Blanca Guerra
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Biography: Blanca Guerra Islas (born January 10, 1953) is a Mexican actress. In 1983 she was a member of the jury at the 13th Moscow International Film Festival. Initially she was a dentistry student, but she abandoned her studies to study at the UNAM University Theater Center, which allowed her to debut as a theater actress. Later, she ventured into the cinema acting in the film La loca de los milagros, which marks her artistic debut and the beginning of her extensive film career. She has to his credit more than sixty films. In 2018 the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences invited her to be a special part of its new members.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
Birthday: January 10, 1953
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Gender: Female
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Charm School
Overview: Defiant 18-year-old Adela León pushes her father and an unbending headmistress to the limit in this delicious comedy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2007-03-09
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Mystery of the Maya
Overview: Filmed in IMAX, a young Mayan boy who lives close to the ruins becomes acquainted with an archaeologist (Guerra) and asks her to tell him about his ancestors. The crew travelled to over 15 locations in Mexico and Guatemala, including Tulum and Chichén Itzá.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-01-01
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Insignificant Things
Overview: Esmeralda is a teenager with an unusual obsession: she collects lost, forgotten or discarded objects from people she doesn't know and keeps them in a box beneath her bed. This is the tale of three objects in the box and the people behind them, all in some way incapable of relating to the person they love most. It is also a tale of the box itself, and of how Esmeralda learns to open it, to feel and to hoard the most valuable thing of all: human relations.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2008-09-23
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Mantis religiosa
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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¿Cómo matar a mamá?
Overview: After learning an irreversible truth, Camila, Teté and Margo must abandon their busy lives to come up with a plan to end their mother Rosalinda's life.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2023-05-10
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Memorias de un Visitador Médico
Overview: A pharmaceutical salesman travels around the country and has sexual adventures in every place, but no woman really interests him. When returning from one of his travels, he is hit by a car and falls in love with the driver, but none of his tactics of conquest get results. Written by Anonymous
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1980-11-13
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Kada kien su karma
Overview: Every abandoned woman has dreamed of taking revenge on her husband. Fate gives Eva that possibility. On the first anniversary of running away to find the love of a younger woman, Joaquín, her ex-husband, has to return to the family home temporarily disabled. Eva will be in charge of taking care of him. A film about women's fear of abandonment and men's fear of impotence.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2008-03-12
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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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Separate Vacations
Overview: A young architect finds himself in a situation that he never had to deal with before--now that he is successful (and married), sexy young women are throwing themselves at him!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-04-01
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Bendita Suegra
Overview: Andrea, a successful veterinarian who loves her job and is in a relationship with Lucio, an up-and-coming lawyer who grew up in the country. Lucio has some news for Andrea: his mother is turning 60 and is throwing a big party to celebrate. Andrea visits the town where Lucio was raised for the first time and would like to become very close to his family, especially her new Mother-in-law Blanca, who is an overprotective mother, ultra-conservative and always thinks she’s right about everything. Andrea tries to fit in by tolerating all her quirks and harsh treatment during the torturous weekend.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2023-05-10
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Where the Tracks End
Overview: Georgina is a teacher determined to make a difference in the lives of the children she educates in the classroom of a wagon school in rural Mexico.
Genres: Drama Comedy Family
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2023-05-26
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Santa Sangre
Overview: A former circus artist escapes from a mental hospital to rejoin his mother – the leader of a strange religious cult – and is forced to enact brutal murders in her name.
Genres: Thriller Drama Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1989-11-24
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The flying pony
Overview: Mythical and fantastic story on the wishes of a peasant boy, Diego, who become reality in the course of a day and a night. On the eve of his birthday, the child's godfather gives her a shot of cardboard. At night, the little dreams that is mounted on the horse and find a nymph that describes the exact location of much needed water does to your family.
