Manuel Ojeda

Manuel Ojeda

Born: November 4, 1940
Died: August 11, 2022
in La Paz, Baja California Sur, Mexico
Manuel Salvador Ojeda Armenta (4 November 1940 – 11 August 2022) was a Mexican actor. Ojeda was one of the most active actors of television and cinema in Mexico. He played the villain, Zolo, in the Hollywood film Romancing the Stone.

Movies for Manuel Ojeda...

Title: Quererlo Todo
Character: Don Patricio Montes
Released: November 9, 2020
Type: TV
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Deadly Embroidered Memories
Title: Deadly Embroidered Memories
Character: Idris
Released: March 6, 2020
Type: Movie
A woman with a degree in biology and a particular taste for arachnids gets involved with some unfinished business left by her dead mother, leading her to face unlikely events that revolve around the banana mafia in a South American country, such as an etheric eminence that anticipates tragedies, a cryptozoological being that is mentioned with skepticism and a terrorist society that seeks to dismantle the fraudulent and sinister structure of land concessions.
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Perversa tentación
Title: Perversa tentación
Character: Don Antonio
Released: January 1, 2019
Type: Movie
After their father's death, two brothers dispute their father's inheritance and unintentionally the same woman.
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Las amantes del narco III
Title: Las amantes del narco III
Character: Joel Olmedo
Released: January 1, 2019
Type: Movie
The M40 wants to keep its rivals out of the drug business, including its main enemy the "Korean" Carrillo. The M40 will move its contacts in the government so that everything works as it suits it.
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Víctimas de tratantes
Title: Víctimas de tratantes
Released: May 5, 2018
Type: Movie
A police officer and the prosecutor try to dismantle a criminal organization that is dedicated to white slavery and that has just stolen two young girls from a town.
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No One Will Ever Know
Title: No One Will Ever Know
Character: Aurelio
Released: March 11, 2018
Type: Movie
An anodyne environment and a perennial lack of affection, push Lucia and Braulio to turn in the fiction world; to materialize their dreams. Neither inclement reality can stop them.
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The 4th Company
Title: The 4th Company
Character: Champarro
Released: January 13, 2017
Type: Movie
Zambrano is a young criminal with the only hope of joining the legendary prison American football team known as The Dogs of Santa Martha. His hopes end up involving him with organized crime since The Dogs, who are also known as The 4th Company, a squadron of inmates at the service of the administration that controls the jail, its vice and its privileges. Corruption and crime have no limits; they ravage the city with car thefts, bank robberies and other crimes under the auspices of the authorities, the story takes place during the López Portillo presidency and his men.
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Peligrosa tentación 5
Title: Peligrosa tentación 5
Character: Don Refugio
Released: December 31, 2016
Type: Movie
A gang of women traffickers, who force the women they run to drug their clients to steal their belongings, commit a crime by abusing the ophthalmic drops with which they drug their clients.
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Title: Las Amazonas
Character: Genaro Valencia
Released: May 16, 2016
Type: TV
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Title: Yago
Character: Damián Madrigal Ríos
Released: May 2, 2016
Type: TV
Omar, a young man from Mexico City, is betrayed by his fiancé, Sara, and two close friends, in a failed robbery plot where he was famed as the perpetrator. After being unjustly imprisoned for 11 years and later released, he undergoes plastic surgery to alter his appearance and plots revenge under his new identity, "Yago".
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Hood Bitches
Title: Hood Bitches
Character: Reséndiz
Released: August 29, 2015
Type: Movie
Sara is a woman who was sexually abused and has been in pain ever since. Now, she has only one goal: to take revenge on every man who crosses his path, no matter what his intention is.
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Title: Ask God For Forgiveness... Not Me
Character: Melitón Ramos
Released: January 19, 2015
Type: TV
The story of Renata Flores del Angel, a young woman from a wealthy family who falls for Pablo Ramos, the foreman of her father's estate.
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El asesino de la mafia
Title: El asesino de la mafia
Released: January 1, 2015
Type: Movie
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Title: The Stray Cat
Character: El Silencioso
Released: May 5, 2014
Type: TV
La Gata is an upcoming Mexican telenovela to be produced by Nathalie Lartilleux for Televisa. It is a remake of the Venezuelan telenovela La Gata, produced in 1968 and Mexican telenovela Rosa Salvaje produced in 1987.
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Los hijos de Don Gregorio
Title: Los hijos de Don Gregorio
Character: Don Gregorio
Released: December 31, 2013
Type: Movie
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Martin at Dawn
Title: Martin at Dawn
Character: Don Fidel
Released: August 16, 2013
Type: Movie
When Martin's car breaks down in the middle of the desert, he has no choice but to head off across the empty landscape to look for help. Along the road he happens upon a mysterious brothel. He has no choice but to go there. But when he goes inside he unknowingly is drawn into a fateful game of chance. In this suspenseful film from Mexico, not everything is what it seems.
