Eduardo Noriega
Also Known As: Edward Noriega, Lalo Noriega, Eduardo Sobrino Noriega
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Eduardo Noriega (September 25, 1916 – August 14, 2007) was a Mexican film actor who has appeared in over 100 films, mainly Mexican. His best known English-language role was as Don Francisco from San Jose in Zorro, The Gay Blade. He also appeared in several television productions, such as "La Esposa Virgen" and "La Madastra". He is buried in Mexico City's cemetery, Iglesia de La Inmaculada. Description above from the Wikipedia article Eduardo Noriega (Mexican actor), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
Adult: No
Birthday: September 25, 1916
Age: 108 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: August 14, 2007
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El monstruo en la sombra
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Genres: Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1955-03-10
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Al filo de la ley: Misión rescate
Overview: Mexican feature film
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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This Was Pancho Villa: First chapter
Overview: The disembodied head of Pancho Villa, kept in a glass jar in a research institute, is the narrator of several short stories from his own life, stories that might or might not have happened but are the stuff of legend.
Genres: Comedy War History
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1957-01-01
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Hell's Island
Overview: Down-on-his-luck Mike Cormack is hired to fly to a Caribbean island to retrieve a missing ruby. On the island, possibly involved with the ruby's disappearance, is his ex-girlfriend.
Genres: Adventure Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-05-06
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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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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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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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Plunder of the Sun
Overview: An American insurance adjuster, stranded in Havana, becomes involved with an archaeologist and a collector of antiquities in a hunt for treasure in the Mexican ruins of Zapoteca.
Genres: Adventure Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-08-26
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The Far Horizons
Overview: Virginia, 1803. After the United States of America acquires the inmense Louisiana territory from France, a great expedition, led by William Lewis and Meriwether Clark, is sent to survey the new lands and go where no white man has gone before.
Genres: Drama History Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-07-04
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The Beast of Hollow Mountain
Overview: An American cowboy living in Mexico discovers his cattle is being eaten by a giant prehistoric dinosaur.
Genres: Western Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-08-01
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Caceria de un fugitivo
Overview: Mexican feature film
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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My Son, the Hero
Overview: Northern Mexico, early 20th century. Reynaldo del Hierro is murdered while riding with his sons Reynaldo and Martín, whose mother instills in them the need for revenge.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1961-10-05
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Amanecí en tus brazos
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1967-09-14
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The Last of the Fast Guns
Overview: A rich, dying Easterner hires gunfighter Brad Ellison to find his brother and heir in Mexico. En route, it becomes clear to Ellison that his is a dying profession. At a remote rancho, Ellison enlists ranch foreman Miles Lang to help him search the hills where the missing man is rumored to have lived. They find nothing ...except that someone wants to kill them; and Ellison becomes wrapped in a maze of double crosses.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-07-01
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Captain Scarlett
Overview: Captain Scarlett rescues Princess Maria from being abducted while travelling. She's not exactly grateful. He finds out that she is to be married to a man she doesn't like, so Captain Scarlet attempts to help her but winds up in prison for his efforts. He escapes and finally helps the reluctant bride who winds up joining Captain Scarlett and his sidekick and they become something along the lines of the three musketeers.
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-09-12
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Pier 5, Havana
Overview: A Yank comes to Havana in search of an old friend who disappeared during the Cuban Revolution, and discovers a group of Batista sympathizers plotting to overturn Castro.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-10-09
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Los años verdes
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1967-01-01
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The Living Idol
Overview: An archaeologist believes a Mexican woman is the reincarnation of an Aztec princess.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-05-02
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Asesinos de la lucha libre
Overview: Cowboy sheriff investigates the murder of a crooked lucha-libre promoter.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1962-02-15
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Semilla de muerte
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1980-01-01
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The Braid
Overview: A town confused by religion persecutes a woman who stole the braid from the statue of the Virgin.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1975-03-13
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Una gitana en México
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1945-01-11
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El Paso
Overview: Ex-confederate officer Clay Fletcher jumps at the chance to reunite with his once lady-friend, Susan Jeffers, when his father, Judge Fletcher, sends him on an errand to El Paso, Texas to get the signature of Susan's father, Judge Jeffers, on a legal document. Once there he finds the judge has become a drunk and a laughing stock, doing the bidding of local magnate Bert Donner and his running dog, Sheriff La Farge. Just as Clay starts straightening out the town's problems, events occur which force him to abandon the legal system and instead adopt the murderous tactics of a vigilante.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-03-22
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Samson and Delilah
Overview: A tale of passion and betrayal in which Samson, a judge of Israel who fled with his tribe during the Great Exodus from Egypt, uses his herculean strength in the fight against the Philistine oppressors. He is seduced by Delilah, a Philistine courtesan, who uses her cunning to discover the secret of her lover's great power and then betrays him.
