Jorge Luke
Also Known As: George Luke, Jorge Luque
Biography: Jorge Luke was born in 1942 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico as Jorge Oscura Lango. He was an actor and director, known for Clear and Present Danger (1994), Salvador (1986) and Ulzana's Raid (1972). He was married to Gloria Palacios Guzman. He died on August 4, 2012 in Mexico City.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Mexico City, Mexico
Birthday: January 01, 1942
Deathday: August 04, 2012
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Salvador
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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The Return of a Man Called Horse
Overview: Lord John Morgan has returned to civilized life in England, but finds he has nothing but disdain for that life. Yearning to embrace the simplicity of the American West-and the Yellow Hands Sioux tribe he left behind, Morgan returns to the tribe's land only to discover that they've been decimated by ruthless, government-backed fur traders. Led by Horse, they fight to repossess their land.
Genres: Western Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-06-28
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Ulzana's Raid
Overview: A report reaches the US Army Cavalry that the Apache leader Ulzana has left his reservation with a band of followers. A compassionate young officer, Lieutenant DeBuin, is given a small company to find him and bring him back; accompanying the troop is McIntosh, an experienced scout, and Ke-Ni-Tay, an Apache guide. Ulzana massacres, rapes and loots across the countryside; and as DeBuin encounters the remains of his victims, he is compelled to learn from McIntosh and to confront his own naivity and hidden prejudices.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-10-27
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Al filo de la ley: Misión rescate
Overview: Mexican feature film
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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The Evil That Men Do
Overview: Professional killer Holland is forced out of retirement to break a Central American government's political torture ring when one of his friends, a Latin American journalist, is killed. The murderer, Doctor Clement Molloch, is the master sadist behind the political torture of innocent victims. Posing as a journalist, Holland lures Molloch out of his fortress-like headquarters by using his murdered friend's wife and daughter as bait. When Holland kidnaps Molloch's sister, the doctor is led on a wild chase that takes him to an abandoned opal mine where he finally comes face to face with Holland.
Genres: Action Adventure Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-03-14
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River of Gold
Overview: A pair of beach bums wind up in Acapulco, where they get involved in a search for a beautiful woman and a sunken treasure.
Genres: Adventure Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-03-09
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Treasure of the Amazon
Overview: An adventurer and his buddies race a former Nazi and others to diamonds in the South American jungle.
Genres: Action Thriller Adventure Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-05-30
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Víctimas de la Mafia
Overview: Some police officers seize a drug shipment from a cartel, but the cartel will try to recover the drug
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2002-01-01
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La ratonera
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 1999-12-31
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The Shark Hunter
Overview: A crusty recluse on a Caribbean island who is dedicated to destroying sharks gets involved in a hunt for buried treasure.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1979-12-24
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The Revengers
Overview: The life of peaceful rancher John Benedict is torn apart when his family is massacred by a gang of marauding outlaws and his farm is destroyed. He assembles a team of mean, lawless convicts to act as his posse as he pursues the gang responsible for the deaths of his loved ones.
Genres: Action Western Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-06-21
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Murieron a la mitad del rio
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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El mexicano
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1977-01-01
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Red Bells Part I: Mexico on Fire
Overview: A chronicle of the Russian and Mexican revolutions in the early 20th century.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1982-10-01
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Papaya Beach
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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Pandilleros Asesinos
Overview: Mexican feature film
Genres: Action Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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Ritmo, Traición y Muerte: La Cumbia Asesina 2
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Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2001-12-31
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Once Upon a Time in Durango
Overview: In the plains of Durango, the old west town still exists where Mexican and foreign westerns used to be filmed. Old Antonio takes care of the place. One day, Gabriel Navárez, a 13-year-old boy from a small nearby community, secretly gets into the old west town and discovers a fascinating world.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-09-01
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La Chèvre
Overview: When the boss' unlucky daughter is missing in South America, Campana is sent to watch the boss' most unlucky employee who is sent as a private detective in hopes he can duplicate the daughter's mistakes.
