María Gentil Arcos
Also Known As: Ma. Gentil Arcos, María G. Arcos, María Arcos
Biography: María Gentil Arcos was an actress, known for Demonio y carne (1951), Campeón sin corona (1946) and Un divorcio (1953). She died on July 18, 1965 in Mexico City, Mexico.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: València, València, Comunitat Valenciana, Spain
Birthday: April 12, 1905
Deathday: July 18, 1965
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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Susana
Overview: The story of a girl of questionable mental stability who escapes from incarceration and ends up at a plantation where she disrupts a working family's daily routines and chemistry.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-04-11
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When mommy comes back
Overview: A family of six children are orphaned on Christmas Eve and struggle through a year without parental support.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1961-03-02
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Guanajuato Road
Overview: The romantic entanglements of three singers: two boys and a girl who fail in a radio contest and formed a trio.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-01-01
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Ave de paso
Overview: Mexican movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-01-01
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La reina del trópico
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Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1946-10-25
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Los Cristeros
Overview: When the government places restrictions on the Catholic church's autonomy, an armed uprising takes place. Disagreements over the new laws create conflict within the protagonist's family.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1947-12-19
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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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The White Monk
Overview: In an Italian monastery during the XIII century, a white image appears sculpted by Fray Paracleto humble mystically and sew clothes. Besides a mysterious woman appears Orsina Galata. She tells her story to the Father Provincial and thus dates back to his past.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1945-10-06
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Nunca debieron amarse
Overview: Ranchera romance; two young lovers whose families are hostile to each other.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-09-21
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Slum
Overview: Reworking of City Lights -- poor schmoe busts his hump to restore a blind woman's sight...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1950-12-08
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White hair
Overview: Singer's-rise-to-stardom plot combined with long-lost-son plot.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1950-05-05
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Las dos huerfanitas
Overview: Two young girls escape from an orphanage to go look for their mommies.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1950-10-18
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Huellas del pasado
Overview: A young singer falls madly in love with a man, with whom she forms a family. Problems, however, are not long in coming when she receives unfair accusations.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1950-11-01
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Cuando me vaya
Overview: Fictionalized version of the life of songwriter Maria Grever.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1954-06-04
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Fierecilla
Overview: After discovering his wife in flagrante with another man, a gold prospector kills them both, then takes his daughter to live in the countryside, removed from corrupting influences. Fifteen years later...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-05-03
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Los margaritos
Overview: Two brothers named Margarito butt heads courting the same woman.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1956-04-26
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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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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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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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Otra primavera
Overview: His wife dies and now he's free to marry his mistress and adopt their children officially. How will this play out?
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1950-04-27
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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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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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What a Man
Overview: Father and adult sons give help to an orphaned teenage girl.
Genres: Western Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1955-01-05
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Hay ángeles con espuelas
Overview: Two brothers butt heads: one's a gadabout charro playboy and the other's a priest.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-06-20
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El gran premio
Overview: Elderly home is struggling for funds; one of the residents competes on a game show to win a jackpot she can donate.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1958-07-24
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Spring in the Heart
Overview: Don Juan-type manipulates his roommate into helping him mount ridiculous schemes to get next to a girl he has his eye on.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1956-09-20
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Comisario en turno
Overview: Night shift at police headquarters; criminals and victims of all sorts pass through to get their cases sorted out.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1949-02-11
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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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Cuarto de hotel
Overview: Newlywed couple move from small town to Mexico City. Their first night in the city, they get separated by accident, and it takes them 90 minutes and lots of incidents before they find each other again.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1953-08-13
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El Mago
Overview: A slapstick fantasy of the amorous adventures of a magician a la Cantinflas.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1949-05-04
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El Portero
Overview: Cantinflas works as a porter, who writes letters and speeches in his old writing machine to earn an extra money, despite the fact that he still goes to school. The sentimental issues come when Cantinflas falls in love of his pretty neighborhood (Silvia Pinal), who is handicapped and unable to walk. The thing wont be easy, because a young military man also has feelings for the girl. But the porter wants to see her happy, and he will become a sort of Cyrano De Bergerac, writing love letters to her signed by the young soldier. His plan is simple: to win money in the horse races in order to pay the operation which will make her walk again.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1950-05-03
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We the Poor
Overview: Carpenter Pepe El Toro lives peacefully with his daughter Chachita in an impoverished Mexico City neighborhood. He pursues a romance with the pretty Celia, but tragedy comes knocking on his door when he is falsely accused of having perpetrated a felony.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1948-03-25
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Doña Perfecta
Overview: Liberal farmer Pepe has arrived in Santa Fe to visit his aunt, Dona Perfecta. While he's there, Pepe is eager to teach the traditional-minded townspeople a new way of living. Unfortunately for Pepe the people of Santa Fe aren't eager to embrace change, and when the citizens begin to voice resentment Pepe is forced to seek refuge with his sympathetic aunt. Dona Perfecta is just as traditional as any of the other townspeople though, and only suffers Pepe due to the fact that he is family. When Pepe and his cousin Rosario fall deeply in love, the situation quickly comes to a head.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-10-10
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They also sing of pain
Overview: The movie starts with Braulio Peláez (Pedro Infante), a schoolteacher, having just fallen off his horse, representing the situation he and his family are in. The next scenes introduce the viewer to his family and their poor financial and social situation. As Braulio stumbles around looking for his glasses, he causes a famous film star, Alfonso de Madrazo (Rafael Alcaide) to crash his car. Braulio offers him to eat at his house as an apology. Braulio's sister and mother, big film fans, immediately recognise Alfonso and attempt to get him to bring the girl, Luisa Peláez (Irma Dolores) to Mexico City to become a film star. Alfonso agrees and tells them to come to the capital.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1950-08-31
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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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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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Aventurera
Overview: Left alone after her mother runs off with another man and her father kills himself, Elena attempts to make a new life for herself in a new city. Believing he's a friend, Elena goes to dinner with "Pretty Boy" Lucio, but he drugs her champagne and sells her to Rosaura, who runs a brothel out of her nightclub. Elena becomes a sensation as a dancer, but all the while she nurtures plans of revenge against those who have conspired against her.
