Narciso Busquets
Also Known As: Narciso Busquet
Biography: Narciso Busquets (September 8, 1931 – December 14, 1989) was a Mexican actor of film, television, theater, radio, and voice-over. He also directed a film, Sin fortuna, in 1980. Busquets started his acting career in 1937, as a child actor, and appeared as one of Cantinflas' sons in Ahí está el detalle. He also dubbed the voice of Japanese actor Toshirō Mifune in Spanish in the film Animas Trujano, which was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Among his other contributions in film are El gallo de oro with Ignacio López Tarso and Lucha Villa, Los cuatro Juanes with Luis Aguilar, Pedro Páramo with John Gavin, La soldadera with Silvia Pinal, Jesús, nuestro Señor with Claudio Brook, and Valente Quintero with Antonio Aguilar and Saby Kamalich. In television, Busquets had his debut in 1961 and continued to stay steady until 1988. He portrayed José María Morelos in the historical telenovela Los caudillos in 1968.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
Adult: No
Birthday: September 08, 1931
Age: 93 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: December 14, 1988
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Mientras México duerme
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Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1986-04-01
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The Year of the Plague
Overview: A terrible disease is found in a Mexican town. A doctor tries to alert the authorities when he discovers its epidemic nature. No one listen to him and soon after the disease spreads. The government tries to control the information in order to prevent panic.
Genres: Thriller Science Fiction Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1978-02-12
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El principio
Overview: Mexico is in the midst of Revolution when the protagonist returns after studying in Paris to find his native town in Chihuahua occupied by Francisco Villa’s revolutionary forces. He visits his deserted home and remembers people and events from his adolescence that provide glimpses of pre-Revolutionary society under dictatorship: his uncle, the chief of police; his sister’s involvement with a liberal political association; bathing with the girls from a local brothel; a labor strike that ended in a massacre. Returning to the present he discovers that his father has been assassinated and, in the company of his father’s former servant, joins the revolutionary movement.
Genres: Action Drama History
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1973-12-03
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Nuestro Juramento
Overview: "Nuestro Juramento" is the life of the singer, Julio Jaramillo, presented episodically, having as background his childhood, youth, his first loves, the apotheosis of his career and his dramatic end. The musicalization of the film has the singles taken from the singer's original recordings.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-01-01
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Demonoid: Messenger of Death
Overview: A British woman visits her husband at the Mexican mine he is attempting to reopen and discovers that the workers refuse to enter the mine, fearing an ancient curse. The couple enter the mine to prove there is no danger and inadvertently release a demon which possesses people's left hands and forces them to behave in a suitably diabolical manner.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-02-27
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Operacion marihuana
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1985-01-29
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San Miguel el alto
Overview: A cocker and his driver were attacked by strangers, but leave unharmed. Jesús denounces the fact to his friend Mario, mayor of San Miguel el Alto.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1982-06-03
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Everything In Vain
Overview: Gunfighters kill all family members of farmer brothers Mario and Fernando Almada, after the tragic event, they seek revenge.
Genres: Action Crime Drama Western
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1969-05-29
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La casa del ogro
Overview: Lives of the tenants in a shabby-genteel apartment house. Miserly landlord learns valuable life lessons.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1939-01-20
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La ley del monte
Overview: After etching their love on a stalk, a boy and girl reunite years later, reigniting their romance amidst the Mexican Revolution.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1976-12-23
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Life Sentence
Overview: After being released from jail, "Tarzan" Lira seeks to rebuild his life as a bank employee. Unfortunately, it might not be as easy as he thinks.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1979-08-09
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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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Crosses Over the Wasteland
Overview: After a long journey in search of the murderer of his father, a man abuses a beautiful girl next to marry.
