Armando Arriola
Also Known As: Arriolita, Armando Arriola 'Arriolita', Armando Arreola, 'Arriolita'
Biography: Armando Arriola was born in July 28, 1905 in Mexico, Distrito Federal, Mexico. He was an actor, known for Santa Claus (1959), La dulce enemiga (1957) and El organillero (1957). He died on November 1, 1978 in Mexico.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
Adult: No
Birthday: July 28, 1905
Age: 119 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: November 01, 1978
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Santa Claus
Overview: Pitch, the mean-spirited devil, is trying to ruin Christmas. Santa Claus teams up with Merlin the Magician and the children of the world in order to save the day!
Genres: Family Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1959-11-26
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From the Village to TV
Overview: A young man goes to the capital to prove himself as an opera singer, after being rejected he must find other means to achieve fame
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1953-01-22
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Damiana and the Men
Overview: Damiana, a girl who has grown up with her grandmother and a friend, is discovered by photographer and launched as supermodel.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1967-10-26
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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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Bala Perdida
Overview: Daniel is let out of jail for his mothers funeral. During his furlough he kidnaps his son and takes him to a movie set where a western is being shot.
Genres: Action
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1960-10-03
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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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Nosotros los rateros
Overview: A young woman, a thief and a lawyer find themselves in the same hotel room without planning it. Mercedes, the thief, has a brother who, by mistake, kidnaps the lawyer Alberto, which will cause a mess.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1949-09-07
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Una gallega en México
Overview: The Galician Candida has a bakery in front of the butcher Robustito, who constantly berates although children of both Aurora and Rodolfo are in love. In the neighborhood where they live, the neighbors prepared a joke to the galician girl. She gets angry Robustito hard time believing him guilty of what happened.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1949-12-31
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Las ficheras (Bellas de noche II)
Overview: Bellas de noche continues. The ex-fichera who bought the cabaret continues to work with several of her former companions, the waiter Fabian, the pugilist Bronco who returns to boxing, Carmen, his wife, who returns to booking, the drunk “La Corcholata”, in love with an old man, and a French woman and the pimp “El Vaselinas”, whose favors are disputed by all the women, but who loses his virility and fights to regain it.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1977-07-03
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Anonymous Death Threat
Overview: Men are turning up dead after receiving anonymous threats that include the date of their deaths. The latest person to receive one of these threats decides to call Santo the crime fighting wrestler for help. Santo must solve the mystery of the men's murders and confront a gang of Nazis operating in Mexico City.
Genres: Action Adventure Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1975-04-11
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Viejo nido
Overview: Mexican movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-01-01
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El jinete negro
Overview: A rancher disguises himself as a generous bandit and murders a tax collector, but is discovered.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1961-01-01
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Manicomio
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1959-08-06
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Chewing Gum
Overview: Two little poor kids, who work selling chewing gum in the streets, must face the true nature of the horror surrounding them.
Genres: Mystery Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1968-01-01
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El cariñoso
Overview: Romcom with music: owner of an auto-repair shop woos the owner of a beauty parlor.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-05-05
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La virtud desnuda
Overview: A certain young woman won't allow her virtuous reputation to be compromised... until her suitors agree to the price she sets on it. Twist ending.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1957-05-04
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Land of Men
Overview: On his family's farm, Gilberto keeps weapons to support the revolutionaries. When his father find out, he runs out from the hacienda to join them.
Genres: History Western
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1958-01-07
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La sobrina del señor cura
Overview: A pregnant parishioner can't get her boyfriend to marry her and the home office thinks that foundling girl the priest took in is too old now to live under the same roof with him. It's always something, ain't it?
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-08-18
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La flecha envenenada
Overview: Bad hats try to conduct a land-grab when it's announced that a dam's going to be built.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-03-08
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Pobre, pero honrada!
Overview: Beloved Mexican screen star La India Maria portrays a poor but honorable woman who causes a stir around town when she decides to become a witch doctor in this classic comedy from director Fernando Cortes. When the real medical practitioner in town discovers that there's a new shaman around, the comic trouble that follows is sure to keep viewers in stitches.
Genres: Family Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1973-11-01
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Where the Circle Ends
Overview: A woman murders her lover. Her husband and his mistress are also having murder-shaped thoughts, and their three counterplots all get tangled together. Everybody loses.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1956-04-11
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Dying of Laughter
Overview: Carnival worker is recruited by police to impersonate an old lady whose relatives want to kill her.
