Enrique García Álvarez
Also Known As: Enrique G. Alvarez, Enrique García Álvarez
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Langreo, Asturias, Spain
Adult: No
Birthday: January 01, 1896
Age: 129 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: January 01, 1971
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Simon of the Desert
Overview: Simon, a deeply religious man living in the 4th century, wants to be nearer to God so he climbs a column. The Devil wants him come down to Earth and is trying to seduce him.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1965-08-27
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Even the Wind Is Afraid
Overview: A group of college students, led by Claudia, decide to investigate a local tower that has figured prominently in disturbing reoccurring dreams Claudia has been having. They are suspended from school for their antics, but Claudia learns from one of the female staff members that the person in the dream is a student who killed herself years before and that the headmistress has seen her ghost.
Genres: Mystery Horror Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1968-05-30
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Esposa te doy
Overview: Chofi marry Alberto and very much in love, but her mother continues to intervene in the couple's relationship, which will lead to divorce.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1957-09-13
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Tirando a matar
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 1961-01-01
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Tinieblas
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 1957-01-01
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The Intruder
Overview: Upon her arrival to the village San Ignacio, Gabriela meets Raúl, owner of a residence that her grandfather administrates. He doesn't reveal his real identity and they fall madly in love. Tania, Raúl's sister-in-law, secretly loves him and she decides to separate them by simulating a car accident from which Gabriela temporarily becomes paralized. Aware that they will marry, Tania makes the girl believe that Raúl is marrying her out of compassion, causing Gabriela to disappear from the residence...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1954-07-21
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Aventuras de Cucuruchito y Pinocho
Overview: Las aventuras de Cucuruchito y Pinocho was the second color feature film and the first fantasy film for children made in Mexico.
Genres: Adventure Family Fantasy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1943-01-01
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El superhombre
Overview: 1946 Mexican film directed by Chano Urueta.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-01-01
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Dos tontos y un loco
Overview: Crown-prince of a primitive country goes to Mexico for college. Wacky hijinks ensue.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-12-21
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Macario
Overview: Poor, hungry peasant Macario longs for just one good meal on the Day of the Dead. After his wife cooks a turkey for him, he meets three apparitions, the Devil, God, and Death. Each asks him to share his turkey, but he refuses all except Death. In return, Death gives him a bottle of water which will heal any illness. Soon, Macario is more wealthy than the village doctor, which draws the attention of the feared Inquisition.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1960-05-09
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The Exterminating Angel
Overview: A formal dinner party starts out normally enough, but after the bourgeois group retire to the host’s music room, they inexplicably find themselves unable to leave.
Genres: Comedy Drama Fantasy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1962-05-16
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Azahares rojos
Overview: Family with young-adult children returns to Mexico after many years in Spain.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1961-11-01
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The Woman and the Beast
Overview: Dedicated, saintly nurse has a twin sister who is a Bad Girl.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1959-07-23
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La monja alférez
Overview: A 17th century woman, imprisoned for fighting in a bar, recounts her past to a priest. She tells of her father teaching her how to fence, of being sent to a convent by her aunt when her father died, of escaping by dressing as a man, and of her life as a man following the escape.
Genres: Adventure History
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1944-07-27
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Los tres mosqueteros de Dios
Overview: Three priests resort to desperate long-shots (like quiz-shows) to raise money for their parish.
