Alfredo Varela
Also Known As: Varelita, Alfredo Varela Jr., Alfredo Varela Jr. "Varelita", Alfredo Varela Catalá
Biography: Alfredo Varela was born on November 30, 1912 in Mexico City, Mexico as Alfredo Varela Catalá. He was an actor and writer, known for El infierno verde (1952), Duro pero seguro(1978) and El extra (1962). He was married to Yuyú. He died on May 1, 1986 in Mexico City. His parents were the actors Alfredo Varela Sr. and Adela Catalá.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Mexico City, Mexico
Adult: No
Birthday: November 30, 1912
Age: 112 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: May 01, 1986
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María Eugenia

Overview: Before marrying María Eugenia, landowner Carlos are away to visit her godmother to break the promise to marry his daughter. The godmother is dying, Carlos quiets and everything takes an unexpected course.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1943-04-01
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Love for Life

Overview: During the times of Venezuelan dictator Juan Vicente Gómez, an exhausted stranger arrives at a farm and starts to help the owner with the legal status of her land.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1950-12-28
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Duro pero seguro

Overview: Nicolasa sells tacos near a movie studio and her popularity threatens the restaurant's own studies. She drops the food when seeing actor Armando performing and the director expels her out.
Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1978-03-02
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¡Qué verde era mi padre!

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Original Language: es
Release Date: 1947-01-25
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Shark Hunters

Overview: Aurelio is a shark fisherman who works very hard to send money to his family in the city and keep Manela, his young lover on the coast. One day, he decides to move to the big city.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1963-05-23
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Vuelve el ojo de vidrio

Overview: Upon hearing the news of Madero's death, Porfirio Alcalá and his four cousins interrupt their peaceful lives as farmers to again join the Mexican Revolution.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1970-01-08
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The Pharaoh's Court

Overview: The wise men of the kingdom interpret a dream of Pharaoh and decide that Putifar, a victorious general, should marry Lota, a virginal slave.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1944-06-08
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El jinete negro

Overview: A rancher disguises himself as a generous bandit and murders a tax collector, but is discovered.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1961-01-01
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Los nietos de Don Venancio

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Original Language: es
Release Date: 1946-06-13
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Yo quiero ser tonta

Overview: Dreamer father wants son to become a bullfighter, and daughter to become a singer, so they become instant millionares, although their talent is not apparently there.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1950-11-30
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La gallina clueca

Overview: Divorced mother struggles to raise her large family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1941-12-04
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Amorcito corazón

Overview: Comical crises in the household of a newlywed couple.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-03-30
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To the Sound of the Marimba

Overview: Shabby-genteel big city family tries to marry their daughter off to a wealthy landowner from the southern provinces.
Genres: Comedy Music Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1940-04-11
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Adios Juventud

Overview: Nostalgic comedy about medical students circa 1905.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-11-01
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El ametralladora

Overview: Peasant farmer and landowner are rivals for a woman. Sequel to Ay Jalisco No Te Rajes.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1943-09-28
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Canaima

Overview: College-educated emigre has to get macho when he returns home to the Venezuelan outback.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1945-10-04
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Mi mujer no es mía

Overview: Bachelor pretends that he got married, thinking that will stop his aunt from trying to play matchmaker.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-10-18
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Una mujer que no miente

Overview: Headmistress of a girl's school and one of her pupils get into romantic-comedy trouble trying to keep their lies straight.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-06-07
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Música, mujeres y amor

Overview: Two women are installed in the cabin of a ship that was already occupied by two gentlemen.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1952-07-03
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Nosotras las sirvientas

Overview: Romantic comedy: housemaid and her employer's oldest son.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-11-02
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El Gran Makakikus

Overview: Uncultured nouveau- riche wants to be received in high society. Loose adaptation of Moliere.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-12-21
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La Guerra de los Pasteles

Overview: Musical comedy about a pastry chef and his daughter in the 1830s
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1944-01-03
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Los Hijos De Don Venancio

Overview: Spanish immigrant wants his sons to join him in running his business, but they all have other ambitions.
Genres: Family Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1944-10-12
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Pretty sky!

Overview: Revolutionist and Army General compete for a woman
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-11-25
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Besos, Besos... y Más Besos

Overview: Rom-com anthology movie with three anecdotes.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-01-31
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Faith, Hope and Charity

Overview: Three episodes. Faith: a woman is attacked. Hope: a fakir is crucified. Charity: a woman faces bureaucracy.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1974-02-14
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El manantial del amor

Overview: Boy/girl stuff at a health spa that's famous for aphrodisiac waters.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1970-04-09
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El charro y la dama

Overview: Bratty rich girl plays practical jokes on the man that she'll obviously end up marrying.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-10-28
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Albur de amor

Overview: Dark romantic melodrama, played out with high-stakes card games and cockfights.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1947-08-29
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El fronterizo

