
Birthday:
12-06-1885
Deathday:
08-04-1958 (72 years)
Birthplace:
Lleida, Lleida, Catalonia, Spain
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Common Clay
event1930
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A maid with a checkered past falls in love with the son in the posh household where she works, and gives him a baby.
La malquerida
Act like Don Eusebio
event1949 star_border 6.9
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Emilio Fernandez directs Dolores Del Rio and Pedro Armendariz in a classic tale of family and obsession. Raimunda's daughter Acacia hates her stepfather Esteban, and in order to escape her suffocating home life she's accepted a marriage proposal from a man she doesn't even love. But Esteban has become obsessed with Acacia, and in order to ensure that she doesn't leave he's plotting to murder the girl's unsuspecting fiancée. As Esteban's true nature emerges, mother and daughter must band together to support one another and make sure that their family bond remains strong even in the darkest of times.
A Woman Without Love
Act like Don Carlos Montero
event1952 star_border 5.3
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After indulging in an affair with a man (a friend of the family) she truly loves, a woman returns to her young son and husband for good, and loses contact with the man. Her husband is unaware of the affair. Twenty years later, there is news that the friend has died and left all of his money to the younger son in the family, which leads us to question this younger son's biological origin.
Gran Casino
Act like Demetrio García
event1947 star_border 5.2
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After the mysterious disappearance of an oil well owner, one of his workers, Gerardo assumes the business management. Soon, the owner's sister arrives from Argentina, and, believing that Gerardo killed her brother to keep the wells for himself, she starts working as a singer under a false name in the same casino her brother disappeared, in order to find out what exactly happened.
Plunder of the Sun
Act like Ulbaldo Navarro (as Julio Villareal)
event1953 star_border 6.1
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An American insurance adjuster, stranded in Havana, becomes involved with an archaeologist and a collector of antiquities in a hunt for treasure in the Mexican ruins of Zapoteca.
The Beast of Hollow Mountain
Act like Don Pedro
event1956 star_border 4.2
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An American cowboy living in Mexico discovers his cattle is being eaten by a giant prehistoric dinosaur.
Doña Perfecta
Act like Don Inocencio
event1951 star_border 6.5
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Liberal farmer Pepe has arrived in Santa Fe to visit his aunt, Dona Perfecta. While he's there, Pepe is eager to teach the traditional-minded townspeople a new way of living. Unfortunately for Pepe the people of Santa Fe aren't eager to embrace change, and when the citizens begin to voice resentment Pepe is forced to seek refuge with his sympathetic aunt. Dona Perfecta is just as traditional as any of the other townspeople though, and only suffers Pepe due to the fact that he is family. When Pepe and his cousin Rosario fall deeply in love, the situation quickly comes to a head.
La miel se fue de la luna
Act like Don Ernesto, padre de Mini
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.
Bugambilia
Act like Don Fernando
event1945 star_border 5.6
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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.
The Love Nest
Act like Sr. del Castillo
event1950 star_border 5
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Amalia, aged, remember when Fernando Mendoza, his former medical school, came to San Esteban, the town where she lived. They worked together and became his love. Although he was engaged to another, Fernando decided to return to the city to complete his commitment to her and finally reunited with Amalia, but the facts do not happen as they had planned.
Miguel Strogoff
Act like Ivan Ogareff
event1944 star_border 5.3
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A Russian courier has to deliver a message from the Czar to the Grand Duke across enemy lines .On the way he encounters adventures and colorful characters.
El rebelde (Romance de Antaño)
Act like Don Pablo de la Vega
event1945 star_border 5.6
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A landowner indirect kills another because of false rumors. Time passes. The son of the dead want the offender to pay their share. It becomes generous bandit, but then he meets the daughter of his enemy and falls in love.
The White Monk
Act like Padre provincial
event1945 star_border 5.7
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In an Italian monastery during the XIII century, a white image appears sculpted by Fray Paracleto humble mystically and sew clothes. Besides a mysterious woman appears Orsina Galata. She tells her story to the Father Provincial and thus dates back to his past.
Simón Bolívar
Act like General Pablo Morillo
event1942 star_border 5
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Biopic of the revolutionary Simón Bolívar who fought to end Spanish rule over much of Latin America.
The Torch
Act like Don Carlos Peñafiel
event1950 star_border 4.8
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The story of a fear-inspiring revolutionary general who develops a passion for the daughter of a wealthy villager. It's hate at first sight so far as the girl is concerned, but this will soon change.
