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Biography: José Carlos Ruiz (born November 17th, 1936) is a Mexican film and television actor, born in the City of Jerez, Zacatecas, Mexico. His first film intervention is in the film Black Wind, which deals with a tragedy that occurred in the Altar Desert, in Sonora, Mexico, where he acted alongside David Reynoso, Fernando Luján, etc. filmed in 1965. Later (1966) he filmed The Scapular, a prestigious film in which he acted alongside Enrique Lizalde, Ofelia Guilmáin, Alicia Bonet, Carlos Cardán and the late Enrique Aguilar, among other actors. It appears in the historical recreation of a tragic episode that happened in the Republic of Chile, in the tape, Actas de Marusia, which narrates the drama of a bloody crushing of a mining strike in that country. The film is important for the prominent actors who participate in it: Alejandro Parodi, Diana Bracho, Patricia Reyes Spíndola, Eduardo López Rojas, Salvador Sánchez, Gian María Volanté, among others, but also, by the then very recent military coup led by the General Augusto Pinochet Ugarte. In 1976, he appeared in El Apando, a film in which he played a drug addict locked up in the Black Palace or Lecumberri Prison, which is the complaint made by the political express and now disappeared José Revueltas regarding the Mexican prison system, seen from his confinement as a prisoner of conscience in that prison. Under the Shrapnel is a film filmed in 1983, which deals with the issue of the Guerrilla and where this actor plays an infiltrator who finally turns out to be a police officer; Two years later he would film Massacre in the Tula River, where he plays a Colombian guerrilla and trafficker, and which refers to a real-life case that happened in Mexico City, allegedly victimized by police officers.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Jerez, Zacatecas, Mexico
Birthday: November 17, 1936
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Gender: Male
TMDb-Id: 47885
IMDb-Id: nm0137728
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Overview: Olivia confesses to a priest that she accepted a dinner invitation from a sophisticated and artistic couple. While Olivia feels a complex confusion about what happened in the dinner, Camila's boyfriend searches for her without success after her disappearance.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2021-09-04
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Overview: Librado, an unemployed man, lives in a crowded small house with numerous children and relatives, is beaten for stealing a car antenna. His godmother and her children try to settle in his place. She then is arrested at a supermarket for stealing, however, she offers herself and volunteers a friend of hers for sex to the policemen so she can be released. She is a maid of an employee who acts subservient to his boss, a mid-level government employee at once servile who delivers speeches on sexuality in educational texts and then discusses the matter with his brother, a corrupt inspector.
Genres: Crime Drama Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1976-02-04
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Release Date: 1989-01-01
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Overview: A filmmaker is commissioned to film a documentary on the social reality of the Lacandon people in the state of Chiapas. As he enters the harsh living conditions of this indigenous community, his social conscience forces him to confront his superiors, who threaten to destroy his material.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1977-09-01
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Overview: In 1980, an American journalist covering the Salvadoran Civil War becomes entangled with both the leftist guerrilla groups and the right-wing military dictatorship while trying to rescue his girlfriend and her children.
Genres: Drama Thriller War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-04-23
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2002-01-01
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Overview: Mexican feature film
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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Overview: While touring the towns, two revelers meet a beautiful woman who awakens greed and passion in both.
Genres: Adventure Western
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1986-01-04
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Overview: Family plans for a quiet weekend at the beach, but everything goes wrong.
Genres: Crime Drama Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1985-09-08
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Overview: One woman and a detective are looking for lost children, in México City.
Genres: Crime Thriller Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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Overview: Historical melodrama on horseback, 1840s or so in central Mexico. Pulpy, Zorro-ish...
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1986-11-06
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Overview: Raul Araiza's chilling Spanish-language supernatural thriller tells the tale of two powerful beings, one good and one evil incarnate, fighting for control of Earth--and of a beautiful woman.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1986-10-01
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Overview: After retiring to the beautiful Mexican town of Guanajuato, a 70 year old decides to follow his dreams and enroll at the university where he stumbles upon a new generation and they are bound together by the novel Don Quijote de la Mancha.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2009-08-14
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Overview: This is the story of a man, Emiliano Zapata, and of a revolution, the Mexican Revolution.
