Luis Felipe Tovar
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Biography: Luis Felipe Tovar (born December 31, 1961 in Puebla) is a Mexican performance teacher and actor. He studied in the Theatre Fine Arts School of Mexico and in the Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión de La Habana in Cuba. He has been awarded three times with the Ariel Award: 1993, Principio y Fin, 1995, El Callejón de los Milagros and 1997, Sin remitente. In 2003 he left his old school of performance to open the bar Muxe, whose clients are mainly homosexuals. He has a son named Timoteo and a daughter named Maria Fernanda.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Puebla, Mexico
Birthday: December 31, 1961
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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7 Mujeres, 1 Homosexual y Carlos
Overview: Carlos (Mauricio Ochmann), 21 years old, decides to get married to Camila (Adriana Fonseca), his 18-year-old girlfriend, when he finds out that she was pregnant while he was away for five years.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2004-06-11
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Don de Dios
Overview: Tepito is a neighborhood of Mexico City, where the dreams of many destitute people become real. But Tepito is also run by organized crime and corrupt politicians, impunity reigns and justice is non- existent. Here will take place the story of two foolishly proud young men, who were once best childhood friends, and now are blinded by greed and turn against each other. Their intentions are to destroy their families and eventually their own lives.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2005-10-28
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Lávelo y úselo
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Genres: Comedy Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1998-01-01
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Chilangolandia
Overview: Mexico City, or "Chilangolandia," is a chaotic metropolis where millions of stories take place every day. Some of them are part of this fun comedy full of familiar characters and others that defy stereotypes. Ramiro is a taxi driver who hopes his problems will end when his nephew "El Chulo" becomes a national soccer star. On the other hand, Carmen and Miguel are couple who unexpectedly receive a suitcase with a large sum of money, just what they need to get out of their financial situation. But when the true owners of the cash realize that it fell into the wrong hands, endless adventures and misunderstandings break out within this complex city.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2021-09-16
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Mi Canción
Overview: "Mi Canción" follows the rise of young Guadalajara rapper C-Kan, as he realizes the danger he put himself in by working with the local Cartel. After falling in love with Valeria, she convinces him to leave this llife of crime and pursue his dream and become a Rap star. Conflicted, he decides to stop working with the Cartel, but that is easier said than done!
Genres: Music Crime History
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2021-08-19
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Todos hemos pecado
Overview: No one could ever imagine that one day La Chingada Vieja would fall in love. Because she is always alone, because no one has ever turn to see her, because everyone is always closing the door at her nose, because when they feel her coming they cross themselves, but most of all because no one could ever fall in love with death. But El Hombre sin nombre, has appeared in her life for good. Only the confusion of an avenging town and the desire of four men to arrive to heaven could change the plans of these two beings. Of whom the purist feelings alive have resurrected them.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2008-11-01
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Midaq Alley
Overview: Heated tempers, frustrated desires and dashed hopes plague a diverse group of individuals whose lives cross paths in Mexico City. There is the bar-owner's son, Chava, who yearns to emigrate to America. A poor barber, Abel, is madly in love with the gorgeous Alma, who eventually becomes a high-class prostitute. Finally, there is Susanita, the desperate spinster who pursues many love affairs in hopes of finding a husband.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1995-05-05
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The Virgin of Lust
Overview: In Vera Cruz in the 1940s, Nacho, an Indian, waits tables at Don Lázaro's café at Hotel Ofélia. He falls for Lola, an opium-addicted, alcoholic whore who's hopelessly in love with Gardenia Wilson, a masked wrestler who slept with her once but knows she's unbalanced. Don Lázaro warns Nacho about Lola, and Nacho knows his love will be unrequited, but he'll do anything, regardless of how degrading, to be near her. Lola, for her part, can be sadistic. Republican exiles who are regulars at the café encourage Lola's desire to assassinate Franco. Nacho in turn mixes this political mirage with his fascination with the plot of "The Mikado." Where do fantasies and obsessions lead?
Genres: Drama Fantasy Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2002-08-30
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Such is Life
Overview: After her husband leaves her for a younger woman, Julia plans her revenge with the help of her grandmother.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2000-09-14
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The Fifth Commandment
Overview: Víctor, a psychopath, loves carving crosses onto women post-mortem, blames paedophile priest and mother-in-denial for his behaviour, falls in love with one of his intended victims and decides to give up his adopted lifestyle. An alcoholic detective (he’s mourning his sister’s passing), eventually tracks down Víctor, and manages to break his habit with the bottle.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2012-03-02
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The Stork's Mistake
Overview: India María raises a kidnapped newborn and is pursued by criminals who want the boy.