Genres: Drama Adventure Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1967-03-30
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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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The Unknown Policeman
Overview: A gang of thieves has jeopardized the city and even the police, whose chief urges their forces to captured the band within 48 hours. Meanwhile, band members meet in a cafe run by a widow and her daughter and her suitor, Cantinflas, who maintains a scuffle with the robbers running all at the station. Since then, Cantinflas become a member of the police force for special missions.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1941-10-22
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El Supersabio
Overview: Cantinflas is the apprentice of a renowned scientist, Prof. Arquimides Monteagudo (Carlos Martinez Baena). But Cantinflas has the soul of a poet rather than a serious researcher, and he wants to find the formula that achieves the immortality of the roses. Nevertheless, after the death of Prof. Monteagudo, Cantinflas will be chased by a ferocious corporative group, who wants to steal the secret formula of a cheaper fuel named "carburex", because they think that our friend is the only person who knows the composition
Genres: Comedy Mystery Science Fiction
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1948-09-04
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Lanza tus penas al viento
Overview: Four guys share an apartment while attending art-school.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1966-09-15
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Jesus of Nazareth
Overview: The biblical story of The Messiah from his baptism through his crucifixion.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1942-03-26
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El Mago
Overview: A slapstick fantasy of the amorous adventures of a magician a la Cantinflas.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1949-05-04
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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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Your Excellency
Overview: Lopitos, who is horribly inefficient but quick-witted, is invited (because of the current ambassador's superstition about 13 sitting down to a meal) to a banquet attended by the ambassadors of both superpowers. After the news of a series of coups d'état in Los Cocos arrives throughout the meal, Lopitos becomes the official ambassador. At a summit of world leaders, the representatives of the two world superpowers court the allegiances of third-world diplomats to tilt the balance of global power in their favor. The last diplomat to remain unaligned, Lopitos instead harangues the superpowers for infringing on the rights of developing countries to self determination, talking to them with his point of view as a citizen not as ambassador because he arranged his demise as ambassador one day before his speech.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1967-05-03
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Autumn Days
Overview: Luisa is a small-town girl who works in the bakery of the widower Don Albino. Luisa dreams of marrying and loves children. Just as Don Albino shows interest in her, Luisa announces that she will marry soon with Carlos, the driver of a rich house whom she met recently...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1963-10-31
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Ella y Yo
Overview: Pedro Muñoz is a womanizer that does not escape one until Irene Garza arrives and makes him to see his luck, while the aunt of her tries to separate them.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-10-02
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El rápido de las 9.15
Overview: Every passenger boarding The Express has a story.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1941-09-11
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El hijo de Cruz Diablo
Overview: A 1941 film directed by Vicente Oroná.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1941-10-04
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La casa del rencor
Overview: A 1941 film directed by Gilberto Martínez Solares.
Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1941-11-06
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Refifí entre las mujeres
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Genres: Drama Comedy Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1958-05-10
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Sor Ye-yé
Overview: Maria is a young orphan who lives with her wealthy aunt. Maria sings in a cocktail bar with his friends, who form a rock band, and enjoy the night with them. One of his friends, Ernesto, is in love with her, though she does not seem to feel the same about him. In fact, multiple existential doubts and feel a strange emptiness in his life suddenly drive to enter a convent as a novice, breaking Ernestos' heart. However, with her cheerlul character, open and rebellious, not appear to conform to life in the cloister, and especially have problems with the novices director , who often punished for trying to take the right path. In the convent, which also functions as children's hospital, she meets a doctor with which it takes quite right for the contrast between his two characters, but his way with love and mutual respect.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1968-03-09
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The Invasion of the Vampires
Overview: A doctor and his assistant hunt down a vampire named Count Frankenhausen, who is terrorizing the populace.
Genres: Thriller Horror Mystery
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1963-06-20
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Oh Pain, Little Pain, Pain!
Overview: Carmela is a Gypsy singer who sells lottery tickets. She meets two penniless Mexican brothers and they buy a ticket between the three: if it is awarded, could share the prize and go to Mexico, they to return to their homeland and her for bullfighter boyfriend whom has no news. The fate accompanies them, but, on reaching Mexico, her boyfriend rejects her. This way, she ends up acting in a cafe where reaps many successes.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1953-09-24
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Tú y las nubes
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Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1955-12-01
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The Martyr of Calvary
Overview: The life of Jesus from the beginning of his ministry, his miracles, the Sermon on the Mount and his death on the cross.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1952-04-02
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Tu vida entre mis manos
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Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1955-01-01
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The Marked Woman
Overview: Beautiful woman with disfiguring facial scars learns to cope.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1957-09-18
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Por qué peca la mujer
Overview: Working-class girl-next--door type is seduced into a high-glam lifestyle when an oily promoter helps launch her as a nightclub singer; she throws over her decent-simple-guy boyfriend and loses her moral compass.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1952-07-10
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Lágrimas de amor
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1959-09-10
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Dios no lo quiera
Overview: A beautiful young woman from the neighborhood falls in love with two rude men, one good and the other bad.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1957-05-30
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Soul of Steel
Overview: Inspired by Alexander Dumas's novel The Corsican Brothers, Alma de Acero presents a delightful spin on the classic story of twin brothers (both played by Luis Aguilar) and their contrasting lives. As a singer in a nightclub, one brother has chosen a life of peaceful simplicity; the other, however, has chosen a troublesome lifestyle that leads to numerous run-ins with the law, forcing the vocalist to risk his own life to save his sibling.
Genres: Drama Western Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1957-01-01
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Isla para dos
Overview: Middle-aged painter and young musician fall hard for each other while on vacation. Then she discovers he's married.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-09-12
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The Suicide Club
Overview: Enrique lives in the midst of danger until he falls in love with a girl and learns to appreciate the little things in life. However, a series of strange situations unfold before him towards his own death, which he must deal with.
Genres: Drama Thriller Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1970-04-29
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