Max Kerlow
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Prolific Mexican actor with more than 100 films in his filmography. His first intention was to be a painter. However, life would take him on other paths and his incursion into the world of the arts would be as an architect, a career he studied at the suggestion of a cousin just out of school, given his interest in painting, and from which he graduated from the National Autonomous University of Mexico in 1954. Shortly after, he dedicated himself to promoting crafts with artists such as Manuel Felguérez and Felipe Ehrenberg, one of his first assistants. With Felguérez he devised a different line of ceramics and with Ehrenberg he invented a technique for painting on amate paper, which he later taught to indigenous people in the facilities of his café-gallery La Amargura, located on the street of the same name in the San Ángel neighborhood. As a painter he only mounted one exhibition, although every day he drew and made caricatures from the news in the newspapers: "One ends up with more or less possibilities of doing what one wanted, although, as Picasso said, at this age is when one has more desire to do things; I feel that one understands them better, knows better what one wants to do, but it is already too late," he acknowledges in the documentary by Carolina Kerlow. However, it would be in the acting facet in which he would stand out the most and which would give Max Kerlow the most satisfaction. He began his career in Mexican cinema in 1963 under the direction of Juan José Gurrola in Confesión de Stavroguin. A friend of directors such as Paul Leduc, Felipe Cazals and Arturo Ripstein, it was natural for him to be invited to participate in their films, although Max Kerlow assured that he always liked acting: "I was invited to parties sometimes just to tell jokes; I have my diploma as a joke teller". He was also a magician. He was even able to combine his interests: "When Miguel Littin said "we are going to Chihuahua to film Actas de Marusia (1976), I took the opportunity to bring my catalogs and sold my crafts very well". And he was not just any actor making any movie. His film performances are proof of his histrionic quality. He participated in Las Poquianchis (1976), El apando (Felipe Cazals / 1976), Fox Trot (Arturo Ripstein / 1976); Frida, naturaleza viva (Paul Leduc / 1983), where he played the role of Leon Trotsky, Cabeza de Vaca (Nicolas Echevarria / 1991); Cómodas mensualidades (Julian Pastor / 1992); Kino (Felipe Cazals / 1993); De noche vienes Esmeralda (Jaime Humberto Hermosillo / 1997); La hija del caníbal o Lucía, Lucía (Antonio Serrano / 2003), Morirse está en hebreo (Alejandro Springall / 2007); Cinco días sin Nora (Mariana Chenillo, 2008). In 1998 he won the Ariel Award for best male co-acting for his performance in Por si no te vuelvo a ver (Juan Pablo Villaseñor, 1997), debut film of the Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica (CCC). In the Italian film Mediterráneo (1991), directed by Gabriele Salvatores, winner of the Oscar for best foreign film, Max Kerlow had a leading role. He also participated in documentaries and commercials.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Mexico City, Mexico
Birthday: March 03, 1928
Deathday: July 06, 2016
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Gender: Male
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Espíritu deportivo
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2004-10-01
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Juegos nocturnos
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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The Humiliated
Overview: Four nuns are raped by a group of lepers. Although they all turn out to be pregnant, their status is hidden from them in the convent.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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Celestina
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 1976-01-01
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A Wonderful World
Overview: A fairy tale about the political and socioeconomic realities of Mexico.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2006-03-17
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The Mansion of Madness
Overview: The inmates of an insane asylum take over the institution, imprison the doctors and staff, and then put into play their own ideas of how the place should be run.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1973-08-10
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Macho y hembras
Overview: Mexican feature film
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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Las buenas costumbres
Overview: Mexican feature film
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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El perro y la calentura
Overview: Mexican feature film
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1976-01-01
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Reed: Insurgent Mexico
Overview: A dramatization of John Reed's newspaper accounts of the Mexican Revolution. Considered the first real film in Mexican cinema to be made on the Mexican Revolution.
