Rita Macedo
Also Known As: Рита Маседо, María de la Concepción Macedo Guzmán
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Rita Macedo was a Mexican actress who performed during the Golden Age of Mexican cinema. She was nominated for an Ariel Award for her 1956 performance in "Ensayo de un crimen" and in 1991 for a TVyNovelas Prize for "Alcanzar una estrella". She won the Best Actress Ariel Award in 1972 for "Tú, yo, y nosotros". She also was instrumental in bringing many works of international writers to the Mexican stage. She was married to a pioneer of Mexican radio, television and film, Luis de Llano Palmer, by whom she had two children, Julissa, an actress and musician, and Luis de Llano Macedo, renowned telenovela producer. On December 5, 1993, Macedo committed suicide after being diagnosed with cancer.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Mexico City, Mexico
Adult: No
Birthday: December 08, 1928
Age: 96 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: December 06, 1993
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Una mujer honesta

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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1972-01-01
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Los ángeles de la tarde

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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1972-01-01
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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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Poison for the Fairies

Overview: In 1965 Mexico City, Flavia, a wealthy yet lonely schoolgirl, befriends Veronica, a young orphan girl who has a fascination with witchcraft. Veronica convinces Flavia that she is a real witch and forces her to be her assistant. The children's games gradually become more serious and Veronica demands more from Flavia.
Genres: Fantasy Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1986-10-02
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Stronghold

Overview: In 1850s Mexico, the beautiful owner of a silver mine is kidnapped by a bandit leader, who needs money to finance his revolt against the Emperor Maximilian.
Genres: Adventure Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-10-25
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The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz

Overview: A bizarre black comedy about a man whose overwhelming ambition in life is to be a renowned serial killer of women, and will stop at nothing to achieve it - but not everything goes according to plan...
Genres: Comedy Drama Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1955-05-19
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The Curse of the Crying Woman

Overview: A young woman inherits a mansion, only to discover that it is haunted by witches and evil spirits.
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1963-08-15
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Castle of Purity

Overview: A disciplined and sexually driven man forces his family to stay isolated in their home in order to protect them from the “evil nature” of human beings.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1973-05-10
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Angel del barrio

Overview: Retired boxer is the moral compass of his slum neighborhood.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-06-17
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Rosenda

Overview: A ruffian sends his assistant to force a peasant girl to marry him, but while he is bringing her to him, he falls in love with her.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1948-10-20
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Internado para señoritas

Overview: 1940s-style teen comedy set in a private school for girls.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1943-11-11
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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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Duelo en las montañas

Overview: 1910: Revolutionary leader escapes military, hides in small town, falls in love.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1950-02-18
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Los bandidos de Río Frío

Overview: Luis Aguilar heads the cast in this story of a band of outlaws whose exploits are more fun than negligible.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1956-02-04
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El globero

Overview: Loose remake of Chaplin's The Kid.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-05-18
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Angel del barrio

Overview: Retired boxer is the moral compass of his slum neighborhood.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-06-17
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By the False Door

Overview: Bernardo is in love with Adela and although she does not belong, he has always helped her family although they only care about money and not the virtues of man.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1950-11-16
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Heart of beast

Overview: Wanted criminal has plastic surgery, starts new life in a distant town. Old habits die hard.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-02-21
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El señor gobernador

Overview: Newly-elected state governor is challenged by his responsibilities.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-05-18
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Once Upon a Scoundrel

Overview: After falling for Alicia, greedy and powerful Mexican landowner Carlos has her fiancé thrown in prison on a bogus charge. To trick Carlos into releasing her man, Alicia teams up with her Aunt Delfina and tries to convince Carlos that he's a ghost.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-01-01
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A Bullet for Billy the Kid

Overview: Western gunfighter Billy Kid decides to embark upon a new life and, accompanied by his sister, sets off on the long journey to his ranch. The journey is fraught with danger as Billy is attacked by both gunmen and lawmen.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-11-01
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La casa colorada

Overview: Mexican Revolution: rich man's son kills somebody over a woman, runs off to the war, goes home afterwards. Many complications, much melodrama.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-08-22
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Por querer a una mujer

Overview: Ranch melodrama: romantic triangle leads to multiple murders.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-09-14
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Pueblo Canto y Esperanza

Overview: Anthology-movie with episodes set in Cuba, Mexico and Colombia.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1956-05-17
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Las 5 noches de Adán

Overview: Globe-hopping playboy bachelor is getting on in years, so he invites his five international children to come live with him.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1942-04-18
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Los indolentes

Overview: Wealthy family in the 1940s have failed to change with the times, and now everything's collapsing in their lives.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1979-06-28
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Cielo Rojo

Overview: Troubled young man meets his father for the first time.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1962-11-05
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La estrella vacía

Overview: Mourners share their memories of a dead film-star at her wake, a la Citizen Kane. Only melodrama.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-05-05
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Jesús, nuestro Señor

