Rodolfo Acosta
Also Known As: Rodolfo Pérez Acosta, Rudolfo Acosta
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico
Birthday: July 29, 1920
Deathday: November 07, 1974
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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The Greatest Story Ever Told
Overview: From his birth in Bethlehem to his death and eventual resurrection, the life of Jesus Christ is given the all-star treatment in this epic retelling. Major aspects of Christ's life are touched upon, including the execution of all the newborn males in Egypt by King Herod; Christ's baptism by John the Baptist; and the betrayal by Judas after the Last Supper that eventually leads to Christ's crucifixion and miraculous return.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-04-09
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La malquerida
Overview: Emilio Fernandez directs Dolores Del Rio and Pedro Armendariz in a classic tale of family and obsession. Raimunda's daughter Acacia hates her stepfather Esteban, and in order to escape her suffocating home life she's accepted a marriage proposal from a man she doesn't even love. But Esteban has become obsessed with Acacia, and in order to ensure that she doesn't leave he's plotting to murder the girl's unsuspecting fiancée. As Esteban's true nature emerges, mother and daughter must band together to support one another and make sure that their family bond remains strong even in the darkest of times.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1949-09-16
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Run, Simon, Run
Overview: A Papago Indian returns to his reservation after a prison term and searches for his brother's killer.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-12-01
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Hondo
Overview: Army despatch rider Hondo Lane discovers a woman and her son living in the midst of warring Apaches, and he becomes their protector.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-11-26
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Return of the Seven
Overview: Chico one of the remaining members of The Magnificent Seven now lives in the town that they (The Seven) helped. One day someone comes and takes most of the men prisoner. His wife seeks out Chris, the leader of The Seven for help. Chris also meets Vin another member of The Seven. They find four other men and they go to help Chico.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-10-19
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One Way Street
Overview: After stealing a gangster's money and his girlfriend, a doctor heads for a small village in Mexico to hide out.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-04-01
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Bandido!
Overview: American arms dealer Kennedy hopes to make a killing by selling to the "regulares" in the 1916 Mexican revolution. American mercenary Wilson favors the rebel faction headed by Escobar, and they plot to hijack Kennedy's arms; but Wilson also has his eye on Kennedy's wife. Raids, counter-raids, and escapes follow in a veritable hail of bullets.
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-09-01
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The Sons of Katie Elder
Overview: The four sons of Katie Elder reunite in their hometown of Clearwater, Texas for their mother's funeral, and discover that the family ranch is now in the hands of Morgan Hastings, the town's gunsmith.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-06-23
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Young Billy Young
Overview: A peace-loving man named Ben Kane takes a job as deputy marshal of Lords, in the old West. Kane is no lawman, but he accepts the badge because he has an old score to settle with the town's chief trouble-maker. Once on the job, Kane must also deal with a young sharpshooter named Billy Young and a sharp and sassy saloon dancer, Lily.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-10-15
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Flaming Star
Overview: Sam Burton's second wife is a Kiowa, and their son is therefore born mixed-race. When a struggle starts between the whites and the native Kiowas, the Burton family is split between loyalties.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-12-20
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One-Eyed Jacks
Overview: Running from the law after a bank robbery in Mexico, Dad Longworth finds an opportunity to take the stolen gold and leave his partner Rio to be captured. Years later, Rio escapes from the prison where he has been since, and hunts down Dad for revenge. Dad is now a respectable sheriff in California, and has been living in fear of Rio's return.
Genres: Western Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-03-30
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Yankee Buccaneer
Overview: A United States Navy ship in the first half of the 19th century, under the command of Captain David Porter, is expecting to put ashore after a year on the seas; but the arrival of one of Porter's ex-students, the willful and independent Lieutenant David Farragut, brings a new mission: to disguise the ship and crew as a pirate ship and help the Navy locate the criminals who have been robbing America's merchant fleet. But as Farragut's disobedience threatens the safety of the crew, they stumble upon an international conspiracy.
Genres: Adventure History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-09-16
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Blood Legacy
Overview: In order to qualify to inherit the family fortune, the four heirs must spend the night in the family estate. However, during the night someone starts killing them off.
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-03-17
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Posse from Hell
Overview: Banner Cole is a tough sheriff's deputy who forms a small posse to go after 4 death cell escapees who killed the sheriff , along with 3 other men, and kidnapped a woman with rape in mind.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-03-01
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Impasse
Overview: Adventurers search for World War II gold in the Philippines.