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1993-07-09
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Fantasías
Overview: The movie tells the story of a middle-class couple with two teenage children and a boring sex life, in search of new experiences- first with their sexy maid. Later with the advice of an older female friend who has swinger lifestyle with her husband, they decide to explore the possibility of sparking fresh passion by hooking up with a swinger couple. But then, problems arrive when they start to get blackmailed by the male swinger, who wants money to not show some private pictures of the wife. Written by lament
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-06-11
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Parejas
Overview: Comedy about different forms of love in this busy period in which we live. Two pairs of great friends celebrate together their weddings. Between drunkenness and friendship , things get confused. Will love defeat guilt? A prominent businessman lives unbeatable location : it has a beautiful lover, a new job, and wants a child with your partner. But she discovers that she cheats on him . Is a type of self- love?
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 1996-05-17
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The Ruination of Men
Overview: A woman seeks help from one of her bigamous husband's killers to transport his corpse back to her home.
Genres: Comedy Drama Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2000-09-27
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Barrio 13
Overview: Beginning and ending with the endless promises of Mexican politicians, Barrio 13 is a film based on the daily life of many Mexicans and Central Americans who struggle with the current realities: poverty, despair, misery and political betrayal.
Genres: Action
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2000-01-01
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Suave Patria
Overview: Oscar and Arthur are two actors without fortune who survive unemployment with a routine street, where one represents the thief and the other to the police. Thanks to this performance are "hired" by Mr. Mauricio Tavares to play a practical joke on dangerous Don Antonio Robledo, a senior executive who suffer a fictional kidnapping for later culminate in a surprise party.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2012-09-07
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Chido Guan, el tacos de oro
Overview: Street-punk drafted to soccer team, rises to stardom. Cuz he plays so good.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-05-15
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Morgana
Overview: A young girl is hunted by her nightmares
Genres: Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2012-08-03
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Buitres al acecho
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 2001-01-01
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Venganza cumplida
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 2004-01-01
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Never Too Young to Dream
Overview: A group of kids have a dream: to play a football championship and to win. Their dream is going to be fulfilled by Don Pepe, an old guy with lots of expectations for his kids.
Genres: Comedy Drama Family
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2001-07-27
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El último evangelio
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2008-01-01
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Ortiga's Field
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1998-01-01
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Recipes to Stay Together
Overview: "Cilantro y perejil" is a comedy about couples from the same family, hit by the economic crisis in Mexico. The plot turns around the eternal question of whether it is worth it to live as a couple. The conclusions are fun, unpredictable and very human. After ending a ten-year marriage, Carlos and Susana try to fall in love with other people without success. As the days go by, Carlos realizes that without Susana he is unable to do many things, including distinguishing cilantro from parsley.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1996-12-31
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Bienvenido-Welcome
Overview: During a business trip a married man has an affair with a blonde who leaves him the message "Welcome to the world of Aids"
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1995-08-17
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Sin remitente
Overview: A lonely, aging postal worker finds himself the victim of a cruel practical joke in this pessimistic Mexican drama. The trouble begins when crotchety postman Andre begins complaining about his young neighbor Marianna's propensity for playing loud music every time she entertains a lover. To get back at him, Marianna begins sending him anonymous love letters. The old man is intrigued by the mysterious letters and hires a cheap detective to find their author. The detective is convinced the perpetrator is Teresita, a veteran hooker who joins in on the scheme to earn a little extra cash. Andre's friend and colleague tries to warn Andre that it is all a game, but his friend is in love and will not listen. Meanwhile, Marianna attempts to woo Luis Felipe, a hard, unfeeling tabloid journalist who has her take grisly pictures of murder victims for him. Both Marianna and Andre are destined to meet an unpleasant fate at the story's end.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-10-06
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Luces de la noche
Overview: On a whim, a retired gentleman decides to track down an old girlfriend from decades back.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-05-29
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Men with Guns
Overview: Dr. Fuentes is a medical professor approaching his retirement and journeys to find old students, with sometimes disturbing results.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-03-27
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Sexomáticos
Overview: Lucrecia and Gerardo, a young and happy married couple, see their peace of mind interrupted when he starts consulting an internet site called Sexomático where night after night he fulfills all his erotic fantasies... until his wife finds out. She tries to curb that addiction, but now they are both in the same problem.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2013-12-31
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Santo: Infraterrestre
Overview: The Son of Santo must defeat aliens who have been hiding underground on Earth in preparation for an invasion.
