Gloria Schoemann

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Gloria Schoemann

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Mundo mágico
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Anthology movie that presents 3 stories about romance.
El barrendero
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A cheerful sweeper collects garbage dancing, and the maids of the neighborhood get jealous because he invites another woman out.
D.F./Distrito Federal
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Anthology film, six little anecdotes about life in the big city.
Fuego en el mar
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Uneventful but unhappy life of a guy who works on an oil platform in the Gulf Of Mexico.
En la trampa
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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...
El patrullero 777
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Follows Diogenes as he goes about his day as a police officer. He's prone to do things the right way, surrounded by a pretty much corrupt & citizen distant police department, & always resolves his duties with a personal method.
Los de abajo
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In this highly regarded Mexican war film, peasant Demetrio Macias leads a band of outlaws in a revolt against the Federales during the Mexican Revolution.
El ministro y yo
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Mateo Melgarejo is a notary public and scribe for the illiterate people of Santo Domingo, a neighborhood north of Mexico City's Zócalo. A squatter friend asks for his help in negotiating with the land census bureau to regularize a land title. After a great deal of frustration with the government bureaucracy, he writes a letter to the cabinet minister, earning an audience with him. The minister hires Melgarejo to reform the bureau, and the appointee proceeds to lecture the officials on their duties in a democratic society. At the end, he gives up the post, returning to Santo Domingo to help its poor residents.
Chanoc en el foso de las serpientes
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Chanoc and Tzekub are hired to hunt two black jaguars, but they've tasted human flesh and strange occurrences have been going on.
Looking for a Wall
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The life of the Mexican muralist José Clemente Orozco and his quest to create a career in New York.
Conserje en Condominio
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After reading in the newspaper, Úrsulo runs to seek employment. It is the position of caretaker of a luxury apartment building habited by people more heterogeneous: the professional model, the spiritualist, hippies and all turn to him to solve their problems. But someone in the building, kidnapped an important person and Úrsulo becomes a private investigator.
Las tarántulas
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From the 'Chanoc' series of comic-book adaptations: Chanoc and his entourage face off against a jewel thief who has eyes on a shipwrecked treasure lying off the coast.
El metiche
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Clownish simpleton can't resist meddling in his neighbors' business. Pretty much a remake of El Reveltoso.
Panic
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Three tales of horror, isolation and insanity set in Mexico.
The Crazy Virgins
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Handsome young swindler throws himself into the clutches of three rich spinsters who live in their own little fantasy world on their crumbling estate.
Chanoc vs. the Tiger and the Vampire
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Chanoc must defeat an evil vampire known as Count Frankenhausen.
Capulina vs. the Vampires
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Delivery boy answers a call to take some food to that huge spooky mansion on the hill behind the cemetery.
The Moderate Doctor
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Underqualified doofus tries to run a medical clinic.
Espérame en Siberia, vida mía
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Debauched playboy has a hypochondriac streak and an unscrupulous doctor that profits from it.
El profe
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Mario Moreno portrays a professor in this movie. A small town in the middle of no where requests the school Mario Moreno is working in for a teacher. He ends up going to give the town a hand. When he arrives he comes to know the corrupt leaders who through out the movie try to make him leave. Although he is being harassed you can see how much he cares for the kids and their circumstances. He deals with problems by using his hilarious comments.
La Generala
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During the Mexican Revolution, a hardened and rich lady landowner is overtaken by the violence of the times. Losing her land and house, she falls in love with a revolutionary leader that is killed by a sadistic and corrupt federal officer. She takes the revolutionary flag and leads a rampage of violence and destruction.
La agonía de ser madre
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She has an incurable heart condition, her son's a shoplifter, her husband's an alcoholic, her daughter runs away from home...
The Useless Life of Pito Pérez
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A man goes on a trip and then returns to his village pretending that everything went well for him.
Why Was I Born Woman?
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A family gathers to celebrate Mother's Day, that day a woman discuss many problems about her woman condition; husband, children and grandchildren will hear she tired and overwhelmed silenced by submission and obedience. Analysis of the family and gender roles.
