Emma Roldán

Emma Roldán

Born: February 3, 1893
Died: August 29, 1978
in San Luis Potosi, Mexico
Emma Roldán (February 3, 1893 – August 29, 1978) was a Mexican character actress and costume designer. She is remembered as the sharp-tongued, domineering matron of Mexican cinema, and was nominated three times for a Silver Ariel Award.

Movies for Emma Roldán...

Deceitful Appearances
Title: Deceitful Appearances
Character: Anciana del Asilo
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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El perdon de la hija de nadie
Title: El perdon de la hija de nadie
Released: March 6, 1980
Type: Movie
While she's conducting an obsessive search for the father she never met, a nightclub owner falls ill with a movie disease that leaves her amnesiac afterwards. Then she falls in with a band of gypsies. And... (Sequel to La Hija De Nadie.)
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Ratero
Title: Ratero
Released: February 1, 1979
Type: Movie
Solovino is called like that because no one knows where he came from. He is a miserable province man trying to improve his life, but sees himself forced to steal to survive. When he comes up with a large jewelry bounty a pair of cops offer him his freedom in exchange of the bounty and becomes the target of the police harassment.
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Naufragio
Title: Naufragio
Character: Raquelito
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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Free Love
Title: Free Love
Character: Viejita
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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The Place Without Limits
Title: The Place Without Limits
Character: Ludovinia
Released: April 28, 1978
Type: Movie
Father and daughter compete for the same passion in a ruthless place where kindness mixes with hate.
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Matinée
Title: Matinée
Character: Vecina
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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Fear Doesn't Ride a Donkey
Title: Fear Doesn't Ride a Donkey
Character: Doña Paz
Released: November 25, 1976
Type: Movie
This funny Mexican film tell the tale of a family who will do anything to get rid of the rich old lady who sits at the head of the clan. All the hilarious members want a piece of the very lucrative inheritance money. What they don't know, however, is that grandma has left all of the money to her trusty dog.
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The Passion of Berenice
Title: The Passion of Berenice
Character: Josefina
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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Castle of Purity
Title: Castle of Purity
Character: Clerk
Released: May 10, 1973
Type: Movie
A disciplined and sexually driven man forces his family to stay isolated in their home in order to protect them from the “evil nature” of human beings.
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Magdalena’s True Vocation
Title: Magdalena’s True Vocation
Character: Vendedora de lotería
Released: November 2, 1972
Type: Movie
Sex and middle class are the main topics in "La verdadera vocación de Magdalena". Hermosillo shows marriage as a matter of interests (economical and social) in the modern society. emphasizing the education, lose of tradition and customs in the gap generation of sixties youth and its parents. Angelica María, plays the best character in his career, being a kind and vulnerable girl raised in a hard moral education
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Chico Ramos
Title: Chico Ramos
Released: August 26, 1971
Type: Movie
Western revenge drama.
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El hermano Capulina
Title: El hermano Capulina
Released: October 29, 1970
Type: Movie
Shoplifter evades police by joining a monastery.
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Los amores de Chucho el Roto
Title: Los amores de Chucho el Roto
Released: October 8, 1970
Type: Movie
Gentleman bandit pulls off crafty robberries and frets over having or losing custody of his daughter
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La Hermanita Dinamita
Title: La Hermanita Dinamita
Character: Anciana esposa de borracho
Released: July 23, 1970
Type: Movie
After accidentally hitting a boy with her car, a young woman pretends to be a nurse in order secretly help him to recover.
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Memories of the Future
Title: Memories of the Future
Character: Gregoria
Released: June 25, 1969
Type: Movie
A story where the Cristero Rebellion creates a story of love, passion, and betrayal. When the Federal Rosas and his lover arrive in a town, a local woman feels strangely attracted to him. The woman will surrender under the pretext that the population is liberated when in reality she wants to consummate the passion that ignites her.
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The Devil's Visitations
Title: The Devil's Visitations
Character: Tona
Released: August 15, 1968
Type: Movie
A young architect returns from Europe to live in the house of his uncles and cousins, where someone pretends to be the Devil.
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Si quiero
Title: Si quiero
Character: Juan's Mother
Released: February 2, 1967
Type: Movie
Newlyweds find married life to be challenging.
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Mi caballo prieto rebelde
Title: Mi caballo prieto rebelde
Released: January 6, 1967
Type: Movie
Two cowboys fight over ownership of a horse and a woman.
