Roberto Sosa

Roberto Sosa

Born: April 17, 1970
in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
Roberto Gonzalo Sosa Martínez ( Mexico City , April 17, 1970 ) is a Mexican television actor and director who has worked on television , in the theater and, above all, in the cinema.

Movies for Roberto Sosa...

Pedro Páramo
Title: Pedro Páramo
Released: December 31, 2024
Type: Movie
Juan Preciado, a man who promises his mother on her deathbed to meet Preciado's father for the first time in the town of Comala, only to come across a literal ghost town. That is, populated by spectral characters.
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The Treasure
Title: The Treasure
Character: Don Felipe
Released: September 1, 2023
Type: Movie
After learning the last will of her son, Clemencia poses as a clairvoyant capable of tracking down and finding hidden treasures. In order to redeem the life of her son, she will have to convince Karime, a desperate and ambitious widow, that there is a treasure buried in her garden, a space that actually hides a dark secret. With the help of Don Felipe, a humble farmer, Clemencia digs hard and with each shovel he gets closer and closer to the sinister truth that ties his life to that of KARIME and Don Felipe: a truth that has been woven by the ruthless hands of organized crime.
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Caballero Águila
Title: Caballero Águila
Character: Halcón
Released: March 14, 2022
Type: Movie
After high school is over, three friends have to choose their paths. Pastor dreams of flying and winning Flor´s love, while her jealous brother Nacho gets seduced by the local gang, and falls in to crime.
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Taxi
Title: Taxi
Released: November 4, 2021
Type: Movie
Anything can happen to a foreigner who travels to meet his fiancée.
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Mighty Victoria
Title: Mighty Victoria
Character: El Indio Wixárrica
Released: October 5, 2021
Type: Movie
Feature film located at the beginning of the 20th-century which tells the story of the town "La Esperanza", whose dying mining boom receives a fatal blow.
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Mi Canción
Title: Mi Canción
Character: El Patrón
Released: August 19, 2021
Type: Movie
"Mi Canción" follows the rise of young Guadalajara rapper C-Kan, as he realizes the danger he put himself in by working with the local Cartel. After falling in love with Valeria, she convinces him to leave this llife of crime and pursue his dream and become a Rap star. Conflicted, he decides to stop working with the Cartel, but that is easier said than done!
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Wolves Aren't Meant For The Circus
Title: Wolves Aren't Meant For The Circus
Character: Chuy
Released: May 5, 2021
Type: Movie
After an all-nighter, Ricardo gets to his apartment only to find his family ready to have an intervention for him. His struggle with addiction is the least of his problems in this peculiar event where he faces his drug dealer, a prostitute and the worst company of all: his family.
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Souvenir
Title: Souvenir
Character: Felix
Released: March 4, 2021
Type: Movie
The enigmatic Isabel decides to rent her belly to give birth to the baby of Sara and Joaquin, a possessive couple obsessed with the idea of starting a family.
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The Longest Dream I Remember
Title: The Longest Dream I Remember
Character: Banche
Released: January 28, 2021
Type: Movie
As Tania leaves her hometown, she must confront what her absence will mean in the search for her disappeared father.
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Title: El Candidato
Character: Nestor
Released: July 17, 2020
Type: TV
Rookie CIA field operative Isabel Alfaro works alongside infamous CIA legend Wayne Addison to bring down Rafael Bautista, Mexico's most vicious and brilliant narco. Her mission brings her into conflict with Eduardo Yzaguirre, her former boyfriend and the current Mayor of Mexico City, the cleanest and most inspirational politician in the country.
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In the Arms of an Assassin
Title: In the Arms of an Assassin
Character: Javier
Released: December 6, 2019
Type: Movie
Victor (William Levy) is one of the world’s most handsome men, but he has a deep secret – he is a cold blooded assassin. Smooth talking and seductive, Victor was raised to do one thing only, which is to kill for money. When he is sent to the home of a brutal drug lord to collect payment for his most recent hit, he encounters the beautiful Sarai (Alicia Sanz), who has been forced to spend the last 9 years of her life with the drug lord.
