Luis Manuel Pelayo
Also Known As: Jose Manuel Pelayo, Luis M. Pelayo, Luis Manuel Pelayo Ortega, Luis Manuel Pelayo Ortega "El Pollo", El Pollo
Biography: Luis Manuel Pelayo was born in 1922 in Mexico, Distrito Federal, Mexico. He was an actor.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Mexico City, Mexico
Adult: No
Birthday: April 01, 1922
Age: 103 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: July 26, 1989
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The Kidnapping of Lola
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Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1986-12-25
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National Mechanics
Overview: A mechanic takes his family to a car race and a series of events occur which brings problems, betrayals, violence and the unexpected death of an elderly person.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1972-12-28
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Mi nombre es Sergio, soy alcohólico
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1981-06-18
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The Stone Crucifix
Overview: A young prostitue woman arrives severely injured to a hospital and finds a chance to have a new life when the grandmother of another woman who has just died there mistakenly takes her as her grandaugther and takes her to live with her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1956-06-15
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Click, fotógrafo de modelos
Overview: Mauricio is a photographer that works for a very important advertisement company. It all starts with Mauricio's work being criticized by the company, to which Mauricio jumps into the discussion and explains to the company that his idea was misinterpreted, and quits. Mauricio bent on revenge, and promises to be enemy number one of his former employers, sets off and works so hard photographing so many models, that he develops a click that when he blinks his eyes, he can see anybody in their underwear. A lot of Mauricio charm, famous quotes and pranks in this movie, very entertaining and beautiful women for that time. Very recommendable.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1970-05-07
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El ojo de vidrio
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Genres: Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1969-10-23
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Las Fieras
Overview: Historia de un grupo de estafadores internacionales y sus artimañas.
Genres: Comedy Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-07-17
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El gran relajo mexicano
Overview: Mexican feature film
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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Noche de carnaval
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1984-01-26
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Pepito and the Monster
Overview: The boy Pepito, is looking for work to help his grandmother, who is not receiving her pension. He wants to be a magician's assistant, and thus begin his problems because a crime happens and a monster appears.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1957-09-30
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Pepito as del volante
Overview: Pepito's father dies in rollover the Ferrari that is winning a race car, so Pepito is about his grandfather and asks him to equip a car to get him to compete.
Genres: Drama Adventure Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1957-06-20
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El matrimonio es como el demonio
Overview: The story of a Playboy bachelor who does not know the good that is, until he is married. Slowly, the man discovers that having a woman is not easy, but sometimes ... being faithful recomended. After sympathetic experiences and funny situations, he realizes that there are two uncorrectable errors committed by the man in your life: Being born and married!
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1967-03-22
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Little Red Riding Hood
Overview: The classic story of the Red Riding Hood spiced up by a couple of funny characters like the dog Duke, companion to the girl in her adventures, and the stinky Skunk, henchman to the Wolf.
Genres: Family Adventure Fantasy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1959-05-05
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Carrera contra el destino
Overview: Mexican feature film
Genres: Adventure Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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The Good, the Bad and the Slut
Overview: The director of an all-girl's boarding school is playing at a clandestine casino which is robbed. The thieves flee and hide out in disguise at the boarding school, where the school director helps hide them in exchange for the loot. While there, the thieves fall in love with the school janitor and rescue one of the schoolgirls from her boyfriend.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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At a Lame Pace
Overview: Ragtag crew of indigents from an asylum for the handicapped form a squadron to defend the Church during the Cristero Uprising.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1980-05-29
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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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Amor a la Mexicana
Overview: Two salesmen compete for top honors at the company they represent.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-11-29
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La tumba de Matías
Overview: Gambler with a heart condition races the clock to get his mausoleum finished. His wife and her lover wait on the sidelines.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-05-14
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Barridos y regados
Overview: Two bozos take varied assignments from an employment agency.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-10-31
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Ella, Lucifer y yo
Overview: Playboy uses satanic powers to score with the babes.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1953-03-17
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Dos diablitos en apuros
Overview: Two kids embark on far-fetched desperate schemes to prevent their parents from divorcing.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-01-17
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Cómo pescar marido
Overview: Bride-to-be on the prowl for a suitable mate.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1967-11-30
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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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El superflaco
Overview: Mad scientist gives Atomic Powers to a 98 pound weakling.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-02-19
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Snow White and Her 7 Lovers
Overview: An undercover policewoman tracks seven escaped convicts to the deserted island where they've set up a camp.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1980-11-22
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Entre compadres te veas
Overview: After a year spent mourning his wife's death, a father and two sons cut loose for some wild living. Loose remake of Los Tres Alegres Compadres.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1989-09-23
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Friar Juan
Overview: A Dominican friar finds himself wrapped in tangled skirts because he is mistaken for his twin brother, a womanizer.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1970-06-25
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Muchachas que trabajan
Overview: Working in a department store exposes young ladies to corrupting influences.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1961-08-24
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Nosotros los jóvenes
Overview: Young-adult movie about a crew of 8 or 10 upper-middle-class boys and girls -- mostly about the romance between two of them.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-06-09
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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 Extra
Overview: Cantinflas is a man who hangs around the studios and helps anyone who needs his advice while at the same time envisioning his own versions of how certain scenes should be shot. Both angles provide ample opportunities for very witty, subtle barbs at the foibles of the industry.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1962-10-04
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El día de la boda
Overview: The love affairs of two couples, modern parents a couple of troubled teens.