Genres: Western Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1967-02-02
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It's my Life
Overview: Alberto Aguilera arrives from Ciudad Juárez to the capital to pursue a career in music, but in the midst of confusion he is accused of stealing and is sent to prison
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1982-05-13
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Matinée
Overview: Jorge and Aarón, two young boys growing up in a quiet town often miss classes to go together to the cinema matinee. One day they are kidnapped by robbers while traveling in a truck. After the disintegration of the band, they begin to participate in the robberies until the adventure turns into something more sinister and dangerous.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller Adventure
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1977-09-18
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Masacre en el río Tula
Overview: Based on a real event, twelve dead bodies are found in the Tula River, we see the events that lead up to the massacre in a tale of crime, vice, corruption and sleaze.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1985-08-22
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El cobarde
Overview: Alberto is born in wartime, where his father dies a hero. He grows up effeminate. His mother sends him to military college where Fernando bullies him, but they become friends. When war comes, he has to face his fears.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1939-03-21
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El juez de la soga
Overview: In the Old West, a gunfighter punishes the wrongdoers making justice himself, but his mother's words continue to fill his mind: "Justice is divine". Nonetheless, he goes on hanging the culprits, becoming quite famous. When a bunch of outlaws lead by a crooked landlord treats an innocent village and a beautiful girl, the time for the avenger's final mission is arrived.
Genres: Western
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1973-07-18
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La gallina clueca
Overview: Divorced mother struggles to raise her large family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1941-12-04
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Cuando Habla El Corazon
Overview: Historical drama about the period just before the beginning of the Mexican Revolution.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-10-21
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Perro callejero 2
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Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1981-04-30
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El Payo: Un Hombre Contra el Mundo
Overview: Series western, adaptation of a popular comic-book.
Genres: Action Drama Western
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1972-12-28
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Del otro lado del puente
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1980-04-17
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The Prodigious Barber
Overview: Simple small-town guy's life is turned upside-down when he seems to perform a miraculous cure for a blind man.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1942-01-29
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El jardín de los cerezos
Overview: Aristocratic family in decline, ascendency of a new moneyed class.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-08-31
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Los cuervos están de luto
Overview: The family of a dying man celebrates his wake while the man is still alive, showing their darker, selfish ambitions and trying to take the best part of the inheritance.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1965-01-01
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The Adventures of Oliver Twist
Overview: An animated adaptation of the Charles Dickens book.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1987-09-06
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Uno para la horca
Overview: A man named Tony is captured riding the horse of Lee Corey, a missing delivery man for a local mining company. Tony claims to have bought the horse from two men, but the sheriff believes he has murdered Corey and stolen the horse. Tony is sent to the gallows, but escapes hanging with the help of Corey's mistress and sets out to find the real killer.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-01-24
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You’re Missing the Point
Overview: Cantinflas, the boyfriend of the servant of a rich industrial man, gets into the house in order to kill a mad dog. Suddenly this man appears so the servant tells him that Cantinflas is his wife's brother (Leonardo), who had been lost for years. The rich man then remembers that his father in law's testament could only be paid when all brothers get together, so treats Cantinflas, a real bum, as a king.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1940-09-11
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Chico Ramos
Overview: Western revenge drama.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-08-26
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Red Rain
Overview: Military leader is appointed to local government, becomes overly despotic in his leadership.
Genres: Adventure Drama History
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1950-01-26
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The Four Juanes
Overview: Juan Sin Fiedo (Javier Solis), Juan Colorado (Antonio Aguilar), Juan Pistolas (Luis Aguilar) and Juan Charrasqueado join their destinies during the Mexican Revolution.
Genres: Drama Western Adventure
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1966-07-07
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Cinco en la cárcel
Overview: Five criminals are arrested after a bank-robbery. One escapes, and the police officer in charge of transporting them arrests a new person at random to cover up for his negligence.
Genres: Drama Action Adventure
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1968-12-05
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El hombre de negro
Overview: After his family is murdered by bandits, a young man enlists a wandering cowboy to teach him to gunsling.
Genres: Western
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1969-04-17
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El Intruso
Overview: A man discovers that the second child he is expecting is the product of his wife's infidelity, who dies in childbirth. The boy, named Alberto, is treated as if he were a servant. His brother José Manuel, on the other hand, is treated well and all his whims are fulfilled and therefore he becomes lazy and irresponsible.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1944-01-01
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La soldadera
Overview: While waiting for a train which will take them on their honeymoon, two newlyweds, Juan and Lázara, are separated by a federal army commander who is going around enlisting men to fight against the revolutionaries. Traveling with the troops, Lázara follows Juan until he dies in a battle against the Villistas. From that moment on, the young woman's fate will be in the hands of whoever happens to win the latest contest, an uncertain fate for someone whose only wish is for a home of her own.
