
Birthday:
09-05-1918
Deathday:
12-03-1992 (74 years)
Birthplace:
Badajoz, Spain
Biography
Luis Alcoriza de la Vega (5 September 1918 – 3 December 1992) was a respected Mexican screenwriter, film director, and actor. Alcoriza was born in Spain and established himself in Mexico from 1940. His 1962 film Tlayucan was nominated for theAcademy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. His 1987 film Lo que Importa es Vivir was entered into the 15th Moscow International Film Festival.
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El capitán Malacara
event1945 star_border 6
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Misogynist military man is laid up for a month with a broken leg and during his convalescence he learns all the needed life-lessons.
Flor de caña
event1948 star_border 5
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Rural-community gal is being courted by a peon and by a land-owner.
Tú, solo tú
event1950 star_border 5.8
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Small-town guy goes to The City to look up his absent girlfriend. He discovers she's become a sex-worker, so he gets a job at a riding stable and meets a new girl.
María Magdalena, pecadora de Magdala
Act like Jesús Nazareno
event1946 star_border 5.8
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The story of Mary Magdalene from being a sinner to follow Jesus Christ.
The Great Madcap
Act like Alfredo
event1949 star_border 7.1
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Portrayal of a family’s attempt to change the spending habit of the indulgent and hedonistic patriarch, Alfredo. The family decides to try to fool him into spending less by telling him that his large fortune is gone.
Los miserables
event1943 star_border 5.1
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Police officer makes life hell for an ex-convict. Based on that novel.
La vírgen morena
event1942 star_border 5.8
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Intensifying skirmishes between a brutally oppressive conquistador imperialist and the last holdouts of Aztec resistance... and meanwhile, miraculous visitations of The Virgin Mary to two of the downtrodden and conquered indigenous peons.
Reina de reinas: La Virgen María
event1948 star_border 5.6
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Standard retelling of the the Gospels, with a brief epilogue about the death of Mary.
El rayo del sur
event1943 star_border 5
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Latter part of the career of Padre Morelos, the 18th/19th century military leader. Sequel to... um... El Padre Morelos.
The Young and the Damned
Screenplay
event1950 star_border 8
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A group of juvenile delinquents live a violent life in the infamous slums of Mexico City; among them Pedro, whose morality is gradually corrupted and destroyed by the others.
The Brute
Writer
event1953 star_border 6.9
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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.
Él
Adaptation
event1953 star_border 7.6
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Gloria encounters Francisco, a man whose social veneer betrays a truer self burrowed underneath.
Daughter of Deceit
Adaptation
event1951 star_border 5.8
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In the drama, a father, firmly believing that the baby daughter in his arms is not his own, abandons her upon the doorstep of the town drunk. Many years pass, and the man finds himself continually wracked with guilt about deserting her.
Our Daily Hunger
Writer
event1960 star_border 8
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Trophy wife of a crooked industrialist meets a philanthropic doctor and develops a social conscience. Mexican remake of Born Yesterday.
The Wall of Silence
Screenplay
event1974 star_border 4.7
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Regina, who lives with her son Daniel, loses her teaching job because his illegitimacy. She opens a sewing shop and keeps her child away from people. The movie narrates the dramatic relationship between a mother, her illegitimate child and the puritanical society around them.
All Souls' Day
Writer
event1988 star_border 5.3
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Two families gather at a cemetery to honor their departed.
Paradise
Writer
event1970 star_border 5.7
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Problems arise between the divers Román and Lauro when the former falls in love with a prostitute on the beaches of Acapulco.
Suicídate mi amor
Writer
event1961 star_border 5
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Tin Tan is an eccentric wealthy man who comes across a beautiful woman who doesn't want to live anymore.
La sombra del ciprés es alargada
Director
event1990 star_border 5.4
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Avila, early twentieth century. Pedro, a boy of nine years, accompanied by his tutor, comes to live in the house of Don Mateo, a teacher that from that moment will be responsible for his education. Pedro begins an almost familiar relationship with Doña Gregoria and Martina, wife and daughter of his master. The appearance of Alfredo, and roommate and colleague of studies, complete the circle of his emotional environment. Provincial life, relationships with peers and the special relationship between life and death instilled by Don Mateo, definitely will influence his future life.
Shark Hunters
Director
event1963 star_border 6.5
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Aurelio is a shark fisherman who works very hard to send money to his family in the city and keep Manela, his young lover on the coast. One day, he decides to move to the big city.
The Skeleton of Mrs. Morales
Writer
event1960 star_border 7.9
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A taxidermist decides to murder his wife after having to put up with her after twenty years of hellish marriage.
