Marga López
Also Known As: Catalina Margarita López Ramos
Biography: Marga López (21 June 1924 – 4 July 2005), born Catalina Margarita López Ramos, was an Argentine-born Mexican actress. Born in Argentina, she later acquired Mexican nationality.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Tucumán, Argentina
Adult: No
Birthday: June 21, 1924
Age: 100 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: July 03, 2005
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Nazarin
Overview: After hiding a murderer, a Catholic priest is forced into self-exile and decides to embark on a pilgrimage through the Mexican countryside.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1959-06-04
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Even the Wind Is Afraid
Overview: A group of college students, led by Claudia, decide to investigate a local tower that has figured prominently in disturbing reoccurring dreams Claudia has been having. They are suspended from school for their antics, but Claudia learns from one of the female staff members that the person in the dream is a student who killed herself years before and that the headmistress has seen her ghost.
Genres: Mystery Horror Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1968-05-30
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The Book of Stone
Overview: Julia, a governess, comes to work for a bourgeois family that lives in a forested property they have recently bought. Julia is to take care of a little girl named Silvia, whose unusual demeanor may find its roots in the family garden.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1969-07-18
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Reclusorio
Overview: The human and divine justice are exposed through five real life stories related to the legal processes of a prison. The cases presented are: "I want to stay in jail", "Blood between women", "The raped prostitute", "The kidnapped policeman", and "Euthanasia or murder?"
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1997-09-19
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¿Dónde vas, triste de ti?
Overview: After the death of Queen Mercedes, Alfonso XII's first wife, the problem of the succession is raised. The monarchy needs a heir and the King choses María Cristina from Habsburd to be the futur spanish queen. But Mercedes memories will be against the marriage and the long-awaited son will born when Alfonso is already dead.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1960-04-17
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Vuelven los García
Overview: Ruled by a tough grandma, the Garcías are three charro cousins who fall in love with young American-born Lupita and fight for her love until grandma quiets them.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1947-08-15
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The Three Garcías
Overview: Ruled by a tough grandma, the Garcías are three charro cousins who fall in love with young American-born Lupita and fight for her love until grandma quiets them.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1947-08-15
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El hombre de la isla
Overview: Berta is a German who comes to a small fishing village to marry Lorenzo, owner of an island and that only known her through his letters. The early days of their marriage are a constant disappointment, especially when it finds that her husband has no resemblance to the author of the letters. He lives embittered by an old story and is hated by all.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1960-07-07
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A Place Close to Heaven
Overview: On reaching the capital, Pedro Gonzalez gets a lowly job and marries Margaret. After losing that job, get a new one as a bodyguard but is fired again. With so much poverty and despair Pedro believes that his only way out is suicide.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1952-08-22
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My Wife and the Other
Overview: A classic story of a husband who meets a younger woman, and begins a love affair.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1952-04-10
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Black Is My Color
Overview: Negro Es Mi Color (literally translates to "Black Is My Color"), the 1951 Tito Davison Mexican racial musical melodrama (about a light-skinned Mexican woman with dark-skinned parents who passes as "white"; a Mexican version of "Imitation of Life")
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-04-06
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The Naughty Son
Overview: A poor young man is mistaken for a millionaire when he travels to the city to fulfill his dream of being a singer.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1945-11-15
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La mentira
Overview: When Demetrio arrives at the mine to meet his brother Ricardo, he finds out that Ricardo has committed suicide for the love of a woman. He promises to avenge the death of his brother..
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-10-08
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Orange Blossoms for your Wedding
Overview: During the time of the Mexican Revolution, the eldest daughter of a conservative family must respect the decision of her parents, and follow the traditions of using the wedding flowers her mother used.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1950-07-19
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A Doll's House
Overview: Adaptation of the play by Henrik Ibsen. Mexican version of " A Doll's House." A spendthrift wife hides from her banker husband that she is in debt to a dishonorable employee her husband has fired.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1954-03-04
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Mamá Inés
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 1946-01-01
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Diablos en el cielo
Overview: Buddy movie about aviators.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1965-03-18
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El día de las madres
Overview: Three interwoven stories about generational conflicts beween single mothers and their adolescent/adult children.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-04-17
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Soledad
Overview: Soledad, a maid born in Argentina, works at a Mexican farm. The son of her employer will deceive her, pretending to marry her and leaving her pregnant. When she finds out that she has been tricked, she runs away from the farm. During her flight she meets a group of artists that'll change her life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-11-28
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Arrabalera
Overview: Working-class girl marries rich playboy, gets implicated in his criminal activities.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-04-04
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Crown of Tears
Overview: Doña Refugio works in an office until the bounce and has three children: Fernando who is studying to be a lawyer, doctor and Nacho Edmundo to work in a company as a truck driver gas. Things become difficult within the family and each seek solutions to economic oppression living.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1968-07-25
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Dueña y señora
Overview: After his wife dies, the master of the house can... maybe... acknowledge that he had children with the houseekeeper. But will he?
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1948-11-20
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Arm in Arm Down the Street
Overview: Unhappy young married couple argue and almost break up their marriage.
