Fernando Wagner
Also Known As: Ferdinand Wagner
Biography: Fernando Wagner (November 7, 1906 in Göttingen, Germany – October 20, 1973 in Cuernavaca, Mexico) was a German-born Mexican actor and film director. He had prominent roles in La Perla and The Wild Bunch. His interment was in Mexico City's Panteón Jardín
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Göttingen, Germany
Birthday: November 07, 1906
Deathday: October 20, 1973
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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This Was Pancho Villa: Third chapter
Overview: The third and final chapter of director Ismael Rodríguez's series about Pancho Villa. Several stories about the life and death of the famous mexican revolutionary general.
Genres: War Action Drama History Adventure
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1958-07-14
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Tarzan and the Mermaids
Overview: A high priest tries to force a young beauty to marry a pearl trader who is masquerading as the god Balu.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-05-15
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Garden of Evil
Overview: A trio of American adventurers marooned in rural Mexico are recruited by a beautiful woman to rescue her husband from Apaches.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-07-09
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The White Rose
Overview: An international oil company comes into conflict with a Mexican ranch owner who refuses to sell his land, resorting to a devious scheme to try to take over the property.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1961-07-19
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Virgin Sacrifice
Overview: A white hunter in South America falls in love with a native girl and must save her from becoming a virgin sacrifice.
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-03-23
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Anonymous Death Threat
Overview: Men are turning up dead after receiving anonymous threats that include the date of their deaths. The latest person to receive one of these threats decides to call Santo the crime fighting wrestler for help. Santo must solve the mystery of the men's murders and confront a gang of Nazis operating in Mexico City.
Genres: Action Adventure Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1975-04-11
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Vera Cruz
Overview: After the American Civil War, mercenaries travel to Mexico to fight in their revolution for money. The former soldier and gentleman Benjamin Trane meets the gunman and killer Joe Erin and his men, and together they are hired by the Emperor Maximillian and the Marquis Henri de Labordere to escort the Countess Marie Duvarre to the harbor of Vera Cruz.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-12-25
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El señor fotógrafo
Overview: Cantinflas, a traveling photographer, is captured by some gangsters while trying to get some flowers for his girlfriend. The gangsters have confused him with the assistant of Dr. Penongo, a scientist who has discovered the formula of a new atomic bomb. Meanwhile, Penongo has suffered a car accident and has lost his memory ...
Genres: Comedy Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1953-09-02
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El cardenal
Overview: Mexican feature film
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-12-31
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The Revived Monster
Overview: Set in the Balkans, this story concerns a bored journalist, Nora who is ordered by her boss to follow up a mysterious advertisement placed by Dr Ling. Ling turns out to be a misshapen creature who, rejected by his peers, has become the stereotypical mad scientist, here specializing in plastic surgery. He falls in love with Nora but fearing she will betray him he resuscitates a young man who committed suicide, Ariel by transplanting a new brain into him, and order him to fetch Nora so that he can kill her.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1953-01-01
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My Outlaw Brother
Overview: Danny, a greenhorn from New York comes to the Mexican border in search for his older brother whom he has always looked up to. A Texas Ranger charged with bringing in, El Tigre and his gang of bandits, takes Danny under his wing.
Genres: Action Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-08-22
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The Witch
Overview: Thieves break into a scientist's laboratory to steal a secret formula, and in the process they kill his daughter. Enraged, he develops a formula that will turn an extremely ugly woman into a spectacular beauty, and then uses the woman to take his revenge on those responsible for his daughter's murder.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1954-01-17
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Cri Cri el Grillito Cantor
Overview: Biography of the famous composer of children's music Gabilondo Soler. Starts from his childhood, when he worked as a pastor and grandmother tried to teach him to play the piano. Later he went to the city to study music theory and began writing his first songs.
Genres: Drama Family Music Animation
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1963-12-12
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El cielo y tú
Overview: Priest suffers a head injury, develops amnesia, ends up in a hippie commune.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1971-07-29
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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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The Pearl
Overview: Fisherman Quino and his wife Juana are very poor and desperate because the town's foreign doctor refuses to treat their son Coyotito, who has been bitten by a scorpion. When Quino unexpectedly finds a magnificent pearl in the sea, Juana senses that the discovery will only bring them misfortune and tries to convince her husband to return it to the sea.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1947-09-12
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The Wild Bunch
Overview: An aging group of outlaws look for one last big score as the "traditional" American West is disappearing around them.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-06-19
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Viva Maria!
Overview: An IRA operative escapes to the Americas and teams up with a circus singer to create a popular vaudeville act. When the singer falls for a rebel, they leave the circus behind to become fierce revolutionaries.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Romance Western
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1965-11-22
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Sofia
Overview: A former OSS agent is assigned to rescue two atomic scientists from the dastardly Russians and spirit them away from behind the Iron Curtain.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-09-03
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Sierra Baron
Overview: Director James B. Clark's western, set in 1848 California, is about a brother and sister battling a crooked businessman over property rights.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-07-01
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Seven Cities of Gold
Overview: In 1769, a Spanish expedition to California seeks to conquer the land and discover its famed gold treasures while missionaries aim to gain new converts and establish a network of Catholic missions.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-10-07
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