Pedro Armendáriz
Also Known As: Pedro Armendariz, Pedro Gregorio Armendáriz Hastings, Педро Армендарис, Pedro Armendáriz Hastings
Biography: Born in Churubusco, a suburb of Mexico City, and raised in Texas, he studied at California Polytechnic State University where he graduated with an engineering degree. He began his acting career at the stage in Mexico City, entering films there in 1935. During the next years he made 42 Spanish-language films, among them "Maria Candelaria" (1943) and "La Perla" (1947), becoming one of Mexico`s top film stars. His first American film was "The Fugitive" for RKO in 1947. Since then he costarred in more than 80 films in Hollywood, England, France, Germany and Italy. Credits include "Fort Apache" (1948), "Three Godfathers", "We Were Strangers" (1949), "El Bruto" (1952), "The Littlest Outlaw" (1955), "The Conqueror" (1956), "La Cucaracha" (1958) and "The Wonderful Country" (1959). When Armendariz was taken ill while filming the second James Bond film "From Russia With Love" his scenes were rushed through so he could return to L.A. for treatment and he entered UCLA Medical Center. Learning he had terminal cancer he killed himself there with a gunshot.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
Birthday: May 09, 1912
Deathday: June 18, 1963
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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From Russia with Love
Overview: Agent 007 is back in the second installment of the James Bond series, this time battling a secret crime organization known as SPECTRE. Russians Rosa Klebb and Kronsteen are out to snatch a decoding device known as the Lektor, using the ravishing Tatiana to lure Bond into helping them. Bond willingly travels to meet Tatiana in Istanbul, where he must rely on his wits to escape with his life in a series of deadly encounters with the enemy.
Genres: Action Thriller Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-10-10
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Francis of Assisi
Overview: In 13th century Italy, Francis Bernardone, the son of an Assisi merchant, renounces a promising army career in favor of a monastic life and starts his own religious order, sanctioned by the Pope.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-07-12
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The Conqueror
Overview: Mongol chief Temujin battles against Tartar armies and for the love of the Tartar princess Bortai. Temujin becomes the emperor Genghis Khan.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-03-28
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3 Godfathers
Overview: Three outlaws on the run discover a dying woman and her baby. They swear to bring the infant to safety across the desert, even at the risk of their own lives.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-12-31
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Captain Sindbad
Overview: After completing his voyages Sindbad the Sailor and his hearty crew have come home to find a palace coup d'etat has occurred and his home city is being run by a brutal dictator played by Pedro Armendariz. He's got designs on the beautiful young princess, Heidi Bruhl both lustful and political.
Genres: Fantasy Adventure Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-04-12
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The Brute
Overview: A tough young man, who helps to kick poor people out of their houses, falls in love with a girl. She lives with her father in the building about to be demolished.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1953-02-05
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Maria Candelaria
Overview: A young journalist asks an old artist about the portrait of a naked Indian woman that he has in his study. The artist tells the story of Maria Candelaria, a young Indian woman who was rejected by her own people for being the daughter of a prostitute. She is protected by a young Indian man, Lorenzo Rafael, who has fallen in love with her.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1944-01-20
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Fort Apache
Overview: Owen Thursday sees his new posting to the desolate Fort Apache as a chance to claim the military honour which he believes is rightfully his. Arrogant, obsessed with military form and ultimately self-destructive, he attempts to destroy the Apache chief Cochise after luring him across the border from Mexico, against the advice of his subordinates.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-06-14
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The Fugitive
Overview: Anti-Catholic and anti-cleric policies in the Mexican state of Tabasco lead the revolutionary government to persecute the state's last remaining priest.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-11-11
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The Big Boodle
Overview: Tough guy fights gangsters and counterfeiters in pre-Castro Cuba.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-03-11
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Lucrèce Borgia
Overview: In the early 16th century, Italy is ruled by the powerful Borgia family, led by César Borgia and his sister Lucrèce. In a ruthless power play, César plots to have his sister’s husband murdered. But without her brother’s knowledge, Lucrèce has taken a strong lover who will challenge the Borgias.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1953-10-23
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We Were Strangers
Overview: China Valdes joins the Cuban underground after her brother is killed by the chief of the secret police, Ariete. She meets and falls in love with American expatriate Tony Fenner. Tony develops a plan to tunnel under the city's cemetery to a plot owned by a high official, assassinate him, and blow up the whole Cuban hierarchy at the ensuing state funeral. Together with a band of dedicated revolutionaries, they begin digging.
