Armando Valdés Peza

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La casa de las muchachas
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A whore house is transformed into a decent household by a respectable man.
The Devil's Visitations
Costume Design
A young architect returns from Europe to live in the house of his uncles and cousins, where someone pretends to be the Devil.
Atrás de las nubes
Costume Design
All it says in my notes is "Like 'Juan Sin Miedo', only with soldiers." So... Army officer seeks revenge for... something...
Pilotos de la muerte
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A couple of provincial gas station employees travel to the capital seeking fortune of vehicle mechanics accidental career passing drivers.
The Shadow of the Strongman
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Post-revolucionary Mexico. War secretary Ignacio Jimenez is chosen as the candidate for presidency, but he isn't so sure about it, because he knows that his boss and current president, El Caudillo, has chosen a second one.
Os Ambiciosos
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Aroused citizens assassinate an unpopular Caribbean despot, then two men vie for his gorgeous widow Ines. Ojeda is a steamy, isolated island, the penal colony for an oppressive dictatorship. A reactionary seizes the murdered governor's post, and rushes to eliminate his romantic rival, an idealistic underling. The bureaucrat Vazquez hopes to marshal the angry residents of the capitol, El Pao, plus the many political prisoners, to oust Governor Gual.
Two Ghosts and a Girl
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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.
Born to Love
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The Living Idol
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An archaeologist believes a Mexican woman is the reincarnation of an Aztec princess.
La mujer ajena
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Escravos do Rancor
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Gone several years, the brooding Alejandro returns to the hacienda of his foster sister, Catalina, whom he loves, to find her married to the wealthy and effete Eduardo.
Camelia
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A woman of low estate is beloved of a promising young man, but sacrifices her love for him in order to protect his future and reputation.
La perversa
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Working-class girl becomes a Kept Woman, violating all of man's laws and God's Mandates.
The Three Perfect Married
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Three married couples gather to celebrate the eighteenth anniversary of their marriage mourning the absence of a friend who was best man at all three weddings.
Fruto prohibido
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A writer is given custody of his editor's daughter after she is orphaned. Once she grows up, they become romantically involved.
La cobarde
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A stranded ship. A man and two boys go to its rescue - uncle Arturo and his two nephews. The ship is empty, except for a little girl - the only survivor.
Doña Perfecta
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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.
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.
Girls in Uniform
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Orphan Manuela's passionate crush on her teacher Lucila scandalizes their all-girl Catholic school.
Mujeres sacrificadas
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Nightclub dancer comes unglued after killing a man.
Desired
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A man comes to a village to marry a girl, but upon meeting the bride's sister, he falls in love with her.
The Devil Is a Woman
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A woman, after committing a murder, flees into a church, confessing her life story to a priest.
Red Rain
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Military leader is appointed to local government, becomes overly despotic in his leadership.
An Ordinary Woman
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A woman who has walked out of an unhappy marriage is unsuccessful trying to earn herself a new living and gets mixed with a man who is a murderer and tries to incriminate her.
Mare nostrum
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The Spanish merchant "Mare Nostrum", captained by Ulises Ferragut, docked in September 1939 at the port of Naples to repair a breakdown. Walking through the ruins of Pompeii, Ferragut meets Freyra, an enigmatic and beautiful woman of whom she instantly falls madly in love, unaware that the girl is in fact a dangerous spy of the Third Reich.
Revancha
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A man steals to buy medicine for his sick mother but when she dies he gets into drug trafficking at a local cabaret.
Algo flota sobre el agua
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Labor disputes and love triangles among coastal-village fishermen.
May God Forgive Me
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Concentration Camp survivor tries to start over with a new identity.
La vida íntima de Marco Antonio y Cleopatra
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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.
La mujer que engañamos
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Woman chooses between two suitors. The lucky one is a cad and cheats on her, the one who was rejected hangs around in the background to set things right whenever she has a problem.
La monja alférez
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A 17th century woman, imprisoned for fighting in a bar, recounts her past to a priest. She tells of her father teaching her how to fence, of being sent to a convent by her aunt when her father died, of escaping by dressing as a man, and of her life as a man following the escape.
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.
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.
Wild Flower
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The film features Fernandez himself as a character named Rogellio Torres. The lion's share of the footage, however, is devoted to the romance between Esperanza, granddaughter of a common laborer, and Jose Luis Castro, the firebrand son of a landowner. Joining a revolutionary movements, Castro is disowned by his father, but Esperanza remains loyally by his side. Later on, Castro's father is killed by outlaws; in seeking vengeance, he sacrifices his own life, while Esperanza carries on his revolutionary work with their young son in tow.
The Spirit's Canyon
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The love between María Ángela and Fernando is impossible because there's an ancient history of hate between their families. His father killed hers, and other family members have killed each other for years. When María Ángela's grandfather finds she's in love with Fernando, he frames the young man and forces her to marry Manuel. Maria Ángela finds that Manuel doesn't love her and together plan her escape with Fernando. But things go wrong and the lovers find their destiny in The Spirit's Canyon.
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.