Genres: Action Adventure Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-05-07
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Bullfighter and the Lady
Overview: An American takes up bullfighting to impress the ladies but learns to respect the sport.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-04-26
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A Life in the Balance
Overview: A widower's young son leads the police to a killer of sinners in Mexico City.
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-07-01
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Destination Gobi
Overview: A group of US Navy weathermen taking measurements in the Gobi desert in World War II are forced to seek the help of Mongol nomads to regain their ship while under attack from the Japanese.
Genres: War Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-03-20
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The Violent Ones
Overview: When a girl in a town that's populated by Hispanics is attacked, the only thing she says before falling into a coma is that her attacker is an outsider, a Caucasian. So the sheriff arrests the only outsiders there are. All he can do is hope that one of them will admit to being the attacker or that the girl can wake up long enough to identify him. But at the same time her father is preparing a lynch mob.
Genres: Crime Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-10-01
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Trooper Hook
Overview: When Apache chief Nanchez is captured by the cavalry, his white squaw and infant son are returned to civilization by Sergeant Hook, but Nanchez escapes custody and attempts to re-claim his son.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-07-12
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Drum Beat
Overview: President Grant orders Indian fighter MacKay to negotiate with the Modocs of northern California and southern Oregon. On the way he must escort Nancy Meek to the home of her aunt and uncle. After Modoc renegade Captain Jack engages in ambush and other atrocities, MacKay must fight him one-on-one with guns, knives and fists.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-11-10
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The Second Time Around
Overview: In 1911, a widow with two children leaves New York City for territorial Arizona and becomes a ranch hand and later gets herself elected sheriff. A gambler and a rancher become rivals for her affections.
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-12-22
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Victims of Sin
Overview: A nightclub performer decides to raise the baby boy she found abandoned in a trash can, putting her job and social life in jeopardy.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-02-02
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Horizons West
Overview: Brothers Dan and Neil Hammond return to Texas after the Civil War. Ambitious Dan turns to rustling and then shady land deals to build an empire. Being held for a murder, he is rescued from a lynch mob by Neil, who is now the Marshal, but there is eventually a falling out between the brothers, good triumphing over evil.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-10-11
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The Tijuana Story
Overview: Courageous newspaper editor Manuel Acosta Mesa tries to take on the mob in Tijuana through his newspaper, reporting on the violence, prostitution and drug sales in the border town.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-10-01
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El canto de la sirena
Overview: Mexican movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-01-01
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From Hell to Texas
Overview: The naive cowboy Tod Lohman accidentally kills the son of the powerful land baron Hunter Boyd. Tod runs for his life, pursued by the dead man's vengeful brothers. Tod shelters on the ranch of Amos Bradley and he falls in love with his daughter Juanita. However, Tod is concerned that he'll eventually have to leave when his pursuers catch up with him.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-04-29
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Appointment in Honduras
Overview: On a tramp steamer off Central America are Mr. and Mrs. Sheppard, five prisoners en route to a Nicaraguan prison, and Corbett, an American carrying money for a Honduran counter-revolution. Denied permission to land in Honduras, Corbett releases the prisoners and with their aid hijacks the ship. They land, taking the wealthy Sheppards as hostages, and start the arduous trip upriver to Corbett's rendezvous, meeting jungle hazards
Genres: Adventure Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-10-16
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Stranger on the Run
Overview: A drifter finds himself wrongly accused of murder by a power-crazed sheriff. The sheriff gives him a horse, some supplies, and a one-hour head start into the desert before sending his murderous posse after him.
Genres: Drama Thriller TV Movie Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-10-31
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City of Bad Men
Overview: Outlaws plan a robbery to take place during a championship prizefight in Carson City, Nevada.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-09-11
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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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Rio Conchos
Overview: Two Army officers, an alcoholic ex-Confederate soldier and a womanizing Mexican travel to Mexico on a secret mission to prevent a megalomaniacal ex-Confederate colonel from selling a cache of stolen rifles to a band of murderous Apaches.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-10-28
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Apache Warrior
Overview: An Apache brave vows revenge when he feels betrayed by the U.S. Army.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-07-01
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Flap
Overview: Comedy based on the plight of modern Native Americans living on reservations.
Genres: Comedy Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-11-13
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Acapulco
Overview: Young lady goes shopping for a millionaire husband.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1952-01-18
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San Antone
Overview: After the Civil War, a cowboy who's a former Union soldier leads a cattle drive into Mexico now occupied by the French...
