Martin LaSalle

Martin LaSalle

Born: January 1, 1935

Movies for Martin LaSalle...

Luisa's Dream
Title: Luisa's Dream
Released: January 13, 2009
Type: Movie
After her birthday party, a little girl goes to bed looking forward to an amusement-park trip with her grandparents for the next day.
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Ópera
Title: Ópera
Released: September 19, 2008
Type: Movie
Pablo and Marina wake up in a hotel room and then travel the country together, she accompanies him while he is in the process of writing a traveler's guide. Pablo is a married man with two daughters, while Marina is a college student. During the journey they pass through different points in the relationship, sometimes in full disagreement.
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My Mexican Shivah
Title: My Mexican Shivah
Character: Isaac Fischer
Released: October 26, 2007
Type: Movie
After Moishe's death, family and friends sit Shiva in Mexico City. During seven days, secrets will be disclosed.
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The Models of 'Pickpocket'
Title: The Models of 'Pickpocket'
Character: Himself
Released: March 29, 2003
Type: Movie
A documentary that follows up on what happened to the three principle actors in Robert Bresson's "Pickpocket."
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Contratiempo
Title: Contratiempo
Released: January 1, 2003
Type: Movie
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Pilgrim
Title: Pilgrim
Character: Doc Anderson
Released: March 31, 2000
Type: Movie
A beautiful artist helps an amnesiac piece together his identity and evade a gangster on his trail.
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Second Century
Title: Second Century
Released: August 5, 1999
Type: Movie
A small film crew goes through several locations including Europe, New York and Mexico.
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Avalón (Paleativo)
Title: Avalón (Paleativo)
Released: January 1, 1995
Type: Movie
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Title: Acapulco H.E.A.T.
Character: French Statesman
Released: September 28, 1993
Type: TV
Acapulco H.E.A.T. is a 1993 syndicated television series that followed the Hemisphere Emergency Action Team [H.E.A.T.], a group of top-secret agents based in Acapulco, Mexico and recruited by C-5, a secret government coalition, to fight terrorism and international crime. The team kept a low profile, by acting as models and photographers who represented a Beach Fashion enterprise.
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Death and the Compass
Title: Death and the Compass
Character: Dr. Yarmolinsky
Released: August 5, 1992
Type: Movie
In a totalitarian future, in a nightmare metropolis, inhabited only by criminals and police, Erik Lonnrot, a gifted detective, investigates a series of strange murders and disappearances that seem to implicate a insane crime lord. (Re-released in 1996 as a feature film, 86 minutes.)
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The Southern Cross
Title: The Southern Cross
Released: January 1, 1992
Type: Movie
Taking as a guiding theme of religion in Latin America, the film shows the pre-Columbian myths, the arrival of the white man, later syncretism and liberation theology. The main theme is the "popular religion". In Latin America this forms a kind of religious sacred territory where millions of Indians seeking refuge. This is repeated in Brazil, where African religions are another impenetrable territory, which also functions as a stronghold, a refuge.
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Romero
Title: Romero
Character: Bishop Rivera y Damas
Released: August 25, 1989
Type: Movie
Romero is a compelling and deeply moving look at the life of Archbishop Oscar Romero of El Salvador, who made the ultimate sacrifice in a passionate stand against social injustice and oppression in his county. This film chronicles the transformation of Romero from an apolitical, complacent priest to a committed leader of the Salvadoran people.
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Nightlife
Title: Nightlife
Character: Old Man
Released: August 23, 1989
Type: Movie
At a museum of Mexico City arrives a perfectly conservated mumie. It is a vampire who has died years ago and who returns to life in search of his lost love Angelique. But unfortunately for him the young woman has met a doctor and fallen in love with him who supplies her with the blood she needs to resist the vampire attacks.
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Goitia: A God for Himself
Title: Goitia: A God for Himself
Character: Padre de Goitia
Released: January 1, 1989
Type: Movie
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The Penitent
Title: The Penitent
Character: Miguel
Released: May 27, 1988
Type: Movie
Tension between a jealous husband, his wife who's attracted to his friend and the friend is rising as their small, deeply catholic, Mexican village is deciding who will be Christ during the possibly dangerous reenactment of the Crucifixion.
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Sor Juana Inez de la cruz
Title: Sor Juana Inez de la cruz
Released: January 1, 1988
Type: Movie
Drama written by Octavio Paz.
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Hot Pursuit
Title: Hot Pursuit
Character: Prisoner (as Martin Lasalle)
Released: May 8, 1987
Type: Movie
Young Danny is following his rich girlfriend's family to the Caribbean. But suddenly he simply must make a chemistry test and cannot go with them. After they have left, he gets a leave from his professor and takes a plane to find them. But he is not quite sure where they are, and meets smugglers, crazy captains and murderers.