Genres: Comedy Crime Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-12-09
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Borrar de la Memoria
Overview: A love story turned assassination against the backdrop of the 1968 student massacre whose unresolved status is finally resolved in tense life threatening conditions. The story of a stubborn journalist who undertakes the clarification and bringing to justice of the heinous murder of one student forty years later represents a dedicated effort to force a country from denial to reconciliation and closure of tragic social and political events in a country´s history. A nation cannot allow official cover-ups that seek to delete and erase from the collective memory events that prevent a nation´s march towards social justice.
Genres: Thriller Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2010-10-14
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Norte Sin Horizonte
Overview: The story of the American dream of all those who leave their country for a better future.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2014-07-29
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Río de sangre
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Genres: Action
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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The Holy War
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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Eagle's Wing
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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Eye for an Eye
Overview: A vengeful widow hires a professional killer to train her son so that he can hunt down and kill the men who murdered her husband. The quest for revenge soon becomes an obsession.
Genres: Western Thriller Action
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1971-04-29
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The Throne of Hell
Overview: A group of archeologists excavating Aztec ruins in Mexico City uncover a bizarre statue, which unleashes satanic powers and possesses the chief archaeologist. The demonized man goes on a rampage of bloody murders while being pursued by one of his female colleagues and a police officer. Horribly burned in an explosion, he still continues his ungodly crimes, including crucifying a woman upside down. A bishop sends for a mystic called “The Angel”, a character who dresses in medieval clothing and is armed with a demon-destroying sword. The possessed archeologist transforms into a club-wielding monster and challenges The Angel in a duel to the death.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1994-01-17
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Hacer el amor con otro
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Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1991-01-01
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Perros de dios
Overview: Direct-to-video action movie: Iraq veteran goes after kidnappers who have his wife hostage.
Genres: Action
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2009-02-18
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Runaways
Overview: Daniel is a scientist who just got married to April, an attractive, immature and extroverted youth who reveals a side of herself which he has not yet seen, unleashing conflicts with the inhabitants of her hometown.
Genres: Action
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2008-01-01
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Toda la vida
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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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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Cinco mil dolares de recompensa
Overview: A gunfighter is appointed sheriff of a town that is terrorized by a gang of criminals.
Genres: Western Thriller Action
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1974-04-18
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Escape sangriento
Overview: Five men escape from prison to get revenge on the accomplices who set them up for arrest.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-11-25
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Cornered
Overview: Conflicts in town force a guy to escape to a hiding-place in the countryside.
Genres: Adventure Action Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1976-06-10
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Muerte en el Río Grande
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Genres: Crime Action Adventure
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1982-10-07
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The Illegal
Overview: Deceived over and over again by the whole world, a woman does not want to give up in the face of life's adversities.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1979-02-26
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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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Don't Panic
Overview: On his 17th birthday, a boy named Michael has a surprise party thrown by his friends, where a session with a Ouija board accidentally unleashes a demon named Virgil, who possesses one of them to go on a killing spree. Michael, now plagued by violent nightmares and premonitions, sets out to try and stop the killings.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1989-03-02
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Lo blanco, lo rojo y lo negro
Overview: All kinds of crimes are being committed in a frontier settlement; if you blame it on the Chiricahuas afterwards, you can get away with anything. One Chiricahua hooks up with a white guy and a black woman who have been victimized by the status quo, and the three of them whoop some righteous-vengeance butt.
Genres: Western
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1979-06-28
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Rata callejera
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2000-01-01
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Manaos
Overview: At the beginning of this century some owners of rubber plantations in the Amazonas jungle convert a village into one big prison. But the inhabitants have other plans...
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1979-10-21
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El desconocido
Overview: Disenfranchised drifter finds a home, working on a young orphan woman's ranch.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-09-26
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The Gates of Paradise
Overview: Due to betting problems, Andrés and his lover, Blanca, flee the city and travel through several states of the country; During their journey they get involved with a couple of hippies with whom they live for a time until the tragedy is complete.
