Diana Bracho
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Biography: Diana Bracho (born Diana Bracho Bordes on December 12, 1944 in Mexico City, Mexico) is a Mexican actress. Diana Bracho is the daughter of actor/director Julio Bracho, the niece of actress Andrea Palma and the aunt of actor Julio Bracho (named after his grandfather). She married Dr. Felipe Bracho, a university professor. They have a daughter, Andrea. She married, secondly, to Rafael Cortes, an artist, designer and painter. She made her film debut as a child actress in two of her father's films: San Felipe (1949) and Immaculate Conception(1950). She studied Philosophy and Letters in New York. She debuted professionally on stage in the play Israfel by Abelardo Rodríguez alongside Sergio Bustamante. Her television debut was in 1973. Diana Bracho won the Silver Ariel award twice, the first time in 1973. She won her second Silver Ariel for El infierno, de todos tan temído and was nominated for Best Actress for Letters from Marusia (1976) and Entre Pancho Villa y una mujer desnuda (1996). On August 6, 2002 she was appointed president of theAcademia Mexicana de Artes y Ciencias Cinematográficas. She has been involved in co-productions with countries such asThe Chess Player (France); Edmilson (Germany), The Dogs of War (Britain), The Aleph (Italy), The legend of the Drum (Spain), Antonieta (Spain) and On Wings of Eagles (United States). She starred in several television series and soap operas, notably as Leonora Navarro in the telenovela Cuna de lobos (1986), produced by Carlos Tellez. She also played the villainous Evangelina Vizcaíno in Cadenas de Amargura (1991), produced by Carlos Sotomayor. She is set to play the role of the black widow in the third season of Mujeres Asesinas. Though Diana was confirmed to star in Salvador Mejía's new telenovela: La tempestad, she rejected her participation.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
Birthday: December 12, 1944
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Gender: Female
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La Casa de Bernarda Alba
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 1974-10-25
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María: La Diva Eterna
Overview: Twenty years after her death, María Félix, a figure of Mexican cinema, is a model for free and independent women who are in control of their lives. Known as La Doña, she was a beautiful and strong woman. Admired and ahead of her time, she is our eternal diva.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2023-04-06
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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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Burn the Bridges
Overview: Eugenia is a former pop singer who is bedridden and dying of cancer. She is cared for by her daughter, Helena, who dreams of traveling the world and wishes she could be a glamorous pop star like her mother was. Helena’s younger brother Sebastian's dreams are simple and he merely wants to move to the beach. Helena is smart and pretty but she has no friends, male or female and is totally devoted to her mother's care and is also on the verge of initiating an incestuous relationship with Sebastian. Sebastian however, is falling in love with a boy at school named Juan who is the school roughneck and the son of a single father who owns a little bar. Juan is the nemesis of the school preppy named Ismael who comes from such a wealthy home that he has his own chauffeur and bodyguards. Ismael's ping-pong obsessed girlfriend Aurora rents a room at Helena and Sebastian's house where Ismael discovers he is also attracted to Sebastian.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2007-04-05
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Divine Confusion
Overview: The Greek Olimpian Gods engage in the human life experience to its full intensity, for which they choose Mexico City's trendy night club: "Olimpus Dancing Club". Once living in the mortal's world, the naughty Eros (with help of a gang of ill-behaved gods), is responsible for unleashing a forbidden passion that disrupts the lives of the members of two families of not-so-simple mortals.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2008-09-26
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Eros una vez María
Overview: When Tonatiuh loses his beloved Maria, grief and obsession to be loved lead him to seek love in a variety of women also called Maria.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2007-11-09
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What a Father!
Overview: Pedro is a single man in his forties who likes to party, has no children and lives at night. Everything changes when he meets Alin. She mentions to him that she is looking for her dad and that there is a high probability that it is him.
Genres: Comedy Family Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2022-02-09
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Los Abandonados – Die Niemandskinder von Camanducaia
Overview: Based on the true story of boys from Brazilian jails taken to the state border and abandoned without food or clothing to relieve overcrowding in prison. Once discovered it became a major scandal in the 70s.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1986-05-08
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3:19
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 2008-06-20
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Max Dominó
Overview: Mexican feature film
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1981-01-01
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Crónica íntima
Overview: Mexican feature film
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-01-01
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Round
Overview: Loosely based on the novel "Leakage, iron and fire" by Paco Ignacio Taibo I, "Redondo" is an amazing and brilliant cinematic journey, biting and irreverently funny, for the fantastic world of a spontaneous novelist who finds himself, putting in crisis some of the institutions and traditional values of his society.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-08-16
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My Universe in Lowercase
Overview: Director Hatuey Viveros' beautiful film unfolds as a fascinating exploration of contemporary life in Mexico, searching to understand today's world, while portraying a younger generation who lack an understanding of their past. And as we journey with Aina on her own discovery, it becomes clear that the process of her search is just as important as the results.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2013-11-08
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Chin Chin el teporocho
Overview: Rogelio’s story, a young man of humble origin in the neighborhood of Tepito, who falls in love with the daughter of a wealthy grocer, Michelle, but his marriage to her will be a failure and he will end up as a one more drunk.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1976-08-15
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Martin at Dawn
Overview: When Martin's car breaks down in the middle of the desert, he has no choice but to head off across the empty landscape to look for help. Along the road he happens upon a mysterious brothel. He has no choice but to go there. But when he goes inside he unknowingly is drawn into a fateful game of chance. In this suspenseful film from Mexico, not everything is what it seems.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2013-08-16
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All the Silence
Overview: Miriam teaches sign language in the mornings and is part of a professional theater production in the afternoons, maintaining a stable and passionate relationship with her girlfriend Lola. Although her life is very much connected to the routine of a deaf person, her world begins to crumble when she discovers that she is losing her hearing.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2023-10-06
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Las Poquianchis
Overview: During the mid-1970s, in the Mexican state of Guanajuato, authorities discover a clandestine burial ground. The corpses are from murdered prostitutes. The suspects are three sisters known as "Las Poquianchis".
