Francisco Jambrina
Also Known As: Francisco Jamrrina, Fco. Jambrina, Francisco Jambrina Campos
Biography: Francisco Jambrina was born in 1902 in Spain. He was an actor and director, known forLos olvidados (1950), El rebozo de Soledad (1952) and No basta ser medico (1961). He was married to Margot Erbeya. He died in 1967 in Ciudad de México, Distrito Federal, Mexico.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: La Rioja, Spain
Birthday: December 03, 1902
Deathday: January 21, 1967
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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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Huellas del pasado
Overview: A young singer falls madly in love with a man, with whom she forms a family. Problems, however, are not long in coming when she receives unfair accusations.
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 1950-11-01
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Soulless Women
Overview: Julian gets framed for stealing a company check by his superior Carlos who's courting his wife Olga together trying to get him outa the way so they can be together, setting him up, the deed does the job and Julian lands in jail.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1934-01-01
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Gran Casino
Overview: After the mysterious disappearance of an oil well owner, one of his workers, Gerardo assumes the business management. Soon, the owner's sister arrives from Argentina, and, believing that Gerardo killed her brother to keep the wells for himself, she starts working as a singer under a false name in the same casino her brother disappeared, in order to find out what exactly happened.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1947-06-12
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Me persigue una mujer
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 1947-01-01
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Miguel Strogoff
Overview: A Russian courier has to deliver a message from the Czar to the Grand Duke across enemy lines .On the way he encounters adventures and colorful characters.
Genres: Adventure History Drama War Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-01-01
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Santo the Silver Mask vs. The Ring Villains
Overview: Santo fights a group of phony spiritualists who are trying to scam his god-daughter out of her 6 million peso inheritance.
Genres: Action Adventure Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1968-01-11
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Simón Bolívar
Overview: Biopic of the revolutionary Simón Bolívar who fought to end Spanish rule over much of Latin America.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1942-01-01
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Ave de paso
Overview: Mexican movie
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-01-01
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Capullito de alhelí
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 1945-04-12
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Aventuras de Cucuruchito y Pinocho
Overview: Las aventuras de Cucuruchito y Pinocho was the second color feature film and the first fantasy film for children made in Mexico.
Genres: Adventure Family Fantasy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1943-01-01
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You’re Missing the Point
Overview: Cantinflas, the boyfriend of the servant of a rich industrial man, gets into the house in order to kill a mad dog. Suddenly this man appears so the servant tells him that Cantinflas is his wife's brother (Leonardo), who had been lost for years. The rich man then remembers that his father in law's testament could only be paid when all brothers get together, so treats Cantinflas, a real bum, as a king.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1940-09-11
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The Woman and the Beast
Overview: Dedicated, saintly nurse has a twin sister who is a Bad Girl.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1959-07-23
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Mexicanos al Grito de Guerra
Overview: In times of the French Intervention, a student of Nunó, author of the Mexican National Anthem, falls in love with the niece of the French Ambassador, which causes quite amusing complications.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1943-09-16
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¡A volar, joven!
Overview: Cantinflas is a private in the military, who doesn't know anything about discipline or following rules. He only wants to think about his girlfriend, the maid in an opulent hacienda. The owner of the hacienda has an ugly and shy daughter, who is in love with Cantinflas. The problems arrive when the family arranges a wedding between the ugly girl and Cantinflas, who in order to avoid the commitment gets himself arrested. During his punishment, Cantinflas learns to fly with a silly and poorly trained flight instructor.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1947-12-23
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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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Ladrones de niños
Overview: Kidnapping band has a system set up to transport infants and older children to black-market adoptive parents in the USA.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1958-07-17
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The Great Madcap
Overview: Portrayal of a family’s attempt to change the spending habit of the indulgent and hedonistic patriarch, Alfredo. The family decides to try to fool him into spending less by telling him that his large fortune is gone.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1949-11-25
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Soledad's Shawl
Overview: Alberto Robles, a young doctor, is faced with the decision to surrender to a life full of comforts and luxuries or to continue dedicating himself body and soul to serving those who need it most.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1952-11-13
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The Three Perfect Married
Overview: Three married couples gather to celebrate the eighteenth anniversary of their marriage mourning the absence of a friend who was best man at all three weddings.
Genres: Drama Romance Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1953-06-08
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The Black Sheep
Overview: The Trevino family tries to overcome the irresponsible behavior of Don Cruz, an erratic father with numerous defects that contrast with his son Silvano, a young kid man that is incapable of passing judgment on his own father.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1949-12-24
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Every Madman to His Specialty
Overview: Julio Cesar (Enrique Herrera), writer of soap operas, is very upset nerves. Dr. Jimenez (Alberto Galán) recommends an institution that will give he a therapy to cure these scares. To avoid exposure to bad publicity, is camouflaged by the pseudonym Justiniano Conquian . By chance, a taxidermist (Joaquin Pardavé) also named. His case is different: it is a millionaire heir heritage potential, but will only be legally recognized if it meets a peculiar condition in the will, having to spend a whole month in the gloomy castle Conquian, competing with other heirs of fortune. Dr. Jimenez is bribed by a cousin of Justinian to send the false Conquian scares Castle into thinking that is the sanatorium.
Genres: Drama Comedy Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1939-04-28
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La insaciable
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1947-06-25
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Scared to Death
Overview: A young woman hires Viruta y Capulina to find a notorious jewel thief, known as Rostov.
Genres: Comedy Crime Mystery Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1958-11-09
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Fever Mounts at El Pao
Overview: Aroused citizens assassinate an unpopular Caribbean despot, then two men vie for his gorgeous widow Ines. Ojeda is a steamy, isolated island, the penal colony for an oppressive dictatorship. A reactionary seizes the murdered governor's post, and rushes to eliminate his romantic rival, an idealistic underling. The bureaucrat Vazquez hopes to marshal the angry residents of the capitol, El Pao, plus the many political prisoners, to oust Governor Gual.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-12-05
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Night Falls
Overview: Marcos is an arrogant jai-alai player who seduces and discards women until he himself becomes the object of a cunning revenge.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1952-04-24
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El rayo del sur
Overview: Latter part of the career of Padre Morelos, the 18th/19th century military leader. Sequel to... um... El Padre Morelos.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1943-09-30
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Mujeres sin mañana
Overview: Loosely-plotted melodrama about five "hostesses" and the owners of a waterfront nightclub.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-09-05
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El ahijado de la muerte
Overview: Father of a newborn makes a deal with Death to protect his son.
Genres: Family Drama Mystery Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-10-31
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La Diana cazadora
Overview: A great love story based on the idea and development of the famous monument that decorating Mexico City.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1957-06-21
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Maternidad imposible
Overview: Mother and child are separated during the Spanish Civil War. Believing the mother to be dead, the child is sent to a refugee orphanage in Mexico, then adopted. Meanwhile, Mama recovers from her injuries, and...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-05-05
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El hombre de la máscara de hierro
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Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1943-01-01
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Monte de piedad
Overview: Anthology-movie, series of anecdotes about the personal tragedies that lead people to take their values posessions to the state-run pawnshop.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-08-01
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Felipe de Jesús
Overview: Biography of the first Catholic Saint to be born in Mexico.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1949-08-05
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Miracle Roses
Overview: Before the Spanish Conquest, an Aztec princess does the Romeo and Juliet thing with the Prince of a neighboring tribe. Sixty years later, a colonized subject has visions of the Virgin Mary.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1960-08-18
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