The River and Death
Writer
event1954 star_border 6.2
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A useless and bloody vendetta has been going on for ages between two families in this Mexican village. Men, sons, have killed each other for generations, for a so-called conception of honor in a revenge that never ends since it is also triggered by people of the village. Now, today, there are only two sons left, one in each family. One has become a doctor in the big city and his culture is modern. The other last one - of the other family - hasn't left the village and is waiting for the doctor to come "home" as he plans to kill him, to settle this war on this matter of honor once and for all. And the people of the village want blood.
National Mechanics
Director
event1972 star_border 7.2
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A mechanic takes his family to a car race and a series of events occur which brings problems, betrayals, violence and the unexpected death of an elderly person.
Terror and Black Lace
Screenplay
event1985 star_border 6
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A psycho with a hair fetish is caught in the act of disposing of a body and the lonely housewife that witnesses it must fight for her life.
Living Is What Matters
Director
event1987 star_border 5.4
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A drifter named Candelario asks to spend the night at the hacienda of Don Lazaro. Once there, he gets the offer to stay and work as a laborer with a fixed salary. Over time, Candelario is gaining the confidence of his employer, and becomes indispensable. The situation will change radically when Don Lazarus discovers that Candelario is having a love affair with his wife.
Pesadilla para un rico
Story
event1996 star_border 3
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A mature and successful businessman leads a peaceful life with his family and his lover. However, his life is greatly complicated when found dead in bed a girl who had spent the previous night with him. The first thing that comes to mind to solve the problem is to remove the body, but that's not easy. Still, the case is much worse when someone who seems to know what happened, begins to blackmail.
Tarahumara (Further and farther)
Director
event1965 star_border 5.4
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An anthropologist goes to the mountains to study the problems of the indigenous people and finds out that they are being dispossessed of their lands.
Tlayucan
Director
event1962 star_border 6.4
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Desperate because of his son's illness, the peasant Eufemio steals a pearl from the image of Santa Lucía in the village church.
Omen
Director
event1975 star_border 4.7
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While attending the birth of Isabel, the wife of foreigner Felipe, Mama Santos predicts that "something terrible is going to happen in the town." From this omen, calamities will torment the locals.
The Living Forces
Writer
event1975 star_border 5.3
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It narrates the phenomenon of the Mexican Revolution, satirically reflected through what happens in a town far from the places where the true Revolution was fiercely fought.
Han violado a una mujer (Tac-tac)
Director
event1982 star_border 5
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A good looking Iberian macho courts a free spirited young woman. The passionate temperament of her romantic beau might become too much for her to handle; or can she control it?
Los Jóvenes
Director
event1961 star_border 6.6
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A gang member is attracted to a beautiful young woman, but approaching her only causes problems that will be difficult to solve.
A Media Luz Los Tres
Screenplay
event1958 star_border 5.8
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"Confirmed bachelor" quits playing the field and gets married.
Engagement ring
Screenplay
event1951 star_border 5
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Newlyweds struggle with career issues and poverty.
El ahijado de la muerte
Screenplay
event1946 star_border 5.6
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Father of a newborn makes a deal with Death to protect his son.
Departamento De Soltero
Story
event1971 star_border 6.5
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Newlywed couple are jealous of each other's imagined infidelities.
The World's Oldest Profession
Director
event1970 star_border 5
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Having an example of piety and Christian devotion in their midst may help the girls in this whorehouse reform. Maybe.
The League of Girls
Story
event1950 star_border 5.3
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Two women form The League of Girls invite an interesting repertoire of young ladies to become members and get rid of men and all the evils that come with them.
At a Lame Pace
Director
event1980 star_border 4.5
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Ragtag crew of indigents from an asylum for the handicapped form a squadron to defend the Church during the Cristero Uprising.
Faith, Hope and Charity
Director
event1974 star_border 6.2
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Three episodes. Faith: a woman is attacked. Hope: a fakir is crucified. Charity: a woman faces bureaucracy.
Guantes de oro
Story
event1961 star_border 5
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By-the-numbers boxing melodrama.
The King of México
Adaptation
event1956 star_border 5.5
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A humble tramp is turned, for a couple of days, into the richest and most famous man in México.
El cariñoso
Screenplay
event1959 star_border 5
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Romcom with music: owner of an auto-repair shop woos the owner of a beauty parlor.
Love & Sex (Sappho 1963)
Director
event1964 star_border 5.5
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Independently-wealthy woman tries to break free of repressive, conservative cultural constraints.
The Gangster
Director
event1965 star_border 6
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An old gangster returns from the United States to Mexico City to live with his sister-in-law and his two nephews, where he will face the daily life of a middle-class family.
