Armando Acosta

Armando Acosta

Born: April 5, 1922
Died: May 16, 1976
in Mexico City, Mexico

Movies for Armando Acosta...

Cornered
Title: Cornered
Released: June 10, 1976
Type: Movie
Conflicts in town force a guy to escape to a hiding-place in the countryside.
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Letters from Marusia
Title: Letters from Marusia
Character: Sergeant
Released: December 26, 1975
Type: Movie
Chronicle of the repression that a foreign company exerts on the miners of a small nitrate town in Chile, whose workers decide to claim their most essential rights. A reflection of the historic union struggles in the northern Chile that ended with terrible repressive acts.
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La mafia amarilla
Title: La mafia amarilla
Character: El cantinero
Released: May 28, 1975
Type: Movie
Blue Demon must stop an evil chinese gang and their reign of terror.
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El Investigador Capulina
Title: El Investigador Capulina
Released: May 1, 1975
Type: Movie
Child-in-adult-body tries to play Detective, but he's too stupid, and his lucha-libre friends have to cover his butt every time he fouls a case up or gets thrown in jail. Meanwhile, there's a rogue Bank President who has a teleportation machine that he's using to make unauthorized withdrawals from rival banks, and...
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The Braid
Title: The Braid
Character: Pascual Mendez
Released: March 13, 1975
Type: Movie
A town confused by religion persecutes a woman who stole the braid from the statue of the Virgin.
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...Y la mujer hizo al hombre
Title: ...Y la mujer hizo al hombre
Released: January 1, 1975
Type: Movie
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Before the Corpse of a Leader
Title: Before the Corpse of a Leader
Released: September 4, 1974
Type: Movie
A union leader dies in a sleazy hotel room, then the wife, mistress, police, co workers, reporters, colleagues, and political figures arrive to the hotel and each has its own intentions.
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Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
Title: Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
Character: Waiter (uncredited)
Released: August 1, 1974
Type: Movie
An American bartender and his prostitute girlfriend go on a road trip through the Mexican underworld to collect a $1 million bounty on the head of a dead gigolo.
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Los leones del ring contra la Cosa Nostra
Title: Los leones del ring contra la Cosa Nostra
Character: Barbero
Released: July 25, 1974
Type: Movie
Twin brother of murdered pro-wrestler goes after the killerses.
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La carrera del millón
Title: La carrera del millón
Released: July 24, 1974
Type: Movie
Father and uncle have conflicting ideas about who a young woman should marry, so they set up an elaborate, wacky contest to resolve their disagreement.
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Guns and Guts
Title: Guns and Guts
Released: May 23, 1974
Type: Movie
An outlaw and a scorned husband both team up to track down and kill the man that wronged them. Along the way, the two men meet a hired gun that loves money just as much as he loves the company of women, so the two men decide to hire him in order to help them on their mission. However, things become complicated when the man they all seek to kill has risen to become a wealthy sheriff with a small army of gunmen at his disposal.
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La muerte de Pancho Villa
Title: La muerte de Pancho Villa
Released: May 1, 1974
Type: Movie
After the Revolution, Villa works on defining his legacy... and then he gets assassinated.
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Cinco mil dolares de recompensa
Title: Cinco mil dolares de recompensa
Released: April 18, 1974
Type: Movie
A gunfighter is appointed sheriff of a town that is terrorized by a gang of criminals.
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Chabelo y Pepito detectives
Title: Chabelo y Pepito detectives
Released: February 14, 1974
Type: Movie
A commanding friend Pepito and Chabelo ask them to help uncover a gang who kidnaps children. They accept and are out to steal to join the band. Whenthey find that the band mesmerizes children with toys and then the kids are controlled by young boys and they controlled in turn by strangers with long hair and blue eyes.
