Leonor Llausás
Also Known As: Leonor Plaza
Biography: Leonor Llausás was born on August 3, 1929 in Durango, Durango, Mexico as Leonor del Socorro Llausas Tostado. She was an actress, known for Poison for the Fairies (1984), The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz (1955) and Talpa (1956). She died on February 13, 2003 in Mexico City, Mexico.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Durango City, Durango, Mexico
Birthday: August 03, 1929
Deathday: February 13, 2003
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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Little Treasure
Overview: Margo is an ex-stripper who meets her long, lost father in Mexico. She looks after him in the waning days of his life, with the help of a traveling projectionist. The father passes away, telling of the loot from a botched bank robbery that he buried years earlier. The two get jobs in town as their relationship grows and they search for the treasure on the weekends. But while the treasure seems to bring them together, it also seems to be tearing them apart.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-05-01
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La tigresa
Overview: Orphan girl grows up to take revenge on the men who killed her parents.
Genres: Thriller Adventure Action Drama Mystery
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1973-09-06
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Poison for the Fairies
Overview: In 1965 Mexico City, Flavia, a wealthy yet lonely schoolgirl, befriends Veronica, a young orphan girl who has a fascination with witchcraft. Veronica convinces Flavia that she is a real witch and forces her to be her assistant. The children's games gradually become more serious and Veronica demands more from Flavia.
Genres: Fantasy Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1986-10-02
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...Y la mujer hizo al hombre
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1975-01-01
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The Year of the Plague
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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La Güera Rodríguez
Overview: In 1809, a woman participates in the conspiracy for the independence of Mexico and her husband blames her for infidelity.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1978-01-01
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La Casa de Bernarda Alba
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 1974-10-25
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El héroe desconocido
Overview: An outcast, Rodolfo Martínez, whom no one loves and whom everyone despises and undervalues in his town of Valle Verde, in Mexico, decides to change his luck. He decides to invent that he has a very important ancestor and that is why he deserves a statue that will remind future generations of everything he has done. Rodolfo doesn't care what happens, all he wants is to stop being a failure and for people to see him as an equal.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1981-01-01
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Astucia
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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Historia de una mujer escandalosa
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 1984-01-26
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Chin Chin el teporocho
Overview: Rogelio’s story, a young man of humble origin in the neighborhood of Tepito, who falls in love with the daughter of a wealthy grocer, Michelle, but his marriage to her will be a failure and he will end up as a one more drunk.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1976-08-15
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La derrota
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 1973-01-01
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It's my Life
Overview: Alberto Aguilera arrives from Ciudad Juárez to the capital to pursue a career in music, but in the midst of confusion he is accused of stealing and is sent to prison
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1982-05-13
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Las Poquianchis
Overview: During the mid-1970s, in the Mexican state of Guanajuato, authorities discover a clandestine burial ground. The corpses are from murdered prostitutes. The suspects are three sisters known as "Las Poquianchis".
Genres: Crime Drama History Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1976-11-17
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Mexicano ¡Tú puedes!
Overview: Vicente and Carmen, are spouses, he works in a factory, although he is a womanizer and irresponsible; she sells cosmetics or fayuca. Both dream of owning a home. Vincent did not want to leave their neighborhood but after several discussions they decide to buy a land...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1985-09-11
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Dos Maridos baratos
Overview: Two showgirls need to find husbands in order to collect an inheritance.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-07-07
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Las asesinas del panadero
Overview: Mexican feature film
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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El Mil Usos II
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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Faith, Hope and Charity
Overview: Three episodes. Faith: a woman is attacked. Hope: a fakir is crucified. Charity: a woman faces bureaucracy.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1974-02-14
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Una mujer en la calle
Overview: An implausible accident causes a street prostitute to become close friends with an aristocratic old lady.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1955-02-03
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La tijera de oro
Overview: The charitable Emilio is a jealous barber tries to prevent at all costs the rich toting Mario mess with his girlfriend Rosita. Although Emilio help with money from neighbors, gets entangled in a misunderstanding and ends up in jail but his friends are out of charge so much trouble.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1960-05-11
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El pueblo sin Dios
Overview: Unscrupulous rich guy owns all the businesses in border towns, is challenged by town's new priest.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-03-17
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La muerte en el desfiladero
Overview: Masked horseman avenges the deaths of family members and resolves questions about a contested inheritance. One of four in a series ("Relampago").
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-04-05
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El jinete negro
Overview: Masked horseman avenges the deaths of family members and resolves questions about a contested inheritance. One of four in a series ("Relampago").
Genres: Adventure Drama Western
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1958-11-22
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Herencia trágica
Overview: Masked horseman avenges the deaths of family members and resolves questions about a contested inheritance. One of four in a series ("Relampago").
