Mecha Ortiz
Also Known As: María Mercedes Varela Nimo Domínguez Castro
Biography: María Mercedes Varela Nimo Domínguez Castro, better known as Mecha Ortiz, was an Argentine theater and film actress. She was one of the most relevant figures of the golden age of Argentine cinema. She was consecrated in the 1940s and 1950s.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Buenos Aires, Argentina
Adult: No
Birthday: September 23, 1900
Age: 124 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: November 20, 1987
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Vacaciones
Overview: A woman's dilemma between love for her mother and passion for a man.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1947-09-25
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Melgarejo
Overview: An adultery-induced woman is helped by her driver who discovers the villains.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1937-05-19
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Maestro Levita
Overview: A school teacher tries to support his school against unjust measures by the government and a rich woman helps him.
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 1938-02-09
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Con las alas rotas
Overview: A man finds out his wife had a lover and abandons her, but first he gains custody of their daughter.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1938-06-15
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El precio de una vida
Overview: The story of the tragic love of Count Loris Ipanov, a Russian nihilist, for the Princes Fedora Romanov.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1947-10-23
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María de los Ángeles
Overview: Set in 1825, the romance between a Creole woman and a Spaniard, during the Argentine War of Independence.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1948-02-13
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El gran secreto
Overview: A meteorologist's wife hurts her sister so she won't reveal who the real mother of her child is.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1942-07-21
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Painted Lips
Overview: The life and the lovers of a few young women in a provincial town.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1974-05-23
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Aquel cine argentino
Overview: A compilation of the origins of Argentine cinema up to the 1960s.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1984-01-02
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House of Shadows
Overview: Audrey investigates a murder that occured 23 years ago in a dark mansion. She searches for the dead body, the killer, and the truth.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-01-01
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Cartas de amor
Overview: A young man must choose between the love of two women.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-01-25
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Yesterday's Guys Used No Arsenic
Overview: Mara Ordaz, a former film star who lives in an isolated mansion with her husband, her doctor and her money manager, decides to sell the house and return to Buenos Aires; but the three men do not agree with her decision.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1976-04-22
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Mi novia es un fantasma
Overview: A humble maid is confused with a millionaire from a misunderstanding in the hotel that works and a journalist falls madly in love with her.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1944-06-02
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Camino del infierno
Overview: A melodramatic, psychological thriller, the film tells the story of a young wealthy widow, who is unhappy. She meets a Bohemian artist who marries her to escape the poverty of his family, but is stifled by her possessiveness and jealousy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1945-03-15
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The Furies
Overview: Five women whose lives revolve around an absent man constantly battle each other in their decaying old mansion. The first Argentinian sound film directed by a woman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1960-11-03
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Swan Song
Overview: A middle-age woman and a young composer live a tragic romance.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1945-04-27
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El abuelo
Overview: Based on the novel of the same name by Benito Pérez Galdós.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1954-07-01
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Las locas del conventillo
Overview: The neighborhood of La Boca, in Buenos Aires, is divided in two sectors: one is where decent people live under the tutelage of Magdalena, in the other, Manuel,ir responsible of a nightclub. Among decent people live Manolo, the milkman, awaiting the arrival of a Spanish woman to marry her. At the same time, the villain of Manuel also hopes for a Spanish nightclub. Women Arrivals weapon confusion.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1966-06-21
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Madame Bovary
Overview: Paris, 1857. While on trial for moral outrage, French writer G. Flaubert tells the court and the audience the true story of the heroine of his novel Madame Bovary, a sensitive but capricious woman whose desperate efforts to overcome the bourgeois conventions of a dull, provincial life led her family first to ruin and disrepute and finally to the abyss of tragedy.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1947-04-02
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Los muchachos de antes no usaban gomina
Overview: A Young man from a wealthy family hide them his attraction for tango culture of arrabal. In a milonga he fell in love with Mirella and he have a knife fight with all others guapos that want her, he won. Time pass and Mirella became a mistress but this situation is unstable because of the society prejudices.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1937-03-30
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Mujeres que trabajan
Overview: A rich lady is suddenly in the street after her father's suicide and moves to a pension with many working women from different origins whom she had previously humiliated.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1938-07-05
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Safo, historia de una pasión
Overview: The relationship between an experienced woman and a youngster which develops in a passion and a further social rejection.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1943-09-16
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Dishonor
Overview: The woeful tale of a trained nurse falsely accused of murder and shipped off to prison for five years.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1952-01-15
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Bajo un mismo rostro
Overview: Two twin sisters have completely different ways of loving: to one love is profound, to the other is carnal.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1962-09-19
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Sangre en Castilla
Overview: During the war against Napoleon the brave Therese of Pinorrey is erected as Alcaldesa in Castilla, Spain
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1950-11-10
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Piedra libre
Overview: Eugenia's parents die. She goes to live with Amalita, her close friend. Her grandmother Amalia Pradere a wealth landlady, takes the orphan under her protection. After a chain of events, disappearing her grandchild, Eugenia will take Amalita's place. She will inherit not only Amalia's possessions but also Ezequiel's love, Amalita's widower.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1976-09-16
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Una mujer sin importancia
Overview: Raquel is let down during her pregnancy. Twenty years have passed and the man comes up claiming for his paternity.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1945-03-01
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Blessed be you
Overview: María has a powerful reason to hide the fact that she is Enrique's mother.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1956-03-08
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Margarita, Armando y su padre
Overview: A laid back woman, a romantic man and a father who allows his son to choose his partner freely, produce a revival of the famous novel treating its characters in an ironical way.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1939-01-10
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Joven, viuda y estanciera
Overview: Elena is coming back to her country house while León and the person in charge of the estate fight to gain her love.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1941-06-11
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Mi vida por la tuya
Overview: During a mother's dream comes up Gloria Rivas as a vamp who crushes her son's life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-02-01
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Las tres ratas
Overview: Three sisters become orphans. The eldest one will undertake the protection of the rest which involves a very hard task . Eventually, she will have to resign to her happiness.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1946-08-07
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Last Refuge
Overview: Albareda does not doubt to betray her lover running away after denouncing him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1941-01-19
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Vidas marcadas
Overview: Two men define the destiny of a woman in a card game.
Genres: Drama Thriller Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1942-04-20
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La rubia Mireya
Overview: The misadventures of a woman and her failed relationships. Everything is represented through the tango mythology.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1948-10-08
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El mal amor
Overview: Widow meets her husband's family for the first time after his death; her mother-in-law hates her and her husband's son from earlier marriage falls in love with her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1955-02-24
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La sombra de Safo
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1957-09-05
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Safo
Overview: A remake of the 1943 film of the same name.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2003-12-01
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Pájaros de cristal
Overview: A great dancer, unable to continue dancing, takes as a disciple a girl who wants to succeed.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1955-01-31
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