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El principio
Title: El principio
Character: El Cura
Released: December 3, 1973
Type: Movie
Mexico is in the midst of Revolution when the protagonist returns after studying in Paris to find his native town in Chihuahua occupied by Francisco Villa’s revolutionary forces. He visits his deserted home and remembers people and events from his adolescence that provide glimpses of pre-Revolutionary society under dictatorship: his uncle, the chief of police; his sister’s involvement with a liberal political association; bathing with the girls from a local brothel; a labor strike that ended in a massacre. Returning to the present he discovers that his father has been assassinated and, in the company of his father’s former servant, joins the revolutionary movement.
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Uno y medio contra el mundo
Title: Uno y medio contra el mundo
Released: November 1, 1973
Type: Movie
Small-time crook teams up with a street urchin for mutual support on the margins of society.
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La tigresa
Title: La tigresa
Released: September 6, 1973
Type: Movie
Orphan girl grows up to take revenge on the men who killed her parents.
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The Invasion of the Dead
Title: The Invasion of the Dead
Character: Oficial policía
Released: June 21, 1973
Type: Movie
Professor Bruno Volpi spots some strange paintings on a cliff. He sends for Professor Zovek to help him discover its meaning. Zovek uses his powers to figure the writings are a warning that a cosmic tragedy is going to happen. Their fears prove to be true when a fire ball falls from the skies causing the ressurrection of the dead as zombies, craving for human flesh.
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El sargento Perez
Title: El sargento Perez
Released: March 21, 1973
Type: Movie
Two buddies from Pancho Villa's regiment go on a mission. Light comedy, romance, songs...
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Entre monjas anda el Diablo
Title: Entre monjas anda el Diablo
Released: February 15, 1973
Type: Movie
A man called “The Devil” makes a living in cock-fights. He falls for a girl who's about to enter the monastery.
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Los cacos
Title: Los cacos
Released: December 28, 1972
Type: Movie
A group of Soccer-loving friends devise a plan to make easy money.
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El vals sin fin
Title: El vals sin fin
Character: Don Marcos F. Galván
Released: November 30, 1972
Type: Movie
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Padre nuestro que estas en la tierra
Title: Padre nuestro que estas en la tierra
Character: Notario
Released: September 28, 1972
Type: Movie
Single father with a disability struggles to raise his son.
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El metiche
Title: El metiche
Released: September 21, 1972
Type: Movie
Clownish simpleton can't resist meddling in his neighbors' business. Pretty much a remake of El Reveltoso.
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Who Killed Grandpa?
Title: Who Killed Grandpa?
Character: Postman
Released: August 16, 1972
Type: Movie
A man dies of a heart attack and his wife hides the body in order to continue collecting pension.
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Mi niño Tizoc
Title: Mi niño Tizoc
Released: July 13, 1972
Type: Movie
Tizoc wishes to eat a chicken by himself and have his own piñata. At Christmas his father Carmelo grants his wish.
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La pequeña señora de Perez
Title: La pequeña señora de Perez
Released: March 16, 1972
Type: Movie
Teenaged girl isn't emotionally mature enough for marriage, but she gets hitched anyway.
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Capulina vs. the Vampires
Title: Capulina vs. the Vampires
Released: December 16, 1971
Type: Movie
Delivery boy answers a call to take some food to that huge spooky mansion on the hill behind the cemetery.
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El águila descalza
Title: El águila descalza
Character: Trabajador factoria
Released: December 8, 1971
Type: Movie
Shmuck makes a superhero costume, rides his bike to crime scenes. He gets involved with something big involving US capitalists taking over local Mexican businesses.
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La mula de Cullen Baker
Title: La mula de Cullen Baker
Character: Gordo chismoso (uncredited)
Released: October 9, 1971
Type: Movie
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The Moderate Doctor
Title: The Moderate Doctor
Character: Policía
Released: August 12, 1971
Type: Movie
Underqualified doofus tries to run a medical clinic.
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Espérame en Siberia, vida mía
Title: Espérame en Siberia, vida mía
Released: August 11, 1971
Type: Movie
Debauched playboy has a hypochondriac streak and an unscrupulous doctor that profits from it.