Santo vs. Capulina
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Calpuina is a night-watchman in a wharehouse, a perfect job for him. When some thieves break in and steal some crates, El Santo is after them because they are using the wharehouse for diamond smuggling. Capulina hinders their capture. Then he decides that he will put on a wrestler's mask and help El Santo to caputre the crooks.
Blue Demon y las invasoras
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Title says it all. Wrestler, interplanetary babes...
Un Quijote sin mancha
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A lawyer trying to fix everyone's problems, instead causes problems, which always end up in funny situations.
Operación carambola
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Two clumsy and absent-minded spies (Capulina and Chespirito) are hired to save the world from a nuclear attack.
The Specter's Road
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A group of people, including Capulina and Viruta, head towards the city by train. A heavy storm interrupts their journey and now they must take a haunted path to reach they city. (English Subtitled)
Dos pintores pintorescos
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Two house-painters go to art school. Also bad guys try to kill them.
Pedro Paramo
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When his mother Dolores dies, Juan Preciado, son of Pedro Páramo, goes to Comala to claim his inheritance; but when he arrives he finds an abandoned and sinister place, inhabited by mysterious voices and whispers…
Los dos rivales
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Ranchera comedy -- the hero thinks his girlfriend has another suitor... but the suitor is really she herself in man-drag.
Dos meseros majaderos
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Comic duo are stalked by a serial killer.
Juan Colorado
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Silvia's father wants to marry her off to Rafael who, out of jealousy, wants to finish off Juan. Silvia dresses up as Juan to save his skin.
The Waltzes came from Vienna and the Children from Paris
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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 Golden Cockerel
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A poor, but very lucky man in the cock fighting, is hired by a rich man, but both are in love with the same woman
Así amaron nuestros padres
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Elderly roue interferes in the love life of a young woman because she's secretly his daughter. Remake of En Tiempos De Don Porfirio.
Autumn Days
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Luisa is a small-town girl who works in the bakery of the widower Don Albino. Luisa dreams of marrying and loves children. Just as Don Albino shows interest in her, Luisa announces that she will marry soon with Carlos, the driver of a rich house whom she met recently...
The Invasion of the Vampires
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A doctor and his assistant hunt down a vampire named Count Frankenhausen, who is terrorizing the populace.
The Bloody Vampire
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Count Cagliostro, whose family has tried for generations to rid the world of vampires, instructs his daughter and her fiance to protect several valuable documents.
Little Town
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Reactionary local "Big Daddy" tries to prevent a school being built in his district.
The White Rose
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An international oil company comes into conflict with a Mexican ranch owner who refuses to sell his land, resorting to a devious scheme to try to take over the property.
The Phantom of the Operetta
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Aldo and his girlfriend Lucy reopen an abandoned opera house, but find out that the place is inhabited by a group of Phantoms wearing the Claude Rains 1943 Phantom of the Opera costume.
La tijera de oro
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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.
Macario
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Poor, hungry peasant Macario longs for just one good meal on the Day of the Dead. After his wife cooks a turkey for him, he meets three apparitions, the Devil, God, and Death. Each asks him to share his turkey, but he refuses all except Death. In return, Death gives him a bottle of water which will heal any illness. Soon, Macario is more wealthy than the village doctor, which draws the attention of the feared Inquisition.
Beyond All Limits
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This typical Mexican melodrama is set in a coastal fishing village where a wealthy fisherman lives with his wife and young son. Their lives are turned upside down when an American of dubious morality comes into town. The American and the fisherman's wife had been lovers years and years ago -- and now the fisherman begins to suspect that the son he always thought was his, is really the offspring of this foreign intruder.
Una cita de amor
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The story of the doomed love between Soledad and Román. She is the daughter of a rich man that wants to marry her with Ernesto, nephew of his friend, the judge. Román owns a little ranch. A brawl in the town will unleash several deaths that will affect the already difficult relationship.
The Head of Pancho Villa
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Rival factions struggle over a box that was entrusted by Pancho Villa to several members of his higher command. Second of three films in series "El jinete sin cabeza."
El jinete sin cabeza
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A mute phantom hero takes on skull-masked killers, a disembodied living hand and a corpse that won't stay in its grave. This is the first in a trilogy of horror/western hybrids that also includes the films La marca de Satanás ("The Mark of Satan") and La cabeza de Pancho Villa ("The Head of Pancho Villa").
