René Cardona

René Cardona

Born: October 9, 1905
Died: April 25, 1988
in Havana, Cuba

Movies for René Cardona...

Viva la risa II
Title: Viva la risa II
Released: January 1, 1989
Type: Movie
Mexican feature film
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Las limpias
Title: Las limpias
Released: March 12, 1987
Type: Movie
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Yo el ejecutor
Title: Yo el ejecutor
Released: February 19, 1987
Type: Movie
A retired mercenary known as 'The Executioner', is forced to take one more case especially when his girlfriend is kidnapped and raped, he then wages a one-man war against the mob with his execution style.
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¡Maten al fugitivo!
Title: ¡Maten al fugitivo!
Released: January 1, 1986
Type: Movie
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La Casa Que Arde de Noche
Title: La Casa Que Arde de Noche
Character: American
Released: June 28, 1985
Type: Movie
A prostitute enters a brothel and establishes a rivalry faking love with the old owner.
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Siempre en domingo
Title: Siempre en domingo
Released: September 20, 1984
Type: Movie
Behind the scenes at a popular TV variety show, highly fictionalized.
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La banda de la sotana negra
Title: La banda de la sotana negra
Released: July 2, 1983
Type: Movie
Three punk cholos in Tijuana steal cassocks from a church so they can do crimes better.
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The Fury of the Karate Experts
Title: The Fury of the Karate Experts
Character: Professor Williams
Released: December 17, 1982
Type: Movie
An evil priestess and her twin sister battle for control of a powerful crystal.
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Savage Summer
Title: Savage Summer
Character: Papá
Released: August 7, 1980
Type: Movie
The legend of their beach days, plus nights of sex.
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Crónica roja
Title: Crónica roja
Released: December 13, 1979
Type: Movie
After one is arrested - possibly unjustly - for murder, the lives of two brothers spiral out of control.
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El Llanto de los Pobres
Title: El Llanto de los Pobres
Released: September 7, 1978
Type: Movie
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Cyclone
Title: Cyclone
Released: July 21, 1978
Type: Movie
An airplane goes down in the ocean during a storm and a few survivors find refuge on a small tour boat. Swept out to sea, these people slowly starve to death in the hot sun with barely any food or clean water. With no place to turn, the boat survivors resort to cannibalism to stay alive...that is ..until the rescue planes come to pick them up and the man eating sharks decide its time to eat as well.
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The Children of Sanchez
Title: The Children of Sanchez
Released: June 16, 1978
Type: Movie
Hall Bartlett directs the rural drama The Children of Sanchez, based on the tome The Children of Sanchez: Autobiography of a Mexican Family written by Oscar Lewis in the '60s. Anthony Quinn stars as the widowed Jesus Sanchez, a poor farmer struggling to provide for his family in Mexico City. Also starring Lupita Ferrer as Consuelo and Stathis Giallelis as Roberto. This is the last film in the 50-year career of international star Dolores del Rio, who plays the Grandma. Jazz-pop performer Chuck Mangione was nominated for a Golden Globe and won a Grammy award for his original musical score.
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Raza de viboras
Title: Raza de viboras
Released: April 27, 1978
Type: Movie
Mentally-ill eldest son creates havoc within an old-money farming family.
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Tempestad
Title: Tempestad
Released: January 1, 1978
Type: Movie
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La casta divina
Title: La casta divina
Character: Consul Cubano
Released: November 17, 1977
Type: Movie
Chronicle Caste War in Yucatan held in the nineteenth century, where the land and the people were the property of the landowners, who called themselves " divine caste ". On one hand, General Salvador Alvarado organized the revolution; on the other, the landowners hire Colonel Ortiz Argumedo to organized the defense of their autonomy. Don Wilfrido, one of the masters, do not hesitate to send his son to fight to maintain their wealth and privileges.
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Prisión de mujeres
Title: Prisión de mujeres
Character: Mr. Williams
Released: September 15, 1977
Type: Movie
'Prisión de Mujeres' is a film by Fernando A. Rivero that narrates a harsh reality: the strength of women in a prison, how they lose their dignity and do not stop for anything.
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La folle de Chaillot
Title: La folle de Chaillot
Character: Le rentier
Released: June 30, 1976
Type: Movie
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Fantastic Voyage in a Baloon
Title: Fantastic Voyage in a Baloon
Released: December 4, 1975
Type: Movie
1862. Commodore Sir Francis and inventor Douglas initiated on behalf of the Royal Society of London Geography of a balloon ride under the command of Dr. Ferguson, who plans to cross Africa from east to west. But to accomplish this feat will have to overcome numerous adventures in which their lives are at serious risk.