Genres: TV Movie Action Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-03-31
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The In-Laws
Overview: In preparation for his daughter's wedding, dentist Sheldon Kornpett meets Vince Ricardo, the groom's father. Vince, a manic fellow who claims to be a government agent, then proceeds to drag Sheldon into a series of chases and misadventures from New York to Central America.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-06-15
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The Boy and the Fog
Overview: Marta is obsessed with protecting her son from the genetic predisposition to schizophrenia that she has hidden from her husband.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1953-12-24
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The Magnificent Matador
Overview: Karen Harrison is a spoiled, rich, American predator who falls head-over-heels for the brooding, tormented, about-to-retire matador, Luis Santos who has inexplicably run away prior to a corrida that was to occasion the "alternativa" of a young, up-and-coming bullfighter.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-05-24
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Seven Cities of Gold
Overview: In 1769, a Spanish expedition to California seeks to conquer the land and discover its famed gold treasures while missionaries aim to gain new converts and establish a network of Catholic missions.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-10-07
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Allá en el Rancho Grande
Overview: Remake of famous 1936 ranchera musical.
Genres: Music Romance Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1949-01-21
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Of Love and Desire
Overview: American engineer Steve Corey comes to Mexico to work at one of the mining projects owned by Katherine Beckman and her half-brother Paul. He meets Katherine, and the man he is replacing, Bill Maxton, tells him that Katherine is his for the asking..."all you have to do is touch her---she goes off like fireworks. There were plenty of guys before me, and there'll be plenty after me." Steve finds Katherine as advertised but he falls in love with her. Once he sees that the romance is for real, brother Paul is more than a little displeased at this turn of events and brings back one of Katherine's earlier flames, Gus Cole, to tempt Katherine away from Steve.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-09-11
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Gaby: A True Story
Overview: The life of Gaby Brimmer, a girl physically handicapped, who finally gets her goals of study and triumph.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-10-30
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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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The Best Place to Be
Overview: A widow's life is thrown into turmoil by her hippie daughter, her rebellious teenage son, and an ill-starred love affair she is having with a much younger man -- and then a former suitor comes back into the picture.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-05-27
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Two Faces Have the Destiny
Overview: Ruined alcoholic doctor escapes a tropical plague and begins a new life back in civilization, taking over the identity of a dead man.
Genres: Mystery Crime Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1952-03-21
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La mujer del puerto
Overview: Orphaned, abandoned by her fiance, forced into prostitution by the absence of "respectable" alternatives.And the-e-en...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1949-11-07
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El jinete negro
Overview: Masked horseman avenges the deaths of family members and resolves questions about a contested inheritance. One of four in a series ("Relampago").
Genres: Adventure Drama Western
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1958-11-22
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Herencia trágica
Overview: Masked horseman avenges the deaths of family members and resolves questions about a contested inheritance. One of four in a series ("Relampago").
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-06-02
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La muerte en el desfiladero
Overview: Masked horseman avenges the deaths of family members and resolves questions about a contested inheritance. One of four in a series ("Relampago").
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-04-05
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A Real Man
Overview: Unsympathetic portrait of a man who's too macho to display his feelings.
Genres: Western Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1983-10-30
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Locos por la televisión
Overview: Nightclub owners try to scrape up enough money to sponsor a variety show on TV to publicize their artists and their venue.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1958-08-27
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El asesino enmascarado
Overview: Hero vs bad-guy western.
Genres: Action
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1962-08-30
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El hombre de negro
Overview: After his family is murdered by bandits, a young man enlists a wandering cowboy to teach him to gunsling.
