Arturo Soto Rangel

Arturo Soto Rangel

Born: March 12, 1882
Died: May 25, 1965
in Leon, Guanajuato, Mexico
Arturo Soto Rangel (March 12, 1882 – May 25, 1965) was a Mexican film, television, and stage actor. Rangel was best known for appearing in over 250 Mexican films. Rangel appeared in one American movie, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre which won three Academy Awards and starred Humphrey Bogart, Walter Huston, Tim Holt, Bruce Bennett, and many other successful actors. Rangel last appeared on television in 1963 where he starred in Voy de gallo. He died on May 25, 1965, in Mexico City, Mexico.

Movies for Arturo Soto Rangel...

La sombra blanca
Title: La sombra blanca
Released: January 1, 1963
Type: Movie
Mexican feature film
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La barranca sangrienta
Title: La barranca sangrienta
Character: Señor cura
Released: November 16, 1962
Type: Movie
Alberto and Leonor have a son, they find out that one of the masked men who attacked them was her nephew, things get difficult for them when they find out about a testament left by her grandmother.
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Revenge of the Resurrected
Title: Revenge of the Resurrected
Released: September 7, 1962
Type: Movie
Two families have made peace after generations of feuding... but some bad-hat strangers have come to town looking for the buried treasure that sparked the whole mess.
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El Zorro vengador
Title: El Zorro vengador
Released: August 31, 1962
Type: Movie
Hero on horseback.
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Los encapuchados del infierno
Title: Los encapuchados del infierno
Released: June 1, 1962
Type: Movie
Husband and wife team of hooded avengers, First of three in series.
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La muerte en el puente
Title: La muerte en el puente
Released: June 24, 1961
Type: Movie
Final four episodes of Pancho Pistolas serial, reedited into feature format. PP finally thwarts the Four Bad Brothers in their plan to take over the lands belonging to local indigenous tribe and in getting that territory restored to tribal governance.
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Duelo indio
Title: Duelo indio
Character: Huascapili / abuelo Chon
Released: May 12, 1961
Type: Movie
A cabal of bad-hats is conspiring to dispossess the local Indians of their hereditary lands, but Pancho fights to defend them... while a messenger is securing copies of some needed legal documents. Etc. Second film of four in the series "Pancho Pistolas."
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Una pasión me domina
Title: Una pasión me domina
Released: February 2, 1961
Type: Movie
Unscrupulous landowner and his family are trying to deny water rights to the townsfolk. Particular beef with the guy that runs the mill. Ultimately the Revolution rolls through town and helps put everything right.
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El jinete negro
Title: El jinete negro
Character: Don Mateo, juez
Released: January 1, 1961
Type: Movie
A rancher disguises himself as a generous bandit and murders a tax collector, but is discovered.
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The Shadow of the Strongman
Title: The Shadow of the Strongman
Character: Director de la Cooperativa
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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Miracle Roses
Title: Miracle Roses
Released: August 18, 1960
Type: Movie
Before the Spanish Conquest, an Aztec princess does the Romeo and Juliet thing with the Prince of a neighboring tribe. Sixty years later, a colonized subject has visions of the Virgin Mary.
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¡Qué bonito amor!
Title: ¡Qué bonito amor!
Released: August 16, 1960
Type: Movie
Bride backs out of her wedding at the last possible minute; she and her fiance get caught up in a power-struggle that ends with both running for mayor.
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Rebelde Sin Casa
Title: Rebelde Sin Casa
Released: April 18, 1960
Type: Movie
Tin Tan interfered in a bank robbery, then got arrested when the perp.s escaped. Crooks and police are both after him...
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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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El sordo
Title: El sordo
Released: June 18, 1959
Type: Movie
Craftsman who sculpts religious figures goes deaf. Lotsa pathos.
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Acapulcan
Title: Acapulcan
Released: May 14, 1959
Type: Movie
Gloria sells dolls in benefit of UNICEF and is interested in putting on an international show. In a hotel in Acapulco the ranchero Javier, the Muslims Mustafa and Ali, the Brazilian Mr. Carioca and the charro José Lorenzo meet to carry out the project. Among the men there will be a series of entanglements to dispute the love of the young woman.
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El zarco
Title: El zarco
Released: May 14, 1959
Type: Movie
Upperclass girl and notorious bandit leader fall in love. She agrees to "let him kidnap her" so they can be together, but she gets disillusioned when she sees the sordidness of his Camp Of Banditry. Also he keeps killing off members of her family.
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Pistolas de oro
Title: Pistolas de oro
Released: January 29, 1959
Type: Movie
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3 Lessons of Love
Title: 3 Lessons of Love
Character: Señor juez
Released: January 7, 1959
Type: Movie
The rigid professor Germán, president of the League of Honor and Modesty, hates statues of naked women, but the spirit of his ancestor Casanova leads him to episodes of debauchery and conquest. Married to the rigid Severa, he becomes a corrupt mayor. Only the moralistic Rosa will be able to free him from these strange influences to improve his life and that of the town.