Genres: Action Family Science Fiction
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2001-01-01
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City of the Blind
Overview: Over more than thirty years, a department of the Condesa in Mexico City, is the setting in which they are carried out ten stories, mixed, form one whose only constant is the rupture. The passage of time and the outside world only guess through the windows and objects that come with the characters. The set is a great solitude, possible in a city of the blind.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1991-10-31
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Aquí nadie se raja
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 2003-01-01
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Lucía, Lucía
Overview: Lucia, an children's book author, tells the story of her husband's disappearance. One day on their way to Brazil he just disappears. She goes to the police, gets a ransom note, and makes friends with the old dude downstairs and the young dude upstairs as she tries to find him. Things take a bit of a twist as she realized the kidnapping may not be as simple as it seems on the surface.
Genres: Adventure Drama Comedy Thriller Crime Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2003-01-17
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Curse of the Mayans
Overview: Danielle Noble (played by Carla Ortiz) and her team of expert cave divers led by an ambitious american archaeologist (Steve Wilcox), undertake an expedition in search of the lost Mayan Library, without imagining they will instead find the hidden gates of hell known as Xib'alb'a.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2017-01-02
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The Magic Hour
Overview: Minerva, a middle age writer, decides to break the uncertainty that prevents her from creating the novel that for years she has nested in her mind. Unintentionally, she returns to the port where she was born and she encounters a past full of ghosts and chimeras. Paradoxically, she founds herself because of this journey back home, so she begins writing the story of her life, of her own childhood, with its magical past and tragedy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2000-10-01
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Todo el poder
Overview: Gabriel is a filmmaker in Mexico City, where he is a victim of crime and violence sometimes even three times a day. This is a black comedy that shows the extreme situation Mexico City is suffering as far as crime is concerned, and the tension the city and it's inhabitants live day after day.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2000-01-21
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Life Kills
Overview: A romantic comedy of our times about passion, friendship and lies, on one of those days when the city and its inhabitants go crazy and anything seems possible. Diego and Silvia meet each other and fall in love thanks to their masterly lies. The morning after, with their respective friends, they remember the encounter and slowly begin to realize how sincere and honest that relationship was. When the opportunity arises, both struggle to meet again on a day in which a sudden and unusual disorder reigns in Mexico City.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2002-01-25
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Y si Adelita
Overview: During the beginning of the Mexican Revolution, Adela, a humble girl; is a witness to the rape and kidnapping of her mother by the rebels. This fact forces Adela to hide, escape; and embarking on a lonely path after realizing that a woman's revolution happens inside her.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2022-09-01
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Pandillero traficante
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 2003-12-31
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The Edge of the Earth
Overview: In a small town where nothing ever happens, the inhabitants learn about a place at the edge of the earth where money and women are abundant. When they see the oportunity to go and work illegaly in the United States, they jump at the chance. Meanwhile Andrés and Gregorio go to the town searching for treasures and they only find Matilde, the rest of the women in the town left, tired of waiting for the men to return.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1995-05-31
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Fuera de la ley
Overview: Four raw stories about justice and law.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-05-08
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Ver, oir y callar
Overview: Danilo gets caugh while robbing a security vault, but officer Montero gives him a second chance, he will set him free if Danilo helps him exposing a corrupt officer.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2005-03-04
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Antes que Amanezca
Overview: A series of murders in the state of Mexico raise the alarm regarding the presence of vampires, which according to experts, governments around the world are hiding.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2021-12-31
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Hounded on a Carnival Monday
Overview: In the small town of San Jorge, a 12- year-old girl watches in horror as her father, a local telegraph operator is thrown in prison by the local military dictatorship. Meanwhile, her mother, Florencia, must make tough moral decisions in order for them to survive under the political oppression. Even Carnival, with all its colorfulness and celebration, cant disguise the mounting tension between the villagers and government making the girls coming of age all the more difficult when the two collide. This movie combines attractive visual scenes with a highly sensual atmosphere as Florencia fights and uses all her resources and beauty to survive and find revenge.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2002-10-08
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Futuro sangriento
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 1991-01-01
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El Carretonero
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Genres: Action
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2000-01-01
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¡Suerte!
Overview: Young musician Iván Cornejo embarks on a journey to Mexico to seek inspiration from his roots, where a great adventure awaits him.
