Lorena Velázquez
Also Known As: Lorena Villar Dondé, Lorena Velazquez, María de la Concepción Lorena Villar Dondé, Maria de la Concepcion Lorena Villar Donde, Lorena Villar Donde
Biography: One of the quintessential vamps of Mexican cinema from the late 1950s through the early '70s, Lorena Velázquez is the daughter of character actor Víctor Velázquez, and the older sister of actress Tere Velázquez. She made her screen debut in 1955, and her role as Thorina, queen of the vampires, in _Santo contra las mujeres vampiros, El (1961)_, elevated her to the status of cult icon.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Mexico City, México
Adult: No
Birthday: December 16, 1937
Age: 87 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: April 11, 2024
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Las infieles
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1969-01-01
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Santo vs. the Vampire Women
Overview: A professor recruits a professional wrestler to protect his daughter from vampires intent on kidnapping her and marrying her to the devil.
Genres: Action Horror Fantasy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1962-10-11
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Reclusorio
Overview: The human and divine justice are exposed through five real life stories related to the legal processes of a prison. The cases presented are: "I want to stay in jail", "Blood between women", "The raped prostitute", "The kidnapped policeman", and "Euthanasia or murder?"
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1997-09-19
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Caín, Abel... y el Otro
Overview: Three early twenties guys in Acapulco competing for women... they end up marooned on a desert island together...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1971-09-16
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The Wrestling Women vs. the Aztec Mummy
Overview: Gloria Venus and Golden Rubi are tag-team Luchadoras, helping a scientist on a quest to discover an ancient Aztec treasure, but the fiendish Prince Fugiyata wants to get there first. Both are in for a surprise, as the treasure is guarded by Xochitl, the Aztec Mummy Sorcerer, who can turn into a bat at will.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1964-11-27
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La edad de piedra
Overview: Capulina chip and are transported back to prehistoric times with a time machine. There they live crazy adventures.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Science Fiction
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1964-12-24
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The Mummies of San Angel
Overview: A young man is the heir of a very old house in San Angel. Upon marriage, he decides to live there but after a long time, very strange things begin to happen in the house. Then he discovers that there are mummies hidden that awake in the night.
Genres: Thriller Action Adventure Horror Mystery
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1975-01-02
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Cartas a Elena
Overview: In the beautiful hills of the Copper Canyon in Chihuahua, Mexico, a young boy (Emilio) is adopted by the mailman (Teo). As part of their daily tasks, they not only deliver the mail but read letters to the villagers, as well as take dictation, since most are illiterate. Young Emilio quickly learns to read and write but feels saddened by the mostly difficult stories sent by relatives, that moved north to Denver, Colorado in pursuit of a better future. One day Teo becomes disabled and Emilio takes over the mail route and with great imagination, he changes the letters to happy and optimistic stories. Within days, the village is transformed. The elders, once hopeless, lonely and sad, are now happy and enthusiastic, enjoying the "supposed" success their loved ones write from the United States. But the enjoyment is short lived, as they realize that all the wonderful stories are the same...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-06-08
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La Lucha Invade el Cine Mexicano
Overview: Lucha libre is part of Mexican culture, but how did something that was shown in circuses and fairs become a cinematic genre? Join us to learn about this trajectory.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2024-03-28
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The Witches Attack
Overview: Santo must battle an evil witch and the demons and evil spirits she brings up from Hell.
Genres: Horror Fantasy Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1968-02-23
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Macabre Legends of the Colony
Overview: The Mexican luchador Tinieblas buys an ancient painting of a dead woman ignoring the warning that it is haunted. Later, after a fight his partners El Fantasma Blanco and Mil Máscaras joins him in a party at his apartment with two beautiful ladies, but when the clock reaches midnight the painting transports them all to colonial times. In order to return home they must face Spanish Conquistadores, Aztec Warriors and an evil witch whose mother, an unstoppable living dead hungry for human sacrifices, is the woman in the painting.