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Title: El sexo nuestro de cada día
Character: Roberto Sosa
Released: September 14, 2019
Type: TV
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Title: Besieged: Mexico
Character: Julián
Released: July 26, 2019
Type: TV
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The Mongolian Conspiracy
Title: The Mongolian Conspiracy
Character: El Licenciado
Released: April 18, 2019
Type: Movie
1963, the Soviet Union intercepts a rumour that China pretends to assassinate the president of the US in his visit to Mexico. Filiberto Garcia, a local policeman, has 72 hours to investigate the Mongolian Conspiracy.
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Miss Bala
Title: Miss Bala
Character: Police Officer
Released: February 1, 2019
Type: Movie
Gloria finds a power she never knew she had when she is drawn into a dangerous world of cross-border crime. Surviving will require all of her cunning, inventiveness, and strength.
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Title: Clandestino. Historias de la Guerrilla Urbana
Character: Narrador
Released: May 10, 2018
Type: TV
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Shake Off Your Sorrows
Title: Shake Off Your Sorrows
Released: April 27, 2018
Type: Movie
Prisoner González dedicates his life-in-jail to narrate the adventures of Pepe Frituras, one of the most renowned Mexican dancers who lost his freedom due to a night of partying. Through stories that integrate music and dance, he will tell the exploits of a prisoner who achieved freedom through his imagination.
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A Woman With No Filter
Title: A Woman With No Filter
Character: Maestro Osiris
Released: January 12, 2018
Type: Movie
Paz, a kind woman, has allowed everyone around her to treat her as if she were worth nothing, keeping silent so as not to hurt feelings. Until one day, in her head, a phenomenon forces her to express what she feels.
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Aire
Title: Aire
Released: January 1, 2018
Type: Movie
A group of beings who live in constant fear, an ordinary man devastated by the death of his wife and daughter, a sixteen year old girl who tries to transcend the harsh reality through sex, a bloodthirsty guy with strange culinary habits and a man without wishes to live
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Zona Invadida
Title: Zona Invadida
Released: September 15, 2015
Type: Movie
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Cesar Chavez
Title: Cesar Chavez
Character: Librado Chavez
Released: March 28, 2014
Type: Movie
A biography of the civil-rights activist and labor organizer Cesar Chavez. Chronicling the birth of a modern American labour movement, Cesar Chavez tells the story of the famed civil rights leader and labour organiser torn between his duties as a husband and father and his commitment to securing a living wage for farm workers. Passionate but soft-spoken, Chavez embraced non-violence as he battled greed and prejudice in his struggle to bring dignity to working people.
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Pulling Strings
Title: Pulling Strings
Character: Hapi
Released: October 5, 2013
Type: Movie
Rachel is an intelligent, modern-day woman constantly on the move. Primarily focused on her career as a diplomatic consul for the U.S. embassy, she's literally lived her life on the move, globe-trotting from city to city. Currently working in Mexico City and set to leave for London, Rachel's world turns upside down on the eve of her own goodbye party when she gets drunk and passes out on the street. Saved by Alejandro, a handsome Mariachi singer and single father, Rachel wakes up in his apartment with no recollection of how she got there. Nor does she remember that she rejected his visa the day before, which he desperately needs for his daughter. Romance unexpectedly blossoms between the two, but either sparks or fists will fly after she finds out his secret.
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Tlatelolco, Summer of 68'
Title: Tlatelolco, Summer of 68'
Character: President Gustavo Díaz Ordaz
Released: May 19, 2013
Type: Movie
As Mexico prepares to host the 1968 Olympics, students and civilians are uniting on the streets to protest the authoritarian government. Tensions are running high and the eyes of the world are on Mexico and President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz. Ana Maria, a student photographer and daughter of a high-ranking official, finds herself embroiled in the movement and is swept off her feet by Félix, a working-class architecture student. This film remembers the events that led to one of the darkest chapters in Mexico’s recent history: the massacre at Tlatelolco, 10 days before the opening of the Olympic Games.