Genres: Western
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1969-04-17
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El asaltacaminos
Overview: Young man puts on the Black Mask Of Vengeance to solve some tangled legal problems concerning a contested inheritance and several murdered family members. It took him four feature-length movies to do it. (Series: "El Relampago.")
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-10-26
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Adios, amor...
Overview: A young man kidnaps a woman and embarks on an energetic crime spree. The reason for his behavior gradually becomes apparent.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-09-06
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Los Reyes del Palenque
Overview: Widow becomes professional singer to meet expenses. Love complications come along with the territory.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1979-01-13
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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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The Man and the Beast
Overview: Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, adapted once again.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1973-11-29
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Nosotras, las taquígrafas
Overview: Young women in the steno-pool have to balance work, romance, and touchy-feely bosses.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1950-12-28
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Trampa para un cadáver
Overview: Two brothers try to kill their stepfather to avenge the death of their mother.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1969-10-17
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Don't Panic
Overview: On his 17th birthday, a boy named Michael has a surprise party thrown by his friends, where a session with a Ouija board accidentally unleashes a demon named Virgil, who possesses one of them to go on a killing spree. Michael, now plagued by violent nightmares and premonitions, sets out to try and stop the killings.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1989-03-02
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Tarzan and the Valley of Gold
Overview: In Central America, a little native boy, Ramel, is abducted by Vinaro, a madman who believes the child to be the sole link to a lost Aztec city of gold. Vinaro uses one of his diabolical explosive mechanisms to eliminate police and army officials; and the legendary Tarzan is flown in to help locate the jungle city, rescue the boy, and bring Vinaro to justice.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-07-01
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El día de la boda
Overview: The love affairs of two couples, modern parents a couple of troubled teens.
Genres: Romance Drama Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1968-10-31
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El asesino se embarca
Overview: Cops vs counterfeiters on a cruise ship.
Genres: Thriller Action Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1967-08-31
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The Fearless Man
Overview: Young man avenges the murder of his family by representatives of a US oil company.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1980-12-24
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The Eagle and the Hawk
Overview: Texas Ranger Todd Crayden is assigned a suicide mission South of the Border, to smuggle a government agent into Mexico...
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-10-01
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El rey de la pistola
Overview: Western heist movie; a complicated bank job goes bad, and two groups of thieves fight the sheriff and each other.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1962-08-08
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El patrullero 777
Overview: Follows Diogenes as he goes about his day as a police officer. He's prone to do things the right way, surrounded by a pretty much corrupt & citizen distant police department, & always resolves his duties with a personal method.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1978-04-27
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Estafa de amor
Overview: Bad woman plays three men off each other while enjoying the attentions of all three; a great many lives are disrupted as a result of her wickedness.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1955-06-29
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La liga de las canciones
Overview: International committee mounts a revue to promote Pan-American unity. Showbiz hotel rom-com hilarity ensues.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1941-09-12
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Fury in Paradise
Overview: In this western, the hero takes a Mexican vacation, gets caught up in a revolutionary plot with the powerful owner of a hacienda, and falls in love with the rancher's daughter all at the same time.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-09-19
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Mojados
Overview: A group of workers crossing the river is ambushed by rogue INS agents who intend to kill them all and plant drug on the corpse as evidence of cartel activity. One escapes, and he commits himself to helping a District Attorney collect evidence on the politicians and industrialists those agents work for.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1979-02-28
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Cuando los hijos odian
Overview: Woman and her daughter try to get on with their lives and run their family bakery while dealing with abusive alcoholic husband/father and other family problems.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1950-02-09
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Daniel Boone, Trail Blazer
Overview: Daniel Boone leads settlers into Kentucky, but must battle Shawnee Indians who have been persuaded by a French renegade that Boone and the settlers are there to kill them and steal their land.
Genres: Drama Action Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-10-05
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El centauro del norte
Overview: A Villista girl and a Huertista boy -- can their love cross ideological lines and heal a trembling nation?