Genres: Drama Thriller Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-04-27
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Fortune carrée
Overview: Igricheff, the Amiris' instructor, refuses to take part in the Cadi's arms deal. Deposed, he flees and joins the Ghafaris, determined to help his former enemies against the Amiris. Taken prisoner, he is saved by his young slave, Yasmina, while the Ghafaris are almost completely annihilated. He takes refuge on the ship of the trafficker Mordhom. Having provoked the death of his servant, he is put on trial by Mordhom but acquitted by his peers. Mordhom then lands Igricheff on the coast, and the latter succeeds in saving the Frenchman from an Amiri attack. The two men reconcile and set off on their adventures together.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1955-03-16
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Calibre 44
Overview: The film tells the story of two twins separated in childhood who reunite when they are older. One of them has grown between outlaws and has become one of them, a murderous bandit who frightens the region. The other has grown, without knowing it, in exactly the ranch of the man who murdered his father and has become the loving foreman of the farmer's daughter, now deceased.
Genres: Western Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-05-20
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La Bandida
Overview: During a lull in the Mexican Revolution when Francisco Madero became president and attempted to implement land reforms, two former revolutionaries are pitted against each other for the love of the same woman.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1963-01-01
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Tulsa
Overview: It's Tulsa, Oklahoma at the start of the oil boom and Cherokee Lansing's rancher father is killed in a fight with the Tanner Oil Company. Cherokee plans revenge by bringing in her own wells with the help of oil expert Brad Brady and childhood friend Jim Redbird. When the oil and the money start gushing in, both Brad and Jim want to protect the land but Cherokee has different ideas. What started out as revenge for her father's death has turned into an obsession for wealth and power.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-04-13
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Wild Flower
Overview: The film features Fernandez himself as a character named Rogellio Torres. The lion's share of the footage, however, is devoted to the romance between Esperanza, granddaughter of a common laborer, and Jose Luis Castro, the firebrand son of a landowner. Joining a revolutionary movements, Castro is disowned by his father, but Esperanza remains loyally by his side. Later on, Castro's father is killed by outlaws; in seeking vengeance, he sacrifices his own life, while Esperanza carries on his revolutionary work with their young son in tow.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1943-04-24
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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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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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Border River
Overview: A Confederate officer travels to a wild Mexican border town to buy guns, aiming to keep up the fight against the Yankees - but who can he trust in this lawless place?
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-01-06
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My Son, the Hero
Overview: Krios, the youngest of the Titans, may be the least strong of the seven brothers whose strength comes from their mother, earth-goddess Gaia, but is by far the smartest, and thus their natural leader. He arrives on Crete, the kingdom of the mighty king Minos, impresses him as gladiator, gains his trust, falls in love with a mortal girl and discovers both Minos's human sacrifice-cult and a foreign conspiracy to seize power with a hidden army.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-05-04
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Enamorada
Overview: In Mexican Revolution times, a guerrilla general and his troops take the conservative town of Cholula, near by Mexico City. As the revolutionaries mistreat the town's riches, General Reyes falls for beautiful and wild Beatriz Peñafiel, the daughter of one of the town's richest men.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1946-12-25
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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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Maclovia
Overview: On a small Mexican island dwells a group of Indians who live in the traditional manner and who disdain outsiders. The beautiful Maclovia and the poverty-stricken Jose Maria are in love, but her father refuses to allow their marriage, or even any communication between them, due to Jose Maria's lack of means.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1948-09-30
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The Little Savage
Overview: The most fearsome pirate in epic deeds and fierce battles. Betrayed and abandoned on an island, discover a fabulous treasure and fight to the death to save a child from the dangers and wild beasts.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-03-01
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Men and Wolves
Overview: Two young hunters of wolves are involved in a conflict. Besides the dangerous wild wolves, beautiful Teresa is the center of attention.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1957-02-08
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Diane
Overview: Asked by Francis I to tutor his son, Diane de Poitiers becomes the future King Henry II's mistress in 1500s France.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-01-12
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Simón Bolívar
Overview: Biopic of the revolutionary Simón Bolívar who fought to end Spanish rule over much of Latin America.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1942-01-01
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The Torch
Overview: The story of a fear-inspiring revolutionary general who develops a passion for the daughter of a wealthy villager. It's hate at first sight so far as the girl is concerned, but this will soon change.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-06-02
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El tejedor de milagros
Overview: Arnulfo is a man weaving baskets. Remedios has given birth in front of the house of a woman and her aid, but the village is spread the word that the child born as a child God and an atheist would think exploit to their advantage the "miracle ".
