Agustín Isunza

Agustín Isunza

Born: September 3, 1900
Died: August 23, 1978
in Muzquiz, Coahuila, Mexico
Agustín Isunza y del Palacio (1900–1978) was a Mexican film actor. He appeared in over two hundred films during his career.

Comic performer in Mexican film from the '30s into the '70s. Mostly cast in supporting roles.

Movies for Agustín Isunza...

Alucarda
Title: Alucarda
Character: Monk
Released: December 26, 1977
Type: Movie
A young girl's arrival at a convent after the death of her parents marks the beginning of a series of events that unleash an evil presence on the girl and her mysterious new friend, an enigmatic figure known as Alucarda. Demonic possession, Satan worship, and vampirism follows.
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Omen
Title: Omen
Released: February 13, 1975
Type: Movie
While attending the birth of Isabel, the wife of foreigner Felipe, Mama Santos predicts that "something terrible is going to happen in the town." From this omen, calamities will torment the locals.
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Inspector Calzonzin
Title: Inspector Calzonzin
Released: May 2, 1974
Type: Movie
Mexico's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1974
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One Way
Title: One Way
Character: Padre de Sergio
Released: September 22, 1973
Type: Movie
Italian crime drama
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Mi niño Tizoc
Title: Mi niño Tizoc
Character: Priest
Released: July 13, 1972
Type: Movie
Tizoc wishes to eat a chicken by himself and have his own piñata. At Christmas his father Carmelo grants his wish.
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La pequeña señora de Perez
Title: La pequeña señora de Perez
Released: March 16, 1972
Type: Movie
Teenaged girl isn't emotionally mature enough for marriage, but she gets hitched anyway.
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Cool Dad
Title: Cool Dad
Released: November 11, 1971
Type: Movie
Fiftyish head of household tries to hang onto his fun-loving youth while imposing his most rigid value judgements on his young-adult children.
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Departamento De Soltero
Title: Departamento De Soltero
Released: February 25, 1971
Type: Movie
Newlywed couple are jealous of each other's imagined infidelities.
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El Topo
Title: El Topo
Character: Maestro 4
Released: December 18, 1970
Type: Movie
El Topo decides to confront warrior Masters on a trans-formative desert journey he begins with his 6 year old son, who must bury his childhood totems to become a man.
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El Quelite
Title: El Quelite
Character: Anciano
Released: December 10, 1970
Type: Movie
Agapito, leader of the revolutionary movement of his state, comes to a town, kills all the federales, and gets a girl who was promised to him for his heroic deeds.
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El pocho
Title: El pocho
Released: November 4, 1970
Type: Movie
José Guadalupe García was born in the United States, but seems very Mexican. Winning his American girlfriend creates many comic situations, but he also faces discrimination and racism.
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Patsy My Love
Title: Patsy My Love
Released: October 9, 1969
Type: Movie
Written by future Nobel-prize winner Gabriel García Márquez, this is the story of Patsy, a wealthy debutante with an acute sense of living and boundless curiosity. She falls in love with an older man (Julio Alemán) whom is married and mediocre, and thus learns the hard way about unhappiness, marring her rose colored world.
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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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Un Quijote sin mancha
Title: Un Quijote sin mancha
Character: Abuelo Mancera
Released: September 17, 1969
Type: Movie
A lawyer trying to fix everyone's problems, instead causes problems, which always end up in funny situations.
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Mil máscaras
Title: Mil máscaras
Character: Profesor Bogardus
Released: June 6, 1969
Type: Movie
Wrestling superhero Mil Máscaras battles bad guys.
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Lauro Puñales
Title: Lauro Puñales
Released: March 12, 1969
Type: Movie
One of Zapata's field marshals runs afoul of dictator Huerta's stooges in his home town.
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Ambición sangrienta
Title: Ambición sangrienta
Character: Olegario Carreño
Released: August 29, 1968
Type: Movie
A lawman and two sidekicks clear up a series of crimes related to mining rights.
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Por mis pistolas
Title: Por mis pistolas
Character: Don Panfilo
Released: August 21, 1968
Type: Movie
Fidencio Borer, an apothecary in a village on the northern border of Mexico, discovers some old title of a mine in Arizona and decides to claim them. Trying to cross the border is a border guard intercepted by exaggerating in the line of duty. On the way is captured by a tribe of Apaches and is about to be burned alive, but thanks to the Great Head Horse Lying having toothache and learns that the prisoner it can heal, ordered his release on the condition that the cure. Fidencio would take the wheel and gets the eternal friendship of the Chief apache.