The Witch
Act like Doctor Boerner
event1954 star_border 6.1
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Thieves break into a scientist's laboratory to steal a secret formula, and in the process they kill his daughter. Enraged, he develops a formula that will turn an extremely ugly woman into a spectacular beauty, and then uses the woman to take his revenge on those responsible for his daughter's murder.
La faraona
Act like Don Guillermo Prim Altamira
event1956 star_border 3.5
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Pastora Heredia is a beautiful gypsy with great character who always tries to help the needy. One day she gots the notice of the death of his grandfather, a millionaire who lived in Mexico and that since his father was angry, she knew nothing of him. However, as Pastora was his only granddaughter and sole heir of all his property, it does not hesitate to cross the pond to claim his inheritance. But once there is that Don Guillermo, grandfather, not dead.
Yo bailé con Don Porfirio
Act like Evaristo Mendizábal
event1942 star_border 6
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Light comedy in which Joaquin Cortes and Mapy Pardavé join their talents, written and directed by Gilberto Martinez Solares. It deals with the life of a pair of twins from a provincial family who emigrated to the city, then one begins to work in a music magazine and occasionally is confused with her sister, which causes problems with their respective boyfriends.
Los salvajes
Act like Padre de Yadira
event1958 star_border 5
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Pedro, a wealthy Mexican landowner, is convinced he can get everything he wants with money and arrogance.
Honeymoon
Act like Señor Gaspar Mendoza
event1947 star_border 6.4
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A prospective bride and groom have misadventures in Mexico City.
Píntame angelitos blancos
Act like Don Joaquín
event1954 star_border 5
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Orphaned by a father and children by a black mother, the little one is rejected by his grandmother, while the girl must deny her own mother.
La Devoradora
Act like Don Adolfo Gil
event1946 star_border 6.2
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After her lover commits suicide, Diana involves her fiancé and his nephew in a scheme to help her disappear with the corpse.
One Day of Life
Act like Manuel Ignacio Landa y Márquez del Toro Bravo
event1950 star_border 5.8
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A story about two men caught in the Mexican revolution: close friends before, but now on the opposite sides. One of them is military officer, while the other one expects capital punishment. The prisoner's mother comes to visit his son, unaware that his former best friend is now his enemy.
Yo no creo en los hombres
Act like Arango
event1955 star_border 2.6
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Based on the novel by Caridad Bravo Adams.
Camino de Sacramento
event1945 star_border 5.6
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Twin brothers, one of them a bandit, in Mexican California.
El Dios del Mar
event1930
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Spanish Version of Paramount's "The Sea God"
Rural captain
event1951 star_border 6.9
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Idealistic young police officer deals with corruption in local government.
Padre contra hijo
Act like Don Cecilio García
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.
La ladrona
event1954 star_border 5
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Twin sisters butt heads over a feller. One goes into a convent, the other becomes a professional thiefstress.
Eugenia Grandet
Act like Don Eugenio Grandet
event1953 star_border 6
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A miserly father quashes his daughter's marriage plans because he thinks her fiance is a fortune-hunter.
La Hija De La Otra
event1951 star_border 5
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Husband and wife raise hubby's extra-marital child when the birth mother rejects it.
Reportaje
Act like Surgeon
event1953 star_border 6.9
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Reporters compete for cash prize awarded for biggest scoop on New Year's Eve.
Locos Peligrosos
Act like Don Julio
event1957 star_border 5
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A cellist and a pianist, along with the daughter of the owner of a musical home, form a classical trio. A television producer challenges confronting the modern equipment. Accept and so begin a new career in popular music, so despises his former employer, thus limiting the affair between his daughter and one of them.
The Possession
event1950 star_border 5.6
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Two old friends get hinky with each other over the deed to a tract of land, and their children's engagement gets broken over it.
Hay lugar para... dos
event1949 star_border 5.5
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Union-organizing and labor/management conflicts among Mexico City bus-drivers. Sequel to "Esquina, Bajan!"
Red Rain
Act like Mr. Federico
event1950 star_border 5.7
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Military leader is appointed to local government, becomes overly despotic in his leadership.
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.
El gran premio
Act like Don Rubén Dario López de Urquijo
event1958 star_border 5.5
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Elderly home is struggling for funds; one of the residents competes on a game show to win a jackpot she can donate.
La loca de la casa
Act like Don Juan Moncada
event1950 star_border 5.7
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Novice nun returns to her parent's home to save the family fortune by marrying a creditor.
