Salvador Sánchez

Salvador Sánchez

Born: October 28, 1943
in Tehuacan, Puebla, Mexico
Alfredo Salvador Sánchez Bolaños (born October 28th, 1943) is a Mexican actor and director.

He was one of the most relevant actors among those who renewed the list of interpreters of Mexican cinema at the beginning of the seventies. Since then, he has stood out in films such as The devil fell from glory (Cayó de la gloria el diablo, .1971), The bump (La choca, 1973), The heist (El apando, 1975), Canoa (1975), Las Poquianchis (1976), Los albañiles (1976), Under the shrapnel (Bajo la metralla, 1983), Motel (1983), Journey to Paradise (1985), Going for a nut (1986), Fire Angel (1991), Lady at night (1993), Leap into the void (1994), Natural death (1996) , Only once (2000) and Herod's law (2000).

He directed Pedro Páramo in 1981. Deserving of various distinctions for his acting work in film, including two Diosas de Plata, he has also developed an outstanding theatrical career and has participated repeatedly on television.

Movies for Salvador Sánchez...

1938: When the Oil was Ours
Title: 1938: When the Oil was Ours
Character: Peasant
Released: March 18, 2024
Type: Movie
A chronicle of the Mexican oil expropriation in 1938 through the eyes of President Lazaro Cardenas and journalist Alberto Miranda.
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The Beast
Title: The Beast
Character: Don Gerardo
Released: October 27, 2023
Type: Movie
Pipo, Pau and Mau, three youngsters who spend their time shooting video pranks, visit a distant town where a beast is attacking its residents. Upon arrival, the pranksters will discover that the beast is very different than they thought.
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Title: Más Allá de Tí
Character: Crisanto Pescador
Released: May 26, 2023
Type: TV
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¡Que viva México!
Title: ¡Que viva México!
Character: Notario / Don Florencio
Released: March 23, 2023
Type: Movie
After his grandfather's death, a man travels with his wife and kids to his hometown, where chaos ensues with his relatives over the inheritance.
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The Exorcist
Title: The Exorcist
Character: Señor Ramirez
Released: November 2, 2022
Type: Movie
Ophelia, a young nun recently arriving in the town of San Ramon, is forced to perform an exorcism on a pregnant woman in danger of dying. Just when she thinks her possession has ended, she discovers that the evil presence hasn't disappeared yet. The director of the award-winning Here Comes the Devil and Late Phases adds a new twist to possession movies in one of this year's Latin American horror surprises.
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Title: Malverde: El Santo Patrón
Character: Ramon
Released: September 28, 2021
Type: TV
From Netflix: Jesús Juárez overcomes his childhood as an orphan to become a Robin Hood like hero During the Mexican Revolution, but can't forget his first love - Isabel.
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The Mongolian Conspiracy
Title: The Mongolian Conspiracy
Character: Señor Liu
Released: April 18, 2019
Type: Movie
1963, the Soviet Union intercepts a rumour that China pretends to assassinate the president of the US in his visit to Mexico. Filiberto Garcia, a local policeman, has 72 hours to investigate the Mongolian Conspiracy.
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The Voice of a Dream
Title: The Voice of a Dream
Character: Apolonio
Released: May 25, 2018
Type: Movie
At a pivotal moment in her singing career, Rocío discovers that her mother is ill and that her final wish is to meet with her again before she dies. After evading the past for 10 years, Rocío returns to her hometown from where she was once expelled. When confronting her family, she comes to understand that forgiveness is the key that will allow her to realize her full potential.
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Title: Lo imperdonable
Character: Crescencio Álvarez
Released: April 20, 2015
Type: TV
Martín (Iván Sánchez) hurries to Mina Escondida after getting an urgent letter from his brother begging to be rescued from the hell in which he's living. On arrival, Martin despairs upon finding out that Demetrio (Pablo Montero), his brother, has committed suicide. His sorrow is transformed into hatred and a thirst for vengeance against the woman who caused his brother suffering and brought him to death.