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Mi caballo prieto rebelde
Title: Mi caballo prieto rebelde
Released: January 6, 1967
Type: Movie
Two cowboys fight over ownership of a horse and a woman.
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La mano de Dios
Title: La mano de Dios
Released: December 1, 1966
Type: Movie
A dead man's brother tracks his murderer down, years later, and intercedes to prevent him from taking over a young woman's farm.
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El ángel y yo
Title: El ángel y yo
Released: November 22, 1966
Type: Movie
Ex-con breaks into a house and ends up bonding with a toddler instead of burgling the way he'd planned.
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Esta noche no
Title: Esta noche no
Character: Mesero en Acapulco
Released: August 4, 1966
Type: Movie
Mexican feature film
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El cachorro
Title: El cachorro
Released: June 3, 1966
Type: Movie
El Cachorro is falsely accused of two murders; right after he's arrested flor those crimes, another murder is committed and he has to clear himself of that accusation. We never find out what happened about the first two deaths.
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Fuera de la ley
Title: Fuera de la ley
Released: April 15, 1966
Type: Movie
Three outlaws get arrested, and the fourth tries several times to break them out of jail. Also, there are can-can girls.
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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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The Waltzes came from Vienna and the Children from Paris
Title: The Waltzes came from Vienna and the Children from Paris
Released: January 13, 1966
Type: Movie
Unmarried opera singer has a baby, and her friends convince her to pass it off as the grandchild of a wealthy old lady.
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Cargando con el muerto
Title: Cargando con el muerto
Released: November 12, 1965
Type: Movie
Moving company bozos are left holding the bag when bad guys hire them to transport a corpse.
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El secreto del texano
Title: El secreto del texano
Released: November 12, 1965
Type: Movie
Mexican feature film
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Para todas hay
Title: Para todas hay
Released: October 1, 1965
Type: Movie
Two young charros have been playing the field, and each one has three potential fiancees lined up... Now that it's time to get serious and move toward marriage, the women start politicking among themselves to discredit each other.
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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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Audaz y bravero
Title: Audaz y bravero
Released: September 9, 1965
Type: Movie
Two ranchers competing over a woman. Cult actor Noe Murayama plays a mentally handicapped character.
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Mi ley es un revólver
Title: Mi ley es un revólver
Released: April 1, 1965
Type: Movie
Masked justice on horseback, again: guy plays it meek & mild in his civilian identity so no-one will suspect him of being Mr. Cowboy Hero.
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El texano
Title: El texano
Released: January 8, 1965
Type: Movie
A young man is executed for a murder he didn't commit. His brother shows up to clear his name and see that proper justice is done.
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Llanto por Juan Indio
Title: Llanto por Juan Indio
Released: January 1, 1965
Type: Movie
The story revolves around a farmer who is tried for stealing a military rifle and is sentenced to death.
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The Golden Cockerel
Title: The Golden Cockerel
Character: Secundino
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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The Bats
Title: The Bats
Released: December 3, 1964
Type: Movie
Cowboy-justice guy breaks up a criminal gang who are terrorizing a small town with the appearance of vampire activity.
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Un par de sinvergüenzas
Title: Un par de sinvergüenzas
Released: November 5, 1964
Type: Movie
Itinerant cowboy learns that his horse can talk. Horse ends up giving him singing-lessons... and...
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Lupe Balazos
Title: Lupe Balazos
Released: September 17, 1964
Type: Movie
Cowgirl gets her man. After all the entanglements run their course.
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Los fenómenos del fútbol
Title: Los fenómenos del fútbol
Released: September 10, 1964
Type: Movie
Working class family owns a restaurant: one brother's a rising star in local soccer, one's a priest/semi-pro boxer, sister's an aspiring ranchera singer and the other brother's a waterboy at the stadium.
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Así amaron nuestros padres
Title: Así amaron nuestros padres
Released: July 16, 1964
Type: Movie
Elderly roue interferes in the love life of a young woman because she's secretly his daughter. Remake of En Tiempos De Don Porfirio.
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Ruletero a toda marcha
Title: Ruletero a toda marcha
Character: Cliente taxi
Released: May 14, 1964
Type: Movie
Country-boy migrates to the big city to work as a taxi-driver.
