Álvaro Carcaño
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Department: Acting
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Gender: Male
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Los Talacheros
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 1995-01-01
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Solo
Overview: An android fighting-machine is charged with destroying a small brigade of rebels in a Latin American war who are fighting to maintain their freedom and protect their village. Contrary to his programming, Peebles decides to stay and assist the rebels in their plight. Having gained this information, his "creators" develop a more powerful android to try and defeat him.
Genres: Action Adventure Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-08-23
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Caminando pasos... caminando
Overview: In a community of the Matlatzinca ethnic group, a teacher tries to integrate the inhabitants into the struggle of a guerrilla group.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1977-04-10
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One Man’s War
Overview: Anthony Hopkins plays an English medical doctor living with his family in Paraguay and treating the poor people from the surroundings, who has his life turned upside down when his son was mysteriously murdered in what could have been an attack to him since he's opposed to the military dictatorship of the country. The doctor and his family will take lots of risk while trying to prove that the government was involved in the murder.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-04-20
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Sin remitente
Overview: A lonely, aging postal worker finds himself the victim of a cruel practical joke in this pessimistic Mexican drama. The trouble begins when crotchety postman Andre begins complaining about his young neighbor Marianna's propensity for playing loud music every time she entertains a lover. To get back at him, Marianna begins sending him anonymous love letters. The old man is intrigued by the mysterious letters and hires a cheap detective to find their author. The detective is convinced the perpetrator is Teresita, a veteran hooker who joins in on the scheme to earn a little extra cash. Andre's friend and colleague tries to warn Andre that it is all a game, but his friend is in love and will not listen. Meanwhile, Marianna attempts to woo Luis Felipe, a hard, unfeeling tabloid journalist who has her take grisly pictures of murder victims for him. Both Marianna and Andre are destined to meet an unpleasant fate at the story's end.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-10-06
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The Heist
Overview: In Mexico City's infamous Lecumberri prison, three drug-addicted convicts celebrate getting drugs from one of their the mothers. They are found out and locked up in the "apando," the dreaded punishment cell. Protests over the treatment of those held in the cell lead to a bloody confrontation.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1976-08-05
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Luces de la noche
Overview: On a whim, a retired gentleman decides to track down an old girlfriend from decades back.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-05-29
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The Queen of the Night
Overview: The legendary life of Mexican singer Lucha Reyes is the basis of this fictionalized biography ( or as director Arturo Ripstein puts it "an imaginary biography"). Lucha Reyes was an unconventional, and sexually liberated woman, most famous for her "cancion ranchera" style singing. Her story begins in 1939, where at 33 she still lived at home with her mother, Dona Victora, the madame of a renowned Mexico City whorehouse. Lucha marries the liberal Pedro Calderon and then buys a beggar's daughter. She becomes the mother to this child, Luzma. Lucha craves lasting love like junkies crave heroin. But for her loyal daughter, she never finds it and in the end no one can help her.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1994-09-07
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The In-Laws
Overview: In preparation for his daughter's wedding, dentist Sheldon Kornpett meets Vince Ricardo, the groom's father. Vince, a manic fellow who claims to be a government agent, then proceeds to drag Sheldon into a series of chases and misadventures from New York to Central America.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-06-15
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Yellowbeard
Overview: For years Yellowbeard had looted the Spanish Main, making men eat their lips and swallow their hearts. Caught and convicted for tax evasion, he's sentenced to 20 years in St. Victim's Prison for the Extremely Naughty. In a scheme to confiscate his fabulous treasure, the Royal Navy allows him to escape and follows him, where saucy tarts, lisping demigods and some awful puns and punishments await.
Genres: Comedy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-06-24
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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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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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Solo para adúlteros
Overview: Two stories - "The mask model": An advertising executive, Mateo, gets involved with all the women he can, but he doesn't allow his wife to work. The company photographer is in love with her, so he takes advantage of her and tells her about her husband's infidelities. "Los encuerados": Some women do a casting to renew the male staff of their exclusive business for ladies.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1989-10-26
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El águila descalza
Overview: Shmuck makes a superhero costume, rides his bike to crime scenes. He gets involved with something big involving US capitalists taking over local Mexican businesses.
Genres: Drama Comedy Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1971-12-08
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Deep Crimson
Overview: Driven by desire and desperate for self-love, Coral and Nicolás will abandon their past lives in a journey surrounded by murder.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1996-09-09
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Firewalker
Overview: A pair of adventurers try to track down an ancient Aztec/Mayan/Egyptian/Apache horde of gold.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-11-21
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Midaq Alley
Overview: Heated tempers, frustrated desires and dashed hopes plague a diverse group of individuals whose lives cross paths in Mexico City. There is the bar-owner's son, Chava, who yearns to emigrate to America. A poor barber, Abel, is madly in love with the gorgeous Alma, who eventually becomes a high-class prostitute. Finally, there is Susanita, the desperate spinster who pursues many love affairs in hopes of finding a husband.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1995-05-05
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The Blue Iguana
Overview: To stay out of the slammer, down-on-his-luck bounty hunter Vince Holloway reluctantly agrees to do the bidding of two crooked IRS agents. Tasked with recouping $20 million of laundered drug money, Holloway heads south of the border to the Blue Iguana, a bar crawling with thugs, killers, smugglers, evil women, and crazy action.
Genres: Thriller Action Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-04-22
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Valentina's Wedding
Overview: Valentina's seemingly idyllic life in the US is interrupted when planning a wedding means introducing her fiancé to her scandalous family in Mexico.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2018-02-09
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Frankenstein's Great Aunt Tillie
Overview: The descendants of Baron Frankenstein return to the family castle to search for the family fortune that is supposed to be hidden there.
Genres: Comedy Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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Kino: The Legend of the Black Priest
Overview: Propped up on his deathbed, a 17th century Spanish missionary named Father Kino (Enrique Rocha) looks back on his remarkable life and relives one of his greatest challenges: bringing the teachings of Christianity to California's native population while convincing the Spanish military to respect the Indians' traditions.
Genres: Drama History Adventure
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1993-05-07
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Viernes tragico
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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Meridiano 100
Overview: The task of some guerrillas is to try to foment the conscience among peasants of a town, but their attempts will be tragically restricted.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1976-10-28
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Faith
Overview: Teresa is married to Filogonio, a man who suffers from pain in his legs, which prevents him from walking, so she decides to make a religious vow and travels to the sanctuary of the Lord of Chalma to ask for a miracle to cure her husband.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1974-02-14
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How Did I Come to Fall in Love With You?
Overview: The history of Los Bukis, from its humble beginning to its successful tour, going through problems and intrigues.
Genres: Drama Music History
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1990-07-01
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