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Title: The Tempest
Character: Ernesto Contreras
Released: May 13, 2013
Type: TV
La tempestad is a Mexican telenovela produced by Salvador Mejía Alejandre for Televisa. It is loosely based on the Colombian telenovela La Tormenta, produced by RTI Colombia for Telemundo and Caracol TV. William Levy and Ximena Navarrete star as the protagonists, while Iván Sanchez, Laura Carmine, Mariana Seoane, Cesar Evora, and Manuel Ojeda star as the antagonists. Daniela Romo is also confirmed to star. Previously, Jessica Coch and Adriana Louvier were originally confirmed to star as the antagonist.
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El comandante sin ley
Title: El comandante sin ley
Released: January 1, 2013
Type: Movie
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Title: Por ella soy Eva
Character: Eduardo Moreno
Released: February 20, 2012
Type: TV
Por Ella Soy Eva is a Mexican soap opera produced by Rosy Ocampo for Televisa based on the Colombian soap opera En los tacones de Eva. Jaime Camil and Lucero starred as main protagonists, while Mariana Seoane and Marcelo Córdoba starred as the main antagonists. "The Best Telenovela of the Year 2013."
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Another Mexican
Title: Another Mexican
Character: Sacerdote
Released: November 12, 2010
Type: Movie
Antonio (Ricky Mergold) is a 16 year old boy from a village in the Mexican province, living the awakening of consciousness with the intensity of the contradictions that surround him: a dogmatic religion, mediocre educational institutions, corrupt politicians an a society full of conformity. His life changes when a young teacher with a genuine desire to teach their students comes to the town, a guide that encourages them to live with dignity and to be critical of the world around them. This story is full of drama and misadventures, which Antonio lives without proper orientation and promiscuity.
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Family Secrets
Title: Family Secrets
Released: October 2, 2009
Type: Movie
Paulinita is a little rich girl who seemingly has everything, but lacks the love of her parents: Julio is too busy with his million-dollar deals to look after her, while Regina spends her time at social events and fashion shows. One fine day, Julio´s brother Manuel comes to visit them from Spain. He has just obtained a Master´s degree in child pedagogy. Paulinita quickly warms to him, as he has time to play with her, but Manuel has a dark past.
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Fray Justicia
Title: Fray Justicia
Released: August 21, 2009
Type: Movie
Maximiliano runs from the law after committing a robbery and seeks refuge in a town called San Pedro where, posing as a priest, he decides to get justice by defending the townspeople from the abuses of Don Oliverio, never imagining that this will lead him to a series of adventures and an encounter with love.
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El triunfo del mojado
Title: El triunfo del mojado
Released: January 1, 2009
Type: Movie
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Todos hemos pecado
Title: Todos hemos pecado
Character: El Presidente Municipal
Released: November 1, 2008
Type: Movie
No one could ever imagine that one day La Chingada Vieja would fall in love. Because she is always alone, because no one has ever turn to see her, because everyone is always closing the door at her nose, because when they feel her coming they cross themselves, but most of all because no one could ever fall in love with death. But El Hombre sin nombre, has appeared in her life for good. Only the confusion of an avenging town and the desire of four men to arrive to heaven could change the plans of these two beings. Of whom the purist feelings alive have resurrected them.
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Title: Killer Women
Character: Juan Antonio Orduña
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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Victorio
Title: Victorio
Character: Raúl
Released: May 4, 2008
Type: Movie
A story of redemption, drama and action, where only love can overcome all obstacles.
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Title: Storm over Paradise
Character: Capitán Pablo Solís
Released: November 12, 2007
Type: TV
Tormenta en el Paraíso is a telenovela that was made by Televisa. This telenovela has a blend of new talents and with figures of extense experience in the television, and it began filming scenes in locations in the states of Quintana Roo and Veracruz on September 20, 2007. The telenovela is a production of Juan Osorio, premiered November 12 of 2007 in El Canal de las Estrellas.
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Calles sin nombre
Title: Calles sin nombre
Character: Comandante Martín Aguirre
Released: January 1, 2007
Type: Movie
A young man is torn between his family at home and his gang on the street. His uncle, a wrestling champion, tries to help him follow the right path. But his gang members influence him to take drugs and commit robberies.
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Title: Alborada
Character: Don Francisco Escobar
Released: October 24, 2005
Type: TV
Alborada is a telenovela made by the Mexican TV network Televisa. It is an historical drama, set in colonial Panama and Mexico a few years before Mexican Independence from Spain. The series was broadcast from December 2005 to April 2006 on Univision in the United States. Alborada won the TV y Novelas award for best telenovela of the year.
