José Gálvez
Also Known As: José Manuel Gálvez Velandia
Biography: José Manuel Gálvez Velandia (March 19, 1931 - August 9, 1978), known as José Gálvez, was a Colombian-born actor who worked in Mexico in films, plays, television, and also did voice-over work starting from the 1960s.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Bucaramanga, Santander, Colombia
Adult: No
Birthday: March 19, 1931
Age: 94 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: August 09, 1978
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Prohibido
Overview: Two young adults, brother and sister, discover that both were adopted, and they start to develop grown-up feelings toward each other. Is this the worst, most perverse thing to ever happen? Opinions differ.
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 1970-04-09
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Omen
Overview: While attending the birth of Isabel, the wife of foreigner Felipe, Mama Santos predicts that "something terrible is going to happen in the town." From this omen, calamities will torment the locals.
Genres: Comedy Drama Fantasy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1975-02-13
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The Business of Hate
Overview: An ambitious businessman searches for the perfect candidate to train and turn into a great boxing champion.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1972-01-01
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Dr. Satan
Overview: Dr. Satan, a mad scientist and sorceror, plans to take over the world. In order to do so, he wakes up three zombie slaves from the dead and attempts to make a deal with the devil. He sends his zombie servants to do harm to anyone who stands in his way. Will anyone be able to stop him?
Genres: Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1966-12-29
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Macario
Overview: Poor, hungry peasant Macario longs for just one good meal on the Day of the Dead. After his wife cooks a turkey for him, he meets three apparitions, the Devil, God, and Death. Each asks him to share his turkey, but he refuses all except Death. In return, Death gives him a bottle of water which will heal any illness. Soon, Macario is more wealthy than the village doctor, which draws the attention of the feared Inquisition.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1960-05-09
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El golfo
Overview: Tired of the monotony of her work, Mary O'Hara, executive of an important American company, travels to Acapulco for a few days in search of love and adventure. On the beach, her high hopes fade, since she only meets unscrupulous playboys. She declines all offers she gets until she meets Pancho el Golfo, a young man who makes a living as he can.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1969-10-17
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Santa
Overview: A young and innocent girl is betrayed by the man whom she loves and has to become a prostitute because her family rejects her.
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 1969-01-01
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Amor de adolescente
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 1965-01-01
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End of the Party
Overview: A motorcycle gang goes to a mansion where a party is being held and joy turns into tragedy.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1972-01-13
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Rosario
Overview: Rosario and Carlos, husbands, are part of a theater company. In a scene of jealousy, she should shoot and kill him. Carlos has had an affair with Zulma, another acriz of the company. On opening day, in the final scene, Rosario accidentally kills her husband. Someone change the gun ...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1971-05-06
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Each child, a cross
Overview: Empty nest syndrome, #1388.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-05-09
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Why Was I Born a Woman?
Overview: A family gathers to celebrate Mother's Day, that day a woman discuss many problems about her woman condition; husband, children and grandchildren will hear she tired and overwhelmed silenced by submission and obedience. Analysis of the family and gender roles.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1970-08-20
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Cateto a babor
Overview: Miguel Cañete is a village man who is called up by the Navy to do military service, but he lives alone with his little brother and doesn't know where to leave him...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1970-03-16
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Panic
Overview: Three tales of horror, isolation and insanity set in Mexico.
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1972-06-15
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La mentira
Overview: A man, torn inside by two passions, falls for the woman against whom he sought revenge, believing her to be responsible for the death of his brother.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1970-03-12
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Los cuervos están de luto
Overview: The family of a dying man celebrates his wake while the man is still alive, showing their darker, selfish ambitions and trying to take the best part of the inheritance.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1965-01-01
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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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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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I Killed a Man
Overview: A mature woman looks for a judge to hand over after having murdered a man and recounts everything that happened. Sequel to "Historia de un canalla".
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1964-10-29
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El último mexicano
Overview: After the US annexation of Texas, a landowner from Guanajuato faces problems from bigoted new neighbors.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-04-14
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History of a Scoundrel
Overview: A woman betrayed by a man falls into despair and kills him. What fate will the jury decide for her?
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1964-06-25
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Estrategia matrimonio
Overview: Pragmatic young woman plots out her flirtations with five rich, eligible bachelors to play to the weaknesses of each one. Then she has to pick one for keeps.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1967-03-23
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Seis días para morir
Overview: Public health thriller: rabies in Mexico City.
Genres: Thriller Drama Mystery
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1967-11-09
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El indomable
Overview: Wandering cowboy stops to help a widow out against the man who killed her husband.
Genres: Western Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1966-12-01
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Flor marchita
Overview: Adult seduces and abandons a teenaged girl, she has a baby. Fifteen years later...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1969-07-03
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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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El derecho de los pobres
Overview: Kids in an Ecuadorian slum have a benevolent doctor who tries to help them forward in life. Also they play soccer.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1973-01-04
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Gang Riders of Death
Overview: Rich man who owns an island sanctuary is involved in some shady business. Meanwhile, his daughter... and also meanwhile, the tribe of hippies that are racing around on dune buggies...
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1972-12-06
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Aguilas de acero
Overview: Two Air force pilots are best friends in that competitive, always picking fights with each other way.
Genres: Drama Action Adventure
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1971-01-07
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La mujer de oro
Overview: Heist movie: bank teller develops an elaborate game plan to lift money from the vault where she works.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1970-11-19
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La muerte de un gallero
Overview: Dramatization of a popular '70s corrido.