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Between Shadows
Title: Between Shadows
Character: Narciso
Released: January 22, 2015
Type: Movie
In an attempt to solve their marriage problems, Eric and Mari take a trip to the Mexican southeast, but she disappears under mysterious circumstances. On his way back to Mexico City, Eric meets Narciso, a mysterious man, and gives him a ride. Eric describes a series of events which finally lead him to a revelation about the time he shared with Mari.
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The Perfect Dictatorship
Title: The Perfect Dictatorship
Character: Hombre X
Released: October 16, 2014
Type: Movie
TV MX, the most powerful Mexican Television Corporation, discloses a scandalous story involving Governor Carmelo Vargas in serious crimes and illicit business. Governor Vargas worried about his political future, decides to clean his image and negotiates a billionaire secret agreement with the owners of the TV Corporation. Carlos Rojo, an ambitious young news producer, and Ricardo Diaz, TV network star reporter, are responsible for making a dirty campaign to change the image the public has of the corrupt Governor and make him, at any cost, a political star and a great presidential candidate. Mexican Television believes that democracy is a farce and has already placed one President... Will they do it again?
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Tequila, historia de una pasión
Title: Tequila, historia de una pasión
Character: Vicente
Released: November 4, 2011
Type: Movie
Tequila in Mexico, 1940s: Honor and dignity come first here. The town is protecting a certain secret. In spite of all prohibitions, Antonio, a respected young landowner, has an affair with Lola, his uncle Vicent's young wife. She is sexually dissatisfied from her older husband. Also butler's young daughter Milagros is in love with him and sees him when he leaves Lola's room after they had sex. She threatens him to disclose the secret.
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Acorazado
Title: Acorazado
Character: Alacran
Released: October 22, 2010
Type: Movie
Silverio Palacios, 40, a failed union worker from Veracruz, decides to turn his life around. Tired of earning his money panhandling in the streets, he decides to follow up on a plan that’s been on his friend and union leader's, Alacrán, mind for the longest time. He transforms his old taxi into a makeshift raft and set sail towards Miami to find success in the United States posing as a Cuban immigrant.
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El Infierno
Title: El Infierno
Character: El Padrino
Released: September 3, 2010
Type: Movie
Benjamin Garcia, Benny is deported from the United States. Back home and against a bleak picture, Benny gets involved in the drug business, in which he has for the first time in his life, a spectacular rise surrounded by money, women, violence and fun. But very soon he will discover that criminal life does not always keep its promises.
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File of Attempted Murder
Title: File of Attempted Murder
Character: Antonio Villacencio
Released: August 27, 2010
Type: Movie
Tells the story behind an assassination attempt perpetrated in 1897, by a dipsomaniac man, against the President of the Mexican Republic, General Porfirio Diaz.
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Héroes de la seguridad
Title: Héroes de la seguridad
Released: December 31, 2009
Type: Movie
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Title: Burden of Guilt
Character: Padre Matías Quiroga
Released: June 15, 2009
Type: TV
Mi pecado is a Mexican telenovela that was produced by Televisa and aired on Canal de las Estrellas from 15 June 2009 through 13 November 2009. Starring Maite Perroni, Eugenio Siller and as adult protagonist Daniela Castro who is also the main villain. Mi pecado tells the story of young lovers Lucrecia and Julián, who are torn apart by their feuding families following the tragic death of Lucrecia's brother César when the three are just children.
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Title: Killer Women
Character: Don Ramón
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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Charm School
Title: Charm School
Character: Monseñor
Released: March 9, 2007
Type: Movie
Defiant 18-year-old Adela León pushes her father and an unbending headmistress to the limit in this delicious comedy.
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Jack's Law
Title: Jack's Law
Character: Joker
Released: June 6, 2006
Type: Movie
Jack Santos is a retired undercover vice cop whose world is suddenly torn apart by the murder of his wife and daughter. After serving a prison term for a crime he did not commit, Jack returns to the streets with a vengeance against crime, and takes to vigilantism.