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Los dos rivales
Title: Los dos rivales
Released: December 22, 1966
Type: Movie
Ranchera comedy -- the hero thinks his girlfriend has another suitor... but the suitor is really she herself in man-drag.
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La vida de Pedro Infante
Title: La vida de Pedro Infante
Character: Doña Remedios
Released: April 20, 1966
Type: Movie
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Despedida de soltera
Title: Despedida de soltera
Character: Sirvienta
Released: February 10, 1966
Type: Movie
Five young women hold a weekend-long bachelorette party for their engaged girlfriend.
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El jinete justiciero en retando a la muerte
Title: El jinete justiciero en retando a la muerte
Released: January 6, 1966
Type: Movie
Guy gets mugged on horseback and left for dead; farmgal nurses him back to health and when he's on his feet again, he puts a domino on and swings into J J action.
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Un hombre peligroso
Title: Un hombre peligroso
Character: Criada
Released: July 30, 1965
Type: Movie
Sequel to El Zurdo: ten years later, El Zurdo returns to his home town. The little boy whose father he killed in part one has grown up, and still wants revenge... but doesn't recognize him. Meanwhile, his ex-girlfriend, now a widow, needs help protecting her property and her person from the predatory owner of a neighboring ranch.
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Aquella Rosita Alvírez
Title: Aquella Rosita Alvírez
Released: July 29, 1965
Type: Movie
Traveling cowboy gets involved in political issues in a town he passes through. Also a romance.
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She-Wolves of the Ring
Title: She-Wolves of the Ring
Character: Loreta's Mother
Released: May 21, 1965
Type: Movie
Intimate problems and the wickedness of friends is resolved in the ring.
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Los hermanos Muerte
Title: Los hermanos Muerte
Released: April 15, 1965
Type: Movie
Woman swears to avenge her brother's murder.. Then she falls in love with the murderer, before discovering that he's the one.
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Mi ley es un revólver
Title: Mi ley es un revólver
Released: April 1, 1965
Type: Movie
Masked justice on horseback, again: guy plays it meek & mild in his civilian identity so no-one will suspect him of being Mr. Cowboy Hero.
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Guadalajara en verano
Title: Guadalajara en verano
Character: Lucretia
Released: January 28, 1965
Type: Movie
Tourists and exchange students find romance.
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Museum Of Horror
Title: Museum Of Horror
Character: Doña Leonor
Released: May 21, 1964
Type: Movie
A mysterious killer abducts girls off the street and covers them in wax.
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Ruletero a toda marcha
Title: Ruletero a toda marcha
Character: Mamá de Bárbara
Released: May 14, 1964
Type: Movie
Country-boy migrates to the big city to work as a taxi-driver.
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The Bloody Revolver
Title: The Bloody Revolver
Character: tía de Rosa
Released: April 2, 1964
Type: Movie
Follows an "unlucky" gun across the paths of five owners.
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Entrega Inmediata
Title: Entrega Inmediata
Character: Doña Angustias
Released: December 25, 1963
Type: Movie
Immediate delivery recounts the misadventures of Feliciano Callosum (Cantinflas), a postman who is recruited by the secret counterintelligence service (called XU-777 secret agency), and must uncover an international conspiracy.
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El mariachi canta
Title: El mariachi canta
Character: Doña Mela
Released: November 14, 1963
Type: Movie
Rivalry and romance between the leaders of a male mariachi band and a female one.
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El rey del tomate
Title: El rey del tomate
Character: Tía Milagros
Released: August 7, 1963
Type: Movie
El rey del tomate ("The Tomato King") is a 1964 Mexican comedy-drama film, directed by Miguel M. Delgado and starring Eulalio González, Luz Márquez, and Emma Roldán.
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La barranca sangrienta
Title: La barranca sangrienta
Character: Chole (as Ema Roldan)
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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La edad de la inocencia
Title: La edad de la inocencia
Character: La pitocha
Released: October 11, 1962
Type: Movie
A poor little girl slips in a circus one day and sees a puppets' show. Later she returns to the empty circus looking for a fairy she was fascinated by.
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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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La entrega de Chucho el Roto
Title: La entrega de Chucho el Roto
Released: August 17, 1962
Type: Movie
Gentleman swindler runs cleverly-orchestrated scams. Four of four in a series.
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La trampa mortal
Title: La trampa mortal
Released: August 2, 1962
Type: Movie
Charro western.