Cada hijo, una cruz
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Empty nest syndrome, #1388.
Talpa
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Produced on a grand scale, the Mexican Talpa relates the simple story of two brothers. The older of the siblings, Tanilo (Victor Manuel Mendoza) is a well-to-do family man; the other, Estaban (Jamie Fernandez), is one step above a wastrel. When Tanilo is felled by illness, Estaban is forced to take over the family's blacksmith business. He also inaugurates a romance with Tanilo's attractive young wife Juana (Lilia Prado). Punishment is eventually doled out in a manner which suggests that God Himself is exacting retribution on the adulterous couple. Originally released at 87 minutes, Talpa was pared down to 73 minutes for American consumption.
Los amantes
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Mexican feature film
Unfaithful Wives
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A bunch of stories where wives are unfaithful for different reasons: money, revenge or pleasure.
Love and Sin
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A dramatic encounter between passionate love and fraternal love. Two brothers fall in love with the same woman, played by the beautiful dancer Ninón Sevilla, an orphan they rescued during their childhood. Though she loves only one of them, she decides to give up her happiness rather than destroying the reason of the other she doesn't love.
Los hijos de Rancho Grande
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Sequel to Alla en el Rancho Grande, twenty years later -- sons and daughters of the original characters go through a courtship melodrama of their own.
Where the Circle Ends
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A woman murders her lover. Her husband and his mistress are also having murder-shaped thoughts, and their three counterplots all get tangled together. Everybody loses.
Arm in Arm Down the Street
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Unhappy young married couple argue and almost break up their marriage.
La mujer ajena
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Padre contra hijo
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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.
El medallón del crimen
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Going out for a drink with the guys after work, a salaryman get in over his head with a gangster's moll and a murder.
El caso de la mujer asesinadita
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Ghosts and premonitions; a married woman discovers the true love of her life while being plagued with supernatural phenomena relating to her imminent murder. It's a comedy.
X Murderer
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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.
Untouched
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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.
Take Me in Your Arms
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Fishing-village girl sacrifices her reputation to the local banker to protect her family; fron there, she follows the path of least resistance, but she never forgets the fiance she left behind...
The Abduction
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In a small Mexican village the news shock neighbors, Ricardo Alfaro, a wealthy local rancher has disappeared without a trace. Taking advantage of the circumstance, Aurora Campos, a strong woman with overwhelming beauty, convinces the authorities to sell her the property in exchange for twelve thousand dollars. Soon after, when Ricardo suddenly reappears, a real battle is about to begin.
Rebellion of the Hanged
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A peasant who works in a mahogany camp in the Mexican jungles with his family is disgusted with the miserable living conditions imposed upon himself and his co-workers, the peasant finally spearheads a revolt against the sadistic bosses.
The Boy and the Fog
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Marta is obsessed with protecting her son from the genetic predisposition to schizophrenia that she has hidden from her husband.
Reportaje
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Reporters compete for cash prize awarded for biggest scoop on New Year's Eve.
Dos tipos de cuidado
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Jorge Bueno and Pedro Malo are best friends who consider giving up their womanizing ways when they each fall in love. As fate would have it, Pedro Malo unexpectedly marries Jorge Bueno's girlfriend, and the conflict between the former buddies begins. A year later they find themselves in the same town and confront each other once and for all.
Here Come The Freeloaders
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Authorities close down a restaurant after a violent crime is committed on the premises; the employees look for new jobs and try to track down the murderer.
Por ellas aunque mal paguen
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Don Anastacio, an aristocrat passing through a rough patch,He will make marry his daughter Isabel with wealthy rancher. Isabel and her family refuse to work, Jose Manuel takes them to the ranch, where they are forced to work for food.
El mar y tu
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La huella de unos labios
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Woman prostitutes herself to the man who murdered her fiance, to get evidence of his guilt and bring him to trial.
Siempre tuya
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Husband and wife leave their farm and move to the big city. Husband becomes a famous ranchera singer.
Sandwiches Here!
