Manuel Noriega
Also Known As: Manolo Noriega, M. Noriega, Manolo Noriega Ruiz, Manuel "Manolo" Noriega Ruiz, Manuel Noriega Ruiz
Biography: Manuel "Manolo" Noriega, (July 24, 1880 - August 12, 1961) was a stage and film actor, screenwriter, and film director. Born Manolo Noriega Ruiz in Spain, he worked in live theatre for many years, performing in his native Spain as well in Mexico, Cuba, and the United States. A pioneer in silent film, he made his first screen appearance in 1907. It is believed some of his early silent films have been lost but his main body of work began in talkies in the early 1930s, performing in close to two hundred sound films. Noriega earned an Ariel Award nomination for "Best Actor in a minor role" for his performance in the 1946 film, "Pepita Jiménez." Married to Hortensia Castañeda, their daughter Carmen became a singer who married Tito Guízar. Manuel Noriega died in Mexico City in 1961.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Colombres, Asturias, España
Adult: No
Birthday: July 24, 1880
Age: 144 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: August 12, 1961
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The Imposter
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1937-01-01
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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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Novillero
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1937-02-02
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Ojos tapatios
Overview: Mexican feature film
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1938-02-10
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La honradez es un estorbo
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1937-07-23
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The Macabre Trunk
Overview: A crazed scientist tries to keep his terminally ill wife alive by transfusing into her the blood of young women he murders.
Genres: Mystery Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1936-09-04
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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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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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When the Children are Gone
Overview: Unjustly accused of theft, the noble Raimundo is forced to leave his paternal home. A new incident, caused by the ambition of his brother José, causes Raimundo to be disowned by his girlfriend María and by his father, the just and strict Don Pepe. The only one who believes in Raimundo is his mother, Dona Lupita, a woman who suffers deeply because of the wrong decisions of her children.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1941-07-30
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Morenita clara
Overview: Priest nags a crusty old man into reconciling with his daughter-in-law and granddaughter after the death of his son.
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1943-04-28
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Mystery of the Ghastly Face
Overview: Dr. Forti carries out strange experiments, assisted by his son Pablo. They embark on an expedition to the jungle. Eight years later Forti returns without his son but strange things start to happen in the old house where they live.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction Mystery
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1935-03-11
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Mi madrecita
Overview: Woman faces the vicissitudes of life with her three adult children well in the background. But when the chips are down...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1940-05-08
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Hooray for Women!
Overview: Movie in which funny situations based on the entanglements caused by a woman named Felicidad to her family because of her feminist ideology are presented, to the extent of bringing her daughters and herself to a divorce trial.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1943-07-09
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Los hijos de la calle
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-03-21
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The Dead Speak
Overview: Professor Jiménez believes the human retina retains the image of the last thing a person sees before death. Only his student Eduardo stands by him in the face of widespread mockery. Together they will try and prove the professors theory but fate has a unpleasant way of helping them do this.
Genres: Mystery Drama Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1935-10-16
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Romeo y Julieta
Overview: Verona's peace is disturbed by the rivalry between noble families: the Montesco and the Capuleto, irreconcilable enemies. The two families have continued fighting to make life unbearable in the Italian town. The Prince of Verona informs the chiefs that the two families respond with their lives if there are new struggles. At a ball in honor of Juliet, the daughter of Capuleto, incidentally meets Romeo, son of Montesco. Both fall in love immediately, not knowing that their love is impossible.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1943-09-02
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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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Con su amable permiso
Overview: Unassuming elderly gent is installed as Mayor, by a cabal of financiers that expect to use him as a cat's paw.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1940-11-13
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El Mago
Overview: A slapstick fantasy of the amorous adventures of a magician a la Cantinflas.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1949-05-04
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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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The River and Death
Overview: A useless and bloody vendetta has been going on for ages between two families in this Mexican village. Men, sons, have killed each other for generations, for a so-called conception of honor in a revenge that never ends since it is also triggered by people of the village. Now, today, there are only two sons left, one in each family. One has become a doctor in the big city and his culture is modern. The other last one - of the other family - hasn't left the village and is waiting for the doctor to come "home" as he plans to kill him, to settle this war on this matter of honor once and for all. And the people of the village want blood.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1954-08-22
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Illusion Travels by Streetcar
Overview: Confronted with the unfortunate news that their favorite Streetcar, no. 133, is going to be decommissioned, two Municipal Transit workers get drunk and decide to "take 'er for one last spin," as it were. Unfortunately, the "one last spin" ends up being an all-night and all-day scramble to stay out of trouble, as they are confronted with situation after sometimes bizarre situation that prevents them from returning the "borrowed" Streetcar!
