Ninón Sevilla
Also Known As: Emelia Pérez Castellanos
Biography: Emelia Pérez Castellanos (Havana, Cuba, 10 November 1921 – Mexico City, 1 January 2015), better known as Ninón Sevilla, was a Cuban born Mexican film actress and dancer who was active during the golden age of Mexican cinema. She was considered one of the greatest exponents of the Rumberas film in the 1940s and 1950s'.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: La Habana, Cuba
Birthday: November 10, 1921
Deathday: January 01, 2015
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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Música de ayer
Overview: Laura Gayán, a young singing student, is secretly in love with Carlos, Count of San Telmo, and she lives in his palace because his father is the porter. Stephen, a fellow student, drinker and womanizer, attempts to seduce her, taking advantage of the girls' sentimental bad situation due to the recent news of the wedding of his beloved. Eventually, Laura gets a contract to make "small forms" and, against her heart, she married Stephen. Meanwhile, dissolves the marriage of Charles ...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-01-01
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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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Victims of Sin
Overview: A nightclub performer decides to raise the baby boy she found abandoned in a trash can, putting her job and social life in jeopardy.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-02-02
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Jóvenes delincuentes
Overview: A group of young people lives in a world of drugs and crime, they wanna be free.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1991-04-18
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Sensualidad
Overview: A saloon singer is released from prison after being convicted on a prostitution charge. She plans to blackmail the judge from her case by seducing him, but after she grows close to the judge she has a change of heart.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-07-25
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Noche de carnaval
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 1984-01-26
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Cry of the Bewitched
Overview: A freed slave, who is descended from a murdered witch, plots revenge with her grandmother on a sugar plantation's inhabitants. Complications ensue due to her love for the master of the estate.
Genres: Horror Romance Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1957-12-25
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Pecadora
Overview: Prostitution and drug-smuggling in Mexico City and Cd. Juarez.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1947-11-20
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Adventure in Rio
Overview: Tourist gets bonked on the head, suffers an amnesiac fugue, wanders away from her husband and children, becomes an evil prostitute-y thief-y saloon gal.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1953-05-02
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Perdida
Overview: This film traces the unbelievable true story of the Calderón family, who built grand movie palaces in Mexico and the U.S., employing thousands to produce incomparable, hugely successful, and often reprehensible populist-genre films that were utterly and uniquely Mexican.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2009-10-21
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El mexicano feo
Overview: Semi-employed street musician butts heads with his wife and grown(ish) children because of his irresponsible lifestyle. Then he lucks into a cushy government job.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1984-06-28
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Coqueta
Overview: Blind nightclub pianist takes in a young singer/entertainer when she hits bottom... but once she gets stable and starts thinking about maybe a boyfriend, his unspoken intentions start to surface.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1949-07-22
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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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Take Me in Your Arms
Overview: To pay off her father's debts, Rita leaves her humble fishing village in Yucatan and gets exploited by several men, including a married politician who turns her into a big dancing star.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1954-04-30
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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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Mujeres sacrificadas
Overview: Nightclub dancer comes unglued after killing a man.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1952-07-10
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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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Señora Tentación
Overview: Famous singer hires a pianist/songwriter on the strength of his compositions, then seduces him away from his fiancee and from the paths of righteousness in general.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1948-04-29
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Las noches del Blanquita
Overview: Mexican feature film
Genres: Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-01-01
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Carita de cielo
Overview: A young woman is brought before a prosecutor after stealing food. She is defended by Julio, a university professor who decides to exhibit her as an example in his class on the theory of theft. Then he hires her as a housemaid. Her face and charms won’t only save her family from serious quandaries; they will also inspire the professor’s love.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1947-09-17
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Viva el chubasco
Overview: The struggle between two rival families brings many complications into the life of a people. The priest, with the agreement of the women, get a strike of crossed legs until peace is a fact.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1983-01-01
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Revancha
Overview: A man steals to buy medicine for his sick mother but when she dies he gets into drug trafficking at a local cabaret.
Genres: Drama Crime Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1948-09-15
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El cabaretero y sus golfas
Overview: One night in the cabaret, a drug trafficker places drugs in a man's pocket without him noticing.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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Love and Sin
Overview: A dramatic encounter between passionate love and fraternal love. Two brothers fall in love with the same woman, played by the beautiful dancer Ninón Sevilla, an orphan they rescued during their childhood. Though she loves only one of them, she decides to give up her happiness rather than destroying the reason of the other she doesn't love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1956-10-03
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No niego mi pasado
Overview: A 1952 film by Alberto Gout.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1952-03-04
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Crimen en el teatro chino
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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