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Muerte en la feria
Title: Muerte en la feria
Released: July 13, 1962
Type: Movie
Four bad eggs from the traveling carney are setting up local men for a blackmail scam, and it's up to western-series hero El Hijo Del Charro Negro! to make things right.
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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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El malvado Carabel
Title: El malvado Carabel
Released: April 26, 1962
Type: Movie
Frustrated salaryman responds to career setbacks by embarking on a life of crime.
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Servicio secreto
Title: Servicio secreto
Character: Sra. Robles
Released: January 1, 1962
Type: Movie
Two secret agents are after a couple of car thieves who belong to a band of criminals headed by Ernesto. The band has kidnapped the son of Daniel, a boxer who is about to fight for the world title. The agents must destroy Ernesto's band and rescue Daniel's son before the fight so Daniel doesn't lose his chance at the title under the kidnapper's threats.
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El hijo del charro negro
Title: El hijo del charro negro
Released: October 1, 1961
Type: Movie
The son of a famous vigilante returns to his home town... but he's all citified and pantywaisted. Or is he?
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Dios sabrá juzgarnos
Title: Dios sabrá juzgarnos
Released: September 27, 1961
Type: Movie
Rejected suitor goes all-out in his efforts to break up an engaged couple.
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The Crying Woman
Title: The Crying Woman
Character: Maria
Released: November 17, 1960
Type: Movie
A woman takes revenge in the family of her lover.
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¡Yo sabia demasiado!
Title: ¡Yo sabia demasiado!
Character: Doña Delfina
Released: October 27, 1960
Type: Movie
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Simitrio
Title: Simitrio
Character: Catalina
Released: October 5, 1960
Type: Movie
A blind teacher is the victim of endless pranks and pranks from his students.
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Peligros de juventud
Title: Peligros de juventud
Released: July 26, 1960
Type: Movie
Each of the boys and girls at the coffee shop has something snarled in their love life.
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La estrella vacía
Title: La estrella vacía
Character: Emilia González, partera
Released: May 5, 1960
Type: Movie
Mourners share their memories of a dead film-star at her wake, a la Citizen Kane. Only melodrama.
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Las hermanas Karambazo
Title: Las hermanas Karambazo
Released: April 27, 1960
Type: Movie
Three brothers meet three sisters from the nearest town.
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Our Daily Hunger
Title: Our Daily Hunger
Released: April 25, 1960
Type: Movie
Trophy wife of a crooked industrialist meets a philanthropic doctor and develops a social conscience. Mexican remake of Born Yesterday.
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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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La Cucaracha
Title: La Cucaracha
Character: Comadrona
Released: November 12, 1959
Type: Movie
The Mexican Revolution serves as a backdrop to a torrid love triangle composed of three freedom fighters: a colonel, a widow, and a fiery female soldier.
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Thirst for Love
Title: Thirst for Love
Character: Abuela
Released: August 29, 1959
Type: Movie
Rosaura, a devout religious woman, lives in a fishing village with her sister María who stopped believing in God since her jealous husband was murdered. Even though Rosaura is wanted by the fisherman José, she rejects him. Pedro, a horseman, arrives at her place and begins to harass María until he manages to possess her. The man is a criminal who usually cheats with fishermen and hurts those who dare to confront him with his ax. When the evildoer tries to abuse Rosaura, José, the fisherman, does what is necessary to avenge the insult. Furthermore, other men are already looking for Pedro.
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Las coronelas
Title: Las coronelas
Released: July 29, 1959
Type: Movie
Two young women 'forced' to masquerade as soldiers in military troop.
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Beyond All Limits
Title: Beyond All Limits
Character: Carmela
Released: July 8, 1959
Type: Movie
This typical Mexican melodrama is set in a coastal fishing village where a wealthy fisherman lives with his wife and young son. Their lives are turned upside down when an American of dubious morality comes into town. The American and the fisherman's wife had been lovers years and years ago -- and now the fisherman begins to suspect that the son he always thought was his, is really the offspring of this foreign intruder.
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El vestido de novia
Title: El vestido de novia
Character: Doña Matilde
Released: June 18, 1959
Type: Movie
A young professional hires a sex-worker to pass as his wife in a situation that requires him to seem married. Later they think about getting married for reals... but mostly they just recite monologues to each other.
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Vístete Cristina
Title: Vístete Cristina
Released: April 23, 1959
Type: Movie
Aspiring big-band singer who doubles as an art forger takes in a teenaged runaway who wants to be a showgirl.
