Óscar Chávez

Óscar Chávez

Born: March 20, 1935
Died: May 30, 2020
in Mexico City, Mexico
Óscar Chávez Fernández (20 March 1935 – 30 April 2020), better known simply as Óscar Chávez, was a Mexican singer, songwriter and actor. He was the major proponent of the Nueva Trova movement in Mexico in the 1960s and 1970s.

Movies for Óscar Chávez...

Amparo Ochoa: My Barz Broke out
Title: Amparo Ochoa: My Barz Broke out
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: September 29, 2021
Type: Movie
Supported by current images and national and international archives, this documentary narrates the life of the singer Amparo Ochoa, who learned music from her father, in Sinaloa. His passion for teaching, the decision to live in Mexico City, his indispensable role in the Mexican scene of the seventies and eighties, as well as his constant criticism of the government, are narrated by family and friends, such as Óscar Chávez, Gabino Palomares and Mercedes Sosa, who speak of the consolidation of the artist as a fundamental figure of Mexican popular song and feminist militancy.
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The Forbidden Chant of Mexico '68...50 Years After
Title: The Forbidden Chant of Mexico '68...50 Years After
Released: March 15, 2019
Type: Movie
50 years after the Mexican Student Movement of 1968, this documentary elaborates on how singing and chants played a significant part during the marches.
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Title: Conversando con Cristina Pacheco
Character: Self
Released: September 26, 1997
Type: TV
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The Animals 1850 - 1950
Title: The Animals 1850 - 1950
Character: Singer (voice)
Released: January 1, 1995
Type: Movie
A compilation of 20 Mexican children's song, composed from 1850 to 1950, ranging from lyrical to surrealist, illustrated with digital animation.
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Break of Dawn
Title: Break of Dawn
Character: Pedro Gonzales
Released: December 1, 1988
Type: Movie
The true story of the first Spanish-language radio announcer and political activist, Pedro J Gonzalez
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Desperate
Title: Desperate
Character: Cuban Man
Released: September 19, 1987
Type: Movie
In this thinly-veiled, though uncredited, new version of Hemingway's "To Have and Have Not," here a prospective series pilot, an ex-sailor living in Key West, chartering out boats and struggling to forget his past, is lured into a dangerous rendezvous with Cuban gunrunners.
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Maria of My Heart
Title: Maria of My Heart
Character: Óscar Chávez
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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Las cautivas
Title: Las cautivas
Character: Singer at party
Released: March 15, 1973
Type: Movie
Raimundo, a wealthy man, died of a heart attack. The notary reads out Raimundo's will, leaving all his estate and companies to the widow, Luz, with the surprising clause that she will remain without a man for the period of two years, during which his trusted attorney, Arturo, will be in possession of the whole patrimony. Luz being much younger than her late husband, resents this clause that will keep her captive of the dead man for so long. Her attempts to seek release in the night spots of the town do not prove satisfying. Lucia, the maid, starts an extortion scheme against the widow, menacing to denounce the murder of Raimundo with venom, as Luz and Arturo were lovers. The faithful cook and the gardener are dismissed and Lucía literally takes her employer's image, clothes, and manners - forcing Luz to play humbly to her (progressively insane) demands.
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La Generala
Title: La Generala
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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Peach Blossom
Title: Peach Blossom
Character: Fabián
Released: August 27, 1970
Type: Movie
Farm-girl, seduced and abandoned, goes to the big city to have her baby and live out her shameful soiled disgrace away from her birth people.
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El cuerpazo del delito
Title: El cuerpazo del delito
Character: (segment "La rebelde")
Released: July 9, 1970
Type: Movie
Anthology film: three "sophisticated" rom-com scenarios.
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Las cadenas del mal
Title: Las cadenas del mal
Released: May 29, 1970
Type: Movie
Ambitious young woman thinks she's on he fast track to fame and fortune, but her manager's a sleazeball who gets her hooked on IV drugs and pimps her out at random.
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The World's Oldest Profession
Title: The World's Oldest Profession
Character: Padre Aurelio
Released: February 7, 1970
Type: Movie
Having an example of piety and Christian devotion in their midst may help the girls in this whorehouse reform. Maybe.
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Santa
Title: Santa
Released: January 1, 1969
Type: Movie
A young and innocent girl is betrayed by the man whom she loves and has to become a prostitute because her family rejects her.
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Los Caifanes
Title: Los Caifanes
Character: El Estilos
Released: August 17, 1967
Type: Movie
A couple on the verge of getting married gets mixed up with a gang of thugs in this routine crime drama that underscores the Socio-economic disparity in the Mexican culture. The upper-class couple rides along with outsiders who go club-hopping and resort to petty thievery. After their adventure, the couple questions whether or not they are right for each other.