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Aguilas de acero
Title: Aguilas de acero
Released: January 7, 1971
Type: Movie
Two Air force pilots are best friends in that competitive, always picking fights with each other way.
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Emiliano Zapata
Title: Emiliano Zapata
Released: November 20, 1970
Type: Movie
This is the story of a man, Emiliano Zapata, and of a revolution, the Mexican Revolution.
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Santo vs. The Riders of Terror
Title: Santo vs. The Riders of Terror
Released: November 12, 1970
Type: Movie
After a group of violent lepers escapes from a sanitarium, - robbing several farms, residents of the town demand the the sheriff - take action. Meanwhile, a local criminal joins forces with the lepers - to commit even more robberies. As the disfigured madmen keep the - entire town indoors with its reign of terror, the sheriff has no - choice but to call on the only man who can help--legendary wrestling - superhero, Santo!
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Las chicas malas del padre Mendez
Title: Las chicas malas del padre Mendez
Released: July 16, 1970
Type: Movie
A priest is dismissed from his parish, so he decides to open a halfway house to rehabilitate sex workers.
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Las cadenas del mal
Title: Las cadenas del mal
Released: May 29, 1970
Type: Movie
Ambitious young woman thinks she's on he fast track to fame and fortune, but her manager's a sleazeball who gets her hooked on IV drugs and pimps her out at random.
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Tres noches de locura
Title: Tres noches de locura
Character: Violador (episodio "Lucía")
Released: May 21, 1970
Type: Movie
Anthology movie, episodes about three women who undergo stressful experiences that cause their minds to snap.
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Unethical Behaviour
Title: Unethical Behaviour
Character: Policeman
Released: January 1, 1970
Type: Movie
A family in extreme poverty is forced to make a series of sacrifices in order to survive.
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Perverse Doll
Title: Perverse Doll
Released: December 26, 1969
Type: Movie
A troubled woman commits a series of murders that exposes some dark family secrets.
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Mujeres de medianoche
Title: Mujeres de medianoche
Character: Raul
Released: November 13, 1969
Type: Movie
Crime melodrama involving blackmail, murder, mystery and the obligatory police investigation.
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The Door and The Butcher's Wife
Title: The Door and The Butcher's Wife
Character: Tololo, Cantinero (segment "La mujer del carnicero")
Released: September 25, 1969
Type: Movie
A movie divided in two segments, the first "La puerta" (The Door) is about a high society gathering in which a door inside the mansion leads to a bizarre corridor where a naked and menacing human figure appears. The second "La mujer del carnicero" (The Butcher's Wife) is set during the Mexican revolution and is about horrifying hallucinations felt by a lieutenant after committing a murder.
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Romance sobre ruedas
Title: Romance sobre ruedas
Released: September 10, 1969
Type: Movie
A sporty new car is gifted to two young men who work at an auto factory, and they have to time-share it between them.
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Mi padrino
Title: Mi padrino
Released: June 11, 1969
Type: Movie
Bumbling oaf takes custody of his god-daughter and helps her advance her singing career.
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Mil máscaras
Title: Mil máscaras
Character: Papá de Raco
Released: June 6, 1969
Type: Movie
Wrestling superhero Mil Máscaras battles bad guys.
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Romeo contra Julieta
Title: Romeo contra Julieta
Released: November 14, 1968
Type: Movie
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Los canallas
Title: Los canallas
Released: April 5, 1968
Type: Movie
The leader and villain of the movie is called Kadena, a buxom girl, who is the real deal of the gang "Hell's Angels" and whose goal is to kill the Mil Mascaras as sending to jail to his sweetheart consented. What force our hero to golpisar to bad and bad.
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Dr. Satan vs. Black Magic
Title: Dr. Satan vs. Black Magic
Character: Security Guard
Released: March 29, 1968
Type: Movie
Plutarco Satan returns, this time he's pitted against a rival evil organization intent on owning the very formula rumored to turn any metal into gold! Dr. Satan must go toe to toe with the vampiric black magician Yei Lin, in order to keep it out of their hands. The cost of failure? His eternal rest!