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The Fantastic World of Juan Orol
Title: The Fantastic World of Juan Orol
Character: Juan Orol
Released: September 14, 2012
Type: Movie
Mexico’s half-forgotten B-movie master, “involuntary surrealist” Juan Orol (1897–1988), receives a pitch-perfect tribute in this deft, irresistible love letter to a self-made man of showbiz whose career spanned half a century and nearly 60 films. Abetted by an all-pro cast, del Amo’s brilliant interpretation of Orol’s life exudes a droll underdog charm, and almost every frame is an infectious homage to the golden age of cinema, the wiles of memory, and the art of fantasy.
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Cartas a Elena
Title: Cartas a Elena
Character: Viejo Paniagua
Released: June 8, 2012
Type: Movie
In the beautiful hills of the Copper Canyon in Chihuahua, Mexico, a young boy (Emilio) is adopted by the mailman (Teo). As part of their daily tasks, they not only deliver the mail but read letters to the villagers, as well as take dictation, since most are illiterate. Young Emilio quickly learns to read and write but feels saddened by the mostly difficult stories sent by relatives, that moved north to Denver, Colorado in pursuit of a better future. One day Teo becomes disabled and Emilio takes over the mail route and with great imagination, he changes the letters to happy and optimistic stories. Within days, the village is transformed. The elders, once hopeless, lonely and sad, are now happy and enthusiastic, enjoying the "supposed" success their loved ones write from the United States. But the enjoyment is short lived, as they realize that all the wonderful stories are the same...
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Get the Gringo
Title: Get the Gringo
Character: Carnal
Released: March 15, 2012
Type: Movie
A career criminal nabbed by Mexican authorities is placed in a tough prison where he learns to survive with the help of a 9-year-old boy.
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Against the Wind
Title: Against the Wind
Character: Leonardo Ramírez
Released: September 30, 2011
Type: Movie
Luisa Braniff who after many years of hard work, obtains the success she has always wished for: to be the General Director of one of the most important technological companies in Mexico. But fate has prepared another surprise to this attractive exectutive. With her new position comes a problem as if it was waiting on the corner of her new dream office: a multimillion scam takes place with her name. Also, it is linked in a direct way to the murder of her best friend Sofia, who is found dead in her apartament. To be able to prove her innocence and preserve her freedom, she will have to look for all the evidence possible to find the real scammer How was it possible that her biggest dream turned in to her worst nightmear? Professional success has its cost.
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Title: Bajo el Alma
Character: Mario "el alacrán"
Released: May 30, 2011
Type: TV
Bajo el Alma is a Mexican telenovela produced by Azteca. It stars Matias Novoa & Barbara de Regil as the protagonists.
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El baile de San Juan
Title: El baile de San Juan
Released: October 22, 2010
Type: Movie
It is the final decade of the 18th century in New Spain. We are in Mexico City, inhabited by local adventurers, native inhabitants and Europeans of every kind. In these surroundings, our characters, Jerónimo Marani, court choreographer, Giovanni, his mestizo son, and Victoria, the daughter of the most prominent family in the city, who is in love with Giovanni, live a life of love and aversion, court intrigue and popular grievances, Viceregal dogmas and dreams of freedom. Mexico´s war of independence is only a few years in the future.
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Lupano Leyva
Title: Lupano Leyva
Released: February 4, 2010
Type: Movie
A soldier dies during the Mexican Revolution.
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Enemigos íntimos
Title: Enemigos íntimos
Released: August 7, 2009
Type: Movie
Tells the stories of eight characters suffering from different ailments: a doctor who does not acknowledge his homosexuality, a woman who refuses to accept that she is growing old, a mute nurse, a failed writer, an autistic child, a young pregnant woman and an adolescent in a coma, who are linked together by the fact that one of them, Guillermo is diagnosed with a malignant tumor in his kidney.
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Bala mordida
Title: Bala mordida
Released: March 16, 2009
Type: Movie
Mauro Hernandez, a young preventive policeman, gets involved in a coke deal, and to keep some of the money he has for paying for the transaction, gives his gun away to cover the deal. He argues to Joaquin, old drug dealer and ex-policeman and ends up threatening him. On his way out of the operation, Mauro and his partner policemen, a gang controlled by Joaquin, stop their way out start a wrangle where Mauro is wounded. His body armor couldn´t even stop a small touch of the knife. The scandal on the bad quality of body armors turns into an investigation of malversation of police funds which is exaggerated and misreported by the media. Apparently made in 2009, but not released until 2011.
