Augusto Benedico
Also Known As: Augusto Pérez Lías
Biography: Augusto Benedico (December 20, 1909 – January 19, 1992), born Augusto Pérez Lias, was a Mexican actor of Spanish origin.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Alicante, Comunitat Valenciana, Spain
Adult: No
Birthday: December 21, 1909
Age: 115 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: January 19, 1992
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La hora desnuda
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Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1971-01-01
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The Exterminating Angel
Overview: A formal dinner party starts out normally enough, but after the bourgeois group retire to the host’s music room, they inexplicably find themselves unable to leave.
Genres: Comedy Drama Fantasy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1962-05-16
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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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The Clutching Hand
Overview: Two wrestling stars must investigate strange deaths and a secret criminal organization led by a madman who becomes invisible.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Crime Mystery
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1966-05-20
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Tinieblas
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1957-01-01
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Los secretos del sexo débil
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1962-05-31
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Santo vs. the King of Crime
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Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1962-11-30
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Estos años violentos
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Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1962-01-01
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The Cubs
Overview: After having his genitals brutally mutilated during childhood, a man must face prejudice and himself.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1973-05-10
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Cuatro hombres marcados
Overview: Cowboy detective investigates two murders.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-08-08
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El pueblo del terror
Overview: Federal-agent/cowboy battles crime
Genres: Western
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1970-10-29
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Santo in the Hotel of Death
Overview: Tourists visiting the pyramids in Mexico experience a string of deaths and disappearances while staying at a nearby hotel. Police investigators Fernando and Cornado are assigned to the case and attempt to solve the mystery with the help of reporter (and girlfriend of Fernando) Veronica and the wrestler Santo.
Genres: Action Horror Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1963-01-25
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El gran autor
Overview: A story of passion and deceit, where love overcomes the misfortunes and finally triumphs.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1954-05-05
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The Big Cube
Overview: A young woman and her drug addict boyfriend plot to drive the woman's stepmother insane with LSD in a plot to secure an inheritance.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-04-30
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Historia de un amor
Overview: Singer relives her love-life in flashback: she adopts another woman's illegitimate daughter, she gets married, the grandparents of the baby raise a fuss, etc.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1956-02-15
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Love & Sex (Sappho 1963)
Overview: Independently-wealthy woman tries to break free of repressive, conservative cultural constraints.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1964-05-14
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La cigüeña dijo sí
Overview: Newlywed couple wait for their first baby, but the mother/in-law gets pregnant first.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-07-21
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Jalisco nunca pierde
Overview: Class distinctions are an obstacle for a guy trying to woo his gal of choice.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-09-26
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YESENIA
Overview: A beautiful gypsy named Yesenia has no set path in life. During a caravan trip she meets Osvaldo who is enrolled in the militia, they both fall in love despite their differences and social prejudices.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1971-09-11
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No One Will Love You Like I Do
Overview: A student-movement leftist becomes a nun and absorbs lots of deep, deep TV-movie spiritual lessons about God's glorious plan.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1972-09-21
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Remolino de pasiones
Overview: Gigolo devises underhanded schemes to insinuate himself into the lives of the wife and daughter of a rich man with a terminal illness.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-04-30
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Yo pecador
Overview: Biopic of a 1930s operatic tenor who ended up becoming a Franciscan monk and joining the priesthood.
Genres: Drama Family Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1959-09-20
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The Door and The Butcher's Wife
Overview: A movie divided in two segments, the first "La puerta" (The Door) is about a high society gathering in which a door inside the mansion leads to a bizarre corridor where a naked and menacing human figure appears. The second "La mujer del carnicero" (The Butcher's Wife) is set during the Mexican revolution and is about horrifying hallucinations felt by a lieutenant after committing a murder.
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1969-09-25
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Pedro Paramo
Overview: When his mother Dolores dies, Juan Preciado, son of Pedro Páramo, goes to Comala to claim his inheritance; but when he arrives he finds an abandoned and sinister place, inhabited by mysterious voices and whispers…
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1967-01-26
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El festin de la loba
Overview: A woman with a troubled past introduces lust, depravity and sex to a religious commune.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1972-11-01
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El cielo y tú
Overview: Priest suffers a head injury, develops amnesia, ends up in a hippie commune.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1971-07-29
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Love Your Neighbor
Overview: This film tells several short stories that end up lapsing in the emergency room of a hospital, because it is dedicated to nurses. Cantinflas appears at the end of the film playing the role of Luis, a man who has five daughters and looks forward to a boy, but fate plays a trick and the child dies at birth, but history gives a nice twist and a message of hope.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1958-10-23
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Aunt Isabel's Garden
Overview: A ship carrying Conquistadors is wrecked and the survivors are thrown ashore to struggle through the Yucatan jungle.