Genres: Action Drama Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1977-09-15
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Benjamín Argumedo el rebelde
Overview: Biopic about a General in the Mexican Revolution. Sequel: Persecucion y muerte de Benjamin Argumedo.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1979-12-13
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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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Nosotros los jóvenes
Overview: Young-adult movie about a crew of 8 or 10 upper-middle-class boys and girls -- mostly about the romance between two of them.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-06-09
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Préstame tu cuerpo
Overview: Heaven Can Wait scenario; a young woman dies forty years ahead of schedule because her guardian angel made a mistake... so the divine powers that be put her back on earth in a new body.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1958-04-01
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Vanilla, Bronze and to Die
Overview: A beautiful woman, fatally ill of the heart, is torn between the love of a poor sculptor and a forced marriage with the sadistic son of a millionaire.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1957-12-04
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Celestina
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 1976-01-01
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Neutron vs. the Maniac
Overview: Neutron, a wrestler/superhero, investigates a series of murders at a sanitarium.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Crime Fantasy Horror Mystery
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1965-08-13
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Planetary Giants
Overview: Daniel Wolf, scientist with a brand new rocket ship and a girlfriend/secretary is sent to 'the planet of the eternal night' to fight the guy who has threatened earth. He is supposed to go alone, but his assistant sneaks in the ship somehow, along with two other guys.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction Fantasy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1966-07-29
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Trampa para un cadáver
Overview: Two brothers try to kill their stepfather to avenge the death of their mother.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1969-10-17
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The Incredible Professor Zovek
Overview: Escape-artist-mentalist-martial-arts superhero vs. mad scientist and monsters.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1972-05-11
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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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El pandillero
Overview: Gangsters kidnap the writer of a crime-drama radio program to plot their heists for them.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1959-01-03
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Your Excellency
Overview: Lopitos, who is horribly inefficient but quick-witted, is invited (because of the current ambassador's superstition about 13 sitting down to a meal) to a banquet attended by the ambassadors of both superpowers. After the news of a series of coups d'état in Los Cocos arrives throughout the meal, Lopitos becomes the official ambassador. At a summit of world leaders, the representatives of the two world superpowers court the allegiances of third-world diplomats to tilt the balance of global power in their favor. The last diplomat to remain unaligned, Lopitos instead harangues the superpowers for infringing on the rights of developing countries to self determination, talking to them with his point of view as a citizen not as ambassador because he arranged his demise as ambassador one day before his speech.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1967-05-03
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El tejedor de milagros
Overview: Arnulfo is a man weaving baskets. Remedios has given birth in front of the house of a woman and her aid, but the village is spread the word that the child born as a child God and an atheist would think exploit to their advantage the "miracle ".
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1962-12-27
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Apolinar
Overview: Tancredo, a poor man, is in love with a rich girl, who does not return his feelings. One day when she is bathing in a river, a flood sweeps her away and Tancredo is unable to save her. Mad with grief, he steals the sun. The gods call Apolinar to restore light to the earth, but he is obstructed by the magician of darkness, until by means of a telescope he is able to send a bag of light to Tancredo, now grown old. Tancredo goes to the seashore and opens the bag of light as an offering to his beloved, whereupon the sun returns to the earth.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1972-01-01
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El norteño
Overview: Lawman on horseback cracks a case involving stolen gold bullion, the title to a mine, an evil twin and a plucky pre-adolescent boy. First in a series.
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 1963-11-07
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El cuerpazo del delito
Overview: Anthology film: three "sophisticated" rom-com scenarios.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1970-07-09
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Marcelo y María
Overview: Late 16th century: two Azteca teens are very much in love, but older folks have designs on each of them. This can't end well...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1966-11-10
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Sor Ye-yé
Overview: Maria is a young orphan who lives with her wealthy aunt. Maria sings in a cocktail bar with his friends, who form a rock band, and enjoy the night with them. One of his friends, Ernesto, is in love with her, though she does not seem to feel the same about him. In fact, multiple existential doubts and feel a strange emptiness in his life suddenly drive to enter a convent as a novice, breaking Ernestos' heart. However, with her cheerlul character, open and rebellious, not appear to conform to life in the cloister, and especially have problems with the novices director , who often punished for trying to take the right path. In the convent, which also functions as children's hospital, she meets a doctor with which it takes quite right for the contrast between his two characters, but his way with love and mutual respect.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1968-03-09
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Sangre en Rio Bravo
Overview: Foreign mining concern resorts to illegal tactics to buy up land; two brothers are orphaned and dispossessed and they become outlaws in revenge.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1966-09-29
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Cool Dad
Overview: Fiftyish head of household tries to hang onto his fun-loving youth while imposing his most rigid value judgements on his young-adult children.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1971-11-11
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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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El vals sin fin
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Genres: History War Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1972-11-30
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Passport to Death
Overview: The Secret Agent Lafargue locates the evil Professor Marcus headquarters, who with the help of Dr. Bellini and an android of his invention, plan to conquer the world. Lafargue is discovered and severely injured, so he is unable to remember where it is the basis of Marcus or what their plan. To resolve this situation the authorities call the Agent Zero team.
Genres: Action Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1968-12-26
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Savage Sunday
Overview: Repressed middle-aged Catholic gets into a troublesome relationship with the prostitute next door and her little boy.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1967-06-01
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