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Las chivas rayadas
Title: Las chivas rayadas
Released: April 2, 1964
Type: Movie
The comical misadventures of two brothers who are part of the local soccer team and their family.
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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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El norteño
Title: El norteño
Released: November 7, 1963
Type: Movie
Lawman on horseback cracks a case involving stolen gold bullion, the title to a mine, an evil twin and a plucky pre-adolescent boy. First in a series.
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Barridos y regados
Title: Barridos y regados
Released: October 31, 1963
Type: Movie
Two bozos take varied assignments from an employment agency.
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Fuerte, audaz y valiente
Title: Fuerte, audaz y valiente
Released: June 27, 1963
Type: Movie
Western comedy: two medicine-show guys vs. badhats.
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Los parranderos
Title: Los parranderos
Released: May 31, 1963
Type: Movie
Romantic complications and silliness when two farmhands are sent to the next town to track down their employer's daughter and baby-mama from thirty years earlier.
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La muerte en el desfiladero
Title: La muerte en el desfiladero
Released: April 5, 1963
Type: Movie
Masked horseman avenges the deaths of family members and resolves questions about a contested inheritance. One of four in a series ("Relampago").
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Two Cheerful Hawks
Title: Two Cheerful Hawks
Character: Don Camilo Sánchez
Released: January 1, 1963
Type: Movie
Alfredo B. Crevenna helms this charming romantic comedy about a pair of skirt-chasers wooing the two lovely daughters of a land baron — who rebuffs the young swains to protect his girls.
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El asaltacaminos
Title: El asaltacaminos
Released: October 26, 1962
Type: Movie
Young man puts on the Black Mask Of Vengeance to solve some tangled legal problems concerning a contested inheritance and several murdered family members. It took him four feature-length movies to do it. (Series: "El Relampago.")
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El lobo blanco
Title: El lobo blanco
Released: October 25, 1962
Type: Movie
A new sheriff rids his town of bandits and puts everything in order.
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Horizontes de sangre
Title: Horizontes de sangre
Released: October 25, 1962
Type: Movie
Bad Comanches persuade good Apaches to go on the warpath.
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Pueblo de odios
Title: Pueblo de odios
Released: August 10, 1962
Type: Movie
Bad hats try to manipulate townsfolk and neighboring Apache tribal settlement into a range war.
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Muerte en la feria
Title: Muerte en la feria
Released: July 13, 1962
Type: Movie
Four bad eggs from the traveling carney are setting up local men for a blackmail scam, and it's up to western-series hero El Hijo Del Charro Negro! to make things right.
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Pa' qué me sirve la vida
Title: Pa' qué me sirve la vida
Released: November 30, 1961
Type: Movie
A landowner dies of disgust when his rival makes him believe that he has legally taken away his property.
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Escuela de valientes
Title: Escuela de valientes
Released: October 12, 1961
Type: Movie
Mexican western 1961
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Viva Chihuahua
Title: Viva Chihuahua
Released: September 28, 1961
Type: Movie
Respectable guy uses a pseudonym when he wants to cut loose in a neighboring town. A friend of his picks up the pseudonym habit, and they take turns pretending to be the same person, until their cover stories get too snarled to continue.
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Madness from Terror
Title: Madness from Terror
Character: Enfermero
Released: August 4, 1961
Type: Movie
Monster film and mad doctor spoof.
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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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The Devil's Tiepin
Title: The Devil's Tiepin
Character: Don Antonio
Released: March 16, 1961
Type: Movie
Satan tries to corrupt mortal man by gifting him with an enchanted tie-tack. First of four in a series.
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The Shadow of the Strongman
Title: The Shadow of the Strongman
Character: Remigio Tarabana
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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Herencia trágica
Title: Herencia trágica
Released: June 2, 1960
Type: Movie
Masked horseman avenges the deaths of family members and resolves questions about a contested inheritance. One of four in a series ("Relampago").
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Los tigres del ring
Title: Los tigres del ring
Released: March 30, 1960
Type: Movie
Crooked promoter has a secret weapon who goes around beating fighters to death after their matches if they aren't in line with his rigging schedule. Part one of two.
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Bala de Plata
Title: Bala de Plata
Released: February 17, 1960
Type: Movie
Young soldier goes home to Cowboyville to find the man who killed his father.
