Roberto Cobo
Also Known As: Calambres
Biography: Roberto Cobo was born on February 20, 1930 in General Zuazua, Nuevo Leon, Mexico as Roberto Garcia Romero. He was an actor, known for Los olvidados (1950), Dulces compañías (1996) and Subida al cielo (1952). His apartment collapsed during the 1985 Mexico City earthquake. Fortunately, he was rescued but his hip was damaged badly. He had to use a staff to walk after the earthquake. He died on August 2, 2002 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: General Zuazua, Nuevo Leon, Mexico
Birthday: February 20, 1930
Deathday: August 02, 2002
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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Cabeza de Vaca
Overview: An international award winning saga of old Mexico. In 1528, a Spanish expedition flounders off the coast of Florida with 600 lives lost. One survivor, Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, roams across the American continent searching for his Spanish comrades. Instead, he discovers the Iguase, an ancient Indian tribe. Over the next eight years, Cabeza de Vaca learns their mystical and mysterious culture, becoming a healer and a leader. But soon this New World collides with the Old World as Spanish conquistadors seek to enslave the Indians, and Cabeza de Vaca must confront his own people and his past.
Genres: Action Drama History
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1991-10-11
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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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Santitos
Overview: After St. Jude appears in Esperanza's oven, she sets out to find her daughter, who died under mysterious circumstances. The journey forces Esperanza to challenge her own beliefs and face her fears in order to be reunited with her beloved daughter.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-01-23
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The Image Book
Overview: In Le Livre d’Image, Jean-Luc Godard recycles existing images (films, documentaries, paintings, television archives, etc.), quotes excerpts from books, uses fragments of music. The driving force is poetic rhyme, the association or opposition of ideas, the aesthetic spark through editing, the keystone. The author performs the work of a sculptor. The hand, for this, is essential. He praises it at the start. “There are the five fingers. The five senses. The five parts of the world (…). The true condition of man is to think with his hands. Jean-Luc Godard composes a dazzling syncopation of sequences, the surge of which evokes the violence of the flows of our contemporary screens, taken to a level of incandescence rarely achieved. Crowned at Cannes, the last Godard is a shock film, with twilight beauty.
Genres: Drama Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2018-10-11
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Life Sentence
Overview: After being released from jail, "Tarzan" Lira seeks to rebuild his life as a bank employee. Unfortunately, it might not be as easy as he thinks.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1979-08-09
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Speaking of Buñuel
Overview: Surrealist master Luis Buñuel is a towering figure in the world of cinema history, directing such groundbreaking works as Un Chien Andalou, Exterminating Angels, and That Obscure Object of Desire, yet his personal life was clouded in myth and paradox. Though sexually diffident, he frequently worked in the erotic drama genre; though personally quite conservative, his films are florid, flamboyant, and utterly bizarre.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2000-06-09
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Knock Out
Overview: Rodrigo Zaracho, once a promising boxer, is in decline. While fleeing from a gang that is chasing him, he remembers his past.
