Ignacio López Tarso

Ignacio López Tarso

Born: January 15, 1925
Died: March 11, 2023
in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
Ignacio López López (b. 15 January 1925 – 11 March 2023), better known as Ignacio López Tarso, was a Mexican actor of stage, film and television. He acted in about 50 films and appeared in documentaries and in one short feature. In 1973 he was given the Ariel Award for Best Actor for Rosa Blanca, and the Ariel de Oro lifetime achievement award in 2007. He was honored multiple times at the TVyNovelas Awards. At the time of his death, he was the oldest living actor and one of the last surviving stars from the Golden Age of Mexican cinema.

Movies for Ignacio López Tarso...

Wolves Aren't Meant For The Circus
Title: Wolves Aren't Meant For The Circus
Character: Don Cristóbal
Released: May 5, 2021
Type: Movie
After an all-nighter, Ricardo gets to his apartment only to find his family ready to have an intervention for him. His struggle with addiction is the least of his problems in this peculiar event where he faces his drug dealer, a prostitute and the worst company of all: his family.
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Taken Identity
Title: Taken Identity
Character: Don Jesus
Released: November 11, 2020
Type: Movie
Felino, his girlfriend and his two friends, have their film rejected from every film festival, so they decide to submit it as major filmmaker Tomas Guevara latest film.
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Más sabe el Diablo por Viejo
Title: Más sabe el Diablo por Viejo
Character: Joselito
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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Title: Loves with Trap
Character: Porfirio
Released: March 2, 2015
Type: TV
Los Carmona viven en el campo y su vida cambiará radicalmente cuando el gobierno les expropia su terreno y se mudan a la ciudad. En su nueva casa se encontrarán con la adinerada familia Velasco con quienes tendrán muchas aventuras. "The Carmona live in the countryside and their life will change radically when the government expropriates their land and they move to the city. In their new home they will meet the wealthy Velasco family with whom they will have many adventures."
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La Noria
Title: La Noria
Character: Old Man
Released: April 25, 2013
Type: Movie
In a small town, time stops for a father who has lost his son.
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Title: Wild at Heart
Character: Ramiro Olivares
Released: February 25, 2013
Type: TV
Corazón indomable is a Mexican telenovela produced by Nathalie Lartilleux for Televisa. It is a remake of Marimar, produced in 1994, and starring Thalía and Eduardo Capetillo. Ana Brenda Contreras and Daniel Arenas star as the protagonists, while Ingrid Martz, Elizabeth Álvarez, Carlos de la Mota and René Strickler star as the antagonists.
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Title: El Encanto del Águila
Character: Porfirio Díaz
Released: November 15, 2011
Type: TV
A detailed dramatization of historical events during the time of the Revolution in Mexico. Using never-before-known historical documents, details about what happened during the period from 1910 to 1928 are revealed.
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Title: Curse by the Sea
Character: El Mojarras
Released: November 16, 2009
Type: TV
Mar de Amor is a Spanish-language telenovela produced by Nathalie Lartilleux with protagonists Zuria Vega, Mario Cimarro and Mariana Seoane and antagonists Ninel Conde, Marcelo Córdoba and Manuel Landeta. This is a remake of the 1978 Venezuelan telenovela María del Mar.
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Morenita, El Escandalo
Title: Morenita, El Escandalo
Character: Santiago
Released: March 1, 2009
Type: Movie
Desperate to save his family from death threats by a notorious drug dealer, Mateo Cruz steals the venerated image of the Virgin of Guadalupe causing pandemonium throughout Mexico.
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Title: Peregrina
Character: Baltasar
Released: November 14, 2005
Type: TV
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Title: De Pocas Pocas Pulgas
Character: Don Julián Montes
Released: March 17, 2003
Type: TV
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Title: Las Lunas del Auditorio
Character: Himself
Released: September 4, 2002
Type: TV
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Title: ¡Vivan los niños!
