Francisco Reiguera
Also Known As: Paco Reiguera, Francisco Reyguera, Francisco Reiquera
Biography: Francisco Reiguera (November 9, 1899 – March 15, 1969) was a Spanish actor who is best known for playing the title role in Orson Welles’ unfinished film version of Don Quixote. He also appeared in the films Simon of the Desert (1965), Major Dundee (1965) and Guns for San Sebastian (1968). Description above from the Wikipedia article Francisco Reiguera, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Madrid, Spain
Birthday: November 09, 1899
Deathday: March 15, 1969
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Gender: Male
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Arsenio Lupin
Overview: Arsenio Lupin is an audacious Parisian thief who mocks the police, especially Inspector Ganimard, but turns over most of his ill-gotten gains to charity. One night, he attends a party disguised as a newspaper writer who also mocks Ganimard; the next morning, the host's wife and a male guest are found murdered, and Ganimard arrives to solve the crime. A Mexican version of the Arsene Lupin character, with Sherlock Holmes tossed in as a cameo at the end.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1947-01-01
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Don Quixote
Overview: Don Quixote, accompanied by Sancho Panza, wander the roads of Spain protecting the weak and doing good deeds in the name of his beloved Dulcinea. (Orson Welles' Don Quixote was filmed between 1957 and 1972, left unfinished at his death in 1985, and was eventually edited by Jesús Franco and released in 1992.)
Genres: Adventure Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-04-20
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Simon of the Desert
Overview: Simon, a deeply religious man living in the 4th century, wants to be nearer to God so he climbs a column. The Devil wants him come down to Earth and is trying to seduce him.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1965-08-27
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Wuthering Heights
Overview: Gone several years, the brooding Alejandro returns to the hacienda of his foster sister, Catalina, whom he loves, to find her married to the wealthy and effete Eduardo.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1954-06-30
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Super Colt 38
Overview: Billy Hayes, the marshal, discovers that the bandit whom he has been pursuing so long, and who has for months been torching his county, is none other than an old friend from childhood. Upon being confronted with the truth, the friend draws his gun, and Billy is forced to kill him in justifiable defense. Overwhelmed by guilt, he renounces his office and swears to never use arms again. He rides off toward the town where he and his old friend grew up together. Upon arriving there, he soon becomes involved in a dangerous situation, where Billy must decide whether he will fulfill his promise to keep away from arms, or intervene to save the honor of a woman and the life of an innocent man.
Genres: Western
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1969-09-05
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Major Dundee
Overview: During the last winter of the Civil War, cavalry officer Amos Dundee leads a contentious troop of Army regulars, Confederate prisoners and scouts on an expedition into Mexico to destroy a band of Apaches who have been raiding U.S. bases in Texas.
Genres: Western War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-03-15
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Apartment house
Overview: Personal dramas among the residents of an apartment house.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-02-08
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The Last of the Fast Guns
Overview: A rich, dying Easterner hires gunfighter Brad Ellison to find his brother and heir in Mexico. En route, it becomes clear to Ellison that his is a dying profession. At a remote rancho, Ellison enlists ranch foreman Miles Lang to help him search the hills where the missing man is rumored to have lived. They find nothing ...except that someone wants to kill them; and Ellison becomes wrapped in a maze of double crosses.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-07-01
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Guns for San Sebastian
Overview: Leon Alastray is an outlaw who has been given sanctuary by Father John, whom he then escorts to the village of San Sebastian. The village is deserted, with its cowardly residents hiding in the hills from Indians, who regularly attack the village and steal all their supplies. When Father John is murdered, the villagers mistakenly think the outlaw is the priest. Alastray at first tells them he is not a priest, but they don't believe it, and an apparent miracle seems to prove they are correct. Eventually, he assists them in regaining their confidence and defending themselves.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-03-20
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Rosenda
Overview: A ruffian sends his assistant to force a peasant girl to marry him, but while he is bringing her to him, he falls in love with her.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1948-10-20
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El superhombre
Overview: 1946 Mexican film directed by Chano Urueta.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-01-01
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Dos tontos y un loco
Overview: Crown-prince of a primitive country goes to Mexico for college. Wacky hijinks ensue.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-12-21
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The Head of Pancho Villa
Overview: Rival factions struggle over a box that was entrusted by Pancho Villa to several members of his higher command. Second of three films in series "El jinete sin cabeza."
Genres: Western Horror Mystery
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1957-11-29
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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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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 Supersabio
Overview: Cantinflas is the apprentice of a renowned scientist, Prof. Arquimides Monteagudo (Carlos Martinez Baena). But Cantinflas has the soul of a poet rather than a serious researcher, and he wants to find the formula that achieves the immortality of the roses. Nevertheless, after the death of Prof. Monteagudo, Cantinflas will be chased by a ferocious corporative group, who wants to steal the secret formula of a cheaper fuel named "carburex", because they think that our friend is the only person who knows the composition
Genres: Comedy Mystery Science Fiction
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1948-09-04
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El analfabeto
Overview: Inocencio Prieto y Calvo receives a letter telling him he is the heir to his uncle's fortune of two million pesos. Not being able to read he has no idea of who sent the letter or its content. So he goes to the drugstore because the pharmacist can read the letter to him. But while waiting to be helped he sees that a young girl can read. He figures he has to be able to discover the letter's content by himself and decides he will save the letter and go to school, and wait to read the letter on his own.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1961-09-07
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Entrega Inmediata
Overview: Immediate delivery recounts the misadventures of Feliciano Callosum (Cantinflas), a postman who is recruited by the secret counterintelligence service (called XU-777 secret agency), and must uncover an international conspiracy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1963-12-25
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Mexican Bus Ride
Overview: Newlywed Oliverio receives disturbing news that his mother is on her deathbed. He travels to a remote part of Mexico to fetch a lawyer who can sort out her will. Leaving his wife behind, he embarks on a bus ride that’s interrupted by an increasingly absurd series of episodes, including an impromptu birthday celebration; a one-legged man writhing in the mud; come-ons from an insatiable small-town belle, Raquel; and Oliverio’s frequent, Freudian nightmares.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1952-06-25
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Rebellion of the Hanged
Overview: A peasant who works in a mahogany camp in the Mexican jungles with his family is disgusted with the miserable living conditions imposed upon himself and his co-workers, the peasant finally spearheads a revolt against the sadistic bosses.
