Juan Ángel Martínez
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Born in Mexico City in 1939, died there in 1984. He married journalist Marta de la Lama in 1976. He was nominated for the Ariel Award for Best Actor in 1982 (Noche de Carnaval), 1985 (Luna de Sangre)
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
Birthday: July 19, 1939
Deathday: May 10, 1984
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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El mil usos
Overview: The tragic adventures of a illiterate man named "Milusos" who leaves his family & hometown to go to the big city and try to better his luck. And finds he's unprepared for what he encounters.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1981-04-26
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The Sowing of Others
Overview: Short film. Unknown plot.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1981-01-01
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Reed: Insurgent Mexico
Overview: A dramatization of John Reed's newspaper accounts of the Mexican Revolution. Considered the first real film in Mexican cinema to be made on the Mexican Revolution.
Genres: Drama War History
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1973-01-05
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Nosotros los pelados
Overview: Slice-of-life comedy/melodrama aout life in a working-class neighborhood.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1984-06-14
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Mexicano ¡Tú puedes!
Overview: Vicente and Carmen, are spouses, he works in a factory, although he is a womanizer and irresponsible; she sells cosmetics or fayuca. Both dream of owning a home. Vincent did not want to leave their neighborhood but after several discussions they decide to buy a land...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1985-09-11
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Viva el chubasco
Overview: The struggle between two rival families brings many complications into the life of a people. The priest, with the agreement of the women, get a strike of crossed legs until peace is a fact.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1983-01-01
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El otro
Overview: A novelist travels to the country to learn the problems of a friend's shy son and runs into an intruder.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1986-04-24
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El gran relajo mexicano
Overview: Mexican feature film
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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Motel
Overview: The discovery of the mutilated body of a wealthy woman leads a detective to an isolated motel.
Genres: Horror Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1984-03-29
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Do You Hear the Dogs Barking?
Overview: Carrying his son on his back, a man travels from place to place looking for a doctor to treat the sick boy. As they journey, the indio father tells the boy stories to keep him distracted. These stories reveal the life of native peoples in Mexico, both in the countryside and in cities, and they shed light on characteristic beliefs and rituals.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1975-09-25
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Luna de sangre
Overview: Mexican feature film
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-02-23
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Esa mi Irene
Overview: A 43 minutes short film filmed in Mexico in 1975
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1975-01-01
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Juan Armenta, the repatriated
Overview: Juan returns home to Mexico after working in the USA for awhile, and gets caught up in cowboy problems among his townsfolk.
Genres: Western Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1976-09-09
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Frida Still Life
Overview: This film is a chronicle of painter Frida Kahlo, and her encounter with the personalities of her time. Despite being confied to a wheelchair as a result of polio, operations and amputations, she faces and traces some of the most colorful and controversial aspects of Mexican history, during the dominant time of Mexican muralism.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1986-03-13
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Espejismo de la ciudad
Overview: Family from a farming community move to the capital and lose their moral compass.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1976-03-25
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The Holy Inquisition
Overview: A plague is spreading through 16th century Mexico, and the Inquisition of the Roman Catholic Church is rooting out Jews, for they are believed to be its cause. At his father's funeral, a monk observes his family practicing Jewish burial rite, and he reports them, leading to devastating consequences for the whole family.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1974-06-06
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Noche de carnaval
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1984-01-26
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Apuntes
Overview: Mexican feature film
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1974-01-01
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El día que murió Pedro Infante
Overview: Mexican feature film
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1982-01-01
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Mexico, Mexico, ra, ra, ra!
Overview: Librado, an unemployed man, lives in a crowded small house with numerous children and relatives, is beaten for stealing a car antenna. His godmother and her children try to settle in his place. She then is arrested at a supermarket for stealing, however, she offers herself and volunteers a friend of hers for sex to the policemen so she can be released. She is a maid of an employee who acts subservient to his boss, a mid-level government employee at once servile who delivers speeches on sexuality in educational texts and then discusses the matter with his brother, a corrupt inspector.