Character: Ignacio Robles
Released: July 15, 2002
Type: TV
¡Vivan los niños! is a Mexican telenovela for children that premiered in 2002. It ran for 155 episodes and finished in 2003. The opening, Vivan los niños, was recorded by the Latin pop group OV7. One of its closing themes, also entitled Vivan los niños, was performed by Cuban-American singer and songwriter Ana Cristina. The show is a version of the Argentinian telenovela "Jacinta Pichimahuida, la maestra que no se olvida". The series starred Andrea Legarreta as 2nd grade teacher Lupita Gómez. After the series ended, Andrea became the long-time host of the morning talk show Hoy. On July 12, 2012, in celebration of Andrea's birthday, the producers of Hoy reunited her with the young actors who played her students on the series.
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Veneno
Title: Veneno
Released: January 1, 2002
Type: Movie
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Title: Navidad sin Fin
Character: Rodito
Released: December 17, 2001
Type: TV
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Title: Atrévete a Olvidarme
Character: Gonzalo Rivas
Released: August 6, 2001
Type: TV
Atrévete a Olvidarme is a short-lived Mexican telenovela. Running for only one month in 2001, the program starred Adriana Fonseca and Jorge Salinas.
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Title: La casa en la playa
Character: Don Ángel Villarreal Cueto
Released: April 10, 2000
Type: TV
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Title: Ángela
Character: Feliciano Villanueva
Released: November 30, 1998
Type: TV
Angela is a Mexican telenovela, which was produced by Televisa and broadcast on Canal de las Estrellas in 1998. The series was first debuted on May 17, 1999 on Univision in the United States, replacing that year's hit La Mentira, and ended on September 9, 1999, being replaced by Tres Mujeres. It aired a second and a third time on Galavisión on March 15, 2000 and May 8, 2001, and ended a second and a third time on July 1, 2000 and August 24, 2001. It aired a fourth time back to Univision's late night "Grandes Historias" lineup, aired on October 28, 2003, and ended on February 27, 2004. It aired a fifth time on TeleFutura on September 18, 2006, and ended on January 8, 2007. This telenovela contained 78 episodes.
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Title: Camila
Character: Don Genaro
Released: September 14, 1998
Type: TV
This page refers to the 1998 soap opera. For the 1984 Argentinian movie see Camila. Camila is a Mexican romantic drama telenovela produced by and originally broadcast on Televisa in 1998. It is a remake of Viviana, a Mexican telenovela from 1978. It starred Bibi Gaytán, Eduardo Capetillo, and Adamari López and is the story of a simple country girl brought to the big city, but abandoned when her new husband bigamously marries his employer's daughter.
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Title: Conversando con Cristina Pacheco
Character: Self
Released: September 26, 1997
Type: TV
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Reclusorio
Title: Reclusorio
Character: Viejo (segment "Quiero quedarme en la carcel")
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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Saint Lucifer
Title: Saint Lucifer
Character: Father Leopoldo Santos Higareda
Released: April 15, 1997
Type: Movie
A conflict arises between the people of the town and the local priest when they have to decide how to represent certain biblical episode.
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Title: Esmeralda
Character: Melesio
Released: December 31, 1996
Type: TV
Esmeralda is a telenovela that was released by Televisa in 1997. It is a remake of a 1970 Venezuelan telenovela of that same name, and was itself remade in Brazil in 2004. Another version is Topacio from Venezuela in 1984. One of the most famous telenovela all the time.
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Title: Crystal Empire
Character: César Lombardo
Released: August 29, 1994
Type: TV
Imperio de Cristal is a Mexican telenovela that aired on Televisa in 1994 with 124-episode from the plot to the main cast it was officially first launched on Monday, 29 August 1994 & ceased transmission on Friday, 17 February 1995 was aired runtime of 45-minutes with commercial on weekday at 21:00 to 22:00 CST/22:00 to 23:00 MST/23:00 to 00:00 PST.
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Banderas, the Tyrant
Title: Banderas, the Tyrant
Character: Coronel de la Gándara
Released: November 19, 1993
Type: Movie
In Santa Fe de Tierra Firme, an imaginary Latin American country, the indigenous dictator Santos Banderas rules with an iron fist. A group of rebels trying to seize power by force while some liberals try a change of government legally.
