Ignacio Peón
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Department: Acting
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Night Falls
Overview: Marcos is an arrogant jai-alai player who seduces and discards women until he himself becomes the object of a cunning revenge.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1952-04-24
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The Stone Crucifix
Overview: A young prostitue woman arrives severely injured to a hospital and finds a chance to have a new life when the grandmother of another woman who has just died there mistakenly takes her as her grandaugther and takes her to live with her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1956-06-15
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Una aventura en la noche
Overview: Film version of the 'hitchhiking ghost' urban legend.
Genres: Crime Romance Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1948-07-09
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Dicen que soy hombre malo
Overview: Mistaken identities, courtship woes, invalidated marriages, and sombreros de charro.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-06-23
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Él
Overview: Gloria encounters Francisco, a man whose social veneer betrays a truer self burrowed underneath.
Genres: Drama Thriller Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1953-07-09
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El bombero atómico
Overview: Cantinflas is a clumsy fireman, who one day receives the visit of his little goddaughter, whose mother recently died in the jungle. After having work in a few fires, Cantinflas decided to quit and become a policeman, because is less dangerous. Everything goes well until a gang of gangsters kidnap the girl, because of a monetary inheritance.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1952-09-10
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Mexicanos al Grito de Guerra
Overview: In times of the French Intervention, a student of Nunó, author of the Mexican National Anthem, falls in love with the niece of the French Ambassador, which causes quite amusing complications.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1943-09-16
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Albur de amor
Overview: Dark romantic melodrama, played out with high-stakes card games and cockfights.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1947-08-29
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A Family Like Many Others
Overview: The dynamics of a typical middle-class family are shaken up after the introduction of an enthusiastic door-to-door vacuum salesman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1949-03-11
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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 Three Musketeers
Overview: Cantinflas and three friends return a stolen necklace to an actress who invites them to be extras at Clasa studios. While on the set, he falls asleep and dreams that he is d'Artagnan, fighting on behalf of Queen Anne.
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1942-08-27
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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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El circo
Overview: A cobbler gets a job in a Circus as a janitor, recommended by the beautiful girl rider of the show. But later, he gets in trouble when he involves in dangerous acts, such as the trapeze. Obviously, our friend will risk his life by the love of his new girlfriend.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1943-03-12
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Si yo fuera diputado
Overview: Cantinflas is a unique barber, who trades with an elderly neighbor, a lawyer by profession, laws lessons in exchange for haircuts and shaved. It proposes advice to defend in court the disadvantaged neighborhood. His success deputy seeks the votes as the other candidate, Don Próculo, it is not accepted by anyone but his own bodyguards. Don Próculo will use know how much ruse to win the election by the Council, and also for the love of 'Sarita'
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1952-01-30
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Love Your Neighbor
Overview: This film tells several short stories that end up lapsing in the emergency room of a hospital, because it is dedicated to nurses. Cantinflas appears at the end of the film playing the role of Luis, a man who has five daughters and looks forward to a boy, but fate plays a trick and the child dies at birth, but history gives a nice twist and a message of hope.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1958-10-23
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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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Gran Casino
Overview: After the mysterious disappearance of an oil well owner, one of his workers, Gerardo assumes the business management. Soon, the owner's sister arrives from Argentina, and, believing that Gerardo killed her brother to keep the wells for himself, she starts working as a singer under a false name in the same casino her brother disappeared, in order to find out what exactly happened.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1947-06-12
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The Brute
Overview: A tough young man, who helps to kick poor people out of their houses, falls in love with a girl. She lives with her father in the building about to be demolished.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1953-02-05
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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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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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Camelia
Overview: A sort of meta riff on Alexandre Dumas fils' novel The Lady of the Camellias (La Dame aux Camélias or Camille) here in Mexican melodrama form involving the doomed love of a bullfighter and a beautiful but ailing actress/courtesan.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-02-16
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Soledad's Shawl
Overview: Alberto Robles, a young doctor, is faced with the decision to surrender to a life full of comforts and luxuries or to continue dedicating himself body and soul to serving those who need it most.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1952-11-13
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The Devil Is a Woman
Overview: A woman, after committing a murder, flees into a church, confessing her life story to a priest.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1950-01-28
