
Birthday:
01-01-1895
Deathday:
06-25-1956 (61 years)
Birthplace:
San Luis Potosi, Mexico
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Red Rain
Act like Perpetua
event1950 star_border 5.7
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Military leader is appointed to local government, becomes overly despotic in his leadership.
My General's Wives
Act like Tacha
event1951 star_border 6.8
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The encounter with an old lover puts a revolutionary general in great danger of death.
The Abandoned
Act like Gualupita
event1945 star_border 5.7
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A young woman, abandoned by her womanizing fiancé, is forced to provide for the upbringing of her son and combat the difficulties of being an unmarried mother during the strife of early 20-century Mexico.
Sota, caballo y rey
event1944 star_border 5.3
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Theatrical troupe schemes to expose corrupt dealings in local government.
Así se quiere en Jalisco
event1942 star_border 7.3
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Romantic triangle, land-owner and two employees.
Allá en el Rancho Grande
Act like Angela
event1949 star_border 5.5
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Remake of famous 1936 ranchera musical.
Los Cristeros
event1947 star_border 6
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When the government places restrictions on the Catholic church's autonomy, an armed uprising takes place. Disagreements over the new laws create conflict within the protagonist's family.
Tragic Weddings
Act like Agustina
event1946 star_border 5
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Jalisco, 19th century. Diego, a wealthy landowner, secretly marries Amparo, defying her father Juan Manuel, who fiercely opposes the union. Juan Manuel still holds a grudge against Diego, having once been his employer when Diego was just a laborer. Their secret marriage stirs jealousy and resentment, particularly in Octavio, Diego’s servant, and his wife Laura, who harbors unspoken feelings for him. As Diego departs for a military mission in Guadalajara, Juan Manuel, unaware of the marriage, attempts to arrange a match between Amparo and the Spaniard José Luis.
Late Afternoon
Act like Tomasa
event1949 star_border 6.2
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A former farmhand now with money, wants to buy his former boss's farm and marry his daughter, but they refuse.
El rápido de las 9.15
Act like Esposa de Ulíses (as Guadalupe Inclan)
event1941 star_border 5.3
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Every passenger boarding The Express has a story.
La tienda de la esquina
event1951 star_border 4.5
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Shady characters try to buy the corner shop and destroy a decent family's livelihood.
El dolor de los hijos
event1949 star_border 5
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The story of a family with nine children and the conflicts that exist between them.
Hell Road
Act like Doña Chole
event1951 star_border 6.3
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When a robbery goes wrong, the thief takes a singer as hostage, they fall in love and try to rebuild their lives, but tragedy surges in the most unexpected way.
Apartment house
event1951 star_border 5.6
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Personal dramas among the residents of an apartment house.
Primero soy Mexicano
event1950 star_border 5.3
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USA-educated doctor goes home for the first time in years. Culture shock.
El último chinaco
event1948 star_border 6
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1880s-1890s rural adventure on horseback.
¡Acá las Tortas!
Act like Jacinta
event1951 star_border 7.9
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College students, ready to start entering adult society, are ashamed of their working-class backgrounds.
Las mañanitas
event1948 star_border 5
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Rom-com scheming; wealthy landowner wants to seduce one of his tenants, but she wants the other guy...
Historia de un amor
event1956 star_border 5
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Singer relives her love-life in flashback: she adopts another woman's illegitimate daughter, she gets married, the grandparents of the baby raise a fuss, etc.
Maria Candelaria
Act like Gossip
event1944 star_border 7.2
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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.
Flor de durazno
Act like Doña Apolonia
event1945 star_border 5
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City slicker scams on young farmgirl while her fiance's in USA on a work permit.
The Troublemaker
Act like Mrs. Trini
event1951 star_border 6.8
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Well-intentioned Tin Tan who is always making trouble for other people, sometimes on purpose and sometimes by accident.
Vino el remolino y nos alevantó
Act like Antonia Ramírez
event1950 star_border 6
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Three generations of a stable, middle-class family in the capitol are scattered to the four winds by blowback from the Mexican Revolution.
Camelia
Act like Cresencia (uncredited)
event1954 star_border 5
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A sort of meta riff on Alexandre Dumas fils' novel The Lady of the Camellias (La Dame aux Camélias or Camille) here in Mexican melodrama form involving the doomed love of a bullfighter and a beautiful but ailing actress/courtesan.
The King of the Neighborhood
Act like Woman at Antonio's House
event1950 star_border 8.3
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A poor man becomes a modern Robin Hood, robbing the rich to give to the poor.
Las engañadas
Act like Nachita
event1955 star_border 5
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Irresponsible playboy seduces a decent young lady with a fake wedding; he continues being a creep for the next 12 or 15 years.
Cuando los hijos odian
event1950 star_border 5
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Woman and her daughter try to get on with their lives and run their family bakery while dealing with abusive alcoholic husband/father and other family problems.
The Guys from Penjamo
event1953 star_border 5.5
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When he hears how his grandfather left illegitimate children scattered all over the county, a young landowner is seized with an obsessive desire to make babies.
Guadalajara pues
Act like Petra (as Guadalupe Inclan)
event1946 star_border 6.3
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Curious film about the Mexican immigrant stunned by the dollar and the English language. The plot deals with a serious social mood, but narrated as a tale of romantic entanglements. Agustin Isunza is a funny former farm worker, whose employers, young and attractive blond Joan Page and Clifford Carr, dazzle the sibling pair starring Luis Aguilar and Amanda del Llano. Miguel Inclan, a rich potter from the area, has put his eye on them to marry their children, Katy Jurado and Raul Guerrero.
Los dos pilletes
event1942 star_border 4.2
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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.
Nuestras vidas
event1950 star_border 5.2
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Frivolous woman falls in reallytruly love for the first time, but her past catches up with her and her fiancé kicks her to the curb. Then joining a convent and amnesia and stuff.
Todos son mis hijos!...
event1951 star_border 6
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Good son takes the blame for father's peculations and goes off to work in the rain forest to pay off Pops' debt. Meanwhile, daughter and bad son neglect their aging parents, whose fortunes decline precipitously.
Padre contra hijo
Act like Fermina, sirvienta
event1955 star_border 4.2
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Eloisa works hard, sewing, to his son Juan de Dios. He learns that he is the bastard son of Cecilio, who owns almost a whole town named: San Juan de Dios, Durango.
X Murderer
Act like Chona
event1955 star_border 5.2
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A murderer turns himself to the police, but claims amnesia and insists he's unable to tell them anything about his crime.
The Boy and the Fog
Act like Jacinta, sirvienta
event1953 star_border 6
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Marta is obsessed with protecting her son from the genetic predisposition to schizophrenia that she has hidden from her husband.
The Mark of the Skunk
Act like The Witch
event1950 star_border 6.7
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In 1840 California, The Texmelucan viscount bizco, offers a feast for his son Tin, who returned from Italy where he studied fencing. The boy turns out to be a coward who flees in terror after refusing to fight a duel with Captain Gaspar. In their flight, Tin rescues a witch was tied to a tree. Grateful, the witch gives him an ointment that will make him invincible for an hour. The coward swordsman will have three opportunities to use it and save his father from the injustices of the evil ruler Marcelo.
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