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Codicia mortal
Title: Codicia mortal
Released: October 21, 1991
Type: Movie
Drug dealer tries to force local subsistance farmers to sell their land to him. The village's "good" rich guy eventually gets around to helping them mount a resistance.
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Muelle rojo
Title: Muelle rojo
Released: October 12, 1987
Type: Movie
Three episodes from the "history" of organized labor in the harbors of Tampico, 1912 to modern-times.
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Astucia
Title: Astucia
Character: Don Polo
Released: November 6, 1986
Type: Movie
Historical melodrama on horseback, 1840s or so in central Mexico. Pulpy, Zorro-ish...
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El otro
Title: El otro
Character: Sr. Tabares
Released: April 24, 1986
Type: Movie
A novelist travels to the country to learn the problems of a friend's shy son and runs into an intruder.
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Toña Machetes
Title: Toña Machetes
Released: January 31, 1985
Type: Movie
A woman adopts a child and discovers that she can love again despite facing a wicked man.
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Notes from Under the Volcano
Title: Notes from Under the Volcano
Character: Self
Released: September 9, 1984
Type: Movie
A behind-the-scenes documentary on the making of John Huston's "Under the Volcano" (1984).
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Under the Volcano
Title: Under the Volcano
Character: Dr. Vigil
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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Antonieta
Title: Antonieta
Character: Vargas
Released: October 21, 1982
Type: Movie
Anna is a psychologist undertaking research about famous suicidal women. She takes a specific interest in the case of Antonieta Rivas Mercado, who killed herself in 1931 in the Cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris.
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Viva México y sus corridos
Title: Viva México y sus corridos
Released: September 15, 1982
Type: Movie
Song/action clips from 8 or 12 movies that starred Antonio Aguilar as historical figures, with an onscreen narrator who splains things.
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Corrupción oficial
Title: Corrupción oficial
Released: January 1, 1980
Type: Movie
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The Children of Sanchez
Title: The Children of Sanchez
Character: Ignacio
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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Los amantes frios
Title: Los amantes frios
Released: April 20, 1978
Type: Movie
Three-fer anthology of black-humor sex-n-death anecdotes.
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La casta divina
Title: La casta divina
Character: Don Wilfrido
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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¿Y ahora qué, señor fiscal?
Title: ¿Y ahora qué, señor fiscal?
Released: May 3, 1977
Type: Movie
Working-class dude grows up surrounded with petty delinquency and ghetto temptations; he marries a rich girl and faces the disapproval of her parents. Then the young couple plans a crime...
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The Bricklayers
Title: The Bricklayers
Character: Don Jesus
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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Resigned for Reasons of Health
Title: Resigned for Reasons of Health
Character: Gustavo Sánchez Campero
Released: September 2, 1976
Type: Movie
A mid-level government bureaucrat is forced to think hard about his ideas on governmental corruption and his own integrity.
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Rapine
Title: Rapine
Character: Porfirio
Released: May 14, 1975
Type: Movie
Two humble indigenous woodcutters discover the wreckage of a plane that has crashed at the top of the mountains and decide to steal the belongings of all the occupants killed in the accident.
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Looking for a Wall
Title: Looking for a Wall
Character: José Clemente Orozco
Released: September 19, 1974
Type: Movie
The life of the Mexican muralist José Clemente Orozco and his quest to create a career in New York.
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The Prophet Mimi
Title: The Prophet Mimi
Character: Ángel Peñafiel, Mimi
Released: December 27, 1973
Type: Movie
Childhood trauma and religious repression causes little boy to grow up and murder .
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Cayó de la gloria el diablo
Title: Cayó de la gloria el diablo
Character: Don Eme (Emeterio Sánchez)
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: Rosauro Márquez
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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The Useless Life of Pito Pérez
Title: The Useless Life of Pito Pérez
Character: Pito Pérez
Released: September 15, 1970
Type: Movie
A man goes on a trip and then returns to his village pretending that everything went well for him.
