Alfonso Mejía
Also Known As: Альфонсо Мехия
Biography: Alfonso Mejía Silva (16 November 1934 - 29 December 2021) was a Mexican actor. He is remembered for having played the role of Pedro, the main character in the film Los Olvidados (1950), considered a memory of the world by UNESCO and for which he won the Best Child Actor award at the Cannes Film Festival in 1951.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Mexico City, Mexico
Birthday: November 16, 1934
Deathday: December 29, 2021
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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The Young and the Damned
Overview: A group of juvenile delinquents live a violent life in the infamous slums of Mexico City; among them Pedro, whose morality is gradually corrupted and destroyed by the others.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1950-12-09
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Quinceañera
Overview: María Antonia, Beatriz and Leonor are three classmates who are anxiously awaiting the celebration of their 15th birthday. However, each of them will have to cope with their complicated personal situation.
Genres: Drama Family Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1960-06-09
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The Young Animals
Overview: A boarding house where four girls stay, each with their own personal problems.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1970-04-16
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Contra viento y marea
Overview: Two spoiled rich kids learn to value their father's working-class heritage.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-08-09
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El túnel 6
Overview: Engineering crew excavating a tunnel through a mountain, are trapped by a landslide.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-09-15
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Detectives o ladrones..?
Overview: Two bumbling bozos with detective licenses get hoodwinked by a pair of jewel-thieves.
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 1967-06-22
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El boxeador
Overview: Undefeated boxing champion for 15 years faces retirement. One final bout...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1958-07-17
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Juventud desenfrenada
Overview: Teenagers with neglectful parents run amok; some get killed, some get arrested, some get rehabilitated.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1956-12-25
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Chicas casaderas
Overview: Four young ladies, four fiances, nine crises. Then, the big day.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-02-02
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Rio Hondo
Overview: A gang of bandits attacks the population of Río Hondo, shooting left and right; a man decides to act.
Genres: Western
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1965-08-12
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La bienamada
Overview: Civic-minded elementary-school teacher marries and sets up home with wife and her little brother. The-e-n...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-09-13
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Serenata en noche de luna
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1967-02-25
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Los novios de mis hijas
Overview: Mama has four daughters in their late teens. some of them might be more interested in careers than husbands, but she's hoping she'll find a highly suitable young man for each of them. If there are any out there that meet her standards.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-09-17
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Rubí
Overview: Rubi steals the fiancé from her millionaire friend Maribel, leaves her city and gets married in New York.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1970-09-16
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Los tres mosqueteros de Dios
Overview: Three priests resort to desperate long-shots (like quiz-shows) to raise money for their parish.
Genres: Drama Adventure Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1967-03-30
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Por mis pistolas
Overview: Fidencio Borer, an apothecary in a village on the northern border of Mexico, discovers some old title of a mine in Arizona and decides to claim them. Trying to cross the border is a border guard intercepted by exaggerating in the line of duty. On the way is captured by a tribe of Apaches and is about to be burned alive, but thanks to the Great Head Horse Lying having toothache and learns that the prisoner it can heal, ordered his release on the condition that the cure. Fidencio would take the wheel and gets the eternal friendship of the Chief apache.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Western
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1968-08-21
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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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Jóvenes y bellas
Overview: Five city boys and five country boys compete for the attentions of five city girls.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1962-05-17
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Juventud sin Dios (La vida del padre Lambert)
Overview: An American priest is hired as coach at a Mexican university; he trains his students in the ways of American football and moral rectitude. You ain't gonna sire no babies out of wedlock on Father Lambert's watch, no siree!
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1962-01-03
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Padre nuestro
Overview: Pops is dismissed from his banking job for embezzlement, and his family have to adjust to a more modest lifestyle.
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1953-08-03
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Mañana serán hombres
Overview: Film-director assigned to making a teenaged-hoodlums crime drama, agonizes over the positive social message he wants his film to convey. Meanwhile, his young actors all have their own melodramas running...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1961-08-03
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Los falsos héroes
Overview: Three spoiled rich kids live profligately and set a bad example for an ambitious middle-class friend.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1962-11-22
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Vacaciones en Acapulco
Overview: A busfull of tourists arrives in Acapulco; each passenger has his/her little chunk of drama or comedy.
Genres: Comedy Adventure Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1961-05-22
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La edad de la tentación
Overview: By the negligence of parents who not assume their responsibility in sex education, many lives are ruined
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1959-01-08
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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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El hombre de la ametralladora
Overview: Police procedural: tracking a ruthless Chicago hitman who's found a gig in Mexico City.
Genres: Crime Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-11-03
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