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The Goddess of the Sea
Title: The Goddess of the Sea
Character: Eduardo Montero
Released: January 1, 2005
Type: Movie
A beautiful girl is picked up from the sea by a family of fishermen but when she grows up her adoptive brother falls in love with her.
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Estate of Terror
Title: Estate of Terror
Released: January 1, 2005
Type: Movie
A group of heirs show up at a farm to collect an inheritance and are killed off one-by-one. A low budget direct-to-DVD release with loads of cameos from both veteran actors and World Cup soccer players.
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The Devils Dagger
Title: The Devils Dagger
Character: Narrator
Released: January 1, 2005
Type: Movie
A demonic dagger passed throughout a small village starts to disrupt the lives of those it comes into contact with.
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Title: Misión S.O.S
Character: Severiano Martinez
Released: August 2, 2004
Type: TV
Misión S.O.S. is a Mexican soap opera like Alegrijes y Rebujos which had child actors from Código F.A.M.A. 1 & 2
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Fantasías
Title: Fantasías
Character: Carlos
Released: June 11, 2004
Type: Movie
The movie tells the story of a middle-class couple with two teenage children and a boring sex life, in search of new experiences- first with their sexy maid. Later with the advice of an older female friend who has swinger lifestyle with her husband, they decide to explore the possibility of sparking fresh passion by hooking up with a swinger couple. But then, problems arrive when they start to get blackmailed by the male swinger, who wants money to not show some private pictures of the wife. Written by lament
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Title: My Love, My Sin
Character: Jacobo Guzmán
Released: January 5, 2004
Type: TV
Amarte es mi Pecado' is a Mexican telenovela that was transmitted in the year 2004. It is a production of Ernesto Alonso and the protagonists are Yadhira Carrillo, Alessandra Rosaldo and Sergio Sendel.
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Maldita vecindad
Title: Maldita vecindad
Released: January 1, 2004
Type: Movie
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Title: Bajo la misma piel
Character: Rodrigo Leyva
Released: September 15, 2003
Type: TV
Bajo la misma piel, or internationally known as Under your Skin, is a Mexican television series produced by Televisa starting in 2003. It is an original telenovela from Martha Carrillo and Cristina García. Despite huge exposure prior to its premiere, Bajo la misma piel was only a moderate success in its country of origin, Mexico.
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Las perversiones del padre José
Title: Las perversiones del padre José
Character: Padre José
Released: January 1, 2003
Type: Movie
Father Jose hides under the cassock the lowest instincts a man can have, where lust seizes his being and commits unforgivable sins by raping a young nun with a true vocation to serve God, causing death by infecting her with AIDS.
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Nest of Scorpions
Title: Nest of Scorpions
Released: January 1, 2003
Type: Movie
A hybrid action slasher film.
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El verdugo
Title: El verdugo
Released: January 1, 2003
Type: Movie
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Title: The Other Woman
Character: Juan Pedro Portugal
Released: May 20, 2002
Type: TV
La Otra is a Mexican telenovela that was produced by Televisa and aired on El Canal de las Estrellas from 20 May through 20 September 2002. It aired on Univision in the United States from October 14, 2002 through February 28, 2003. It stars Yadhira Carrillo as both Carlota Guillen Sáenz and Cordelia Portugal, identical strangers whose lives collide upon becoming involved with Álvaro Ibáñez. "The Best Telenovela of the Year"
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Espejo Retrovisor
Title: Espejo Retrovisor
Character: Sr. Rivas
Released: January 1, 2002
Type: Movie
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Mictlan
Title: Mictlan
Released: January 1, 2002
Type: Movie
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Title: El Manantial
Character: Father Salvador Valdéz
Released: October 1, 2001
Type: TV
In the village of San Andres, the rivalry between two families the Valdes and the Ramirez is centered on "El Manantial", a beautiful fountain of water that happens to bathe the small property of the Valdes and not the neighboring ranch, the rich and prosperous hacienda "Piedras Grandes", where the best cattle are raised and is property of the Ramirez. But the spring is not the real reason for the hatred between the families. Justo Ramirez, married to Margarita Insunza, had a relationship with Francisca Rivero, wife of his enemy and neighbor Rigoberto Valdes. This relationship, founded in the betrayal, will cause the utmost bitterness and the destruction between the two families. The Valdes have a beautiful daughter named Alfonsina, who was born in the same year as Alejandro, the son and heir of the Ramirez. Although they have grown separately with their souls full of prejudices against their respective families, the two cannot avoid feeling attracted to each other. Margarita will not permit this and so she tells her husband to make sure her son will never be together with Alfonsina so he could marry Barbara, her cousin's daughter. Justo rapes Alfonsina and she leaves along with her mom and her aunt. Five years later... Alfonsina is graduating from school and has a good life until her mother commits suicide because she found out she was deathly ill and could no longer live with the guilt of her lifestyle. Before dying, her mother confesses to Alfonsina that Justo Ramirez destroyed her life and after that Alfonsina vows revenge on the man who destroyed her family. She returns to San Andres and there she once again sees Alejandro who is now engaged to Barbara. Their love is still present in their hearts. They will have to fight for their love and see if they can be happy by the shores of El Manantial... El Manantial is a Mexican telenovela that first aired in 2001, starring Adela Noriega and Mauricio Islas. The telenovela received TVyNovelas Award for Best Telenovela, in 2002.