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Violent Stories
Title: Violent Stories
Released: August 29, 1985
Type: Movie
Five surreal short stories make up this Mexican anthology film.
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Alamo Bay
Title: Alamo Bay
Character: Luis
Released: April 3, 1985
Type: Movie
A despondent Vietnam veteran in danger of losing his livelihood is pushed to the edge when he sees Vietnamese immigrants moving into the fishing industry in a Texas bay town.
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The Devil and the Lady
Title: The Devil and the Lady
Released: April 3, 1984
Type: Movie
The french dancer America is in a hotel in Paris with her lover. He goes out to buy cigarettes and she imagines that he travels to Mexico, where he makes a cabaret number dancing with a mannequin that represents the devil. It is related to the gigolo Jimmy, who prostitutes and explodes, and wanders around the city getting involved in a strange plot with some gangsters.
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Samson and Delilah
Title: Samson and Delilah
Character: Governor of Ekron
Released: March 31, 1984
Type: Movie
A tale of passion and betrayal in which Samson, a judge of Israel who fled with his tribe during the Great Exodus from Egypt, uses his herculean strength in the fight against the Philistine oppressors. He is seduced by Delilah, a Philistine courtesan, who uses her cunning to discover the secret of her lover's great power and then betrays him.
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A Real Man
Title: A Real Man
Character: Doctor
Released: October 30, 1983
Type: Movie
Unsympathetic portrait of a man who's too macho to display his feelings.
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Under Fire
Title: Under Fire
Character: Commandante Cinco
Released: October 21, 1983
Type: Movie
Three U.S. journalists get too close to one another and their work in 1979 Nicaragua.
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God's Crooked Lines
Title: God's Crooked Lines
Character: Dr. Dorantes / García del Olmo
Released: September 29, 1983
Type: Movie
Newly-committed to a mental institution, a woman tries to convince her doctors that her husband conspired to have her put away for selfish reasons unrelated to her mental health.
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Aquel famoso Remington
Title: Aquel famoso Remington
Released: July 23, 1982
Type: Movie
Historical drama about the career of a hit-man who specialized in political assassinations in Mexico in the 1920s-30s.
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Missing
Title: Missing
Character: Paris
Released: February 12, 1982
Type: Movie
Based on the real-life experiences of Ed Horman. A conservative American businessman travels to Chile to investigate the sudden disappearance of his son after a military takeover. Accompanied by his son's wife he uncovers a trail of cover-ups that implicate the US State department which supports the dictatorship.
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'Ora Sí ¡Tenemos Que Ganar!
Title: 'Ora Sí ¡Tenemos Que Ganar!
Released: October 22, 1981
Type: Movie
The abuse of authority and the employer of a mining town make workers, influenced by reading articles from Ricardo Flores Magon in newspaper Regeneration, organize clandestinely and mutiny against the US, owner of the mine, which is refuses to rescue a group of workers trapped by a landslide.
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La seducción
Title: La seducción
Released: July 1, 1981
Type: Movie
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Mistery
Title: Mistery
Character: Invitado 1
Released: November 30, 1980
Type: Movie
A soap opera actor is mixed in a real drama very similar to what he represents in his work.
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Cabo Blanco
Title: Cabo Blanco
Character: Aparicio
Released: March 13, 1980
Type: Movie
Giff Hoyt, a cafe owner in Cabo Blanco, Peru after World War II is caught between refuge-seeking Nazis and their enemies. After the murder of a sea explorer is passed off as accidental death by the corrupt local police, Giff becomes suspicious. The police chief also intimidates a new arrival Marie, and Giff intervenes to help her. Giff suspects Beckdorff, a Nazi refugee living in the area. Beckdorff, it emerges, is seeking to uncover sunken treasure.
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The Bees
Title: The Bees
Character: Saudi Arabia - United Nations
Released: November 1, 1978
Type: Movie
Corporate smuggling of South American killer bees into the United States results in huge swarms terrorizing the northern hemisphere. A small team of scientists work desperately to destroy the threat, but the bees soon mutate into a super-intelligent species that threatens the world.
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Cananea
Title: Cananea
Character: Mr. Curtis
Released: August 17, 1978
Type: Movie
Based on a true story in the American owned Cananea mine. It depicts how the owner profits while the Mexican workers struggle to survive and are exploited for their labour.
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The Year of the Plague
Title: The Year of the Plague
Character: Diplomatic
Released: February 12, 1978
Type: Movie
A terrible disease is found in a Mexican town. A doctor tries to alert the authorities when he discovers its epidemic nature. No one listen to him and soon after the disease spreads. The government tries to control the information in order to prevent panic.