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1954-03-10
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The Abduction
Overview: In a small Mexican village the news shock neighbors, Ricardo Alfaro, a wealthy local rancher has disappeared without a trace. Taking advantage of the circumstance, Aurora Campos, a strong woman with overwhelming beauty, convinces the authorities to sell her the property in exchange for twelve thousand dollars. Soon after, when Ricardo suddenly reappears, a real battle is about to begin.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1954-04-23
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Encadenada (El yugo)
Overview: A marriage becomes a living hell when hubby's pathologies start surfacing.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1947-05-27
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Ave sin rumbo
Overview: A woman with a past meets a man with a past; the back story of each one represents an obstacle to their couple-bonding. Will they work through their traumas?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1937-06-24
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El ametralladora
Overview: Peasant farmer and landowner are rivals for a woman. Sequel to Ay Jalisco No Te Rajes.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1943-09-28
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Pepita Jimenez
Overview: On March 22, four days after returning to his home in Andalusia, Luis de Vargas writes the first of his letters to his uncle and favorite professor at the seminary. He reports that his father intends to fatten him up during his vacation, to have him ready to return in the fall to finish his training for the priesthood. He mentions in passing that his father is courting a twenty-year-old, attractive widow, Pepita Jiménez; his father is fifty-five years old. Pepita had been married for only a short time to an eighty-year-old moneylender named Gumersindo. Luis is not eager to see his father marry again, but he promises his uncle not to judge Pepita before he knows her.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1946-02-22
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¿Qué te ha dado esa mujer?
Overview: This musical comedy tells the story of two men whose friendship (whose beginning is told in "A toda máquina") is affected by assumptions love triangles and misunderstandings between the two, however, the value of that friendship overcomes all difficulties.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-12-20
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El charro Negro
Overview: Masked cowboy avenger in the style of The Lone Ranger, first film in a series of four.
Genres: Western Adventure Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1940-07-18
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Los últimos días de Pompeyo
Overview: A 1940 film directed by Rafael E. Portas.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1940-08-07
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El hipnotizador
Overview: A 1940 film directed by Antonio Helú.
Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1940-08-31
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The Hawk
Overview: A 1940 film directed by Ramón Pereda.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1940-08-24
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El jefe máximo
Overview: A 1940 film directed by Fernando de Fuentes.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1940-10-01
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Odio
Overview: A 1940 film directed by William Rowland.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1940-02-29
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In the Times of Don Porfirio
Overview: In a Mexican city at the end of the 19th century, Don Francisco, a gambler and a bohemian, almost forgets his wedding and is late. The bride, who is pregnant, is sent to Paris by the snubbed family.
Genres: Music Drama Romance Comedy History
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1940-04-04
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Viviré otra vez
Overview: Card-sharks blackmail a dissolute young man into participating in a big robbery; his brother takes the rap for him.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1940-04-26
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Dos tipos de cuidado
Overview: Jorge Bueno and Pedro Malo are best friends who consider giving up their womanizing ways when they each fall in love. As fate would have it, Pedro Malo unexpectedly marries Jorge Bueno's girlfriend, and the conflict between the former buddies begins.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1953-11-05
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Alejandra
Overview: There's a lot of confusion about who Alejandra's parents are, and until those questions are resolved, she may not be able to get married.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1942-07-02
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¡Esos hombres!
Overview: A 1937 film.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1937-04-22
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La zandunga
Overview: It is the story of a beautiful Tehuana woman who falls in love with a sailor who leaves with the promise of returning, but due to her delay she decides to accept a former suitor as her husband. Finally, when the marriage is about to materialize, the sailor returns creating an emotional conflict in her that is resolved thanks to her fiancé who, by intuiting her true feelings, leaves her free to stay with the sailor
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1938-03-18
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Hombre o demonio
Overview: A 1940 film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1940-10-17
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El milagro de Cristo
Overview: A 1941 Mexican film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1941-02-27
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Twilight
Overview: Doctor Alejandro Mangino falls in love with Lucía just before he goes on a round-the-world trip. Pining for her all the while, he returns to find that she’s married his best friend.
Genres: Romance Drama Mystery
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1945-04-13
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Cinco rostros de mujer
Overview: "The great love of his life" happened five times; one of those women just wrote him a letter. Which one will it be?
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1947-02-26
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The Barracks
Overview: The film chronicles the adventures of a peasant family of the late nineteenth century to push through his work with the opposition and hatred of the rest of the villagers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1945-05-27
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Conozco a los dos
Overview: Twin brothers separated at birth accidentally meet each other 25 years later. Girlfriends and coworkers are confounded, wacky hijinks!