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Sobre el arco iris
Title: Sobre el arco iris
Released: March 26, 2004
Type: Movie
A man buys a video camera and goes to Berlin adopting a new identity: Ludwig. Fascinated by the magic of cinema, he films his trip in an obsessive fascion, converting it into fiction
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Title: Alegrijes y Rebujos
Character: Asunción Yunque "Chon"
Released: August 4, 2003
Type: TV
Alegrijes y Rebujos is a Mexican soap opera which became very popular with children and adults in 2003 and 2004. The child actors came from the reality show Código F.A.M.A.. The first place winner, Miguel Martinez, earned the lead role. He shared the spotlight with the other finalists María Chacón, Diego González, Allisson Lozano, Michelle Álvarez, Nora Cano, Jesús Zavala and Tony Cobian.
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Collateral Damage
Title: Collateral Damage
Character: Peddler
Released: February 6, 2002
Type: Movie
Firefighter Gordon Brewer is plunged into the complex and dangerous world of international terrorism after he loses his wife and child in a bombing credited to Claudio 'The Wolf' Perrini.
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Solamente una vez
Title: Solamente una vez
Released: January 1, 2002
Type: Movie
Mexican feature film
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The Mexican
Title: The Mexican
Character: Gunsmith
Released: March 1, 2001
Type: Movie
Jerry Welbach, a reluctant bagman, has been given two ultimatums: The first is from his mob boss to travel to Mexico and retrieve a priceless antique pistol, known as "the Mexican"... or suffer the consequences. The second is from his girlfriend Samantha to end his association with the mob. Jerry figures alive and in trouble with Samantha is better than the more permanent alternative, so he heads south of the border.
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Title: El Noveno mandamiento
Character: Andrés Roldán Martínez
Released: January 15, 2001
Type: TV
El Noveno Mandamiento is a Mexican soap opera produced by Lucero Suárez in 2001. As of June 24th, 2013, Unimas is broadcasting 2 hour episodes of this soap opera.
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A Breakfast Chronicle
Title: A Breakfast Chronicle
Character: Pedro
Released: November 1, 2000
Type: Movie
A view of the end-of-the-century Mexican family. A father who comes back home after a long absence, but who would rather be somewhere else. A daughter suffering from a trapped pain. A son full of guilt and recriminations. A little kid who soaks up all the tension in the house, like a sponge, and a self-effacing mother who would like to go away and leave everything behind.
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His Most Serene Highness
Title: His Most Serene Highness
Released: August 17, 2000
Type: Movie
This historical drama depicts the waning days of the life of Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, who waged a war against the United States that ultimately cost his nation half of its territory
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Herod's Law
Title: Herod's Law
Character: Pek
Released: November 9, 1999
Type: Movie
Mexico, 1949. The fable of a janitor turned Mayor on a little town lost in the Mexican desert, who gradually realizes how far his new acquainted power and corruption can get him.
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El fantasma de la coca
Title: El fantasma de la coca
Released: January 1, 1999
Type: Movie
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Ojitos mentirosos
Title: Ojitos mentirosos
Released: January 1, 1999
Type: Movie
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Fuera de la ley
Title: Fuera de la ley
Released: May 8, 1998
Type: Movie
Four raw stories about justice and law.
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Title: Pueblo chico, infierno grande
Character: Consejo Serratos
Released: January 6, 1997
Type: TV
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De muerte natural
Title: De muerte natural
Released: August 9, 1996
Type: Movie
Four women get mad at a bakery while they recall their lives at their neighborhood.
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Title: The Owner
Character: Macario Robles
Released: May 22, 1995
Type: TV
La Dueña (Mexico) is a Mexican telenovela produced by Florinda Meza in 1995 for Televisa. It was transmitted by El Canal de las Estrellas in Mexico and Univision in the United States in 1995 and 1998, and on Galavisión in 2000.