La bienamada
event1951 star_border 6
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Civic-minded elementary-school teacher marries and sets up home with wife and her little brother. The-e-n...
Ladrones de niños
event1958 star_border 5.5
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Kidnapping band has a system set up to transport infants and older children to black-market adoptive parents in the USA.
Take Me in Your Arms
Act like Don Antonio
event1954 star_border 5
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To pay off her father's debts, Rita leaves her humble fishing village in Yucatan and gets exploited by several men, including a married politician who turns her into a big dancing star.
El señor fotógrafo
Act like Roberto Alvírez
event1953 star_border 8.2
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Cantinflas, a traveling photographer, is captured by some gangsters while trying to get some flowers for his girlfriend. The gangsters have confused him with the assistant of Dr. Penongo, a scientist who has discovered the formula of a new atomic bomb. Meanwhile, Penongo has suffered a car accident and has lost his memory ...
Las Islas Marias
Act like Rector escuela militar
event1951 star_border 7.5
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Las Islas Marias stars Pedro Infante as a man who must face time in jail, even though he never committed the crime. While on the inside, he learns important life lessons that actually make him a better man.
The Three Musketeers
Act like Rey Luis XIII
event1942 star_border 7.2
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Cantinflas and three friends return a stolen necklace to an actress who invites them to be extras at Clasa studios. While on the set, he falls asleep and dreams that he is d'Artagnan, fighting on behalf of Queen Anne.
Mi madrecita
Act like Gustavo
event1940 star_border 5.5
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Woman faces the vicissitudes of life with her three adult children well in the background. But when the chips are down...
Two Ghosts and a Girl
event1959 star_border 5.4
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Two ghosts who died in a turn-of-the-century duel and now haunt a theater attempt to help a girl who's in danger from bank robbers.
Préstame tu cuerpo
Act like Dr. Meollo
event1958 star_border 5
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Heaven Can Wait scenario; a young woman dies forty years ahead of schedule because her guardian angel made a mistake... so the divine powers that be put her back on earth in a new body.
The Unknown Policeman
Act like Jefe de policía
event1941 star_border 7.8
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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.
Si usted no puede, yo sí
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.
Vertigo
event1945 star_border 6.9
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Young woman's fiance unexpectedly falls in love with her mom, and ends up arranging the young woman's death.
The Virgin who Forged a Fatherland
Act like Padre Hidalgo
event1942 star_border 6
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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.
El cardenal
event1951 star_border 5
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Mexican feature film
Here are the eagles!
event1957 star_border 5
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Two itinerant cowhands hire on at a ranch owned by a woman, end up fighting two bad-hats who rustle la patrona's cattle and set fire to her stables.
Confidencias de un ruletero
Act like Sr. Legazpi
event1949 star_border 6.3
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Taxi driver takes the wrong passenger at the wrong time and gets caught up in a murder investigation.
¡A volar, joven!
Act like Coronel
event1947 star_border 8
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Cantinflas is a private in the military, who doesn't know anything about discipline or following rules. He only wants to think about his girlfriend, the maid in an opulent hacienda. The owner of the hacienda has an ugly and shy daughter, who is in love with Cantinflas. The problems arrive when the family arranges a wedding between the ugly girl and Cantinflas, who in order to avoid the commitment gets himself arrested. During his punishment, Cantinflas learns to fly with a silly and poorly trained flight instructor.
El valor de vivir
event1954 star_border 5
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Concert pianist unjustly convicted of espionage. On release, he hooks up with a terminally-ill ballerina.
Tierra baja
Act like Don Tomás
event1951 star_border 5.5
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A poor shepherd is convinced to marry a beautiful woman. This is a Maquiavellian plan schemed by the woman's fiancé and her father.
Pepita Jimenez
Act like Tío cura
event1946 star_border 4.8
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On March 22, four days after returning to his home in Andalusia, Luis de Vargas writes the first of his letters to his uncle and favorite professor at the seminary. He reports that his father intends to fatten him up during his vacation, to have him ready to return in the fall to finish his training for the priesthood. He mentions in passing that his father is courting a twenty-year-old, attractive widow, Pepita Jiménez; his father is fifty-five years old. Pepita had been married for only a short time to an eighty-year-old moneylender named Gumersindo. Luis is not eager to see his father marry again, but he promises his uncle not to judge Pepita before he knows her.
El conde de Montecristo
Act like Abate Faria
event1942 star_border 5.3
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Adaptation of Dumas' swashbuckler classic.