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La trinchera
Title: La trinchera
Released: December 4, 1969
Type: Movie
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The Door and The Butcher's Wife
Title: The Door and The Butcher's Wife
Character: Melitón Torres (segment "La mujer del carnicero")
Released: September 25, 1969
Type: Movie
A movie divided in two segments, the first "La puerta" (The Door) is about a high society gathering in which a door inside the mansion leads to a bizarre corridor where a naked and menacing human figure appears. The second "La mujer del carnicero" (The Butcher's Wife) is set during the Mexican revolution and is about horrifying hallucinations felt by a lieutenant after committing a murder.
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The Devil's Visitations
Title: The Devil's Visitations
Character: Felix Estrella
Released: August 15, 1968
Type: Movie
A young architect returns from Europe to live in the house of his uncles and cousins, where someone pretends to be the Devil.
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A Long Journey Toward Death
Title: A Long Journey Toward Death
Character: Dr. David
Released: July 3, 1968
Type: Movie
Juan is subjected to shock treatment in the hands of Dr. David, and apparently is able to resume a "normal" life. He and his wife María make dolls in a workshop attached to their apartment in New York. However, John does not heal and he starts looking for the nurses to murder them.
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Pedro Paramo
Title: Pedro Paramo
Character: Fulgor Sedano
Released: January 26, 1967
Type: Movie
When his mother Dolores dies, Juan Preciado, son of Pedro Páramo, goes to Comala to claim his inheritance; but when he arrives he finds an abandoned and sinister place, inhabited by mysterious voices and whispers…
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Tarahumara (Further and farther)
Title: Tarahumara (Further and farther)
Character: Raúl
Released: June 8, 1965
Type: Movie
An anthropologist goes to the mountains to study the problems of the indigenous people and finds out that they are being dispossessed of their lands.
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Un hombre en la trampa
Title: Un hombre en la trampa
Released: March 3, 1965
Type: Movie
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The Golden Cockerel
Title: The Golden Cockerel
Character: Dionisio Pinzón
Released: December 18, 1964
Type: Movie
A poor, but very lucky man in the cock fighting, is hired by a rich man, but both are in love with the same woman
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Furia en el Edén
Title: Furia en el Edén
Character: Ing. José Argos
Released: January 1, 1964
Type: Movie
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Cri Cri el Grillito Cantor
Title: Cri Cri el Grillito Cantor
Character: Francisco Gabilondo Soler 'Cri-Cri'
Released: December 12, 1963
Type: Movie
Biography of the famous composer of children's music Gabilondo Soler. Starts from his childhood, when he worked as a pastor and grandmother tried to teach him to play the piano. Later he went to the city to study music theory and began writing his first songs.
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Autumn Days
Title: Autumn Days
Character: Albino
Released: October 31, 1963
Type: Movie
Luisa is a small-town girl who works in the bakery of the widower Don Albino. Luisa dreams of marrying and loves children. Just as Don Albino shows interest in her, Luisa announces that she will marry soon with Carlos, the driver of a rich house whom she met recently...
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The Paper Man
Title: The Paper Man
Character: Adán
Released: October 5, 1963
Type: Movie
A deaf and mute vagabond finds a large denomination bill in a Mexico City dump, and while he tries to buy something with it, others try to con him into giving it away. The film was selected as the Mexican entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 36th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.
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Corazón de niño
Title: Corazón de niño
Released: July 17, 1963
Type: Movie
The story tells us about an old teacher from the town, who upon knowing he was going to die, entrusts his sixth-grade class to a colleague who had also been his student. Asking him to help them so that they could survive.
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La Bandida
Title: La Bandida
Character: Anselmo
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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My Son, the Hero
Title: My Son, the Hero
Character: Gunslinger
Released: October 5, 1961
Type: Movie
Northern Mexico, early 20th century. Reynaldo del Hierro is murdered while riding with his sons Reynaldo and Martín, whose mother instills in them the need for revenge.
