Adalberto Martínez
Also Known As: Adalberto 'Resortes' Martínez, 'Resortes', Adalberto Martínez Chávez, Resortes , Adalberto Martínez 'Resortes'
Biography: Adalberto Martínez Chávez, better known in the entertainment world as Resortes was a renowned Mexican actor. Known primarily for his talent as a comedian, Resortes was also an accomplished dancer. His dancing defied gravity itself. He is believed to be, as seen in several of his movies, the creator of the "walking backwards" dance steps, which many years later became known as "The Moonwalk" and popularized by Michael Jackson. Resortes, who began his career as a member of a circus, made his motion picture debut in 1946. He participated in more than 50 Mexican movies throughout his career, and he also participated in many television series. Many of his best films he made were El Rey de México (The King of Mexico), El Cartero del Barrio, Al Son del Mambo (To the Mambo's Rhythm) and El Futbolista Fenómeno (The Phenomenal Soccer Player). But one of his most famous movies was La Niña de la Mochila Azul (The Girl With the Blue Back Pack). That movie also had a sequel, La Niña de la Mochila Azul 2 (The Girl With the Blue Back Pack 2). Those two movies in particular became two of the largest teen movie hits in Mexican movie history and helped Resortes gain familiarity among the younger generations during the 1980s Resortes was hospitalized with emphysema on April 3, 2003 and died on April 4. His nephew is the international artist Alex Martinez.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Mexico
Birthday: January 25, 1916
Deathday: April 04, 2003
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Gender: Male
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D.F./Distrito Federal
Overview: Anthology film, six little anecdotes about life in the big city.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1981-10-29
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La presidenta municipal
Overview: La India Maria becomes the municipal president due to a ballot typo.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1975-09-11
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Viva la risa
Overview: Mexican feature film
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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Viva la risa II
Overview: Mexican feature film
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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Yo quiero ser artista
Overview: The Postman Adalberto is involved by chance in the filming of a scene, which gives the film director the idea of including him as an actor, but without his knowledge.
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 1958-05-15
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El luchador fenómeno
Overview: Amado is an employee of a brewery that dreams of success in football. Inveterate dreamer sends a letter to the pantheon of athletes. There champions Assembly decides to send the spirit of a great scorer for help. However, the devil, a fighter with no luck, decides to take the place of the player and turn beloved wrestling champion. This is one of the first incursions of Mexican cinema to the sub-genre of movies precursor struggle and many others that followed over the decades of the 50s and 60s.
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 1952-10-17
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The Laughter Of The City
Overview: The underside of Mexico City: street performers, factory workers, a drunk, an old man with civic pride, a pickpocket, and others live and interact in a shantytown near the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1963-11-09
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Chiquidracula
Overview: An alcoholic grandfather is seriously ill. His doctor suggests that experiencing a bad scare could cure him. His grandson volunteers to help him.
Genres: Drama Comedy Family
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1985-01-02
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El aviador fenómeno
Overview: Various murders are examined by a private investigator.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-08-09
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A Fuego Lento
Overview: In the film "A fuego lento," Guadalupe Palma, a dancer and part-time prostitute, finds herself at the center of a suspenseful and enigmatic story, inadvertently setting off a chaotic pursuit by various factions, including ruthless gangsters. Her impoverished musician boyfriend, Óscar, becomes entangled in the intrigue, resulting in a unique cinematic experience with minimal dialogue.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1980-01-03
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Miracles
Overview: Jean and Roger decide to divorce after 10 years, but 12 hours later, they're together again by accident. Their cars collide, swerving to miss Juan, the jaywalking jewel thief who decides to cash in on the crash. The ex-couple are kidnapped, shot at, cast adrift, mistaken for smugglers and even survive a plane crash. But the toughest torture these two endure is being trapped together.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-07-11
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Cuentos colorados
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1981-03-26
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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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They Say I'm a Communist
Overview: A worker overwhelmed by the economic crisis and the cost of living is accidentally propaganda of a political party, apparently from left, who convinces him to join their ranks and defending the working class. After entering through a ritual as mysterious as typical, you will realize demagoguery and arrangements existing between union leaders to maintain the status quo unchanged and profit from mafia practices.
Genres: Drama Comedy Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-07-12
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El rey de los albures
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 1982-01-21
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Dance my king!
Overview: Lower-middle-class ligger rescues a girl from her abusive father and practices for a high-profile dance contest.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-08-03
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The Girl with the Blue Backpack
Overview: In a fishermen's town in Texas, the kids Amy and Raul are close friends. Andrew, uncle and guardian of Amy is alcoholic, but she loves him. The three of them have to face the autorities when they try to take Amy away.
Genres: Family Drama Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1979-10-18
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El secuestro de los cien millones
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1980-01-24
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¡Viva la juventud!
Overview: Movie based on the classic student football competition between UNAM pumas and the Polytechnic donkeys that were popular at that time. A mechanic is mistaken for the best player in the Polytechnic, while in the Unam a student discovers a formula for superpowers to play football. Both compete for the love of a rookie and to win the students classic.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1956-05-15
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Del suelo no paso
Overview: Poetic-type dude gets mixed up with gangsters, a millionaire's dog and some stolen jewels.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1959-08-20
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Jóvenes y rebeldes
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1961-11-30
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Love in Four Parts
Overview: Anthology film, four episodes.