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Una golfa
Title: Una golfa
Released: September 25, 1958
Type: Movie
Trumpet-player in a club band falls for a streety young woman; she dumps him to become a kept woman... and his roommate the pianist is dealing weed... and...
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La marca del cuervo
Title: La marca del cuervo
Released: August 28, 1958
Type: Movie
Masked avenger on horseback, one of a series.
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Las tres pelonas
Title: Las tres pelonas
Released: July 2, 1958
Type: Movie
Pseudo-historical drama about a semi-civilian who decides to run guns across the border for Villa's troops.
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Una cita de amor
Title: Una cita de amor
Character: Priest
Released: June 5, 1958
Type: Movie
The story of the doomed love between Soledad and Román. She is the daughter of a rich man that wants to marry her with Ernesto, nephew of his friend, the judge. Román owns a little ranch. A brawl in the town will unleash several deaths that will affect the already difficult relationship.
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School for Buglars
Title: School for Buglars
Character: Banquero (uncredited)
Released: May 9, 1958
Type: Movie
The police plan to capture a killer by using a double that looks exactly as one of his victims.
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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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Horas de agonía
Title: Horas de agonía
Released: January 8, 1958
Type: Movie
Nubile young woman seems to be quite free with her affections... but she has a deep, dark secret. Deep. Dark.
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El caudillo
Title: El caudillo
Released: July 10, 1957
Type: Movie
Bad-hat townsfolk want to dispossess local Indians of their tribal lands; priestess and white ally fight back. One of four in a series.
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Pepito as del volante
Title: Pepito as del volante
Character: Pancho
Released: June 20, 1957
Type: Movie
Pepito's father dies in rollover the Ferrari that is winning a race car, so Pepito is about his grandfather and asks him to equip a car to get him to compete.
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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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Pablo y Carolina
Title: Pablo y Carolina
Released: April 27, 1957
Type: Movie
Torn between three lovers and bored by her typewriting classes, Carolina (Dillian) writes a passionate love letter to fictional Pablo Garza from Monterrey. The letter is sent by mistake and received by real Pablo Garza's girlfriend. Pablo himself (Infante) flies to Mexico City looking for an explanation. Carolina is rehearsing a musical show for her school dressed as a man. When Pablo meets her, she pretends to be her brother Anibal, a shy and feminine sailor. Pablo likes Anibal and invites "him" to a cabaret. After that, Carolina falls inlove with Pablo but resists to unveil her real self. Meanwhile, Pablo feels himself confused, because young "Anibal" is cute as an angel and has "those blue eyes..."
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Good Love
Title: Good Love
Released: February 28, 1957
Type: Movie
Mother and son conspire against his sister when she marries against their wishes.
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El ratón
Title: El ratón
Released: February 14, 1957
Type: Movie
Amateur boxer turns pro, dealing meanwhile with an eventful personal life.
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La adúltera
Title: La adúltera
Released: November 22, 1956
Type: Movie
Jilted lover takes revenge on her ex's new wife.
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Vivir a todo dar
Title: Vivir a todo dar
Character: Señor Cura
Released: October 10, 1956
Type: Movie
Clavillazo is a likeable drifter who gets his diploma because his teachers want to lose sight of him. He lives on what he can find in the street. However, nothing can stop him from helping those around him.
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Forbidden Kisses
Title: Forbidden Kisses
Character: Director del penal
Released: August 16, 1956
Type: Movie
Nightclub singer has to choose between marrying again or reuniting with her divorced husband.
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El vividor
Title: El vividor
Released: July 11, 1956
Type: Movie
Con-artist cleans up his act to score points with a new girlfriend.
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Historia de un amor
Title: Historia de un amor
Released: February 15, 1956
Type: Movie
Singer relives her love-life in flashback: she adopts another woman's illegitimate daughter, she gets married, the grandparents of the baby raise a fuss, etc.
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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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El plagiario
Title: El plagiario
Released: April 28, 1955
Type: Movie
Gangster's daughter learns about her dad's illegalist lifestyle.
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X Murderer
Title: X Murderer
Character: Padre Juan
Released: March 18, 1955
Type: Movie
A murderer turns himself to the police, but claims amnesia and insists he's unable to tell them anything about his crime.
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Frente al Pecado de Ayer
Title: Frente al Pecado de Ayer
Released: March 10, 1955
Type: Movie
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Pecado Mortal
Title: Pecado Mortal
Character: Benito
Released: March 10, 1955
Type: Movie
Juan Manuel intends his wife Clara, who is blind, sign the will in his favor, but she refuses. With them lives Soledad, goddaughter Clara. A day comes Carlos, nephew of Juan Manuel, who is interested in Soledad. Carlos is going to study medicine in the United States and maintains correspondence with Soledad. Juan Manuel shows interest in Soledad but prevents Clara meet her. She is the daughter of Clara, who hid that Juan Manuel had killed the father of Soledad and also caused her blindness.