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Guerrero
Title: Guerrero
Character: El Tigre
Released: September 28, 2001
Type: Movie
Police corruption causes a massacre of peasants. A man in his motorcycle will try to bring back order to the town.
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Carreras de muerte
Title: Carreras de muerte
Released: January 1, 2001
Type: Movie
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Niños y Criminales
Title: Niños y Criminales
Released: January 1, 2001
Type: Movie
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The Magic Hour
Title: The Magic Hour
Character: Francesco
Released: October 1, 2000
Type: Movie
Minerva, a middle age writer, decides to break the uncertainty that prevents her from creating the novel that for years she has nested in her mind. Unintentionally, she returns to the port where she was born and she encounters a past full of ghosts and chimeras. Paradoxically, she founds herself because of this journey back home, so she begins writing the story of her life, of her own childhood, with its magical past and tragedy.
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Title: El precio de tu amor
Character: Octavio Rangel
Released: September 4, 2000
Type: TV
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Hijos del viento
Title: Hijos del viento
Character: Moctezuma
Released: June 16, 2000
Type: Movie
As part of the conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards, Rodrigo, a Spanish shipwreck falls in love with Tizcuitl, the young and beautiful Aztec daughter of Nezuhual, king of Tlacopan, powerful under the emperor Moctezuma.
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Title: La casa en la playa
Character: Manuel Rey
Released: April 10, 2000
Type: TV
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Cháman, viento de muerte
Title: Cháman, viento de muerte
Released: January 1, 2000
Type: Movie
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Bienvenida al clan
Title: Bienvenida al clan
Character: Humberto Nava
Released: January 1, 2000
Type: Movie
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La Otra Cara de Pedro Navajas
Title: La Otra Cara de Pedro Navajas
Character: Don Mario
Released: January 1, 2000
Type: Movie
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Herod's Law
Title: Herod's Law
Character: Cantinero
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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Title: Labyrinth of Passion
Character: Genaro Valencia
Released: October 4, 1999
Type: TV
Laberintos de pasión is a Mexican telenovela produced by Televisa in 1999. Starring Leticia Calderon, Francisco Gattorno, César Évora, in addition to the participation of Manuel Ojeda, Monika Sanchez and Azela Robinson.
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Sangre prisionera
Title: Sangre prisionera
Released: February 6, 1999
Type: Movie
Police officer, struggling to bust open an organized crime syndicate, eventually has to deal with the fact that his son is implicated in their activities.
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Balas salvajes
Title: Balas salvajes
Released: January 1, 1999
Type: Movie
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La Rubia y La Morena 2
Title: La Rubia y La Morena 2
Released: January 1, 1999
Type: Movie
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Abuso de autoridad
Title: Abuso de autoridad
Released: December 31, 1998
Type: Movie
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Title: Amor Gitano
Character: Pedro Minelli,
Released: June 1, 1998
Type: TV
En un lejano pasado donde las injusticias son pan de cada día, Rodolfo Farnesio, vil señor feudal, se dispone a exigir su "derecho a la pernada" sobre una campesina y para eso irrumpe en la boda de la muchacha. Pero sus planes son interrumpidos por la llegada del noble Renzo el Gitano. Pronto Renzo se verá obligado a defender a otra víctima de Farnesio. Se trata de la Condesa Adriana de Astolfi que está siendo forzada a casarse con el villano. Para deshacerse del gitano, Rodolfo lo acusa de un crimen que no ha cometido y hace que lo deporten a la Isla de los Condenados, una infecta isla-prisión. Allá lo sigue Adriana, que bajo la personalidad de "Luna" podrá amarlo libremente. Pero nuevamente, Rodolfo se interpone y los separa. Adriana, ahora amnésica, se convertirá en la esposa de Rodolfo. Tendrá que regresar Renzo, bajo otra identidad, para rescatarla de Rodolfo y de la ex tabernera Isa Valenti quien, a base de chantajes, se ha convertido en la cuñada de Adriana.
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Luces de la noche
Title: Luces de la noche
Character: Gustavo
Released: May 29, 1998
Type: Movie
On a whim, a retired gentleman decides to track down an old girlfriend from decades back.