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Victims of Sin
Overview: A nightclub performer decides to raise the baby boy she found abandoned in a trash can, putting her job and social life in jeopardy.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-02-02
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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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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 Black Sheep
Overview: The Trevino family tries to overcome the irresponsible behavior of Don Cruz, an erratic father with numerous defects that contrast with his son Silvano, a young kid man that is incapable of passing judgment on his own father.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1949-12-24
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Angelitos Negros
Overview: Starring Mexican star Pedro Infante, "Black Angels" is about a couple formed by a beautiful woman and a singer, both white, who are parents of a black girl. The woman blames him, but the girl will suffer the racist treatment from her own mother. Mexican version of the famous novel by Fannie Hurst "Imitation of Life"
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1948-11-19
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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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Si, Mi vida
Overview: Dr. Castellanos is saved from bankruptcy.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1953-05-14
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Pepe El Toro
Overview: The simple life and the values of loyalty and solidarity of the poor people in the environment of professional boxing, is the plot of this film, where Pepe el Toro shows the effort and tragedies that are experienced in this profession.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1953-08-21
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La vida no vale nada
Overview: Pablo, a wandering laborer, has imprisoned himself in a hell of alcoholism. Cruz, a widow, reaches out to the troubled man, but even her compassion may not be enough to save him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1955-05-04
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The Innocent
Overview: After a quarrel with her boyfriend on New Year's Eve, Mane drives her car from Mexico City to Cuernavaca to meet her parents in their country house. The car breaks down in the highway and Mane has to ask for help. Mechanic Cruci arrives and, after testing the car, offers Mane a ride on his motorcycle. Back in Mane's house, she invites him some drinks to celebrate New Year's Eve. They get drunk and, the morning after, Mane's parents arrive and find them sleeping together. Not knowing what happened, Mane and Cruci are forced to get married against their will.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1956-09-20
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María Eugenia
Overview: Before marrying María Eugenia, landowner Carlos are away to visit her godmother to break the promise to marry his daughter. The godmother is dying, Carlos quiets and everything takes an unexpected course.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1943-04-01
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Me importa poco
Overview: Anthropologist goes to small town to do field work supporting her theories about the primitive/subhuman origins of machismo.
Genres: Music Comedy Western
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1960-03-31
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Wild Love
Overview: Alma leaves Panama to go live with her aunt Antonia and with Manuel, her husband. There she meets Julio, who tries to woo her.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1950-04-06
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The Grand Champion
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1949-06-03
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Fever Mounts at El Pao
Overview: Aroused citizens assassinate an unpopular Caribbean despot, then two men vie for his gorgeous widow Ines. Ojeda is a steamy, isolated island, the penal colony for an oppressive dictatorship. A reactionary seizes the murdered governor's post, and rushes to eliminate his romantic rival, an idealistic underling. The bureaucrat Vazquez hopes to marshal the angry residents of the capitol, El Pao, plus the many political prisoners, to oust Governor Gual.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-12-05
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Hombres sin alma
Overview: Final installment in Juan Orol's Percal trilogy. In this film, Malena is freed from prison by a gangster but a rival mobster will make things impossible for them.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-12-07
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Que idiotas son los hombres
Overview: After divorcing her cheating husband, a newly single still and beautiful woman, (played by Actress Rosa Carmina), travels to Acapulco. She soon becomes the center of attention and spoiled for choice when she finds herself wooed by no less than four handsome suitors, three of whom are very wealthy and prominent men. Initially torn between her head and her heart, but mindful of past mistakes, Carmina's character chooses love over money and picks a humble and hard-working waiter. Directed by Juan Orol, (Carmina's soon-to-be ex-husband in real-life), this drama features the long, drawn-out scenes and shadowy film noir techniques which he became well- known for.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-06-14
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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 adúltera
Overview: Jilted lover takes revenge on her ex's new wife.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1956-11-22
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¡Yo sabia demasiado!
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Genres: Action Crime Thriller Mystery
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1960-10-27
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La dama del velo
Overview: Andrea loves Esteban. Esteban murders his wife and goes go jail. Andrea marries Esteban's lawyer. Twenty years later...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1949-06-01
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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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Melodías de amor
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Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1955-11-16
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