Manuel Alvarado
Also Known As: Manuel Alvarado Lodoza
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico
Adult: No
Birthday: July 10, 1922
Age: 102 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: June 30, 1978
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Shark
Overview: A gunrunner loses his cargo near a small coastal Sudanese town so he's stuck there. When a woman hires him to raid a sunken ship in the shark-infested waters, he sees a chance to compensate for his losses. He's not the only one.
Genres: Action Thriller Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-10-08
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Masajista de señoras
Overview: This fun comedy presents two masseurs who, by getting a job, dress up as women and thus live comic adventures.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1973-05-03
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Macabre Serenade
Overview: Relatives of a recently deceased man meet at his eerie castle for a reading of the will. They encounter a sinister piano player who turns out to be a toy maker, and his toys are imbued with murderous intentions.
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1968-05-01
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Tintorera: Killer Shark
Overview: Two shark hunters flirt with an attractive British lady while hunting down a large tiger shark terrorizing the Mexican East coast.
Genres: Drama Thriller Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1977-04-07
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Adriana del Rio, actriz
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1979-10-04
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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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Casi Casados
Overview: A poor mechanic is conned into taking the place of a wealthy business magnate so the rich man can take off to work on some major wheeling and dealing. Sure enough, the impostor is trapped in a series of circumstances beyond his control that lead him right to the altar. Once he is wed -- or rather, once the rich businessman is unknowingly wed by proxy, the tycoon returns from his trip with the subsequent surprises in store for all concerned.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1961-08-24
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The Unknown Cowboy
Overview: The Sheriff of a small town, in his search of a robber bank, gets to another city, working undercover. There, he tooks the place of man recently killed, and falls in love with his widow.
Genres: Western Comedy Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1967-12-28
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She-Wolves of the Ring
Overview: Intimate problems and the wickedness of friends is resolved in the ring.
Genres: Action
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1965-05-21
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The Panther Women
Overview: The Panther women are worshipers of Satan and perform rituals in their honor and sacrifice. The fighters will face them up and down the ring.
Genres: Action Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1967-03-03
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Tivoli
Overview: While trying to save the famous Tivoli burlesque theater, the participants uncover a web of commercial corruption.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1975-06-26
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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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Ship of the Monsters
Overview: A singing cowboy falls foul of alien invaders and beautiful women from Venus.
Genres: Science Fiction Comedy Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1960-01-22
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Por mis pistolas
Overview: Fidencio Borer, an apothecary in a village on the northern border of Mexico, discovers some old title of a mine in Arizona and decides to claim them. Trying to cross the border is a border guard intercepted by exaggerating in the line of duty. On the way is captured by a tribe of Apaches and is about to be burned alive, but thanks to the Great Head Horse Lying having toothache and learns that the prisoner it can heal, ordered his release on the condition that the cure. Fidencio would take the wheel and gets the eternal friendship of the Chief apache.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Western
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1968-08-21
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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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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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El ministro y yo
Overview: Mateo Melgarejo is a notary public and scribe for the illiterate people of Santo Domingo, a neighborhood north of Mexico City's Zócalo. A squatter friend asks for his help in negotiating with the land census bureau to regularize a land title. After a great deal of frustration with the government bureaucracy, he writes a letter to the cabinet minister, earning an audience with him. The minister hires Melgarejo to reform the bureau, and the appointee proceeds to lecture the officials on their duties in a democratic society. At the end, he gives up the post, returning to Santo Domingo to help its poor residents.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1976-07-01
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The Shadow of the Tyrant
Overview: In 1920s Mexico, the candidates being chosen to succeed the current president, El Caudillo, find themselves at his mercy as he will resort to anything to accomplish his will, including kidnapping, betrayal, and murder.
Genres: History Drama Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1960-08-22
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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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De color moreno
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Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1963-12-27
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Tres mil kilómetros de amor
Overview: Romance, stolen jewels and sitcom humor on a bus-trip from Tijuana to Guadalajara.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Crime Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1967-12-07
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The Door and The Butcher's Wife
Overview: A movie divided in two segments, the first "La puerta" (The Door) is about a high society gathering in which a door inside the mansion leads to a bizarre corridor where a naked and menacing human figure appears. The second "La mujer del carnicero" (The Butcher's Wife) is set during the Mexican revolution and is about horrifying hallucinations felt by a lieutenant after committing a murder.
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1969-09-25
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The Last Sunset
Overview: At a Mexican ranch, fugitive O'Malley and pursuing Sheriff Stribling agree to help rancher Breckenridge drive his herd into Texas where Stribling could legally arrest O'Malley, but Breckenridge's wife complicates things.
Genres: Western Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-06-08
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