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Señoritas
Title: Señoritas
Released: January 15, 1959
Type: Movie
Four young women facing "crises," mostly centered around the crucially-important issue of preserving their virginity in a variety of purity-oath threatening situations.
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Zorro vs. the Teenage Monster
Title: Zorro vs. the Teenage Monster
Released: December 11, 1958
Type: Movie
Witch retrieves the corpse of a hanged criminal and brings it back to life as an unstoppable killing machine.
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Los tres vivales
Title: Los tres vivales
Character: Doña Delia
Released: October 25, 1958
Type: Movie
The rowdiest guy in each of three states hears rumors about the badassness of the other two and they all set out to meet each other. Comical complications.
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The Robot vs. The Aztec Mummy
Title: The Robot vs. The Aztec Mummy
Character: Maria, the housekeeper
Released: July 17, 1958
Type: Movie
A mad doctor builds a robot in order to steal a valuable Aztec treasure from a tomb guarded by a centuries old living mummy.
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Guitarras de medianoche
Title: Guitarras de medianoche
Released: May 21, 1958
Type: Movie
Wealthy land-owner poses as a bandit, robbing only his own properties, to get the romantic attention of a woman who lives down the road.
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Sueños de oro
Title: Sueños de oro
Character: Criada mayor
Released: February 19, 1958
Type: Movie
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La mafia del crimen
Title: La mafia del crimen
Released: January 1, 1958
Type: Movie
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Pobres millonarios
Title: Pobres millonarios
Character: Juanita
Released: December 25, 1957
Type: Movie
Squatter neighborhood finds a wealthy sponsor.
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The Curse of the Aztec Mummy
Title: The Curse of the Aztec Mummy
Character: Maria
Released: December 11, 1957
Type: Movie
The evil Dr. Krupp, once again trying to get possession of the Aztec princess Xochitl's jewels, hypnotizes her current reincarnation, Flor, to get her to reveal the jewels' location - Xochitl's tomb. Confusion reigns as Krupp and his thugs are opposed by Flor's lover, Dr. Almada, his assistant, and wrestling superhero, El Angel. Krupp finally meets his match, however, when he comes up against Popoca, the warrior mummy who guards Xochitl's tomb.
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The Aztec Mummy
Title: The Aztec Mummy
Character: Criada
Released: November 13, 1957
Type: Movie
A scientist discovers through hypnosis a mummy who watches over the jewels of an Aztec god for all eternity.
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Los tres bohemios
Title: Los tres bohemios
Released: July 17, 1957
Type: Movie
Three struggling musicians share an apartment.
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Furias desatadas
Title: Furias desatadas
Released: June 26, 1957
Type: Movie
College student enters the pro wrestling circuit, hoping to find out who killed his father. Third of four in a series.
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Hay ángeles con espuelas
Title: Hay ángeles con espuelas
Released: June 20, 1957
Type: Movie
Two brothers butt heads: one's a gadabout charro playboy and the other's a priest.
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La flecha envenenada
Title: La flecha envenenada
Released: March 8, 1957
Type: Movie
Bad hats try to conduct a land-grab when it's announced that a dam's going to be built.
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Diabolical Kidnapping
Title: Diabolical Kidnapping
Released: January 1, 1957
Type: Movie
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Forbidden Kisses
Title: Forbidden Kisses
Character: Nana
Released: August 16, 1956
Type: Movie
Nightclub singer has to choose between marrying again or reuniting with her divorced husband.
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The Third Word
Title: The Third Word
Character: Antonia
Released: July 3, 1956
Type: Movie
The English-language title of this Mexican musical was The Third Word. Singer Pedro Infante stars as a pampered young man who is sheltered by his doting aunts. Deciding that their darling boy needs an education, the ladies hire pretty schoolteacher Marga Lopez. Upon discovering that her pupil is 28 years old, Marga is momentarily nonplused, but then settles into her duties. Inevitably, romance blossoms between Pedro and Marga, much to the aunts' dismay.
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Los hijos de Rancho Grande
Title: Los hijos de Rancho Grande
Character: Doña Ángela
Released: June 25, 1956
Type: Movie
Sequel to Alla en el Rancho Grande, twenty years later -- sons and daughters of the original characters go through a courtship melodrama of their own.