Genres: War Action Drama History
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1970-11-20
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Overview: The story of a naive young man, provincial and not very experienced, to whom the circumstances of destiny, when crossing with the beautiful Frida, lead him to mature with a single blow. Rodolfo helps Frida in a car accident while she orders him to deliver an envelope. There begins the desperate flight of this innocent man fighting for his life, persecuted by thugs -who want to recover the contents of the envelope- and by the police -who seeks him for being a suspect in the death of an important diplomat.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2008-01-11
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 1985-01-29
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2006-01-01
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Overview: During the last winter of the Civil War, cavalry officer Amos Dundee leads a contentious troop of Army regulars, Confederate prisoners and scouts on an expedition into Mexico to destroy a band of Apaches who have been raiding U.S. bases in Texas.
Genres: Western War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-03-15
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1991-02-28
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1991-02-28
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Overview: The Kid is a vicious psychopath given to laughing a lot, an actor manqué who leads a gang of looters and rapists, and is incestuous with his father to boot. The town’s resident Mater Dolorosa, madam of the brothel, hires her lover Marcado to kill the Kid, who is of course her son.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1971-12-25
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Overview: The peasant and revolutionary Zapatista Simon Blanco still in arms but Zapata is dead. Simon with his lieutenant Andres visits his mother and his girlfriend in his hometown. The cacique Onesimo and his brother, the commissioner Martial put ambushes but he eludes them.
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 1975-03-16
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 2007-01-01
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Overview: Oscar and Arthur are two actors without fortune who survive unemployment with a routine street, where one represents the thief and the other to the police. Thanks to this performance are "hired" by Mr. Mauricio Tavares to play a practical joke on dangerous Don Antonio Robledo, a senior executive who suffer a fictional kidnapping for later culminate in a surprise party.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2012-09-07
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Overview: A few crooks escape prison during a transfer of criminals and decide to hide in a church where they pretend to be priests. Ironically, they never suspected that the true priests dedicated themselves to trafficking with sculptures from the church and thus becoming the most wanted delinquents of the region.
Genres: Action
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2008-02-20
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Overview: Desperate to save his family from death threats by a notorious drug dealer, Mateo Cruz steals the venerated image of the Virgin of Guadalupe causing pandemonium throughout Mexico.
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 2009-03-01
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Overview: In Mexico City's infamous Lecumberri prison, three drug-addicted convicts celebrate getting drugs from one of their the mothers. They are found out and locked up in the "apando," the dreaded punishment cell. Protests over the treatment of those held in the cell lead to a bloody confrontation.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1976-08-05
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 1984-01-26
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Overview: After the Revolution, Villa works on defining his legacy... and then he gets assassinated.
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 1974-05-01
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Overview: A journey that takes one man into the bowels of black magic in Mexico City
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-10-18
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Overview: A guerrilla commando tries to kidnap a politician. In the attempt, several policemen and a guerrillero die. By chance the head of the kidnappers meets an old colleague; to prevent him from betraying them, he kidnaps him.
Genres: Thriller Drama Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1983-11-17
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Overview: Based on a real event, twelve dead bodies are found in the Tula River, we see the events that lead up to the massacre in a tale of crime, vice, corruption and sleaze.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1985-08-22
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Overview: On the beach lies the body of Claudio O'Riley, heir to a monopoly shrimp, and his voice recounts his rise to power: the incestuous relationship with his sister, the degrading treatment to their partners and so on.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1988-11-10
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Overview: After returning from a trip, a young dentist discovers that her home has been ransacked. Determined to recover part of her belongings, the protagonist initiates a criminal process within a corrupt and ineffective justice system that turns her life into a nightmare.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2002-01-01
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Overview: Powerful psychological thriller based on the true story of a serial murderer, who for his crimes, was sentenced to the electric chair and survived. The murderer justified his crimes stating he was chosen by God to fulfill the desire for liberation and death of his victims.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-06-03
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Overview: Three octogenarians set out on a trip in order to fulfill the dying wish of a lifelong friend, in spite of the disapproval of their families and the limitations of their advanced age. Along the way, they find themselves embroiled in a series of comedic misadventures and meet a cast of colorful characters. Their journey fundamentally alters each characters' sense of self and their place in the world. There is, indeed, life after 80.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2015-04-10
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Overview: A miracle is about to happen, Margarita, like everyone wants to attend, but Alfonso, her husband, believes that everything is a sham.
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 2003-10-28
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Overview: A wagon master and a con-man preacher help freed slaves dogged by cheap-labor agents out West.
Genres: Action Comedy Western Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-03-17
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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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Overview: Luis is attempting suicide from the top level of a construction building when he is interrupted by Don Ramón who also wants to kill himself. The two men engage into a conversation about life, love and family while sharing a song: "De jazmín en flor".
