Héctor Ortega
Also Known As: Hector Ortega Gomez
Biography: Héctor Ortega (12 January 1939 - 3 June 2020) was a Mexican actor, director and writer.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
Birthday: January 12, 1939
Deathday: June 03, 2020
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Fray Bartolomé de las Casas
Overview: Three moments in the life of Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas; his youth encounter with the natives; his resignation in maturity to lands and encomiendas to evangelize and defend justice and dignity against the cruelty of the Spanish and his reflections at the end of his life
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1993-12-03
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Mariana Mariana
Overview: The story runs in the 1940s Mexico City. A schoolboy (Carlos) falls in love with his best friend's mother (Mariana). Carlos is impressed because this family is not like the ordinary mexican families of the time, because they have many expensive American things, although they are not rich. The drama begins when Carlos gets out of school to go to declare his love to Mariana, and is discovered by his teachers.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1987-08-05
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Cuentos de Principes y Princesas
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 1981-01-01
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Herencia maldita
Overview: Mexican feature film
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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Algunas nubes
Overview: A Spanish movie directed by Carlos García Agraz.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1995-09-15
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Lucía, Lucía
Overview: Lucia, an children's book author, tells the story of her husband's disappearance. One day on their way to Brazil he just disappears. She goes to the police, gets a ransom note, and makes friends with the old dude downstairs and the young dude upstairs as she tries to find him. Things take a bit of a twist as she realized the kidnapping may not be as simple as it seems on the surface.
Genres: Adventure Drama Comedy Thriller Crime Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2003-01-17
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Curse of the Mayans
Overview: Danielle Noble (played by Carla Ortiz) and her team of expert cave divers led by an ambitious american archaeologist (Steve Wilcox), undertake an expedition in search of the lost Mayan Library, without imagining they will instead find the hidden gates of hell known as Xib'alb'a.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2017-01-02
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Cobrador: In God We Trust
Overview: Adaptation and unification in a single story of several stories by the writer Rubem Fonseca, where the theme of violence in contemporary society is explored.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2007-11-15
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Cinco mil dolares de recompensa
Overview: A gunfighter is appointed sheriff of a town that is terrorized by a gang of criminals.
Genres: Western Thriller Action
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1974-04-18
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A Snow Globe Christmas
Overview: In a temper, Meg, a cynical, overworked TV executive, rants about how the movies she produces lie, making you think dreams can come true, and tries to smash her favorite snow globe. Instead, it hits her on the head and knocks her out. When she comes to, she finds herself magically transported to a perfect snow-covered town like the one in her globe, married to a handsome woodworker and mother to two young children.
Genres: Drama Romance Fantasy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-12-14
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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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Tivoli
Overview: While trying to save the famous Tivoli burlesque theater, the participants uncover a web of commercial corruption.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1975-06-26
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Inspector Calzonzin
Overview: Mexico's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1974
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1974-05-02
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Otaola o la república del exilio
Overview: A blend of documentary and fiction about the death of Simón Otaola.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-12-15
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La paloma de Marsella
Overview: Amelia is an old retired prostitute who lives at an asylum, where she decides to enter a T.V. contest.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-03-05
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The Legend of a Mask
Overview: A reporter starts investigating the life of the recently deceased wrestler "The Masked Angel"
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1991-02-21
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¿De qué lado estás?
Overview: An east german agent is forced to infiltrate student movement of 1968 at Mexico.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2002-04-05
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Motel of Death
Overview: Murders take place in and around a hotel. Debuted on Mexican TV.
Genres: Horror TV Movie
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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Duro pero seguro
Overview: Nicolasa sells tacos near a movie studio and her popularity threatens the restaurant's own studies. She drops the food when seeing actor Armando performing and the director expels her out.
Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1978-03-02
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El rincón de las vírgenes
Overview: "Faith-healer" develops a cult-like following in 1920s Jalisco.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1972-11-30
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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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Pubertinaje
Overview: Three episodes: 1) "A Christmas dinner" where the family members fantasize about being somewhere else. The fetishist father wants to put on feminine clothes. The son longs for another transvestite adventure. The daughter yearns to be a singer and destroy the saints of the church with her voice. The youngest son wants to stab everyone dead. 2) "Game of mirrors". Two young classmates kiss on a picnic, but the girl's brother accuses the couple of being immoral. Bizarre things develop. 3) "Tetrahedron". A very fat man faces his girlfriend's longing for love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1978-02-09
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Las delicias del poder
Overview: A political candidate has an accident that will bring her out of the campaign unless her twin sister may be able to supplant her while she recovers.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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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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¡Maten a Chinto!
Overview: During the Christmas season of 1944 in the Pacific coast port city of Manzanillo, hotel manager Chinto loses his temper and assaults "Inés," the homosexual cook. Inés complains to the police, but when several patrolmen come to arrest Chinto, he pulls a pistol and shoots them. The authorities soon lay seige to the hotel; Chinto's employees, oddly enough, follow his orders without question and assist him in barricading the hotel's doors and windows. The guests include U.S. consul Kraft and Pamela, the blonde mistress of a Mexican businessman (whose Mexican wife is also staying in the hotel). Chinto has been having an affair with one of the maids (who, unknown to him, is pregnant with his child), but he begins a brief sexual liaison with Pamela (she asks him "Who taught you English?" and Chinto replies, "George Raft").
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1990-05-21
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The Holy Mountain
Overview: The Alchemist assembles together a group of people from all walks of life to represent the planets in the solar system. The occult adept's intention is to put his recruits through strange mystical rites and divest them of their worldly baggage before embarking on a trip to Lotus Island. There they ascend the Holy Mountain to displace the immortal gods who secretly rule the universe.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1973-11-29
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El vals sin fin
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Genres: History War Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1972-11-30
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Adriana del Rio, actriz
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1979-10-04
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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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