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1962-02-25
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Perez Family
Overview: Gumaro Pérez must fulfill all the whims of his wife, who is sworn lady of society even though the Pérez are not a wealthy family. In order not to look bad with his wife, Gumaro asks for a loan, but when he receives it, all his co-workers take it from him since he owes everyone money.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1949-05-04
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La reina del mambo
Overview: Nightclub performer escapes from her abusive manager and starts life over in a new city.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-02-28
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Ladronzuela
Overview: Homeless girl placed in a court-appointed foster home under the care of a social worker.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1949-12-28
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Yo hice a Roque III
Overview: A lazy slob agrees to a fixed boxing match in order to be accepted by his family and friends.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1993-01-01
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Música y dinero
Overview: Restaurant/nightclub is sinking into bankruptcy and management team pull wacky shit to try to get back on their feet.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1958-05-22
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Rescate mortal
Overview: A college student goes on vacation to a South American country after learning he has cancer, and gets involved in the local civil war after his best friend is kidnapped by the revolutionary guerilla.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1990-07-05
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Las braceras
Overview: Widow and daughters team up with a crusading journalist to find the murderers of their migrant-farmworker father, run afoul of two INS blackmailer/rapists.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1981-06-25
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Zorro, The Gay Blade
Overview: In 19th century Mexico, legendary swordsman Zorro has passed on his weapon and his sense of duty to his noble son, Diego, a dashing swashbuckler like his father. But after an injury sidelines Diego, he is forced to hand the mask over to his twin, Ramon.
Genres: Western Action Comedy Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-07-17
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Inmaculada
Overview: A single mother discovers her daughter getting ready to elope with an unworthy boyfriend, so she sits the girl down and tells her the whole entire story of her own very unhappy marriage.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1950-09-15
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Backstage
Overview: The story of a famous singer who reaches the highest position in the world of varieties, but is forced to cede her throne to the young star of the moment, repeating the same situation that she starred in in her youth.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1957-05-02
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The Last Rebel
Overview: Mexican western film about Joaquin Murrieta, the Robin Hood of the West.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-05-09
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Operativo de alto riesgo
Overview: A forensic doctor tries to find the killer behind a series of murders using acupuncture techniques.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1991-01-01
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Serenade
Overview: A wealthy woman discovers a vineyard worker with a beautiful operatic singing voice. She helps make him a star but then breaks his heart. He flees in misery to Mexico where he meets a sweet farm girl.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-03-23
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El monasterio de los buitres
Overview: In an old monastery in Mexico, the faith of all young aspiring priests is tested by the prior using psychoanalysis. During the process, young people manifest indecision, sexual problems (such as incest or homosexuality) and lack of faith.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1973-10-11
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Cuando corrio el alazan
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 1985-01-01
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Reportaje
Overview: Reporters compete for cash prize awarded for biggest scoop on New Year's Eve.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1953-11-13
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Cacería implacable
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Genres: Action Adventure Crime Thriller Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1988-11-03
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Tuya en cuerpo y alma
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1945-06-01
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Aquel famoso Remington
Overview: Historical drama about the career of a hit-man who specialized in political assassinations in Mexico in the 1920s-30s.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1982-07-23
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Riff-Raff
Overview: A private detective foils the plans of villains attempting to take over Panamanian oil fields while he searches for a valuable map hidden in plain sight.
Genres: Drama Adventure Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-06-28
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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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Fist Fighter
Overview: C.J. Thunderbird, a down-on-his-luck professional fighter is informed that his old friend has been killed in an illegal fight. He finds out that the killer is a goon named Rhino and, with vengeance on his mind, tracks him down in Bolivia. The trouble is that the guy works for a local drug lord and the only way for C.J. to get to Rhino is to prove himself with his fists. However, the druglord doesn't want his best goon hurt, so he arranges for the corrupt local authorities to bust C.J. and send him to prison. The only way out is fighting the prison's monstrous colossal cage-fighting champ known as the Beast, who's never left an opponent breathing. Druglord's hot blond Caucasian girlfriend, Ellen, tired of being at the criminal's mercy, decides to help C.J. anyway she can. Even with all the odds against him, C.J. is no pushover and Rhino slowly becomes worried.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-05-12
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Si me viera don Porfirio
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 1950-07-12
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Reportera en peligro
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1991-01-01
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Enemies to the Death
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Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1985-06-29
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The Sun Also Rises
Overview: A group of disillusioned American expatriate writers live a dissolute, hedonistic lifestyle in 1920's France and Spain.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-08-23
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