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Basket of Mexican Tales
Title: Basket of Mexican Tales
Character: Doña Laura
Released: May 17, 1956
Type: Movie
Strong-willed Luisa attracts lots of men, but her intelligence and sharp tongue often sends them running. When she meets Carlos, who is equally cagey, sparks fly. The two of them marry, and quickly begin clashing on a daily basis, humiliating each other as they try to teach one another lesson after lesson.
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The Illegitimate
Title: The Illegitimate
Released: April 18, 1956
Type: Movie
Family melodrama: manipulative parents ruin lives with their meddling.
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El seductor
Title: El seductor
Character: Nana
Released: September 29, 1955
Type: Movie
A young artist's affair with a married woman destroys her family. Twenty-odd years later, her two daughters fall into his orbit.
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Beware of Love
Title: Beware of Love
Character: Chona
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 mil amores
Title: El mil amores
Character: Gertrudis
Released: November 19, 1954
Type: Movie
Carmen has a daughter, Patricia, who attends a school for young ladies where they think Carmen is married to a sailor. Viviano is a friend of Carmen and when she needs it, he poses as the father of Patricia and she believes is her father. Actually, Viviano is engaged with Marilu
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Tailored gentleman
Title: Tailored gentleman
Character: Doña Pelos
Released: September 1, 1954
Type: Movie
Cantinflas works as a model of tuxedos in a prestigious store, your job is to use the smoking in the street along with an advertising sign on his back. The use of smoking gives you access to exclusive places and meet important people. During this time, Cantinflas was the manager of an amateur boxer, it is an attractive nurse assistant and occasionally attending a priest in the church and the orphanage. However, a Cantinflas day while wearing tuxedo, is a rich man, who mistakenly believe that Cantinflas is a millionaire too.
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La calle de los amores
Title: La calle de los amores
Released: August 18, 1954
Type: Movie
Hubby latches onto a series of side-pieces and wifey finds it increasingly hard to put up with his behavior.
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Storm in the souls
Title: Storm in the souls
Released: June 24, 1954
Type: Movie
Lives in a "model factory," designed to create a progressive community among the workers.
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The Abduction
Title: The Abduction
Character: Esposa de Constancio (uncredited)
Released: April 23, 1954
Type: Movie
In a small Mexican village the news shock neighbors, Ricardo Alfaro, a wealthy local rancher has disappeared without a trace. Taking advantage of the circumstance, Aurora Campos, a strong woman with overwhelming beauty, convinces the authorities to sell her the property in exchange for twelve thousand dollars. Soon after, when Ricardo suddenly reappears, a real battle is about to begin.
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La infame
Title: La infame
Character: Leonor
Released: January 21, 1954
Type: Movie
For love, the rules of society and justice are broken, leading to abduction, exposing life and freedom, facing everything to make a sick child a normal child.
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Nuevo amanecer
Title: Nuevo amanecer
Released: January 1, 1954
Type: Movie
Mexican feature film
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El gran mentiroso
Title: El gran mentiroso
Released: August 22, 1953
Type: Movie
A respectable, married gent has made up a passel of stories to cover for his fifteen years of frequent pleasure trips to the city. One weekend, one of his city friends meets his daughter in her home town and all his lies and cover stories start unraveling.
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Póker de ases
Title: Póker de ases
Released: December 25, 1952
Type: Movie
Four brothers try to manage their careers and love-lives under the close supervision of a domineering mother.
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Víctimas del divorcio
Title: Víctimas del divorcio
Released: October 11, 1952
Type: Movie
The 'other woman' tricks her fella into filing to divorce his wife.
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Los hijos de María Morales
Title: Los hijos de María Morales
Character: Doña María Morales
Released: August 13, 1952
Type: Movie
Two brothers known in town for their womanizing, drinking and rowdiness meet their matches when two girls who like them decide to tame the two machos.
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Por qué peca la mujer
Title: Por qué peca la mujer
Character: Doña Mati
Released: July 10, 1952
Type: Movie
Working-class girl-next--door type is seduced into a high-glam lifestyle when an oily promoter helps launch her as a nightclub singer; she throws over her decent-simple-guy boyfriend and loses her moral compass.
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Salón de belleza
Title: Salón de belleza
Released: November 16, 1951
Type: Movie
Employees and clients at Merle's Beauty Stuff have illicit romances and cheating husbands and that kind of thing. Meanwhile, the cop that directs traffic outside gets an opportunity to become a movie star.