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Salto al vacío
Title: Salto al vacío
Released: March 10, 1995
Type: Movie
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Una buena forma de morir
Title: Una buena forma de morir
Released: November 11, 1994
Type: Movie
After his wife is murdered by gang members, a man must take revenge.
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Loving Ghosts
Title: Loving Ghosts
Released: February 28, 1994
Type: Movie
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Amor que mata
Title: Amor que mata
Character: Don Raúl
Released: January 1, 1994
Type: Movie
Diego is a young musician who lives the terrible death of his uncle to AIDS. While in his deep depresion he meets Gabriela, which brings back a smile to his face. Just when life seems more promising than ever, one beutiful night death once again took a toll on his life. It seems as though the phantoms of the past are never going to let him go.
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The Food of Fear
Title: The Food of Fear
Released: January 1, 1994
Type: Movie
The story unfolds in an underclass neighborhood of Mexico City, a place where a unique troupe features a circus act, led by Don Ramón (López Moctezuma himself.) He and his wife Petra (Isaura Espinosa) have to take care of the daughter of a neighbor who has been jailed for drug trafficking. Petra decides that the girl (who is only 5 years old) must earn a living, entrusting her several domestic tasks; the little girl, which he nicknamed "Flea" befriends Pepito, who works as a clown on the street. Things get complicated when somone with satanic tendencies arrives to Ramon's house, and the visitor develops an interest on Petra. A fight between the three adults causes that "lil Flea" suffers a fatal accident, so the solution will be to use her meat for the tamales sold by Petra.
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Dama de Noche
Title: Dama de Noche
Character: Diego
Released: May 18, 1993
Type: Movie
Bruno, a novelist with no luck goes to call for help from his love always sofia, who is in Veracruz desolate without knowing what to do with the corpse of her boyfriend who died because of a heart attack while they made love
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Un ángel para los diablillos
Title: Un ángel para los diablillos
Character: Jefe de Policía
Released: January 1, 1993
Type: Movie
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Abuelita de Bakman
Title: Abuelita de Bakman
Released: January 1, 1993
Type: Movie
A novelist cannot create new and original stories, his wife suggests that he go out and write about the people he sees as he passes by.
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Octagon and Mascara Sagrada in Fight to the Death
Title: Octagon and Mascara Sagrada in Fight to the Death
Released: November 20, 1992
Type: Movie
Heroic Mexican wrestler duo Octagon and Mascara Sagrado take on a bevvy of sexy female catburglars led by Lina Santos
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Imperio de los Malditos
Title: Imperio de los Malditos
Character: Rutilo Morán
Released: August 28, 1992
Type: Movie
On the day of his first communion, the boy Honorato is orphaned because the mafia murders his parents. Before dying, the father recommends that the son defend himself against whoever tries to harm him, so that over time he becomes a bloodthirsty and sadistic gunman, always accompanied by the ghost of his father. His fame bears in the ears of Rutilo, the boss of the central supply, who hires him to avenge the death of his son. Honorato fulfills the mission with luxury of violence and becomes a trusted man of the gangster.
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Octagon and Atlantis, the rematch
Title: Octagon and Atlantis, the rematch
Released: March 20, 1992
Type: Movie
A Colombian gangster buys modern weapons to re-sell them to guerrillas of various countries, under the patronage of the Mafia. Interpol is after Gallardo, the Mexican provider, with the help of two masked wrestlers, Octagon and Atlantis.
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El último narco
Title: El último narco
Released: January 1, 1992
Type: Movie
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La dama y el judicial
Title: La dama y el judicial
Released: January 1, 1992
Type: Movie
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The Mexican Ninja
Title: The Mexican Ninja
Released: May 30, 1991
Type: Movie
A criminal organization hires some ninjas to steal the formula for a new drug, described as cheaper and more powerful than cocaine. As it turns out, the industrialist who financed the research has taken elaborate steps to make sure that the new substance won´t fall into the wrong hands, and the ninjas find they have only succeeded in stealing half the formula. To please their disgruntled employers, the evil ninjas try to blackmail the industrialist into handing over the remaining half and it´s up to the Mexican Ninja and his pals to stop him.