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What a Man
Title: What a Man
Released: January 5, 1955
Type: Movie
Father and adult sons give help to an orphaned teenage girl.
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Beware of Love
Title: Beware of Love
Character: Don Hilario
Released: December 8, 1954
Type: Movie
Salvador accompanied by two friends of his father whom he calls uncles, they arrive at a fair in the village, there he meets Ana. When he wins a bet he is paid with a mortgaged house, to his surprise upon entering the hom he realizes that Ana and her mother live in it, provoking a funny entanglement with an explosive final.
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El hombre inquieto
Title: El hombre inquieto
Character: Don Fausto
Released: November 26, 1954
Type: Movie
Adult street urchin passes himself off as rich man's long-lost son.
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Si volvieras a mi
Title: Si volvieras a mi
Character: Papá de Alejandra
Released: October 1, 1954
Type: Movie
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La entrega
Title: La entrega
Released: August 19, 1954
Type: Movie
Empire-building philanthropist has no time to indulge his wife's romantic fantasies.
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La sobrina del señor cura
Title: La sobrina del señor cura
Released: August 18, 1954
Type: Movie
A pregnant parishioner can't get her boyfriend to marry her and the home office thinks that foundling girl the priest took in is too old now to live under the same roof with him. It's always something, ain't it?
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Cain y Abel
Title: Cain y Abel
Released: July 28, 1954
Type: Movie
Bohemian husband and strait-laced wife get divorced; each takes custody of one son. Twenty years later...
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Garden of Evil
Title: Garden of Evil
Character: Priest (uncredited)
Released: July 9, 1954
Type: Movie
A trio of American adventurers marooned in rural Mexico are recruited by a beautiful woman to rescue her husband from Apaches.
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Magdalena
Title: Magdalena
Released: April 15, 1954
Type: Movie
Family melodrama; one sister runs away with the other one's fiance. Twenty-odd years later, her daughter tries to make peace with the rest of the family. Plus accidental deaths and unwed motherhood and miraculous cures for blindness and near death experiences.
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Reportaje
Title: Reportaje
Character: Police secretary who draws naked women
Released: November 13, 1953
Type: Movie
Reporters compete for cash prize awarded for biggest scoop on New Year's Eve.
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Dos tipos de cuidado
Title: Dos tipos de cuidado
Character: Doctor
Released: November 5, 1953
Type: Movie
Jorge Bueno and Pedro Malo are best friends who consider giving up their womanizing ways when they each fall in love. As fate would have it, Pedro Malo unexpectedly marries Jorge Bueno's girlfriend, and the conflict between the former buddies begins.
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Anxiety
Title: Anxiety
Released: October 2, 1953
Type: Movie
Twins (both played by Infante) are separated while very young, one raised as a singer by their widowed mother and another as the heir to one of Mexico's richest families. Their paths cross in the future, but they are unable to recognize each other due to their very different social backgrounds.
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The Devil's Money
Title: The Devil's Money
Character: Don Teodoro
Released: September 11, 1953
Type: Movie
Los dineros del diablo (The Devil's Money) is a Mexican drama film directed by Alejandro Galindo. It was released in 1953 and starring Amalia Aguilar and Roberto Cañedo.
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The Ghost falls in Love
Title: The Ghost falls in Love
Released: June 26, 1953
Type: Movie
A romance between a woman and a ghost.
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The Three Perfect Married
Title: The Three Perfect Married
Character: Francisco
Released: June 8, 1953
Type: Movie
Three married couples gather to celebrate the eighteenth anniversary of their marriage mourning the absence of a friend who was best man at all three weddings.
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La extraña pasajera
Title: La extraña pasajera
Character: Auditor Camacho
Released: June 4, 1953
Type: Movie
Noir-style suspense thriller; three unrelated criminal schemes are happening on board an express train; all three get uncovered/solved/thwarted before they reach their destination.
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Sombrero
Title: Sombrero
Character: Professor
Released: April 22, 1953
Type: Movie
Mexican love stories follow a dying man, a bullfighter's sister and lovers from feuding villages.
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Cuando levanta la niebla
Title: Cuando levanta la niebla
Released: November 23, 1952
Type: Movie
One mental patient usurps the identity of another and starts a new life, passing himself off as a long-lost relative of a rich family.
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A Place Close to Heaven
Title: A Place Close to Heaven
Character: Don Tenen
Released: August 22, 1952
Type: Movie
On reaching the capital, Pedro Gonzalez gets a lowly job and marries Margaret. After losing that job, get a new one as a bodyguard but is fired again. With so much poverty and despair Pedro believes that his only way out is suicide.
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Two Faces Have the Destiny
Title: Two Faces Have the Destiny
Character: Chiclero anciano
Released: March 21, 1952
Type: Movie
Ruined alcoholic doctor escapes a tropical plague and begins a new life back in civilization, taking over the identity of a dead man.
