Delia Casanova
Also Known As: Delia Margarita
Biography: Delia Casanova (born November 4, 1948) is a Mexican film, theater and television actress, winner of a Silver Ariel. He completed his acting studies at the National Institute of Fine Arts (INBA), in Mexico City. She began her artistic career in the theater, to later venture into the cinema and a decade later into television, as an actress in soap operas, in productions made by Televisa.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Poza Rica, Veracruz, Mexico
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Birthday: November 04, 1948
Age: 76 years old
Gender: Female
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Algo sobre Jaime Sabines
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1980-01-01
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Herod's Law
Overview: In the 1940s, a small Mexican town has seen its last three mayors assassinated in rapid succession. A naive janitor is recruited to become the new mayor, and he believes he will modernize the little town and usher in a reign of peace. But the system corrupts him very quickly, and he takes to abusing his power while associating with an unscrupulous assortment of opportunists, hypocrites and criminals.
Genres: Comedy Crime Mystery Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1999-11-09
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Luz's Motives
Overview: Luz is in jail, accused of murdering her own children. Her husband and her mother-in-law say she killed them in cold blood. Dr. Rebollar tries to help the woman, but she refuses to remember anything. Luz thinks of jail as the purgatory: it's only one step to reach the Heaven.
Genres: Drama History Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1986-02-06
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Todos hemos pecado
Overview: No one could ever imagine that one day La Chingada Vieja would fall in love. Because she is always alone, because no one has ever turn to see her, because everyone is always closing the door at her nose, because when they feel her coming they cross themselves, but most of all because no one could ever fall in love with death. But El Hombre sin nombre, has appeared in her life for good. Only the confusion of an avenging town and the desire of four men to arrive to heaven could change the plans of these two beings. Of whom the purist feelings alive have resurrected them.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2011-11-02
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Midaq Alley
Overview: Heated tempers, frustrated desires and dashed hopes plague a diverse group of individuals whose lives cross paths in Mexico City. There is the bar-owner's son, Chava, who yearns to emigrate to America. A poor barber, Abel, is madly in love with the gorgeous Alma, who eventually becomes a high-class prostitute. Finally, there is Susanita, the desperate spinster who pursues many love affairs in hopes of finding a husband.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1995-05-05
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All of Them Witches
Overview: Something strange is going on in Dolores' apartment house--or is it mainly in Dolores' head that the strangeness lies... When her best friend Eva is murdered on her doorstep, and her husband begins to have violent nightmares, it appears that there is definately something amiss in the world of delusional Dolores.
Genres: Horror Thriller Fantasy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1996-10-19
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Pole Dance
Overview: Magda is getting divorced from an alcoholic mariachi in rehab. While she tries to find her inner strength by practicing pole dance she meets Jaime, who gets obsessed with her, unleashing a story of abuse and gender violence.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2023-12-15
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The Heist
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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El día que murió Pedro Infante
Overview: Mexican feature film
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1982-01-01
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Así es la Suerte
Overview: Ramiro is a theater actor who lives estranged from his father and half brother. One morning, he runs into a suicide, who says he is an evil omen. Despite Ramiro´s efforts, the young man dies before his eyes, which leads him to believe that he has caught his bad luck. From then on, his life turns upside down, at the same time as he gets together with his family to fulfill his father´s last wish: to find the love of his life and say goodbye to her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2011-08-18
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Erendira
Overview: While Erendira, a beautiful teenage girl, has a surreal mystical vision, her grandmother's house catches on fire and burns to the ground. Her grandmother holds Erendira responsible and, in order to extract restitution from the girl, forces her into prostitution. Erendira's surreal mystical experiences continue while her grandmother grows rich from exploiting her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1983-06-01
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Long live Tepito!
Overview: Slice of life covering four or five days in a badly run-down neighborhood. Matriarch of a slum family dies unexpectedly; relatives from neighboring blocks cope with the loss and arrange her funeral.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1981-01-15
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Todo lo invisible
Overview: When a car accident causes Jonás to completely lose his vision, he finds himself unable to live the life he used to know. Despite his refusal to accept his new condition or to show any vulnerability in the presence of his wife and daughters, the circumstances will lead him to discover new and unsuspected paths that will allow him to carry on.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2020-10-31
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Between Pancho Villa and a Naked Woman
Overview: Gina, a modern business woman in her late forties, has a lover named Adrian, a journalist, who she sees once in a while just to have sex. They are both attracted to the historic figure of Pancho Villa: he admires his power while she admires his virility. As Gina helps Adrian to write a book about Villa, she discovers the similarity between Villa's relation to women to that of Adrian and hers, and that Villa's revolution never included her, nor the rest of the female half of the human species. Can the love of a woman and a man survive machismo?