Genres: Comedy Drama Crime Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1955-08-19
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To the Sound of the Mambo
Overview: A fun musical comedy style of the 50s where the infectious rhythm of the son and the mambo, led by the hand by the incomparable Damaso Perez Prado, will a waste of good music and grace. With a formidable cast, and above all a fabulous collector's item.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1950-10-07
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El amor no es negocio
Overview: Brother and sister bumpkins move to the big city, where they fall into the orbit of a gigolo-pimp type.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1950-08-16
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Peter Knife
Overview: Based on the international hit song, Pedro Navaja (Peter the Knife) is the story of the coolest, street smart hustler ever to walk the streets of Mexico City. The police are after him, his rivals are after him, and all the while the most beautiful women of Mexico are in the cup of his hand. - Written by Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Genres: Action Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1984-05-31
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Pilotos de la muerte
Overview: A couple of provincial gas station employees travel to the capital seeking fortune of vehicle mechanics accidental career passing drivers.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1962-05-02
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The Bricklayers
Overview: When a worker is found murdered on the construction side, the investigation swiftly turns from things criminal to the political circumstances surrounding the building itself. Widespread corruption and neglect by the builder himself are seen to have brought the situation about. Much of the movie is filmed using hand-held cameras, and the majority of the dialogue is in the difficult-to-understand and very slangy Spanish dialect of Mexico City's bricklayers.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1976-12-23
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Slum
Overview: Reworking of City Lights -- poor schmoe busts his hump to restore a blind woman's sight...
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 1950-12-08
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Las delicias del poder
Overview: A political candidate has an accident that will bring her out of the campaign unless her twin sister may be able to supplant her while she recovers.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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All Souls' Day
Overview: Two families gather at a cemetery to honor their departed.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1988-10-27
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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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Me gustan todas
Overview: Wealthy Mexican tourist gets swindled by a Cuban woman pretending to be his daughter from a previous visit.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1954-08-04
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The King of México
Overview: A humble tramp is turned, for a couple of days, into the richest and most famous man in México.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1956-04-20
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Comedians of the League
Overview: The guy that runs the concession stand at a vaudeville theatre gets tangled up with a gang of thieves.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1957-07-26
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Asesinos, S.A.
Overview: Incompetent clown is drafted into a Murder Incorporated style squad of hitmen.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-09-16
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Los tres mosqueteros de Dios
Overview: Three priests resort to desperate long-shots (like quiz-shows) to raise money for their parish.
Genres: Drama Adventure Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1967-03-30
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El dengue del amor
Overview: Dancing fanatic weasels his way into Perez Prado's entourage as a personal assistant.
Genres: Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1965-10-15
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The Kid
Overview: Two young homeless people meet and fall in love, but bad luck separates them again every time they find each other.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-07-13
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Picardía mexicana
Overview: An academic tags along among a crew of rowdy delivery-truck drivers, taking notes on their colorful and idiomatic use of language.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1978-12-21
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Las modelos de desnudos
Overview: Three interlocking anecdotes about boy/girl stuff. Two gigolos make a bet to see which can boff an heiress first, a young artist tries to persuade his upper-class parents that his artist's-model fiance is a good choice for marriage, and a guy on the run from the mafia hides from them by cross-dressing.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1983-09-15
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El futbolista fenómeno
Overview: A beer seller is kidnapped by martians, who give him special powers to become a super football player.
Genres: Science Fiction Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1979-12-06
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The Girl with the Blue Backpack 2
Overview: The continuation of the adventures of Amy and Raul.
Genres: Comedy Adventure Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1981-03-21
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Mojado de nacimiento
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Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1981-05-10
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Matar es fácil
Overview: Among Delia, a socialite, and Jorge a bohemian cabaret pianist, begins a relationship that ends in tragedy.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1966-10-26
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Dying of Laughter
Overview: Carnival worker is recruited by police to impersonate an old lady whose relatives want to kill her.
Genres: Horror Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1957-07-18
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El oreja rajada
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Genres: Adventure Drama Family
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1980-06-23
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La ley de las calles
Overview: Young man wants to marry, but his girlfriend's brothers beat the hell out of him and have him arrested . When he gets out of jail...
Genres: Action
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1989-06-28
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The Mocking Ghosts
Overview: Two fake fortune-tellers at a carnival accidentally conjure up some real ghosts.
Genres: Music Comedy Fantasy Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1965-09-30
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Rumba caliente
Overview: Stage-hand and a concession-girl try to break into showbiz.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1952-11-27
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San Simón de los Magueyes
Overview: The statue of a town's patron saint is broken just before the annual Saint's Day festival, so the priest hires a mime from a troupe of traveling players to impersonate the statue during the church's hours of operation.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-09-13
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Carnaval en mi barrio
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 1961-10-04
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Chain of lies
Overview: A lawyer cannot stop lying. And he gets into trouble when a lie becomes true.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1955-11-02
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Theater of Horror
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Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1991-01-01
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The Flying Saucers
Overview: A guy and his girlfriend pretend to come from Mars.