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Far from Heaven
Title: Far from Heaven
Character: Zapatero
Released: February 27, 1952
Type: Movie
Pedro Gonzalez first gets into trouble as part of a criminal gang and then works honourably to become rich. Money is his undoing allowing him to become a womanizer and drinker, almost losing his wife. Finally he rejoins her, they have a son and he pays for his mistakes.
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Hay un niño en su futuro
Title: Hay un niño en su futuro
Released: February 22, 1952
Type: Movie
Wacky rich woman subjects her husband, servants and friends to a series of elaborate masquerades, remodeling her house and wardrobe every couple of days to represent different historical eras or cultural milieux. Today she's Marie Antoinette, tomorrow she may be Pancho Villa's common-law wife or a nun.
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Siempre tuya
Title: Siempre tuya
Released: January 18, 1952
Type: Movie
Husband and wife leave their farm and move to the big city. Husband becomes a famous ranchera singer.
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With all my heart
Title: With all my heart
Released: January 1, 1952
Type: Movie
Priest founds an orphanage, faces conflicts with townsfolk.
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Oh, Love… How Have You Put Me!
Title: Oh, Love… How Have You Put Me!
Character: Don Manuel
Released: November 23, 1951
Type: Movie
A low-class baker accidentally gets to know an attractive but bitter fiancée. By getting her snobby, dead-pan family to spend some time with his scumbag friends, he changes their lives, while at the time stealing the girl's heart.
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The Hell of the Poor
Title: The Hell of the Poor
Released: November 1, 1951
Type: Movie
A young woman becomes pregnant but when his boyfriend leaves her she gets a job as a prostitute in order to provide for her child.
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Loving Was His Sin
Title: Loving Was His Sin
Released: October 10, 1951
Type: Movie
Two sisters fall in love with the same man. Plus fatal illness.
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Las Islas Marias
Title: Las Islas Marias
Character: Miguel
Released: August 10, 1951
Type: Movie
Las Islas Marias stars Pedro Infante as a man who must face time in jail, even though he never committed the crime. While on the inside, he learns important life lessons that actually make him a better man.
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Monte de piedad
Title: Monte de piedad
Character: Padre Gabriel
Released: August 1, 1951
Type: Movie
Anthology-movie, series of anecdotes about the personal tragedies that lead people to take their values posessions to the state-run pawnshop.
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My General's Wives
Title: My General's Wives
Character: Don Jelipe
Released: July 13, 1951
Type: Movie
The encounter with an old lover puts a revolutionary general in great danger of death.
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Hell Road
Title: Hell Road
Character: Dr. Fausto
Released: June 29, 1951
Type: Movie
When a robbery goes wrong, the thief takes a singer as hostage, they fall in love and try to rebuild their lives, but tragedy surges in the most unexpected way.
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Love for Life
Title: Love for Life
Character: Presidente Juan Vicente Gómez
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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Los pobres van al cielo
Title: Los pobres van al cielo
Released: May 9, 1951
Type: Movie
When their parents die, brother and sister run away rather than go to an orphanage. Childless elderly couple adopts them, the neighborhood priest takes an interest in their sad story, and it goes on from there...
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Desired
Title: Desired
Character: Don Anselmo
Released: April 4, 1951
Type: Movie
A man comes to a village to marry a girl, but upon meeting the bride's sister, he falls in love with her.
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¡… Y murío por nosotros!
Title: ¡… Y murío por nosotros!
Character: Don Júlio, patrón
Released: March 15, 1951
Type: Movie
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La reina del mambo
Title: La reina del mambo
Released: February 28, 1951
Type: Movie
Nightclub performer escapes from her abusive manager and starts life over in a new city.
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Victims of Sin
Title: Victims of Sin
Character: Director de prisión
Released: February 2, 1951
Type: Movie
A nightclub performer decides to raise the baby boy she found abandoned in a trash can, putting her job and social life in jeopardy.
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El Cristo de mi Cabecera
Title: El Cristo de mi Cabecera
Character: Padre Cruz
Released: January 3, 1951
Type: Movie
1830s, guerrillas in the hills resisting the French occupation. Meanwhile, their leader has a French officer and another guy chasing after his fiancé, and...
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Radio Patrulla
Title: Radio Patrulla
Character: Sargento Roberto Nava
Released: January 1, 1951
Type: Movie
Mexican feature film
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One Day of Life
Title: One Day of Life
Released: November 23, 1950
Type: Movie
A story about two men caught in the Mexican revolution: close friends before, but now on the opposite sides. One of them is military officer, while the other one expects capital punishment. The prisoner's mother comes to visit his son, unaware that his former best friend is now his enemy.
