Alberto Galán
Also Known As: Alberto Galán Blanco Oceja
Biography: Alberto Galán (November 20, 1901 – January 5, 1977) was a Spanish-born Mexican film actor.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Cantabria, Spain
Adult: No
Birthday: November 20, 1901
Age: 123 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: January 05, 1977
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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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There are not Crosses in the Sea
Overview: A mute fisherman helps another whose boat capsizes, he dies and leaves behind a girl whom he raises as his own daughter.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1968-01-01
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Andante
Overview: A young woman falls in love with a classical pianist and has problems with her friends from high society.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1969-10-09
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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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Yolanda
Overview: About the Russian dancer Yolanda who arrives in Mexico with her company in 1909. There she falls in love with the young cadet Julio. However, the influential Carlos opposes this love. He wants Yolanda for himself and threatens her with a possible deportation to Siberia if she rejected his romantic advances.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-01-01
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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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Little Town
Overview: Reactionary local "Big Daddy" tries to prevent a school being built in his district.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1962-08-02
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The Virgin who Forged a Fatherland
Overview: On the eve of the Grito de Dolores and faced with the threat of being arrested by the viceregal government, Miguel Hidalgo suggested to Captain Allende that the flag of the insurgent movement be the banner of the Virgin of Guadalupe.
Genres: History
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1942-12-11
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El padrecito
Overview: Young priest Father Sebastián is assigned to a parish in San Jeronimo el Alto, where he is not welcomed by the community, particularly the resident priest Father Damián. The newcomer gradually earns the trust of the people through humor, but firmly captures their hearts by saving the town fiesta by fighting a bull when the hired torero failed to show. Father Sebastián counsels the townspeople, lecturing them on their duties in a modern society. He used the collection plate to redistribute the town's wealth more evenly.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1964-09-03
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Your Excellency
Overview: Lopitos, who is horribly inefficient but quick-witted, is invited (because of the current ambassador's superstition about 13 sitting down to a meal) to a banquet attended by the ambassadors of both superpowers. After the news of a series of coups d'état in Los Cocos arrives throughout the meal, Lopitos becomes the official ambassador. At a summit of world leaders, the representatives of the two world superpowers court the allegiances of third-world diplomats to tilt the balance of global power in their favor. The last diplomat to remain unaligned, Lopitos instead harangues the superpowers for infringing on the rights of developing countries to self determination, talking to them with his point of view as a citizen not as ambassador because he arranged his demise as ambassador one day before his speech.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1967-05-03
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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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Every Madman to His Specialty
Overview: Julio Cesar (Enrique Herrera), writer of soap operas, is very upset nerves. Dr. Jimenez (Alberto Galán) recommends an institution that will give he a therapy to cure these scares. To avoid exposure to bad publicity, is camouflaged by the pseudonym Justiniano Conquian . By chance, a taxidermist (Joaquin Pardavé) also named. His case is different: it is a millionaire heir heritage potential, but will only be legally recognized if it meets a peculiar condition in the will, having to spend a whole month in the gloomy castle Conquian, competing with other heirs of fortune. Dr. Jimenez is bribed by a cousin of Justinian to send the false Conquian scares Castle into thinking that is the sanatorium.
Genres: Drama Comedy Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1939-04-28
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A Macabre Legacy
Overview: A plastic surgeon goes mad when he discovers that his wife have an affair. He fakes her death and disfigure her and locks her in the cellar.
Genres: Horror Mystery Science Fiction
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1939-11-29
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Cantaclaro
Overview: A rootless wilderness-dude in the Venezuelan outback gets caught up in some human dramas despite himself.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1946-01-24
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La casa de la zorra
Overview: The owner of an illegal gambling casino witnesses all the problems in the life of her dissolute son and finally acts in a way that'll help him rehabilitate himself.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1945-12-06
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La mujer legítima
Overview: Widower wants to remarry, but his adult children are slow to warm to his new wife. One daughter in particular tries very hard to discredit her in his eyes.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1945-11-25
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Every Man’s Woman
Overview: A beautiful woman of affairs falls in love with a handsome young man of great promise. Fearing for his future, the man's father begs her to leave his son so that her reputation will not hold him back.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-01-11
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