love triangles and misunderstandings between the two, however, the value of that friendship overcomes all difficulties.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-12-20
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Ave sin nido
Overview: Husband, sterile wife, fertile mistress, daughter.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1943-08-12
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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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La señora de enfrente
Overview: Two travelers visiting a small town link up together and then run afoul of the gossip of church ladies.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1945-09-21
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Entre abogados te veas
Overview: Crooked lawyer runs amok, making a mockery of the legal system.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-03-02
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The Crazy Virgins
Overview: Handsome young swindler throws himself into the clutches of three rich spinsters who live in their own little fantasy world on their crumbling estate.
Genres: Drama Comedy Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1972-05-31
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Legítima defensa
Overview: Mr. X is convicted of killing Mr. Y and serves a jail sentence. After being released, he discovers that Mr. Y is still alive...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1953-03-24
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Caminito alegre
Overview: An elderly homeless man is welcomed into an Old Folks' Home and becomes acquainted with the dramas of several of his companions.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1944-02-17
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El río de las ánimas
Overview: Traveling lawman comes to town and schools the residents in collective farming practices. There's also a bad guy with a lot of money who's cut off the water supply to the area's farmers, and the soul of a murder victim that manifests as a flying fireball.
Genres: Western Adventure Fantasy Mystery Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1964-02-13
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Las Troyanas
Overview: Adaptation of Euripides: lamentations of the women of Troy after their defeat in war.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1963-07-01
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Sor Ye-yé
Overview: Maria is a young orphan who lives with her wealthy aunt. Maria sings in a cocktail bar with his friends, who form a rock band, and enjoy the night with them. One of his friends, Ernesto, is in love with her, though she does not seem to feel the same about him. In fact, multiple existential doubts and feel a strange emptiness in his life suddenly drive to enter a convent as a novice, breaking Ernestos' heart. However, with her cheerlul character, open and rebellious, not appear to conform to life in the cloister, and especially have problems with the novices director , who often punished for trying to take the right path. In the convent, which also functions as children's hospital, she meets a doctor with which it takes quite right for the contrast between his two characters, but his way with love and mutual respect.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1968-03-09
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Todos son mis hijos!...
Overview: Good son takes the blame for father's peculations and goes off to work in the rain forest to pay off Pops' debt. Meanwhile, daughter and bad son neglect their aging parents, whose fortunes decline precipitously.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-03-23
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In the Storm
Overview: In the storm is a Mexican film of the year 1980 directed by Fernando Vallejo. The film is about the time of La Violencia in Colombia. Vallejo wanted to make the film in Colombia, however he found numerous obstacles to film it in the country so he decided to do it in Mexico with Mexican actors and recreating the Colombian landscapes in that country.
Genres: Drama Thriller War
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1982-04-01
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Secreto entre mujeres
Overview: A big ol' player has different stages of a thing happening with each of the five women in a household.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1949-04-01
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Lodo y armiño
Overview: Wealthy libertine tries to seduce another man's mistress by threatening to send him to jail if she doesn't put out. Blowback from his sleazy behavior affects five other people; everybody suffers. Enormously.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-11-30
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The Magic Hour
Overview: Minerva, a middle age writer, decides to break the uncertainty that prevents her from creating the novel that for years she has nested in her mind. Unintentionally, she returns to the port where she was born and she encounters a past full of ghosts and chimeras. Paradoxically, she founds herself because of this journey back home, so she begins writing the story of her life, of her own childhood, with its magical past and tragedy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2000-10-01
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Sor Alegría
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Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1952-10-01
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The Children of Sanchez
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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Memories of the Future
Overview: A story where the Cristero Rebellion creates a story of love, passion, and betrayal. When the Federal Rosas and his lover arrive in a town, a local woman feels strangely attracted to him. The woman will surrender under the pretext that the population is liberated when in reality she wants to consummate the passion that ignites her.
Genres: Drama War Action History
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1969-06-25
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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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Cuatro horas antes de morir
Overview: The film tells the intense countdown of a man sentenced to death.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1953-01-01
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Cita con la muerte
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Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1949-06-22
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Late Afternoon
Overview: A former farmhand now with money, wants to buy his former boss's farm and marry his daughter, but they refuse.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1949-08-05
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Burdel
Overview: (AKA: Ratero 2 or Cada quien su madre.) Innocent man forced to hide from the police, ends up taking refuge in a brothel.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1982-09-03
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Los Jóvenes
Overview: A gang member is attracted to a beautiful young woman, but approaching her only causes problems that will be difficult to solve.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1961-09-28
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Light in the High Plains
Overview: Luz en el páramo is a 1953 Venezuelan film directed by Víctor Urruchúa. It was entered into the 1953 Cannes Film Festival.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1953-05-01
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Las Ladrilleras
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 2006-12-31
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