Genres: Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-01-01
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The Queen of the Night
Overview: The legendary life of Mexican singer Lucha Reyes is the basis of this fictionalized biography ( or as director Arturo Ripstein puts it "an imaginary biography"). Lucha Reyes was an unconventional, and sexually liberated woman, most famous for her "cancion ranchera" style singing. Her story begins in 1939, where at 33 she still lived at home with her mother, Dona Victora, the madame of a renowned Mexico City whorehouse. Lucha marries the liberal Pedro Calderon and then buys a beggar's daughter. She becomes the mother to this child, Luzma. Lucha craves lasting love like junkies crave heroin. But for her loyal daughter, she never finds it and in the end no one can help her.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1994-09-07
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Under the Salt
Overview: A series of murders leads Commander Trujillo to Santa Rosa de la Sal a town close to a salt mine, where he meets Victor Zepeda - a lonely teenager who works in his father's funeral home and spends his free time making crude animated horror films - who's strange behavior seems to point at him as the culprit of the crimes.
Genres: Action Thriller Mystery Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2008-10-17
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What Do You Think?
Overview: Award-Winning filmmaker Paul Leduc (Frida, Naturaleza Viva, Reed: Insurgent Mexico, Barroco) directed this gritty musical drama about life in the ghettos of Mexico City during the 1980s. With a soundtrack of Mexican rock music, the camera takes the viewer through the streets, to rock concerts, and to the bars and clubs, where he exposes the hunger, repression, unhealthy conditions and violence in the marginal communities of Mexico's capital city.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1986-08-01
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Persecución en Las Vegas: 'Volvere'
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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Knock Out
Overview: Rodrigo Zaracho, once a promising boxer, is in decline. While fleeing from a gang that is chasing him, he remembers his past.
Genres: Thriller Drama Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1984-11-22
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La cripta
Overview: A patient is released from a mental hospital to help the police find a student who disappeared a few days ago.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1981-09-15
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Motel
Overview: The discovery of the mutilated body of a wealthy woman leads a detective to an isolated motel.
Genres: Horror Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1984-03-29
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Estas ruinas que ves
Overview: In this sexy romantic comedy from Mexico, the life of a college professor is turned upside down when he falls for a former student, who is already pledged to marry another man.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1979-03-03
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The Zone
Overview: Residents of an enclosed neighborhood in the middle of Mexico DF are shocked by a violent crime, and for one resident in particular, young Alejandro, the drama is ratcheted up when he encounters the lone kid who escaped the event and is hiding out within the neighborhood's borders.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2007-09-01
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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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Sabor latino
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Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1996-01-01
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Como México no hay dos
Overview: Rags-to-riches story about the rise of a fictional ranchera-music superstar.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1981-09-15
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Perro callejero
Overview: An abandoned child steals to survive and has problems when he decides to steal from the priest who helps him.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1980-02-28
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Perro callejero 2
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Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1981-04-30
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Juan Charrasqueado y Gabino Barrera
Overview: Revolution-era Mexico: two well-known bandits hook up, then join forces with an outlaw woman.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1982-04-01
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El sinvergüenza
Overview: Married man hires a surrogate to pose as the father of the four children he has had with his mistress.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-03-08
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Burdel
Overview: (AKA: Ratero 2 or Cada quien su madre.) Innocent man forced to hide from the police, ends up taking refuge in a brothel.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1982-09-03
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Mambo Dreams
Overview: Dámaso Pérez Prado, known as "el rey del mambo", came back from the dead to look for the love of his life.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2022-10-24
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Una pura y dos con sal
Overview: Young woman engineers a reconciliation between her long-estranged parents.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1983-04-04
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Mojado Power
Overview: Mexico's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1981
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-12-04
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His Most Serene Highness
Overview: This historical drama depicts the waning days of the life of Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, who waged a war against the United States that ultimately cost his nation half of its territory
Genres: History
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2000-08-17
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Under a Spell
Overview: In the Yucatan coast of the thirties , Elisha, a boy of 13, is initiated into the art of love by Felipa , his schoolteacher. After discovering the relationship, Felipa runs away from the village , leaving Elisha mired in nostalgia. Forced to marry another woman and lead a routine life , recalling the years passed Eliseo romance with Felipa until ten years later, the woman returns , removing his wounds and changing forever the life of Elisha , his family and the whole town
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1999-02-19
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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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En la trampa
Overview: Oscar Cardenas is a free young man who dreams of being a racer. One day he is trapped by Isabel Salas, a young secretary, who while finds a husband, she is sleeping with her boss. Oscar and Isabel end at the altar. From that moment Oscar, is falling into the traps that the 'society' puts over him...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1979-03-08
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Switched Up
Overview: It follows an unconventional family who find themselves embroiled in a personality swap after little Zoe has a mystical encounter with an ancient god. As a result, each family member finds themselves in the body of another.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2024-08-22
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Coyote and Bronca
Overview: A murder forces Juan "El Coyote" and Trinidad "La Bronca" to escape from a life of easy money and prostitution and become a real couple.
