
Birthday:
07-12-1903
Deathday:
01-01-1987 (83 years)
Birthplace:
Gibara, Cuba
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Una gallega en La Habana
event1955 star_border 5.2
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Cándida's boyfriend left her in Spain to go to work to Havana. After twenty years without news, she decides to go look for him, although the only thing she knows of him is his name. In the port of Havana, she is confused with a jewel smuggler, which kicks off a series of comical events.
The Waltzes came from Vienna and the Children from Paris
event1966 star_border 4.4
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Unmarried opera singer has a baby, and her friends convince her to pass it off as the grandchild of a wealthy old lady.
The Big Dead Dog
Act like Sr. Pichardo
event1981 star_border 7
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In a small town a dead dog lays on the middle of the main street. A bureaucratic process begins to determine who is responsible for removing it
El testamento
Act like Don Pancho
event1981 star_border 5
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After the death of her husband the industrialist, unprepared trophy-wife takes over the management of his business concerns.
The Incredible Professor Zovek
event1972 star_border 5.4
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Escape-artist-mentalist-martial-arts superhero vs. mad scientist and monsters.
Betrayal of Faith
Act like Pharmacist
event1957 star_border 5
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Fishing captain suspects his wife of infidelity and runs her off. He sours on female companionship, but he gradually warms to the company of his village's new schoolteacher. Meanwhile...
Santa
Act like Jarameño
event1932 star_border 5.6
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Santa is a beautiful and very humble young girl living in Chimalistac, a small and quiet spot south of the 1930's Mexico City. After Santa is cheated by arrogant soldier Marcelino, she's rejected by her family and friends and expelled of Chimalistac. Santa finds shelter in a whorehouse and becomes a cinic and bitter woman, mistreated by bullfighter "Jarameno" and silently loved by blind pianist Hipólito.
Faith, Hope and Charity
Act like Notario (segment "Esperanza")
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.
Tivoli
Act like Pueyo
event1975 star_border 7
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While trying to save the famous Tivoli burlesque theater, the participants uncover a web of commercial corruption.
Cuando los hijos se pierden
Act like Lic. Adolfo Gómez Brinder
event1963 star_border 5
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Young woman's parents don't supervise her activities closely enough; she ends up going to a beatnik nightclub and dancing the twist and getting raped.
The Girls Aunt
Act like Doctor Fernando Rubio
event1938 star_border 4.3
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Two middle-aged no-goodniks are trying to marry two young ladies; two age-appropriate young men concoct a scheme to prevent it, which involves one of them masquerading as the young ladies' aunt.
Cruz Diablo
Act like Carlos
event1934 star_border 5.3
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16th-century swashbuckler; evil nobleman usurps another man's title and properties and forces his daughter to marry a political ally. But Cruz Diablo will have revenge!
Ahora seremos felices
event1939
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Alma falls in love with Julio, a famous singer, but her parents oppose the idea thinking that it's just one more of her rich girl whims.
Cruel destino
event1944 star_border 5
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Two children grow up together and when the girl gets married, the young man realizes that he has always been in love with her.
Divorciadas
event1943 star_border 5
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Three newly unmarried women room together, start a business, share the ups and downs of their love lives
The Man and the Beast
event1973 star_border 4.4
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Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, adapted once again.
Legacy of the Crying Woman
event1947 star_border 5.2
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A hacienda seem to be haunted by La Llondra, the crying woman.
Así es mi tierra
Act like Filomeno
event1937 star_border 7.6
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With revolutionary Mexico as a backdrop, a successful local rancher returns triumphant from the war to the praise of townsfolk, and "El General" is ready to take a wife. However the senorita of choice already has fallen for a secret admirer, and a boyhood rival who is threatened by the General's popularity in turn plots against his life.
Malditas sean las mujeres
Act like Gilberto de Velasco
event1936 star_border 5
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A tragicomic piece based on a novella by Manuel Ibo Alfaro.
El derecho y el deber
event1937 star_border 5.4
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Officer comes home from the Revolution to discover that he's been declared dead and that his wife has remarried and given his lands to another man.
Guadalupe La Chinaca
event1938 star_border 5
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1830s: An officer from the French army and a leader of the insurgency are both in love with Ms. Guadalupe.
La edad de piedra
event1964 star_border 5.3
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Capulina chip and are transported back to prehistoric times with a time machine. There they live crazy adventures.
The Fight with the Panther
Act like Mercedes' Father
event1975 star_border 4.9
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Three nymphets struggle to have a beneficial youth: Ana is suicidal, Mercedes is attracted to her brother William, and Patricia desires to be sexually abused.
La esfinge maragata
Act like Antonio Salvadores
event1950
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The action takes place on a Maragata hacienda that is sinking into misery, whose situation can only be solved through a marriage of convenience. But the marriageable girl, during a train trip, falls in love with a young poet and is reciprocated. Her family is opposed to this relationship, since they have promised her to marry a man of good standing.
Eterna mártir
Act like Fernando Molina
event1937 star_border 5.3
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A dedicated wife and mother takes the blame for embezzling money that was actually stolen by her husband in order to buy medicine and a doctor's care for the couple's seriously ill infant son. Consequently, the well-meaning woman is willingly sentenced to years in prison for a crime she did not commit-all because she believes her son will fare better if the bond between father and son remains intact. Upon her release, she soon discovers that no good deed goes unpunished. Her once loving husband has remarried a woman that her son calls Mother, After just a brief glimpse of her loved ones, she simply leaves without saying a word. Many years later, she becomes a patient at her son's busy medical practice just so that she can keep an eye on his progress in secret. In a cruel twist of fate, it is only after he diagnoses her as being terminally ill does does she reveal her true identity. The poor woman subsequently learns that her former father-in-law lied about her initial release from ...
La última lucha
Act like Agente de policía
event1959 star_border 5.8
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Slice-of-life melodrama: backstage at the wrestling arena.
Cuartelazo
Act like Viejo en cementerio
event1977 star_border 5.2
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Narration of one of the bloodiest episodes of the Mexican national history, The Tragic Ten, beginning when General Victoriano Huerta sent to kill President Francisco I. Madero, Vice President José María Pino Suárez and Senator Belisario Dominguez. The film recreates the moment of the execution at the hands of Huerta and his accomplices Bernardo Reyes, Félix Díaz and Manuel Mondragón.
Mark of the Dead Man
Act like Alcaide
event1961 star_border 5.2
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Mad scientist brings his dead mad scientist grandfather back to life and makes a Frankenstein-type monster out of him.
Call Me Mike
Act like Judge
event1979 star_border 5.8
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After being unjustly accused of corruption and seriously injured in prison, Miguel's personality will merge with the characters he reads in his police novels.
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