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El ciclón
Title: El ciclón
Released: October 2, 1959
Type: Movie
Cowboy revenge-drama, paired with a love triangle between two Mexican fellers and a rather unpleasant gringa.
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La diligencia de la muerte
Title: La diligencia de la muerte
Character: Templadito
Released: July 17, 1959
Type: Movie
Law officer goes undercover as member of gang of murderous highwaymen.
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I'm flying low
Title: I'm flying low
Released: January 22, 1959
Type: Movie
Two hot-shot pilots working for the same company get all competitive and ructious toward each other.
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Yo... el aventurero
Title: Yo... el aventurero
Released: January 21, 1959
Type: Movie
A crew of happy ne'er do wells comes to town to gamble and party during the town fair... but then their leader gets serious about a local girl and about finding the rustlers who are stealing all of her daddy's horses.
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Señoritas
Title: Señoritas
Released: January 15, 1959
Type: Movie
Four young women facing "crises," mostly centered around the crucially-important issue of preserving their virginity in a variety of purity-oath threatening situations.
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El jinete negro
Title: El jinete negro
Character: Crispulo
Released: November 22, 1958
Type: Movie
Masked horseman avenges the deaths of family members and resolves questions about a contested inheritance. One of four in a series ("Relampago").
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Los muertos no hablan
Title: Los muertos no hablan
Character: Emeterio Berlanga / El Caimán del Pacifico
Released: July 31, 1958
Type: Movie
Bandit crew with mysterious masked leader is doing lots of crimes. Mauricio Rosales and his sidekick ride into town all incognito and stuff to set things right.
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El rayo de Sinaloa: La venganza de Heraclio Bernal
Title: El rayo de Sinaloa: La venganza de Heraclio Bernal
Released: July 9, 1958
Type: Movie
Disgruntled 19th century peasants get militant and start redistributing some wealth. Part two of a historical-drama trilogy.
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La feria de San Marcos
Title: La feria de San Marcos
Released: June 2, 1958
Type: Movie
Two men and two women meet and pair off (m/w x 2) during the town Festival in San Marcos. Later, weddings.
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Here is Heraclius Bernal
Title: Here is Heraclius Bernal
Released: April 9, 1958
Type: Movie
Historical drama/biopic about 1880s Social Justice bandits in a mining community in Sinaloa. First of three in series.
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La guarida del buitre
Title: La guarida del buitre
Released: February 19, 1958
Type: Movie
Cowboy-policeman-hero interferes with the bad guy's plans and prevents his engaging in monkeyshines. Part of the series "Mauricio Rosales, el rayo justiciero."
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La justicia del gavilán vengador
Title: La justicia del gavilán vengador
Released: November 1, 1957
Type: Movie
Federal agent on horseback comes to town to catch some crooks. Series western: Mauricio Rosales El Justiciero number 8.
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Los tres mosqueteros y medio
Title: Los tres mosqueteros y medio
Released: October 29, 1957
Type: Movie
Spoofy adaptation of The Three Musketeers, follows the original very closely.
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La pantera negra
Title: La pantera negra
Released: June 12, 1957
Type: Movie
Fed agent goes undercover as roving cowboy to solve rural crimes. "Mauricio Rosales" Series.
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Here are the eagles!
Title: Here are the eagles!
Released: January 11, 1957
Type: Movie
Two itinerant cowhands hire on at a ranch owned by a woman, end up fighting two bad-hats who rustle la patrona's cattle and set fire to her stables.
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La huella del chacal
Title: La huella del chacal
Released: October 18, 1956
Type: Movie
Federal agent Mauricio Rosales goes undercover as itinerant cowpoke to clean up corruption in a remote Northern town. Series western.
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La sierra del terror
Title: La sierra del terror
Released: May 24, 1956
Type: Movie
Federal police agent goes undercover to bust rural crime ring. Series western.
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El gavilan vengador
Title: El gavilan vengador
Released: October 27, 1955
Type: Movie
Masked rider exposes the criminal misdeeds of a wealthy land-owner and his henchmen.
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Padre contra hijo
Title: Padre contra hijo
Character: Toribio
Released: August 23, 1955
Type: Movie
Eloisa works hard, sewing, to his son Juan de Dios. He learns that he is the bastard son of Cecilio, who owns almost a whole town named: San Juan de Dios, Durango.
