Lorena Velázquez

Lorena Velázquez

Born: December 16, 1937
Died: April 11, 2024
in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
One of the quintessential vamps of Mexican cinema from the late 1950s through the early '70s, Lorena Velázquez is the daughter of character actor Víctor Velázquez, and the older sister of actress Tere Velázquez. She made her screen debut in 1955, and her role as Thorina, queen of the vampires, in _Santo contra las mujeres vampiros, El (1961)_, elevated her to the status of cult icon.

Movies for Lorena Velázquez...

La Lucha Invade el Cine Mexicano
Title: La Lucha Invade el Cine Mexicano
Character: Gloria Vênus
Released: March 28, 2024
Type: Movie
Lucha libre is part of Mexican culture, but how did something that was shown in circuses and fairs become a cinematic genre? Join us to learn about this trajectory.
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Title: I love you, Güero
Character: Rose Somers
Released: August 17, 2020
Type: TV
“La mexicana y el güero” is the story of some scammers who try to deceive a millionaire who is looking for his biological mother through a plan that is funny about what is complicated. Itatí Cantoral, Gala Montes, Juan Soler, Luis Roberto Guzmán, Montserrat Marañón, Jacqueline Andere, Rodrigo Abed and Laura Vignatti, among many other stars.
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Deadly Embroidered Memories
Title: Deadly Embroidered Memories
Character: Escorpio
Released: March 6, 2020
Type: Movie
A woman with a degree in biology and a particular taste for arachnids gets involved with some unfinished business left by her dead mother, leading her to face unlikely events that revolve around the banana mafia in a South American country, such as an etheric eminence that anticipates tragedies, a cryptozoological being that is mentioned with skepticism and a terrorist society that seeks to dismantle the fraudulent and sinister structure of land concessions.
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Más sabe el Diablo por Viejo
Title: Más sabe el Diablo por Viejo
Character: Angélica
Released: July 26, 2018
Type: Movie
Teo, a young and struggling actor, disguises himself as a 79 year old man to take advantage from the benefits of a retirement home, while also trying to sort out his personal and love life.
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Love of My Loves
Title: Love of My Loves
Character: Susana
Released: September 5, 2014
Type: Movie
Two couples get to know what we all dream about: love at first sight. The problem is they meet it with different people to the ones they are engaged with, and they are just at seven days to get married. Up to that moment, they have to reconsider what’s love and what’s a habit, and to face them going against an idea with an expiration date: marriage. "Love of my loves" is based upon the successful mexican theatrical play "Un dos tres por mí y por todos mis amores", and explores compromise, doubts and commitment mixing drama and comedy.
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Cartas a Elena
Title: Cartas a Elena
Character: Vieja Reyes
Released: June 8, 2012
Type: Movie
In the beautiful hills of the Copper Canyon in Chihuahua, Mexico, a young boy (Emilio) is adopted by the mailman (Teo). As part of their daily tasks, they not only deliver the mail but read letters to the villagers, as well as take dictation, since most are illiterate. Young Emilio quickly learns to read and write but feels saddened by the mostly difficult stories sent by relatives, that moved north to Denver, Colorado in pursuit of a better future. One day Teo becomes disabled and Emilio takes over the mail route and with great imagination, he changes the letters to happy and optimistic stories. Within days, the village is transformed. The elders, once hopeless, lonely and sad, are now happy and enthusiastic, enjoying the "supposed" success their loved ones write from the United States. But the enjoyment is short lived, as they realize that all the wonderful stories are the same...
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Title: A Double Identity
Character: Mercedes Riquelme Vda. de Arrioja
Released: March 8, 2010
Type: TV
Niña de mi Corazón is a teen Mexican telenovela produced by Televisa and Telefe adapted from Pedro Damian's 1997 Mi Pequeña Traviesa, that premiered on March 8, 2010 and ended on July 9, 2010. Damian was also the producer of this telenovela.
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Title: Killer Women
Character: Ana María Someyera
Released: June 17, 2008
Type: TV
Mujeres Asesinas is a series that shows the dark side of women who have been mistreated or abused and become cruel murderers. The series shows how violence and death can overcome the feminine mind.
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El charro de Tacubaya
Title: El charro de Tacubaya
Released: January 1, 2006
Type: Movie
A humble shoe shiner finds fame and fortune as a wrestler without knowing he wears a dead man's mask.
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Estate of Terror
Title: Estate of Terror
Released: January 1, 2005
Type: Movie
A group of heirs show up at a farm to collect an inheritance and are killed off one-by-one. A low budget direct-to-DVD release with loads of cameos from both veteran actors and World Cup soccer players.