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Women's prison
Title: Women's prison
Character: Petrona
Released: September 28, 1951
Type: Movie
Evangelina murders her lover Alberto. In prison she meets Dora, Alberto's girlfriend, who was deprived of her freedom for his illicit business. An interesting story is about to be woven.
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El tigre enmascarado
Title: El tigre enmascarado
Character: Doña Loreto
Released: September 13, 1951
Type: Movie
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Monte de piedad
Title: Monte de piedad
Character: Doña Rosaura
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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Gendarme de punto
Title: Gendarme de punto
Released: June 8, 1951
Type: Movie
Don Timoteo Rodriguez is an old friendly but scared and outdated, whose office is the pedestal: According to his modest way of life, things are more important to the traditional and the past. Yet., Timothy has a son who's not at all like his name is Luis, a young reckless and vicious, whose bad companions take him away from the law. There will come a moment in which Don Timoteo have to forget about the old days and his son face the reality, but what will be the cost of having evaded?
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One Way Street
Title: One Way Street
Character: Catalina
Released: April 1, 1950
Type: Movie
After stealing a gangster's money and his girlfriend, a doctor heads for a small village in Mexico to hide out.
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Matrimonio y mortaja
Title: Matrimonio y mortaja
Released: March 8, 1950
Type: Movie
A series of misadventures leaves a city slicker trapped into a shotgun marriage with a country gal. Back home in Mexico City, he tries to scam his way out of his marriage and set things right with his previous fiance...
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Hipólito, el de Santa
Title: Hipólito, el de Santa
Released: March 4, 1950
Type: Movie
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Vino el remolino y nos alevantó
Title: Vino el remolino y nos alevantó
Character: La generala
Released: March 1, 1950
Type: Movie
Three generations of a stable, middle-class family in the capitol are scattered to the four winds by blowback from the Mexican Revolution.
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Un milagro de amor
Title: Un milagro de amor
Released: December 9, 1949
Type: Movie
Young man goes to Mexico City in search of opportunity and gets framed for another person's embezzlement at their place of employ. Meanwhile, back home, his fiancée the blind woman...
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Prisión de sueños
Title: Prisión de sueños
Released: October 12, 1949
Type: Movie
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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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La santa del barrio
Title: La santa del barrio
Released: December 25, 1948
Type: Movie
Wicked old lady arranges to sell the virginity of a young neighbor. Her boyfriend gets upset over this.
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Se la llevó el Remington
Title: Se la llevó el Remington
Character: Adivinadora
Released: November 4, 1948
Type: Movie
While tracking down the three men that killed his father, a notorious bad-ass commits other misdeeds, seemingly based on his desire to wreck as many lives as possible. Doesn't really have anything to do with the historical figure known as Remington, though they used his name for the character here.
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El cuarto mandamiento
Title: El cuarto mandamiento
Character: Lupe
Released: August 14, 1948
Type: Movie
A Mexican family drama.
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La carne manda
Title: La carne manda
Released: April 29, 1948
Type: Movie
Childhood friends move up the economic ladder from slumrat to middle class comfort, but the marriage between two of them is threatened by a bad woman from a nightclub.
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Albur de amor
Title: Albur de amor
Released: August 29, 1947
Type: Movie
Dark romantic melodrama, played out with high-stakes card games and cockfights.
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Mujer
Title: Mujer
Released: March 9, 1947
Type: Movie
Orphan girl grows up, meets the wrong man and falls into disgrace.
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El ahijado de la muerte
Title: El ahijado de la muerte
Character: La muerte
Released: October 31, 1946
Type: Movie
Father of a newborn makes a deal with Death to protect his son.
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La reina del trópico
Title: La reina del trópico
Character: Doña Gumersinda
Released: October 25, 1946
Type: Movie
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El superhombre
Title: El superhombre
Released: January 1, 1946
Type: Movie
1946 Mexican film directed by Chano Urueta.
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Esperanza
Title: Esperanza
Released: January 1, 1946
Type: Movie
Mexican movie
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Como yo te quería
Title: Como yo te quería
Released: September 26, 1945
Type: Movie
Romantic comedy/drama.
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La 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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Flor de durazno
Title: Flor de durazno
Character: Candela
Released: September 8, 1945
Type: Movie
City slicker scams on young farmgirl while her fiance's in USA on a work permit.
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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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Adam, Eve and the Devil
Title: Adam, Eve and the Devil
Released: August 10, 1945
Type: Movie
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El museo del crimen
Title: El museo del crimen
Character: Enfermera
Released: August 8, 1945
Type: Movie
Stage magician/amateur detective helps police to solve a murder.