Genres: Horror Action Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1974-01-31
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La vida de Agustín Lara
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Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1959-01-01
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Mi amorcito de Suecia
Overview: A failed marriage takes in a young niece while the wife tries to take away her inheritance.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1974-01-01
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Pánico en el paraíso
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Genres: Adventure
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1994-12-31
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Estafa de amor
Overview: Based on the novel by Caridad Bravo Adams.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1970-01-08
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A tiro limpio
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Genres: Western
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1960-01-28
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Una señora movida
Overview: "Old dark house" spooky-comedy.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-12-17
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The Diabolical Axe
Overview: In the Age of the Inquisitions, 1603, Santo, El Enmascarado de Plata, is being laid to rest by a group of monks. The Black Hood, an axe-wielder and a tormented soul who sold his soul to the devil after losing his love to El Santo, appears at the foot of his tomb and swears to seek his revenge no matter how many centuries it takes. El Santo is the chosen one and is sworn to fight for good and justice at any cost. After he finds his love, Alicia, dead at the hands of the Black Hood, El Santo must trust his faith and use his strength in this battle of good vs. evil.
Genres: Action Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1965-08-27
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Planet of the Female Invaders
Overview: A group of sexy space vixens flies down to Earth, sets up a shop at a carnival (disguising their ship as a ride), and kidnap some earthlings in their scheme to conquer our planet. The humans, including Marcos, a crooked boxer and our hero, Silvia, his love interest, and a gang of comical mobsters out to kill Marcos, are taken to the women’s home planet. There they are held prisoner by the evil queen Adastrea and aided by her selfless twin Alburnia. Meanwhile, a standard issue hunky scientist back on Earth, who happens to be Silvia’s boss, tries to rescue them.
Genres: Science Fiction Fantasy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1966-11-18
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Ship of the Monsters
Overview: A singing cowboy falls foul of alien invaders and beautiful women from Venus.
Genres: Science Fiction Comedy Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1960-01-22
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Milagros de San Martín de Porres
Overview: Mexican feature film
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1959-01-01
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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 Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1956-05-15
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The Mighty Jungle
Overview: A South American expedition is in search of fortune thought to be hidden in an Lost Aztec city. While trudging through the jungles the main character in the story becomes detached from the group. He develops a fever and in a desperate attempt to cool his fever, he gorges himself on some jungle fruit.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-10-06
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New faces
Overview: Mexican feature film
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1956-01-01
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Un mundo nuevo
Overview: This largely forgotten film, often referred to by its English title, A New World, tells the story of an Insurance Adjuster who is sent out to investigate a claim for sunken cargo prior to paying for the loss. He ends up uncovering more than he anticipated, when he falls in love.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1957-01-01
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El malvado Carabel
Overview: Frustrated salaryman responds to career setbacks by embarking on a life of crime.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1961-11-12
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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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Doctor of Doom
Overview: A mad scientist terrorizes a city by kidnapping young women with his ape-man Gomar and then using them as subjects in sadistic brain transplant experiments. A female wrestler whose sister was one of the victims swears vengeance against the Mad Doctor.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-05-24
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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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Las bravuconas
Overview: Three big-city wimps have to pass for machos when they go to their home-town.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1963-09-27
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Cinco mil dolares de recompensa
Overview: A gunfighter is appointed sheriff of a town that is terrorized by a gang of criminals.
Genres: Western Thriller Action
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1974-04-18
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Si yo fuera millonario
Overview: White-collar criminals conspire to prevent a shmuck from collecting an inheritance.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-08-26
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Los tres bohemios
Overview: Three struggling musicians share an apartment.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1957-07-17
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The Shame of the Sabine Women
Overview: The Sabine tribe battles Romulus in the early days of Rome after Romans seize their women as unwilling brides.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1962-07-19
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Un gallo con espolones (Operación ñongos)
Overview: Mexican singer responds to ham radio operators' invitation to come to Peru and perform a benefit for a children's hospital.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-10-15
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Ellas también son rebeldes
Overview: The discovery of a young woman murdered in her car triggers unrelated problems among a diverse group of people.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1961-04-20
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El último cartucho
Overview: Dishonest business practices and corrupt local government lead a large number of townsfolk to set up an alternative village out in the countryside, from which to practice banditry and improvised social justice.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1965-01-22
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El tragabalas
Overview: Western comedy - sheriff faces bad guys.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-02-03
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La ley del más rápido
Overview: Young gunslinger gets his hero on. #2 in a series ("El Puma.")