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El pequeño Robin Hood
Title: El pequeño Robin Hood
Released: August 7, 1975
Type: Movie
Directed by René Cardona, and written by René Cardona Jr., «El Pequeño Robin Hood» is a 1975 Adventure/Comedy/Drama/Family film . René Cardona III and Patricia Aspíllaga are starring, alongside René Cardona, Arturo Cobo, Jorge Russek and Alfredo Wally Barrón.
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El valle de los miserables
Title: El valle de los miserables
Character: Don Luis Aguirre
Released: April 16, 1975
Type: Movie
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La disputa
Title: La disputa
Released: September 18, 1974
Type: Movie
The wife of a philandering husband tries to engineer a situation in which she can photograph him in a compromising position in order to file for divorce. Meanwhile, subplots.
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The Vengeance of the Crying Woman
Title: The Vengeance of the Crying Woman
Character: Severo Segovia
Released: August 29, 1974
Type: Movie
Santo and Mantequilla Nápoles team up to end the curse of La Llorona by getting ahold of a special medallion. Unfortunately, La Llorona escapes in the process.
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Guns and Guts
Title: Guns and Guts
Character: Monk
Released: May 23, 1974
Type: Movie
An outlaw and a scorned husband both team up to track down and kill the man that wronged them. Along the way, the two men meet a hired gun that loves money just as much as he loves the company of women, so the two men decide to hire him in order to help them on their mission. However, things become complicated when the man they all seek to kill has risen to become a wealthy sheriff with a small army of gunmen at his disposal.
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Masajista de señoras
Title: Masajista de señoras
Released: May 3, 1973
Type: Movie
This fun comedy presents two masseurs who, by getting a job, dress up as women and thus live comic adventures.
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Zindy, the Swamp Boy
Title: Zindy, the Swamp Boy
Character: Abuelo
Released: May 3, 1973
Type: Movie
The story is about a fugitive who lives apart from society in a jungle area with the company of his grandson
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Peluquero de señoras
Title: Peluquero de señoras
Released: March 28, 1973
Type: Movie
Beauty-products czar can't attend an important industry function, so he hires a look-alike as a stand-in. The body double will have to learn to behave like a massive queen for the imposture to work...
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Manuel Saldivar, el texano
Title: Manuel Saldivar, el texano
Released: August 31, 1972
Type: Movie
Cowboy-justice dude has to figure out who the masterminds are behind a string of murders.
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Jesús, el niño Dios
Title: Jesús, el niño Dios
Character: Baltazar (as René Cardona Sr.)
Released: December 16, 1971
Type: Movie
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Santo vs. the Head Hunters
Title: Santo vs. the Head Hunters
Released: December 2, 1971
Type: Movie
Santo battles a mad scientist reviving the dead
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La mula de Cullen Baker
Title: La mula de Cullen Baker
Character: Capitán
Released: October 9, 1971
Type: Movie
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Chanoc en las garras de las fieras
Title: Chanoc en las garras de las fieras
Character: Gang Member (as René Cardona Sr.)
Released: November 5, 1970
Type: Movie
Comic-book adaptation: Tarzan-type in the Mexican outback.
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La hermana Trinquete
Title: La hermana Trinquete
Released: September 3, 1970
Type: Movie
Career-thief hides from the police by joining a convent.
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El deseo llega de noche
Title: El deseo llega de noche
Character: Pitanguelli
Released: July 3, 1969
Type: Movie
Prison colony on an island: the staff Doctor has some neuroses he's trying to overcome, and his "weakness" makes him vulnerable to exploitation by a sociopathic prisoner.
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El día de la boda
Title: El día de la boda
Character: Ramón
Released: October 31, 1968
Type: Movie
The love affairs of two couples, modern parents a couple of troubled teens.
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Stranger in the House
Title: Stranger in the House
Character: Tomas
Released: October 10, 1968
Type: Movie
An American serial killer, known for his handiwork with a straight razor, manages to escape while being transported in Mexico and hides out inside a publisher's home, where he claims many more victims.
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Operación carambola
Title: Operación carambola
Character: Scorpio Leader
Released: August 29, 1968
Type: Movie
Two clumsy and absent-minded spies (Capulina and Chespirito) are hired to save the world from a nuclear attack.