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La sombra de Chucho el Roto
Title: La sombra de Chucho el Roto
Released: July 11, 1945
Type: Movie
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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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Woman Without a Soul
Title: Woman Without a Soul
Character: Sra. Camparelli
Released: October 10, 1944
Type: Movie
Ambitious young woman climbs the social ladder. A bit too fast.
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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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A Letter of Love
Title: A Letter of Love
Character: Nana Lupe
Released: November 20, 1943
Type: Movie
Moments before he will be executed by the French Intervention Army, the liberal leader reads a love letter by his girlfriend. His memories provide the poetic pictures of this romantic historical drama.
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Romeo y Julieta
Title: Romeo y Julieta
Character: Lady Capulet
Released: September 2, 1943
Type: Movie
Verona's peace is disturbed by the rivalry between noble families: the Montesco and the Capuleto, irreconcilable enemies. The two families have continued fighting to make life unbearable in the Italian town. The Prince of Verona informs the chiefs that the two families respond with their lives if there are new struggles. At a ball in honor of Juliet, the daughter of Capuleto, incidentally meets Romeo, son of Montesco. Both fall in love immediately, not knowing that their love is impossible.
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Santa
Title: Santa
Character: Pepa
Released: June 10, 1943
Type: Movie
Santa is a beautiful and very humble young girl living in Chimalistac, a small and quiet spot south of the 1930's Mexico City. After Santa is cheated by arrogant soldier Marcelino, she's rejected by her family and friends and expelled of Chimalistac. Santa finds shelter in a whorehouse and becomes a cinic and bitter woman, mistreated by bullfighter "Jarameno" and silently loved by blind pianist Hipolito
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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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Jesusita en Chihuahua
Title: Jesusita en Chihuahua
Released: October 8, 1942
Type: Movie
Ranchera comedy.
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Amanecer ranchero
Title: Amanecer ranchero
Released: August 29, 1942
Type: Movie
The old massa dies and his son comes home to take over the hacienda. Things are going to be a whole lot different now; he's overturning all the old social order. A-a-and...
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Mi viuda alegre
Title: Mi viuda alegre
Released: February 22, 1942
Type: Movie
A 1942 film directed by Miguel M. Delgado.
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La gallina clueca
Title: La gallina clueca
Character: Rosarito
Released: December 4, 1941
Type: Movie
Divorced mother struggles to raise her large family.
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El jefe máximo
Title: El jefe máximo
Released: October 1, 1940
Type: Movie
A 1940 film directed by Fernando de Fuentes.
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Madre a la fuerza
Title: Madre a la fuerza
Character: Imelda
Released: August 1, 1940
Type: Movie
A 1940 film directed by Robert Quigley.
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The Midnight Ghost
Title: The Midnight Ghost
Released: June 6, 1940
Type: Movie
A young orphan girl begins to witness strange phenomena in the house where she lives with her godparents.
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¡Que viene mi marido!
Title: ¡Que viene mi marido!
Character: Doña Tomasa
Released: June 6, 1940
Type: Movie
Rom-com: collecting on a big inheritance "forces" a family to play games with their daughter's marital status.
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The Underdogs
Title: The Underdogs
Character: Mamá de Camila
Released: June 1, 1940
Type: Movie
During the Mexican Revolution, the people tired of living in poverty and enduring the atrocities committed by the federals, decide to follow one of their own, General Demetrio Macias, a thief with tricks he learned in jail and who along with "La Pintada" decides to take his people to victory. Led by Captain Anastacio Montañez, the newly formed army fight and honor their code at the same time as they loot houses to spread the wealth.
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Miente y serás feliz
Title: Miente y serás feliz
Character: Doña Margarita
Released: May 31, 1940
Type: Movie
A Spanish, Juan, is obsessed with telling the truth always. As a result he is consistently in the middle of troubles...
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Harvest of Hate
Title: Harvest of Hate
Released: February 29, 1940
Type: Movie
A 1940 film directed by William Rowland.
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Una luz en mi camino
Title: Una luz en mi camino
Released: February 1, 1939
Type: Movie
A blind songwriter struggles to get his work published, and meanwhile a girl he's sweet on disappears from his life when her employer puts the moves on her.