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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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Carmela the Michoacan
Title: Carmela the Michoacan
Character: Comandante Juan
Released: January 1, 1998
Type: Movie
A woman takes revenge against a group of corrupted policemen that killed her husband.
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La operación pesada
Title: La operación pesada
Released: January 1, 1998
Type: Movie
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Las dos caras del guero Estrada
Title: Las dos caras del guero Estrada
Released: January 1, 1998
Type: Movie
The 2nd part of El Guero Estrada, now all the people believe the most worst person of the zone, was dead, but he is back to fix he life.
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Fraude en el sexenio
Title: Fraude en el sexenio
Released: January 1, 1998
Type: Movie
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El güero estrada
Title: El güero estrada
Released: December 31, 1997
Type: Movie
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Reclusorio
Title: Reclusorio
Character: Abogado (segment "Eutanasia o asesinato")
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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El asesinato
Title: El asesinato
Character: Ramón Acevedo
Released: January 1, 1997
Type: Movie
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Reencuentros
Title: Reencuentros
Character: Sr. Emilio Valtierra
Released: January 1, 1997
Type: Movie
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Title: La Culpa
Character: Mariano Lagarde
Released: August 12, 1996
Type: TV
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Salón México
Title: Salón México
Character: Lupe López
Released: February 2, 1996
Type: Movie
In this remake of the 40's classic, two lovers murder each other, leading to an investigation and the closing of the Saln Mxico, a famous place where people used to go to dance before WWII. The police investigation leads to several flashbacks about the life and death of a low-life dancer named Mercedes (Maria Rojo) and her lover.
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En las manos de Dios
Title: En las manos de Dios
Released: January 1, 1996
Type: Movie
Melodrama that revolves around a woman who suddenly discovers her husband's infidelity without assuming that the person he is cheating on is with another man. Thus, the film addresses the issue of homosexuality and AIDS and the irresponsibility of men in sexual relations.
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¡Sálvame! Una luz en la oscuridad
Title: ¡Sálvame! Una luz en la oscuridad
Character: Alcántara
Released: January 1, 1996
Type: Movie
Ricardo has lived life on the edge after the untimely death of his grandfather. Alcohol & drugs consume him and hopes to avenge his grandfather's death someday. Ricardo longs to be saved from his darkened days and is also pursuing a career in singing.
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Perversión
Title: Perversión
Released: January 1, 1996
Type: Movie
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Title: La paloma
Character: Ramiro López-Yergo Aguilar
Released: August 14, 1995
Type: TV
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El castrado
Title: El castrado
Released: August 3, 1995
Type: Movie
Ex-cop goes on a killing spree, partly to avenge himself on the drug gang that caused him to lose his little buddy.
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Las nueve caras del miedo
Title: Las nueve caras del miedo
Character: Fray Camilo Lacroix Imerino
Released: January 1, 1995
Type: Movie
A TV crew alongside a medium, a friar and a killer with regrets spend the night inside a haunted hotel, place where a guy murdered prostitutes in the 1950's. Soon they discover the place is really haunted, the friar is possessed by an evil force beginning a new massacre.
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Tiempo de muerte 2
Title: Tiempo de muerte 2
Released: January 1, 1995
Type: Movie
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Tiempo de muerte
Title: Tiempo de muerte
Released: December 31, 1994
Type: Movie
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Pánico en el paraíso
Title: Pánico en el paraíso
Released: December 31, 1994
Type: Movie
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La señorita
Title: La señorita
Released: June 2, 1994
Type: Movie
Violent death of a loan shark investigated by diligent policeman.
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The Man in White
Title: The Man in White
Character: José
Released: April 22, 1994
Type: Movie
After accidentally witnessing a serial killer's brutal murder of a policeman, Erika must race to get herself and her daughter out of the killer's path before his blood-soaked rampage includes them as well.
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Juana la Cubana
Title: Juana la Cubana
Released: April 15, 1994
Type: Movie
The beautiful nightclub singer/dancer Juana the Cuban moonlights as freedom fighter “Commander Zeta”, joining forces with the C.I.A. to overthrow the brutal regime of a military dictator (played by Erik Estrada) who plans to unleash bacteriological warfare on the U.S.A.
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Loving Ghosts
Title: Loving Ghosts
Released: February 28, 1994
Type: Movie
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Suerte en la vida (La Lotería III)
Title: Suerte en la vida (La Lotería III)
Released: January 1, 1994
Type: Movie
Five stories that tell the tale of winning the lottery in Mexico and how it changes lives.