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El hijo de la Tiznada
Title: El hijo de la Tiznada
Released: January 1, 2001
Type: Movie
The son of a powerful woman who was murdered comes back as an adult to take revenge.
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Title: La casa en la playa
Character: Elena vda. de White
Released: April 10, 2000
Type: TV
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Title: Mi Pequeña Traviesa
Character: Catalina
Released: December 8, 1997
Type: TV
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Reclusorio
Title: Reclusorio
Character: Reyna de la Garza (segment 'Sangre entre mujeres")
Released: September 19, 1997
Type: Movie
The human and divine justice are exposed through five real life stories related to the legal processes of a prison. The cases presented are: "I want to stay in jail", "Blood between women", "The raped prostitute", "The kidnapped policeman", and "Euthanasia or murder?"
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Pánico en el paraíso
Title: Pánico en el paraíso
Released: December 31, 1994
Type: Movie
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La Chilindrina en apuros
Title: La Chilindrina en apuros
Character: Doña Aldonza
Released: April 29, 1994
Type: Movie
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Apuesta con la muerte
Title: Apuesta con la muerte
Released: January 1, 1989
Type: Movie
A young man tries to get away from his disfunctional family by working with his friend, a rich boy who lives in excess and sleaze, but he will soon realize how reckless his friend is and that he is submerged in a life of crime, vice and deadly bets.
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Title: The Incredibly Strange Film Show
Character: Self
Released: August 5, 1988
Type: TV
A series of documentaries focusing on the world of psychotronic movies; focusing on the lives of filmakers such as Hershell Gordon Lewis, Saim Raimi, Doris Wishman, Ed Wood Jr, and Tsui Hark. Covers weird movie genres, like Mexican wrestling movies and Hong Kong horror films.
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Ghosts Who Love Too Much
Title: Ghosts Who Love Too Much
Released: January 1, 1987
Type: Movie
Mexican feature film
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El padre trampitas
Title: El padre trampitas
Released: December 12, 1984
Type: Movie
Folksy, down-to-earth priest is willing to bend the rules & cheat a little, for the well-being of his parishioners. By the end of the movie, he's reformed the alcoholic, restored the foundling boy to his family, match-made the eligible youngfolks together AND saved his orphanage from foreclosure.
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Escuela de Placer
Title: Escuela de Placer
Character: Lourdes aka "Lulú"
Released: June 14, 1984
Type: Movie
Heirs of a bankrupt relative decide that the only way they can avoid sacrificing their inherited property to pay debts is by opening a brothel.
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Las Modelos de Desnudos
Title: Las Modelos de Desnudos
Character: Lorena
Released: September 15, 1983
Type: Movie
Three interlocking anecdotes about boy/girl stuff. Two gigolos make a bet to see which can boff an heiress first, a young artist tries to persuade his upper-class parents that his artist's-model fiance is a good choice for marriage, and a guy on the run from the mafia hides from them by cross-dressing.
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The Mummies of San Angel
Title: The Mummies of San Angel
Released: January 2, 1975
Type: Movie
A young man is the heir of a very old house in San Angel. Upon marriage, he decides to live there but after a long time, very strange things begin to happen in the house. Then he discovers that there are mummies hidden that awake in the night.
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Cinco mil dolares de recompensa
Title: Cinco mil dolares de recompensa
Character: Virginia
Released: April 18, 1974
Type: Movie
A gunfighter is appointed sheriff of a town that is terrorized by a gang of criminals.
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Macabre Legends of the Colony
Title: Macabre Legends of the Colony
Released: January 31, 1974
Type: Movie
The Mexican luchador Tinieblas buys an ancient painting of a dead woman ignoring the warning that it is haunted. Later, after a fight his partners El Fantasma Blanco and Mil Máscaras joins him in a party at his apartment with two beautiful ladies, but when the clock reaches midnight the painting transports them all to colonial times. In order to return home they must face Spanish Conquistadores, Aztec Warriors and an evil witch whose mother, an unstoppable living dead hungry for human sacrifices, is the woman in the painting.
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Mi amorcito de Suecia
Title: Mi amorcito de Suecia
Character: Linda
Released: January 1, 1974
Type: Movie
A failed marriage takes in a young niece while the wife tries to take away her inheritance.
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Los Hombres No Lloran
Title: Los Hombres No Lloran
Released: June 28, 1973
Type: Movie
Man is manipulated into thinking his wife is unfaithful and abandons her, taking one of their two sons with him.