En la trampa
Writer
event1979 star_border 5.8
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Oscar Cardenas is a free young man who dreams of being a racer. One day he is trapped by Isabel Salas, a young secretary, who while finds a husband, she is sleeping with her boss. Oscar and Isabel end at the altar. From that moment Oscar, is falling into the traps that the 'society' puts over him...
Dangerous Game
Director
event1967 star_border 5.2
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Two dark-comedy stories involving blackmail, murder and love triangles in Rio de Janeiro
Los enredos de una gallega
Screenplay
event1951 star_border 5.5
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Cándida is a Galician who lives in Mexico and has been selling lottery tickets. Her dream is to buy an inn, but doesn't have enough money. In her quest for trying to get it, she runs into a scammer. In a stroke of luck, she wins first prize in the lottery, but the misfortune is merciless with her because she can't find the ticket.
Yo quiero ser hombre
Writer
event1950 star_border 5.8
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In order to come into a large inheritance, young Divina must marry her cousin Pablo. Her aunt, Milagros, hatches a plan to disguise themselves as a maid and her nephew in order to get to know him better.
The Other Virginity
Writer
event1975 star_border 4.7
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Two young waitresses, Laura and Eva, become romantically involved with a movie distributor, Adrian, and his friend Luis.
Si usted no puede, yo sí
Writer
event1951 star_border 5.6
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Out-of-work actor and his burglar pal get jobs at an agency that pledges to do things the client doesn't want to deal with. Meanwhile, their boss is being stalked by seven Italian brothers who want revenge for something that happened to their great great grandfather.
The Door and The Butcher's Wife
Director
event1969 star_border 7.2
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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.
El Siete Machos
Story
event1951 star_border 8.1
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Rosario, the niece of the rancher, returns to the ranch after ten years of absence. She takes in Margarito, a worker at the ranch, who is immediately smitten by her. Rosario is rescued from a runaway horse by the Seven Men, an outlaw a la Robin Hood that steals from the rich and gives to the poor. He also happens to be the twin brother of Margarito, unbeknownst to him. The confusion between Margarito and the Seven Men generates great comical situations in the film.
Robinson Crusoe
Screenplay
event1954 star_border 6.2
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An English slave trader is marooned on a remote tropical island, forced to fend for himself and deal with crushing loneliness.
The Exterminating Angel
Story
event1962 star_border 7.9
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A formal dinner party starts out normally enough, but after the bourgeois group retire to the host’s music room, they inexplicably find themselves unable to leave.
The Innocent
Story
event1956 star_border 6.5
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After a quarrel with her boyfriend on New Year's Eve, Mane drives her car from Mexico City to Cuernavaca to meet her parents in their country house. The car breaks down in the highway and Mane has to ask for help. Mechanic Cruci arrives and, after testing the car, offers Mane a ride on his motorcycle. Back in Mane's house, she invites him some drinks to celebrate New Year's Eve. They get drunk and, the morning after, Mane's parents arrive and find them sleeping together. Not knowing what happened, Mane and Cruci are forced to get married against their will.
School for Buglars
Writer
event1958 star_border 7.5
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The police plan to capture a killer by using a double that looks exactly as one of his victims.
Gitana tenías que ser
Story
event1953 star_border 7.5
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Pastora de los Reyes is a beautiful Spanish that goes to Mexico with a contract to film a movie. The main actors will receive her at the airport, among them is Paul, a little-known mariachi that has been chosen to become a new idol. Automatically, both had bad relations and during filming many discussions happens. This arguments gives way to a deep love.
La vida no vale nada
Screenplay
event1955 star_border 8.2
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Pablo, a wandering laborer, has imprisoned himself in a hell of alcoholism. Cruz, a widow, reaches out to the troubled man, but even her compassion may not be enough to save him.
La tijera de oro
Adaptation
event1960 star_border 5.1
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The charitable Emilio is a jealous barber tries to prevent at all costs the rich toting Mario mess with his girlfriend Rosita. Although Emilio help with money from neighbors, gets entangled in a misunderstanding and ends up in jail but his friends are out of charge so much trouble.
Huellas del pasado
Story
event1950 star_border 5
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A young singer falls madly in love with a man, with whom she forms a family. Problems, however, are not long in coming when she receives unfair accusations.
Esperanza
Writer
event1946 star_border 5
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Mexican movie
Nocturno de amor
Screenplay
event1948 star_border 5.6
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Venice Film Festival 1948
Canasta Uruguaya
Writer
event1951 star_border 5
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Screwball comedy about country girl who inherits a fortune.
Buscando un campeon
Writer
event1980 star_border 4.3
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A group of veteran boxers find a young potential champion to train.