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El rayo justiciero
Title: El rayo justiciero
Released: August 11, 1955
Type: Movie
New sheriff cleans up the town. First (?) in "Mauricio Rosales" series.
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Historia de un abrigo de mink
Title: Historia de un abrigo de mink
Released: April 28, 1955
Type: Movie
Four anecdotes involving a mink coat in display in a shop window.
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El pueblo sin Dios
Title: El pueblo sin Dios
Character: Bracero
Released: March 17, 1955
Type: Movie
Unscrupulous rich guy owns all the businesses in border towns, is challenged by town's new priest.
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La engañadora
Title: La engañadora
Released: January 1, 1955
Type: Movie
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Solamente una vez
Title: Solamente una vez
Released: August 25, 1954
Type: Movie
A couple suffers through slander and jealousy to maintain their love for one another.
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El casto Susano
Title: El casto Susano
Released: May 20, 1954
Type: Movie
Father and son are sober, responsible pillars of the community in their home-town... but they make frequent trips to the city.
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Illusion Travels by Streetcar
Title: Illusion Travels by Streetcar
Character: Papá Pinillos
Released: March 10, 1954
Type: Movie
Confronted with the unfortunate news that their favorite Streetcar, no. 133, is going to be decommissioned, two Municipal Transit workers get drunk and decide to "take 'er for one last spin," as it were. Unfortunately, the "one last spin" ends up being an all-night and all-day scramble to stay out of trouble, as they are confronted with situation after sometimes bizarre situation that prevents them from returning the "borrowed" Streetcar!
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The Guys from Penjamo
Title: The Guys from Penjamo
Released: January 1, 1953
Type: Movie
When he hears how his grandfather left illegitimate children scattered all over the county, a young landowner is seized with an obsessive desire to make babies.
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La hija del ministro
Title: La hija del ministro
Released: September 19, 1952
Type: Movie
A young bureaucrat's career takes off when it's believed he's keeping company with the daughter of a higher-ranking official.
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El fronterizo
Title: El fronterizo
Released: September 12, 1952
Type: Movie
Rom-com in charro hats.
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No niego mi pasado
Title: No niego mi pasado
Released: March 4, 1952
Type: Movie
A 1952 film by Alberto Gout.
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Love for Life
Title: Love for Life
Character: Policarpo Benítez
Released: June 20, 1951
Type: Movie
An exhausted stranger arrives at a farm and starts to help the owner with the legal status of her land.
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La tienda de la esquina
Title: La tienda de la esquina
Released: March 23, 1951
Type: Movie
Shady characters try to buy the corner shop and destroy a decent family's livelihood.
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La marquesa del barrio
Title: La marquesa del barrio
Released: March 22, 1951
Type: Movie
Rich widow recovers from a thirty-year alcoholic fugue and resumes her previous life.
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Rural captain
Title: Rural captain
Released: January 20, 1951
Type: Movie
Idealistic young police officer deals with corruption in local government.
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My Dear Captain
Title: My Dear Captain
Character: Homero
Released: December 7, 1950
Type: Movie
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La fe en Dios
Title: La fe en Dios
Released: October 17, 1950
Type: Movie
Criminal on the lam assumes the identity of a dead priest and takes his place in a rural parish.
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Yo también soy de Jalisco
Title: Yo también soy de Jalisco
Released: August 23, 1950
Type: Movie
A dizzy rich woman buys their horse, and three rubes get involved in the problems and intrigues brewing in her household.
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La vida en broma
Title: La vida en broma
Character: Tío Pepe
Released: May 24, 1950
Type: Movie
Many many mistaken identities and impostures overlapping among a group of husbands, wives and others.
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La negra Angustias
Title: La negra Angustias
Character: Huitlacoche
Released: January 19, 1950
Type: Movie
When her father dies, a young Afro-Mexican woman joins the Revolution, the way he was planning to do, and becomes the leader of a Zapatista battalion.
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The Possession
Title: The Possession
Released: January 1, 1950
Type: Movie
Two old friends get hinky with each other over the deed to a tract of land, and their children's engagement gets broken over it.
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El charro Negro en el norte
Title: El charro Negro en el norte
Character: Isunza
Released: November 18, 1949
Type: Movie
Hero on horseback protects a family and their farm from human predators.