Genres: Thriller Drama Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1984-11-22
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Dulce espiritu
Overview: Mexican feature film
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-01-01
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La leyenda de Rodrígo
Overview: Rodrigo is a seminarist that soon will be a priest, but a demon woman seduce him. He doesn't know what path choose.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1981-05-28
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Me alquilo por amor
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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La Güera Chabela
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 1994-01-01
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Without Destination
Overview: Sin Destino follows the life of a 15 year old Mexican boy, Francisco, as he struggles to survive on the streets. His primary source of income is money raised by prostituting himself to men for sex, and the film implies that this learned behaviour has arisen as a result of a contact with a single man when Francisco was 9 years old. This man, Sebastien, is an "artist" who initially claimed to want to photograph the boy, but it is clear that their relationship at one time extended far beyond that of photographer/model.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2002-03-27
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Estas ruinas que ves
Overview: In this sexy romantic comedy from Mexico, the life of a college professor is turned upside down when he falls for a former student, who is already pledged to marry another man.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1979-03-03
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Una luz en la calle
Overview: Mexican feature film
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2002-01-01
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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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El secreto de Juan Palomo
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 1947-12-04
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Se alquila marido
Overview: Female CEO hires a man to pass as her husband and act as figurehead of her business concerns.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1961-11-30
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At a Lame Pace
Overview: Ragtag crew of indigents from an asylum for the handicapped form a squadron to defend the Church during the Cristero Uprising.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1980-05-29
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El ángel caído
Overview: Two gangsters on the lam end up in Cuba.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-06-16
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Dancing, salón de baile
Overview: Mambo nightclub is a front for gangster activity.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1952-02-05
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Dulces compañías
Overview: Evil street hustler plays out elaborate psychodramas with his janes and johns. They end up regretting they invited him home with them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1996-08-09
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The Glories of the Great Púas
Overview: Journalist becomes a member of a boxing champion's entourage to write a book about the boxer's career.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1984-03-01
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Caribbean Rhythms
Overview: A Cuban rumbera dancer undergoes an ordeal to fall in love with a married Mexican doctor.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1950-12-06
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Los enredos de una gallega
Overview: Cándida is a Galician who lives in Mexico and has been selling lottery tickets. Her dream is to buy an inn, but doesn't have enough money. In her quest for trying to get it, she runs into a scammer. In a stroke of luck, she wins first prize in the lottery, but the misfortune is merciless with her because she can't find the ticket.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-10-11
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Angel del barrio
Overview: Retired boxer is the moral compass of his slum neighborhood.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-06-17
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Mujeres de teatro
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Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-11-10
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Esmeralda Comes by Night
Overview: The husbands of a charismatic nurse devise a plan to free her from prison when she is arrested for being a polygamist.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1997-09-05
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Hembra o macho
Overview: A lawyer fears he's gay after falling for a girl he thinks is a transvestite.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1991-05-16
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D.F./Distrito Federal
Overview: Anthology film, six little anecdotes about life in the big city.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1981-10-29
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La casa colorada
Overview: Mexican Revolution: rich man's son kills somebody over a woman, runs off to the war, goes home afterwards. Many complications, much melodrama.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-08-22
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House of the Frights
Overview: Half-dozen comic actors in a spooky house.
Genres: Horror Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1963-03-22
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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 agujero
Overview: After twenty or thirty or forty unproductive years "up north" an emigrant gives up and goes home.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-09-22
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Free Love
Overview: Two single women share an apartment, work together, and sometimes swap boyfriends. None of their romantic attachments seem quite as stable or enduring as their friendship.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1978-08-09
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Deceitful Appearances
Overview: The sexual misunderstandings caused by the real identity of a rich woman serve Hermosillo to satirize the moral and social hypocrisy of the provincial that every Mexican carries inside.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1983-03-24
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Pompeyo el conquistador
Overview: Timid guy creates an alter-ego who will get tough with people while he continues being gentle and jolly.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1953-01-21
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Long live Tepito!
Overview: Slice of life covering four or five days in a badly run-down neighborhood. Matriarch of a slum family dies unexpectedly; relatives from neighboring blocks cope with the loss and arrange her funeral.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1981-01-15
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Black Wind
Overview: The building of a railroad under tough conditions from searing heat to freezing cold in the Sonora desert provokes clashes of passion and struggles between the engineers and the workers at the campsite. The workers also contend with sudden dust storms that are called the 'black wind'. Based on true events.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1965-12-23
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Vuelva el sábado
Overview: Young woman loses her secretarial job, so she tries to become a bill-collector.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-09-23
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Slaughter Night
Overview: Three part anthology with stories involving a Phantom of the Opera-style killer haunting a theater, four punks who pick the wrong house to rob and a man on the hunt for Bigfoot.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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Bring Me the Vampire
Overview: A group of would-be beneficiaries gather for the reading of a will, and discover that they must spend the night in a spooky castle to gain their inheritance. A spooky housekeeper and a man who seems to be a vampire are just two of the obstacles that might deter them.
Genres: Mystery Comedy Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1963-06-14
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Pancho cachuchas
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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Donde nacen los pobres
Overview: Working-class boy, pampered rich girl. She thinks their love is strong enough to overcome all the class issues; he knows better, but he decides to give it a whirl anyway. It ends badly for everyone.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1950-08-08
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The King of the Neighborhood
Overview: A poor man becomes a modern Robin Hood, robbing the rich to give to the poor.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1950-02-04
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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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Pedro Páramo, el hombre de la Media Luna
Overview: Juan Preciado, son of Pedro Páramo, goes to Comala to claim his inheritance; but when he arrives he finds an abandoned and sinister town, inhabited by mysterious voices and whispers…
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1978-08-10
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El Mil Usos II
Overview: Transit must deal with his impulse to leave the country to go to the United States in search of the famous American dream.