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One Man’s War
Title: One Man’s War
Character: Ramírez
Released: April 20, 1991
Type: Movie
Anthony Hopkins plays an English medical doctor living with his family in Paraguay and treating the poor people from the surroundings, who has his life turned upside down when his son was mysteriously murdered in what could have been an attack to him since he's opposed to the military dictatorship of the country. The doctor and his family will take lots of risk while trying to prove that the government was involved in the murder.
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Diplomatic Immunity
Title: Diplomatic Immunity
Character: Colonel Hernández
Released: April 19, 1991
Type: Movie
Cole Hickel, a Marine, pursues his daughter's killer when he is allowed to go back to Paraguay because of "diplomatic immunity."
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Jóvenes delincuentes
Title: Jóvenes delincuentes
Released: April 18, 1991
Type: Movie
A group of young people lives in a world of drugs and crime, they wanna be free.
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Mujer de cabaret
Title: Mujer de cabaret
Released: April 11, 1991
Type: Movie
Alicia Conde is famous and successful cabaret singer is going to marry Octavio and quit her career. But this Octavio turns to be a gambler and in a few months he loses all family's fortune. Alicia decided to come back to that cabaret and sing again. The cabaret owner Don Lalo wants her to be his love and his girlfriend Elena finds out about it. She kills him and makes people and police think that Alicia is guilty for this murder. Being imprisoned Alicia must find a prove that she's innocent. And the only prove is a VHS with the record of that murder which was stolen from Elena by her ex-lover. Alicia goes through beatings, humiliation, takes drugs and finally faces with Elena and her ex-lover to get the prove of her innocence...
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Angel of Fire
Title: Angel of Fire
Character: Rito
Released: January 2, 1991
Type: Movie
The young trapeze artist Alma is part of the show of a miserable traveling circus. In an act of desperation, Alma commits incest with her father, a sick clown obsessed with the woman who abandoned them. Determined to have his child, Alma leaves the circus and joins a group of preachers led by Refugio, a woman who performs puppet shows with biblical passages in poor neighborhoods.
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La fuerza bruta
Title: La fuerza bruta
Released: January 1, 1991
Type: Movie
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La leyenda del escorpión
Title: La leyenda del escorpión
Released: January 1, 1991
Type: Movie
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Perseguida
Title: Perseguida
Character: Commander German Paino
Released: January 1, 1991
Type: Movie
A journalist Lorena and her friend photographer Raul decide to try to take an interview from influential politician Hermenegildo Parra. After several unsuccessful attempts they decide to break into his house and make some photos there but when they enter his cabinet they see him stabbed with the knife. The next day the newspaper announces his death and start to celebrate a big amount of sold copies but during the fiesta a phone calls and it was Mr.Parra "alive and kicking". After this scandal Lorena becomes pursued by some mysterious killers who want to take the negatives from her at any price. The solution of this mystery is very unexpected...
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With Fear in the Veins
Title: With Fear in the Veins
Character: José
Released: December 24, 1990
Type: Movie
Compilation tape of Hora Marcada episodes.
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El hijo de Lamberto Quintero
Title: El hijo de Lamberto Quintero
Released: November 15, 1990
Type: Movie
Lamberto Quintero is assassinated and his son intends to avenge him following in his footsteps. The pair of father and son, Antonio Aguilar and Pepe Aguilar star in this action film.
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Dos judiciales en aprietos
Title: Dos judiciales en aprietos
Released: July 14, 1990
Type: Movie
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Violaciónes, casos de la vida real
Title: Violaciónes, casos de la vida real
Released: January 1, 1990
Type: Movie
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Motel of Death
Title: Motel of Death
Released: January 1, 1990
Type: Movie
Murders take place in and around a hotel. Debuted on Mexican TV.