Genres: Romance Drama Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1968-10-31
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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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Sube y baja
Overview: It is the story of a sportsman who is a little bit dumber than most people but nevertheless he succeeds in getting a job at a sports article saler's. Having this job is the beginning of a lot of funny problems he causes due to his dumbness.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1959-01-01
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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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Un Quijote sin mancha
Overview: A lawyer trying to fix everyone's problems, instead causes problems, which always end up in funny situations.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1969-09-17
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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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School for Buglars
Overview: The police plan to capture a killer by using a double that looks exactly as one of his victims.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1958-05-09
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La jorobada
Overview: A young hunchbacked girl who sells newspapers and sings in the street is discovered by a music producer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1981-07-27
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Nos reimos de la migra (Destrampados y mojados)
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1976-01-01
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Ya nunca más
Overview: A young teenage boy with a zest for sports and singing is seriously injured in a motorcycle accident. The story revolves around his shock at the way his life has changed and his difficulty in coping with his new reality. The boy, played by Latin singing star Luis Miguel at age 14, sings several songs in the movie.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1984-01-19
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Mujeres encantadoras
Overview: Goofball inventor is working on x-ray binoculars for peeping with; meanwhile, his assistant seeks help for a medical condition and gets caught up in the drama between two philandering doctors and their wives.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1958-08-14
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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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Manos arriba
Overview: A tailor is mistaken for the leader of an agricultural union and gets tangled up in a price-fixing conspiracy.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1958-06-11
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La taquera picante
Overview: A rich man hires two detectives to find a long lost relative who will inherit a fortune. He'll try to turn her into a dilettante, but is it too late to change her?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1990-06-14
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Mi niño, mi caballo y yo
Overview: Nun tries to heal the relationship between a six-year-old boy and his estranged father.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1959-06-04
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National Calvary
Overview: Two middle-aged couples take a Murphy's Law vacation in Acapulco.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1981-12-03
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Sabrás que te quiero
Overview: Famous singer becomes desperate to figure out which of three women helped to launch his early career with anonymous mentoring and support.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1958-12-04
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Tú y la mentira
Overview: Struggling musician finally reaches the big time, then a scheming gold-digger gets her hooks into him.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1958-05-14
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El albañil
Overview: Construction worker falls in love with a handicapped woman who aspires to a career as a singer.
Genres: Drama Comedy Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1975-10-30
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Puss n' Boots
Overview: Mexican adaptation of the famed fairy tale.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1961-09-14
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Un ángel de mal genio
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Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1964-01-01
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Reto a la vida
Overview: Carlos has spent four years in prison for selling drugs. When he's released he finds out his brother has become a drug addict and is locked in a psychiatric hospital. Carlos starts working to cure his brother when he befriends a street kid and falls for social worker Elena.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1988-03-31
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Solo para damas
Overview: A group of women visit a nightclub. They are all attracted to him main dancer and try to win him over without the others knowing. Him taking advantage the situation, create a plan to manipulate them.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1981-11-11
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El mas valiente del mundo
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1983-01-01
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Sexo contra sexo
Overview: The engineer José Luis, husband of the fichera and dancer Estrella Raleigh, dies in a plane crash. During the burial, Estrella discovers that her husband was having an affair. It's quickly revealed that things are a bit more complicated than they initially appear.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1983-11-24
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La tórtola del Ajusco
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Genres: Drama War
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1962-02-08
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Había una vez un marido
Overview: Due to confusion, Rafael is believed responsible for the death of Teresa. His wife Lilia and his brother looking for the real culprits.
Genres: Crime Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1953-03-05
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Se me sale cuando me río
Overview: Mexican feature film
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1983-01-01
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The Door and The Butcher's Wife
Overview: A movie divided in two segments, the first "La puerta" (The Door) is about a high society gathering in which a door inside the mansion leads to a bizarre corridor where a naked and menacing human figure appears. The second "La mujer del carnicero" (The Butcher's Wife) is set during the Mexican revolution and is about horrifying hallucinations felt by a lieutenant after committing a murder.
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1969-09-25
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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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La hermana Trinquete
Overview: Career-thief hides from the police by joining a convent.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1970-09-03
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The Door
Overview: At a high society gathering, a door inside the mansion leads to a strange hallway.
Genres: Horror Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1969-09-25
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Yo quiero ser artista
Overview: The Postman Adalberto is involved by chance in the filming of a scene, which gives the film director the idea of including him as an actor, but without his knowledge.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1958-05-15
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