Genres: Crime Drama History Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1976-11-17
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Amorous Pancho Villa
Overview: The assassination of Pancho Villa, on the outskirts of Parral, Chihuahua, plunged the city into mourning, and a wake for the revolutionary hero was held by his closest collaborators. Conspicuous among the mourners were the four women with whom Villa was having intimate relationships at the time of his death. Now that Villa is no longer around to mediate and keep them apart, tensions between the women grow and intensify, with unexpected consequences. An intimate and human portrait of the Centaur of the North.
Genres: History Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-09-20
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Curse of the Weeping Woman: J-ok'el
Overview: An unworldly and closed-minded American travels to a small village in exotic Chiapas, Mexico; at the behest of his estranged mother when his half-sister disappears during a local epidemic of kidnappings attributed to the legendary J-ok'el, the weeping woman, who drowned her own babies, centuries ago and whose spirit has returned to claim more children as her own.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2007-03-02
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La noche de las flores
Overview: The story of a wooing in which the stepdaughter, Elena, seduces her stepmother. A love story that is unpredictable for both, where reality overcomes their principles and traditions.
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 2011-09-23
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Between Pancho Villa and a Naked Woman
Overview: Gina is a modern business woman in her late forties, she has a lover named Adrian, who she sees once in a while just to have sex; they are both atracted to the historic figure of Pancho Villa, while he admires his power, she admires his virility. As Gina helps Adrian (who is a journalist) to write a book about Pancho Villa, she discovers the similarity between Villa's relation to women to that of Adrian and hers. She gets sick of only having sex, and when she decides to get married with him and have a baby, he escapes to buy cigarrettes and gets lost for three months. Gina forgets about him and gets a new boyfriend (half the age she is), and when Adrian tries to get her back and she refuses him and humiliates him, the one and only Pancho Villa appears as his machista conscience ready to do anything to get Gina back.
Genres: History Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-04-11
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Las asesinas del panadero
Overview: Mexican feature film
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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Buddah's Head
Overview: Tomás, a famous and egocentric actor, buying a Buddha head in Lagunilla . In an attempt to avoid being robbed, the thief accidentally kills in self-defense , with the relic . His life starts to change , forcing him to confront this crime and discover the sheer banality of existence. Seeking redemption faced with the mother of the thief and asks forgiveness , learning to forgive yourself
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2009-05-17
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The Exorcist
Overview: Ophelia, a young nun recently arriving in the town of San Ramon, is forced to perform an exorcism on a pregnant woman in danger of dying. Just when she thinks her possession has ended, she discovers that the evil presence hasn't disappeared yet. The director of the award-winning Here Comes the Devil and Late Phases adds a new twist to possession movies in one of this year's Latin American horror surprises.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2022-11-02
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Dreaming of Julia
Overview: The year is 1958, and in Holguín, Cuba, a boy's world is about to change forever.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-10-24
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The Birthday of the Dog
Overview: Two couples. One of the husbands kills his wife. He is temporarily helped by the other couple. The husband wants to help him, but his wife wants to turn him in to the police.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1975-09-10
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De muerte natural
Overview: Four women get mad at a bakery while they recall their lives at their neighborhood.
Genres: Crime Thriller Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1996-08-09
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The Faces of the Moon
Overview: The Faces of the Moon is the story of five women from five different countries (Argentina, Uruguay, Mexico, USA and Spain), invited to Mexico City to be the jury of the Third Annual Latin American Women's Film Festival. In six vertiginous days these women share their past experiences, their ghosts and, their expectations. The group views and critiques the festival's film entries, and, in the process, the women reveal their personal, political and national histories.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2002-05-17
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Romelia's Secret
Overview: The way three different generations of women view virginity and the mystery that a love story hides.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1988-12-04
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I Don't Know For Sure, But I Suppose
Overview: Dalia and Daniel are a couple running away from the noise, the pollution and the social prejudice, so they take shelter at an isolated farmhouse, which used to belong to Daniel's father. There they are, in full intimacy with each other, only with nature and their own memories. However, the monotony and the loneliness gradually deteriorates their relationship.