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Old Gringo
Title: Old Gringo
Character: Floreal
Released: September 13, 1989
Type: Movie
When school teacher Harriet Winslow goes to Mexico to teach, she is kidnapped by Gen. Tomas Arroyo and his revolutionaries. An aging American, Ambrose "Old Gringo" Bierce also in Mexico, befriends Gen. Arroyo and meets Harriet. Bierce is a famous writer, who knowing that he is dying, wishes to keep his identity secret so he can determine his own fate. Though he likes Arroyo, Bierce tries to provoke the General's anger whenever possible in an attempt to get himself killed, thus avoiding suffering through his illness. Winslow is intrigued by both Bierce and Arroyo, and the men are in turn attracted to her. She becomes romantically involved with Arroyo. When Winslow learns of Bierce's true identity (a writer whose work she has loved and respected for years), she is singlemindedly determined to fulfill his dying wish. Written by E.W. DesMarais
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Las asesinas del panadero
Title: Las asesinas del panadero
Released: January 1, 1989
Type: Movie
Mexican feature film
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El jardín de la paz
Title: El jardín de la paz
Released: January 1, 1989
Type: Movie
An American's couple who live peaceful and quiet in their summer house in Cuernavaca, Mexico, see how their peace and security is broken when a band of delinquents break inside their home violently with the only purpose of extortion.
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Raptola, violola y matola
Title: Raptola, violola y matola
Released: January 1, 1989
Type: Movie
Mexican feature film
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Difficult Days
Title: Difficult Days
Character: Diputado Gabriel Aguirre
Released: July 7, 1988
Type: Movie
Two shareholder brothers close several factories due to economic problems, except for their chemical plants.
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Angel River
Title: Angel River
Character: Toral
Released: March 1, 1988
Type: Movie
It's love on the old frontier in this western adventure set in Arizona in the 1870s. It centers on a beautiful, young blonde girl whose peaceful life on her parents' isolated ranch is permanently disrupted when she is abducted and raped by a drunken Mexican bandit. Later, she finds herself drawn to her tormentor and romance ensues.
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Furia en la sangre
Title: Furia en la sangre
Released: January 1, 1988
Type: Movie
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Zapata en Chinameca
Title: Zapata en Chinameca
Released: February 15, 1987
Type: Movie
Urbino Martínez, on his deathbed, regrets his wrongdoing after betraying Emiliano Zapata.
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Salvador
Title: Salvador
Character: Human Rights Leader
Released: April 23, 1986
Type: Movie
In 1980, an American journalist covering the Salvadoran Civil War becomes entangled with both the leftist guerrilla groups and the right-wing military dictatorship while trying to rescue his girlfriend and her children.
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Frida Still Life
Title: Frida Still Life
Character: David Alfaro Siqueiros
Released: March 13, 1986
Type: Movie
This film is a chronicle of painter Frida Kahlo, and her encounter with the personalities of her time. Despite being confied to a wheelchair as a result of polio, operations and amputations, she faces and traces some of the most colorful and controversial aspects of Mexican history, during the dominant time of Mexican muralism.
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Viaje al paraíso
Title: Viaje al paraíso
Character: Bulmador
Released: September 8, 1985
Type: Movie
Family plans for a quiet weekend at the beach, but everything goes wrong.
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Under the Volcano
Title: Under the Volcano
Character: Chief of Stockyards
Released: June 12, 1984
Type: Movie
Against a background of war breaking out in Europe and the Mexican fiesta Day of Death, we are taken through one day in the life of Geoffrey Firmin, a British consul living in alcoholic disrepair and obscurity in a small southern Mexican town in 1939. The consul's self-destructive behaviour, perhaps a metaphor for a menaced civilization, is a source of perplexity and sadness to his nomadic, idealistic half-brother, Hugh, and his ex-wife, Yvonne, who has returned with hopes of healing Geoffrey and their broken marriage.
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Motel
Title: Motel
Character: Julián Vargas, Detective
Released: March 29, 1984
Type: Movie
The discovery of the mutilated body of a wealthy woman leads a detective to an isolated motel.