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1949-08-31
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El cuarto mandamiento
Overview: A Mexican family drama.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1948-08-14
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Los miserables
Overview: Police officer makes life hell for an ex-convict. Based on that novel.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1943-12-01
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The Cockfighter
Overview: In Michoacan in the 1920s, Gabriel, a young farmer and champion cockfighter, finds himself in violent opposition to Roman, who not only wants to beat Gabriel's fighting cock, but to steal Gabriel's wife Rosa.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1948-10-27
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La mujer que engañamos
Overview: Woman chooses between two suitors. The lucky one is a cad and cheats on her, the one who was rejected hangs around in the background to set things right whenever she has a problem.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1945-03-29
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Malditas sean las mujeres
Overview: A tragicomic piece based on a novella by Manuel Ibo Alfaro.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1936-07-08
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Los apuros de mi ahijada
Overview: Irresponsible playboy-type needs to cut down on his nightclubbing and his expensive women-friends and buckle down to his Uni studies. Meanwhile, his godfather...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-04-12
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Las cuatro milpas
Overview: Bad dude tries to make time with a good dude's fiancée. When he can't get anywhere with her, he and his sidekick frame the good dude for a murder and a bunch of thefts.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1937-08-24
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A media luz
Overview: Tango singer exploits the women in his life. Learns a valuable life-lesson.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1947-01-15
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Prisión de sueños
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-10-12
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Reportaje
Overview: Reporters compete for cash prize awarded for biggest scoop on New Year's Eve.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1953-11-13
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El calvario de una esposa
Overview: Confederate Col. Lafe Harvey (Earl Ross) travels home after the Civil War, where he must tell his niece, Betty (Frances Grant), that her father is presumed dead. Soon after he returns, scavengers destroy the family home and he and Betty escape westward. Meanwhile, Gen. John Harvey (William Welch), Betty's father, has been seriously injured but is not dead. He arrives at the deserted plantation with the help of Union soldier Tom (Bob Steele), who then pledges to help John find his family
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1936-09-05
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Honrarás a tus padres
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-02-05
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Eterna mártir
Overview: A dedicated wife and mother takes the blame for embezzling money that was actually stolen by her husband in order to buy medicine and a doctor's care for the couple's seriously ill infant son. Consequently, the well-meaning woman is willingly sentenced to years in prison for a crime she did not commit-all because she believes her son will fare better if the bond between father and son remains intact. Upon her release, she soon discovers that no good deed goes unpunished. Her once loving husband has remarried a woman that her son calls Mother, After just a brief glimpse of her loved ones, she simply leaves without saying a word. Many years later, she becomes a patient at her son's busy medical practice just so that she can keep an eye on his progress in secret. In a cruel twist of fate, it is only after he diagnoses her as being terminally ill does does she reveal her true identity. The poor woman subsequently learns that her former father-in-law lied about her initial release from ...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1937-10-28
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Venganza isleña
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1923-01-01
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Vagabunda
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Genres: Crime Drama Romance Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1950-07-12
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Tarzan and the Mermaids
Overview: A high priest tries to force a young beauty to marry a pearl trader who is masquerading as the god Balu.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-05-15
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Two Monks
Overview: In a Gothic-styled monastery, a monk named Javier sees the face of another monk, Juan, and suddenly attempts to bludgeon him to death with a heavy crucifix. Both men then relate their own versions of a story of romantic rivalry between them.
Genres: Drama Romance Mystery
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1934-11-28
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Cuatro noches contigo
Overview: Traveling salesman meets a young woman who's running away from home, and helps her evade detectives who are tracking her.
Genres: Comedy Romance Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1952-02-01
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Esposa o amante
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1950-06-21
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Allá en el Rancho Grande
Overview: Two good friends — the owner and general manager of a ranch — fall in love with the same girl at the same time. The owner tries to 'buy' the girl without knowing she is in love with the manager.
Genres: Comedy Music Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1936-10-07
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Tragic Weddings
Overview: Jalisco, 19th century. Diego, a wealthy landowner, secretly marries Amparo, defying her father Juan Manuel, who fiercely opposes the union. Juan Manuel still holds a grudge against Diego, having once been his employer when Diego was just a laborer. Their secret marriage stirs jealousy and resentment, particularly in Octavio, Diego’s servant, and his wife Laura, who harbors unspoken feelings for him. As Diego departs for a military mission in Guadalajara, Juan Manuel, unaware of the marriage, attempts to arrange a match between Amparo and the Spaniard José Luis.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1946-05-30
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Melodías de amor
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Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1955-11-16
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Mater nostra
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1936-01-01
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