Gerardo del Castillo
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Mexico City, México
Birthday: January 01, 1920
Deathday: February 14, 2005
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Omen
Overview: While attending the birth of Isabel, the wife of foreigner Felipe, Mama Santos predicts that "something terrible is going to happen in the town." From this omen, calamities will torment the locals.
Genres: Comedy Drama Fantasy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1975-02-13
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The Living Forces
Overview: It narrates the phenomenon of the Mexican Revolution, satirically reflected through what happens in a town far from the places where the true Revolution was fiercely fought.
Genres: Action Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1975-11-20
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Viejo nido
Overview: Mexican movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-01-01
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The Heist
Overview: In Mexico City's infamous Lecumberri prison, three drug-addicted convicts celebrate getting drugs from one of their the mothers. They are found out and locked up in the "apando," the dreaded punishment cell. Protests over the treatment of those held in the cell lead to a bloody confrontation.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1976-08-05
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Canoa: A Shameful Memory
Overview: A group of students arrives in a small town during a hiking expedition. Once there, the local priest accuses them of being communist agitators on the run from an army crack-down against student demonstrations in nearby Mexico City and rallies the townsfolk to lynch them. Based on a true story.
Genres: History Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1976-03-04
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El Extra
Overview: Cantinflas is a man who hangs around the studios and helps anyone who needs his advice while at the same time envisioning his own versions of how certain scenes should be shot. Both angles provide ample opportunities for very witty, subtle barbs at the foibles of the industry.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1962-10-04
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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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El profe
Overview: Mario Moreno portrays a professor in this movie. A small town in the middle of no where requests the school Mario Moreno is working in for a teacher. He ends up going to give the town a hand. When he arrives he comes to know the corrupt leaders who through out the movie try to make him leave. Although he is being harassed you can see how much he cares for the kids and their circumstances. He deals with problems by using his hilarious comments.
Genres: Comedy Drama Family
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1971-04-07
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El analfabeto
Overview: Inocencio Prieto y Calvo receives a letter telling him he is the heir to his uncle's fortune of two million pesos. Not being able to read he has no idea of who sent the letter or its content. So he goes to the drugstore because the pharmacist can read the letter to him. But while waiting to be helped he sees that a young girl can read. He figures he has to be able to discover the letter's content by himself and decides he will save the letter and go to school, and wait to read the letter on his own.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1961-09-07
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El padrecito
Overview: Young priest Father Sebastián is assigned to a parish in San Jeronimo el Alto, where he is not welcomed by the community, particularly the resident priest Father Damián. The newcomer gradually earns the trust of the people through humor, but firmly captures their hearts by saving the town fiesta by fighting a bull when the hired torero failed to show. Father Sebastián counsels the townspeople, lecturing them on their duties in a modern society. He used the collection plate to redistribute the town's wealth more evenly.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1964-09-03
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Daughter of Deceit
Overview: In the drama, a father, firmly believing that the baby daughter in his arms is not his own, abandons her upon the doorstep of the town drunk. Many years pass, and the man finds himself continually wracked with guilt about deserting her.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-08-28
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Your Excellency
Overview: Lopitos, who is horribly inefficient but quick-witted, is invited (because of the current ambassador's superstition about 13 sitting down to a meal) to a banquet attended by the ambassadors of both superpowers. After the news of a series of coups d'état in Los Cocos arrives throughout the meal, Lopitos becomes the official ambassador. At a summit of world leaders, the representatives of the two world superpowers court the allegiances of third-world diplomats to tilt the balance of global power in their favor. The last diplomat to remain unaligned, Lopitos instead harangues the superpowers for infringing on the rights of developing countries to self determination, talking to them with his point of view as a citizen not as ambassador because he arranged his demise as ambassador one day before his speech.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1967-05-03
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Conserje en Condominio
Overview: After reading in the newspaper, Úrsulo runs to seek employment. It is the position of caretaker of a luxury apartment building habited by people more heterogeneous: the professional model, the spiritualist, hippies and all turn to him to solve their problems. But someone in the building, kidnapped an important person and Úrsulo becomes a private investigator.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1974-04-11
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El Barrendero
Overview: A cheerful sweeper collects garbage dancing, and the maids of the neighborhood get jealous because he invites another woman out.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1982-05-05
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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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El gato sin botas
Overview: Target of ridicule from fellow military academy, the cowardly Augustin did not want to return to their village for fear of confronting his grandfather, a revolutionary colonel. In love with the movie star Laura, Agustin flee to the capital but encounters the dangerous Humberto, another in love with the actress. Thanks to his "nine lives", he attains overcome perilous adventures and, incidentally, overcome their fears.
Genres: Comedy Drama Fantasy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1957-07-30
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Don Juan Tenorio
Overview: Classic legend of a playboy meeting supernatural comeuppance.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1937-03-12
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La pachanga
Overview: In a building, at the same time a girl's birthday is celebrated and an old man who died of cold is being watched.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1981-04-15
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