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Masajista de señoras
Title: Masajista de señoras
Character: Sonia
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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Suicide Mission
Title: Suicide Mission
Character: Ana Silva
Released: April 5, 1973
Type: Movie
Santo must investigate a secret conspiracy involving a spy training camp, a brainwashing plot, and a kidnapped Nazi scientist.
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The Innocent
Title: The Innocent
Character: Madrastra de Juan
Released: November 2, 1972
Type: Movie
The innocence of a woman due to a mental deficit will become the worst nightmare for her loved ones, after the harsh reality of the outside world made her their victim.
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Caín, Abel... y el Otro
Title: Caín, Abel... y el Otro
Character: Sara Romano
Released: September 16, 1971
Type: Movie
Three early twenties guys in Acapulco competing for women... they end up marooned on a desert island together...
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Los Desalmados
Title: Los Desalmados
Released: June 17, 1971
Type: Movie
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Ya somos hombres
Title: Ya somos hombres
Released: April 27, 1971
Type: Movie
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El tesoro de Morgan
Title: El tesoro de Morgan
Released: January 1, 1971
Type: Movie
Mexican feature film
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Friar Juan
Title: Friar Juan
Character: Claudia, the Pilot's wife
Released: June 25, 1970
Type: Movie
A Dominican friar finds himself wrapped in tangled skirts because he is mistaken for his twin brother, a womanizer.
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Estafa de amor
Title: Estafa de amor
Character: Mayté
Released: January 8, 1970
Type: Movie
Based on the novel by Caridad Bravo Adams.
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Lío de faldas
Title: Lío de faldas
Released: September 18, 1969
Type: Movie
Five artsy young women in a group house have landlord troubles.
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Las infieles
Title: Las infieles
Released: January 1, 1969
Type: Movie
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The Witches Attack
Title: The Witches Attack
Character: Elisa Cardenas / Mayra
Released: February 23, 1968
Type: Movie
Santo must battle an evil witch and the demons and evil spirits she brings up from Hell.
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Planet of the Female Invaders
Title: Planet of the Female Invaders
Character: Adastrea; Alburnia
Released: November 18, 1966
Type: Movie
A group of sexy space vixens flies down to Earth, sets up a shop at a carnival (disguising their ship as a ride), and kidnap some earthlings in their scheme to conquer our planet. The humans, including Marcos, a crooked boxer and our hero, Silvia, his love interest, and a gang of comical mobsters out to kill Marcos, are taken to the women’s home planet. There they are held prisoner by the evil queen Adastrea and aided by her selfless twin Alburnia. Meanwhile, a standard issue hunky scientist back on Earth, who happens to be Silvia’s boss, tries to rescue them.
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Loco por ellas
Title: Loco por ellas
Released: August 5, 1966
Type: Movie
Starring Lorena Velazquez, German Valdes, Marcelo Chavez
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Tierra de violencia
Title: Tierra de violencia
Released: February 18, 1966
Type: Movie
Western sheriff's black-sheep son becomes responsible for keeping order in town while his father is recovering from a gunshot.
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El tragabalas
Title: El tragabalas
Released: February 3, 1966
Type: Movie
Western comedy - sheriff faces bad guys.
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Adorada enemiga
Title: Adorada enemiga
Released: December 1, 1965
Type: Movie
Young Patricia returns from studying in Europe and finds her mother has married to a man named Jaime. The young woman falls in love with him, who has also seduced a servant who still loves him.
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Tintansón Cruzoe
Title: Tintansón Cruzoe
Released: September 30, 1965
Type: Movie
Tin Tan is marooned on an island full of colorful natives.
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The Diabolical Axe
Title: The Diabolical Axe
Character: Isabel de Arango
Released: August 27, 1965
Type: Movie
In the Age of the Inquisitions, 1603, Santo, El Enmascarado de Plata, is being laid to rest by a group of monks. The Black Hood, an axe-wielder and a tormented soul who sold his soul to the devil after losing his love to El Santo, appears at the foot of his tomb and swears to seek his revenge no matter how many centuries it takes. El Santo is the chosen one and is sworn to fight for good and justice at any cost. After he finds his love, Alicia, dead at the hands of the Black Hood, El Santo must trust his faith and use his strength in this battle of good vs. evil.
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She-Wolves of the Ring
Title: She-Wolves of the Ring
Character: Loreta Venus
Released: May 21, 1965
Type: Movie
Intimate problems and the wickedness of friends is resolved in the ring.
