Rodrigo Puebla
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Biography: Rodrigo Puebla was born in San Diego de La Union, Guanajuato, Mexico, on March 13, 1929, and grew up in a modest environment. His life was marked by perseverance and sacrifice to achieve his dream of becoming an actor. Before becoming an actor, he worked in various occupations to support his family. Puebla was a recognized actor in the theatrical and television world in Latin America. His legacy as an actor continues to be remembered and appreciated for his talent and dedication to his career. He passed away on January 15, 1993 in Mexico City, Mexico.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: San Diego de La Union, Guanajuato, Mexico
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Birthday: March 13, 1929
Age: 96 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: January 15, 1993
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El principio
Overview: Mexico is in the midst of Revolution when the protagonist returns after studying in Paris to find his native town in Chihuahua occupied by Francisco Villa’s revolutionary forces. He visits his deserted home and remembers people and events from his adolescence that provide glimpses of pre-Revolutionary society under dictatorship: his uncle, the chief of police; his sister’s involvement with a liberal political association; bathing with the girls from a local brothel; a labor strike that ended in a massacre. Returning to the present he discovers that his father has been assassinated and, in the company of his father’s former servant, joins the revolutionary movement.
Genres: Action Drama History
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1973-12-03
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El Payo: Un Hombre Contra el Mundo
Overview: Series western, adaptation of a popular comic-book.
Genres: Action Drama Western
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1972-12-28
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Los Caciques
Overview: A bad man holds the power of life and death over the inhabitants of a village... for no apparent reason... and he's fond of torturing them, tying them to crosses and leaving them to die. A cowboy with necromantic powers comes along and leads a rebellion to overthrow that reign of terror.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1975-07-03
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Island of Lost Souls
Overview: Rene Cardona directs the film version of Jose Leon Sanchez's best-selling novel, which relates the author's 20 years of imprisonment on an island ruled by brutality. When a sadistic man declares himself the boss of an island pueblo, an innocent husband and wife become the victims of his selfish rule. Once the evil man's deeds reach the authorities on the mainland, however, he sinks further into madness and declares "his" island its own republic.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-08-08
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Los Abandonados – Die Niemandskinder von Camanducaia
Overview: Based on the true story of boys from Brazilian jails taken to the state border and abandoned without food or clothing to relieve overcrowding in prison. Once discovered it became a major scandal in the 70s.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1986-05-08
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Pasajeros en Transito
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1978-01-01
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Traición
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 1991-01-01
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Ruby Cairo
Overview: Baseball cards and a food-aid worker help a woman follow her shady husband's money trail around the world.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-12-12
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Lo blanco, lo rojo y lo negro
Overview: All kinds of crimes are being committed in a frontier settlement; if you blame it on the Chiricahuas afterwards, you can get away with anything. One Chiricahua hooks up with a white guy and a black woman who have been victimized by the status quo, and the three of them whoop some righteous-vengeance butt.
Genres: Western
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1979-06-28
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Río de sangre
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Genres: Action
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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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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Devil's Mountain
Overview: Adaptation of cowboy comic-book El Payo, #2 in a series.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1975-10-02
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The Encounter of a Lonely Man
Overview: Alberto is a journalist who remembers an event 15 years ago, when his friend Gabriel saved a girl from a fire suffering third-degree burns. When he tells the story to his friends, one of them asks him to write it with realism, so Alberto comes back to his old town to meet Gabriel again.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1974-10-23
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It's my Life
Overview: Alberto Aguilera arrives from Ciudad Juárez to the capital to pursue a career in music, but in the midst of confusion he is accused of stealing and is sent to prison
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1982-05-13
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Tras el horizonte
Overview: A man is on the run after taking revenge on his brother murder, but someone goes after him too
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1984-05-21
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Albur de amor
Overview: Romantic triangle on the hacienda. Ends badly for all concerned.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-03-06
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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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Return to Aztlán
Overview: When King Motecuzoma dies in 1468, a drought sets upon the Mexicas' land. The younger Motecuzoma sends a retinue to collect tributes from the peasants and make an offering to Coatlicue at Aztlán, the home of their ancestors. The peasant Ollin finds a discarded tribute and makes his own journey to Aztlán to appease his rulers.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1990-11-06
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El Norte
Overview: Brother and sister Enrique and Rosa flee persecution at home in Guatemala and journey north, through Mexico and on to the United States, with the dream of starting a new life.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1983-10-11
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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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Romancing the Stone
Overview: Though she can spin wild tales of passionate romance, novelist Joan Wilder has no life of her own. Then one day adventure comes her way in the form of a mysterious package. It turns out that the parcel is the ransom she'll need to free her abducted sister, so Joan flies to South America to hand it over. But she gets on the wrong bus and winds up hopelessly stranded in the jungle.
Genres: Romance Comedy Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-03-30
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The Cursed Twelve
Overview: Escaping after a heist, bank-robbers run afoul of an ex bounty hunter with whom they have back story.
Genres: Western Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1974-02-14
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Picardía mexicana
Overview: An academic tags along among a crew of rowdy delivery-truck drivers, taking notes on their colorful and idiomatic use of language.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1978-12-21
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Cazador De Asesinos
Overview: A retired police officer looks for revenge after his family is attacked by a gang of criminals.
Genres: Crime Action Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1983-09-15
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El Quelite
Overview: Agapito, leader of the revolutionary movement of his state, comes to a town, kills all the federales, and gets a girl who was promised to him for his heroic deeds.
Genres: Comedy Drama War
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1970-12-10
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Longitud de Guerra
Overview: Based on the novel Tomochic by Heriberto Frías; tells the story of the rebellion of the inhabitants of the village of Tomochi, Chihuahua, against the government of Porfirio Diaz in 1891. Mexico's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1976.
Genres: Thriller Action Drama Western
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1976-12-21
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La puerta falsa
Overview: Young heroin addict dies in the pursuit of his calling, and his brother goes on a vendetta against the narco gang that supplied his drugs.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1977-05-05
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Benjamín Argumedo el rebelde
Overview: Biopic about a General in the Mexican Revolution. Sequel: Persecucion y muerte de Benjamin Argumedo.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1979-12-13
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Mundo mágico
Overview: Anthology movie that presents 3 stories about romance.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1983-12-29
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The Magnificent One
Overview: A writer of pulpy book series in which he's the hero and his beautiful English roommate is the love interest attempts to finish his new book in time at the publisher's demand.
Genres: Comedy Romance Action Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-11-23
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El elegido
Overview: A guy is peer-pressured, despite his reluctance, to play the role of Christ in a local production of the Passion Play.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1977-01-13
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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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La Chèvre
Overview: When the boss' unlucky daughter is missing in South America, Campana is sent to watch the boss' most unlucky employee who is sent as a private detective in hopes he can duplicate the daughter's mistakes.
Genres: Comedy Crime Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-12-09
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La venganza de Maria
Overview: Arms/drug smuggler wants Maria to take care of his puppies... but he also has reasons to kill off most of her menfolk family members, one or two at a time.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1983-07-08
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El vengador del 30-06
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Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1983-01-01
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Those Years
Overview: President Juárez fights against the conservatives, who have ordered an emperor to be brought from France to govern Mexico
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1974-03-21
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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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The House in the South
Overview: Indian village experiences forced relocation; their experience is paralleled by that of other groups dating back to the 18th century.
Genres: History Adventure Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1976-06-17
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