Ignacio López Tarso
Also Known As: Игнасио Лопес Тарсо, Ignacio López López
Biography: Ignacio López López (b. 15 January 1925 – 11 March 2023), better known as Ignacio López Tarso, was a Mexican actor of stage, film and television. He acted in about 50 films and appeared in documentaries and in one short feature. In 1973 he was given the Ariel Award for Best Actor for Rosa Blanca, and the Ariel de Oro lifetime achievement award in 2007. He was honored multiple times at the TVyNovelas Awards. At the time of his death, he was the oldest living actor and one of the last surviving stars from the Golden Age of Mexican cinema.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
Birthday: January 15, 1925
Deathday: March 11, 2023
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Wolves Aren't Meant For The Circus
Overview: After an all-nighter, Ricardo gets to his apartment only to find his family ready to have an intervention for him. His struggle with addiction is the least of his problems in this peculiar event where he faces his drug dealer, a prostitute and the worst company of all: his family.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2021-05-05
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Veneno
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2002-01-01
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Nazarin
Overview: After hiding a murderer, a Catholic priest is forced into self-exile and decides to embark on a pilgrimage through the Mexican countryside.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1959-06-04
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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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Antonieta
Overview: Anna is a psychologist undertaking research about famous suicidal women. She takes a specific interest in the case of Antonieta Rivas Mercado, who killed herself in 1931 in the Cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1982-10-21
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The Useless Life of Pito Pérez
Overview: A man goes on a trip and then returns to his village pretending that everything went well for him.
Genres: Drama Adventure Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1970-09-15
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Looking for a Wall
Overview: The life of the Mexican muralist José Clemente Orozco and his quest to create a career in New York.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1974-09-19
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La Bandida
Overview: During a lull in the Mexican Revolution when Francisco Madero became president and attempted to implement land reforms, two former revolutionaries are pitted against each other for the love of the same woman.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1963-01-01
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La Cucaracha
Overview: The Mexican Revolution serves as a backdrop to a torrid love triangle composed of three freedom fighters: a colonel, a widow, and a fiery female soldier.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1959-11-12
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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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The Paper Man
Overview: A deaf and mute vagabond finds a large denomination bill in a Mexico City dump, and while he tries to buy something with it, others try to con him into giving it away.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1963-10-05
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Sonatas
Overview: In the fall of 1824 Javier Montenegro, Bradomin Marquis is spared death hanging by Captain Casares, and in return, the Marquis agrees to help him escape to America. Adaptation of "Sonata de Otoño" and "Sonata de Estío" of Ramón María del Valle-Inclan, which included elements Bardem later works of the author.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1959-10-12
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Morenita, El Escandalo
Overview: Desperate to save his family from death threats by a notorious drug dealer, Mateo Cruz steals the venerated image of the Virgin of Guadalupe causing pandemonium throughout Mexico.
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 2009-03-01
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Cri Cri el Grillito Cantor
Overview: Biography of the famous composer of children's music Gabilondo Soler. Starts from his childhood, when he worked as a pastor and grandmother tried to teach him to play the piano. Later he went to the city to study music theory and began writing his first songs.
Genres: Drama Family Music Animation
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1963-12-12
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The Golden Cockerel
Overview: A poor, but very lucky man in the cock fighting business, is hired by a rich man, but both are in love with the same woman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1964-12-18
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Corrupción oficial
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 1980-01-01
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Furia en el Edén
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 1964-01-01
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Rapine
Overview: Two humble indigenous woodcutters discover the wreckage of a plane that has crashed at the top of the mountains and decide to steal the belongings of all the occupants killed in the accident.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1975-05-14
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La trinchera
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Genres: War Action Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1969-12-04
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Notes from Under the Volcano
Overview: A behind-the-scenes documentary on the making of John Huston's "Under the Volcano" (1984).
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-09-09
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The Waterwheel
Overview: In a small town, time stops for a father who has lost his son.
Genres: Animation Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2013-04-25
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The Prophet Mimi
Overview: Childhood trauma and religious repression causes little boy to grow up and murder .