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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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Curvas peligrosas
Title: Curvas peligrosas
Released: October 11, 1950
Type: Movie
Mexican feature film
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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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Primero soy Mexicano
Title: Primero soy Mexicano
Released: June 24, 1950
Type: Movie
USA-educated doctor goes home for the first time in years. Culture shock.
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Nuestras vidas
Title: Nuestras vidas
Released: May 24, 1950
Type: Movie
Frivolous woman falls in reallytruly love for the first time, but her past catches up with her and her fiancé kicks her to the curb. Then joining a convent and amnesia and stuff.
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Duelo en las montañas
Title: Duelo en las montañas
Released: February 18, 1950
Type: Movie
1910: Revolutionary leader escapes military, hides in small town, falls in love.
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The Love Nest
Title: The Love Nest
Character: Dr. Carrasco
Released: February 9, 1950
Type: Movie
Amalia, aged, remember when Fernando Mendoza, his former medical school, came to San Esteban, the town where she lived. They worked together and became his love. Although he was engaged to another, Fernando decided to return to the city to complete his commitment to her and finally reunited with Amalia, but the facts do not happen as they had planned.
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Tú, solo tú
Title: Tú, solo tú
Released: January 13, 1950
Type: Movie
Small-town guy goes to The City to look up his absent girlfriend. He discovers she's become a sex-worker, so he gets a job at a riding stable and meets a new girl.
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Love Pays for Love
Title: Love Pays for Love
Released: January 11, 1950
Type: Movie
Pre-Revolutionary setting; class conflicts and a romance across class-boundaries.
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La mujer del puerto
Title: La mujer del puerto
Character: Don Antonio Méndez
Released: November 7, 1949
Type: Movie
Orphaned, abandoned by her fiance, forced into prostitution by the absence of "respectable" alternatives.And the-e-en...
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The Seminarian
Title: The Seminarian
Character: Don Pancho
Released: November 2, 1949
Type: Movie
Returning to his home town, seminarist Miguel is forced to trade the robes for a charro costume in order to solve several problems that appear in his way, including the female kind.
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Rondalla
Title: Rondalla
Released: October 6, 1949
Type: Movie
Romantic triangle on the hacienda.
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La venenosa
Title: La venenosa
Character: Dr. Koll
Released: October 4, 1949
Type: Movie
A snake-charmer falls in love with a circus trapeze artist who trains her and has her debut in this discipline.
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Tierra muerta
Title: Tierra muerta
Released: September 15, 1949
Type: Movie
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El embajador
Title: El embajador
Released: August 12, 1949
Type: Movie
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Dos almas en el mundo
Title: Dos almas en el mundo
Released: July 13, 1949
Type: Movie
A young couple meet in the reformatory and try to make a life together after they're released.
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Pueblerina
Title: Pueblerina
Character: Priest
Released: July 6, 1949
Type: Movie
Aurelio Rodríguez is released from jail, and tries to start a new life marrying Paloma and working his land. But the local landowners, the brothers González, interfere with his plans.
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The Big Steal
Title: The Big Steal
Character: Pedro
Released: July 1, 1949
Type: Movie
Army Lieutenant Halliday, accused of stealing the Army payroll, pursues the real thief on a frantic chase through Mexico aided by the thief's ex-girlfriend and is in turn being chased by his accuser, Capt. Blake.
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Eterna agonía
Title: Eterna agonía
Character: Don Pio
Released: June 22, 1949
Type: Movie
Convicted on flimsy evidence of complicity in a jewel robbery, there's nothing he can do afterward to put his life in order. Downward spiral.
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La vorágine: abismos de amor
Title: La vorágine: abismos de amor
Released: April 20, 1949
Type: Movie
It narrates the adventures of the poet Arturo Cova and his lover Alicia, a story of passion and revenge framed in the plain lands and the Amazon jungle where the two lovers scape from society, and which exposes throughout its plot the harsh living conditions of settlers and Indians enslaved during the rubber rush.
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Dicen que soy mujeriego
Title: Dicen que soy mujeriego
Character: Priest
Released: April 14, 1949
Type: Movie
Pedro has had many lovers but he only loves one of them, but this romance stop going on for his flirts with other women.
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Rincón brujo
Title: Rincón brujo
Released: February 11, 1949
Type: Movie
Young peasant woman allows an army officer to woo her, as a way of drawing attention away from her father's insurgent connections... while her own affections are torn between two brothers.
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La norteña de mis amores
Title: La norteña de mis amores
Released: December 25, 1948
Type: Movie
Child whose father was murdered grows up and seeks revenge, also falling in love with a new victim of the same bad guy.
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El último chinaco
Title: El último chinaco
Released: October 5, 1948
Type: Movie
1880s-1890s rural adventure on horseback.
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Maclovia
Title: Maclovia
Character: Don Justo
Released: September 30, 1948
Type: Movie
On a small Mexican island dwells a group of Indians who live in the traditional manner and who disdain outsiders. The beautiful Maclovia and the poverty-stricken Jose Maria are in love, but her father refuses to allow their marriage, or even any communication between them, due to Jose Maria's lack of means.