Genres: Comedy Drama Adventure
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1984-11-14
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Los hermanos Machorro
Overview: Aging rancher reaches out to absorb an illegitimate son from long ago into his family. That son turns out to be a big ol' hairdresser; will he ever fit into the rodeoin' machista ranch society?
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1988-11-23
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A Beautiful Secret
Overview: The beloved screen legend Katy Jurado, the lights one last time in the history of a special friendship that develops between a lonely old woman and Jorge, a rebellious teenager in Mexico City in 1984. Through the use flashbacks, Jorge, now an adult, remembers the unforgettable lessons and conversations about human nature and society in general. This fascinating film provides a beautiful tribute to the legendary actress in a history of heart that will make you laugh and think.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2002-02-26
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El día del compadre
Overview: The inhabitants of a condominium prepare to party and have a baile where various things happen caused by alcohol.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1983-03-10
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The Heart of the Night
Overview: A young deaf-mute who lives and has intercourse with a blind man much older than she, inevitably attracts a shy driving instructor a strange, hallucinatory underworld, populated by those beings whose mutilation, impaired physical differences, have become rejected of society.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1984-03-15
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La reina del mambo
Overview: Nightclub performer escapes from her abusive manager and starts life over in a new city.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-02-28
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Long Sleepless Nights
Overview: Bruno, a young prostitute on the streets of Mexico city, spends his free time yearning for his straight friend Umberto. When Umberto rejects him, Bruno reacts with his own violent and misguided actions...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2000-06-16
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Naná
Overview: Based on the Émile Zola same name novel. The life of Nana, a French prostitute of the 19th century. The film includes numerous musical acts performed by Irma Serrano.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1985-05-09
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La niña de mis ojos
Overview: Classic movie of Mexican cinema.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1947-05-02
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The Place Without Limits
Overview: Family honor, greed, machismo, homophobia, and dreams collide in a small Mexican town.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1978-04-28
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Violent Stories
Overview: Five surreal short stories make up this Mexican anthology film.
Genres: Action Crime Drama Horror Thriller Science Fiction
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1985-08-29
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Una gringuita en México
Overview: A USA girl decides to vacation in Mexico and experience first hand all the stereotypical scenes she's seen in movies. When she gets there, everything isn't all charros and bandidos, though -- surprise, surprise!
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-04-27
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Ahí viene Vidal Tenorio
Overview: Two military goons slaughter a young man's parents and siblings. A few years later, the same guys rape and murder his wife, then use their young son for target practice. Enough is enough.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1949-06-15
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Los pasos de Ana
Overview: A divorced mother decides to do in life what she always wanted: To become a movie director. So she sets out to film every single thing that occurs in her everyday life
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1993-03-05
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Amsterdam Boulevard
Overview: Gaby, a gay guy, lives with his sick father. One day Salvador, an ex-lover, appears in his apartment, who comes to borrow money from him and to ask him to be a couple again.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1991-01-01
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Si fuera una cualquiera
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1950-05-31
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The Legend of a Mask
Overview: A reporter starts investigating the life of the recently deceased wrestler "The Masked Angel"
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1991-02-21
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Contigo en la distancia
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1991-01-01
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El hijo de Lamberto Quintero
Overview: Lamberto Quintero is assassinated and his son intends to avenge him following in his footsteps. The pair of father and son, Antonio Aguilar and Pepe Aguilar star in this action film.
Genres: Drama Action Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1990-11-15
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Nosotras, las taquígrafas
Overview: Young women in the steno-pool have to balance work, romance, and touchy-feely bosses.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1950-12-28
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La combi asesina
Overview: Mexican feature film
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1982-01-01
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Caiman's Dream
Overview: Iñaki, a petty thief, is forced to leave Spain because of a crime that got complicated. He decides to go to Mexico to meet his father, and realizes that he has lived a life of lies, but also discovers other things, within a group of guys with little luck.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-12-14
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