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Under the Shrapnel
Title: Under the Shrapnel
Character: Tomas
Released: November 17, 1983
Type: Movie
A guerrilla commando tries to kidnap a politician. In the attempt, several policemen and a guerrillero die. By chance the head of the kidnappers meets an old colleague; to prevent him from betraying them, he kidnaps him.
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Pedro Páramo
Title: Pedro Páramo
Released: January 1, 1981
Type: Movie
The third film version of the popular Mexican novel, about a wayfarer who travels to a mysterious arid village, to meet the father who long ago abandoned his wife.
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Maria of My Heart
Title: Maria of My Heart
Character: Chava
Released: May 17, 1979
Type: Movie
Héctor and María meet again after eight years of not seeing each other. She works as a magician in cabarets and he robs houses. María convinces Héctor to become a magician and work together. Life seems to smile on them until one day, when Maria travels to another city, the couple's situation will be overshadowed by an unfortunate event.
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La madre
Title: La madre
Released: January 1, 1979
Type: Movie
Mexican feature film
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Drizzle
Title: Drizzle
Character: Indígena
Released: June 29, 1978
Type: Movie
Returning from a business trip, a man meets some peasants who arouse fears in him.
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The Recourse to the Method
Title: The Recourse to the Method
Released: June 6, 1978
Type: Movie
Set in the early 1900s, this film charts the rule of a Latin American dictator as he moves from being a charming despot to a tyrannical ruler before he is finally ousted, only to die in obscurity in Paris. Early in his regime, the resources and agricultural products his country sells command high prices, and he is a reasonably confident, even gentle, ruler who likes to take long vacations with his daughter in Paris. After World War I, with falling prices and a number of coup attempts behind him, his rule becomes quite cruel.
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Caminando pasos... caminando
Title: Caminando pasos... caminando
Released: April 10, 1977
Type: Movie
Directed by Federico Weingartshofer
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El elegido
Title: El elegido
Character: Don Liserio
Released: January 13, 1977
Type: Movie
A guy is peer-pressured, despite his reluctance, to play the role of Christ in a local production of the Passion Play.
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The Bricklayers
Title: The Bricklayers
Character: Chapo Álvarez
Released: December 23, 1976
Type: Movie
When a worker is found murdered on the construction side, the investigation swiftly turns from things criminal to the political circumstances surrounding the building itself. Widespread corruption and neglect by the builder himself are seen to have brought the situation about. Much of the movie is filmed using hand-held cameras, and the majority of the dialogue is in the difficult-to-understand and very slangy Spanish dialect of Mexico City's bricklayers.
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Anyway, Juan is Your Name
Title: Anyway, Juan is Your Name
Released: December 22, 1976
Type: Movie
Analytical view of one of the least reported conflicts of national cinema: the Cristero movement that developed in the regions of western Mexico between 1926 and 1929, highlighting the inability to be faithful to both the Church and the State.
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Las Poquianchis
Title: Las Poquianchis
Character: Reportero
Released: November 17, 1976
Type: Movie
During the mid-1970s, in the Mexican state of Guanajuato, authorities discover a clandestine burial ground. The corpses are from murdered prostitutes. The suspects are three sisters known as "Las Poquianchis".
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The Heist
Title: The Heist
Character: Albino
Released: August 5, 1976
Type: Movie
In Mexico City's infamous Lecumberri prison, three drug-addicted convicts celebrate getting drugs from one of their the mothers. They are found out and locked up in the "apando," the dreaded punishment cell. Protests over the treatment of those held in the cell lead to a bloody confrontation.
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The House in the South
Title: The House in the South
Released: June 17, 1976
Type: Movie
Indian village experiences forced relocation; their experience is paralleled by that of other groups dating back to the 18th century.
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Canoa: A Shameful Memory
Title: Canoa: A Shameful Memory
Character: Witness
Released: March 4, 1976
Type: Movie
A group of students arrives in a small town during a hiking expedition. Once there, the local priest accuses them of being communist agitators on the run from an army crack-down against student demonstrations in nearby Mexico City and rallies the townsfolk to lynch them. Based on a true story.