Genres: Drama Crime Mystery Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1980-07-13
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El billetero
Overview: A poor family hits the lottery.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-12-27
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Sinverguenza pero honrado
Overview: Man and woman get married, they adapt to living together and he adapts to living with her four children.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1985-11-28
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Chile Picante
Overview: A woman uses her husband's money to open a beauty parlor/spa... so she'll have a place to meet with her lover.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1983-05-05
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Dos de abajo
Overview: Two bozo construction workers discover a cache of 19th century gold coins while demolishing a building.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1983-11-03
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El cafre
Overview: Trucker accepts an assignment to haul an extremely dangerous load of explosives from Tijuana to Mexico City.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1986-03-20
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La revancha
Overview: Industrial spies are holed up in a safe-house after killing a half-dozen people to steal some data. On their way to the private airfield where their handlers are waiting to extract them, they run afoul of a small-town wedding. Unfortunately, it's the wedding of the town's chief of police.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-02-21
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El complot mongol
Overview: In the context of a visit by the President of the United States to Mexico, there is a threat that China will attack his life. Policeman Filiberto is commissioned to avoid it, at any cost. His searches in the Chinatown will lead him to endanger his life, while he will find love in the young Marta.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1977-03-28
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Mamá, soy Paquito
Overview: Paquito lives with his mother in poverty. When she dies, he looks for his father's love, who is a very wealthy man.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1984-04-21
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Viva México y sus corridos
Overview: Song/action clips from 8 or 12 movies that starred Antonio Aguilar as historical figures, with an onscreen narrator who splains things.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1982-09-15
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Cabalgando con la muerte
Overview: Wandering gunslinger trains peaceable farmers to defend themselves for an impending range war.
Genres: Western
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1989-08-03
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Falcon's Gold
Overview: An archaeologist travels to Mexico to investigate rumors of the discovery of the ancient statue of a fertility goddess.
Genres: Adventure TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-12-18
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La segua
Overview: Encarnacion is a beautiful villager and Petronila is her jealous, evil nemesis. When Petronila's love interest, a fetching young Spanish lieutenant, starts to fall for Encarnacion, Petronila gets even by simply destroying his sanity with a vile potion. Petronila begins to delude Encarnacion with suggestions that she is actually a "segua" or a female spirit that attacks men.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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Forget Everything You Have Ever Seen: The World of Santa Sangre
Overview: After his dream project DUNE fell apart, visionary filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky took a break from cinema, only to return over a decade later with his most triumphant work: SANTA SANGRE.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-01-25
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The Seven Cucas
Overview: A worker's wife and six pretty daughters are desired by all the men in their little town, so he decides to move his family elsewhere.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1981-10-07
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Walker
Overview: William Walker and his mercenary corps enter Nicaragua in the middle of the 19th century in order to install a new government by a coup d'etat.
Genres: Drama History Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-12-04
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Zapata en Chinameca
Overview: Urbino Martínez, on his deathbed, regrets his wrongdoing after betraying Emiliano Zapata.
Genres: Action Drama History
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1987-02-15
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Mientras me muero
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2003-03-19
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Pedro Páramo, el hombre de la Media Luna
Overview: Juan Preciado, son of Pedro Páramo, goes to Comala to claim his inheritance; but when he arrives he finds an abandoned and sinister town, inhabited by mysterious voices and whispers…
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1978-08-10
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In The MIddle of Nowhere
Overview: A retired union leader runs a restaurant by the highway with the help of his wife and his young son. One day a wounded criminal, his lover and his brother, all fugitives from law and being pursued by the woman's husband, forcefully seek out a hiding place. They take the family hostage until the delinquents are confronted.