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Dos tenorios de barrio
Title: Dos tenorios de barrio
Released: November 6, 1949
Type: Movie
Two small-town hustlers are mistaken for government officials.
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Venus de fuego
Title: Venus de fuego
Released: October 29, 1949
Type: Movie
Wholesome young man falls hard for a woman who's identified as a luxury commodity; gangster/pimp guy in her orbit convinces the nice boy to do crimes so he'll have enough money to move in her circle.
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El abandonado
Title: El abandonado
Released: September 15, 1949
Type: Movie
Based on a popular song. An unhappy love affair becomes an excuse for heavy drinking and all-round debauchery.
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Las tandas del principal
Title: Las tandas del principal
Released: July 15, 1949
Type: Movie
Frivolous young dandy is trying to score with an operetta singer, but she ends up with his uncle. For awhile. And then...
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Flor de caña
Title: Flor de caña
Released: November 10, 1948
Type: Movie
Rural-community gal is being courted by a peon and by a land-owner.
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Ahí vienen los Mendoza
Title: Ahí vienen los Mendoza
Character: Don Primitivo de la Barquera
Released: November 1, 1948
Type: Movie
Two brothers "out on the ranch" fight over girls and stuff.
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Las mañanitas
Title: Las mañanitas
Released: October 7, 1948
Type: Movie
Rom-com scheming; wealthy landowner wants to seduce one of his tenants, but she wants the other guy...
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Charro a la fuerza
Title: Charro a la fuerza
Released: June 10, 1948
Type: Movie
Mistaken identity farce; heiress has to marry to receive an inheritance.
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Dos de la vida airada
Title: Dos de la vida airada
Released: April 8, 1948
Type: Movie
Comical misadventures of two goofballs looking for work.
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Río escondido
Title: Río escondido
Character: Brísido
Released: February 12, 1948
Type: Movie
Called by the Mexican President himself, a rural teacher goes to work in a village that is dominated by a malevolent chieftain.
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¡Fíjate qué suave!
Title: ¡Fíjate qué suave!
Character: Don Cayetano
Released: January 29, 1948
Type: Movie
There are two sisters who will soon receive a large inheritance and several men want to marry them to participate in that heritage.
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Gran Casino
Title: Gran Casino
Character: Heriberto
Released: June 12, 1947
Type: Movie
After the mysterious disappearance of an oil well owner, one of his workers, Gerardo assumes the business management. Soon, the owner's sister arrives from Argentina, and, believing that Gerardo killed her brother to keep the wells for himself, she starts working as a singer under a false name in the same casino her brother disappeared, in order to find out what exactly happened.
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Legacy of the Crying Woman
Title: Legacy of the Crying Woman
Released: February 24, 1947
Type: Movie
A hacienda seem to be haunted by La Llondra, the crying woman.
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Fantasía ranchera
Title: Fantasía ranchera
Released: February 12, 1947
Type: Movie
Young composer in a small town where everyone is very nurturing of his talent finishes his first opera and goes to Mexico City to get it produced. Over half the movie is taken up with a performance of his masterpiece.
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When the Brave Cry
Title: When the Brave Cry
Character: Uncle Laureano
Released: January 8, 1947
Type: Movie
A farmer is in love during revolutionary times.
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Guadalajara pues
Title: Guadalajara pues
Character: José Flores
Released: December 15, 1946
Type: Movie
Curious film about the Mexican immigrant stunned by the dollar and the English language. The plot deals with a serious social mood, but narrated as a tale of romantic entanglements. Agustin Isunza is a funny former farm worker, whose employers, young and attractive blond Joan Page and Clifford Carr, dazzle the sibling pair starring Luis Aguilar and Amanda del Llano. Miguel Inclan, a rich potter from the area, has put his eye on them to marry their children, Katy Jurado and Raul Guerrero.
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Perverted Woman
Title: Perverted Woman
Released: September 13, 1946
Type: Movie
A country girl finds herself working as a prostitute, but her true love, a musician, comes looking for her. She must fight a cabaret dancer for his love.
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Soy un prófugo
Title: Soy un prófugo
Character: Emilio Blanco, inspector de policía
Released: March 11, 1946
Type: Movie
A janitor in a large bank is accused of pulling of a major heist. He is forced to become a fugitive while hunting for the real culprits.