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El último cartucho
Title: El último cartucho
Released: January 22, 1965
Type: Movie
Dishonest business practices and corrupt local government lead a large number of townsfolk to set up an alternative village out in the countryside, from which to practice banditry and improvised social justice.
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La edad de piedra
Title: La edad de piedra
Character: Uga
Released: December 24, 1964
Type: Movie
Capulina chip and are transported back to prehistoric times with a time machine. There they live crazy adventures.
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The Wrestling Women vs. the Aztec Mummy
Title: The Wrestling Women vs. the Aztec Mummy
Character: Gloria Venus
Released: November 27, 1964
Type: Movie
If you've ever longed for a movie about wrestling women who take on various monsters, this is it! Xochitl, the mummy, can turn into a snake or a bat, which is difficult to get half-Nelsons on. Loreita, the Golden Ruby, joins her sister to battle the evil Prince Fugiyata and her Oriental female wrestlers. The mummy is also female and on the good side of the struggle.
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Elena's Daughters
Title: Elena's Daughters
Released: October 27, 1964
Type: Movie
A love story, of boyfriends and songs¸ of three sisters who travel to Colombia with their jealous father Hipólito to receive the inheritance of their late aunt Encajosa¸ who made it a condition that the three girls must be married to receive it.
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Un gallo con espolones (Operación ñongos)
Title: Un gallo con espolones (Operación ñongos)
Released: October 15, 1964
Type: Movie
Mexican singer responds to ham radio operators' invitation to come to Peru and perform a benefit for a children's hospital.
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Un padre a toda máquina
Title: Un padre a toda máquina
Released: October 15, 1964
Type: Movie
Two neighboring towns have a hostile relationship... but one town has a surplus of marriageable bachelors, and the other has too many young women to marry off locally, so both towns need to get over their damn selves. A hip young priest on a motorcycle is assigned to set things right between them.
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The Mighty Jungle
Title: The Mighty Jungle
Released: October 6, 1964
Type: Movie
A South American expedition is in search of fortune thought to be hidden in an Lost Aztec city. While trudging through the jungles the main character in the story becomes detached from the group. He develops a fever and in a desperate attempt to cool his fever, he gorges himself on some jungle fruit.
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El escándalo
Title: El escándalo
Released: January 30, 1964
Type: Movie
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Vuelve el Norteño
Title: Vuelve el Norteño
Released: January 3, 1964
Type: Movie
Two rival gangs of outlaws are terrorizing a small town; el Comandante and his sidekicks pit them against each other and pick up the pieces.
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Las bravuconas
Title: Las bravuconas
Released: September 27, 1963
Type: Movie
Three big-city wimps have to pass for machos when they go to their home-town.
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Doctor of Doom
Title: Doctor of Doom
Character: Gloria Venus
Released: May 24, 1963
Type: Movie
A mad scientist terrorizes a city by kidnapping young women with his ape-man Gomar and then using them as subjects in sadistic brain transplant experiments. A female wrestler whose sister was one of the victims swears vengeance against the Mad Doctor.
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Campeón de la muerte
Title: Campeón de la muerte
Released: January 1, 1963
Type: Movie
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¡En peligro de muerte!
Title: ¡En peligro de muerte!
Character: Lupita
Released: November 29, 1962
Type: Movie
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Santo vs. the Vampire Women
Title: Santo vs. the Vampire Women
Character: Queen Thorina
Released: October 11, 1962
Type: Movie
A professor recruits a professional wrestler to protect his daughter from vampires intent on kidnapping her and marrying her to the devil.
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Si yo fuera millonario
Title: Si yo fuera millonario
Released: August 26, 1962
Type: Movie
White-collar criminals conspire to prevent a shmuck from collecting an inheritance.
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The Shame of the Sabine Women
Title: The Shame of the Sabine Women
Character: Hersilia
Released: July 19, 1962
Type: Movie
The Sabine tribe battles Romulus in the early days of Rome after Romans seize their women as unwilling brides.
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Santo vs. the Zombies
Title: Santo vs. the Zombies
Character: Gloria Sandoval
Released: May 31, 1962
Type: Movie
Masked luchador "Santo" fights against an evil doctor and his zombie army.
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Pilotos de la muerte
Title: Pilotos de la muerte
Character: Lupita
Released: May 2, 1962
Type: Movie
A couple of provincial gas station employees travel to the capital seeking fortune of vehicle mechanics accidental career passing drivers.
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El malvado Carabel
Title: El malvado Carabel
Released: April 26, 1962
Type: Movie
Frustrated salaryman responds to career setbacks by embarking on a life of crime.