Alejandra
Act like Manuel
event1942 star_border 6.3
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There's a lot of confusion about who Alejandra's parents are, and until those questions are resolved, she may not be able to get married.
Twilight
Act like Maestro de psiquiatria
event1945 star_border 5.5
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Doctor Alejandro Mangino falls in love with Lucía just before he goes on a round-the-world trip. Pining for her all the while, he returns to find that she’s married his best friend.
Quiero vivir
Act like Comandante Rodolfo Saldívar
event1953 star_border 5.8
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Man in the final stages of a fatal illness gets immersed in a new romance and a murder investigation.
¡Yo soy gallo dondequiera!
event1953 star_border 6.1
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Young man returns to his home town from USA to reclaim his inherited properties.
Wild Heart
Act like Francisco D'Autremont
event1956 star_border 5.6
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On the Caribbean island of Martinique, two half-brothers are involved in the entanglements of a frivolous and calculating young woman.
Corazón de niño
event1939 star_border 5
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All through the school-year with a teacher and his fifth-grade boys.
La casa de la zorra
event1945 star_border 5.5
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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.
Horas de agonía
event1958 star_border 5
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Nubile young woman seems to be quite free with her affections... but she has a deep, dark secret. Deep. Dark.
Adulterio
event1945 star_border 4.6
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Man commits suicide over his wife's infidelity. His father spends the rest of his life trying to figure out which of son's two children is illegitimate.
Mas alla del amor
event1946
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A street urchin helps a severe alcoholic with recovery, and he repays the favor by mentoring the boy and putting him through school. When the boy grows up, there are romantic problems to deal with...
Miradas que matan
event1954 star_border 5
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Sketchy TV personality exploits a busker with psychic powers for personal gain.
Felipe de Jesús
Act like Fray Pedro Bautista
event1949 star_border 6
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Biography of the first Catholic Saint to be born in Mexico.
Sangre en el barrio
event1952 star_border 5
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Slumlord and his daughter interfere in the lives of the proletariat for personal gratification.
Seven Cities of Gold
Act like Pilot Vila
event1955 star_border 5.5
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In 1769, a Spanish expedition to California seeks to conquer the land and discover its famed gold treasures while missionaries aim to gain new converts and establish a network of Catholic missions.
Passion Island
event1942 star_border 4
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1909, a detachment of the Mexican army commanded by Captain Allende moves to Clipperton, also called the Island of the Passion, in the Pacific. After the outbreak of the revolution, the island becomes administered by the government of France, events that in principle go unnoticed by the islanders.
Un divorcio
event1953 star_border 5.5
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Divorced woman has to deal with blowback from the fact that her second marriage is only a civil union and not a church wedding. Meanwhile, her young-adult son is falling in love with a divorcee of his own, and faing severe opposition from his father over his choice of partners..
La culpa de los hombres
Act like Juan Fonseca
event1955 star_border 5
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A factory worker gets pregnant by the son of her boss, who forces his son to marry a rich girl he doesn't love.
Morir para vivir
event1954 star_border 5.3
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A voodoo warlock turns a girl into a zombie, by the orders of her stepmother, so she can continue her affair with the girl's boyfriend.
Night Falls
Act like Sr. Villarreal
event1952 star_border 6.5
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Marcos is an arrogant jai-alai player who seduces and discards women until he himself becomes the object of a cunning revenge.
Law of the Harem
Act like Hassan
event1931
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When Renée Duval, a Frenchwoman who had been on her way to Venice, is discovered by Al-Hadi, an Arabian prince in the wreckage of an ambushed caravan it is just the beginning of a breathless adventure that will put both their lives at risk!
There Were Thirteen
Act like Doctor Lofton
event1931 star_border 6.8
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This is the Spanish-language version, with a different cast and crew, of the Charlie Chan film Charlie Chan Carries On, in which Charlie sets out to discover the killer of an American found dead in a London hotel room.
Cuatro horas antes de morir
event1953 star_border 5
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The film tells the intense countdown of a man sentenced to death.
Cuando los padres se quedan solos
Act like Don Damian
event1949 star_border 5
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Mom and dad make sacrifices for the sake of their adult children. And then more sacrifices. And more.
Story of a Great Love
Act like Don Elías
event1942 star_border 6.2
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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.
Soy Charro de Levita
Act like Don Agripino
event1949 star_border 6.3
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Tin-Tan and his carnal Marcelo take over Carmelita baby for a few hours, and suddenly, the three are hired by an employer of the tents, starting the funniest adventures you can imagine.
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