Mimí Derba
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Mimí Derba (1893–1953) was a Mexican actress and the first female director in Mexico. Derba founded one of the very first Mexican production companies, Azteca Films. She had a successful career in Vaudeville before entering films.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Mexico City, Mexico
Birthday: January 01, 1893
Deathday: July 14, 1953
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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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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You the Rich
Overview: Pepe el Toro is married to Celia la Chorreada and they have two children.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1948-12-31
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María Eugenia
Overview: Before marrying María Eugenia, landowner Carlos are away to visit her godmother to break the promise to marry his daughter. The godmother is dying, Carlos quiets and everything takes an unexpected course.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1943-04-01
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The Seminarian
Overview: Returning to his home town, seminarist Miguel is forced to trade the robes for a charro costume in order to solve several problems that appear in his way, including the female kind.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1949-11-02
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Porfirio Díaz
Overview: Mexican movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-01-01
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Balajú
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Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1944-08-24
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Café Concordia
Overview: During the early XX Century, a lovely woman dancer has an amazing success in a place called "Cafe Concordia". She is courting by many men, buts he is in love with Ernesto, a young man whose parents are against their relationship. Ernesto invites Raquel to a party at his home but she is snubbed by his mother and offended by a slighted pretender. Ernesto faces this man in a duel in which he is about to be killed by his rival, but Raquel protects his body and receives the bullet. She dies in Ernesto's arms.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1939-01-01
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El baisano Jalil
Overview: Aristocratic but penniless, the Veradada have to resort to loans Lebanese businessman Jalil, whose son Selim, suffers the scorn of Martha, the daughter of the Veradada wasteful. Being invited to the house of Don Guillermom, Jalil and his wife Suan and Selim are teased and contempt. Finally, the Lebanese family worker puts in place the family of Don Guillermo ridiculous.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1942-12-03
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Una gitana en México
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 1945-01-11
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Adios mi chaparrita
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1941-01-01
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Historia de un corazón
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-01-01
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La razón de la culpa
Overview: Romantic comedy.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1943-04-02
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La trepadora
Overview: Romantic triangles between city folk and country folk, with new money/old money issues complicating the story.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1944-09-21
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Me he de comer esa tuna
Overview: In rural Mexico, a young man competes with his best school friend for the love of a girl whose marriage has been arranged by her parents.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1945-03-01
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Mi mujer no es mía
Overview: Bachelor pretends that he got married, thinking that will stop his aunt from trying to play matchmaker.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-10-18
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Santa
Overview: Santa is a beautiful and very humble young girl living in Chimalistac, a small and quiet spot south of the 1930's Mexico City. After Santa is cheated by arrogant soldier Marcelino, she's rejected by her family and friends and expelled of Chimalistac. Santa finds shelter in a whorehouse and becomes a cinic and bitter woman, mistreated by bullfighter "Jarameno" and silently loved by blind pianist Hipólito.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1932-03-30
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El abandonado
Overview: Based on a popular song. An unhappy love affair becomes an excuse for heavy drinking and all-round debauchery.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-09-15
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El capitán Malacara
Overview: Misogynist military man is laid up for a month with a broken leg and during his convalescence he learns all the needed life-lessons.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-06-15
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A Letter of Love
Overview: Moments before he will be executed by the French Intervention Army, the liberal leader reads a love letter by his girlfriend. His memories provide the poetic pictures of this romantic historical drama.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1943-11-20
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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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White hair
Overview: Singer's-rise-to-stardom plot combined with long-lost-son plot.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1950-05-05
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Woman Without a Soul
Overview: Ambitious young woman climbs the social ladder. A bit too fast.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1944-10-10
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Wild Flower
Overview: The film features Fernandez himself as a character named Rogellio Torres. The lion's share of the footage, however, is devoted to the romance between Esperanza, granddaughter of a common laborer, and Jose Luis Castro, the firebrand son of a landowner. Joining a revolutionary movements, Castro is disowned by his father, but Esperanza remains loyally by his side. Later on, Castro's father is killed by outlaws; in seeking vengeance, he sacrifices his own life, while Esperanza carries on his revolutionary work with their young son in tow.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1943-04-24
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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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La loca de la casa
Overview: Novice nun returns to her parent's home to save the family fortune by marrying a creditor.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1950-10-06
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The Absentee
Overview: After arguing with her husband, a woman runs out of the house in the car and dies in a mysterious accident
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1952-05-07
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Rondalla
Overview: Romantic triangle on the hacienda.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-10-06
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El espectro de la novia
Overview: British-born David T. Bamberg was a magician who went by the stage name of Fu Manchu. He was so popular in Mexico and South America that he was given the opportunity to star in a series of crime / horror / mystery films between 1943 and 1949. This is one of them.