Genres: Drama Action Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1971-06-19
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The Vengeance of the Winged Serpent
Overview: An international intrigue with terrorists threatening to blow up the presidents of the most powerful countries.
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1984-11-28
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Vigilantes de la noche
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Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1991-12-31
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Veneno para ratas
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1998-01-01
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The Female Scorpion
Overview: Those involved in the making of an amateur porn video end up getting slashed to death with a cane sword. It's up to the brave policewoman Eugenia aka The Scorpion (Maribel Guardia) to stop him.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1986-10-29
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Zone of Silence
Overview: Several fantastic stories occur in the Mexican "Zone of Silence." It begins in the 1920s when a man steals a train and then flees to enter the present. Another man finds a colonizer guarded by a ghost treasure, two girls are attacked by an evil car and finally a man steals money, then he flees to enter the past.
Genres: Mystery Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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The Subway Killer
Overview: An already-busy police force are facing not only a wave of recent inner crime but now face a psycho who kills women in one of the multiple lines of the Mexico City Metro.
Genres: Horror Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1991-10-03
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The Devil's Sacristan
Overview: Creatures from hell pursue and kill their victims.
Genres: Horror Action
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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Mente Criminal
Overview: Newlywed couple Andres and Gabriela would love to live a happy life at their beach home in San Antonio del Mar. However, their wedded bliss soon turns into a nightmare once Andres is accused of committing a series of gory murders.
Genres: Mystery Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1991-01-01
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Morir de madrugada
Overview: A successful lawyer has his life shattered when his beautiful wife is found murdered. An investigation reveals she was lying to him and leading a double life... but who killed her?
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1980-03-29
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Asedio criminal
Overview: Containing gore, snuff movies, zombies, the Mafia and the supernatural, this was one of the most notorious "solo para adultos" direct-to-video releases in Mexico during the 90s.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1996-01-01
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Hell's Way
Overview: Happily married Jorge takes his family on vacation to the beach but three nuts show up to spoil their fun by raping his wife and killing everyone. Jorge manages to survive the ordeal and decides to take justice in his own hands.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1987-12-24
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Death Squad
Overview: Mario Balbuena, a honest cop, becomes the victim of an ambush by drug dealers and dirty cops, after that, he recruits a group of sleazy criminals in order to strike his revenge.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1985-01-01
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Aunt Isabel's Garden
Overview: A ship carrying Conquistadors is wrecked and the survivors are thrown ashore to struggle through the Yucatan jungle.
Genres: History Adventure
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1972-04-05
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En defensa propia
Overview: The leading edge of working-class discontent in a Mexican village is a troop of bandits hiding out in the hills; when the bandit leader is killed, the whole town rises up.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1978-11-15
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María Navajas
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Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2006-01-01
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The Son of Peter the Knife
Overview: The legend of "Peter The Knife" continues in this popular sequel to one of Mexico's all-time blockbusters. Following in his infamous father's footsteps, Peter, Jr. manages to get more than his fair share of the love of beautiful women...and the hatred of his enemies. Action and drama from New York to Acapulco.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1986-10-16
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Narcotráfico: Sentencia De Muerte
Overview: It’s the Feds vs. the Cartel as both sides of the law race through the desert to snag a hidden dope stash in New Drug City.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1985-01-01
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Nacidos para morir
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Genres: Action
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1991-06-06
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La hora del jaguar
Overview: Police officer dismissed from the force for excessive use of force, is hired as a hitman for some unnamed shadow organization.
Genres: Action Adventure Crime Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1978-08-23
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Sentenciado
Overview: A group of undocumented Mexican farm workers must fight against Neo-Nazis in the United States.
Genres: Action
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1993-01-01
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Los ojos de un niño
Overview: Little boy learns of his stepmother's infidelity and later witnesses a murder... but the shocks have thrown him into a hysterical paralysis, and it's almost impossible for him to communicate anything to anybody.