Genres: History Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-04-11
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Brigada de la Muerte
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Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1985-05-04
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Como tú me has deseado
Overview: Non-conformist advertising executive pressured to toe the line and behave.
Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2006-01-18
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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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Alsino and the Condor
Overview: Alsino, a boy of 10 or 12, lives with his grandmother in a remote area of Nicaragua. He's engulfed in the war between rebels and government troops when a US advisor orders the army to open a staging area by the boy's hamlet. Alsino tries to be a child, climbing trees with a girl, looking through his grandfather's trunk of mementos and trying to fly; he goes to town to sell a saddle, has his first drink and is taken to a brothel. But the war surrounds him. The US advisor takes Alsino on a chopper flight, but he's unimpressed. The soldiers' cruelties awake rebel sympathies in Alsino, and after an army assault backfires, the lad is fully baptized into the conflict.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1982-12-01
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In the Shadow of the Moon
Overview: Ana starts falling in love with an ecologist engineer that comes with her father who is from Russia.
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1999-08-28
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Drizzle
Overview: Returning from a business trip, a man meets some peasants who arouse fears in him.
Genres: Thriller Drama Mystery
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1978-06-29
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Hope
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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Love Lies
Overview: Set in Mexico City, Mentiras Piadosas is the doomed love story of Clara and Israel. She is a health inspector and he is an herb merchant, who is obsessed with the construction of an enormous model of the ancient city of Tenochtitlan. They both decide to leave their respective partners to live together, however, jealousy, blackmail and guilt will become unbreakable patterns destroying their tragic relationship
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1989-07-01
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Los gemelos alborotados
Overview: Gumaro and his buddy Chon are among the First Citizens locally. One day, unexpectedly, twin brothers of both of them turn up in town. Adaptation of A Comedy Of Errors.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-03-04
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El viaje
Overview: After the death of his mother, a man agrees to travel to Europe as a tourist guide falls in love with the head of the agency.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1977-06-28
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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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Bésame en la boca
Overview: Popstar dies by accident, and Heaven's bureaucrats send her back to earth to inhabit a different body.
Genres: Action
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1995-06-23
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Nahuí - the woman behind the legend
Overview: The woman behind the legend. Biographical film about Nahuí Olín, painter, model and poet born in the late nineteenth century and died in 1978, who lived in Paris and San Sebastian, and throughout his life rubbed shoulders with artists like Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Diego Rivera , Frida Kahlo or David Alfaro Siqueiros, among many others.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2020-07-01
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Lady Rancho
Overview: A spoiled girl is sent to her family's ranch to work during summer vacations.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2019-02-22
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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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Tear This Heart Out
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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Autumn
Overview: A woman, who lives alone with her mother, invents a fantasy life to escape her reality.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1993-03-25
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The Birthday of the Dog
Overview: Two couples. One of the husbands kills his wife. He is temporarily helped by the other couple. The husband wants to help him, but his wife wants to turn him in to the police.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1975-09-10
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El Bulto
Overview: After being in a comma for 20 year, Lauro (Retes) wakes up in a very different Mexico than the one he lived on. Ideas, hopes, ways-of-life and customs have changed, and Mexicans of the nineties are strangers for a man sleeping since 1971. Lauro will have to deal with the changes brought by the History, and will have to accept that the future is never as we imagined it when we were young.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1992-08-28
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Cuartelazo
Overview: Narration of one of the bloodiest episodes of the Mexican national history, The Tragic Ten, beginning when General Victoriano Huerta sent to kill President Francisco I. Madero, Vice President José María Pino Suárez and Senator Belisario Dominguez. The film recreates the moment of the execution at the hands of Huerta and his accomplices Bernardo Reyes, Félix Díaz and Manuel Mondragón.
Genres: History Action Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1977-05-04
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The Long Awaited Desperate Love
Overview: A thirty-something woman fears that life is passing her by and that she's going to end up as the family's 'maiden aunt'. She imagines that somebody in her circle is courting her, and he's too polite to disillusion her. And then...
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1976-11-25
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