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1959-12-03
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Quiero morir en carnaval
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Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1961-12-07
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Friar Juan
Overview: A Dominican friar finds himself wrapped in tangled skirts because he is mistaken for his twin brother, a womanizer.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1970-06-25
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Los Hombres No Lloran
Overview: Man is manipulated into thinking his wife is unfaithful and abandons her, taking one of their two sons with him.
Genres: Western Drama Action
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1973-06-28
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La Chilindrina en apuros
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Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1994-04-29
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Vuelve el Norteño
Overview: Two rival gangs of outlaws are terrorizing a small town; el Comandante and his sidekicks pit them against each other and pick up the pieces.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-01-03
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Tierra de violencia
Overview: Western sheriff's black-sheep son becomes responsible for keeping order in town while his father is recovering from a gunshot.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-02-18
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Campeón de la muerte
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1963-01-01
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Adorada enemiga
Overview: Young Patricia returns from studying in Europe and finds her mother has married to a man named Jaime. The young woman falls in love with him, who has also seduced a servant who still loves him.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1965-12-01
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Los tigres del desierto
Overview: Viruta and Capulina are responsible for rescuing the Sultan's baby, after it's kidnapped by a evil dude.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1958-10-04
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Santo vs. the Zombies
Overview: Masked luchador "Santo" fights against an evil doctor and his zombie army.
Genres: Horror Action Adventure Mystery
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1962-05-31
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Apuesta con la muerte
Overview: A young man tries to get away from his disfunctional family by working with his friend, a rich boy who lives in excess and sleaze, but he will soon realize how reckless his friend is and that he is submerged in a life of crime, vice and deadly bets.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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Estate of Terror
Overview: A group of heirs show up at a farm to collect an inheritance and are killed off one-by-one. A low budget direct-to-DVD release with loads of cameos from both veteran actors and World Cup soccer players.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2005-01-01
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¡En peligro de muerte!
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Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1962-11-29
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The Innocent
Overview: The innocence of a woman due to a mental deficit will become the worst nightmare for her loved ones, after the harsh reality of the outside world made her their victim.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1972-11-02
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Asesina
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1999-12-31
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Ladrón que roba a ladrón
Overview: Two bandits hide from the law by posing as doctor's in a small town without medical care.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-08-10
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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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El puma
Overview: Son of a ranching family returns home after studying in the city for a law degree. He sides with the peons in a labor dispute and his father disowns him; he sets up a law office in another town. First of three movies in a masked-avenger series.
Genres: Western Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1959-09-09
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Suicide Mission
Overview: Santo must investigate a secret conspiracy involving a spy training camp, a brainwashing plot, and a kidnapped Nazi scientist.
Genres: Action Adventure Science Fiction Western
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1973-04-05
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Loco por ellas
Overview: Starring Lorena Velazquez, German Valdes, Marcelo Chavez
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1966-03-29
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Dormitorio para señoritas
Overview: Young lawyer is mistaken for music professor and goes to live at a boarding school for young women.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1960-05-11
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Ay Chabela...!