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Rosalinda
Title: Rosalinda
Released: December 25, 1945
Type: Movie
Two adventurers visit a small coastal village in 1850 in hopes of getting access to a shipwreck that took place 100 years earlier. Also, local girlfriends.
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Escuadrón 201
Title: Escuadrón 201
Released: November 30, 1945
Type: Movie
Personal stories of a handful of Air Force recruits.
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Como yo te quería
Title: Como yo te quería
Released: September 26, 1945
Type: Movie
Romantic comedy/drama.
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La sombra de Chucho el Roto
Title: La sombra de Chucho el Roto
Released: July 11, 1945
Type: Movie
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Sota, caballo y rey
Title: Sota, caballo y rey
Released: December 8, 1944
Type: Movie
Theatrical troupe schemes to expose corrupt dealings in local government.
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Me ha besado un hombre
Title: Me ha besado un hombre
Released: November 10, 1944
Type: Movie
Spanish refugee could only get across the border using fake documents that belonged to her brother and now she's stuck with the male identity...
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The Skulls of Terror Return
Title: The Skulls of Terror Return
Released: September 17, 1944
Type: Movie
A group of friends form a masked gang nicknamed 'The Skulls of Terror' and confront a local political boss. Originally produced as a six-hour collection of serial chapters (1943), then edited down (1944) into a 3-hour feature... then re-released (1950s?) as two 90-minute features. The first one seems to have disappeared, this is the second one.
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The Skulls of Terror
Title: The Skulls of Terror
Released: September 17, 1944
Type: Movie
Feature-length version of a serial, originally in twelve chapters. Three-hour runtime, later re-edited into two 90 minute features called Las Calaveras Del Terror and Vuelven Las Calaveras Del Terror. Good guys vs bad guys for possession of a map showing the location of a lost mine.
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El globo de Cantolla
Title: El globo de Cantolla
Released: July 7, 1944
Type: Movie
Three boys and three girls in the 1890s.
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Tormenta en la cumbre
Title: Tormenta en la cumbre
Released: October 16, 1943
Type: Movie
Young couple weather a marital crisis while older people who have already given up on life interfere from the sidelines.
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Doña Bárbara
Title: Doña Bárbara
Character: Juan Primito
Released: September 16, 1943
Type: Movie
A woman hardened by her past now runs a ranch she acquired through manipulation and bribery.
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Wild Flower
Title: Wild Flower
Character: Nicanor
Released: April 24, 1943
Type: Movie
The film features Fernandez himself as a character named Rogellio Torres. The lion's share of the footage, however, is devoted to the romance between Esperanza, granddaughter of a common laborer, and Jose Luis Castro, the firebrand son of a landowner. Joining a revolutionary movements, Castro is disowned by his father, but Esperanza remains loyally by his side. Later on, Castro's father is killed by outlaws; in seeking vengeance, he sacrifices his own life, while Esperanza carries on his revolutionary work with their young son in tow.
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Jesusita en Chihuahua
Title: Jesusita en Chihuahua
Released: October 8, 1942
Type: Movie
Ranchera comedy.
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Amanecer ranchero
Title: Amanecer ranchero
Released: August 29, 1942
Type: Movie
The old massa dies and his son comes home to take over the hacienda. Things are going to be a whole lot different now; he's overturning all the old social order. A-a-and...
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La venganza del Charro Negro
Title: La venganza del Charro Negro
Character: 'Secretario'
Released: August 21, 1942
Type: Movie
Third in a series; flashbacks remind us of the beef El Charro had with Carlos from his home town. While they move toward a final showdown, Carlos and his new evil buddy Rodolfo kill a couple more people just for kicks.
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Carnaval en el trópico
Title: Carnaval en el trópico
Released: June 7, 1942
Type: Movie
Three Mexican friends decide to go to Vercacruz Carnaval to celebrate. There they watch Cantinflas' show of torero and boxer.
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Las 5 noches de Adán
Title: Las 5 noches de Adán
Released: April 18, 1942
Type: Movie
Globe-hopping playboy bachelor is getting on in years, so he invites his five international children to come live with him.
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Allá en el bajio
Title: Allá en el bajio
Character: Gregorio
Released: February 5, 1942
Type: Movie
Ranchera/western; white hats vs. black hats.
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Cinco minutos de amor
Title: Cinco minutos de amor
Character: Federico
Released: December 11, 1941
Type: Movie
Bedroom farce, with three men claiming the same woman as their mistress.