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1996-11-24
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Overview: Through the humble potter Celso we will know one of the most dramatic events in the history of Mexico in the twentieth century, in which the federal government and Catholic believers, fought a bloody struggle. Time passes and the Church and the State agree to peace. Celso and his companions are rejected by both sides.
Genres: Thriller Drama War Action
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1979-07-05
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Overview: This historical drama depicts the waning days of the life of Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, who waged a war against the United States that ultimately cost his nation half of its territory
Genres: History
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2000-08-17
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Overview: After being falsely accused of a murder, Marcos runs away to the small and quiet town of Cuevano. There he finds that the family matters are more complicated than his.
Genres: Comedy Drama Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1995-05-26
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Overview: Jose Maria and his sister Mercedes are archaeologists who have been given a grant to study the story of Our Lady of Guadalupe, whom Juan Diego, an ordinary man living near the hill of Tepeyac, witnessed in December 1531.
Genres: Drama Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2006-12-01
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Overview: Two traveling projectionists tour the villages of the mountains showing films in order to save money and build their own theater.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1985-09-19
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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Overview: An employee about to retire and the young man who is to take over, share five journeys in the work place, an enormous empty warehouse where apparently nothing ever happens.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2015-11-10
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Overview: At only 19 years old, Vladimir Olhosvky, fleeing the Russian Revolution and going into exile in Mexico City, will have to make his way in a new country, totally unknown to him but that will bring him a new life.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1988-11-30
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Overview: A story centered on the centuries-old feud between the aristocratic vampire race and their former slaves, the werewolves.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2020-11-15
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Overview: A house is to be demolished to make a parking lot. In the process, the children of an orphanage and the old people of an asylum, both neighbors of the house, invade it secretly searching for a new place to stay. In spite of their differences in age and personality, a strange complicity arises between them, creating strong bonds of friendship.
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 2009-01-01
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Overview: Two men, an aging Native American and a ne'er-do-well trapper from North America, race to claim the stallion Eagle's Wing in antebellum Mexico, meeting marauded stagecoach travelers and garrisoned Mexicans along the way.
Genres: Western Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-07-26
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Overview: John, a disillusioned Vietnam War journalist, turns to heroin smuggling. He cons Ray, an equally burnt out veteran into delivering the drugs stateside to his wife. Everything soon falls apart and Ray ends up on the run with John's wife trying to evade crooked narcotics agents.
Genres: Crime Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-08-02
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Overview: The building of a railroad under tough conditions from searing heat to freezing cold in the Sonora desert provokes clashes of passion and struggles between the engineers and the workers at the campsite. The workers also contend with sudden dust storms that are called the 'black wind'. Based on true events.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1965-12-23
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Overview: Romero, a retired fisherman and a forgotten hero by the community, lives isolated in his home, surrounded by ghosts of the life he couldn't have, spirits that materialize before him as his real family. Alcoholic and schizophrenic, surviving on a daily basis. But deep down he feels the time has come to regain what he lost several decades ago, when he brought the oil curse to his own island, the lush Ciudad del Carmen. At the same time at the mysterious Estero Pargo, the goddess Ixchel has been reborn and seeks to mate with humans in order to continue the cycle of life.
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 2017-03-02
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Overview: An old man makes a pact with the devil to once again see the woman he loves... his niece.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1990-09-28
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Overview: Five stories that tell the tale of winning the lottery in Mexico and how it changes lives.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1994-01-01
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Overview: When a worker is found murdered on the construction side, the investigation swiftly turns from things criminal to the political circumstances surrounding the building itself. Widespread corruption and neglect by the builder himself are seen to have brought the situation about. Much of the movie is filmed using hand-held cameras, and the majority of the dialogue is in the difficult-to-understand and very slangy Spanish dialect of Mexico City's bricklayers.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1976-12-23
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Overview: Urbino Martínez, on his deathbed, regrets his wrongdoing after betraying Emiliano Zapata.
Genres: Action Drama History
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1987-02-15
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Overview: Mariano works as chief driller on an oil platform in Campeche 14 days a month. However, he is obsessed with the idea that his wife Gloria is cheating on him while he is away. Therefore, time and again he asks her to stop working and get pregnant for the second time. However, Gloria refuses to be financially dependent on her husband. The couple's conflicts become more acute when engineer Becker, Gloria's former lover, starts working again in the offices where she works.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1981-09-23
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Overview: A terrible disease is found in a Mexican town. A doctor tries to alert the authorities when he discovers its epidemic nature. No one listen to him and soon after the disease spreads. The government tries to control the information in order to prevent panic.