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1962-12-27
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The Lovers of Toledo
Overview: Toledo, 1825. To save her fiancé, an opponent of the regime, the beautiful Inès agrees to marry the chief of police.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1953-01-28
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Los salvajes
Overview: Pedro, a wealthy Mexican landowner, is convinced he can get everything he wants with money and arrogance.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1958-03-04
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Basket of Mexican Tales
Overview: Strong-willed Luisa attracts lots of men, but her intelligence and sharp tongue often sends them running. When she meets Carlos, who is equally cagey, sparks fly. The two of them marry, and quickly begin clashing on a daily basis, humiliating each other as they try to teach one another lesson after lesson.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1956-05-17
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Soledad's Shawl
Overview: Alberto Robles, a young doctor, is faced with the decision to surrender to a life full of comforts and luxuries or to continue dedicating himself body and soul to serving those who need it most.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1952-11-13
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Weddings of fire
Overview: Gothic-y love story a la Wuthering Heights.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-04-24
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Entre hermanos
Overview: During the Mexican Revolution, brothers Ramón and Geraldo fall in love with Pilar who is uncertain of which brother she loves. Pilar ends up marrying Ramón but gets pregnant when Geraldo rapes her.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-05-18
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Allá en el bajio
Overview: Ranchera/western; white hats vs. black hats.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1942-02-05
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Amapola Del Camino
Overview: Ranchera comedy/melodrama
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-09-17
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Con Los Dorados De Villa
Overview: Three of Villa's soldiers 'adopt' the orphaned daughter of a friend who was killed in battle.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-02-11
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Canto a mi tierra
Overview: Theatrical producers discover a new musical-theatre star in a small farming town.
Genres: Music Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1938-11-11
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El Zorro de Jalisco
Overview: Isabel, the daughter of Don Antonio; a rich land owner in Tepestates, Jalisco returns to her town after five years away, to visit her father. She is confronted by the unpleasant surprise that her dad has been assassinated by the malicious municiple government, which has the whole town in a clutch of terror. "An excellent sharp-shooter is worth more here, than a good lawyer..." This phrase inspires lawyer Leonardo Torres to convert himself into a guardian of justice, who will defend the right of the weak against tyranny. Nobody would ever guess that the "timid" lawyer is in reality none other than the dreadful "Zorro of Jalisco."
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1941-02-07
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El charro Negro
Overview: Masked cowboy avenger in the style of The Lone Ranger, first film in a series of four.
Genres: Western Adventure Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1940-07-18
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El secreto del sacerdote
Overview: Three boys grow up to be a priest, a military commander and the town mayor.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1941-01-22
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Tierra De Pasiones
Overview: Romantic melodrama; hero and rich landowner are both after the same woman.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-05-20
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Konga Roja
Overview: Heroic adventures in the banana industry.