Genres: Drama War History
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1973-01-05
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The Aztec Karate Fighter
Overview: Potter who makes fake pre-Colombian statues gets mixed up with thieves and treasure-hunters at an Aztec art museum.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1976-11-24
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El viaje
Overview: After the death of his mother, a man agrees to travel to Europe as a tourist guide falls in love with the head of the agency.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1977-06-28
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The Diabolical
Overview: Dave Boland (Carlos East) wears a strange medallion and robs the bank. He also takes the banker's daughter with him. Then he rapes her and put the satanic mark on her body. He was caught and was prepared for hanging. At moment before hanging Dave uses his supernatural power and makes a local shoe-shiner his accomplice. While running from sheriff Dave was injured and after some time dies. But before his death Dave gives this medallion to shoe-shiner Oscar and asks him to take revenge in the name of Satan. So he does it and also continue to rape and kill women never forgetting to leave satanic mark on their bodies...
Genres: Western Horror Mystery
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1977-11-24
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Aunt Isabel's Garden
Overview: A ship carrying Conquistadors is wrecked and the survivors are thrown ashore to struggle through the Yucatan jungle.
Genres: History Adventure
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1972-04-05
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The Bees
Overview: Corporate smuggling of South American killer bees into the United States results in huge swarms terrorizing the northern hemisphere. A small team of scientists work desperately to destroy the threat, but the bees soon mutate into a super-intelligent species that threatens the world.
Genres: Thriller Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-11-01
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Brothers of the Wind
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 1977-08-24
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I Escaped from Devil's Island
Overview: In 1916, a group of prisoners plot their escape from the notorious fortress located in French Guiana.
Genres: Action Adventure Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-09-01
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En defensa propia
Overview: The leading edge of working-class discontent in a Mexican village is a troop of bandits hiding out in the hills; when the bandit leader is killed, the whole town rises up.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1978-11-15
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What Do You Think?
Overview: Award-Winning filmmaker Paul Leduc (Frida, Naturaleza Viva, Reed: Insurgent Mexico, Barroco) directed this gritty musical drama about life in the ghettos of Mexico City during the 1980s. With a soundtrack of Mexican rock music, the camera takes the viewer through the streets, to rock concerts, and to the bars and clubs, where he exposes the hunger, repression, unhealthy conditions and violence in the marginal communities of Mexico's capital city.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1986-08-01
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Las Poquianchis
Overview: During the mid-1970s, in the Mexican state of Guanajuato, authorities discover a clandestine burial ground. The corpses are from murdered prostitutes. The suspects are three sisters known as "Las Poquianchis".
Genres: Crime Drama History Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1976-11-17
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Va de Nuez
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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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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Cabeza de Vaca
Overview: An international award winning saga of old Mexico. In 1528, a Spanish expedition flounders off the coast of Florida with 600 lives lost. One survivor, Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, roams across the American continent searching for his Spanish comrades. Instead, he discovers the Iguase, an ancient Indian tribe. Over the next eight years, Cabeza de Vaca learns their mystical and mysterious culture, becoming a healer and a leader. But soon this New World collides with the Old World as Spanish conquistadors seek to enslave the Indians, and Cabeza de Vaca must confront his own people and his past.
Genres: Action Drama History
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1991-10-11
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Murieron a la mitad del rio
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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Bandidos
Overview: In the wake of the Mexican Revolution, a band of pre-teen boys are forced to rely on their own resources for survival.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-08-09
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El cielo subterraneo
Overview: Mexican feature film
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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Pasa en las mejores familias
Overview: Mexican feature film
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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Dentro de la noche
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1991-01-01
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Cómodas mensualidades
Overview: Young married guy is overwhelmed by the expenses involved with starting a family.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-01-24
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The Queen of the Night
Overview: The legendary life of Mexican singer Lucha Reyes is the basis of this fictionalized biography ( or as director Arturo Ripstein puts it "an imaginary biography"). Lucha Reyes was an unconventional, and sexually liberated woman, most famous for her "cancion ranchera" style singing. Her story begins in 1939, where at 33 she still lived at home with her mother, Dona Victora, the madame of a renowned Mexico City whorehouse. Lucha marries the liberal Pedro Calderon and then buys a beggar's daughter. She becomes the mother to this child, Luzma. Lucha craves lasting love like junkies crave heroin. But for her loyal daughter, she never finds it and in the end no one can help her.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1994-09-07
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My Mexican Shivah
Overview: After Moishe's death, family and friends sit Shiva in Mexico City. During seven days, secrets will be disclosed.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2007-10-26
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Luces de la noche
Overview: On a whim, a retired gentleman decides to track down an old girlfriend from decades back.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-05-29
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Moctezuma's Revenge
Overview: Mexican feature film
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-01-01
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Perfume, efecto inmediato
Overview: A cosmetologist invents a perfume that helps her sister seduce her boss. When her boss realizes the power of the perfume he will try to steal the formula.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-01-01
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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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La última noche
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Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2005-02-25
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El tesoro de Clotilde
Overview: Clotilde dies, and her god-daughter has promised to carry out a final wish for her. Two gangs of thieves and the cops interfere with her fulfilling the promise.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1994-11-03
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Sea of Dreams
Overview: On an island across the sea lies a village full of romance, wonder and mystery; a timeless place where people carry strong beliefs that can fulfill the heart's deepest desires. A beautiful ...