Overview: Two guys fight over two girls, ranchera style.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1961-06-22
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Bataclán mexicano
Overview: International showgirl engineers a green-card marriage for herself to avoid being deported.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1956-08-30
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Escuela de Placer
Overview: Heirs of a bankrupt relative decide that the only way they can avoid sacrificing their inherited property to pay debts is by opening a brothel.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1984-06-14
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El charro de Tacubaya
Overview: A humble shoe shiner finds fame and fortune as a wrestler without knowing he wears a dead man's mask.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2006-01-01
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La odalisca No. 13
Overview: The Emir of Beirutistan gets the hots for a Mexican singer and arranges to have her kidnapped. Her costar and manager tag along to rescue her.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1958-10-22
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La cama de piedra
Overview: Antonio is happy and is about to get married, but he has an enemy who wants to kill him. He steals his knife known by the whole town and kills a drunkard with it. With this evidence Antonio is sentenced to fifteen years in prison.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1958-01-29
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El hijo de la Tiznada
Overview: The son of a powerful woman who was murdered comes back as an adult to take revenge.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2001-01-01
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Love of My Loves
Overview: Two couples get to know what we all dream about: love at first sight. The problem is they meet it with different people to the ones they are engaged with, and they are just at seven days to get married. Up to that moment, they have to reconsider what’s love and what’s a habit, and to face them going against an idea with an expiration date: marriage. "Love of my loves" is based upon the successful mexican theatrical play "Un dos tres por mí y por todos mis amores", and explores compromise, doubts and commitment mixing drama and comedy.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2014-09-05
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Más sabe el Diablo por Viejo
Overview: Teo, a young and struggling actor, disguises himself as a 79 year old man to take advantage from the benefits of a retirement home, while also trying to sort out his personal and love life.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-07-26
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Tin Tan y las modelos
Overview: Ambitious non-starter gets a job as a bill-collector at a beauty-products company and tries to bluff his way into a management position, then tries a couple of other business schemes with minimal success.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1960-07-07
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Martín Santos, El llanero
Overview: A farmer aspires to marry the daughter of the local aristocrats, but she think he's beneath her. It take a long time for things to settle into a groove so life can run smoothly again for all concerned.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1961-05-15
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Lío de faldas
Overview: Five artsy young women in a group house have landlord troubles.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1969-09-18
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She-Wolves of the Ring
Overview: Intimate problems and the wickedness of friends is resolved in the ring.
Genres: Action
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1965-05-21
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Tintansón Cruzoe
Overview: Tin Tan is marooned on an island full of colorful natives.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1965-09-30
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Un padre a toda máquina
Overview: Two neighboring towns have a hostile relationship... but one town has a surplus of marriageable bachelors, and the other has too many young women to marry off locally, so both towns need to get over their damn selves. A hip young priest on a motorcycle is assigned to set things right between them.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1964-10-15
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Los Desalmados
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Genres: Action Western Adventure
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1971-06-17
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Ya somos hombres
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1971-04-27
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Dos Criados Malcriados
Overview: Don Antonio quiere casar a una de sus dos hijas Tere o Lorena con un conde. Para eso alquila una mansión y contrata a los criados Viruta y Capulina, para atender al conde y a sus invitados. Pero los criados descubren que el conde y sus invitados son unos rateros.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-07-21
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El tesoro de Morgan
Overview: Mexican feature film
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-01-01
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Elena's Daughters
Overview: A love story, of boyfriends and songs¸ of three sisters who travel to Colombia with their jealous father Hipólito to receive the inheritance of their late aunt Encajosa¸ who made it a condition that the three girls must be married to receive it.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1964-10-27
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Masajista de señoras
Overview: This fun comedy presents two masseurs who, by getting a job, dress up as women and thus live comic adventures.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1973-05-03
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Deadly Embroidered Memories
Overview: A woman with a degree in biology and a particular taste for arachnids gets involved with some unfinished business left by her dead mother, leading her to face unlikely events that revolve around the banana mafia in a South American country, such as an etheric eminence that anticipates tragedies, a cryptozoological being that is mentioned with skepticism and a terrorist society that seeks to dismantle the fraudulent and sinister structure of land concessions.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2020-03-06
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Ghosts Who Love Too Much
Overview: Mexican feature film
Genres: Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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El escándalo
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1964-01-30
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La Diana cazadora
Overview: A great love story based on the idea and development of the famous monument that decorating Mexico City.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1957-06-21
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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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¡Yo sabia demasiado!
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Genres: Action Crime Thriller Mystery
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1960-10-27
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Fiebre de Amor
Overview: A teenage girl with a crush on a young popular singing star sneaks into his house to fulfill her dreams of meeting him. Together they accidentally run into a group of diamond smugglers and she becomes the victim of a kidnapping. The young star comes to her rescue in this romantic comedy with lots of songs and the Acapulco scenery as a backdrop.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1985-11-22
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