Maruja Grifell
Also Known As: María Martínez Grifell
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Tampico, Tamaulipas, Mexico
Birthday: February 06, 1907
Deathday: March 26, 1968
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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The Abandoned
Overview: A young woman, abandoned by her womanizing fiancé, is forced to provide for the upbringing of her son and combat the difficulties of being an unmarried mother during the strife of early 20-century Mexico.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1945-05-18
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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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Una mujer decente
Overview: Attracted by Armando, Rosa, comes to him in love. Armando travels to Paris and his return contract an advantageous marriage to Margaret. Rosa gets pregnant and is fired from her job. He goes to work as a dancer in a theater, where he acquired fame under the name Alma Rosa. Meanwhile, Armando's marriage is not going well. One night cabaret where acts Alma Rosa and then become lovers.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1950-10-18
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The Innocent
Overview: After a quarrel with her boyfriend on New Year's Eve, Mane drives her car from Mexico City to Cuernavaca to meet her parents in their country house. The car breaks down in the highway and Mane has to ask for help. Mechanic Cruci arrives and, after testing the car, offers Mane a ride on his motorcycle. Back in Mane's house, she invites him some drinks to celebrate New Year's Eve. They get drunk and, the morning after, Mane's parents arrive and find them sleeping together. Not knowing what happened, Mane and Cruci are forced to get married against their will.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1956-09-20
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La vida de Pedro Infante
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Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1966-04-20
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Todo un caballero
Overview: An unmarried lawyer defends his ward's boyfriend, accused of murder. One of only a handful of films produced by RKO’s short lived Latin American production arm Ramex.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1947-07-17
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El grito de la carne
Overview: Mexican feature film
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-01-01
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Historia de un corazón
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-01-01
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Aquella Rosita Alvírez
Overview: Traveling cowboy gets involved in political issues in a town he passes through. Also a romance.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-07-29
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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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From Can-Can to Mambo
Overview: Young man convinces his conservative uncle that trendy modern stuff is fun.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-11-15
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El casto Susano
Overview: Father and son are sober, responsible pillars of the community in their home-town... but they make frequent trips to the city.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-05-20
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Flor de caña
Overview: Rural-community gal is being courted by a peon and by a land-owner.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1948-11-10
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¡Acá las Tortas!
Overview: College students, ready to start entering adult society, are ashamed of their working-class backgrounds.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-10-12
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La visita que no tocó el timbre
Overview: Two underachieving brothers take responsibility for an abandoned baby.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1954-09-11
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Ladies Club
Overview: Lonelyhearts advisor on a tv show becomes feminist icon and movement-leader.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1956-04-12
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Pancho López
Overview: A couple of people cover up their own mishandling of other people's money by claiming to have been robbed by a masked bandit. When the law comes looking into the situation, it becomes necessary to find someone to impersonate that bandit. Remake of El Tigre De Jalisco (1947).
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-02-08
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El gallo giro
Overview: Mom and Pop want him to settle down , but the youngun's convinced he could be a big star singing rancheras; he convinces his folks to give him six months in the big city to launch a career and prove himself.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1948-08-19
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Rogaciano el huapanguero
Overview: Itinerant folk-singer returns to his home town, gets caught in two intersecting love triangles. It ends badly.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1957-08-08
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Perdida
Overview: Her stepfather rapes her and she runs away to home. After that, she's exploited by a series of men, and...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1950-06-03
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Una aventura en la noche
Overview: Film version of the 'hitchhiking ghost' urban legend.
Genres: Crime Romance Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1948-07-09
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Si usted no puede, yo sí
Overview: Out-of-work actor and his burglar pal get jobs at an agency that pledges to do things the client doesn't want to deal with. Meanwhile, their boss is being stalked by seven Italian brothers who want revenge for something that happened to their great great grandfather.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-02-15
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A Family Like Many Others
Overview: The dynamics of a typical middle-class family are shaken up after the introduction of an enthusiastic door-to-door vacuum salesman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1949-03-11
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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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Confidencias de un ruletero
Overview: Taxi driver takes the wrong passenger at the wrong time and gets caught up in a murder investigation.
Genres: Comedy Crime Mystery
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1949-11-16
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Músico, poeta y loco
Overview: An underaged heiress is sent to a reformatory by her unscrupulous guardians to prevent her from fulfilling the conditions of her father's will. Meanwhile, a street-vendor gets mistaken for an eminent psychologist and is hired to teach at that reformatory.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1948-05-08
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¡A volar, joven!
Overview: Cantinflas is a private in the military, who doesn't know anything about discipline or following rules. He only wants to think about his girlfriend, the maid in an opulent hacienda. The owner of the hacienda has an ugly and shy daughter, who is in love with Cantinflas. The problems arrive when the family arranges a wedding between the ugly girl and Cantinflas, who in order to avoid the commitment gets himself arrested. During his punishment, Cantinflas learns to fly with a silly and poorly trained flight instructor.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1947-12-23
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The Great Madcap
Overview: Portrayal of a family’s attempt to change the spending habit of the indulgent and hedonistic patriarch, Alfredo. The family decides to try to fool him into spending less by telling him that his large fortune is gone.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1949-11-25
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Camelia
Overview: A sort of meta riff on Alexandre Dumas fils' novel The Lady of the Camellias (La Dame aux Camélias or Camille) here in Mexican melodrama form involving the doomed love of a bullfighter and a beautiful but ailing actress/courtesan.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-02-16
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Another Dawn
Overview: The disaffected wife of a failed civil servant, is thrilled to re-encounter Octavio, a former lover who is now a union activist on the run from a corrupt politician. Hoping to help him, she descends into the Mexican underworld, where she finds a purpose-and a thrill-missing from her married life.