Genres: Crime Drama Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1976-02-04
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La muerte de Pancho Villa
Overview: After the Revolution, Villa works on defining his legacy... and then he gets assassinated.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1974-05-01
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Under the Volcano
Overview: Against a background of war breaking out in Europe and the Mexican fiesta Day of Death, we are taken through one day in the life of Geoffrey Firmin, a British consul living in alcoholic disrepair and obscurity in a small southern Mexican town in 1939. The consul's self-destructive behaviour, perhaps a metaphor for a menaced civilization, is a source of perplexity and sadness to his nomadic, idealistic half-brother, Hugh, and his ex-wife, Yvonne, who has returned with hopes of healing Geoffrey and their broken marriage.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-06-20
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Canoa: A Shameful Memory
Overview: A group of students arrives in a small town during a hiking expedition. Once there, the local priest accuses them of being communist agitators on the run from an army crack-down against student demonstrations in nearby Mexico City and rallies the townsfolk to lynch them. Based on a true story.
Genres: History Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1976-03-04
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El Quelite
Overview: Agapito, leader of the revolutionary movement of his state, comes to a town, kills all the federales, and gets a girl who was promised to him for his heroic deeds.
Genres: Comedy Drama War
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1970-12-10
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Longitud de Guerra
Overview: Based on the novel Tomochic by Heriberto Frías; tells the story of the rebellion of the inhabitants of the village of Tomochi, Chihuahua, against the government of Porfirio Diaz in 1891. Mexico's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1976.
Genres: Thriller Action Drama Western
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1976-12-21
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The Black Widow
Overview: Intrigues and secrets come together because of a woman, who has the protection of the parish priest.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1977-08-17
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Los de abajo
Overview: In this highly regarded Mexican war film, peasant Demetrio Macias leads a band of outlaws in a revolt against the Federales during the Mexican Revolution.
Genres: Western Action History
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1977-11-15
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El elegido
Overview: A guy is peer-pressured, despite his reluctance, to play the role of Christ in a local production of the Passion Play.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1977-01-13
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Anacrusa
Overview: The divorced university professor, Victoria, signs a letter of protest for the political disappeared that her students request, although she is not interested in politics. That afternoon his daughter, a twenty-year-old medical student, disappears. This event will change the vision of Victoria and her participation together with relatives of other political disappeared to obtain justice.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1979-05-17
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El albañil
Overview: Construction worker falls in love with a handicapped woman who aspires to a career as a singer.
Genres: Drama Comedy Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1975-10-30
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New World
Overview: Towards the end of the 16th century, the Spanish conquerors living in the New World faced a serious problem: the evangelization of the indigenous people, who did not understand or accept Christianity due to their unshakable faith in their own religion. The court of the Inquisition cracks down on heretics and the natives prepare for a general uprising ...
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1978-08-10
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Contrabando y muerte
Overview: A young man gets involved in the drug trade and is murdered. His father sets out to find the killers.
Genres: Action
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1986-12-04
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Domingo Corrales
Overview: Son looks for his father's murderer.
Genres: Action Adventure Crime Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1988-07-29
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Broken Flag
Overview: When a group of young filmmakers witness and film a crime of passion, the most outrageous blackmail of the century begins. By means of a fantastic plan, the filmmakers send to the murderer, a financial and industrial big shot, a copy of the movie that incriminates him and they demand him an improvement of the standard of living for the working class.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1979-06-21
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El vals sin fin
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Genres: History War Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1972-11-30
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The Coming of the King Olmos
Overview: After spending some time with the Mennonite community in Chihuahua, Reynaldo Olmos goes back to Mexico City and establishes a ministry in the poorest of poor neighborhoods. Is he sincere, or is this a scam?
Genres: Thriller Adventure Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1975-09-11
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Paper Flowers
Overview: On the thinnest of pretexts, a horde of homeless people descend on the apartments of two members of the comfortable middle class and proceed to loot and vandalize both homes, leaving the next morning with many of the belongings they found there, as well as one of the residents who has opted to join them. This political allegory is based on two plays by the Chilean playwright Egon Wolff.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1978-02-01
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