Genres: Drama Adventure Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1943-10-01
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La Guerra de los Pasteles
Overview: Musical comedy about a pastry chef and his daughter in the 1830s
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1944-01-03
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La cárcel de Cananea
Overview: Law officer tracks and recaptures escaped convict.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1960-12-29
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La China Hilaria
Overview: Hilaria's engaged to be married, but her fiance may never come back from Texas. Meanwhile, two local guys are interested in her...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-01-01
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Late Afternoon
Overview: A former farmhand now with money, wants to buy his former boss's farm and marry his daughter, but they refuse.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1949-08-05
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El abandonado
Overview: Based on a popular song. An unhappy love affair becomes an excuse for heavy drinking and all-round debauchery.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-09-15
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The Conqueror: Hollywood Fallout
Overview: The story of one of the great environmental disasters to befall the United States, and the terrible movie that helped bring the catastrophe to light.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-06-28
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Dos mundos y un amor
Overview: Cultural differences cause tensions in an international marriage.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-02-04
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El capitán Malacara
Overview: Misogynist military man is laid up for a month with a broken leg and during his convalescence he learns all the needed life-lessons.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-06-15
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La malquerida
Overview: Emilio Fernandez directs Dolores Del Rio and Pedro Armendariz in a classic tale of family and obsession. Raimunda's daughter Acacia hates her stepfather Esteban, and in order to escape her suffocating home life she's accepted a marriage proposal from a man she doesn't even love. But Esteban has become obsessed with Acacia, and in order to ensure that she doesn't leave he's plotting to murder the girl's unsuspecting fiancée. As Esteban's true nature emerges, mother and daughter must band together to support one another and make sure that their family bond remains strong even in the darkest of times.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1949-09-16
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This Was Pancho Villa: First chapter
Overview: The disembodied head of Pancho Villa, kept in a glass jar in a research institute, is the narrator of several short stories from his own life, stories that might or might not have happened but are the stuff of legend.
Genres: Comedy War History
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1957-01-01
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This Was Pancho Villa: Third chapter
Overview: The third and final chapter of director Ismael Rodríguez's series about Pancho Villa. Several stories about the life and death of the famous mexican revolutionary general.
Genres: War Action Drama History Adventure
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1958-07-14
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This Was Pancho Villa: Second chapter
Overview: The second chapter of director Ismael Rodríguez's series about Pancho Villa. Several stories about the life and death of the famous mexican revolutionary general.
Genres: Comedy War History Action Adventure
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1958-12-01
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El indio
Overview: Social-justice movie about exploitation of Indians by white people in pre-Revolution Mexico.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-05-05
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Rosauro Castro
Overview: Cardoza's death, a candidate for mayor of a village chief enemy and Rosauro Castro, leads to Mr. Garcia Mata to undertake an investigation. Upon arriving realizes that even the whole town, including the mayor, lives in fear by the chief and only achieved revenge end the injustices committed by Rosauro Castro.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1950-12-22
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Ella y Yo
Overview: Pedro Muñoz is a womanizer that does not escape one until Irene Garza arrives and makes him to see his luck, while the aunt of her tries to separate them.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-10-02
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Albur de amor
Overview: Dark romantic melodrama, played out with high-stakes card games and cockfights.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1947-08-29
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El charro y la dama
Overview: Bratty rich girl plays practical jokes on the man that she'll obviously end up marrying.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-10-28
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Hell Road
Overview: When a robbery goes wrong, the thief takes a singer as hostage, they fall in love and try to rebuild their lives, but tragedy surges in the most unexpected way.