Overview: Rom-com in charro hats.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1952-09-12
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30-30 Carbine

Overview: Rom-com set during Mexican Revolution.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-12-25
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El mexicano feo

Overview: Semi-employed street musician butts heads with his wife and grown(ish) children because of his irresponsible lifestyle. Then he lucks into a cushy government job.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1984-06-28
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Singing love is born

Overview: Comical misadventures of a film crew trying to get their damn musical filmed.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-04-14
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Las cariñosas

Overview: When three beautiful young nurses from Jalisco, afflicted with a rare disease called "sexappealitis", create commotion among the patients in a hospital, they are forced to resign. They travel to Mexico City following the suggestion of a crazy scientist, who tells them they will be cured when they get married. But they are attracted to three men who are indifferent to their sexy looks, being themselves sick with "lovetitis".
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1953-11-18
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You’re Missing the Point

Overview: Cantinflas, the boyfriend of the servant of a rich industrial man, gets into the house in order to kill a mad dog. Suddenly this man appears so the servant tells him that Cantinflas is his wife's brother (Leonardo), who had been lost for years. The rich man then remembers that his father in law's testament could only be paid when all brothers get together, so treats Cantinflas, a real bum, as a king.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1940-09-11
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Love Pays for Love

Overview: Pre-Revolutionary setting; class conflicts and a romance across class-boundaries.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1950-01-11
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To Hell with Women

Overview: Small-town elects a female mayor. She suppresses all the time-honored masculine pastimes, and the men rebel.
Genres: Comedy Drama Western
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1955-02-17
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My Three Merry Widows

Overview: Dead man's will reveals he had three wives.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1953-09-16
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Las mañanitas

Overview: Rom-com scheming; wealthy landowner wants to seduce one of his tenants, but she wants the other guy...
Genres: Drama Comedy Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1948-10-07
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Las 5 noches de Adán

Overview: Globe-hopping playboy bachelor is getting on in years, so he invites his five international children to come live with him.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1942-04-18
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Backstage

Overview: The story of a famous singer who reaches the highest position in the world of varieties, but is forced to cede her throne to the young star of the moment, repeating the same situation that she starred in in her youth.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1957-05-02
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Pancho López

Overview: A couple of people cover up their own mishandling of other people's money by claiming to have been robbed by a masked bandit. When the law comes looking into the situation, it becomes necessary to find someone to impersonate that bandit. Remake of El Tigre De Jalisco (1947).
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 1957-02-08
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Mi niño Tizoc

Overview: Tizoc wishes to eat a chicken by himself and have his own piñata. At Christmas his father Carmelo grants his wish.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1972-07-13
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El superflaco

Overview: Mad scientist gives Atomic Powers to a 98 pound weakling.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-02-19
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Estoy casado, ja, ja

Overview: Honeymooner has trouble adapting to the idea of consummating her marriage.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1962-04-05
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El ojo de vidrio

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Genres: Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1969-10-23
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The Bloody Inn

Overview: Young couple are trapped in an isolated mansion while members of a criminal gang are killing each other off on the premises.
Genres: Horror Comedy Mystery
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1943-03-26
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Mil estudiantes y una muchacha

Overview: Every single student at Uni flips over the young woman that lives in the building across the street from the Commons. She's a professor's daughter... Hijinks ensue.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-03-10
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Cuando viajan las estrellas

Overview: A Hollywood star travels to Mexico to take flamenco dancing lessons for her next movie. In the airport she meets a Mexican rancher, and while both dislike each other at first, things may change.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1942-04-01
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When the Children are Gone

Overview: Unjustly accused of theft, the noble Raimundo is forced to leave his paternal home. A new incident, caused by the ambition of his brother José, causes Raimundo to be disowned by his girlfriend María and by his father, the just and strict Don Pepe. The only one who believes in Raimundo is his mother, Dona Lupita, a woman who suffers deeply because of the wrong decisions of her children.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1941-07-30
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Soy puro mexicano

Overview: Band of outlaws stumble across an espionage ring of Axis agents embedded in an out-of-the-way hacienda.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-11-13
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Préstame tu cuerpo

Overview: Heaven Can Wait scenario; a young woman dies forty years ahead of schedule because her guardian angel made a mistake... so the divine powers that be put her back on earth in a new body.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1958-04-01
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The Unknown Policeman

Overview: A gang of thieves has jeopardized the city and even the police, whose chief urges their forces to captured the band within 48 hours. Meanwhile, band members meet in a cafe run by a widow and her daughter and her suitor, Cantinflas, who maintains a scuffle with the robbers running all at the station. Since then, Cantinflas become a member of the police force for special missions.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1941-10-22
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El Supersabio