Genres: Action Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1993-04-08
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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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Conexión Criminal
Overview: Two secret police officers fight against drug dealers and a sadistic criminal who executes the mafia's enemies.
Genres: Crime Drama Action
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1987-03-05
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My Mexican Shivah
Overview: After Moishe's death, family and friends sit Shiva in Mexico City. During seven days, secrets will be disclosed.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2007-10-26
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Moonlight Sonata
Overview: A high-strung love triangle of mystery and suspense arises between Julia, a beautiful and ambitious woman who, helped by Raúl, her lover, kill her husband.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1992-04-20
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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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Difficult Days
Overview: Two shareholder brothers close several factories due to economic problems, except for their chemical plants.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1988-07-07
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Kino: The Legend of the Black Priest
Overview: Propped up on his deathbed, a 17th century Spanish missionary named Father Kino (Enrique Rocha) looks back on his remarkable life and relives one of his greatest challenges: bringing the teachings of Christianity to California's native population while convincing the Spanish military to respect the Indians' traditions.
Genres: Drama History Adventure
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1993-05-07
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Oro blanco, droga maldita
Overview: Cocaine industry in the Colombian outback.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1985-04-30
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Orinoco
Overview: Two ditzy dance-hall girls are stranded on a tugboat floating down the big river after a night when all the crew kill each other in an unexplained frenzy.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1986-02-27
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Danzón
Overview: A telephone operator from Mexico City tries to support a family and her passion for popular dance.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1991-06-27
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The Beginning and the End
Overview: The film tells the story of the Boteros, a middle-class Mexican family struggling against poverty after their father's death. Ignacia (Egurrola) is the Boteros mother, a desperate woman who chooses to sacrifice the destiny of her three older children, in order to protect Gabriel (Laguardia) the youngest one. She believes Gabriel will climb the social structure and bring back the lost fortune to the family. But destiny has other plans for the Boteros and tragedy will overcome eventually. Based on the novel of Nobel Prize winner Naguib Mahfouz.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1994-06-24
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Valentín Lazaña
Overview: Parody of the Zorro-styled "noble bandit" story.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1982-07-08
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Salón México
Overview: In this remake of the 40's classic, two lovers murder each other, leading to an investigation and the closing of the Saln Mxico, a famous place where people used to go to dance before WWII. The police investigation leads to several flashbacks about the life and death of a low-life dancer named Mercedes (Maria Rojo) and her lover.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1996-02-02
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Deadly Embroidered Memories
Overview: A woman with a degree in biology and a particular taste for arachnids gets involved with some unfinished business left by her dead mother, leading her to face unlikely events that revolve around the banana mafia in a South American country, such as an etheric eminence that anticipates tragedies, a cryptozoological being that is mentioned with skepticism and a terrorist society that seeks to dismantle the fraudulent and sinister structure of land concessions.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2020-03-06
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El juego de la muerte
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 1987-08-27
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Dying in the Gulf
Overview: The story of the oil leader Lázaro Pizarro, of his political and personal wars, the use of crime to settle conflicts and the course of his power between the basements and the domes of Mexican politics, have a narrative record made in the Gulf of accuracy and dexterity
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1990-03-08
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Cacería implacable
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Genres: Action Adventure Crime Thriller Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1988-11-03
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La Revolución De Juan Escopeta
Overview: Mexico 1914. During the Revolution, a raid by the army in a small mining town leaves Gapo, 11, orphaned. Taken captive to be turned into a child soldier he escapes with the help of Juan Escopeta, a gunman for hire. Together they travel through a country absorbed in civil war in search of Gapo’s older and only brother: a famed revolutionary outlaw.
Genres: Animation Adventure History
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2011-11-04
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Aquel famoso Remington
Overview: Historical drama about the career of a hit-man who specialized in political assassinations in Mexico in the 1920s-30s.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1982-07-23
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La fuga de Carrasco
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Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1983-01-01
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One Hundred Years with Juan Rulfo
Overview: This documentary explores key moments in the life of writer Juan Rulfo, with artists such as Werner Herzog and Eduardo Galeano reflecting on his work.
Genres: History Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2017-11-03
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Secuestro a Mano Armada
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Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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