Genres: Romance Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-06-29
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Meat in Prison
Overview: Pedro is found guilty of murder after accidentally killing a friend's husband. His own family will face difficult times, as will he when he entrusts his freedom to the one he shouldn't.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1952-07-02
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Tierra baja
Overview: A poor shepherd is convinced to marry a beautiful woman. This is a Maquiavellian plan schemed by the woman's fiancé and her father.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-02-08
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By the False Door
Overview: Bernardo is in love with Adela and although she does not belong, he has always helped her family although they only care about money and not the virtues of man.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1950-11-16
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Violent Summer
Overview: During the Mexican Revolution, Beatriz's body is discovered by some kids. The police began to investigate the history of Beatriz.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1960-12-21
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El impostor
Overview: An academic and his family go back to the land, then get involved in politics.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-07-28
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Mi candidato
Overview: Young silversmith runs for office, butts heads with political machine that's sucking the town dry.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-07-06
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Our Daily Hunger
Overview: Trophy wife of a crooked industrialist meets a philanthropic doctor and develops a social conscience. Mexican remake of Born Yesterday.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1960-04-25
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La casa colorada
Overview: Mexican Revolution: rich man's son kills somebody over a woman, runs off to the war, goes home afterwards. Many complications, much melodrama.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-08-22
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The Skulls of Terror Return
Overview: A group of friends form a masked gang nicknamed 'The Skulls of Terror' and confront a local political boss. Originally produced as a six-hour collection of serial chapters (1943), then edited down (1944) into a 3-hour feature... then re-released (1950s?) as two 90-minute features. The first one seems to have disappeared, this is the second one.
Genres: Western Horror Mystery Adventure
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1944-09-17
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Pancho Villa vuelve
Overview: Two romantic rivals join the Mexican Revolution on opposing sides. The movie's more interested in the love triangle than in the war.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1950-01-20
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Por querer a una mujer
Overview: Ranch melodrama: romantic triangle leads to multiple murders.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-09-14
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Los tres alegres compadres
Overview: Father and two sons raise hell at the county fair.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-04-11
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I'm flying low
Overview: Two hot-shot pilots working for the same company get all competitive and ructious toward each other.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1959-01-22
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La mujer que no tuvo infancia
Overview: Borderline mentally-ill woman with neurotic compulsion to behave like a child and the psychiatrist who looooves her.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1957-07-25
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The Vivanco Ladies
Overview: Two women of lesser descent are dedicated to stealing to support their brother's daughter.
Genres: Comedy Crime Family
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1959-04-09
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El zarco
Overview: Upperclass girl and notorious bandit leader fall in love. She agrees to "let him kidnap her" so they can be together, but she gets disillusioned when she sees the sordidness of his Camp Of Banditry. Also he keeps killing off members of her family.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-05-14
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Café Colón
Overview: Expensively-kept woman unexpectedly falls for a Zapatista general. She sells her jewels to help finance the revolution and ends up fighting on the front lines. Yeah, right.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-03-05
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Dos hijos desobedientes
Overview: Meddling mom tries to set up her two cowboy sons to marry two sisters who are looking for domesticated, 'indoor' husbands that cook and keep house.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1960-10-27
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Manuela
Overview: James Prothero, forty-three years old and up to his ears in alcohol, is the skipper of a tramp ship due to leave South America for Britain – and he’s sick to death of carting goods back and forth across the world. Then he meets Manuela, a beautiful native girl smuggled on board by one of his crew, and comes to realise that she, too, is a lost soul. Gradually a love affair develops between them, and Prothero becomes dangerously blind to the responsibilities of his position.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-07-18
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La loca de la casa
Overview: Novice nun returns to her parent's home to save the family fortune by marrying a creditor.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1950-10-06
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Del rancho a la capital
Overview: Rich city family is close to bankruptcy; rich country cousins come to visit.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-05-29
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Jalisco nunca pierde
Overview: Arranged marriages vs romance down on the hacienda.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1937-01-09
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Mala yerba
Overview: Plantation owner is way too much into his peasant girls. It causes problems.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1940-09-11
