Ofelia Guilmáin
Also Known As: Ofelia Puerta Guilmáin
Biography: Ofelia Guilmáin (November 17, 1921 – January 14, 2005) was an actress of telenovelas, stage and the cinema of Mexico. She is also the mother of actors Juan Ferrara and Lucía Guilmáin.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Birthday: November 18, 1921
Deathday: January 14, 2005
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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Celestina
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 1976-01-01
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La Casa de Bernarda Alba
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 1974-10-25
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The Business of Hate
Overview: An ambitious businessman searches for the perfect candidate to train and turn into a great boxing champion.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1972-01-01
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Why Was I Born a Woman?
Overview: A family gathers to celebrate Mother's Day, that day a woman discuss many problems about her woman condition; husband, children and grandchildren will hear she tired and overwhelmed silenced by submission and obedience. Analysis of the family and gender roles.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1970-08-20
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Aquella Rosita Alvírez
Overview: Traveling cowboy gets involved in political issues in a town he passes through. Also a romance.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-07-29
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Little Red Riding Hood and Tom Thumb vs. the Monsters
Overview: The film follows adventures of Little Red Riding Hood (Maria Gracia) and Tom Thumb (Cesaro Quezadas) and their friends, fighting against the wicked Witch Queen (Ofelia Guilmáin) and her band of monsters. The film starts at the meeting of the evil monsters in the castle in the Haunted Forest, heart of the Devil's dominion, during which the Vampire (Quintín Bulnes) accuses the Wolf (Manuel Valdés) and the Ogre (José Elías Moreno) of betraying the Witch Queen (La Reina Bruja, renamed Queen of Badness in the English dub), who orders them to ber executed. Their friend Stinky the Skunk (Santanón) however escapes and informs Little Red Riding Hood and Tom Thumb, who promise to help. Meanwhile, the Queen and her sister the Old Witch cast a terrible curse, turning villagers into monkeys and mice for trying to defy her magic. The rest of the story details the heroes' quest to conquer evil.
Genres: Music Comedy Fantasy Family
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1962-09-20
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The Man and the Monster
Overview: A failed pianist sells his soul to the devil in return for his becoming the greatest musician in the world. The catch: every time he plays he turns into a horrible monster.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1959-10-07
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Panic
Overview: Three tales of horror, isolation and insanity set in Mexico.
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1972-06-15
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The Brainiac
Overview: In 1661 Mexico, the Baron Vitelius of Astara is sentenced to be burned alive by the Holy Inquisition of Mexico for witchcraft, necromancy, and other crimes. As he dies, the Baron swears vengeance against the descendants of the Inquisitors. 300 years later, a comet that was passing overhead on the night of the Baron's execution returns to earth, bringing with it the Baron in the form of a horrible, brain-eating monster that terrorizes the Inquisitor's descendants
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1962-11-09
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The Prophet Mimi
Overview: Childhood trauma and religious repression causes little boy to grow up and murder .
Genres: Drama Thriller Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1973-12-27
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The Scapular
Overview: A woman who is about to die calls the town's priest and hands him a scapulary, saying that she knows of its great powers. Anybody who does not believe in them will end up dead.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1968-01-18
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Mi desconocida esposa
Overview: After moving from Guadalajara to Mexico City, a young woman gets embroiled in a series of puzzling mistaken-identity misadventures.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1958-01-22
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The Exterminating Angel
Overview: A formal dinner party starts out normally enough, but after the bourgeois group retire to the host’s music room, they inexplicably find themselves unable to leave.
Genres: Comedy Drama Fantasy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1962-05-16
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The Happy Musketeers
Overview: The Big Bad Wolf and the Stinky Little Skunk from the Caperucita Roja movies in their final adventure, as swashbuckling 17th century swordsmen in a king's service.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-11-28
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Flor marchita
Overview: Adult seduces and abandons a teenaged girl, she has a baby. Fifteen years later...
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 1969-07-03
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Confesiones de una adolescente
Overview: Orphan girl has a secret benefactor. When she's old enough to leave the orphanage and enter the real world, she's determined to track him down. Also: having a first boyfriend, yippee!
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-05-14
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El juicio de los hijos
Overview: Widow with teenaged children faces hostility from her dead husband's mother, who seems to know a family secret she wants to use against her.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-03-25
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Those Years
Overview: President Juárez fights against the conservatives, who have ordered an emperor to be brought from France to govern Mexico
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1974-03-21
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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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Perverse Doll
Overview: A troubled woman commits a series of murders that exposes some dark family secrets.
Genres: Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1969-12-26
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Para servir a usted
Overview: Working-class dude gets a gig as a waiter doing banquet service, and loses his moral compass through his contacts with decadent rich folk.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1971-03-11
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Quinceañera
Overview: María Antonia, Beatriz and Leonor are three classmates who are anxiously awaiting the celebration of their 15th birthday. However, each of them will have to cope with their complicated personal situation.
Genres: Drama Family Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1960-06-09
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Violence in Cold Blood
Overview: Compilation tape of Hora Marcada episodes.
Genres: Horror TV Movie
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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Aunt Isabel's Garden
Overview: A ship carrying Conquistadors is wrecked and the survivors are thrown ashore to struggle through the Yucatan jungle.
Genres: History Adventure
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1972-04-05
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El patrullero 777
Overview: Follows Diogenes as he goes about his day as a police officer. He's prone to do things the right way, surrounded by a pretty much corrupt & citizen distant police department, & always resolves his duties with a personal method.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1978-04-27
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Nazarin
Overview: After hiding a murderer, a Catholic priest is forced into self-exile and decides to embark on a pilgrimage through the Mexican countryside.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1959-06-04
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El primer amor
Overview: Seminary students interrupts his studies for a final vacation in the real world and finds it difficult to break his worldly bonds in preparation for the pristhood.
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 1974-01-09
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The Crazy Virgins
Overview: Handsome young swindler throws himself into the clutches of three rich spinsters who live in their own little fantasy world on their crumbling estate.
Genres: Drama Comedy Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1972-05-31
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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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Flor de fango
Overview: Wicked man seduces virtuous young woman; she leaves home in disgrace. Etc.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1942-01-16
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Las Troyanas
Overview: Adaptation of Euripides: lamentations of the women of Troy after their defeat in war.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1963-07-01
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Mi Verdad
Overview: Film about the scandal of TV producer Juan Osorio with Cuban dancer Niurka Marcos.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2004-01-01
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Sor Ye-yé
Overview: Maria is a young orphan who lives with her wealthy aunt. Maria sings in a cocktail bar with his friends, who form a rock band, and enjoy the night with them. One of his friends, Ernesto, is in love with her, though she does not seem to feel the same about him. In fact, multiple existential doubts and feel a strange emptiness in his life suddenly drive to enter a convent as a novice, breaking Ernestos' heart. However, with her cheerlul character, open and rebellious, not appear to conform to life in the cloister, and especially have problems with the novices director , who often punished for trying to take the right path. In the convent, which also functions as children's hospital, she meets a doctor with which it takes quite right for the contrast between his two characters, but his way with love and mutual respect.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1968-03-09
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Sangre en Rio Bravo
Overview: Foreign mining concern resorts to illegal tactics to buy up land; two brothers are orphaned and dispossessed and they become outlaws in revenge.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1966-09-29
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Misión cumplida
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Genres: Comedy Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-01-29
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There's Always a First Time
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1971-02-25
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El caso de una adolescente
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1958-11-20
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