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La casa del ogro
Title: La casa del ogro
Character: La portera (Librada)
Released: January 20, 1939
Type: Movie
Lives of the tenants in a shabby-genteel apartment house. Miserly landlord learns valuable life lessons.
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Los millones de Chaflán
Title: Los millones de Chaflán
Character: Remedios
Released: August 29, 1938
Type: Movie
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Tierra brava
Title: Tierra brava
Released: August 20, 1938
Type: Movie
Financier threatens to foreclose on a cigar-factory's mortgage, but a secret benefactor pays off the owner's debt and saves the day.
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Ojos tapatios
Title: Ojos tapatios
Character: Chefa
Released: February 10, 1938
Type: Movie
Mexican feature film
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Canción del alma
Title: Canción del alma
Released: February 7, 1938
Type: Movie
Jose and Esperanza got married just before the Revolution blew up, and they got separated in the chaos, each assuming the other was dead. Six or eight years later...
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La Adelita
Title: La Adelita
Released: November 7, 1937
Type: Movie
Beautiful peasant girl runs afoul of her landlord's horny son and he poisons the well between her and her fiance, so she runs away and joins the Revolution.
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Mi candidato
Title: Mi candidato
Released: July 6, 1937
Type: Movie
Young silversmith runs for office, butts heads with political machine that's sucking the town dry.
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¡Esos hombres!
Title: ¡Esos hombres!
Character: Doña María
Released: April 22, 1937
Type: Movie
A 1937 film.
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Jalisco nunca pierde
Title: Jalisco nunca pierde
Released: January 9, 1937
Type: Movie
Arranged marriages vs romance down on the hacienda.
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Allá en el Rancho Grande
Title: Allá en el Rancho Grande
Character: Ángela
Released: October 7, 1936
Type: Movie
Two good friends — the owner and general manager of a ranch — fall in love with the same girl at the same time. The owner tries to 'buy' the girl without knowing she is in love with the manager.
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Two Monks
Title: Two Monks
Character: Gertrudis
Released: November 28, 1934
Type: Movie
In a Gothic-styled monastery, a monk named Javier sees the face of another monk, Juan, and suddenly attempts to bludgeon him to death with a heavy crucifix. Both men then relate their own versions of a story of romantic rivalry between them.
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¡Viva México!
Title: ¡Viva México!
Released: September 16, 1934
Type: Movie
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El compadre Mendoza
Title: El compadre Mendoza
Character: María
Released: April 5, 1934
Type: Movie
In the midst of the Mexican Revolution, the landowner Mendoza manages to get along with both the government and the revolutionary group. For the former, he is a supporter of Huerta. For the latter, he is a Zapata supporter. Depending on the political preference of whoever visits him at his hacienda, he has portraits of Huerta or Zapata put up, and organizes a party in honor of his visitors. However, time goes by and the situation becomes untenable. For whom will he take sides?
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The Lark
Title: The Lark
Character: Salomé
Released: August 30, 1933
Type: Movie
A 1933 film.
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Prisoner 13
Title: Prisoner 13
Character: Margarita Ramos
Released: May 31, 1933
Type: Movie
Colonel Carrasco's wife Marta leaves him taking his young son. The child, Juan, grows into an admirable and well-mannered young man. Having been promoted to a higher rank of power amidst the Mexican Revolution, the indulgent and corrupt Colonel accepts a bribe to free a revolutionary, Felipe Martinez, from his prison. Martinez has been sentenced to execution at the hands of a firing squad. Carrasco asks to have the revolutionary replaced by absolutely anyone. In a twist of fate, that anyone turns out to be his own long lost son Juan. Upon receiving this news, Marta races to the prison and explains the predicament to Carrasco. He subsequently desperately attempts to prevent the gunning down of his son by his very own government officials.
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Shadow of Pancho Villa
Title: Shadow of Pancho Villa
Character: La curandera
Released: February 8, 1933
Type: Movie
A 1933 film.
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Do You Know Your Wife?
Title: Do You Know Your Wife?
Released: September 11, 1931
Type: Movie
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María
Title: María
Character: Efraín's Mother
Released: October 20, 1922
Type: Movie
María tells the tragic love story of María, a beautiful young woman, and her half brother Efraín, a handsome young man from Valle del Cauca. They both fall in love and live their romance on the farm "El Paraíso", in Valle del Cauca, but not everything is rosy, since Efraín must go to Bogotá because of study reasons leaving María with pain in her soul. Some time later, María becomes ill and Emma tells her brother about the situation.