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Un par de robachicos
Title: Un par de robachicos
Released: November 9, 1967
Type: Movie
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Un novio para dos hermanas
Title: Un novio para dos hermanas
Character: Sr. Mateos
Released: July 6, 1967
Type: Movie
Pili and uncle Angel travel to Mexico to see Mili dancing at her debut in a theater in the capital. When Mili finds out the bad economic situation of her uncle, she decides to seek work. Meanwhile, Pili works in a department store and meets Rodolfo, the grandson of Mrs. Caceres, owner of the store, which she takes for the chauffeur of the lady. In turn, Ms. Caceres hires Mili to dance at her party, where she meets and falls for Rodolfo. Rodolfo, who does not know of the existence of a twin sister, is convinced that the girl in the party is Pili. And the sisters do not know they are in love with the same man, which will lead to an unexpected conflict.
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La leyenda del bandido
Title: La leyenda del bandido
Released: April 20, 1967
Type: Movie
Western with romance subplot.
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El matrimonio es como el demonio
Title: El matrimonio es como el demonio
Character: Ramón
Released: March 22, 1967
Type: Movie
The story of a Playboy bachelor who does not know the good that is, until he is married. Slowly, the man discovers that having a woman is not easy, but sometimes ... being faithful recomended. After sympathetic experiences and funny situations, he realizes that there are two uncorrectable errors committed by the man in your life: Being born and married!
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La vida de Pedro Infante
Title: La vida de Pedro Infante
Character: Director
Released: April 20, 1966
Type: Movie
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The Diabolical Duchess
Title: The Diabolical Duchess
Released: December 11, 1964
Type: Movie
A rare and impossible to find Mexican adventure / fantasy / horror.
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Dos caballeros de espada
Title: Dos caballeros de espada
Released: August 13, 1964
Type: Movie
Sixteenth century swordsmen adventure.
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The Bloody Revolver
Title: The Bloody Revolver
Character: Comisario
Released: April 2, 1964
Type: Movie
Follows an "unlucky" gun across the paths of five owners.
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Aventuras de las hermanas X
Title: Aventuras de las hermanas X
Released: April 26, 1963
Type: Movie
Adventure film about two sisters looking revenge against the man who murdered their father.
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La Bandida
Title: La Bandida
Character: General Robles
Released: January 1, 1963
Type: Movie
During a lull in the Mexican Revolution when Francisco Madero became president and attempted to implement land reforms, two former revolutionaries are pitted against each other for the love of the same woman.
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Santo vs. the King of Crime
Title: Santo vs. the King of Crime
Character: Sr. Roberto de la Llata
Released: November 30, 1962
Type: Movie
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The Brainiac
Title: The Brainiac
Character: Baltasar de Meneses / Luis Meneses
Released: November 9, 1962
Type: Movie
In 1661 Mexico, the Baron Vitelius of Astara is sentenced to be burned alive by the Holy Inquisition of Mexico for witchcraft, necromancy, and other crimes. As he dies, the Baron swears vengeance against the descendants of the Inquisitors. 300 years later, a comet that was passing overhead on the night of the Baron's execution returns to earth, bringing with it the Baron in the form of a horrible, brain-eating monster that terrorizes the Inquisitor's descendants
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Los encapuchados del infierno
Title: Los encapuchados del infierno
Released: June 1, 1962
Type: Movie
Husband and wife team of hooded avengers, First of three in series.
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Juana Gallo
Title: Juana Gallo
Character: Capitán Esquivel
Released: May 21, 1961
Type: Movie
Peasant woman leads a regiment during the final days of the Mexican Revolution. Also, romantic entanglements.
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La ley del más rápido
Title: La ley del más rápido
Released: December 3, 1959
Type: Movie
Young gunslinger gets his hero on. #2 in a series ("El Puma.")
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El puma
Title: El puma
Released: September 9, 1959
Type: Movie
Son of a ranching family returns home after studying in the city for a law degree. He sides with the peons in a labor dispute and his father disowns him; he sets up a law office in another town. First of three movies in a masked-avenger series.
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Night Dance Hall
Title: Night Dance Hall
Released: July 24, 1959
Type: Movie
Martine is a young woman plagued both by poverty and by uncaring, problem parents who in no way can provide the kind of nurturing that Martine needs during her adolescent years. As a result of her family situation, Martine runs away from home and gets involved with a group of teens and young adults from the wrong side of the moral tracks.
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Milagros de San Martín de Porres
Title: Milagros de San Martín de Porres
Released: January 1, 1959
Type: Movie
Mexican feature film
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Girl Merchants
Title: Girl Merchants
Released: October 4, 1957
Type: Movie
A young French woman travels to South America for a job offer and ends up a prisoner in a slave camp for women by a sadistic gangster.