Genres: War Drama Action
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1967-08-10
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Forbidden Cargo
Overview: Federal agent infiltrates smuggling gang in seaport.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1966-10-06
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Jesús, nuestro Señor
Overview: Third movie in "Life of Christ" trilogy.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1971-04-08
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La yegua colorada
Overview: Landowner counts on his super-champeen race-horse to help him win back the hacienda he was swindled out of.
Genres: Western Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1973-09-20
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El cara parchada
Overview: Evil guy gratifies his ambitions and desires at any cost, and he prospers nicely. Until he doesn't.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1980-02-28
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La muerte cruzó el río Bravo
Overview: Rich man's son in a small town thinks he can get away with anything, including rape and murder.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1984-01-19
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México Norte
Overview: Remake of Pueblerina (1949). Convict is released from prison and tries to pick up his life-farm-girlfriend where he left off with them. But there are obstacles.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-03-22
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La revancha
Overview: Industrial spies are holed up in a safe-house after killing a half-dozen people to steal some data. On their way to the private airfield where their handlers are waiting to extract them, they run afoul of a small-town wedding. Unfortunately, it's the wedding of the town's chief of police.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-02-21
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Presos sin culpa
Overview: Mexican feature film
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1981-02-24
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Contrato con la muerte
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Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1985-03-14
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Los años vacios
Overview: A young woman's older brother returns home for the first time since before she was born. But... is it really him?
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-11-12
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Comisario en turno
Overview: Night shift at police headquarters; criminals and victims of all sorts pass through to get their cases sorted out.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1949-02-11
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Rosa la tequilera
Overview: The singer Rosa La Tequilera is besieged by a very powerful rancher who wants to get to her at all costs, but finds resistance as there is another who wants the same.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1967-05-04
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The Female Scorpion
Overview: Those involved in the making of an amateur porn video end up getting slashed to death with a cane sword. It's up to the brave policewoman Eugenia aka The Scorpion (Maribel Guardia) to stop him.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1986-10-29
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San Juan de Dios es Jalisco
Overview: Mexican feature film
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1982-01-01
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Las tres tumbas
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Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-10-30
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El espectro de la novia
Overview: British-born David T. Bamberg was a magician who went by the stage name of Fu Manchu. He was so popular in Mexico and South America that he was given the opportunity to star in a series of crime / horror / mystery films between 1943 and 1949. This is one of them.
Genres: Mystery Crime Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1943-09-02
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The Devil's Horse
Overview: Highly convoluted Mexican concoction involving the titular 'Devil's Horse' and a violent son brought back to life, courtesy of the aforementioned Devil who begins straight away to be even more violent then before, this time extending his violence to women and animals.
Genres: Western Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1975-08-21
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The Door and The Butcher's Wife
Overview: A movie divided in two segments, the first "La puerta" (The Door) is about a high society gathering in which a door inside the mansion leads to a bizarre corridor where a naked and menacing human figure appears. The second "La mujer del carnicero" (The Butcher's Wife) is set during the Mexican revolution and is about horrifying hallucinations felt by a lieutenant after committing a murder.
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1969-09-25
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Pedro Paramo
Overview: When his mother Dolores dies, Juan Preciado, son of Pedro Páramo, goes to Comala to claim his inheritance; but when he arrives he finds an abandoned and sinister place, inhabited by mysterious voices and whispers…
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1967-01-26
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The Unknown Policeman
Overview: A gang of thieves has jeopardized the city and even the police, whose chief urges their forces to captured the band within 48 hours. Meanwhile, band members meet in a cafe run by a widow and her daughter and her suitor, Cantinflas, who maintains a scuffle with the robbers running all at the station. Since then, Cantinflas become a member of the police force for special missions.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1941-10-22
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The Golden Cockerel
Overview: A poor, but very lucky man in the cock fighting business, is hired by a rich man, but both are in love with the same woman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1964-12-18
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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.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1974-01-09
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The Shadow of the Tyrant
Overview: In 1920s Mexico, the candidates being chosen to succeed the current president, El Caudillo, find themselves at his mercy as he will resort to anything to accomplish his will, including kidnapping, betrayal, and murder.
Genres: History Drama Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1960-08-22
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Xoxontla
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Genres: Mystery Drama Fantasy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1978-03-23
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Odio
Overview: A 1940 film directed by William Rowland.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1940-02-29
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Hombres del mar
Overview: A 1938 film.