Genres: Drama Romance Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1956-02-02
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Cartas Marcadas
Overview: A tale of intrigue and deceit concerning two young lovers who, despite the fact that their relationship was originally founded on greed, soon discover that their feelings for one and other have grown more genuine than they ever expected.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1948-03-14
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Con la música por dentro
Overview: Tin-Tan disguises himself as a European Grande-Dame to insinuate himself into the lives of a rich family.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-02-20
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Arriba el norte
Overview: Husband and wife are reunited after a twenty-year misunderstanding; their grown daughter has her eye on a fella.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-08-14
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La entrega
Overview: Empire-building philanthropist has no time to indulge his wife's romantic fantasies.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1954-08-19
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Lawless Youth
Overview: Jorge is arrested and brought to trial, where it is known that he chose crime due to the abandonment of his father.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1965-03-21
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La Panchita
Overview: Flirty young farmgirl has five or six suitors to choose between.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-06-06
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Eugenia Grandet
Overview: A miserly father quashes his daughter's marriage plans because he thinks her fiance is a fortune-hunter.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1953-09-23
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Love in Four Parts
Overview: Anthology film, four episodes.
Genres: Comedy Drama Crime Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1955-08-19
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Cuentan de una mujer
Overview: Frivolous young society woman gains depth and maturity through contact with the director of an orphanage and his wards.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1959-01-15
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Doña Macabra
Overview: The story of Armida (named ¨Doña Macabra¨ by her neighbors) and Demetria, two old women who live in an old house with Octavio, a kind of mad scientist. Their lives take an unexpected turn when the nephew of Armida, Lucila, recently married with Othón, arrive to the house looking for and old treasure, believed to be buried in the house. They will find a lot of dark and unexpected secrets.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1972-09-30
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The Third Word
Overview: The English-language title of this Mexican musical was The Third Word. Singer Pedro Infante stars as a pampered young man who is sheltered by his doting aunts. Deciding that their darling boy needs an education, the ladies hire pretty schoolteacher Marga Lopez. Upon discovering that her pupil is 28 years old, Marga is momentarily nonplused, but then settles into her duties. Inevitably, romance blossoms between Pedro and Marga, much to the aunts' dismay.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1956-07-03
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Happy Year, My Love
Overview: Man and woman have a couple of one-night-stands spread out over 15 or 20 years.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1957-01-31
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Rosario
Overview: Rosario and Carlos, husbands, are part of a theater company. In a scene of jealousy, she should shoot and kill him. Carlos has had an affair with Zulma, another acriz of the company. On opening day, in the final scene, Rosario accidentally kills her husband. Someone change the gun ...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1971-05-06
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Una mujer sin destino
Overview: "Brilliant" young painter watches his wife lapse into schizophrenia.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1950-09-22
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El diario de mi madre
Overview: Scheming secretary sabotages her boss's wedding plans and snags him for herself. She, him, his brother and the abandoned pregnant fiance all suffer as a result.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1957-12-08
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Orquídeas para mi esposa
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1954-06-01
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La agonía de ser madre
Overview: She has an incurable heart condition, her son's a shoplifter, her husband's an alcoholic, her daughter runs away from home...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1970-10-15
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El último chinaco
Overview: 1880s-1890s rural adventure on horseback.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-10-05
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Love Pays for Love
Overview: Pre-Revolutionary setting; class conflicts and a romance across class-boundaries.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1950-01-11
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Callejera
Overview: Struggling songwriter "adopts" a teenaged girl to protect her from her abusive father.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1949-11-16
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De carne somos
Overview: Woman becomes a prostitute so her writer BF can concentrate on his art instead of working for a living.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1955-10-05
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Una mujer en la calle
Overview: An implausible accident causes a street prostitute to become close friends with an aristocratic old lady.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1955-02-03
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Beneath the Sky of Mexico
Overview: Romantic triangle. One of the guys is a very bad man.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-10-22
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El amor no es pecado (El cielo de los pobres)
Overview: After her child dies in an accident, a woman's marriage collapses and she goes into a convent.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-03-04
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Salon Mexico
Overview: Mercedes works as a cabaret performer to pay for her sister's studies. Problems begin when Mercedes and Paco, her exploiter, win a dance contest, but he refuses to share the prize with her.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1949-02-25
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Atrás de las nubes
Overview: All it says in my notes is "Like 'Juan Sin Miedo', only with soldiers." So... Army officer seeks revenge for... something...
Genres: War Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1962-11-04
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El pecador
Overview: College professor has mid-life crisis, gets mixed up with prostitutes and gangsters.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-04-01
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Las colegialas
Overview: Girl goes to boarding school while her widowed father pursues a romance. His thing turns out badly, but she meets her future husband.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1946-06-13
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Perverse Doll
Overview: A troubled woman commits a series of murders that exposes some dark family secrets.