Overview: Cantinflas is the apprentice of a renowned scientist, Prof. Arquimides Monteagudo (Carlos Martinez Baena). But Cantinflas has the soul of a poet rather than a serious researcher, and he wants to find the formula that achieves the immortality of the roses. Nevertheless, after the death of Prof. Monteagudo, Cantinflas will be chased by a ferocious corporative group, who wants to steal the secret formula of a cheaper fuel named "carburex", because they think that our friend is the only person who knows the composition
Genres: Comedy Mystery Science Fiction
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1948-09-04
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Un Latin lover en Acapulco

Overview: Roberto is tired of his life as an office worker in Mexico City, so he moves to Acapulco to try his luck as a "Latin lover".
Genres: Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1967-01-02
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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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Especialista en señoras

Overview: Frenetic rom-com about doctors overwhelmed with amorous female patients.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-10-19
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The River and Death

Overview: A useless and bloody vendetta has been going on for ages between two families in this Mexican village. Men, sons, have killed each other for generations, for a so-called conception of honor in a revenge that never ends since it is also triggered by people of the village. Now, today, there are only two sons left, one in each family. One has become a doctor in the big city and his culture is modern. The other last one - of the other family - hasn't left the village and is waiting for the doctor to come "home" as he plans to kill him, to settle this war on this matter of honor once and for all. And the people of the village want blood.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1954-08-22
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Viva Mi Desgracia

Overview: After drinking a special concoction made of various types of alcohol, the once-timid Ramon (Pedro Infante) suddenly turns into a brawler and extroverted ladies' man. With his newfound confidence, Ramon attempts to win the heart of the woman (María Antonieta Pons) he loves. Full of enjoyable songs and funny scenes, this entertaining Mexican musical centers on a wealthy man who finally realizes that money can't buy him love.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1944-01-01
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They also sing of pain

Overview: The movie starts with Braulio Peláez (Pedro Infante), a schoolteacher, having just fallen off his horse, representing the situation he and his family are in. The next scenes introduce the viewer to his family and their poor financial and social situation. As Braulio stumbles around looking for his glasses, he causes a famous film star, Alfonso de Madrazo (Rafael Alcaide) to crash his car. Braulio offers him to eat at his house as an apology. Braulio's sister and mother, big film fans, immediately recognise Alfonso and attempt to get him to bring the girl, Luisa Peláez (Irma Dolores) to Mexico City to become a film star. Alfonso agrees and tells them to come to the capital.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1950-08-31
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Nocturno de amor

Overview: Venice Film Festival 1948
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1948-01-11
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La vida en broma

Overview: Many many mistaken identities and impostures overlapping among a group of husbands, wives and others.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1950-05-24
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La insaciable

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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1947-06-25
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La pícara Susana

Overview: Socialist librarian gets mixed up in the family life of a spoiled rich girl and her screwball family.
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 1945-05-31
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El dinero no es la vida

Overview: A humble bartender falls into a world of gambling and vices, losing everything.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1952-03-21
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La casa de las muchachas

Overview: A whore house is transformed into a decent household by a respectable man.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1969-10-30
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The Grand Champion

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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1949-06-03
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Mi niño, mi caballo y yo

Overview: Nun tries to heal the relationship between a six-year-old boy and his estranged father.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1959-06-04
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Mi papá tuvo la culpa

Overview: Two young sweethearts get married, and then are made to believe that she's his illegitimate half-sister.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1953-06-17
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Paloma brava

Overview: Paloma is bound and determined to kill the heck out of the guy that dishonored her sister, but mistaken identities and stuff.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-11-28
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Pueblo quieto

Overview: Son of a first family returns to his home town, reconciles with his pops, pitches woo at the young lady from another First Family and gets rampy with his rival for her affections.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1955-09-30
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Tú y la mentira

Overview: Struggling musician finally reaches the big time, then a scheming gold-digger gets her hooks into him.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1958-05-14
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Charro a la fuerza

Overview: Mistaken identity farce; heiress has to marry to receive an inheritance.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1948-06-10
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El diablo en persona

Overview: Young rural-gentry dude sows wild oats, settles down to raise a family, and fights in the Revolution, all at the same time.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1982-03-07
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El beisbolista fenómeno

Overview: The soul of a dead baseball player finds a human host to occupy so it can achieve some career goals it hadn't accomplished during its lifetime. Riotous hijinks ensue.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1952-02-29
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Esta noche si

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Original Language: es
Release Date: 1968-05-28
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In the Flesh

Overview: A beautiful cabaret dancer falls in love with a sailor who promises to return and marry her. Trouble ensues.
Genres: Drama Romance Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-02-24
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Melodías de amor

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Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1955-11-16
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Si me viera don Porfirio

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Original Language: es
Release Date: 1950-07-12
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Hope

Overview: Gabino earns his living as a fakir in a circus, and he exhibits himself crucified in a tent, to earn the money he needs to buy a house for his mother.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1974-02-14
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