Genres: Drama Romance Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1943-11-18
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Bugambilia
Overview: In mid-nineteenth century Guanajuato, the beauty and charm of the young heiress Amalia conquers the lowly foreman Ricardo with fatal results. Prevented from consummating their love, Ricardo is going to Guanajuato where again later become the rich owner of a mine. On his return, fate has prepared a tragic encounter with Amalia.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1945-11-02
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The Other
Overview: A mousy, poor manicurist seeks to switch places with her more glamorous, wealthy twin sister.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller Mystery
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1946-11-20
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Salon Mexico
Overview: Mercedes works as a cabaret performer to pay for her sister's studies. Problems begin when Mercedes and Paco, her exploiter, win a dance contest, but he refuses to share the prize with her.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1949-02-25
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Dos tipos de cuidado
Overview: Jorge Bueno and Pedro Malo are best friends who consider giving up their womanizing ways when they each fall in love. As fate would have it, Pedro Malo unexpectedly marries Jorge Bueno's girlfriend, and the conflict between the former buddies begins.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1953-11-05
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Cuidado con el amor
Overview: Salvador accompanied by two friends of his father whom he calls uncles, they arrive at a fair in the village, there he meets Ana. When he wins a bet he is paid with a mortgaged house, to his surprise upon entering the hom he realizes that Ana and her mother live in it, provoking a funny entanglement with an explosive final.
Genres: Comedy Drama Western
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1954-12-08
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Me traes de un ala
Overview: To conquer the beautiful vedette Rosita, journalist Tin Tan is subject to her whims. Fired along with his friend Narciso from the newspaper they worked, Tin Tan trying to sell a movie plot. A woman looking to buy it and Tin Tan will visit her in a gloomy mansion where a mess is unleashed.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1953-02-05
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Aventurera
Overview: Left alone after her mother runs off with another man and her father kills himself, Elena attempts to make a new life for herself in a new city. Believing he's a friend, Elena goes to dinner with "Pretty Boy" Lucio, but he drugs her champagne and sells her to Rosaura, who runs a brothel out of her nightclub. Elena becomes a sensation as a dancer, but all the while she nurtures plans of revenge against those who have conspired against her.
Genres: Drama Music Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1950-10-18
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Cantaclaro
Overview: A rootless wilderness-dude in the Venezuelan outback gets caught up in some human dramas despite himself.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1946-01-24
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El jinete justiciero en retando a la muerte
Overview: Guy gets mugged on horseback and left for dead; farmgal nurses him back to health and when he's on his feet again, he puts a domino on and swings into J J action.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1966-01-06
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La vida en broma
Overview: Many many mistaken identities and impostures overlapping among a group of husbands, wives and others.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1950-05-24
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Adulterio
Overview: Man commits suicide over his wife's infidelity. His father spends the rest of his life trying to figure out which of son's two children is illegitimate.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1945-03-01
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¿Por qué ya no me quieres?
Overview: Tired of struggling, Lilia, played by Sara Montiel, moves to the city to live with her aunt, a former actress. There she strives to become a singer and meets Raul a singer, played by Agustin Lara, who helps her succeed.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1954-06-03
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Good Love
Overview: Mother and son conspire against his sister when she marries against their wishes.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1957-02-28
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No te ofendas, Beatriz
Overview: Young couple looks for a way to wiggle out of the marriage their parents have arranged for them.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1953-05-21
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Felipe de Jesús
Overview: Biography of the first Catholic Saint to be born in Mexico.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1949-08-05
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Mujeres que trabajan
Overview: Women connected with a female-run employment agency and a women-only boarding house bond together in mutual support.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1953-04-22
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..Y mañana serán mujeres
Overview: Grad student takes a summer gig acting as house mother/chaperone to a group of teenaged girls vacationing at a country villa.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1955-02-15
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El mar y tu
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1952-03-07
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Reportaje
Overview: Reporters compete for cash prize awarded for biggest scoop on New Year's Eve.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1953-11-13
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Manos de seda
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Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-07-04
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Inmaculada
Overview: A single mother discovers her daughter getting ready to elope with an unworthy boyfriend, so she sits the girl down and tells her the whole entire story of her own very unhappy marriage.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1950-09-15
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Acapulco
Overview: Young lady goes shopping for a millionaire husband.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1952-01-18
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Laura's Sin
Overview: Young woman breaks her engagement to be married when an opportunity for stardom comes her way.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1949-05-26
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Every Man’s Woman
Overview: A beautiful woman of affairs falls in love with a handsome young man of great promise. Fearing for his future, the man's father begs her to leave his son so that her reputation will not hold him back.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-01-11
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El mensaje de la muerte
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Genres: Crime Thriller Mystery
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1953-05-02
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In the Flesh
Overview: A beautiful cabaret dancer falls in love with a sailor who promises to return and marry her. Trouble ensues.
Genres: Drama Romance Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-02-24
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Esposa o amante
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1950-06-21
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Siete mujeres
Overview: Mexican feature film
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1953-01-01
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