Genres: Mystery Crime Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1943-09-02
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Rosauro Castro
Overview: Cardoza's death, a candidate for mayor of a village chief enemy and Rosauro Castro, leads to Mr. Garcia Mata to undertake an investigation. Upon arriving realizes that even the whole town, including the mayor, lives in fear by the chief and only achieved revenge end the injustices committed by Rosauro Castro.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1950-12-22
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Cuando lloran los valientes
Overview: A farmer is in love during revolutionary times.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1947-01-08
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Dos tipos de cuidado
Overview: Jorge Bueno and Pedro Malo are best friends who consider giving up their womanizing ways when they each fall in love. As fate would have it, Pedro Malo unexpectedly marries Jorge Bueno's girlfriend, and the conflict between the former buddies begins.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1953-11-05
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Refugiados en Madrid
Overview: A 1938 film.
Genres: War Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1938-05-28
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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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La casa de la zorra
Overview: The owner of an illegal gambling casino witnesses all the problems in the life of her dissolute son and finally acts in a way that'll help him rehabilitate himself.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1945-12-06
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Fantasía ranchera
Overview: Young composer in a small town where everyone is very nurturing of his talent finishes his first opera and goes to Mexico City to get it produced. Over half the movie is taken up with a performance of his masterpiece.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1947-02-12
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La vida en broma
Overview: Many many mistaken identities and impostures overlapping among a group of husbands, wives and others.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1950-05-24
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La hija del penal
Overview: A young woman who was born and grew up on an island prison-colony decides to move to the island and try life in the real world. Romance, bad luck and astonishing coincidences wait in her path.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1949-11-09
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Martín Garatuza
Overview: Sixteenth-century swashbuckler helps a young woman claim a rightful inheritance in the face of opposition from her father's widow and co-conspirators.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1935-09-02
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Rocambole
Overview: Convict breaks out of jail to undo aristocratic crimes involving a fortune in jewels, a servant wrongfully accused of theft, and a dispossessed young heiress.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1946-01-26
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Sangre en el barrio
Overview: Slumlord and his daughter interfere in the lives of the proletariat for personal gratification.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1952-04-03
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Prisión de sueños
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-10-12
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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 Derblay, el herrero
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1944-02-26
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In Self Defense
Overview: The recently orphaned Enriqueta has to work to earn a living; She finds a job with the widower Julio Mancera, for whom she works as governess for her little daughter. After a while, the two fall in love and get married. But then, Julio's cousin Eva returns from Europe and tries to separate the couple. She is almost successful, but her plans are thwarted at a party she throws for Julio and his friends, where she is surprised by Julio, Enriqueta, and the other guests in a compromising situation with Julio's best friend, Mauricio.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1917-06-14
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Soul Sacrifice
Overview: Soul Sacrifice is a 1917 Mexican silent film. It features Sara García as an extra.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1917-07-20
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La soñadora
Overview: La soñadora ("The Dreamer") is a 1917 Mexican silent film. It features Sara García as an extra.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1917-09-20
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In the Shadow
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1917-01-01
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Cuatro horas antes de morir
Overview: The film tells the intense countdown of a man sentenced to death.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1953-01-01
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María
Overview: The story narrates the idyllic and tragic love between María and her cousin Efraín, both natives of Valle del Cauca. In the middle of a romantic and bucolic landscape, the young characters fall in love with each other but circumstances prevent the full realization of their love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1938-01-01
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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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México de mis recuerdos
Overview: After listening to the waltz "Carmelita", dedicated to his wife, President Diaz instructs Don Susanito seeking the composer Chucho Flores to give her a piano. Don Susanito located Chucho, a bohemian who lives drunk and surrounded by poets and artists. Don Susanito was named patron protector of artists and aspiring young stars of the stage, which leads to a series of adventures in the middle of songs, dances and loves.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1944-04-06
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