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There are not Crosses in the Sea
Title: There are not Crosses in the Sea
Released: January 1, 1968
Type: Movie
A mute fisherman helps another whose boat capsizes, he dies and leaves behind a girl whom he raises as his own daughter.
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Tres mil kilómetros de amor
Title: Tres mil kilómetros de amor
Character: Padre de hija rebelde (uncredited)
Released: December 7, 1967
Type: Movie
Romance, stolen jewels and sitcom humor on a bus-trip from Tijuana to Guadalajara.
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Operation 67
Title: Operation 67
Character: Businessman
Released: November 16, 1967
Type: Movie
The silver masked Santo tries to stop a gang of counterfeiters who conspire to ruin the economy.
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Amanecí en tus brazos
Title: Amanecí en tus brazos
Released: September 14, 1967
Type: Movie
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The Panther Women
Title: The Panther Women
Character: Espectador lucha libre
Released: March 3, 1967
Type: Movie
The Panther women are worshipers of Satan and perform rituals in their honor and sacrifice. The fighters will face them up and down the ring.
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The Son of Gabino Barrera
Title: The Son of Gabino Barrera
Released: December 23, 1965
Type: Movie
Gabino's son tries to find out why his father was murdered.
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She-Wolves of the Ring
Title: She-Wolves of the Ring
Character: 'I Want to See Blood' Spectator (uncredited)
Released: May 21, 1965
Type: Movie
Intimate problems and the wickedness of friends is resolved in the ring.
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Napoleoncito
Title: Napoleoncito
Character: Policía (uncredited)
Released: December 3, 1964
Type: Movie
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The Wrestling Women vs. the Aztec Mummy
Title: The Wrestling Women vs. the Aztec Mummy
Character: Detective (uncredited)
Released: November 27, 1964
Type: Movie
If you've ever longed for a movie about wrestling women who take on various monsters, this is it! Xochitl, the mummy, can turn into a snake or a bat, which is difficult to get half-Nelsons on. Loreita, the Golden Ruby, joins her sister to battle the evil Prince Fugiyata and her Oriental female wrestlers. The mummy is also female and on the good side of the struggle.
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Así amaron nuestros padres
Title: Así amaron nuestros padres
Released: July 16, 1964
Type: Movie
Elderly roue interferes in the love life of a young woman because she's secretly his daughter. Remake of En Tiempos De Don Porfirio.
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Frente al destino
Title: Frente al destino
Released: June 17, 1964
Type: Movie
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Las chivas rayadas
Title: Las chivas rayadas
Released: April 2, 1964
Type: Movie
The comical misadventures of two brothers who are part of the local soccer team and their family.
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De color moreno
Title: De color moreno
Character: Empleado teatro
Released: December 27, 1963
Type: Movie
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The Paper Man
Title: The Paper Man
Character: Hombre asaltado (uncredited)
Released: October 5, 1963
Type: Movie
A deaf and mute vagabond finds a large denomination bill in a Mexico City dump, and while he tries to buy something with it, others try to con him into giving it away. The film was selected as the Mexican entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 36th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.
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Las bravuconas
Title: Las bravuconas
Released: September 27, 1963
Type: Movie
Three big-city wimps have to pass for machos when they go to their home-town.
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Tlayucan
Title: Tlayucan
Character: Pueblerino (uncredited)
Released: December 27, 1962
Type: Movie
Desperate because of his son's illness, the peasant Eufemio steals a pearl from the image of Santa Lucía in the village church.
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El Extra
Title: El Extra
Character: Empleado estudio (uncredited)
Released: October 4, 1962
Type: Movie
Cantinflas is a man who hangs around the studios and helps anyone who needs his advice while at the same time envisioning his own versions of how certain scenes should be shot. Both angles provide ample opportunities for very witty, subtle barbs at the foibles of the industry.