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The Unknown Policeman
Title: The Unknown Policeman
Character: Sargento
Released: October 22, 1941
Type: Movie
A gang of thieves has jeopardized the city and even the police, whose chief urges their forces to captured the band within 48 hours. Meanwhile, band members meet in a cafe run by a widow and her daughter and her suitor, Cantinflas, who maintains a scuffle with the robbers running all at the station. Since then, Cantinflas become a member of the police force for special missions.
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Those Were The Days, Senor Don Simon!
Title: Those Were The Days, Senor Don Simon!
Character: Licenciado Alpuche
Released: September 19, 1941
Type: Movie
A not very grief stricken young widow flutters her hand fan between a dashing young soldier and an elderly politician in this Belle Epoque era musical comedy.
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Lo que el viento trajo
Title: Lo que el viento trajo
Character: Boticario
Released: September 12, 1941
Type: Movie
A 1941 film.
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La Vuelta Del Charro Negro
Title: La Vuelta Del Charro Negro
Released: June 18, 1941
Type: Movie
Lone Ranger style heroic adventure, number two in a four-movie series.
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Rancho Alegre
Title: Rancho Alegre
Released: March 28, 1941
Type: Movie
Proud old family's hacienda is falling into decay, and the oldest son has to come back from college to set things aright... or does he have other plans?
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El Zorro de Jalisco
Title: El Zorro de Jalisco
Character: Estilógrafo
Released: February 7, 1941
Type: Movie
Isabel, the daughter of Don Antonio; a rich land owner in Tepestates, Jalisco returns to her town after five years away, to visit her father. She is confronted by the unpleasant surprise that her dad has been assassinated by the malicious municiple government, which has the whole town in a clutch of terror. "An excellent sharp-shooter is worth more here, than a good lawyer..." This phrase inspires lawyer Leonardo Torres to convert himself into a guardian of justice, who will defend the right of the weak against tyranny. Nobody would ever guess that the "timid" lawyer is in reality none other than the dreadful "Zorro of Jalisco."
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You’re Missing the Point
Title: You’re Missing the Point
Character: Fiscal
Released: September 11, 1940
Type: Movie
Cantinflas, the boyfriend of the servant of a rich industrial man, gets into the house in order to kill a mad dog. Suddenly this man appears so the servant tells him that Cantinflas is his wife's brother (Leonardo), who had been lost for years. The rich man then remembers that his father in law's testament could only be paid when all brothers get together, so treats Cantinflas, a real bum, as a king.
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El charro Negro
Title: El charro Negro
Character: Court Clerk
Released: July 18, 1940
Type: Movie
Masked cowboy avenger in the style of The Lone Ranger, first film in a series of four.
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Pobre diablo
Title: Pobre diablo
Character: Modesto
Released: April 24, 1940
Type: Movie
An elderly homeless dude lucks into a situation where a young woman's uncle and her boyfriend ask him to impersonate her long-lost father and give her some nurturing parent attention.
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In the Times of Don Porfirio
Title: In the Times of Don Porfirio
Character: Estebán
Released: April 4, 1940
Type: Movie
In a Mexican city at the end of the 19th century, Don Francisco, a gambler and a bohemian, almost forgets his wedding and is late. The bride, who is pregnant, is sent to Paris by the snubbed family.
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A Macabre Legacy
Title: A Macabre Legacy
Character: Cesar
Released: November 29, 1939
Type: Movie
A plastic surgeon goes mad when he discovers that his wife have an affair. He fakes her death and disfigure her and locks her in the cellar.
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Caballo A Caballo
Title: Caballo A Caballo
Released: June 6, 1939
Type: Movie
Two con-men end up at a country estate, where they thwart some jewel-thieves.
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Una luz en mi camino
Title: Una luz en mi camino
Released: February 1, 1939
Type: Movie
A blind songwriter struggles to get his work published, and meanwhile a girl he's sweet on disappears from his life when her employer puts the moves on her.
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Juntos pero no revueltos
Title: Juntos pero no revueltos
Released: January 6, 1939
Type: Movie
Ensemble-comedy set in a lower-middle-class apartment complex.
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La Adelita
Title: La Adelita
Released: November 7, 1937
Type: Movie
Beautiful peasant girl runs afoul of her landlord's horny son and he poisons the well between her and her fiance, so she runs away and joins the Revolution.