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College students, ready to start entering adult society, are ashamed of their working-class backgrounds.
Por querer a una mujer
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Ranch melodrama: romantic triangle leads to multiple murders.
Las Islas Marias
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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.
Víctimas del pecado
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A nightclub performer decides to raise the baby boy she found abandoned in a trash can, putting her job and social life in jeopardy.
El Cristo de mi Cabecera
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1830s, guerrillas in the hills resisting the French occupation. Meanwhile, their leader has a French officer and another guy chasing after his fiancé, and...
One Day of Life
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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.
Inmaculada
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A single mother discovers her daughter getting ready to elope with an unworthy boyfriend, so she sits the girl down and tells her the whole entire story of her own very unhappy marriage.
Entre tu amor y el cielo
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Las puertas del presidio
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Unscrupulous boss frames an employee for a robbery so he can make time with the guy's sister.
La malquerida
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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.
Opio
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Salon Mexico
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Mercedes (Marga Lopez) dances for money with the clients of Salon Mexico, a famous cabaret in Mexico City. Her younger sister Beatriz (Derbez) studies in an expensive private school, paid by Mercedes. Obviously, young Beatriz doesn't know about her sister's job. Troubles begin when Mercedes wins a danzon contest with Paco (Acosta), her pimp. Paco refuses to share the prize with Mercedes, so she steals the money when he's sleeping.
Ahí vienen los Mendoza
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Two brothers "out on the ranch" fight over girls and stuff.
Maclovia
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On a small Mexican island dwells a group of Indians who live in the traditional manner and who disdain outsiders. The beautiful Maclovia and the poverty-stricken Jose Maria are in love, but her father refuses to allow their marriage, or even any communication between them, due to Jose Maria's lack of means.
Río Escondido
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Called by the Mexican President himself, and in spite of a heart condition, young teacher Rosaura Salazar travels to the deserted town of Rio Escondido to accomplish the mission of bringing education to the poorest people. Being there, Salazar has to fight Regino Sandoval the evil landlord of the town. He has transformed the town into his own property, imposing his will and spreading death everywhere.
Gran Casino
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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.
The Pearl
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A poor Mexican diver discovers a valuable pearl in the ocean, but it brings his family only trouble
Enamorada
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In Mexican Revolution times, a guerrilla general and his troops take the conservative town of Cholula, near by Mexico City. As the revolutionaries mistreat the town's riches, Armendáriz falls for beautiful and wild Beatriz Peñafiel, the daughter of one of the town's richest men.
El socio
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A former singer, determined to succeed in business, comes up with a partner and just believing their existence. In the end, wake up ...
Sol y sombra
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A drama film directed by Rafael E. Portas.
Pepita Jimenez
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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.
Bugambilia
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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.
Adam, Eve and the Devil
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La corte de faraón
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Remotely based on a famous Spanish zarzuela of 1910, this lavish, daring sex comedy was filmed on a gigantic art deco set that suggests ancient Egypt repurposed for an Astaire and Rogers musical. The Pharaoh, played here as a henpecked husband by the popular comedian Roberto Soto, seeks a virginal slave girl as a bride for his general Potiphar (Fernando Cortés), but Potiphar is impotent and the slave girl (played by Mapy Cortés in a swirl of high-spirited sexuality) has some ideas of her own.
Mexico of my Memories
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After listening to the waltz "Carmelita", dedicated to his wife, President Diaz instructs Don Susanito seeking the composer Chucho Flores to give her a piano. Don Susanito located Chucho, a bohemian who lives drunk and surrounded by poets and artists. Don Susanito was named patron protector of artists and aspiring young stars of the stage, which leads to a series of adventures in the middle of songs, dances and loves.
La mujer sin cabeza
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Mexican Fu Manchu adaptation.
Maria Candelaria
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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.
Another Dawn
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The disaffected wife of a failed civil servant, is thrilled to re-encounter Octavio, a former lover who is now a union activist on the run from a corrupt politician. Hoping to help him, she descends into the Mexican underworld, where she finds a purpose-and a thrill-missing from her married life.
Yo bailé con Don Porfirio
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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.
Hombres del mar
María Luisa
A 1938 film.