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Victorio
Title: Victorio
Character: Lulú
Released: May 4, 2008
Type: Movie
A story of redemption, drama and action, where only love can overcome all obstacles.
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Lucky Bastards
Title: Lucky Bastards
Released: January 1, 2008
Type: Movie
In a neighborhood in Mexico City several stories take place, different characters come together without knowing that they have seen each other, talked to each other, found each other, and their luck is about to change.
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Borderland
Title: Borderland
Character: Luis
Released: November 9, 2007
Type: Movie
Three college students, Phil, Ed, and Henry take a road trip into Mexico for a week of drinking and carefree fun only to have Phil find himself a captive of a group of satanic Mexican drug smugglers who kill tourists and whom are looking for a group of new ones to prepare for a sacrifice.
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The Wall
Title: The Wall
Character: Sotomayor
Released: August 20, 2007
Type: Movie
La Pared, explores the nature of human instinct and the concept of action and reaction. Miguel finds himself struggling against the gossip he hears about his wife, Dolores. Both will realize, they have to be honest of who they are and what they want as husband and wife.
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Cañitas, presencia
Title: Cañitas, presencia
Character: Taxista
Released: March 30, 2007
Type: Movie
Based on the novel by Carlos Trejo - which is supposedly based on true events -, the film retells the story of a group of friends that played the Ouija one night together and started to die one by one in mysterious ways. The only survivor was the real-life author, Carlos Trejo.
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Entre caníbales
Title: Entre caníbales
Character: Horacio
Released: January 1, 2007
Type: Movie
A comedy about ties that can bind... or strangle. A successful businessman from gathers together his childhood friends with whom he played on a Little League baseball team called The Cannibals, to give them some news. Far from what the friends imagine, the news ends up showing the true reason for the meeting and puts their friendship on the line.
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Hugo vs. el mar
Title: Hugo vs. el mar
Released: October 15, 2006
Type: Movie
Hugo becomes a man when he challenges the sea to a football game
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Neza: Vice City
Title: Neza: Vice City
Character: Lopaka
Released: March 24, 2006
Type: Movie
Lopaka is a rather simple looking dude, but he controls all the drug pushing, gangs and whores.
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The Matador
Title: The Matador
Character: Skinny Mexican Man
Released: May 12, 2005
Type: Movie
The life of Danny Wright, a salesman forever on the road, veers into dangerous and surreal territory when he wanders into a Mexican bar and meets a mysterious stranger, Julian, who's very likely a hit man. Their meeting sets off a chain of events that will change their lives forever, as Wright is suddenly thrust into a far-from-mundane existence that he takes to surprisingly well … once he gets acclimated to it.
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Man on Fire
Title: Man on Fire
Character: Daniel Sanchez
Released: April 23, 2004
Type: Movie
Jaded ex-CIA operative John Creasy reluctantly accepts a job as the bodyguard for a 10-year-old girl in Mexico City. They clash at first, but eventually bond, and when she's kidnapped he's consumed by fury and will stop at nothing to save her life.
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Que me perdone tu ñora
Title: Que me perdone tu ñora
Released: January 1, 2004
Type: Movie
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Maldita vecindad
Title: Maldita vecindad
Released: January 1, 2004
Type: Movie
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Dark Cities
Title: Dark Cities
Character: Vicente
Released: September 20, 2002
Type: Movie
Adapted by writer/director Fernando Sariñana from the stories by Juan Madrid, Ciudades Oscuras (Dark Cities) tells a story of interwoven lives in the seedy underbelly of Mexico City. The several different story lines concern hooker Lola (Dolores Heredia); her drug addict son Fede (Diego Luna); her friend Zeze (Zaide Silvia Gutierrez); Zeze's daughter Susana (Jimena Ayala); and junkie Vicente (Roberto Sosa). Also on the scene are two corrupt cops (Alejandro Tommasi and Jesus Ochoa) and one good cop (Odiseo Bichir), while Chicken (Hector Suarez) and Casimiro (Alonso Echanove) each tell their separate stories to the same bartender (Demian Bichir). ~ Andrea LeVasseur, Rovi
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Ritmo, traición y muerte: La cumbia asesina 2
Title: Ritmo, traición y muerte: La cumbia asesina 2
Released: December 31, 2001
Type: Movie
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Mexico City
Title: Mexico City
Character: Head Thug
Released: November 1, 2000
Type: Movie
When her brother disappears during a brief travel layover in Mexico, Mitch begins a desperate search that will eventually lead the young divorcee into the capital city's most notorious neighborhood. But even with the aid of the American Ambassador, her plight is only met with indifference and inaction from the authorities. As the story unfolds, Mitch is forced to look for help in the least likely places as she races against time in a dangerous quest to find answers and locate her brother.