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¡Ay, Palillo, no te rajes!
Title: ¡Ay, Palillo, no te rajes!
Released: September 30, 1948
Type: Movie
Political satire about fixed elections in a small town.
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Algo flota sobre el agua
Title: Algo flota sobre el agua
Character: Sabio
Released: August 27, 1948
Type: Movie
Labor disputes and love triangles among coastal-village fishermen.
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Una aventura en la noche
Title: Una aventura en la noche
Character: Capitán de policía
Released: July 9, 1948
Type: Movie
Film version of the 'hitchhiking ghost' urban legend.
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Cortesana
Title: Cortesana
Released: May 12, 1948
Type: Movie
Young woman breaks up with her fiance to shack up with her sister's husband.
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Si Adelita se fuera con otro
Title: Si Adelita se fuera con otro
Released: April 29, 1948
Type: Movie
Young couple run off to join the Mexican Revolution, in part because she has a crush on Francisco Villa.
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Río escondido
Title: Río escondido
Character: Maestro Monroy
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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El muchacho alegre
Title: El muchacho alegre
Released: February 4, 1948
Type: Movie
Boisterous young charro has to prove to his girlfriend's parents that he's ready to settle down and be a responsible adult... but then somebody frames him for a murder and he has more immediate problems to deal with.
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The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Title: The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Character: El Presidente
Released: January 15, 1948
Type: Movie
Fred C. Dobbs and Bob Curtin, both down on their luck in Tampico, Mexico in 1925, meet up with a grizzled prospector named Howard and decide to join with him in search of gold in the wilds of central Mexico. Through enormous difficulties, they eventually succeed in finding gold, but bandits, the elements, and most especially greed threaten to turn their success into disaster.
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Yo soy tu padre
Title: Yo soy tu padre
Character: Don Victorio Fernández
Released: January 1, 1948
Type: Movie
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Los Cristeros
Title: Los Cristeros
Released: December 19, 1947
Type: Movie
When the government places restrictions on the Catholic church's autonomy, an armed uprising takes place. Disagreements over the new laws create conflict within the protagonist's family.
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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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Enamorada
Title: Enamorada
Character: Juez (uncredited)
Released: December 25, 1946
Type: Movie
In Mexican Revolution times, a guerrilla general and his troops take the conservative town of Cholula, near by Mexico City. As the revolutionaries mistreat the town's riches, General Reyes falls for beautiful and wild Beatriz Peñafiel, the daughter of one of the town's richest men.
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Guadalajara pues
Title: Guadalajara pues
Character: Don Atilano (as A. Soto Rangel)
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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La reina del trópico
Title: La reina del trópico
Character: Don Anselmo Gómez
Released: October 25, 1946
Type: Movie
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The Last Adventure
Title: The Last Adventure
Character: Don Sebastián
Released: October 17, 1946
Type: Movie
All of Mexico asks the same question, who has won the lottery jackpot of five million pesos? If the lucky person who won them does not show up soon to collect the prize, it will have to be raffled again.
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María Magdalena, pecadora de Magdala
Title: María Magdalena, pecadora de Magdala
Character: Joseph
Released: October 10, 1946
Type: Movie
The story of Mary Magdalene from being a sinner to follow Jesus Christ.
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La Devoradora
Title: La Devoradora
Character: Don Manuel Ortega
Released: April 18, 1946
Type: Movie
A Mexican film noir revolving around a crime: the suicide of one of Diana (María Félix)'s lovers and the disposal of his body in order to avoid a scandal. Diana not only engineers the entire scheme, but drafts her two other suitors: her fiance Adolfo (Julio Villareal) and his nephew Miguel (Luis Aldas).
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Cantaclaro
Title: Cantaclaro
Released: January 24, 1946
Type: Movie
A rootless wilderness-dude in the Venezuelan outback gets caught up in some human dramas despite himself.
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La mujer de todos
Title: La mujer de todos
Character: General
Released: January 11, 1946
Type: Movie
A beautiful woman of affairs falls in love with a handsome young man of great promise. Fearing for his future, the man's father begs her to leave his son so that her reputation will not hold him back.
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Bugambilia
Title: Bugambilia
Character: Señor Cura
Released: November 2, 1945
Type: Movie
In mid-nineteenth century Guanajuato, the beauty and charm of the young heiress Amalia conquers the lowly foreman Ricardo with fatal results. Prevented from consummating their love, Ricardo is going to Guanajuato where again later become the rich owner of a mine. On his return, fate has prepared a tragic encounter with Amalia.
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Canaima
Title: Canaima
Character: Manuel Ladera
Released: October 4, 1945
Type: Movie
College-educated emigre has to get macho when he returns home to the Venezuelan outback.
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La señora de enfrente
Title: La señora de enfrente
Released: September 21, 1945
Type: Movie
Two travelers visiting a small town link up together and then run afoul of the gossip of church ladies.
