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The assassination of Pancho Villa, on the outskirts of Parral, Chihuahua, plunged the city into mourning, and a wake for the revolutionary hero was held by his closest collaborators. Conspicuous among the mourners were the four women with whom Villa was having intimate relationships at the time of his death. Now that Villa is no longer around to mediate and keep them apart, tensions between the women grow and intensify, with unexpected consequences. An intimate and human portrait of the Centaur of the North.
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A thriller about four young people who investigate the murder of a woman who worked in the National Archive. They discover that she had stolen documents incriminating an ex president and a high level police officer involved in crimes during the Dirty War.
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Violent death of a loan shark investigated by diligent policeman.
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General Pershing invades Mexican territory in retaliation for Villa's attack on the town of Columbus.
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A priest recruits some secular friends of his to help him break the stranglehold a political boss has over their town's economy.
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A group of young people lives in a world of drugs and crime, they wanna be free.
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Drug-trade kingpin tries to coerce a woman into marriage, but her former boyfriend turns up and she finds new reasons to resist being pressured.
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Lamberto Quintero is assassinated and his son intends to avenge him following in his footsteps. The pair of father and son, Antonio Aguilar and Pepe Aguilar star in this action film.
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Son looks for his father's murderer.
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Son looks for his father's murderer.
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A young man gets involved in the drug trade and is murdered. His father sets out to find the killers.
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Historical melodrama on horseback, 1840s or so in central Mexico. Pulpy, Zorro-ish...
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Antonio Aguilar in this great movie starring the king of diamonds where the fairs were not fair if it was the king of diamonds.
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A movie projectionist discovers that he has magical powers.
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The struggle between two rival families brings many complications into the life of a people. The priest, with the agreement of the women, get a strike of crossed legs until peace is a fact.
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Song/action clips from 8 or 12 movies that starred Antonio Aguilar as historical figures, with an onscreen narrator who splains things.
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Song/action clips from 8 or 12 movies that starred Antonio Aguilar as historical figures, with an onscreen narrator who splains things.
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Gumaro and his buddy Chon are among the First Citizens locally. One day, unexpectedly, twin brothers of both of them turn up in town. Adaptation of A Comedy Of Errors.
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Slice of life covering four or five days in a badly run-down neighborhood. Matriarch of a slum family dies unexpectedly; relatives from neighboring blocks cope with the loss and arrange her funeral.
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General Argumedo refuses to disband his troops at the end of the Mexican Revolution because he doesn't trust the new regime.
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In "Sabor a Sangre" (literally, "Flavor of Blood"), Antonio Aguilar plays Mauricio Rosales, whom along his good friend Chelelo (Eleazar García) are traveling towards another friend's ranch. During their trip, they find the dead bodies of a group of men, so they take them to the next town hoping to find some answers. At the town, they are informed that the dead men were a posse sent by police chief Rómulo (José Gálvez) to kill "El Tigre", a mysterious serial killer who has been hunting down the townspeople, viciously killing even women and children. (cont. http://w-cinema.blogspot.de/2008/03/sabor-sangre-1977.html)
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Biopic about a General in the Mexican Revolution. Sequel: Persecucion y muerte de Benjamin Argumedo.
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Woman goes vigilante to avenge her son's murder, infiltrates smuggling ring.
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A group of friends go to the United States to hit it big as a musical group and follow the American Dream.
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Mom and Pop Aguilar and their two boys tour the island.
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Dramatization of a popular '70s corrido.
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Good son vs bad son melodrama complicates life on the hacienda.
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Good son vs bad son melodrama complicates life on the hacienda.
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Mexican Revolution era: a guerilla faction kidnaps two members of a governing family to negotiate a ransom.
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Mexican Revolution era: a guerilla faction kidnaps two members of a governing family to negotiate a ransom.
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Doddering old man makes a play for a married woman. Her husband gets practical joke-y in revenge.
Screenplay
The peasant and revolutionary Zapatista Simon Blanco still in arms but Zapata is dead. Simon with his lieutenant Andres visits his mother and his girlfriend in his hometown. The cacique Onesimo and his brother, the commissioner Martial put ambushes but he eludes them.
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The peasant and revolutionary Zapatista Simon Blanco still in arms but Zapata is dead. Simon with his lieutenant Andres visits his mother and his girlfriend in his hometown. The cacique Onesimo and his brother, the commissioner Martial put ambushes but he eludes them.
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Biopic: the last year or so in the life of Felipe Carrillo Puerto, Governor of Yucatan in the early 1920s.
Screenplay
After the Revolution, Villa works on defining his legacy... and then he gets assassinated.
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After the Revolution, Villa works on defining his legacy... and then he gets assassinated.
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Landowner counts on his super-champeen race-horse to help him win back the hacienda he was swindled out of.
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Landowner counts on his super-champeen race-horse to help him win back the hacienda he was swindled out of.
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Two best friends tragically fall in love with the same woman.
Adaptation
Tizoc wishes to eat a chicken by himself and have his own piñata. At Christmas his father Carmelo grants his wish.
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The Kid is a vicious psychopath given to laughing a lot, an actor manqué who leads a gang of looters and rapists, and is incestuous with his father to boot. The town’s resident Mater Dolorosa, madam of the brothel, hires her lover Marcado to kill the Kid, who is of course her son.
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This is the story of a man, Emiliano Zapata, and of a revolution, the Mexican Revolution.
Story
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.
Screenplay
A woman has several lovers, her husband discovers her with one of them, and both men are mistaken for robbers.
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Satan offers a weary ghost a chance for redemption through true love.
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A man and his godson fall in love with the same woman.
Additional Writing
A deaf and mute vagabond finds a large denomination bill in a Mexico City dump, and while he tries to buy something with it, others try to con him into giving it away. The film was selected as the Mexican entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 36th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.