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Wall of Darkness
Title: Wall of Darkness
Released: January 1, 1994
Type: Movie
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Amor que mata
Title: Amor que mata
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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Vigilante nocturno
Title: Vigilante nocturno
Released: December 31, 1993
Type: Movie
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Bestias humanas
Title: Bestias humanas
Released: December 31, 1993
Type: Movie
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Kino: The Legend of the Black Priest
Title: Kino: The Legend of the Black Priest
Character: Coro Chief
Released: May 7, 1993
Type: Movie
Propped up on his deathbed, a 17th century Spanish missionary named Father Kino (Enrique Rocha) looks back on his remarkable life and relives one of his greatest challenges: bringing the teachings of Christianity to California's native population while convincing the Spanish military to respect the Indians' traditions.
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In The MIddle of Nowhere
Title: In The MIddle of Nowhere
Released: April 8, 1993
Type: Movie
A retired union leader runs a restaurant by the highway with the help of his wife and his young son. One day a wounded criminal, his lover and his brother, all fugitives from law and being pursued by the woman's husband, forcefully seek out a hiding place. They take the family hostage until the delinquents are confronted.
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My dear Tom Mix
Title: My dear Tom Mix
Character: Evaristo
Released: December 25, 1992
Type: Movie
Joaquina is aging in a small Mexican village in the 1920s. Her life is boring and she spends her days dreaming of her hero, cowboy Tom Mix. Everything Joaquina wants is to meet him. Her life changes when a bunch of bandits appears nearby. It's time for Tom Mix to stop the thieves and fulfill Joaquina's dreams of adventure.
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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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Cabaret de frontera
Title: Cabaret de frontera
Released: January 1, 1992
Type: Movie
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El último narco
Title: El último narco
Released: January 1, 1992
Type: Movie
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Mi querido viejo
Title: Mi querido viejo
Character: Apolonio Méndez
Released: December 20, 1991
Type: Movie
Luis Fuentes, a singer of Mexican music, comes to know a journalist by the name of Maria Luisa Cortéz and fall madly in love with each other. In time, the couple gets married and come to have a son, Rafael. However, they soon divorce because of Luis's many commitments as a singer. This strains the relationship between Luis and Maria, so much so that Maria, stung by bitterness, teaches her son to despise his father and manages to move from Mexico to the United States to keep Luis from contacting his son. Luis wants nothing more than to regain his lost relationship and affection with his beloved son. Therefore, time after time he visits Maria in hope of winning over his son's affection with little success. Over time, Rafael, now a young man, comes to have a passion for music just like his father despite having a hatred for him.
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Amor y venganza
Title: Amor y venganza
Released: October 6, 1991
Type: Movie
Young woman miraculously rises from runway model to internationally-acclaimed film star in a few months' time because she's sorta pretty and stuff. Then she decides to get even with an ex-boyfriend who left town for a job and forgot about her.
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Title: Al Filo de la Muerte
Character: Julio Araujo
Released: June 17, 1991
Type: TV
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Blue Memories
Title: Blue Memories
Character: Don Manuel Jiménez
Released: March 20, 1991
Type: Movie
Drug-trade kingpin tries to coerce a woman into marriage, but her former boyfriend turns up and she finds new reasons to resist being pressured.
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El extensionista
Title: El extensionista
Character: Severo
Released: February 28, 1991
Type: Movie
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La fuerza bruta
Title: La fuerza bruta
Released: January 1, 1991
Type: Movie
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Traición
Title: Traición
Released: January 1, 1991
Type: Movie
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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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Title: Un rostro en mi pasado
Character: Dr. Leonardo Sánchez
Released: October 16, 1989
Type: TV
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Selva de cocaina
Title: Selva de cocaina
Released: January 1, 1989
Type: Movie
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The Wrath of a God
Title: The Wrath of a God
Released: November 10, 1988
Type: Movie
On the beach lies the body of Claudio O'Riley, heir to a monopoly shrimp, and his voice recounts his rise to power: the incestuous relationship with his sister, the degrading treatment to their partners and so on.
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Reto a la vida
Title: Reto a la vida
Character: El Tijuana
Released: March 31, 1988
Type: Movie
Carlos has spent four years in prison for selling drugs. When he's released he finds out his brother has become a drug addict and is locked in a psychiatric hospital. Carlos starts working to cure his brother when he befriends a street kid and falls for social worker Elena.
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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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Los confines
Title: Los confines
Character: Ignacio
Released: May 17, 1987
Type: Movie
Mix magical universe of Juan Rulfo, in which Juan Preciado, "Pedro Paramo", located incestuous siblings "Talpa" while Juvencio Nava, of "Diles que no me maten", flee several men who pursue for killing Colonel Terrones.
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Title: Herencia maldita
Character: Rogelio Velarde
Released: November 3, 1986
Type: TV
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The Hex 2: Messengers of Hell
Title: The Hex 2: Messengers of Hell
Character: Abel Romo
Released: October 1, 1986
Type: Movie
Raul Araiza's chilling Spanish-language supernatural thriller tells the tale of two powerful beings, one good and one evil incarnate, fighting for control of Earth--and of a beautiful woman.