Genres: History Adventure
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1972-04-05
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Cascabelito
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Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1962-04-28
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Doña Perfecta
Overview: Liberal farmer Pepe has arrived in Santa Fe to visit his aunt, Dona Perfecta. While he's there, Pepe is eager to teach the traditional-minded townspeople a new way of living. Unfortunately for Pepe the people of Santa Fe aren't eager to embrace change, and when the citizens begin to voice resentment Pepe is forced to seek refuge with his sympathetic aunt. Dona Perfecta is just as traditional as any of the other townspeople though, and only suffers Pepe due to the fact that he is family. When Pepe and his cousin Rosario fall deeply in love, the situation quickly comes to a head.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-10-10
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La hermana blanca
Overview: A young woman believes her fiance has died, and she enters a convent.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1960-12-08
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Las recién casadas
Overview: Three newlywed couples and the priest who married them face problems imposed on them by unquestioning adherence to patriarchal values.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1962-04-25
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Las amiguitas de los ricos
Overview: On Christmas Eve, Santa Claus engineers a miracle that will rehabilitate three kept women into orthodox 'decency' and marriage.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1968-06-20
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Después de la tormenta
Overview: This Mexican melodrama may have been released above the border as After the Storm. The principal characters are a pair of twin lighthouse keepers. They try their best to live together with their wives under the same roof, but the delicate balance is shattered when one of the brothers falls in love with his sister-in-law. When one twin is lost during a storm, the other assumes his identity, with the expected romantic complications. If Despues de la Termenta sounds familiar, it is because the screenplay was inspired by the 1946 Bette Davis vehicle A Stolen Life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1955-01-21
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La venenosa
Overview: A snake-charmer falls in love with a circus trapeze artist who trains her and has her debut in this discipline.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1949-10-04
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Siete pecados
Overview: Seven dresses/seven models at a fashion show, and each one represents one of the seven deadly sins.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1959-07-16
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Beauty contest
Overview: Mom and Dad convince studious college girl to enroll in a beauty pageant, hoping to win big cash prize at the end of the rainbow.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1958-06-04
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Dios sabrá juzgarnos
Overview: Rejected suitor goes all-out in his efforts to break up an engaged couple.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1961-09-27
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Unfaithful Wives
Overview: A bunch of stories where wives are unfaithful for different reasons: money, revenge or pleasure.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1956-11-01
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Mi vida es una canción
Overview: Young pop singer finds his niche in the entertainment industry.
Genres: Music Family Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1963-06-13
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The New Invisible Man
Overview: A man is sentenced to prison for a murder he did not commit. Thanks to a serum invented by his brother, he manages to become invisible and escape from prison in order to prove his innocence, while his brother works feverishly to find an antidote. Theatrically released in USA in Spanish language only; later English-dubbed version syndicated directly to television.
Genres: Science Fiction Fantasy Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1958-11-08
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Prisionera del recuerdo
Overview: Refugee from Spanish Civil War deals with PTSD and a romantic triangle while trying to find her father's murderer.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1952-12-04
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Sabrás que te quiero
Overview: Famous singer becomes desperate to figure out which of three women helped to launch his early career with anonymous mentoring and support.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1958-12-04
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Sin salida
Overview: Ex-con trying to go straight is backed into a corner by "former associates."
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1971-09-16
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Secreto de confesión
Overview: Young woman falls in love with a cub reporter who's investigating the illegal activities of her father. Then there's secret marriages and secret murders and secret babies and... family melodrama in full flower.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1971-11-18
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Fever Mounts at El Pao
Overview: Aroused citizens assassinate an unpopular Caribbean despot, then two men vie for his gorgeous widow Ines. Ojeda is a steamy, isolated island, the penal colony for an oppressive dictatorship. A reactionary seizes the murdered governor's post, and rushes to eliminate his romantic rival, an idealistic underling. The bureaucrat Vazquez hopes to marshal the angry residents of the capitol, El Pao, plus the many political prisoners, to oust Governor Gual.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-12-05
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El monasterio de los buitres
Overview: In an old monastery in Mexico, the faith of all young aspiring priests is tested by the prior using psychoanalysis. During the process, young people manifest indecision, sexual problems (such as incest or homosexuality) and lack of faith.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1973-10-11
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Napoleoncito
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1964-12-03
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The Illegitimate
Overview: Family melodrama: manipulative parents ruin lives with their meddling.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1956-04-18
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Born to Love
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Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1959-09-03
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El último pistolero
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Genres: Western
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1969-12-25
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Sólo para tí
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Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1966-01-01
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The Door
Overview: At a high society gathering, a door inside the mansion leads to a strange hallway.
Genres: Horror Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1969-09-25
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