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La faraona
Title: La faraona
Character: (uncredited)
Released: December 10, 1956
Type: Movie
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.
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Los hijos de Rancho Grande
Title: Los hijos de Rancho Grande
Character: Don Felipe
Released: June 25, 1956
Type: Movie
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.
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¡Que seas feliz!
Title: ¡Que seas feliz!
Character: Duarte
Released: May 27, 1956
Type: Movie
Career criminal hooks up with famous singer because she looks like a long-term meal ticket.
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A los cuatro vientos
Title: A los cuatro vientos
Released: June 4, 1955
Type: Movie
Career-biography of a fictional ranchera singer, played by Rosita Quintana.
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As negro
Title: As negro
Released: November 11, 1954
Type: Movie
Two poor children swear an oath: one will study, the other will work and support them both. The worker turns to crime...
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Mulata
Title: Mulata
Character: Guevara
Released: July 16, 1954
Type: Movie
In the port of Havana, two biracial children, Mateo (Ricardo Román) and Caridad (Ninón Sevilla) grow up together. She is the daughter of a white man who died in a shipwreck and of a black laundress of African origin. Over the years, Mateo falls for Caridad, but she doesn't love him back because she has fallen for a Mexican captain, Martin (Pedro Armendáriz), who she happened to meet at the port. The captain also fell in love with Caridad and proposes that they live together and she accepts. Caridad works in a cabaret in the port and the owner, Guevara (René Cardona), feels an attraction for the girl, and in a moment of jealousy, tries to kill Martin. Martin falls into financial trouble and has to mortgage his boat to Guevara. When Martin returns to Veracruz, Mexico, Guevara feels that he's the new owner of Caridad.
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Nuevo amanecer
Title: Nuevo amanecer
Released: January 1, 1954
Type: Movie
Mexican feature film
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The Three Perfect Married
Title: The Three Perfect Married
Character: Jorge
Released: June 8, 1953
Type: Movie
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.
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El genial Detective Peter Pérez
Title: El genial Detective Peter Pérez
Released: September 3, 1952
Type: Movie
Bumbling detective solves a murder on board a train.
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La vorágine: abismos de amor
Title: La vorágine: abismos de amor
Released: April 20, 1949
Type: Movie
It narrates the adventures of the poet Arturo Cova and his lover Alicia, a story of passion and revenge framed in the plain lands and the Amazon jungle where the two lovers scape from society, and which exposes throughout its plot the harsh living conditions of settlers and Indians enslaved during the rubber rush.
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Cartas Marcadas
Title: Cartas Marcadas
Released: March 14, 1948
Type: Movie
A tale of intrigue and deceit concerning two young lovers who, despite the fact that their relationship was originally founded on greed, soon discover that their feelings for one and other have grown more genuine than they ever expected.
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Pito Pérez se va de bracero
Title: Pito Pérez se va de bracero
Released: January 16, 1948
Type: Movie
Alcoholic hobo drifts across the border and has a series of random adventures.
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Soledad
Title: Soledad
Character: Roberto Covarrubias
Released: November 28, 1947
Type: Movie
Soledad, a maid born in Argentina, works at a Mexican farm. The son of her employer will deceive her, pretending to marry her and leaving her pregnant. When she finds out that she has been tricked, she runs away from the farm. During her flight she meets a group of artists that'll change her life.
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Soy charro de Rancho Grande
Title: Soy charro de Rancho Grande
Character: Felipe
Released: November 6, 1947
Type: Movie
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La barca de oro
Title: La barca de oro
Released: August 13, 1947
Type: Movie
Ranch-heiress chooses a husband.
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Si me han de matar mañana
Title: Si me han de matar mañana
Released: May 26, 1947
Type: Movie
Romantic triangle during the Mexican Revolution.
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¡Ay qué rechula es Puebla!
Title: ¡Ay qué rechula es Puebla!
Character: Mauricio Gómez
Released: January 31, 1946
Type: Movie
Two charros from Hacienda A come a-courtin' to hacienda B, owned by a friend of their father's. Also a horse-race.
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El abanico de Lady Windermere
Title: El abanico de Lady Windermere
Released: August 25, 1944
Type: Movie
A woman with a dubious reputation causes problems in an aristocratic marriage.
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Divorciadas
Title: Divorciadas
Released: December 9, 1943
Type: Movie
Three newly unmarried women room together, start a business, share the ups and downs of their love lives
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Ave sin nido
Title: Ave sin nido
Released: August 12, 1943
Type: Movie
Husband, sterile wife, fertile mistress, daughter.