La Chamuscada
Writer
event1971 star_border 6
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A sharecropper and his daughter, a swarthy beauty, flee from the hacienda on which they live and join the Mexican Revolution.
Long Life Together
Writer
event1995 star_border 5.9
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Petra and Matthias are a bad marriage. He works as a janitor at the school of anatomy. Petra has a bitter and uncompromising character, so that their discussions with Matthias are constant, but she is careful not to ever lift his voice. He, however, does not care who tell and shouts without hesitation. The neighbors, who are some gossips are at the end of the street everything that happens in the house of Petra and Matthias.
Pancho Tequila
Writer
event1970 star_border 5.3
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Naïve moviegoers in his hometown think a certain actor is tough like the characters he plays and will be able to clear their town of badguys.
National Calvary
Director
event1981 star_border 4.6
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Two middle-aged couples take a Murphy's Law vacation in Acapulco.
Una gringuita en México
Screenplay
event1951 star_border 5.5
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A USA girl decides to vacation in Mexico and experience first hand all the stereotypical scenes she's seen in movies. When she gets there, everything isn't all charros and bandidos, though -- surprise, surprise!
Untouched
Writer
event1954 star_border 6.7
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With the purpose of using barbasco roots in the production of cortisone, a pharmaceutical company sends a scientist to investigate the possibilities of exploitation in Veracruz, but the man gets lost in the jungle and lives a strange romantic adventure in a remote location called Paradise.
Three Women in a Bonfire
Story
event1979 star_border 5.6
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Alex, a real estate businessman, has no concerns in giving her wife every kind of freedom. They invite Gloria, an old friend of both, to spend the summer break in their countryside house next to the beach. Gloria doesn't come alone: she comes with young Susy, her lover. Alex will use all of his charms and luxury to manipulate his new guests; meanwhile, his wife and Gloria will gang up to murder him.
Fever Mounts at El Pao
Writer
event1959 star_border 5.9
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Aroused citizens assassinate an unpopular Caribbean despot, then two men vie for his gorgeous widow Ines. Ojeda is a steamy, isolated island, the penal colony for an oppressive dictatorship. A reactionary seizes the murdered governor's post, and rushes to eliminate his romantic rival, an idealistic underling. The bureaucrat Vazquez hopes to marshal the angry residents of the capitol, El Pao, plus the many political prisoners, to oust Governor Gual.
Death in the Garden
Screenplay
event1956 star_border 6.4
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In a remote Amazon jungle village, a group of angry diamond prospectors revolt when the local government undertakes a violent crackdown.
The Metropolitan Opera: The Exterminating Angel
Original Story
event2017 star_border 7.7
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After the acclaimed Met premiere of Thomas Adès's "The Tempest" in 2012, the composer returned with another masterpiece, this time inspired by filmmaker Luis Buñuel's seminal surrealist classic "El Ángel Exterminador", during the 2017–18 season. As the opera opens, a group of elegant socialites gather for a lavish dinner party, but when it is time to leave for the night, no one is able to escape. Soon, their behavior becomes increasingly erratic and savage. The large ensemble cast tackles both the vocal and dramatic demands of Adès's opera with one riveting performance after another. Tom Cairns, who also penned the work's libretto, directs an engrossing and inventive production, using a towering wooden archway to trap the characters onstage. And Adès himself takes the podium to conduct the frenzied score, which features a host of unconventional instruments, including the eerie electronic ondes Martenot.
Illusion Travels by Streetcar
Writer
event1954 star_border 6.4
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Confronted with the unfortunate news that their favorite Streetcar, no. 133, is going to be decommissioned, two Municipal Transit workers get drunk and decide to "take 'er for one last spin," as it were. Unfortunately, the "one last spin" ends up being an all-night and all-day scramble to stay out of trouble, as they are confronted with situation after sometimes bizarre situation that prevents them from returning the "borrowed" Streetcar!
El amor es un juego extraño
Writer
event1983 star_border 5
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Mexican feature film
Meat in Prison
Writer
event1952 star_border 5.8
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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.
La miel se fue de la luna
Writer
event1952 star_border 6
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Dr. Pablo, something womanizer, going to marry with Mini and cheats África, singer and his lover, telling her to wait while she is on tour in Cuba. With her, he poses as a friend industrial, Ricardo and his intention is not to see her again. While Africa is out he marries Mini, which proves to be terribly jealous. Complications ensue when Africa returns to Mexico and start searching for the fake Richard. By chance a friend of Mini will be in a beauty salon and this ensures she can take to "Ricardo" because is "a friend of her husband". A typical sitcom with a blistering pace.
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