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Pilotos de la muerte
Title: Pilotos de la muerte
Character: (uncredited)
Released: May 2, 1962
Type: Movie
A couple of provincial gas station employees travel to the capital seeking fortune of vehicle mechanics accidental career passing drivers.
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The White Horse
Title: The White Horse
Released: February 15, 1962
Type: Movie
Claimed by his grandmother, who lives in a Mexican village, Joselito begins the journey from Spain. Once there, while traveling in a stagecoach, is assaulted by bandits. Joselito manages to escape and, walking aimlessly, he meets Antoine, a rider who is ex officio of random player, and become close friends.
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Martín Santos el llanero
Title: Martín Santos el llanero
Released: February 15, 1962
Type: Movie
A farmer aspires to marry the daughter of the local aristocrats, but she think he's beneath her. It take a long time for things to settle into a groove so life can run smoothly again for all concerned.
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La rabia por dentro
Title: La rabia por dentro
Released: January 1, 1962
Type: Movie
Tito is a swindler who plans to appropriate a large sum of money supposedly sent abroad by airplane, with the complicity of Carlos, the cashier of a big company, who must put a time bomb aboard the airplane while keeping the money. Waiting for the plan to develop, Tito enjoys the company of the North American starlet stripper Rita, but he seduces a Mexican chorus girl, and the two women eventually fight over him. What seemed to be a faultless plan starts going wrong. A scavenger takes the money without knowing, and Carlos feels remorse for having placed the bomb aboard the jet flight, and is going to confess his crime. Tito is abandoned by his lover, locates the money and takes it back, locates Carlos and kills him. Even then, he will find crime does not pay.
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El analfabeto
Title: El analfabeto
Character: Carpintero (uncredited)
Released: September 7, 1961
Type: Movie
Inocencio Prieto y Calvo receives a letter telling him he is the heir to his uncle's fortune of two million pesos. Not being able to read he has no idea of who sent the letter or its content. So he goes to the drugstore because the pharmacist can read the letter to him. But while waiting to be helped he sees that a young girl can read. He figures he has to be able to discover the letter's content by himself and decides he will save the letter and go to school, and wait to read the letter on his own.
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The Phantom of the Operetta
Title: The Phantom of the Operetta
Character: Espectador (uncredited)
Released: December 22, 1960
Type: Movie
Aldo and his girlfriend Lucy reopen an abandoned opera house, but find out that the place is inhabited by a group of Phantoms wearing the Claude Rains 1943 Phantom of the Opera costume.
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Amor en la sombra
Title: Amor en la sombra
Released: November 24, 1960
Type: Movie
A daughter who idolizes her father discovers, just before he dies, that he was leading a double life and had a hidden lover.
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¡Yo sabia demasiado!
Title: ¡Yo sabia demasiado!
Character: Paco (cantinero)
Released: October 27, 1960
Type: Movie
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Fever Mounts at El Pao
Title: Fever Mounts at El Pao
Character: Manuel
Released: December 5, 1959
Type: Movie
Aroused citizens assassinate an unpopular Caribbean despot, then two men vie for his gorgeous widow Ines. Ojeda is a steamy, isolated island, the penal colony for an oppressive dictatorship. A reactionary seizes the murdered governor's post, and rushes to eliminate his romantic rival, an idealistic underling. The bureaucrat Vazquez hopes to marshal the angry residents of the capitol, El Pao, plus the many political prisoners, to oust Governor Gual.
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Sonatas
Title: Sonatas
Character: Jugador de cartas (uncredited)
Released: October 12, 1959
Type: Movie
In the fall of 1824 Javier Montenegro, Bradomin Marquis is spared death hanging by Captain Casares, and in return, the Marquis agrees to help him escape to America. Adaptation of "Sonata de Otoño" and "Sonata de Estío" of Ramón María del Valle-Inclan, which included elements Bardem later works of the author.