Genres: Thriller Science Fiction Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1978-02-12
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Overview: Transit must deal with his impulse to leave the country to go to the United States in search of the famous American dream.
Genres: Comedy Drama Adventure
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1984-11-14
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Overview: The tragic adventures of a illiterate man named "Milusos" who leaves his family & hometown to go to the big city and try to better his luck. And finds he's unprepared for what he encounters.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1981-04-26
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Overview: "Occupation of Darkness" - Set in 1934, and meant to dramatize social injustices, this melodrama examines an official's attempt at land reform. The landowners are against any reform and are also not interested in ending the exploitation of their workers. On the opposite side of the fence, the Native Americans have almost no way to better their living conditions or to fight oppression. They are also plagued by "superstition," which leads to some misguided actions that only make things worse. Violence and sexual encounters are interspersed throughout the story.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1981-06-04
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Genres: Adventure Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1968-09-11
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Overview: Anthology movie that presents 3 stories about romance.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1983-12-29
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Overview: A guy is peer-pressured, despite his reluctance, to play the role of Christ in a local production of the Passion Play.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1977-01-13
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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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Overview: An international group is trying to destabilize Mexico by assassinating the President.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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Overview: 3 real life stories taken from the Mexican police archive.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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Overview: Mexican feature film
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-02-23
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Overview: A young man gets involved in the drug trade and is murdered. His father sets out to find the killers.
Genres: Action
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1986-12-04
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Overview: A young girl recounts her girlhood and eventual marriage to a general of the Mexican revolution. by one of the most outstanding writers of the new feminist Mexican literature, it is at once a haunting novel of one woman's life and a powerful account of post-revolutionary Mexico from a female perspective.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2008-09-12
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Overview: Carlos has spent four years in prison for selling drugs. When he's released he finds out his brother has become a drug addict and is locked in a psychiatric hospital. Carlos starts working to cure his brother when he befriends a street kid and falls for social worker Elena.
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 1988-03-31
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Overview: After his grandfather's death, a young man decides to fulfill his elder's last wish with the help of his new friends. The problem starts when he falls in love with a female friend who may not feel the same.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2020-12-25
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Overview: Hall Bartlett directs the rural drama The Children of Sanchez, based on the tome The Children of Sanchez: Autobiography of a Mexican Family written by Oscar Lewis in the '60s. Anthony Quinn stars as the widowed Jesus Sanchez, a poor farmer struggling to provide for his family in Mexico City. Also starring Lupita Ferrer as Consuelo and Stathis Giallelis as Roberto. This is the last film in the 50-year career of international star Dolores del Rio, who plays the Grandma. Jazz-pop performer Chuck Mangione was nominated for a Golden Globe and won a Grammy award for his original musical score.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-06-16
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Overview: Based on a true story in the American owned Cananea mine. It depicts how the owner profits while the Mexican workers struggle to survive and are exploited for their labour.
Genres: War Drama History
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1978-08-17
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Overview: A woman adopts a child and discovers that she can love again despite facing a wicked man.
Genres: Romance Drama Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1985-01-31
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Overview: A honeymooning couple become entangled in a plot to recover plates for counterfeiting US dollars. SHE thinks she's just retired from a government 'dirty jobs' department, but her superiors have other ideas. HE thinks she's a retired travel agent.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-12-01
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Genres: Drama Action Adventure Crime Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1975-04-16
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 1993-01-01
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Overview: A woman who is about to die calls the town's priest and hands him a scapulary, saying that she knows of its great powers. Anybody who does not believe in them will end up dead.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1968-01-18
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Overview: Victor, a successful and well-respected businessman, is obsessed by the legend that an indigenous woman told him when he was a child. Victor lives a conventional life with a family that knows and complains about his constant infidelities. When the woman is dying, she sends for Victor and her son Jose Francisco, who is working as his chauffeur. They both answer the summons. Their lives take an unexpected turn.
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 2012-05-18
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Overview: Giff Hoyt, a cafe owner in Cabo Blanco, Peru after World War II is caught between refuge-seeking Nazis and their enemies. After the murder of a sea explorer is passed off as accidental death by the corrupt local police, Giff becomes suspicious. The police chief also intimidates a new arrival Marie, and Giff intervenes to help her. Giff suspects Beckdorff, a Nazi refugee living in the area. Beckdorff, it emerges, is seeking to uncover sunken treasure.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-03-13
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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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Overview: Fantasy-life of an upper-class girl overwhelmed with spiritual questions.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-09-19
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