Genres: Drama Fantasy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-11-09
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Nora's Will
Overview: Jose learns that Nora, the woman he was married to for 30 years and from whom divorced, has committed suicide. The rabbi explains Joseph that due to the celebrations this time of the year, if Nora is not buried that same day, they should wait at least 5 days for the funeral. Nora had planned before his death, a Machiavellian plan in order that Joseph was the one who has to take care of his funeral. But Nora forgot a small detail, a mysterious photograph stored under her bed, that will remind Joseph that the greatest love stories, sometimes are hidden in the smallest places.
Genres: Drama Action Comedy Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2008-10-06
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Viva San Isidro!
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1995-04-13
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El Viaje de la Nonna
Overview: A Mexican family, wanting to grant their Grandmother her last wish, embarks on a make believe trip to a small town in Italy ... in Mexico!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-02-07
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Bodas Negras
Overview: Short produced by TV Azteca, starring José Alonso, Leonor Bonilla and Sergio Bonilla
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1994-12-31
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Three Stories of Love
Overview: Three people live in the same building: An anxious teenager, a girl who wants to be kidnapped by a prince, and a maid who wants to explore eroticism.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1978-01-01
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If I Never See You Again
Overview: Five elderly men form a music group and run away from the nursing home where they are interns with the hope of playing for an audience. They confront th city, the nursing home authorities, the police and all those who wish to destroy their dream which finally comes true when they are contracted to serve as musical background for strippers of a second class cabaret. In case i never see you again, is a movie about life, death, melancholy and the quest for happiness.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1997-11-18
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Compassionate Sex
Overview: Dolores is a mature and kind woman whose husband abandons her because he can't stand her uncanny generosity. Desperate to get her husband back, she devotes her life to works of charity, which is to go to bed with the other men of the town. Dolores, now "Lolita", becomes so famous that all men seek out her help now. It is through her compassionate sex that she brings back the colour and the happiness to a town that was immersed in sadness. Written by HoMordomo.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-06-30
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Frida Still Life
Overview: This film is a chronicle of painter Frida Kahlo, and her encounter with the personalities of her time. Despite being confied to a wheelchair as a result of polio, operations and amputations, she faces and traces some of the most colorful and controversial aspects of Mexican history, during the dominant time of Mexican muralism.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1986-03-13
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The Heist
Overview: In Mexico City's infamous Lecumberri prison, three drug-addicted convicts celebrate getting drugs from one of their the mothers. They are found out and locked up in the "apando," the dreaded punishment cell. Protests over the treatment of those held in the cell lead to a bloody confrontation.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1976-08-05
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Remembrance
Overview: The documentary film Remembrance is an outline of the past century taking as a motif the life of Luis Frank, a Lithuanian emigrant. It is a journey through a time wich the world was made by war, that of wich we have so many times heard of and by wich we live constantly under menace. Emigration, war, freedom, childhood, the quest for something, a country -Mexico- kept in memories, are some of the subjects dealt within this film. Remembrance is the story of people who have traveled the world in search of a place where to belong, people whose lives were punctuated by ruptures.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2003-07-19
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Ziuta Travesías
Overview: Ziuta, Polish, Jewish and survivor of the Second World War, was an extraordinary woman who aroused special devotion. Her political commitment and participation in supporting the clandestine struggle, beyond being a virtue, were a direct and almost biological part of it. Ziuta had the determination, being just a teenager, to resist exile with fortitude, saving her mother and another family from perishing in flight. Despite the horrors and hardships, she maintained a grateful attitude toward life. These characteristics, and her particular sense of humor, permeate her story, even in chapters with painful themes: the death of her father, her madness; her suicide attempt in the Caspian Sea and her decision to come to Mexico, where she rebuilt her life and lived with artists, writers, dancers and filmmakers at a time of great cultural effervescence in the country, even participating as an actress in some films. .