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-06-02
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Cuatro copas
Overview: Upper-crust city gal falls for a rough-edged working-class guy, so she follows him to his home town and masquerades as a peasant/Indian local to win him over. All very stalky and classist.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1958-04-02
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La ley del más rápido
Overview: Young gunslinger gets his hero on. #2 in a series ("El Puma.")
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1959-12-03
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El asaltacaminos
Overview: Young man puts on the Black Mask Of Vengeance to solve some tangled legal problems concerning a contested inheritance and several murdered family members. It took him four feature-length movies to do it. (Series: "El Relampago.")
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-10-26
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Palenque sangriento
Overview: Ranchera love triangle resolved with violence.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-04-24
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Panic in the Forest
Overview: People lost in a forest are murdered one-by-one.
Genres: Horror Action Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz
Overview: A bizarre black comedy about a man whose overwhelming ambition in life is to be a renowned serial killer of women, and will stop at nothing to achieve it - but not everything goes according to plan...
Genres: Comedy Drama Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1955-05-19
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Hundred girls
Overview: Don Manuel is a successful bathing suit designer that decides to retire tired of his business. While doing so, he announces he will leave his company in the hands of his own employers. If during a year they manage to increase the sales of their designs, he will leave the company in their hands definitively. Otherwise, it will be inherited by his three spoiled nieces. Annoyed by the fact that his uncle has refuse them the company, the three girls plot to seduce the workers leaders in order to make them fail in their sales goal so they can recover the company.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1957-02-02
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Talpa
Overview: Produced on a grand scale, the Mexican Talpa relates the simple story of two brothers. The older of the siblings, Tanilo (Victor Manuel Mendoza) is a well-to-do family man; the other, Estaban (Jamie Fernandez), is one step above a wastrel. When Tanilo is felled by illness, Estaban is forced to take over the family's blacksmith business. He also inaugurates a romance with Tanilo's attractive young wife Juana (Lilia Prado). Punishment is eventually doled out in a manner which suggests that God Himself is exacting retribution on the adulterous couple. Originally released at 87 minutes, Talpa was pared down to 73 minutes for American consumption.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-12-20
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Motel of Death
Overview: Murders take place in and around a hotel. Debuted on Mexican TV.
Genres: Horror TV Movie
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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The Bricklayers
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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La casa de Bernarda Alba
Overview: A domineering, reclusive and ostentatiously pious widow in a small Spanish town keeps such close watch on her daughters that they are unable to have normal social lives. However, the eldest is allowed to become engaged to an unprincipled young man, primarily for the financial advantages it will bring the mother, Bernarda. Jealousy and envy ensues among the other daughters.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1982-04-01
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El Noa Noa
Overview: Juan Gabriel became one of the most popular Mexican singer-songwriters, beginning his career in this Ciudad Juárez cabaret. This is his story.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1981-02-19
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El vagabundo
Overview: Homeless/unemployed dude has a spiritual awakening and rehabilitates himself working at a circus.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1953-06-21
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The Black Widow
Overview: Intrigues and secrets come together because of a woman, who has the protection of the parish priest.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1977-08-17
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To the Beat of Rock and Roll
Overview: When a romantic orchestra won't change their boring style into something more modern to get gigs, their girlfriends split and form a rock and roll orchestra that quickly becomes talk of the town. The guys are furious since they are relegated to their opening act as a comical number, but when the League of Virtue protests against the new satanic music, the old-fashioned music seems to win the day.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-05-23
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Los Fernández de Peralvillo
Overview: A young man fails as a seller of household goods and his sister, tired of poverty, elopes with a criminal.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1954-09-14
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Maratón de baile
Overview: Several couples are lured into becoming contestants in a dance marathon that awards a large cash prize to the couple still standing at the end of this grueling test of endurance.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1958-09-18
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The Castaways of Liguria
Overview: A fire started by Harry Thompson destroys the Liguria, a legendary ship of the 19th century, and its treasure of gold and diamonds sinks in the sea. Thompson manages to escape unaware that Albizetti sleeps in the same lifeboat he uses. They manage to arrive at a deserted island, which has also been reached on the opposite shore– by the other survivors of the shipwreck: three children, a woman and three men.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1985-08-15
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Love Around the Corner
Overview: After breaking out from jail and being rescued by an enigmatic driver, Maria begins a journey through Mexico City's nocturnal life
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1986-09-09
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Mistery
Overview: A soap opera actor is mixed in a real drama very similar to what he represents in his work.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1980-11-30
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Nocturnal Love that Goes Away
Overview: A taxi driver goes missing after driving a passenger out of town.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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The Realm of Fortune
Overview: Poor Dionisio finds himself as recipient of the good fortune, but soon he forgets that everything that goes up also has to go down, and that in the depressing nothingness of his town it is easy to die.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1986-11-28
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Everyone's Hell so Feared
Overview: The inner demons of an aspiring writer, whose dissatisfaction has pushed him to alcohol and drugs, lead him to his self-destruction under the guise of confusing political positions.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1981-09-09
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Violent Stories
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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