Genres: Drama Thriller Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1973-12-27
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The Bricklayers
Overview: When a worker is found murdered on the construction side, the investigation swiftly turns from things criminal to the political circumstances surrounding the building itself. Widespread corruption and neglect by the builder himself are seen to have brought the situation about. Much of the movie is filmed using hand-held cameras, and the majority of the dialogue is in the difficult-to-understand and very slangy Spanish dialect of Mexico City's bricklayers.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1976-12-23
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The Shadow of the Tyrant
Overview: In 1920s Mexico, the candidates being chosen to succeed the current president, El Caudillo, find themselves at his mercy as he will resort to anything to accomplish his will, including kidnapping, betrayal, and murder.
Genres: History Drama Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1960-08-22
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La casta divina
Overview: Chronicle Caste War in Yucatan held in the nineteenth century, where the land and the people were the property of the landowners, who called themselves " divine caste ". On one hand, General Salvador Alvarado organized the revolution; on the other, the landowners hire Colonel Ortiz Argumedo to organized the defense of their autonomy. Don Wilfrido, one of the masters, do not hesitate to send his son to fight to maintain their wealth and privileges.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1977-11-17
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Happy Year, My Love
Overview: Man and woman have a couple of one-night-stands spread out over 15 or 20 years.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1957-01-31
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Autumn Days
Overview: Luisa is a small-town girl who works in the bakery of the widower Don Albino. Luisa dreams of marrying and loves children. Just as Don Albino shows interest in her, Luisa announces that she will marry soon with Carlos, the driver of a rich house whom she met recently...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1963-10-31
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Saint Lucifer
Overview: A conflict arises between the people of the town and the local priest when they have to decide how to represent certain biblical episode.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1997-04-15
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Reclusorio
Overview: The human and divine justice are exposed through five real life stories related to the legal processes of a prison. The cases presented are: "I want to stay in jail", "Blood between women", "The raped prostitute", "The kidnapped policeman", and "Euthanasia or murder?"
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1997-09-19
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Our Daily Hunger
Overview: Trophy wife of a crooked industrialist meets a philanthropic doctor and develops a social conscience. Mexican remake of Born Yesterday.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1960-04-25
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Chilam Balam
Overview: Priest defies the gods by refusing to sacrifice his daughter. Also: conquistadores.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-10-16
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Ellas también son rebeldes
Overview: The discovery of a young woman murdered in her car triggers unrelated problems among a diverse group of people.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1961-04-20
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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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La estrella vacía
Overview: Mourners share their memories of a dead film-star at her wake, a la Citizen Kane. Only melodrama.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-05-05
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Cayó de la gloria el diablo
Overview: Subsistence-economy slum guy who sells used newsprint for a living breaks into showbiz with an inadvertantly-comical fire-eater act. The novelty of him wears off very quickly, and then...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-05-11
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Astucia
Overview: Historical melodrama on horseback, 1840s or so in central Mexico. Pulpy, Zorro-ish...
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1986-11-06
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Los amantes frios
Overview: Three-fer anthology of black-humor sex-n-death anecdotes.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-04-20
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La desconocida
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Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1954-01-01
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Buenos días, Ignacio
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 2021-12-31
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The Devil's Visitations
Overview: A young architect returns from Europe to live in the house of his uncles and cousins, where someone pretends to be the Devil.
Genres: Drama Mystery Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1968-08-15
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Resigned for Reasons of Health
Overview: A mid-level government bureaucrat is forced to think hard about his ideas on governmental corruption and his own integrity.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1976-09-02
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A Long Journey Toward Death
Overview: Juan is subjected to shock treatment in the hands of Dr. David, and apparently is able to resume a "normal" life. He and his wife María make dolls in a workshop attached to their apartment in New York. However, John does not heal and he starts looking for the nurses to murder them.
Genres: Mystery Crime Drama Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1968-07-03
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Un hombre en la trampa
Overview: Odyssey of a man involved in a criminal activity, which leads him to his moral and material failure.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1965-03-03
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Tras Nazarin: Following Nazarin
Overview: "Nazarín is a Quixote of the priesthood " "Among the films I have made in Mexico, Nazarin is one that I prefer." "As inexplicable as the accidents that set it off, our imagination is a crucial privilege."