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Vertigo
Title: Vertigo
Released: September 6, 1945
Type: Movie
Young woman's fiance unexpectedly falls in love with her mom, and ends up arranging the young woman's death.
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Tuya en cuerpo y alma
Title: Tuya en cuerpo y alma
Character: Obispo de Worcester
Released: June 1, 1945
Type: Movie
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The Abandoned
Title: The Abandoned
Character: Director colegio
Released: May 18, 1945
Type: Movie
A young woman, abandoned by her womanizing fiancé, is forced to provide for the upbringing of her son and combat the difficulties of being an unmarried mother during the strife of early 20-century Mexico.
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Cadetes de la naval
Title: Cadetes de la naval
Released: February 21, 1945
Type: Movie
Two young men go through military training, then enlist to fight in WWII
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The Useless Life of Pito Perez
Title: The Useless Life of Pito Perez
Released: November 7, 1944
Type: Movie
Episodes from the life of an alcoholic hobo.
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La trepadora
Title: La trepadora
Released: September 21, 1944
Type: Movie
Romantic triangles between city folk and country folk, with new money/old money issues complicating the story.
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La pequeña madrecita
Title: La pequeña madrecita
Released: June 15, 1944
Type: Movie
Little girl develops her maternal instincts with dolls and with an infant cousin while family tragedies erupt over and over again around her.
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La mujer sin cabeza
Title: La mujer sin cabeza
Released: March 30, 1944
Type: Movie
Mexican Fu Manchu adaptation.
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Caminito alegre
Title: Caminito alegre
Released: February 17, 1944
Type: Movie
An elderly homeless man is welcomed into an Old Folks' Home and becomes acquainted with the dramas of several of his companions.
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Maria Candelaria
Title: Maria Candelaria
Character: Doctor (uncredited)
Released: January 20, 1944
Type: Movie
A young journalist asks an old artist about the portrait of a naked Indian woman that he has in his study. The artist tells the story of Maria Candelaria, a young Indian woman who was rejected by her own people for being the daughter of a prostitute. She is protected by a young Indian man, Lorenzo Rafael, who has fallen in love with her.
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Miguel Strogoff
Title: Miguel Strogoff
Character: Agente
Released: January 1, 1944
Type: Movie
A Russian courier has to deliver a message from the Czar to the Grand Duke across enemy lines .On the way he encounters adventures and colorful characters.
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Viejo nido
Title: Viejo nido
Released: January 1, 1944
Type: Movie
Mexican movie
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El mexicano
Title: El mexicano
Released: January 1, 1944
Type: Movie
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Porfirio Díaz
Title: Porfirio Díaz
Released: January 1, 1944
Type: Movie
Mexican movie
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Viva Mi Desgracia
Title: Viva Mi Desgracia
Character: Don Marcial
Released: January 1, 1944
Type: Movie
After drinking a special concoction made of various types of alcohol, the once-timid Ramon (Pedro Infante) suddenly turns into a brawler and extroverted ladies' man. With his newfound confidence, Ramon attempts to win the heart of the woman (María Antonieta Pons) he loves. Full of enjoyable songs and funny scenes, this entertaining Mexican musical centers on a wealthy man who finally realizes that money can't buy him love.
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Los miserables
Title: Los miserables
Released: December 1, 1943
Type: Movie
Police officer makes life hell for an ex-convict. Based on that novel.
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Cuando Habla El Corazon
Title: Cuando Habla El Corazon
Released: October 21, 1943
Type: Movie
Historical drama about the period just before the beginning of the Mexican Revolution.
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Beautiful Michoacán
Title: Beautiful Michoacán
Character: Licenciado
Released: October 10, 1943
Type: Movie
When her father dies, a young woman must go to Michoacán to take charge of her lands, where she meets a young man and they both fall in love.
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El rayo del sur
Title: El rayo del sur
Released: September 30, 1943
Type: Movie
Latter part of the career of Padre Morelos, the 18th/19th century military leader. Sequel to... um... El Padre Morelos.
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El ametralladora
Title: El ametralladora
Character: Sr. Salas
Released: September 28, 1943
Type: Movie
Peasant farmer and landowner are rivals for a woman. Sequel to Ay Jalisco No Te Rajes.
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Mexicanos al Grito de Guerra
Title: Mexicanos al Grito de Guerra
Character: Sandoval
Released: September 16, 1943
Type: Movie
In times of the French Intervention, a student of Nunó, author of the Mexican National Anthem, falls in love with the niece of the French Ambassador, which causes quite amusing complications.
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Doña Bárbara
Title: Doña Bárbara
Character: Coronel Pernalete
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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Hooray for Women!
Title: Hooray for Women!
Character: Juez Leobardo (as A. Soto Rangel)
Released: July 9, 1943
Type: Movie
Movie in which funny situations based on the entanglements caused by a woman named Felicidad to her family because of her feminist ideology are presented, to the extent of bringing her daughters and herself to a divorce trial.