Overview: Third movie in "Life of Christ" trilogy.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1971-04-08
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El juicio de los hijos

Overview: Widow with teenaged children faces hostility from her dead husband's mother, who seems to know a family secret she wants to use against her.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-03-25
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Una bala es mi testigo

Overview: Cowboy goes to track down the man who murdered his brother, but it turns out to be someone other than the one he was looking for. Together, they set things straight and take care of the real murderer.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-03-10
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Tú, yo, nosotros

Overview: Three interwoven stories where the characters experience deception, passion, love and rejection.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1972-06-19
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Quinceañera

Overview: María Antonia, Beatriz and Leonor are three classmates who are anxiously awaiting the celebration of their 15th birthday. However, each of them will have to cope with their complicated personal situation.
Genres: Drama Family Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1960-06-09
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El fugitivo

Overview: Drifter returns to his home town for revenge, but he get caught up in the town's interpersonal dramas.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-02-03
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Salón de belleza

Overview: Employees and clients at Merle's Beauty Stuff have illicit romances and cheating husbands and that kind of thing. Meanwhile, the cop that directs traffic outside gets an opportunity to become a movie star.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-11-16
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The Paper Man

Overview: A deaf and mute vagabond finds a large denomination bill in a Mexico City dump, and while he tries to buy something with it, others try to con him into giving it away.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1963-10-05
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Neutron vs. the Maniac

Overview: Neutron, a wrestler/superhero, investigates a series of murders at a sanitarium.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Crime Fantasy Horror Mystery
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1965-08-13
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Las últimas banderas

Overview: Two Spanish soldiers, good friends, have to fight on the battlefield during the Peruvian war of independence.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1954-01-01
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Nosotros los jóvenes

Overview: Young-adult movie about a crew of 8 or 10 upper-middle-class boys and girls -- mostly about the romance between two of them.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-06-09
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Espejismo de la ciudad

Overview: Family from a farming community move to the capital and lose their moral compass.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1976-03-25
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The Medallion of Crime

Overview: Going out for a drink with the guys after work, a salaryman get in over his head with a gangster's moll and a murder.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1955-06-22
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Las infieles

Overview: Governess falls in love with the uncle of the children she's teaching. Then complications.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1953-07-09
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The Corrupted

Overview: Hotel with a dozen stories unfolding simultaneously: man with brain tumor, child with leukemia, drug-traffic magnate and his paid escort, rich widow and her paid escort, lesbian seduction scenario, etc etc...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1971-02-10
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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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The White Rose

Overview: An international oil company comes into conflict with a Mexican ranch owner who refuses to sell his land, resorting to a devious scheme to try to take over the property.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1961-07-19
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Juana Gallo

Overview: Peasant woman leads a regiment during the final days of the Mexican Revolution. Also, romantic entanglements.
Genres: Drama Action War
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1961-05-21
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Mi adorado salvaje

Overview: The old folks back home in Spain have arranged a marriage for their niece living in Mexico. To side-step their demands, she pretends to be already married, with a male acquaintance who agrees to pose as her husband while her relatives are visiting.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1952-03-21
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Felipe de Jesús

Overview: Biography of the first Catholic Saint to be born in Mexico.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1949-08-05
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Cambiando el destino

Overview: A musical band of teens travel by plane to a scheduled event where they will perform in scenario have an accident and get lost in the middle of the desert.
Genres: Music Adventure Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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Victoria

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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1972-06-08
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El rencor de la tierra

Overview: Mexican movie
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1949-11-10
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Manos de seda

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Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-07-04
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La mujer ajena

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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1955-10-26
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The Other Virginity

Overview: Two young waitresses, Laura and Eva, become romantically involved with a movie distributor, Adrian, and his friend Luis.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1975-04-24
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En la mitad del mundo

Overview: Mexican-Ecuadorian film from 1964, originally titled: ‘The Misadventures of Don Ventura’. A musical comedy created in the style of traditional classic Hollywood cinema of the 1950s, with the purpose of promoting Ecuador to the world through an idyllic vision of the country that erased economic, political and social conflicts, while offering its national and international viewers the idea of a harmonious nation in the process of modernization.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-01-01
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La reina del cielo

Overview: A tribe of Venezuelan Indians in the jungle, commanded by chief Coromoto live with fear because of the presence of a Spanish colony settled in the outskirts. Coromoto's fears are increased because of the presence of a snake and the prophecies of the sorcerers. His government is threatened by the rebellious character of Piache, a warrior who also has his followers. One day Coromoto and his people have a vision in the lake of the Virgin Mary, but he doesn't trust on it, thinking that it's a negative spirit despite its beauty. However, the tribe exiled a woman, Guaita and his little son Jesus. Guaita and Jesus run away to the Spanish colony, where they're received in the local governor's house. The governor and a soldier, Bartolome offer to help Guaita and Jesus. Maybe the father of the child is a Spaniard known by Bartolome and his brother.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1959-01-01
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