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Al filo de la ley: Misión rescate
Title: Al filo de la ley: Misión rescate
Character: Víctor Araiza
Released: January 1, 1986
Type: Movie
Mexican feature film
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Title: De pura sangre
Character: Carlos Meléndez
Released: December 9, 1985
Type: TV
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Title: The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Character: General Vorteez
Released: September 29, 1985
Type: TV
The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents is an American anthology series that aired on NBC from 1985 to 1986, and on the USA Network from 1987 to 1989. The series is an updated re-imagining of the classic 1955 series Alfred Hitchcock Presents.
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Naná
Title: Naná
Character: Conde Muffat
Released: May 9, 1985
Type: Movie
Based on the Émile Zola same name novel. The life of Nana, a French prostitute of the 19th century. The film includes numerous musical acts performed by Irma Serrano.
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Luna caliente
Title: Luna caliente
Character: Almiron
Released: May 2, 1985
Type: Movie
Returning to Argentina, an engineer trained in Europe visiting a friend of his father and meets the teenage daughter, who begins a relationship of love and passion.
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El tonto que hacía milagros
Title: El tonto que hacía milagros
Released: May 24, 1984
Type: Movie
A movie projectionist discovers that he has magical powers.
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Romancing the Stone
Title: Romancing the Stone
Character: Zolo
Released: March 30, 1984
Type: Movie
Though she can spin wild tales of passionate romance, novelist Joan Wilder has no life of her own. Then one day adventure comes her way in the form of a mysterious package. It turns out that the parcel is the ransom she'll need to free her abducted sister, so Joan flies to South America to hand it over. But she gets on the wrong bus and winds up hopelessly stranded in the jungle.
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The Heart of the Night
Title: The Heart of the Night
Character: Leyva
Released: March 15, 1984
Type: Movie
A young deaf-mute who lives and has intercourse with a blind man much older than she, inevitably attracts a shy driving instructor a strange, hallucinatory underworld, populated by those beings whose mutilation, impaired physical differences, have become rejected of society.
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Noche de carnaval
Title: Noche de carnaval
Character: Diablo
Released: January 26, 1984
Type: Movie
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Under the Shrapnel
Title: Under the Shrapnel
Character: Pablo
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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God's Crooked Lines
Title: God's Crooked Lines
Character: Doctor Alvar
Released: September 29, 1983
Type: Movie
Newly-committed to a mental institution, a woman tries to convince her doctors that her husband conspired to have her put away for selfish reasons unrelated to her mental health.
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Deceitful Appearances
Title: Deceitful Appearances
Character: Sergio Gaitán
Released: March 24, 1983
Type: Movie
The sexual misunderstandings caused by the real identity of a rich woman serve Hermosillo to satirize the moral and social hypocrisy of the provincial that every Mexican carries inside.
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Un hombre llamado el diablo
Title: Un hombre llamado el diablo
Released: February 3, 1983
Type: Movie
Rapine and blood-feuds in rural Mexico.
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I Don't Know For Sure, But I Suppose
Title: I Don't Know For Sure, But I Suppose
Character: Daniel
Released: July 30, 1982
Type: Movie
Dalia and Daniel are a couple running away from the noise, the pollution and the social prejudice, so they take shelter at an isolated farmhouse, which used to belong to Daniel's father. There they are, in full intimacy with each other, only with nature and their own memories. However, the monotony and the loneliness gradually deteriorates their relationship.
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The flying pony
Title: The flying pony
Released: January 1, 1982
Type: Movie
Mythical and fantastic story on the wishes of a peasant boy, Diego, who become reality in the course of a day and a night. On the eve of his birthday, the child's godfather gives her a shot of cardboard. At night, the little dreams that is mounted on the horse and find a nymph that describes the exact location of much needed water does to your family.
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'Ora Sí ¡Tenemos Que Ganar!
Title: 'Ora Sí ¡Tenemos Que Ganar!
Released: October 22, 1981
Type: Movie
The abuse of authority and the employer of a mining town make workers, influenced by reading articles from Ricardo Flores Magon in newspaper Regeneration, organize clandestinely and mutiny against the US, owner of the mine, which is refuses to rescue a group of workers trapped by a landslide.
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Fuego en el mar
Title: Fuego en el mar
Character: Mariano Ortega
Released: September 23, 1981
Type: Movie
Mariano works as chief driller on an oil platform in Campeche 14 days a month. However, he is obsessed with the idea that his wife Gloria is cheating on him while he is away. Therefore, time and again he asks her to stop working and get pregnant for the second time. However, Gloria refuses to be financially dependent on her husband. The couple's conflicts become more acute when engineer Becker, Gloria's former lover, starts working again in the offices where she works.