Genres: Music Fantasy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2024-07-12
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Victoria
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 1996-01-01
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Maldito amor: Demasiado tarde
Overview: A once-wealthy dreamer arrives in Mexico City, hoping for a fresh start. However, the relentless chaos of the city overwhelms him, pulling him into a spiral of misfortune that leads to poverty and the grip of alcoholism.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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Las hijas del narco
Overview: A middle-class family goes into a crisis after the father’s death. After mourning their father, the family now realizes that life is not easy, especially when they discover what their father real job was.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2016-01-01
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La Ley de las Mujeres
Overview: A group of women take the law in their own hands after a friend has been raped and killed by some masked men.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1995-12-11
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The Naked City
Overview: A gritty tale of survival set against a city ripe with violence and corruption. The Naked City tells the tale of Alfonso and Aurelia, who with their infant daughter flee the scene of a traffic accident they inadvertently caused, leaving several people seriously injured. On the run, they check into a hotel in a different part of the town. By coincidence, or fate, the hotel is about to be attacked by a violent gang, who resume to hold everyone hostage, moving room to room raping, killing and brutalizing the guests. When it is turn to visit with the young couple it is their time to decide to succumb to the violence, or fight back.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1989-11-03
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La Linterna Mágica a la Inquisición
Overview: Andrew Oehler, illusionist and tailor's apprentice, born in Germany, departs to travel the world in search for his dreams. He takes his magic lantern and finally arrives in Mexico in 1805 bedazzling people wherever he goes. Can a few lights and mirrors provoke the wrath of the Inquisition?
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-01-01
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Zona Invadida
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Genres: Science Fiction Drama Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2015-09-15
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I Am Pepito
Overview: Humor, crime, action, drama, compassion and risk are the ingredients that this wonderful story uses to create a scenario that seems to be a dead-end and a worst nightmare, that will be resolved in the most surprising, unexpected and fun way. Taking Pepito from victim to supposed thug and from supposed thug to hero.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2018-06-01
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Born Without
Overview: 'Born Without' is a documentary about severely handicapped Mexican actor and musician Jose Flores. "Born without arms and other limbs, Jose supports his large family by playing the harmonica throughout Mexico. In the face of adversity, he shows great courage and spiritual strength. This is a film with multiple layers. It is about sharing, daring and being grateful for what we have. It is also an exploration of social values, some of them controversial. Many of Jose's choices have been strongly criticized by his family and people around him. As a result, this is also a film about self discovery: a way to explore what we judge ... and what we choose to accept and forgive."
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2008-01-26
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The Mexican
Overview: Jerry Welbach, a reluctant bagman, has been given two ultimatums: The first is from his mob boss to travel to Mexico and retrieve a priceless antique pistol, known as "the Mexican"... or suffer the consequences. The second is from his girlfriend Samantha to end his association with the mob. Jerry figures alive and in trouble with Samantha is better than the more permanent alternative, so he heads south of the border.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-03-01
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Mujeres infieles 2
Overview: Anthology movie, three stories about marriages in crisis.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2003-03-14
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Circuito interior
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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Mighty Victoria
Overview: Feature film located at the beginning of the 20th-century which tells the story of the town "La Esperanza", whose dying mining boom receives a fatal blow.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2021-10-05
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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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Gente Comun
Overview: Mexican drug kingpin Papi enters a turf war against a team of American mafia intruders led by Mesías. But while the battle rages, the Korean mob sees an opportunity to seize power while its enemies fight each other.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2006-02-24
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Esclavo y amo
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 2003-01-01
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El Bulto
Overview: After being in a comma for 20 year, Lauro (Retes) wakes up in a very different Mexico than the one he lived on. Ideas, hopes, ways-of-life and customs have changed, and Mexicans of the nineties are strangers for a man sleeping since 1971. Lauro will have to deal with the changes brought by the History, and will have to accept that the future is never as we imagined it when we were young.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1992-08-28
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Me importas tú... y tú
Overview: Nerdy college boy gets romantic advice from the apparition of a dead film star.
Genres: Adventure Action Family
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2009-09-04
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The Beginning and the End
Overview: The film tells the story of the Boteros, a middle-class Mexican family struggling against poverty after their father's death. Ignacia (Egurrola) is the Boteros mother, a desperate woman who chooses to sacrifice the destiny of her three older children, in order to protect Gabriel (Laguardia) the youngest one. She believes Gabriel will climb the social structure and bring back the lost fortune to the family. But destiny has other plans for the Boteros and tragedy will overcome eventually. Based on the novel of Nobel Prize winner Naguib Mahfouz.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1994-06-24
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Ship of Dreams
Overview: Four men and two women illegaly board a cargo ship from Buenaventura, Colombia to New York. All their dreams and frustrations confronts them while they attempt not to be discovered by the ship crew. They all seek the "American Dream".
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1996-10-25
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Con mis propias manos
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Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2015-01-01
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La mudanza
Overview: Between chargers, noise and improvisedly placed furniture, a couple experiences a violent marital crisis, ignoring that they are observed by many characters that will soon face them with their own demons. Inspired by a work by Vicente Leñero, Gabriel Retes orchestrates a portrait without concessions of the hell of the marriage institution and love chaos, made in video format in 1990 and completed by the filmmaker more than a decade later.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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