Genres: Romance Adventure Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1938-10-27
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La pequeña madrecita
Overview: Little girl develops her maternal instincts with dolls and with an infant cousin while family tragedies erupt over and over again around her.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1944-06-15
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La banda de la sotana negra
Overview: Three punk cholos in Tijuana steal cassocks from a church so they can do crimes better.
Genres: Action
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1983-07-02
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Longitud de Guerra
Overview: Based on the novel Tomochic by Heriberto Frías; tells the story of the rebellion of the inhabitants of the village of Tomochi, Chihuahua, against the government of Porfirio Diaz in 1891. Mexico's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1976.
Genres: Thriller Action Drama Western
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1976-12-21
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The Barracks
Overview: The film chronicles the adventures of a peasant family of the late nineteenth century to push through his work with the opposition and hatred of the rest of the villagers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1945-05-27
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Lobo Salvaje
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Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1983-05-19
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Pedro Páramo, el hombre de la Media Luna
Overview: Juan Preciado, son of Pedro Páramo, goes to Comala to claim his inheritance; but when he arrives he finds an abandoned and sinister town, inhabited by mysterious voices and whispers…
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1978-08-10
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Wild Dogs
Overview: A professional assassin (and widowed deadbeat dad set to soon remarry) decides to call it quits and go straight after one more job. Complications ensue, particularly with a persistent police detective.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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Mojados
Overview: A group of workers crossing the river is ambushed by rogue INS agents who intend to kill them all and plant drug on the corpse as evidence of cartel activity. One escapes, and he commits himself to helping a District Attorney collect evidence on the politicians and industrialists those agents work for.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1979-02-28
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Al filo de los machetes
Overview: After being released from prison, our boy just wants to go home, run his farm and live peacefully... but the local agro-robberbaron won't let him be. Remake of Pueblerina (1949).
Genres: Action
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1980-08-20
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Corazón de niño
Overview: All through the school-year with a teacher and his fifth-grade boys.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1939-01-24
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El padre Morelos
Overview: Biography of early-1800s Mexican priest/statesman.
Genres: History Adventure Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1943-04-22
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El contrabando del paso
Overview: A shady associate from the past tempts the owner of a failing nightclub into a drug-smuggling scheme.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1980-08-07
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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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Regalo de reyes
Overview: Class conflicts between two families; one's upper-class but decaying, one's industrious middle-class on the rise. Also Christmas.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1942-03-05
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Los dos pilletes
Overview: Suspicious husband deals with wife's supposed infidelity by making his toddler son disappear into the city's slums, where he grows to boyhood as a thief's apprentice.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1942-04-04
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Ojo por Ojo
Overview: A couple is attacked bu thugs and the woman is killed, the boyfriend plans his revenge.
Genres: Crime Drama Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1981-10-08
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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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Valente Quintero
Overview: Two best friends tragically fall in love with the same woman.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1973-04-12
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Chicoasén
Overview: To prevent the Grijalva river from overflowing, during the construction of the Chicoasén dam, "el ratón" and some engineers die. Two archaeologists decipher antique signs on the walls of the Canyon and discover the source of danger.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1980-08-23
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The Nativity: The Life of Jesus Christ
Overview: Jesus Christ goes from being born in a manger to being King of the Jews . Walk where he walked, see what He did, and be where He died. What made him more than just a man in some peoples eyes but an impostor in others'? ...
Genres: War
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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Story of a Great Love
Overview: Manuel leaves town leaving Soledad in deep sadness. After several years of absence, the young man returns to find Soledad married to Antonio. However, the woman continues to be in love with him and both are determined to consummate their love.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1942-09-20
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Cacería implacable
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Genres: Action Adventure Crime Thriller Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1988-11-03
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X Murderer
Overview: A murderer turns himself to the police, but claims amnesia and insists he's unable to tell them anything about his crime.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1955-03-18
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La fuga de Carrasco
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Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1983-01-01
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Pistoleros famosos II
Overview: Lucía convalesces from the leg injury she suffered in the previous film. Her friend Ceferino and the undocumented Coyote boy, who cannot integrate into the United States, help her escape from her.
Genres: Action Drama Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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The Butcher's Wife
Overview: The apparitions of a man who died during the Revolution lead a man to confess to the crime he committed for money.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1969-09-25
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