Martin LaSalle
Also Known As: Martín Lasalle, Martin Lasalle , Martin La Salle
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: January 01, 1935
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Pickpocket
Overview: Michel takes up pickpocketing on a lark and is arrested soon after. His mother dies shortly after his release, and despite the objections of his only friend, Jacques, and his mother's neighbor Jeanne, Michel teams up with a couple of petty thieves in order to improve his craft. With a police inspector keeping an eye on him, Michel also tries to get a straight job, but the temptation to steal is hard to resist.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-12-16
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Contratiempo
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Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2003-01-01
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Avalón (Paleativo)
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1995-01-01
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Romero
Overview: Romero is a compelling and deeply moving look at the life of Archbishop Oscar Romero of El Salvador, who made the ultimate sacrifice in a passionate stand against social injustice and oppression in his county. This film chronicles the transformation of Romero from an apolitical, complacent priest to a committed leader of the Salvadoran people.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-08-25
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Alucarda
Overview: A young girl's arrival at a convent after the death of her parents marks the beginning of a series of events that unleash an evil presence on the girl and her mysterious new friend, an enigmatic figure known as Alucarda. Demonic possession, Satan worship, and vampirism follows.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1977-12-26
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The Bees
Overview: Corporate smuggling of South American killer bees into the United States results in huge swarms terrorizing the northern hemisphere. A small team of scientists work desperately to destroy the threat, but the bees soon mutate into a super-intelligent species that threatens the world.
Genres: Thriller Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-11-01
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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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Women's Things
Overview: A young sociology student has an unintended pregnancy and is subjected to the terrible humiliation of an incompetent doctor. The girl falls ill from the poorly performed abortion and is taken by a friend to the General Hospital. Film that reports clandestine abortion in Mexico, with interviews with women who have had abortions in that hospital and shocking maternal death statistics from procedures carried out under unsafe conditions.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1978-01-01
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The Mansion of Madness
Overview: The inmates of an insane asylum take over the institution, imprison the doctors and staff, and then put into play their own ideas of how the place should be run.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1973-08-10
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The Southern Cross
Overview: Taking as a guiding theme of religion in Latin America, the film shows the pre-Columbian myths, the arrival of the white man, later syncretism and liberation theology. The main theme is the "popular religion". In Latin America this forms a kind of religious sacred territory where millions of Indians seeking refuge. This is repeated in Brazil, where African religions are another impenetrable territory, which also functions as a stronghold, a refuge.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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Ópera
Overview: Pablo and Marina wake up in a hotel room and then travel the country together, she accompanies him while he is in the process of writing a traveler's guide. Pablo is a married man with two daughters, while Marina is a college student. During the journey they pass through different points in the relationship, sometimes in full disagreement.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2008-09-19
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My Mexican Shivah
Overview: After Moishe's death, family and friends sit Shiva in Mexico City. During seven days, secrets will be disclosed.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2007-10-26
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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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Sor Juana Inez de la cruz
Overview: Drama written by Octavio Paz.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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Nightlife
Overview: At a museum of Mexico City arrives a perfectly conservated mumie. It is a vampire who has died years ago and who returns to life in search of his lost love Angelique. But unfortunately for him the young woman has met a doctor and fallen in love with him who supplies her with the blood she needs to resist the vampire attacks.
Genres: Comedy Horror TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-08-23
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The Models of 'Pickpocket'
Overview: A documentary that follows up on what happened to the three principle actors in Robert Bresson's "Pickpocket."
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-03-29
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Queen Doll
Overview: A man becomes more and more infatuated with his childhood sweetheart leading to a haunting encounter with horror.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1972-11-08
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Hot Pursuit
Overview: High school student Dan Bartlett (John Cusack) misses the plane he was supposed to be on with his rich girlfriend and her family on the way to a Caribbean vacation during a school break. He flies there alone, and runs into a series of characters and misadventures as he tries to catch up.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-05-08
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Samson and Delilah
Overview: A tale of passion and betrayal in which Samson, a judge of Israel who fled with his tribe during the Great Exodus from Egypt, uses his herculean strength in the fight against the Philistine oppressors. He is seduced by Delilah, a Philistine courtesan, who uses her cunning to discover the secret of her lover's great power and then betrays him.
Genres: TV Movie Action Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-03-31
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Acteón
Overview: An expressionist reimagining of the classic Greek myth involving Acteón and Diana, transposed to Spain's Costa Brava by a future auteur of horror cinema. Based on the myth from Ovid's Metamorphoses in which Acteón accidentally catches a glimpse of Diana, the goddess of love, and is subsequently turned into a deer for his dogs to devour, Jorge Grau's modernist retelling resets the story to contemporary Spain, where a fisherman – played by Martin LaSalle, star of Bresson's Pickpocket – follows an enchanting, flirtatious stranger into the city.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1967-06-13
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The Feared Hell
Overview: A woman abandons her partner, a journalist, but tortures him by sending him photos of her with her lovers.
Genres: Drama Mystery Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1975-01-01
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Pilgrim
Overview: A beautiful artist helps an amnesiac piece together his identity and evade a gangster on his trail.