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2024-07-05
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La casta divina
Overview: Chronicle Caste War in Yucatan held in the nineteenth century, where the land and the people were the property of the landowners, who called themselves " divine caste ". On one hand, General Salvador Alvarado organized the revolution; on the other, the landowners hire Colonel Ortiz Argumedo to organized the defense of their autonomy. Don Wilfrido, one of the masters, do not hesitate to send his son to fight to maintain their wealth and privileges.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1977-11-17
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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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Sex Education In Brief Lessons
Overview: Alejandra and Ana are college friends, both are virgin and hope to find the love of their life soon. Ana meets Miguel, but they agree to just be friends. Alejandra meets Esteban, a well known womanizer.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1997-07-25
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I Murder Seriously
Overview: A cop sets out to find a man who has been delivering too much of a good thing in this offbeat comedy. Police detective Martinez (Jesus Ochoa) has been handed a most unusual case -- a number of local prostitutes have been murdered, and it's up to Martinez to bring in the killer. What makes the case truly unusual, though, is the manner of death; it seems the hookers all died as a result of having orgasms so powerful they were literally fatal. Teaming up with cultural anthropologist Onofre (Daniel Giménez Cacho), Martinez hits the streets looking for clues, and eventually gets some unexpected help from Father Gorkisolo (Santiago Segura), a priest with a unusually deep knowledge of sexual matters. Asesino en Serio was the first feature film from director Antonio Urrutia; noted Mexican filmmaker Guillermo del Toro served as executive producer.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2002-10-11
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Maria of My Heart
Overview: Héctor and María meet again after eight years of not seeing each other. She works as a magician in cabarets and he robs houses. María convinces Héctor to become a magician and work together. Life seems to smile on them until one day, when Maria travels to another city, the couple's situation will be overshadowed by an unfortunate event.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1979-05-17
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Naufragio
Overview: One woman lives waiting for her son who is a sailor. She hasn't seen him for years although he writes to her a lot. The woman shares the letters and her grief with a co-worker and friend. This last woman begins to idealize her friend's son.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1978-11-02
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Esmeralda Comes by Night
Overview: The husbands of a charismatic nurse devise a plan to free her from prison when she is arrested for being a polygamist.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1997-09-05
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Foxtrot
Overview: A Romanian aristocrat retreats to a desert isle with his wife and servants on the eve of World War II.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-03-01
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The Apple of Discord
Overview: A man convinces two friends to rob and kill a landowner.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1968-01-01
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The Coming of the King Olmos
Overview: After spending some time with the Mennonite community in Chihuahua, Reynaldo Olmos goes back to Mexico City and establishes a ministry in the poorest of poor neighborhoods. Is he sincere, or is this a scam?
Genres: Thriller Adventure Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1975-09-11
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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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Letters from Marusia
Overview: Chronicle of the repression that a foreign company exerts on the miners of a small nitrate town in Chile, whose workers decide to claim their most essential rights. A reflection of the historic union struggles in the northern Chile that ended with terrible repressive acts.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1975-12-26
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Kino: The Legend of the Black Priest
Overview: Propped up on his deathbed, a 17th century Spanish missionary named Father Kino (Enrique Rocha) looks back on his remarkable life and relives one of his greatest challenges: bringing the teachings of Christianity to California's native population while convincing the Spanish military to respect the Indians' traditions.
Genres: Drama History Adventure
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1993-05-07
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One Hundred Years with Juan Rulfo
Overview: This documentary explores key moments in the life of writer Juan Rulfo, with artists such as Werner Herzog and Eduardo Galeano reflecting on his work.
Genres: History Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2017-11-03
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