Genres: Horror Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1957-07-18
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Pensión de artistas
Overview: Between-engagements troupers at a theatrical boarding-house con a rich acquaintance into financing a show.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-08-24
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Mujeres sacrificadas
Overview: Nightclub dancer comes unglued after killing a man.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1952-07-10
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The Skeleton of Mrs. Morales
Overview: A taxidermist decides to murder his wife after having to put up with her after twenty years of hellish marriage.
Genres: Comedy Crime Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1960-05-26
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Una vez, un hombre...
Overview: Young factory worker becomes apprentice to an alchemist, and he ends up going to the moon to repair equipment belonging to The Three Fates.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-05-13
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El cardenal
Overview: Mexican feature film
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-12-31
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El rediezcubrimiento de México
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Genres: Drama Adventure Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1979-09-12
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Los tres mosqueteros y medio
Overview: Spoofy adaptation of The Three Musketeers, follows the original very closely.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1957-10-29
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Bring Me the Vampire
Overview: A group of would-be beneficiaries gather for the reading of a will, and discover that they must spend the night in a spooky castle to gain their inheritance. A spooky housekeeper and a man who seems to be a vampire are just two of the obstacles that might deter them.
Genres: Mystery Comedy Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1963-06-14
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House of the Frights
Overview: Half-dozen comic actors in a spooky house.
Genres: Horror Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1963-03-22
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El temerario
Overview: Crooked dude schemes to deprive stepdaughter of her inheritance after her mother dies.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-09-28
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Ni sangre ni arena
Overview: Cantinflas enjoys the bullfight show, and wants to crash in every of these spectacles. Also, there's a professional bullfighter, Manolete, who is identical to Cantinflas. Manolete has to give a bullfight show in a village, but Cantinflas arrives first as a stowaway in a train, and he'll be mistake by the real bullfighter. Cantinflas will give us a demonstration of courage.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1941-05-22
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La presidenta municipal
Overview: La India Maria becomes the municipal president due to a ballot typo.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1975-09-11
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El Extra
Overview: Cantinflas is a man who hangs around the studios and helps anyone who needs his advice while at the same time envisioning his own versions of how certain scenes should be shot. Both angles provide ample opportunities for very witty, subtle barbs at the foibles of the industry.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1962-10-04
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¡A volar, joven!
Overview: Cantinflas is a private in the military, who doesn't know anything about discipline or following rules. He only wants to think about his girlfriend, the maid in an opulent hacienda. The owner of the hacienda has an ugly and shy daughter, who is in love with Cantinflas. The problems arrive when the family arranges a wedding between the ugly girl and Cantinflas, who in order to avoid the commitment gets himself arrested. During his punishment, Cantinflas learns to fly with a silly and poorly trained flight instructor.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1947-12-23
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La maldición del oro
Overview: Local rowdies roll a drunk and get away with his life savings. Felipe Reyes El Justiciero rides into town on his faithful sidekick Macario and sets things aright.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-11-28
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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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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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Drop the Curtain
Overview: Cantinflas, who owns a cleaning business, cleans the windows of the house of a famous French actress. While carrying out his work he observes how a man steals one of the famous actress necklaces, but he can only see his back.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1955-08-31
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El analfabeto
Overview: Inocencio Prieto y Calvo receives a letter telling him he is the heir to his uncle's fortune of two million pesos. Not being able to read he has no idea of who sent the letter or its content. So he goes to the drugstore because the pharmacist can read the letter to him. But while waiting to be helped he sees that a young girl can read. He figures he has to be able to discover the letter's content by himself and decides he will save the letter and go to school, and wait to read the letter on his own.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1961-09-07
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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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The Mad Monk
Overview: A 1940 film directed by Alejandro Galindo.
Genres: Mystery Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1940-12-19
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Oh, Love… How Have You Put Me!
Overview: A low-class baker accidentally gets to know an attractive but bitter fiancée. By getting her snobby, dead-pan family to spend some time with his scumbag friends, he changes their lives, while at the time stealing the girl's heart.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-11-23
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Ambición sangrienta
Overview: A lawman and two sidekicks clear up a series of crimes related to mining rights.