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Noches de ronda
Title: Noches de ronda
Released: May 27, 1943
Type: Movie
Homeless singer-songwriter-piano-player gets a career boost with the support of a crippled waitress, and romance blossoms. Once he starts up the ladder of success, she starts feeling insecure about all the beautiful non-deformed women he's surrounded with.
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Tierra De Pasiones
Title: Tierra De Pasiones
Released: May 20, 1943
Type: Movie
Romantic melodrama; hero and rich landowner are both after the same woman.
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Morenita clara
Title: Morenita clara
Character: Don Juan, abuelo
Released: April 28, 1943
Type: Movie
Priest nags a crusty old man into reconciling with his daughter-in-law and granddaughter after the death of his son.
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Seda Sangre Y Sol
Title: Seda Sangre Y Sol
Released: July 7, 1942
Type: Movie
Rivalries and romances among bullfighters.
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La abuelita
Title: La abuelita
Released: May 9, 1942
Type: Movie
Granny rules the roost, but little sister's a bit rebellious. She listens to Cuban music, she wears make-up, she goes out un-chaperoned... Granny sees her rubbing up against a married man and it shatters her health.
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Jesus of Nazareth
Title: Jesus of Nazareth
Character: Sacerdote
Released: March 26, 1942
Type: Movie
The biblical story of The Messiah from his baptism through his crucifixion.
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Regalo de reyes
Title: Regalo de reyes
Released: March 5, 1942
Type: Movie
Class conflicts between two families; one's upper-class but decaying, one's industrious middle-class on the rise. Also Christmas.
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La vírgen morena
Title: La vírgen morena
Released: January 7, 1942
Type: Movie
Intensifying skirmishes between a brutally oppressive conquistador imperialist and the last holdouts of Aztec resistance... and meanwhile, miraculous visitations of The Virgin Mary to two of the downtrodden and conquered indigenous peons.
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Ay, Jalisco, Don't Give Up!
Title: Ay, Jalisco, Don't Give Up!
Released: November 12, 1941
Type: Movie
An orphan boy is left in the care of his godfather, a bartender who teaches him to play cards and shoot weapons.
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The Unknown Policeman
Title: The Unknown Policeman
Character: Doctor (uncredited)
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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Lo que el viento trajo
Title: Lo que el viento trajo
Character: Comisario (as Arturo Soto)
Released: September 12, 1941
Type: Movie
A 1941 film.
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Ni sangre ni arena
Title: Ni sangre ni arena
Character: Juez
Released: May 22, 1941
Type: Movie
Cantinflas enjoys the bullfight show, and wants to crash in every of these spectacles. Also, there's a professional bullfighter, Manolete, who is identical to Cantinflas. Manolete has to give a bullfight show in a village, but Cantinflas arrives first as a stowaway in a train, and he'll be mistake by the real bullfighter. Cantinflas will give us a demonstration of courage.
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The Mad Monk
Title: The Mad Monk
Released: December 19, 1940
Type: Movie
A 1940 film directed by Alejandro Galindo.
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Love of my loves
Title: Love of my loves
Released: November 29, 1940
Type: Movie
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Madre a la fuerza
Title: Madre a la fuerza
Character: Santiago
Released: August 1, 1940
Type: Movie
A 1940 film directed by Robert Quigley.
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Pobre diablo
Title: Pobre diablo
Character: Ricardo
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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Los olvidados de Dios
Title: Los olvidados de Dios
Character: Alcaide
Released: January 14, 1940
Type: Movie
A 1940 film directed by Ramón Pereda.
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El Capitan Aventurero
Title: El Capitan Aventurero
Character: Sacerdote (uncredited)
Released: October 7, 1939
Type: Movie
Don Gil de Alacala (José Mojica), a swashbuckler also known as Captain Adventure, must overcome a series of difficult trials and tribulations in order to save the love of his life, Carmina (Manolita Saval), who is engaged to marry a terrible nobleman. Based upon the libretto "Don Gil de Alcala" by Manuel Penella, this classic black-and-white romance also stars Margarita Mora, Carlos Orellana and Sara García.
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La bestia negra
Title: La bestia negra
Character: Doctor
Released: May 13, 1939
Type: Movie
Comedy/drama about railroad workers.
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The Coward
Title: The Coward
Character: Doctor
Released: March 21, 1939
Type: Movie
Alberto is born in wartime, where his father dies a hero. He grows up effeminate. His mother sends him to military college where Fernando bullies him, but they become friends. When war comes, he has to face his fears.
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Hombres del mar
Title: Hombres del mar
Character: Don Benjamin
Released: October 27, 1938
Type: Movie
A 1938 film.
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Los millones de Chaflán
Title: Los millones de Chaflán
Character: Notario (uncredited)
Released: August 29, 1938
Type: Movie