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Pubertinaje
Title: Pubertinaje
Released: February 9, 1978
Type: Movie
Three episodes: 1) "A Christmas dinner" where the family members fantasize about being somewhere else. The fetishist father wants to put on feminine clothes. The son longs for another transvestite adventure. The daughter yearns to be a singer and destroy the saints of the church with her voice. The youngest son wants to stab everyone dead. 2) "Game of mirrors". Two young classmates kiss on a picnic, but the girl's brother accuses the couple of being immoral. Bizarre things develop. 3) "Tetrahedron". A very fat man faces his girlfriend's longing for love.
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Women's Things
Title: Women's Things
Released: January 1, 1978
Type: Movie
A young sociology student has an unintended pregnancy and is subjected to the terrible humiliation of an incompetent doctor. The girl falls ill from the poorly performed abortion and is taken by a friend to the General Hospital. Film that reports clandestine abortion in Mexico, with interviews with women who have had abortions in that hospital and shocking maternal death statistics from procedures carried out under unsafe conditions.
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Alucarda
Title: Alucarda
Character: Brother Felipe
Released: December 26, 1977
Type: Movie
A young girl's arrival at a convent after the death of her parents marks the beginning of a series of events that unleash an evil presence on the girl and her mysterious new friend, an enigmatic figure known as Alucarda. Demonic possession, Satan worship, and vampirism follows.
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Desires
Title: Desires
Released: January 1, 1977
Type: Movie
Snippets of a family drama involving a rebellious son coming to his depressing home village, his father, and a jaded ex-lover, mixed with various surrealist scenes and statements about sin.
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Omen
Title: Omen
Character: Anciano
Released: February 13, 1975
Type: Movie
While attending the birth of Isabel, the wife of foreigner Felipe, Mama Santos predicts that "something terrible is going to happen in the town." From this omen, calamities will torment the locals.
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The Feared Hell
Title: The Feared Hell
Released: January 1, 1975
Type: Movie
A woman abandons her partner, a journalist, but tortures him by sending him photos of her with her lovers.
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The Holy Inquisition
Title: The Holy Inquisition
Character: Díaz Márquez
Released: June 6, 1974
Type: Movie
A plague is spreading through 16th century Mexico, and the Inquisition of the Roman Catholic Church is rooting out Jews, for they are believed to be its cause. At his father's funeral, a monk observes his family practicing Jewish burial rite, and he reports them, leading to devastating consequences for the whole family.
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Those Years
Title: Those Years
Character: Duque de Morey
Released: March 21, 1974
Type: Movie
President Juárez fights against the conservatives, who have ordered an emperor to be brought from France to govern Mexico
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The Master of Ballantrae
Title: The Master of Ballantrae
Character: Galarza
Released: March 13, 1974
Type: Movie
Adult brothers compete for pateral affection and for control of the family estate.
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The Mansion of Madness
Title: The Mansion of Madness
Character: Julien Couvier
Released: August 10, 1973
Type: Movie
The inmates of an insane asylum take over the institution, imprison the doctors and staff, and then put into play their own ideas of how the place should be run.
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Queen Doll
Title: Queen Doll
Character: Alfredo
Released: November 8, 1972
Type: Movie
A man becomes more and more infatuated with his childhood sweetheart leading to a haunting encounter with horror.
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Hardcase
Title: Hardcase
Character: Luis Camacho
Released: February 1, 1972
Type: Movie
A man thought-dead comes home to find that his wife has sold their ranch and married a Mexican revolutionary.
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The Gates of Paradise
Title: The Gates of Paradise
Released: June 19, 1971
Type: Movie
Due to betting problems, Andrés and his lover, Blanca, flee the city and travel through several states of the country; During their journey they get involved with a couple of hippies with whom they live for a time until the tragedy is complete.
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Exorcismos
Title: Exorcismos
Released: January 1, 1970
Type: Movie
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Acteón
Title: Acteón
Character: Acteón
Released: June 13, 1967
Type: Movie
An expressionist reimagining of the classic Greek myth involving Acteón and Diana, transposed to Spain's Costa Brava by a future auteur of horror cinema. Based on the myth from Ovid's Metamorphoses in which Acteón accidentally catches a glimpse of Diana, the goddess of love, and is subsequently turned into a deer for his dogs to devour, Jorge Grau's modernist retelling resets the story to contemporary Spain, where a fisherman – played by Martin LaSalle, star of Bresson's Pickpocket – follows an enchanting, flirtatious stranger into the city.
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Love with a stranger
Title: Love with a stranger
Released: January 1, 1966
Type: Movie
A mother and her daughter receive a stranger in their home, who at first has an affair with the mother but then tries to push her aside to seduce the daughter.
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Pickpocket
Title: Pickpocket
Character: Michel
Released: December 16, 1959
Type: Movie
Michel takes up pickpocketing on a lark and is arrested soon after. His mother dies shortly after his release, and despite the objections of his only friend, Jacques, and his mother's neighbor Jeanne, Michel teams up with a couple of petty thieves in order to improve his craft. With a police inspector keeping an eye on him, Michel also tries to get a straight job, but the temptation to steal is hard to resist.