Genres: Thriller Drama Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1982-12-08
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Sunburn
Overview: A model and a private eye help a New York insurance investigator on a deadly case in Acapulco.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-08-10
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Clear and Present Danger
Overview: Agent Jack Ryan becomes acting Deputy Director of Intelligence for the CIA when Admiral Greer is diagnosed with cancer. When an American businessman, and friend of the president, is murdered on his yacht, Ryan starts discovering links between the man and drug dealers. As former CIA agent John Clark is sent to Colombia to kill drug cartel kingpins in retaliation, Ryan must fight through multiple cover-ups to figure out what happened and who's responsible.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-08-03
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La puerta falsa
Overview: Young heroin addict dies in the pursuit of his calling, and his brother goes on a vendetta against the narco gang that supplied his drugs.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1977-05-05
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Reencuentro mortal
Overview: A Gulf War veteran returns to find his wife and daughter dead due to AIDS and his father murdered, and he hunts down those responsible.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1996-01-01
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Sangre de Jinete
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Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1998-01-01
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The Assassin
Overview: The basic plot of this film concerns a secret service-esque man in Mexico battling personal demons who discovers a conspiracy behind an assassination attempt on a visiting American senator.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-02-21
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Cabezas rapadas II
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-01-01
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Foxtrot
Overview: A Romanian aristocrat retreats to a desert isle with his wife and servants on the eve of World War II.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-03-01
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Reto a la vida
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.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1988-03-31
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El Zacatecas
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 2007-01-01
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El chrysler 300: Chuy y Mauricio
Overview: It was a car from Chrysler. Mark 300. Chuy y Mauricio got on very happy. They never imagined themselves getting off... ...DEAD!
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2008-01-01
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There's Always a First Time
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1971-02-25
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Nevada Smith
Overview: A half-breed gunslinger and a friend he hasn't seen in years join together to escort a shipment of explosives across Utah.
Genres: TV Movie Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-05-03
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Rhythm, Betrayal and Death: The Killer Cumbia
Overview: Mexico City. Starved Punks & corrupt cops in a world of drugdealing & prostitution.
Genres: Action
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1991-01-01
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Pure Luck
Overview: The daughter of a wealthy businessman has disappeared in Mexico, and all the efforts to find her have been unsuccessful. A psychologist, knowing that the girl has an ultra bad luck, persuades her father to send to Mexico one of his employees, an accountant with super bad luck, to find her. Perhaps he will be lucky, and his bad luck could help to find the unlucky girl.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-08-09
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El Ansia de matar
Overview: This is a true story. Kicho and Maria come to Mexico looking for a better life but Maria gets killed by the guerrilla before she gets to sign the papers at the border. Kicho promises himself he will get revenge one day. At the same time a family of four gets kidnapped during a hunting trip by the same "red beret" guy who commands the guerrilla and left the father thinking hes dead. He is an experienced hunter and with Kichos help, who knows the woods very well, track down the guerrilla to rescue the rest of the family.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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Capo: Jefe de Jefes
Overview: A drug dealer discovers that a double-crosser is the one who is responsible for exterminating the great leaders in the business.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1993-01-01
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45 expansiva
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Genres: Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1996-01-01
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Recompensa
Overview: A man from the mafia, who discovered the infidelity of his family, ordered the elimination of the family and his family to preserve the honor of his family.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2000-01-01
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El Aguacatero De Michoacan
Overview: A man, who dedicates his life to cultivating avocados and getting high earnings, has a lot of leftover money and women for what is perfect for a drug trafficker to take charge for the delivery of drugs through the avocado trucks. The boss recieves help from the only son of a housekeeper who, through jealousy, will lead to the betrayal and death of his father.
Genres: Action
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2002-01-01
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Maton de rancho
Overview: Mexican feature film
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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Barrio Sangriento: La Furia Del Tigre
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2007-12-31
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Los Siete Pistoleros
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 1998-12-31
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