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The Spirit's Canyon
Title: The Spirit's Canyon
Character: Manuel
Released: February 25, 1943
Type: Movie
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.
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Jesusita en Chihuahua
Title: Jesusita en Chihuahua
Released: October 8, 1942
Type: Movie
Ranchera comedy.
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El conde de Montecristo
Title: El conde de Montecristo
Character: Fernando Mondego / Conde de Morcef
Released: April 29, 1942
Type: Movie
Adaptation of Dumas' swashbuckler classic.
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El misterioso señor Marquina
Title: El misterioso señor Marquina
Released: March 18, 1942
Type: Movie
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La casa del rencor
Title: La casa del rencor
Character: Hugo
Released: November 6, 1941
Type: Movie
A 1941 film directed by Gilberto Martínez Solares.
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El secreto del sacerdote
Title: El secreto del sacerdote
Released: January 22, 1941
Type: Movie
Three boys grow up to be a priest, a military commander and the town mayor.
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Con su amable permiso
Title: Con su amable permiso
Released: November 13, 1940
Type: Movie
Unassuming elderly gent is installed as Mayor, by a cabal of financiers that expect to use him as a cat's paw.
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Mala yerba
Title: Mala yerba
Character: Don Julián Andrade
Released: September 11, 1940
Type: Movie
Plantation owner is way too much into his peasant girls. It causes problems.
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La cuna vacía
Title: La cuna vacía
Released: February 2, 1938
Type: Movie
Male half of a young couple gets distracted from his family duties and considers abandoning his wife and daughter.
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Don Juan Tenorio
Title: Don Juan Tenorio
Character: Don Juan Tenorio
Released: March 12, 1937
Type: Movie
Classic legend of a playboy meeting supernatural comeuppance.
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Honrarás a tus padres
Title: Honrarás a tus padres
Character: Conde de los Pinares
Released: February 5, 1937
Type: Movie
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Allá en el Rancho Grande
Title: Allá en el Rancho Grande
Character: Felipe
Released: October 7, 1936
Type: Movie
Two good friends — the owner and general manager of a ranch — fall in love with the same girl at the same time. The owner tries to 'buy' the girl without knowing she is in love with the manager.
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El calvario de una esposa
Title: El calvario de una esposa
Character: Sebastián Urquizo
Released: September 5, 1936
Type: Movie
Confederate Col. Lafe Harvey (Earl Ross) travels home after the Civil War, where he must tell his niece, Betty (Frances Grant), that her father is presumed dead. Soon after he returns, scavengers destroy the family home and he and Betty escape westward. Meanwhile, Gen. John Harvey (William Welch), Betty's father, has been seriously injured but is not dead. He arrives at the deserted plantation with the help of Union soldier Tom (Bob Steele), who then pledges to help John find his family
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The Macabre Trunk
Title: The Macabre Trunk
Character: Dr. Armando del Valle
Released: September 4, 1936
Type: Movie
A crazed scientist tries to keep his terminally ill wife alive by transfusing into her the blood of young women he murders.
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Malditas sean las mujeres
Title: Malditas sean las mujeres
Character: Conde Osvaldo de Valdemar
Released: July 8, 1936
Type: Movie
A tragicomic piece based on a novella by Manuel Ibo Alfaro.
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Marihuana El Monstruo Verde
Title: Marihuana El Monstruo Verde
Released: June 4, 1936
Type: Movie
Policeman goes undercover to bust drug-smuggling ring.
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Hand to Hand
Title: Hand to Hand
Character: Manuel Chávez
Released: December 10, 1932
Type: Movie
A 1932 film.
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Carne de Cabaret
Title: Carne de Cabaret
Character: Eddie Miller
Released: May 8, 1931
Type: Movie
This is the Spanish-language version of Ten Cents a Dance (1931), shot concurrently with a different cast but the same director, Christy Cabanne (as "Wiliam Cabana"), and also Mexican director Eduardo Arozamena.
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When Love Laughs
Title: When Love Laughs
Released: December 26, 1930
Type: Movie
José Mojica plays a singing vacquero who stops off in la cantina to have muchas cervezas with los muchachos. While José is all beered up, he boasts that he can tame the wild mare -- a horse no man can ride -- owned by local ranchero Don Alvarado (a stolid performance by Carlos Villarias). While he's in the neighbourhood, José also boasts that he can tame the Don's daughter, a Mexican spitfire played by Mona Maris.
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Common Clay
Title: Common Clay
Released: September 19, 1930
Type: Movie
A maid with a checkered past falls in love with the son in the posh household where she works, and gives him a baby.