Genres: Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1969-12-26
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Cuando acaba la noche
Overview: In a New York hospital, a man is cured of heroin addiction after a grueling three-month treatment. Although no longer an addict, he has complete amnesia: the only clues to his past are an expensive ring he was wearing when admitted, and a book of matches from a Puerto Rican nightclub. He pawns the ring and buys clandestine passage on a boat to Puerto Rico in search of his identity.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1964-02-03
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The Mocking Ghosts
Overview: Two fake fortune-tellers at a carnival accidentally conjure up some real ghosts.
Genres: Music Comedy Fantasy Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1965-09-30
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La edad de la inocencia
Overview: A poor little girl slips in a circus one day and sees a puppets' show. Later she returns to the empty circus looking for a fairy she was fascinated by.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1962-10-11
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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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¿Qué haremos con papá?
Overview: The funny story of a man who loses his memory in an accident and can not remember who was married to another woman, then meets another woman he marries and starts another life and lives alternately with a family 15 days and 15 days with the another arguing that their travel is for work in the Crown Brewery, which is in Veracruz where he lives with one family and one in Mexico.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1966-07-14
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Time to Die
Overview: A man comes home after serving 18 years in jail for murder in this routine western. Although the man killed in self defense, rumors in town circulated that he murdered the victim in cold blood. The ex-con wants to get his life together, but the two sons of the slain man are gunning for the man who killed their father.
Genres: Western Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1966-08-11
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Cri Cri el Grillito Cantor
Overview: Biography of the famous composer of children's music Gabilondo Soler. Starts from his childhood, when he worked as a pastor and grandmother tried to teach him to play the piano. Later he went to the city to study music theory and began writing his first songs.
Genres: Drama Family Music Animation
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1963-12-12
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Mi adorada Clementina
Overview: A woman in an unhappy marriage trades places with her grandmother's ghost; Grandma whupps the girl's husband into line AND proves to her own husband that she was innocent of the infidelity that he was suspecting when she died, fifty years earlier.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1953-06-23
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Far from Heaven
Overview: Pedro Gonzalez first gets into trouble as part of a criminal gang and then works honourably to become rich. Money is his undoing allowing him to become a womanizer and drinker, almost losing his wife. Finally he rejoins her, they have a son and he pays for his mistakes.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1952-02-27
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Midnight
Overview: A villain has his cronies kidnap a teacher and pretends to be him, teaching in a hidden town.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1949-04-28
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La carcel de Laredo
Overview: Unhappy about his daughter's choice of boyfriends, a wealthy big-wheel arranges to have the young man arrested for cocaine trafficking and continues pulling strings after his arrested, tried and incarcerated.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-08-28
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La ciudad de los niños
Overview: Priest feels a calling to open an orphanage.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1957-05-31
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Girls in Uniform
Overview: Orphan Manuela's passionate crush on her teacher Lucila scandalizes their all-girl Catholic school.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-05-31
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La sombra de los hijos
Overview: Dying woman refuses to surrender to her unnamed movie disease until she can help her children through the big, big problems each one is facing.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-05-04
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Después de la tormenta
Overview: This Mexican melodrama may have been released above the border as After the Storm. The principal characters are a pair of twin lighthouse keepers. They try their best to live together with their wives under the same roof, but the delicate balance is shattered when one of the brothers falls in love with his sister-in-law. When one twin is lost during a storm, the other assumes his identity, with the expected romantic complications. If Despues de la Termenta sounds familiar, it is because the screenplay was inspired by the 1946 Bette Davis vehicle A Stolen Life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1955-01-21
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Los perversos a-go-go
Overview: Priest is sympathetic and understanding toward mod-era young folks and their new world-view... but he gets in trouble with a biker gang and with a young woman who crushes unhealthily on him.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1967-01-11
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La dama del alba
Overview: Family rescues a woman from the river nearby where their daughter committed suicide years before. Unresolved mysteries. And meanwhile, there's a mysterious woman in black who shows up at the hacienda just before somebody dies.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1950-02-25
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La torre de marfil
Overview: Philandering husband drives wife to the brink of suicide.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1958-04-11
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Mi madre es Culpable
Overview: "Problem drama" examining the pros and cons of euthanasia.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1960-09-26
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Un milagro de amor
Overview: Young man goes to Mexico City in search of opportunity and gets framed for another person's embezzlement at their place of employ. Meanwhile, back home, his fiancée the blind woman...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1949-12-09
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Un divorcio
Overview: Divorced woman has to deal with blowback from the fact that her second marriage is only a civil union and not a church wedding. Meanwhile, her young-adult son is falling in love with a divorcee of his own, and faing severe opposition from his father over his choice of partners..
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1953-08-12
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Arrabalera
Overview: Disenfranchised working-class woman leaves a bad man and finds a good one. Twenty years later...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1950-04-25
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Tu hijo debe nacer
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 1958-01-15
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Melocotón en almíbar
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1960-01-01
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Navidades en junio
Overview: Comedy by Tulio Demicheli about Christmas in June.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1960-12-07
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Sueños de mujer
Overview: based-on-novel
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1961-08-28
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Una Movida Chueca
Overview: Experimental drug gives the ability to foretell the future.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1956-01-05
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