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Letters from Marusia
Title: Letters from Marusia
Character: Sebastián
Released: December 26, 1975
Type: Movie
Chronicle of the repression that a foreign company exerts on the miners of a small nitrate town in Chile, whose workers decide to claim their most essential rights. A reflection of the historic union struggles in the northern Chile that ended with terrible repressive acts.
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Do You Hear the Dogs Barking?
Title: Do You Hear the Dogs Barking?
Character: Juan Dolores
Released: September 25, 1975
Type: Movie
Carrying his son on his back, a man travels from place to place looking for a doctor to treat the sick boy. As they journey, the indio father tells the boy stories to keep him distracted. These stories reveal the life of native peoples in Mexico, both in the countryside and in cities, and they shed light on characteristic beliefs and rituals.
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Aventuras de un caballo blanco y un niño
Title: Aventuras de un caballo blanco y un niño
Released: July 9, 1975
Type: Movie
Frontier boy orphaned after a military actiion,, escapes with his horse into Mexico and has adventures.
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Esa mi Irene
Title: Esa mi Irene
Released: January 1, 1975
Type: Movie
A 43 minutes short film filmed in Mexico in 1975
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La Choca
Title: La Choca
Character: Audias
Released: September 5, 1974
Type: Movie
A smuggler lives far from civilization, in a hut in the jungle with his wife, La Choca, his son and his sister-in-law Flor. One day some men arrive, who accuse him of having betrayed them.
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Those Years
Title: Those Years
Character: Gen. Melchor Ocampo
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: El Chueco
Released: March 13, 1974
Type: Movie
Adult brothers compete for pateral affection and for control of the family estate.
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La yegua colorada
Title: La yegua colorada
Released: September 20, 1973
Type: Movie
Landowner counts on his super-champeen race-horse to help him win back the hacienda he was swindled out of.
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Valente Quintero
Title: Valente Quintero
Character: Capitán Carrancista
Released: April 12, 1973
Type: Movie
Two best friends tragically fall in love with the same woman.
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El vals sin fin
Title: El vals sin fin
Released: November 30, 1972
Type: Movie
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No One Will Love You Like I Do
Title: No One Will Love You Like I Do
Released: September 21, 1972
Type: Movie
A student-movement leftist becomes a nun and absorbs lots of deep, deep TV-movie spiritual lessons about God's glorious plan.
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Cayó de la gloria el diablo
Title: Cayó de la gloria el diablo
Character: Charro cantor / Solís
Released: May 11, 1972
Type: Movie
Subsistence-economy slum guy who sells used newsprint for a living breaks into showbiz with an inadvertantly-comical fire-eater act. The novelty of him wears off very quickly, and then...
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La Generala
Title: La Generala
Character: Jesús
Released: January 1, 1971
Type: Movie
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.
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Emiliano Zapata
Title: Emiliano Zapata
Released: November 20, 1970
Type: Movie
This is the story of a man, Emiliano Zapata, and of a revolution, the Mexican Revolution.
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Kill Me Because I'm Dying!!!
Title: Kill Me Because I'm Dying!!!
Released: December 21, 1951
Type: Movie
Tin Tan falls in love with a young woman who does not love him, but when he wins the lottery she changes her mind.
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Crimen y castigo
Title: Crimen y castigo
Character: (uncredited)
Released: July 5, 1951
Type: Movie
Adaptation of Dostoyevsky's novel about a student who plans a conceptual murder and then butts heads with a police detective.
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Title: The Marked Hour
Character: (Varios)
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV
La Hora Marcada was a 1986 Mexican television anthology series famous for its horror and science fiction themes in the vein of the Twilight Zone. Although virtually unknown outside the country, it achieved a popular and critical success in Mexico. It had a series of rotating writers and directors, among them Emmanuel Lubezki, Guillermo del Toro and Alfonso Cuarón.