Genres: Drama Adventure History
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1954-01-20
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Victims of Sin
Overview: A nightclub performer decides to raise the baby boy she found abandoned in a trash can, putting her job and social life in jeopardy.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-02-02
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Salon Mexico
Overview: Mercedes works as a cabaret performer to pay for her sister's studies. Problems begin when Mercedes and Paco, her exploiter, win a dance contest, but he refuses to share the prize with her.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1949-02-25
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Las locuras de Tin Tan
Overview: Tin-Tan wants to builds an ice cream machine.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1952-01-09
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Me traes de un ala
Overview: To conquer the beautiful vedette Rosita, journalist Tin Tan is subject to her whims. Fired along with his friend Narciso from the newspaper they worked, Tin Tan trying to sell a movie plot. A woman looking to buy it and Tin Tan will visit her in a gloomy mansion where a mess is unleashed.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1953-02-05
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What a Beautiful Legs!
Overview: A man hired to impersonate a bankrupt business mogul who is currently on the run from creditors sets out organize a musical starring beauties from Brazil, Mexico, and Spain in this Spanish-language comedy starring popular funnyman Tin Tan. Now, as the hapless imposter attempts to finance a musical without any money, he also discovers just how difficult it can be to juggle three beautiful starlets who all have eyes for their presumably wealthy producer.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1949-02-24
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The Phantom of the Operetta
Overview: Aldo and his girlfriend Lucy reopen an abandoned opera house, but find out that the place is inhabited by a group of Phantoms wearing the Claude Rains 1943 Phantom of the Opera costume.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Horror Music Mystery
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1960-12-22
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Viva Maria!
Overview: An IRA operative escapes to the Americas and teams up with a circus singer to create a popular vaudeville act. When the singer falls for a rebel, they leave the circus behind to become fierce revolutionaries.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Romance Western
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1965-11-22
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Enchanted Island
Overview: Two 19th-century sailors jump ship only to discover their tropical paradise is a cannibal stronghold.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-11-08
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Mysteries of Black Magic
Overview: Six hundred year old witch butts heads with a scholar over the possession of a rare ancient grimoire and then discovers that his daughter's fiance is the reincarnation of her first boyfriend.
Genres: Thriller Horror Mystery
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1958-11-26
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Pegando con tubo
Overview: Developmentally-challenged guy and is caretaker get drafted into he police force and take part in the manhunt for a bank robber.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1961-07-19
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Nocturno de amor
Overview: Venice Film Festival 1948
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1948-01-11
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Confidencias de un ruletero
Overview: Taxi driver takes the wrong passenger at the wrong time and gets caught up in a murder investigation.
Genres: Comedy Crime Mystery
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1949-11-16
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Ahí vienen los Mendoza
Overview: Two brothers "out on the ranch" fight over girls and stuff.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1948-11-01
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Three Black Angels
Overview: Three Black Angels (Spanish: Tres angelitos negros) is a 1960 Mexican comedy film directed by Fernando Cortés and starring Miguel Aceves Mejía, Yolanda Varela and Pedro Vargas.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1960-06-09
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La faraona
Overview: Pastora Heredia is a beautiful gypsy with great character who always tries to help the needy. One day she gots the notice of the death of his grandfather, a millionaire who lived in Mexico and that since his father was angry, she knew nothing of him. However, as Pastora was his only granddaughter and sole heir of all his property, it does not hesitate to cross the pond to claim his inheritance. But once there is that Don Guillermo, grandfather, not dead.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1956-12-10
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Plazos traicioneros
Overview: A down in his luck film director falls in love with an attractive waitress and decides to launch her as a big singing star. Once the goal is reached, the girl runs away and becomes involved with a gangster who leads her into prostitution.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1958-07-03
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The Martyr of Calvary
Overview: The life of Jesus from the beginning of his ministry, his miracles, the Sermon on the Mount and his death on the cross.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1952-04-02
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Jesus of Nazareth
Overview: The biblical story of The Messiah from his baptism through his crucifixion.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1942-03-26
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Hipócrita..!
Overview: A disfigured woman is helped by a talented composer to recover her face with plastic surgery. Then he discovers that she's a beautiful woman and a talented singer.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1949-10-11
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Pobres millonarios
Overview: Squatter neighborhood finds a wealthy sponsor.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1957-12-25
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With my finger on the trigger
Overview: The Private detective Raúl Marín with the help of his grandmother and the police commander Aragón try to find out the murder of several homicides in three episodes: El Anónimo, El Ídolo and El Hipnotizador.
Genres: Crime Mystery Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1958-10-08
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The Port of the Seven Sins
Overview: Career criminals vie for ownership of a disreputable waterfront dive and for the love of the cabaret-gal that sings there.
Genres: Crime Thriller Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-11-11
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Una aventura en la noche
Overview: Film version of the 'hitchhiking ghost' urban legend.
Genres: Crime Romance Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1948-07-09
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The Devil's Money
Overview: Los dineros del diablo (The Devil's Money) is a Mexican drama film directed by Alejandro Galindo. It was released in 1953 and starring Amalia Aguilar and Roberto Cañedo.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1953-09-11
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