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 1982-07-30
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Everyone's Hell so Feared
Overview: The inner demons of an aspiring writer, whose dissatisfaction has pushed him to alcohol and drugs, lead him to his self-destruction under the guise of confusing political positions.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1981-09-09
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Letters from Marusia
Overview: Chronicle of the repression that a foreign company exerts on the miners of a small nitrate town in Chile, whose workers decide to claim their most essential rights. A reflection of the historic union struggles in the northern Chile that ended with terrible repressive acts.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1975-12-26
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Life Kills
Overview: A romantic comedy of our times about passion, friendship and lies, on one of those days when the city and its inhabitants go crazy and anything seems possible. Diego and Silvia meet each other and fall in love thanks to their masterly lies. The morning after, with their respective friends, they remember the encounter and slowly begin to realize how sincere and honest that relationship was. When the opportunity arises, both struggle to meet again on a day in which a sudden and unusual disorder reigns in Mexico City.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2002-01-25
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The Holy Inquisition
Overview: A plague is spreading through 16th century Mexico, and the Inquisition of the Roman Catholic Church is rooting out Jews, for they are believed to be its cause. At his father's funeral, a monk observes his family practicing Jewish burial rite, and he reports them, leading to devastating consequences for the whole family.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1974-06-06
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The Encounter of a Lonely Man
Overview: Alberto is a journalist who remembers an event 15 years ago, when his friend Gabriel saved a girl from a fire suffering third-degree burns. When he tells the story to his friends, one of them asks him to write it with realism, so Alberto comes back to his old town to meet Gabriel again.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1974-10-23
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Aunt Alejandra
Overview: The arrival of Aunt Alejandra triggers a series of nightmarish events that will put the life of a family at mysterious risk.
Genres: Mystery Horror Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1979-08-09
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Y Tu Mamá También
Overview: In Mexico, two teenage boys and an attractive older woman embark on a road trip and learn a thing or two about life, friendship, sex, and each other.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2001-06-08
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El hombre del puente
Overview: A man without identity/citizenship papers is stuck in the no-man's-land between two countries.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1976-09-08
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María Bonita
Overview: The Mexican diva of cinema, María Felix, age 80, is staying as a guest at the home of a family in Veracruz. There she meets the daughter of the owners, Agatha, age 16, who wants to know what does the actress do to be so beautiful at her age. They become friends, live adventures and María reveals her secrets.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2015-10-01
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Serpientes y escaleras
Overview: Two young girls used to play Serpents and Ladders. One of them always won, but they are very close friends. When they grow up, the winner is still the lucky one in the game of life, but life can be treacherous...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1992-12-04
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I Wanted to Find You
Overview: Diego, just a few weeks away from his wedding to Julia, the perfect bride, is forced by his father to remodel a hotel he destroyed during his wild bachelor party. There, he meets Lu, the hotel manager, a free-spirited, bold, and beautiful woman; the kind of woman who turns your life upside down. Lu will make Diego confront himself and take control of his life for the first time.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2018-06-29
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For Better, For Worse
Overview: Sebastian and Valeria are about to get married. Everything seems perfect but a woman tries to seduce Sebastian while Valeria is pregnant.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2019-03-15
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Violent Stories
Overview: Five surreal short stories make up this Mexican anthology film.
Genres: Action Crime Drama Horror Thriller Science Fiction
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1985-08-29
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El héroe desconocido
Overview: An outcast, Rodolfo Martínez, whom no one loves and whom everyone despises and undervalues in his town of Valle Verde, in Mexico, decides to change his luck. He decides to invent that he has a very important ancestor and that is why he deserves a statue that will remind future generations of everything he has done. Rodolfo doesn't care what happens, all he wants is to stop being a failure and for people to see him as an equal.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1981-01-01
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La leyenda del tambor
Overview: In June 1808, Napoleon's troops invade Spain. A boy named Isidro will beat his drum in the mountains of El Bruc, making the French army believe that thousands of armed men are waiting to confront them.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1981-09-17
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Cerulia
Overview: Cerulia comes back home to bid her final farewell, but her childhood memories and grandparents presence would not let her go.
Genres: Animation Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2017-10-27
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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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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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Mundos cósmicos
Overview: Drugs won’t solve your problems, but they might help. At least that’s what Memo, a artist tortured by his own failure, thinks. About to turn 30, and in a troubled relationship with his girlfriend, Memo decides to try LSD for the first time in hopes that a psychedelic trip provides him with the answers he so desperately needs. Through the use of this hallucinogenic substance, Memo will access parts of his psyche previously unknown even to him. Come along for the ride.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2023-12-31
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La posada
Overview: The Mendoza family gathers yearly for Posada. Diego's girlfriend Caro hosts this year. Secrets and cultural clashes emerge, making Caro reconsider joining the Mendoza family.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2023-12-15
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Las Ladrilleras
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 2006-12-31
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