Genres: Thriller Action Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-03-31
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Desires
Overview: Snippets of a family drama involving a rebellious son coming to his depressing home village, his father, and a jaded ex-lover, mixed with various surrealist scenes and statements about sin.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1977-01-01
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Second Century
Overview: A small film crew goes through several locations including Europe, New York and Mexico.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1999-08-05
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The Holy Inquisition
Overview: A plague is spreading through 16th century Mexico, and the Inquisition of the Roman Catholic Church is rooting out Jews, for they are believed to be its cause. At his father's funeral, a monk observes his family practicing Jewish burial rite, and he reports them, leading to devastating consequences for the whole family.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1974-06-06
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Noche de Calífas
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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Celestina
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 1976-01-01
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Luisa's Dream
Overview: After her birthday party, a little girl goes to bed looking forward to an amusement-park trip with her grandparents for the next day.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2009-01-13
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La seducción
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Genres: Drama War Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1981-07-01
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Pubertinaje
Overview: Three episodes: 1) "A Christmas dinner" where the family members fantasize about being somewhere else. The fetishist father wants to put on feminine clothes. The son longs for another transvestite adventure. The daughter yearns to be a singer and destroy the saints of the church with her voice. The youngest son wants to stab everyone dead. 2) "Game of mirrors". Two young classmates kiss on a picnic, but the girl's brother accuses the couple of being immoral. Bizarre things develop. 3) "Tetrahedron". A very fat man faces his girlfriend's longing for love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1978-02-09
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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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Under Fire
Overview: Three U.S. journalists get too close to one another and their work in 1979 Nicaragua.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-10-21
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A Real Man
Overview: Unsympathetic portrait of a man who's too macho to display his feelings.
Genres: Western Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1983-10-30
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The Penitent
Overview: Tension between a jealous husband, his wife who's attracted to his friend and the friend is rising as their small, deeply catholic, Mexican village is deciding who will be Christ during the possibly dangerous reenactment of the Crucifixion.
Genres: Horror Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-05-27
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Missing
Overview: Based on the real-life experiences of Ed Horman. A conservative American businessman travels to Chile to investigate the sudden disappearance of his son after a military takeover. Accompanied by his son's wife he uncovers a trail of cover-ups that implicate the US State department which supports the dictatorship.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-02-12
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El diablo y la dama
Overview: The french dancer America is in a hotel in Paris with her lover. He goes out to buy cigarettes and she imagines that he travels to Mexico, where he makes a cabaret number dancing with a mannequin that represents the devil. It is related to the gigolo Jimmy, who prostitutes and explodes, and wanders around the city getting involved in a strange plot with some gangsters.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1984-04-03
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Cananea
Overview: Based on a true story in the American owned Cananea mine. It depicts how the owner profits while the Mexican workers struggle to survive and are exploited for their labour.
Genres: War Drama History
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1978-08-17
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Mistery
Overview: A soap opera actor is mixed in a real drama very similar to what he represents in his work.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1980-11-30
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Alamo Bay
Overview: A despondent Vietnam veteran in danger of losing his livelihood is pushed to the edge when he sees Vietnamese immigrants moving into the fishing industry in a Texas bay town.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-04-03
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Goitia: A God for Himself
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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Exorcismos
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1970-01-01
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God's Crooked Lines
Overview: Newly-committed to a mental institution, a woman tries to convince her doctors that her husband conspired to have her put away for selfish reasons unrelated to her mental health.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1983-09-29
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The Gates of Paradise
Overview: Due to betting problems, Andrés and his lover, Blanca, flee the city and travel through several states of the country; During their journey they get involved with a couple of hippies with whom they live for a time until the tragedy is complete.
Genres: Drama Action Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1971-06-19
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Death and the Compass
Overview: In a totalitarian future, in a nightmare metropolis, inhabited only by criminals and police, Erik Lonnrot, a gifted detective, investigates a series of strange murders and disappearances that seem to implicate a insane crime lord. (Re-released in 1996 as a feature film, 86 minutes.)
Genres: Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-08-05
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Aquel famoso Remington
Overview: Historical drama about the career of a hit-man who specialized in political assassinations in Mexico in the 1920s-30s.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1982-07-23
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The Master of Ballantrae
Overview: Adult brothers compete for pateral affection and for control of the family estate.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1974-03-13
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'Ora sí ¡tenemos que ganar!
Overview: Subjugated by power, the workers of a mining town organize clandestinely.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1981-10-22
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Hardcase
Overview: A man thought-dead comes home to find that his wife has sold their ranch and married a Mexican revolutionary.
Genres: Western TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-02-01
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Cabo Blanco
Overview: Giff Hoyt, a cafe owner in Cabo Blanco, Peru after World War II is caught between refuge-seeking Nazis and their enemies. After the murder of a sea explorer is passed off as accidental death by the corrupt local police, Giff becomes suspicious. The police chief also intimidates a new arrival Marie, and Giff intervenes to help her. Giff suspects Beckdorff, a Nazi refugee living in the area. Beckdorff, it emerges, is seeking to uncover sunken treasure.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-03-13
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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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Love with a stranger
Overview: A mother and her daughter receive a stranger in their home, who at first has an affair with the mother but then tries to push her aside to seduce the daughter.
Genres: Thriller Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-01-01
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Sorceress
Overview: To maintain his powers, the evil wizard Traigon must sacrifice his firstborn child to the god Caligara. His wife, however, has other ideas and runs away after giving birth with her twin daughters. Before dying, she hands the girls over to the warrior Krona who promises to raise them as great soldiers. Twenty years later, Traigon returns and begins hunting down his daughters once again. Will the twins, with the help of the Barbarian Erlik and the Viking Baldar, be able to defeat their father?
Genres: Action Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-03-01
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O.K. End Here
Overview: O.K. End Here is Frank’s 1963 short film about inertia in a modern relationship. The film alternates between semidocumentary scenes and shots composed with rigid formality, and appears to have been directly influenced by the French Nouvelle Vague and Michelangelo Antonioni’s films.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-08-11
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Murder in Three Acts
Overview: In Acapulco, Hercule Poirot attends a dinner party in which one of the guests clutches his throat and suddenly dies. The causes seem to be natural until another party with most of the same guests produces another corpse.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-10-01
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