Genres: Drama Music Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1950-10-18
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Las tres Elenas
Overview: A woman married to a renowned doctor confesses to her mother that she has fallen in love with her daughter's young boyfriend.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1954-04-15
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Caminos de sangre
Overview: A crooked lawyer frustrates attempts to clear bandits from the local highways.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1945-12-07
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Enemigos
Overview: One son takes after mom, one son takes after dad. They don't get along, and the family splits into two households.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1956-08-16
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La vida en broma
Overview: Many many mistaken identities and impostures overlapping among a group of husbands, wives and others.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1950-05-24
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Champion Without Crown
Overview: A young ice cream vendor, Roberto Terranova, witnesses a child being beaten and comes to his aid by physically overpowering the aggressor. His strength and natural ability catches the eye of a well-known boxing trainer. Considering him a diamond in the rough, he aims to put Roberto in the professional ring. But Roberto finds that his personal challenges must be overcome before he can achieve professional greatness.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1946-09-05
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Guardián, el perro salvador
Overview: Poor woman and her daughter hire on to rich family as servants. Husband/Daddy comes back from his foreign travels and crazy stuff happens! Death! Jail sentences! Inheritances!
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1950-04-05
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Paco, el elegante
Overview: Paco's ordered by a higher-up in his gang to beat up a journalist who wants to write exposes about Mexico City drug traffic, and that ends up opening a whole can of worms.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1952-01-03
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Romance de fieras
Overview: Newly-graduated lawyer gets caught up in the personal drama surrounding a rich industrialist and his sociopathic son.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1954-06-24
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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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Chucho el Roto
Overview: Humble craftsman runs afoul of a rich girl's father and ends up in prison; the ill-fated romance has repercussions over the course of twenty-odd years and ultimately drives him to a life of crime.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1954-09-16
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..Y mañana serán mujeres
Overview: Grad student takes a summer gig acting as house mother/chaperone to a group of teenaged girls vacationing at a country villa.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1955-02-15
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Los Fernández de Peralvillo
Overview: A young man fails as a seller of household goods and his sister, tired of poverty, elopes with a criminal.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1954-09-14
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El gran espectáculo
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Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1958-09-11
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La loca
Overview: Mentally-ill woman went over the edge 15 years earlier, as a result of family traumas and the disappearance of her daughter. Now, present day, evil relatives are trying to take control of money she's inherited...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1952-05-29
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Padre contra hijo
Overview: Eloisa works hard, sewing, to his son Juan de Dios. He learns that he is the bastard son of Cecilio, who owns almost a whole town named: San Juan de Dios, Durango.
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1955-08-23
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Woman Without a Soul
Overview: Ambitious young woman climbs the social ladder. A bit too fast.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1944-10-10
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Women's prison
Overview: Evangelina murders her lover Alberto. In prison she meets Dora, Alberto's girlfriend, who was deprived of her freedom for his illicit business. An interesting story is about to be woven.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-09-28
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Lo que no se puede perdonar!..
Overview: Hortensia is almost ready to take her vows at the convent... but she gets distracted by her stepmother's boyfriend. Things do not go well.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1953-10-09
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Monte de piedad
Overview: Anthology-movie, series of anecdotes about the personal tragedies that lead people to take their values posessions to the state-run pawnshop.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-08-01
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Frontera norte
Overview: Two brothers: one's a cop, one's a gangster.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1953-10-08
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