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2015-03-09
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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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Viva México y sus corridos
Overview: Song/action clips from 8 or 12 movies that starred Antonio Aguilar as historical figures, with an onscreen narrator who splains things.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1982-09-15
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¿Y ahora qué, señor fiscal?
Overview: Working-class dude grows up surrounded with petty delinquency and ghetto temptations; he marries a rich girl and faces the disapproval of her parents. Then the young couple plans a crime...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1977-05-03
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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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Codicia mortal
Overview: Drug dealer tries to force local subsistance farmers to sell their land to him. The village's "good" rich guy eventually gets around to helping them mount a resistance.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-10-21
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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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La Generala
Overview: During the Mexican Revolution, a hardened and rich lady landowner is overtaken by the violence of the times. Losing her land and house, she falls in love with a revolutionary leader that is killed by a sadistic and corrupt federal officer. She takes the revolutionary flag and leads a rampage of violence and destruction.
Genres: Action Crime Drama Romance Thriller War Western
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1971-01-01
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The Healer
Overview: Manuel is desperate to save his wife from death. A mysterious man appears to him one day at church, convincing him to go to a Healer who can help her.
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Original Language: es
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Corazón de niño
Overview: The story tells us about an old teacher from the town, who upon knowing he was going to die, entrusts his sixth-grade class to a colleague who had also been his student. Asking him to help them so that they could survive.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1963-07-17
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My Son, the Hero
Overview: Northern Mexico, early 20th century. Reynaldo del Hierro is murdered while riding with his sons Reynaldo and Martín, whose mother instills in them the need for revenge.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1961-10-05
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Tarahumara (Further and farther)
Overview: An anthropologist goes to the mountains to study the problems of the indigenous people and finds out that they are being dispossessed of their lands.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1965-06-08
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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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The White Rose
Overview: An international oil company comes into conflict with a Mexican ranch owner who refuses to sell his land, resorting to a devious scheme to try to take over the property.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1961-07-19
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Juana Gallo
Overview: Peasant woman leads a regiment during the final days of the Mexican Revolution. Also, romantic entanglements.
Genres: Drama Action War
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1961-05-21
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Más sabe el Diablo por Viejo
Overview: Teo, a young and struggling actor, disguises himself as a 79 year old man to take advantage from the benefits of a retirement home, while also trying to sort out his personal and love life.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-07-26
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Muelle rojo
Overview: Three episodes from the "history" of organized labor in the harbors of Tampico, 1912 to modern-times.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1987-10-12
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Banderas, the Tyrant
Overview: In Santa Fe de Tierra Firme, an imaginary Latin American country, the indigenous dictator Santos Banderas rules with an iron fist. A group of rebels trying to seize power by force while some liberals try a change of government legally.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1993-11-19
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Taken Identity
Overview: Felino, his girlfriend and his two friends, have their film rejected from every film festival, so they decide to submit it as major filmmaker Tomas Guevara latest film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2020-11-11
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The Children of Sanchez
Overview: Hall Bartlett directs the rural drama The Children of Sanchez, based on the tome The Children of Sanchez: Autobiography of a Mexican Family written by Oscar Lewis in the '60s. Anthony Quinn stars as the widowed Jesus Sanchez, a poor farmer struggling to provide for his family in Mexico City. Also starring Lupita Ferrer as Consuelo and Stathis Giallelis as Roberto. This is the last film in the 50-year career of international star Dolores del Rio, who plays the Grandma. Jazz-pop performer Chuck Mangione was nominated for a Golden Globe and won a Grammy award for his original musical score.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-06-16
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Toña Machetes
Overview: A woman adopts a child and discovers that she can love again despite facing a wicked man.
Genres: Romance Drama Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1985-01-31
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Then God Named It Earth
Overview: During the Mexican Agrarian Reform, an engineer travels to a town to distribute the land of the landowners among the peasants.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1961-09-07
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One Hundred Years with Juan Rulfo
Overview: This documentary explores key moments in the life of writer Juan Rulfo, with artists such as Werner Herzog and Eduardo Galeano reflecting on his work.
Genres: History Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2017-11-03
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