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Then God Named It Earth
Title: Then God Named It Earth
Character: Efrén Domínguez
Released: September 7, 1961
Type: Movie
During the Mexican Agrarian Reform, an engineer travels to a town to distribute the land of the landowners among the peasants.
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The White Rose
Title: The White Rose
Character: Jacinto Yáñes
Released: July 19, 1961
Type: Movie
An international oil company comes into conflict with a Mexican ranch owner who refuses to sell his land, resorting to a devious scheme to try to take over the property.
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Juana Gallo
Title: Juana Gallo
Character: Pioquinto
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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Ellas también son rebeldes
Title: Ellas también son rebeldes
Character: Dr. Gabriel Renteria
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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The Shadow of the Strongman
Title: The Shadow of the Strongman
Character: General Hilario Jiménez
Released: August 22, 1960
Type: Movie
Post-revolucionary Mexico. War secretary Hilario Jiménez is chosen as the candidate for presidency, but he isn't so sure about it, because he knows that his boss and current president, El Caudillo, has chosen a second one.
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Macario
Title: Macario
Character: Macario
Released: May 9, 1960
Type: Movie
Poor, hungry peasant Macario longs for just one good meal on the Day of the Dead. After his wife cooks a turkey for him, he meets three apparitions, the Devil, God, and Death. Each asks him to share his turkey, but he refuses all except Death. In return, Death gives him a bottle of water which will heal any illness. Soon, Macario is more wealthy than the village doctor, which draws the attention of the feared Inquisition.
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La estrella vacía
Title: La estrella vacía
Character: Luis Arvide
Released: May 5, 1960
Type: Movie
Mourners share their memories of a dead film-star at her wake, a la Citizen Kane. Only melodrama.
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Our Daily Hunger
Title: Our Daily Hunger
Character: Pablo
Released: April 25, 1960
Type: Movie
Trophy wife of a crooked industrialist meets a philanthropic doctor and develops a social conscience. Mexican remake of Born Yesterday.
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La Cucaracha
Title: La Cucaracha
Character: Trinidad
Released: November 12, 1959
Type: Movie
The Mexican Revolution serves as a backdrop to a torrid love triangle composed of three freedom fighters: a colonel, a widow, and a fiery female soldier.
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Sonatas
Title: Sonatas
Character: Jefe de guerrilleros
Released: October 12, 1959
Type: Movie
In the fall of 1824 Javier Montenegro, Bradomin Marquis is spared death hanging by Captain Casares, and in return, the Marquis agrees to help him escape to America. Adaptation of "Sonata de Otoño" and "Sonata de Estío" of Ramón María del Valle-Inclan, which included elements Bardem later works of the author.
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Nazarin
Title: Nazarin
Character: Thief in church
Released: June 4, 1959
Type: Movie
After hiding a murderer, a Catholic priest is forced into self-exile and decides to embark on a pilgrimage through the Mexican countryside.
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Love Your Neighbor
Title: Love Your Neighbor
Character: (voice)
Released: October 23, 1958
Type: Movie
This film tells several short stories that end up lapsing in the emergency room of a hospital, because it is dedicated to nurses. Cantinflas appears at the end of the film playing the role of Luis, a man who has five daughters and looks forward to a boy, but fate plays a trick and the child dies at birth, but history gives a nice twist and a message of hope.
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Vanilla, Bronze and to Die
Title: Vanilla, Bronze and to Die
Character: Ricardo Castillo
Released: December 4, 1957
Type: Movie
A beautiful woman, fatally ill of the heart, is torn between the love of a poor sculptor and a forced marriage with the sadistic son of a millionaire.
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Happy Year, My Love
Title: Happy Year, My Love
Released: January 31, 1957
Type: Movie
Man and woman have a couple of one-night-stands spread out over 15 or 20 years.
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Chilam Balam
Title: Chilam Balam
Released: October 16, 1955
Type: Movie
Priest defies the gods by refusing to sacrifice his daughter. Also: conquistadores.