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Martín Santos el llanero
Title: Martín Santos el llanero
Released: February 15, 1962
Type: Movie
A farmer aspires to marry the daughter of the local aristocrats, but she think he's beneath her. It take a long time for things to settle into a groove so life can run smoothly again for all concerned.
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Quiero morir en carnaval
Title: Quiero morir en carnaval
Released: December 7, 1961
Type: Movie
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Jóvenes y rebeldes
Title: Jóvenes y rebeldes
Character: Betty
Released: November 30, 1961
Type: Movie
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Ay Chabela...!
Title: Ay Chabela...!
Released: June 22, 1961
Type: Movie
Two guys fight over two girls, ranchera style.
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Ellas también son rebeldes
Title: Ellas también son rebeldes
Character: Irene Barreto
Released: April 20, 1961
Type: Movie
The discovery of a young woman murdered in her car triggers unrelated problems among a diverse group of people.
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¡Yo sabia demasiado!
Title: ¡Yo sabia demasiado!
Character: Beatriz
Released: October 27, 1960
Type: Movie
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Ladrón que roba a ladrón
Title: Ladrón que roba a ladrón
Released: August 10, 1960
Type: Movie
Two bandits hide from the law by posing as doctor's in a small town without medical care.
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Dos Criados Malcriados
Title: Dos Criados Malcriados
Released: July 21, 1960
Type: Movie
Don Antonio quiere casar a una de sus dos hijas Tere o Lorena con un conde. Para eso alquila una mansión y contrata a los criados Viruta y Capulina, para atender al conde y a sus invitados. Pero los criados descubren que el conde y sus invitados son unos rateros.
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Tin Tan y las modelos
Title: Tin Tan y las modelos
Released: July 7, 1960
Type: Movie
Ambitious non-starter gets a job as a bill-collector at a beauty-products company and tries to bluff his way into a management position, then tries a couple of other business schemes with minimal success.
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Dormitorio para señoritas
Title: Dormitorio para señoritas
Released: May 11, 1960
Type: Movie
Young lawyer is mistaken for music professor and goes to live at a boarding school for young women.
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A tiro limpio
Title: A tiro limpio
Released: January 28, 1960
Type: Movie
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The Ship of Monsters
Title: The Ship of Monsters
Character: Beta
Released: January 22, 1960
Type: Movie
A singing cowboy falls foul of alien invaders and beautiful women from Venus.
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Una señora movida
Title: Una señora movida
Released: December 17, 1959
Type: Movie
"Old dark house" spooky-comedy.
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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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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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La vida de Agustín Lara
Title: La vida de Agustín Lara
Character: María Islas
Released: January 1, 1959
Type: Movie
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La odalisca No. 13
Title: La odalisca No. 13
Released: October 22, 1958
Type: Movie
The Emir of Beirutistan gets the hots for a Mexican singer and arranges to have her kidnapped. Her costar and manager tag along to rescue her.
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Los tigres del desierto
Title: Los tigres del desierto
Character: Yvonne
Released: October 4, 1958
Type: Movie
Viruta and Capulina are responsible for rescuing the Sultan's baby, after it's kidnapped by a evil dude.
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La cama de piedra
Title: La cama de piedra
Released: January 29, 1958
Type: Movie
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Los tres bohemios
Title: Los tres bohemios
Released: July 17, 1957
Type: Movie
Three struggling musicians share an apartment.
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La Diana cazadora
Title: La Diana cazadora
Character: Margarita
Released: June 21, 1957
Type: Movie
A great love story based on the idea and development of the famous monument that decorating Mexico City.
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Un mundo nuevo
Title: Un mundo nuevo
Released: January 1, 1957
Type: Movie
This largely forgotten film, often referred to by its English title, A New World, tells the story of an Insurance Adjuster who is sent out to investigate a claim for sunken cargo prior to paying for the loss. He ends up uncovering more than he anticipated, when he falls in love.
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Bataclán mexicano
Title: Bataclán mexicano
Released: August 30, 1956
Type: Movie
International showgirl engineers a green-card marriage for herself to avoid being deported.
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¡Viva la juventud!
Title: ¡Viva la juventud!
Character: Marta Villaseñor
Released: May 15, 1956
Type: Movie
Movie based on the classic student football competition between UNAM pumas and the Polytechnic donkeys that were popular at that time. A mechanic is mistaken for the best player in the Polytechnic, while in the Unam a student discovers a formula for superpowers to play football. Both compete for the love of a rookie and to win the students classic.
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New faces
Title: New faces
Released: January 1, 1956
Type: Movie
Mexican feature film