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El que con niños se acuesta...
Title: El que con niños se acuesta...
Released: June 21, 1959
Type: Movie
Chón is rejected by his girlfriend Rosario's parents, so they both escape to the capital in search of his friend Manny, a millionaire philanthropist, who helps him but makes him adopt four children from his orphanage.
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Refifí entre las mujeres
Title: Refifí entre las mujeres
Character: Espectador cine (uncredited)
Released: May 10, 1958
Type: Movie
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School for Buglars
Title: School for Buglars
Character: Invitado a fiesta (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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La faraona
Title: La faraona
Character: Party guest (uncredited)
Released: December 10, 1956
Type: Movie
Pastora Heredia is a beautiful gypsy with great character who always tries to help the needy. One day she gots the notice of the death of his grandfather, a millionaire who lived in Mexico and that since his father was angry, she knew nothing of him. However, as Pastora was his only granddaughter and sole heir of all his property, it does not hesitate to cross the pond to claim his inheritance. But once there is that Don Guillermo, grandfather, not dead.
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La adúltera
Title: La adúltera
Character: Pasajero avión
Released: November 22, 1956
Type: Movie
Jilted lover takes revenge on her ex's new wife.
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El seductor
Title: El seductor
Character: Fotografo
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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The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz
Title: The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz
Character: Man at Gordo's (uncredited)
Released: May 19, 1955
Type: Movie
A bizarre black comedy about a man whose overwhelming ambition in life is to be a renowned serial killer of women, and will stop at nothing to achieve it - but not everything goes according to plan...
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School for Tramps
Title: School for Tramps
Character: Martín (uncredited)
Released: January 27, 1955
Type: Movie
Alberto Medina is a very famous composer and is on a field trip when his car runs out of gas and goes downhill. While looking for help, he finds the Valverdes' house and is welcome by Emilia, the mother of the family, who is known for giving shelter to tramps. The rest of the family disagrees, because the last one disappointed her. In a story of family situations, funny moments and jealousy, Alberto ends up earning everyone's respect and has a special connection with the oldest daughter, the beautiful Susana, and they fall in love.
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El hombre inquieto
Title: El hombre inquieto
Character: Invitado a boda (uncredited)
Released: November 26, 1954
Type: Movie
Adult street urchin passes himself off as rich man's long-lost son.
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Dios los cría
Title: Dios los cría
Character: Transeúnte (uncredited)
Released: September 15, 1953
Type: Movie
Mrs. Nínive Cánovas Cannesi (Marshall) comes back from a long tour visiting Europe and not even realizes that her house is being inhabited by two jobless and homeless bandits (Tin Tán and Tun Tún) with master keys who had been living there worry free. They all share the house for a period of time, unknowingly to each other, in a series of well crafted and perfectly timed scenes where Catita and Tin Tán can be in the same room without seeing each other... When Tin Tán notices her presence, poses as the help, intercepting the real employees and sending to the north pole, literally. So now that Catita has them at her service, she can take time for her real goal, the foundation of a House for old people so they can live happy until the day they die, but Tin Tán and Tun Tún keep getting in her way and complicating everything...
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Si, Mi vida
Title: Si, Mi vida
Character: Hombre en restaurante (uncredited)
Released: May 14, 1953
Type: Movie
Dr. Castellanos is saved from bankruptcy.
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Mi campeón
Title: Mi campeón
Character: Espectador del boxeo (uncredited)
Released: June 20, 1952
Type: Movie
Catita is a simple and poor woman who dreams of that her son stands out on something important to help her out of his humble. But she opposes to him being boxer, therefore constantly fighting with her husband.
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Daughter of Deceit
Title: Daughter of Deceit
Character: Mesero (uncredited)
Released: August 28, 1951
Type: Movie
In the drama, a father, firmly believing that the baby daughter in his arms is not his own, abandons her upon the doorstep of the town drunk. Many years pass, and the man finds himself continually wracked with guilt about deserting her.