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Los millones de Chaflán
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 1938-08-29
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Los valientes no mueren
Overview: Charro-dude wants his sister to marry into professional city-folk and move into the upper classes... but she's in love with somebody from their own social stratum.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1962-01-31
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Juan Charrasqueado
Overview: Hard-living horse-trainer has a thing with an aristocratic woman... but her brothers aren't happy to see her involved with someone beneath her station.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1948-02-05
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Mulata
Overview: In the port of Havana, two biracial children, Mateo (Ricardo Román) and Caridad (Ninón Sevilla) grow up together. She is the daughter of a white man who died in a shipwreck and of a black laundress of African origin. Over the years, Mateo falls for Caridad, but she doesn't love him back because she has fallen for a Mexican captain, Martin (Pedro Armendáriz), who she happened to meet at the port. The captain also fell in love with Caridad and proposes that they live together and she accepts. Caridad works in a cabaret in the port and the owner, Guevara (René Cardona), feels an attraction for the girl, and in a moment of jealousy, tries to kill Martin. Martin falls into financial trouble and has to mortgage his boat to Guevara. When Martin returns to Veracruz, Mexico, Guevara feels that he's the new owner of Caridad.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1954-07-16
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Soy puro mexicano
Overview: Band of outlaws stumble across an espionage ring of Axis agents embedded in an out-of-the-way hacienda.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-11-13
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The Pearl
Overview: Fisherman Quino and his wife Juana are very poor and desperate because the town's foreign doctor refuses to treat their son Coyotito, who has been bitten by a scorpion. When Quino unexpectedly finds a magnificent pearl in the sea, Juana senses that the discovery will only bring them misfortune and tries to convince her husband to return it to the sea.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1947-09-12
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Pobre diablo
Overview: An elderly homeless dude lucks into a situation where a young woman's uncle and her boyfriend ask him to impersonate her long-lost father and give her some nurturing parent attention.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1940-04-24
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Ni sangre ni arena
Overview: Cantinflas enjoys the bullfight show, and wants to crash in every of these spectacles. Also, there's a professional bullfighter, Manolete, who is identical to Cantinflas. Manolete has to give a bullfight show in a village, but Cantinflas arrives first as a stowaway in a train, and he'll be mistake by the real bullfighter. Cantinflas will give us a demonstration of courage.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1941-05-22
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Yo pecador
Overview: Biopic of a 1930s operatic tenor who ended up becoming a Franciscan monk and joining the priesthood.
Genres: Drama Family Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1959-09-20
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En la Hacienda de la Flor
Overview: Sequel to "Juan Charrasqueado." Juan Jr. discovers that the woman he's engaged to is the daughter of the man who killed his father.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1948-08-26
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The Littlest Outlaw
Overview: Little Pablito is the ten year old son of a cruel horse trainer. The trainer is responsible for training a Mexican General's horse to jump for the grand race. The trainer's methods cause the horse to become afraid of jumping and the general orders the animal's death. Pablito runs away with the horse, becoming a fugitive. He travels throughout Mexico encountering several fugitives and a priest who tries to help.
Genres: Drama Family Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-12-22
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La Cucaracha
Overview: The Mexican Revolution serves as a backdrop to a torrid love triangle composed of three freedom fighters: a colonel, a widow, and a fiery female soldier.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1959-11-12
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My Son, the Hero
Overview: Northern Mexico, early 20th century. Reynaldo del Hierro is murdered while riding with his sons Reynaldo and Martín, whose mother instills in them the need for revenge.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1961-10-05
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Rebellion of the Hanged
Overview: A peasant who works in a mahogany camp in the Mexican jungles with his family is disgusted with the miserable living conditions imposed upon himself and his co-workers, the peasant finally spearheads a revolt against the sadistic bosses.
Genres: Drama Adventure History
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1954-01-20
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El indulto
Overview: Spain, 1906: in a small village and pregnant after having been raped, Antonia is forced to marry the brutal Lucas to save her honor. But the mother of the girl pays Lucas 20,000 reales so that the man will never get any closer to Antonia or the child to be born. The man's bad temper will take him to jail and Antonia will try to remake his life with Pedro, Luca's brother. However, despite how far they may go, the couple are distressed at the prospect of Lucas being pardoned and seeking them after leaving prison.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1960-12-16
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Los olvidados de Dios
Overview: A 1940 film directed by Ramón Pereda.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1940-01-14
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El jefe máximo
Overview: A 1940 film directed by Fernando de Fuentes.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1940-10-01
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The Hidden One
Overview: Amid the Mexican Revolution, a woman rises from the depths of poverty and becomes a courtesan who is much-sought-after by high-society men, but she cannot forget her love for a rebel leader.