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Everyone's Hell so Feared
Title: Everyone's Hell so Feared
Character: Jacinto Chontal
Released: September 9, 1981
Type: Movie
The inner demons of an aspiring writer, whose dissatisfaction has pushed him to alcohol and drugs, lead him to his self-destruction under the guise of confusing political positions.
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Oficio de tinieblas
Title: Oficio de tinieblas
Character: Fernando
Released: June 4, 1981
Type: Movie
"Occupation of Darkness" - Set in 1934, and meant to dramatize social injustices, this melodrama examines an official's attempt at land reform. The landowners are against any reform and are also not interested in ending the exploitation of their workers. On the opposite side of the fence, the Native Americans have almost no way to better their living conditions or to fight oppression. They are also plagued by "superstition," which leads to some misguided actions that only make things worse. Violence and sexual encounters are interspersed throughout the story.
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La leyenda de Rodrígo
Title: La leyenda de Rodrígo
Character: Asmodeo
Released: May 28, 1981
Type: Movie
Rodrigo is a seminarist that soon will be a priest, but a demon woman seduce him. He doesn't know what path choose.
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Green Ice
Title: Green Ice
Character: Lt. Costas
Released: May 21, 1981
Type: Movie
A down on his luck engineer gets involved in an adventure with a mysterious woman and an emerald magnate.
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Long live Tepito!
Title: Long live Tepito!
Character: Antonio Vélez
Released: January 15, 1981
Type: Movie
Slice of life covering four or five days in a badly run-down neighborhood. Matriarch of a slum family dies unexpectedly; relatives from neighboring blocks cope with the loss and arrange her funeral.
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Aunt Alejandra
Title: Aunt Alejandra
Character: Rodolfo
Released: August 9, 1979
Type: Movie
The arrival of Aunt Alejandra triggers a series of nightmarish events that will put the life of a family at mysterious risk.
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Eagle's Wing
Title: Eagle's Wing
Character: Miguel
Released: July 26, 1979
Type: Movie
Two men, an aging Native American and a ne'er-do-well trapper from North America, race to claim the stallion Eagle's Wing in antebellum Mexico, meeting marauded stagecoach travelers and garrisoned Mexicans along the way.
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The Perfect Woman
Title: The Perfect Woman
Released: February 8, 1979
Type: Movie
Marcela, a former film star, seeks tranquility in the suburbs after marrying a wealthy industrialist. Her past haunts her with admirers and daily violence. Overwhelmed by a distant husband, a demanding child, critical in-laws, and loneliness, she escapes to an imaginary world to avoid the grim and the ugly.
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Naufragio
Title: Naufragio
Character: Médico
Released: November 2, 1978
Type: Movie
One woman lives waiting for her son who is a sailor. She hasn't seen him for years although he writes to her a lot. The woman shares the letters and her grief with a co-worker and friend. This last woman begins to idealize her friend's son.
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Pedro Páramo, el hombre de la Media Luna
Title: Pedro Páramo, el hombre de la Media Luna
Character: Pedro Páramo
Released: August 10, 1978
Type: Movie
Juan Preciado, son of Pedro Páramo, goes to Comala to claim his inheritance; but when he arrives he finds an abandoned and sinister town, inhabited by mysterious voices and whispers…
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Free Love
Title: Free Love
Character: Ernesto
Released: August 9, 1978
Type: Movie
Two single women share an apartment, work together, and sometimes swap boyfriends. None of their romantic attachments seem quite as stable or enduring as their friendship.
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Matinée
Title: Matinée
Character: Francisco
Released: September 18, 1977
Type: Movie
Jorge and Aarón, two young boys growing up in a quiet town often miss classes to go together to the cinema matinee. One day they are kidnapped by robbers while traveling in a truck. After the disintegration of the band, they begin to participate in the robberies until the adventure turns into something more sinister and dangerous.
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El mar
Title: El mar
Released: June 14, 1977
Type: Movie
Local artists mingle with tourists and each other at a Mexican resort. Mingle, mingle.
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El elegido
Title: El elegido
Character: Andres Martinez
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 Passion of Berenice
Title: The Passion of Berenice
Character: José
Released: November 18, 1976
Type: Movie
Berenice is a young woman with traditional customs who lives with her godmother in a quiet provincial town. The appearance of Rodrigo in his life will cause him a profound and unusual transformation. The calm without major shocks in Aguascalientes turns out to be just a disguise, an illusory cover-up of what will really happen.
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Las Poquianchis
Title: Las Poquianchis
Character: Tadeo
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: Polonio
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: Hombre del pueblo
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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Celestina
Title: Celestina
Character: Pleberio
Released: January 1, 1976
Type: Movie
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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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Title: The Marked Hour
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.