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-02-15
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Pancho Villa Returns
Overview: It's 1913, and noble Mexican General Pancho Villa leads his troops against the assassins of President Madero.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-10-20
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Pancho Villa vuelve
Overview: Two romantic rivals join the Mexican Revolution on opposing sides. The movie's more interested in the love triangle than in the war.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1950-01-20
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Víctimas del divorcio
Overview: The 'other woman' tricks her fella into filing to divorce his wife.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1952-10-11
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El billetero
Overview: Slum child, abandoned almost since birth, is reunited with his father.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1953-01-28
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The Port of the Seven Sins
Overview: Career criminals vie for ownership of a disreputable waterfront dive and for the love of the cabaret-gal that sings there.
Genres: Crime Thriller Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-11-11
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Salon Mexico
Overview: Mercedes works as a cabaret performer to pay for her sister's studies. Problems begin when Mercedes and Paco, her exploiter, win a dance contest, but he refuses to share the prize with her.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1949-02-25
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Walk Like a Dragon
Overview: California, 1870s. The cowboy Lincoln 'Linc' Bartlett finds out there's a slave auction of Chinese women in San Francisco and he intervenes and purchases the Chinese Kim Sung from the auction with the intent of setting her free. But it doesn't occur to Linc that setting her free isn't enough. Where is she going to go? Kim doesn't speak English and she's just going to be exploited by somebody else. Linc takes Kim home to serve as a housekeeper. Ma Bartlett Linc's mother, is not happy that a Chinese girl is living in her home, and even less happy when Kim and her son fall in love. Their affair also arouses the jealousy of Cheng Lu, a Chinese immigrant.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-06-01
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Wings of the Hawk
Overview: Gringo miner Gallager is caught up in the Mexican revolution of 1910-11 when corrupt administrator Ruiz appropriates his mine. Gallager saves the life of guerilla leader Raquel, then finds there's a price on his head; he becomes romantically involved with her in the course of a series of rescues and ambushes, leading up to Orozco's march on Ciudad Juarez.
Genres: Western Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-08-26
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La bienamada
Overview: Civic-minded elementary-school teacher marries and sets up home with wife and her little brother. The-e-n...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-09-13
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Take Me in Your Arms
Overview: To pay off her father's debts, Rita leaves her humble fishing village in Yucatan and gets exploited by several men, including a married politician who turns her into a big dancing star.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1954-04-30
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Las Islas Marias
Overview: Las Islas Marias stars Pedro Infante as a man who must face time in jail, even though he never committed the crime. While on the inside, he learns important life lessons that actually make him a better man.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-08-10
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Retorno al quinto patio
Overview: After getting out of prison, Ramon Vallarta tries to put his life back together, establishing himself in a new career and reconciling himself with his former sweetheart. Also other stuff. Sequel to Quinto Patio.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-07-19
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Soy un prófugo
Overview: A janitor in a large bank is accused of pulling of a major heist. He is forced to become a fugitive while hunting for the real culprits.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1946-03-11
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The Littlest Outlaw
Overview: Little Pablito is the ten year old son of a cruel horse trainer. The trainer is responsible for training a Mexican General's horse to jump for the grand race. The trainer's methods cause the horse to become afraid of jumping and the general orders the animal's death. Pablito runs away with the horse, becoming a fugitive. He travels throughout Mexico encountering several fugitives and a priest who tries to help.
Genres: Drama Family Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-12-22
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Let No Man Write My Epitaph
Overview: Nick Romano lives in a poor tenement building on the south side of Chicago with his well-meaning but drug-addicted mother, Nellie. She encourages him to pursue his piano-playing talent in hopes that it will bring him a better life. Nellie's neighbors, like the alcoholic ex-lawyer who secretly loves her, help her in keeping Nick away from Louie, the resident drug dealer. But a chance meeting between Nick and Louie could change things forever.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-11-10
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The Fugitive
Overview: Anti-Catholic and anti-cleric policies in the Mexican state of Tabasco lead the revolutionary government to persecute the state's last remaining priest.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-11-11
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Night People
Overview: A US intelligence officer, stationed in Germany, is caught in a political dilemma when the Russians kidnap a young Army private, the son of prominent American businessman. In exchange for the soldier's return, the Russians attempt to barter a trade for an elderly German couple who they want for treason.