Genres: Drama Western War
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1956-06-09
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La Adelita
Overview: Beautiful peasant girl runs afoul of her landlord's horny son and he poisons the well between her and her fiance, so she runs away and joins the Revolution.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1937-11-07
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Los desarraigados
Overview: Family in crisis: the American Dream collapses for four members of a Mexican family in Texas, all at the same time.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1960-11-20
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El corsario negro
Overview: This Mexican drama features murder, revenge, ruling power and romance in Eighteenth century Maracaibo.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-08-24
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Una luz en mi camino
Overview: A blind songwriter struggles to get his work published, and meanwhile a girl he's sweet on disappears from his life when her employer puts the moves on her.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1939-02-01
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Las cuatro milpas
Overview: Bad dude tries to make time with a good dude's fiancée. When he can't get anywhere with her, he and his sidekick frame the good dude for a murder and a bunch of thefts.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1937-08-24
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The Skulls of Terror
Overview: Feature-length version of a serial, originally in twelve chapters. Three-hour runtime, later re-edited into two 90 minute features called Las Calaveras Del Terror and Vuelven Las Calaveras Del Terror. Good guys vs bad guys for possession of a map showing the location of a lost mine.
Genres: Western Horror Mystery Adventure
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1944-09-17
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Rayando el sol
Overview: Romantic triangle on the hacienda.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-07-18
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Reto a la vida
Overview: Self-righteous young Social Services woman puts all her faith in the institutional answers to questions of the Public Good, and she destroys a couple of lives in the process.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1954-04-16
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Native Drums
Overview: A team of doctors sets out through a steamy African jungle to check an outbreak of sleeping sickness.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1955-09-09
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Passion Island
Overview: 1909, a detachment of the Mexican army commanded by Captain Allende moves to Clipperton, also called the Island of the Passion, in the Pacific. After the outbreak of the revolution, the island becomes administered by the government of France, events that in principle go unnoticed by the islanders.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1942-08-06
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Beyond All Limits
Overview: This typical Mexican melodrama is set in a coastal fishing village where a wealthy fisherman lives with his wife and young son. Their lives are turned upside down when an American of dubious morality comes into town. The American and the fisherman's wife had been lovers years and years ago -- and now the fisherman begins to suspect that the son he always thought was his, is really the offspring of this foreign intruder.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1959-07-08
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Night Falls
Overview: Marcos is an arrogant jai-alai player who seduces and discards women until he himself becomes the object of a cunning revenge.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1952-04-24
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Thirst for Love
Overview: Rosaura, a devout religious woman, lives in a fishing village with her sister María who stopped believing in God since her jealous husband was murdered. Even though Rosaura is wanted by the fisherman José, she rejects him. Pedro, a horseman, arrives at her place and begins to harass María until he manages to possess her. The man is a criminal who usually cheats with fishermen and hurts those who dare to confront him with his ax. When the evildoer tries to abuse Rosaura, José, the fisherman, does what is necessary to avenge the insult. Furthermore, other men are already looking for Pedro.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1959-08-29
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The Wonderful Country
Overview: Having fled to Mexico from the U.S. many years ago for killing his father's murderer, Martin Brady travels to Texas to broker an arms deal for his Mexican boss, strongman Governor Cipriano Castro. Brady breaks a leg and while recuperating in Texas the gun shipment is stolen. Complicating matters further the wife of local army major Colton has designs on him, and the local Texas Ranger captain makes him a generous offer to come back to the states and join his outfit. After killing a man in self-defense, Brady slips back over the border and confronts Castro who is not only unhappy that Brady has lost his gun shipment but is about to join forces with Colton to battle the local raiding Apache Indians.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-10-21
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