Genres: Western Crime Action Adventure
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1968-08-29
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The Troublemaker
Overview: Well-intentioned Tin Tan who is always making trouble for other people, sometimes on purpose and sometimes by accident.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-08-15
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Pilotos de la muerte
Overview: A couple of provincial gas station employees travel to the capital seeking fortune of vehicle mechanics accidental career passing drivers.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1962-05-02
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El Quelite
Overview: Agapito, leader of the revolutionary movement of his state, comes to a town, kills all the federales, and gets a girl who was promised to him for his heroic deeds.
Genres: Comedy Drama War
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1970-12-10
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La feria de San Marcos
Overview: Two men and two women meet and pair off (m/w x 2) during the town Festival in San Marcos. Later, weddings.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1958-06-02
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El cofre del pirata
Overview: Bankrupt millionaire discovers a treasure map belonging to a distant ancestor.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1959-03-25
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Los tres calaveras
Overview: A Mexican music trío go through friendships and hardships in order to be famous and travel to Spain.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-06-23
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La rebelión de los adolescentes
Overview: College student returns home after the death of his father, then discovers Pops was killed by members of a crime syndicate.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1959-04-08
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Las engañadas
Overview: Irresponsible playboy seduces a decent young lady with a fake wedding; he continues being a creep for the next 12 or 15 years.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1955-08-10
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The Poulterer Hawk
Overview: Two bumpkins in the big city fight over the same girl, until they realize that she's playing them against each other.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-01-26
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Las tapatías nunca pierden
Overview: An heiress and some friends pose as gypsies to fight back against some bad-hats who are squatting on her new estate.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1965-09-22
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La máscara de carne
Overview: Mexican feature film
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1958-06-03
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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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El muerto murió
Overview: The paths of a young woman and her late husband's mistress cross without their knowing it, which causes much confusion for the two women and their new partners.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1938-07-28
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Mariachis
Overview: Two rival combos play practical jokes on each other during a festival where they're performing... then a sideshow artist is murdered and several of them fall under suspicion for the crime.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1950-02-08
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Unfaithful Wives
Overview: A bunch of stories where wives are unfaithful for different reasons: money, revenge or pleasure.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1956-11-01
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Mi mujer necesita marido
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1959-02-05
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Pueblo quieto
Overview: Son of a first family returns to his home town, reconciles with his pops, pitches woo at the young lady from another First Family and gets rampy with his rival for her affections.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1955-09-30
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Qué lindo Cha Cha Cha
Overview: Satan opens a nightclub in a small town, scheming to seduce the townsfolk into naughtiness.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1955-07-14
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Son tus perjúmenes mujer
Overview: Marginal/unemployed dude with heart of gold tries to make life better for crippled niece, unapproachable girlfriend, others.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1978-11-23
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Twist: Locura de juventud
Overview: The Legion Of Decent Decency is determined to shut down a nightclub where live rock and roll bands play and young people dance The Twist.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1962-06-07
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El gavilan vengador
Overview: Masked rider exposes the criminal misdeeds of a wealthy land-owner and his henchmen.
Genres: Action
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1955-10-27
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El rayo justiciero
Overview: New sheriff cleans up the town. First (?) in "Mauricio Rosales" series.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-08-11
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Vístete Cristina
Overview: Aspiring big-band singer who doubles as an art forger takes in a teenaged runaway who wants to be a showgirl.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1959-04-23
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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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La mafia del crimen
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Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1958-01-01
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La faraona
Overview: Pastora Heredia is a beautiful gypsy with great character who always tries to help the needy. One day she gots the notice of the death of his grandfather, a millionaire who lived in Mexico and that since his father was angry, she knew nothing of him. However, as Pastora was his only granddaughter and sole heir of all his property, it does not hesitate to cross the pond to claim his inheritance. But once there is that Don Guillermo, grandfather, not dead.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1956-12-10
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El Colmillo de Buda
Overview: Burlesque version of The Moonstone; the Prince of Panchistan and his cohorts are in Mexico to retrieve a sacred relic. Wacky hijinks ensue.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-04-16
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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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The Witch Suckled Them
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1958-02-26
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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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Felicidades maestro
Overview: Mexican feature film
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1958-01-01
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To Hell with Women
Overview: Small-town elects a female mayor. She suppresses all the time-honored masculine pastimes, and the men rebel.
Genres: Comedy Drama Western
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1955-02-17
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