Genres: Drama Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-03-11
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Passion
Overview: In old Spanish California, dashing cattleman Juan Obregon returns to the rancho of his friend Gaspar Melo, to find he's fathered a son on Rosa, one of Gaspar's identical twin daughters. Overjoyed, he plans to formalize his "unofficial" marriage. But trouble brews; Melo's land is of unclear title and the new Don Domingo hopes to grab it for his own profit. Violence results. Without even knowing who survived, Juan (accompanied by Rosa's tomboy sister Tonya) rides for revenge, through spectacular pastoral and wilderness scenery.
Genres: Adventure Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-10-06
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The Proud Ones
Overview: Robert Ryan plays an aging sheriff responsible for law and order in a frontier cattle town. Virginia Mayo plays his fiancee. As if handling wild cattle drovers isn't enough, a crooked casino operator from Ryan's past comes to town. An early scuffle in the casino leaves Ryan with vision problems that interfere with his duties. Jeffrey Hunter who came to town with a cattle drive encounters Ryan, who killed Hunter's father when Hunter was young. Feelings of animosity soon change as Hunter begins to sense Ryan is telling the truth about his father. What follows is a plot that continues to thicken to the inevitable showdown.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-05-15
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How the West Was Won
Overview: The epic tale of the development of the American West from the 1830s through the Civil War to the end of the century, as seen through the eyes of one pioneer family.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-11-02
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Savage Sam
Overview: Travis, Arliss, and Lisbeth are captured by Apaches while Old Yeller's son, Sam, tracks their trail.
Genres: Drama Action Family Adventure Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-06-01
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The Raiders
Overview: Wild Bill Hickok, Buffalo Bill and Calamity Jane help a Texas rancher against the railroad.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-12-01
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The Reward
Overview: A crash-landed crop-duster betrays a fugitive and his girlfriend to Mexican bounty hunters.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-09-15
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Valley of Mystery
Overview: A Meridian Airlines flight from Miami to Caracas crashes in the Venezuelan jungle, stranding 130 passengers and crew in hostile surroundings.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-09-29
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Dayton's Devils
Overview: Frank Dayton (Leslie Nielsen) leads a group of crooks in a caper to steal $2,500,000 from an Air Force base. Dayton is the tough-guy military leader who recruits Mike (Rory Calhoun), ex-Nazi Max (Hans Gudegast), sadistic killer Barney Barry (Barry Sadler), and failed French artist Claude (Pat Renella) in the scheme.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-10-01
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Che!
Overview: Biography of Argentinian revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara, who helped Fidel Castro in his struggle against the corrupt Batista regime, eventually resulting in the overthrow of that government and Castro's taking over of Cuba. The film covers Guevara's life from when he first landed in Cuba in 1956 to his death in an ambush by government troops in the mountains of Bolivia in 1967.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-06-27
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The Great White Hope
Overview: A black champion boxer and his white female companion struggle to survive while the white boxing establishment looks for ways to knock him down.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-10-11
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Sensualidad
Overview: A saloon singer is released from prison after being convicted on a prostitution charge. She plans to blackmail the judge from her case by seducing him, but after she grows close to the judge she has a change of heart.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-07-25
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Los amantes
Overview: A burglar and a bar girl fall in love and decide to go straight, but complications.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-07-10
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The Legend of Custer
Overview: Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer has been reinstated and assigned to command the 7th Cavalry Regiment at Fort Hays. The regiment has become a ragtag outfit of thieves and ruffians and Custer must whip the soldiers into shape to fight, the Kiowa, Sioux and Blackfoot tribes who confront them. These tribes are being supplied shotguns by a white gunrunner and Custer and his men must rescue General Terry and the Fifth Cavalry Regiment from annihilation when they are ambushed and trapped by a large Kiowa war party.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-01-01
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The Cockfighter
Overview: In Michoacan in the 1920s, Gabriel, a young farmer and champion cockfighter, finds himself in violent opposition to Roman, who not only wants to beat Gabriel's fighting cock, but to steal Gabriel's wife Rosa.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1948-10-27
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El dinero no es la vida
Overview: A humble bartender falls into a world of gambling and vices, losing everything.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1952-03-21
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Pecado
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Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-03-01
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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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El mar y tu
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 1952-03-07
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Prisión de sueños
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-10-12
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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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Entre tu amor y el cielo
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Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1950-11-30
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