Genres: Science Fiction Comedy Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1956-12-08
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Las noches del Blanquita
Overview: Mexican feature film
Genres: Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-01-01
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Confidencias de un ruletero
Overview: Taxi driver takes the wrong passenger at the wrong time and gets caught up in a murder investigation.
Genres: Comedy Crime Mystery
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1949-11-16
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Panic in the Mountain
Overview: Hunters go to a mine in the country looking for a treasure and discover rumors that the mine is cursed are all too true.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1989-09-21
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I Slept With a Ghost
Overview: Ghost horror-comedy.
Genres: Mystery Comedy Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1949-01-01
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Échenme al gato
Overview: Comical mix-up in the operating room: by mistake, a notorious gangster's arm is grafted onto an accident-victim's stump.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-03-26
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El gran pillo
Overview: A comic movie that involves a guy who sees a kid in his house who escaped from his wealthy grandfather's mansion.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1960-03-17
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Tacos al Carbón
Overview: Tacos al carbón is a mexican movie released on june 8th 1972 on Mexico City.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1972-06-08
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El padre trampitas
Overview: Folksy, down-to-earth priest is willing to bend the rules & cheat a little, for the well-being of his parishioners. By the end of the movie, he's reformed the alcoholic, restored the foundling boy to his family, match-made the eligible youngfolks together AND saved his orphanage from foreclosure.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1984-12-12
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Los Cacos
Overview: A group of Soccer-loving friends devise a plan to make easy money.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1972-12-28
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Fieras contra fieras
Overview: In a small town governed by two rival families, the children break a decades-long feud by running away to the circus.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1982-11-03
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Hora y media de balazos
Overview: Unassuming, milquetoast-y shepherd-boy is pressured into posing as a dangerous gunslinger.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1957-03-26
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The Son of Peter the Knife
Overview: The legend of "Peter The Knife" continues in this popular sequel to one of Mexico's all-time blockbusters. Following in his infamous father's footsteps, Peter, Jr. manages to get more than his fair share of the love of beautiful women...and the hatred of his enemies. Action and drama from New York to Acapulco.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1986-10-16
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El nieto del Zorro
Overview: Two strolling players are mistaken for locally-famous bandit. Also, a young lady's inheritance is at stake.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1948-03-26
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Las Tentadoras
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Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1980-06-12
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Manos arriba
Overview: A tailor is mistaken for the leader of an agricultural union and gets tangled up in a price-fixing conspiracy.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1958-06-11
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México de mis amores
Overview: Anthology of clips from classic-era Mexican films, with reality-footage of elderly actors discussing their memories of the period.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1979-10-12
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Miradas que matan
Overview: Sketchy TV personality exploits a busker with psychic powers for personal gain.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1954-04-07
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Ni hablar del peluquín
Overview: Some unlucky accidents cause an innocent person to be convicted to jail time, and on release he can only find gainful employ in a criminal gang... but a little girl in a house he breaks into rehabilitates him with her innocence and simplicity. And stuff.
Genres: Comedy Crime Family
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1960-09-22
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Pobre huerfanita
Overview: Little girl with a cruel nanny and neglectful parents hears mumsy and popsy talking about divorce, and runs away from home.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1955-01-27
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Music of Always
Overview: Producer, director and projectionist watch an assortment of musical numbers and brainstorm about framing narrative that could contain them all.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1958-07-17
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Soy un golfo
Overview: Slacker decides to work and create a career for himself after he falls in love with an ambitious woman.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1955-07-08
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Suerte te dé Dios
Overview: Two construction workers discover a stash of gold coins hidden in the walls of a building they're demolishing.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1961-05-11
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La marchanta
Overview: Young woman just-arrived in the big city makes friends with two middle-aged couples.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1973-09-13
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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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El ladrón fenomeno
Overview: A movie about a thief who got caught but redeemed himself by getting a job as a locksmith.
Genres: Comedy Crime Family
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1980-01-01
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Misión cumplida
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Genres: Comedy Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-01-29
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Los Fernández de Peralvillo
Overview: A young man fails as a seller of household goods and his sister, tired of poverty, elopes with a criminal.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1954-09-14
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De Cocula es el mariachi
Overview: A ranchera singer and his band emigrate to Texas to try their luck there.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1978-01-27
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Policías y ladrones
Overview: When an inexperienced police officer discovers a corpse while inspecting a crime scene, he flees with no explanation. However, that action will help his unit to recover some stolen jewels during a robbery.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1956-09-28
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Santo and Blue Demon Against the Monsters
Overview: Bruno Halder a sinister scientist seeking revenge against his brother and niece is resurrected by Waldo his faithful sidekick. Besides his minions of zombies Halder enlists the help of Wolfman, Franquestain, a Vampire, a Mummy and a Cyclops. Once again the survival of mankind is put in the hands of Santo
Genres: Action Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1970-05-14
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Como México no hay dos
Overview: Rags-to-riches story about the rise of a fictional ranchera-music superstar.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1981-09-15
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