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A Breakfast Chronicle
Title: A Breakfast Chronicle
Character: Chavo pelo rojo
Released: November 1, 2000
Type: Movie
A view of the end-of-the-century Mexican family. A father who comes back home after a long absence, but who would rather be somewhere else. A daughter suffering from a trapped pain. A son full of guilt and recriminations. A little kid who soaks up all the tension in the house, like a sponge, and a self-effacing mother who would like to go away and leave everything behind.
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Barrio 13
Title: Barrio 13
Released: January 1, 2000
Type: Movie
Beginning and ending with the endless promises of Mexican politicians, Barrio 13 is a film based on the daily life of many Mexicans and Central Americans who struggle with the current realities: poverty, despair, misery and political betrayal.
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Optical Fibre
Title: Optical Fibre
Character: Marco Antonio Gutiérrez
Released: October 1, 1998
Type: Movie
When a Brazilian woman is falsely accused of killing a prominent Mexican politician, Marco, a young journalist, is hired by a stranger to discover the real motive of the crime. He is assisted by his photographer girlfriend María, and they are trapped in a web of torture, prostitution, corruption and power struggle.
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Men with Guns
Title: Men with Guns
Character: Bravo
Released: March 27, 1998
Type: Movie
Dr. Fuentes is a medical professor approaching his retirement and journeys to find old students, with sometimes disturbing results.
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Sweet Release
Title: Sweet Release
Character: Victor Hugo
Released: January 1, 1997
Type: Movie
The love secrets of a large family are revealed during a trajinera tour on Xochimilco, culminating in a suicide attempt during a jackpot drawing.
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Parejas
Title: Parejas
Released: May 17, 1996
Type: Movie
Comedy about different forms of love in this busy period in which we live. Two pairs of great friends celebrate together their weddings. Between drunkenness and friendship , things get confused. Will love defeat guilt? A prominent businessman lives unbeatable location : it has a beautiful lover, a new job, and wants a child with your partner. But she discovers that she cheats on him . Is a type of self- love?
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Bodas Negras
Title: Bodas Negras
Released: December 31, 1994
Type: Movie
Short produced by TV Azteca, starring José Alonso, Leonor Bonilla and Sergio Bonilla
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The Queen of the Night
Title: The Queen of the Night
Character: Gimeno
Released: September 7, 1994
Type: Movie
The legendary life of Mexican singer Lucha Reyes is the basis of this fictionalized biography ( or as director Arturo Ripstein puts it "an imaginary biography"). Lucha Reyes was an unconventional, and sexually liberated woman, most famous for her "cancion ranchera" style singing. Her story begins in 1939, where at 33 she still lived at home with her mother, Dona Victora, the madame of a renowned Mexico City whorehouse. Lucha marries the liberal Pedro Calderon and then buys a beggar's daughter. She becomes the mother to this child, Luzma. Lucha craves lasting love like junkies crave heroin. But for her loyal daughter, she never finds it and in the end no one can help her.
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Title: A flor de piel
Character: Ricardo
Released: February 28, 1994
Type: TV
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Lolo
Title: Lolo
Released: April 16, 1993
Type: Movie
Lolo lives in a poor neighborhood on the outskirts of Mexico City. One day he is assaulted and injured out of the factory where he works. After a week of hospitalization, Lolo loses his job and is forced to seek sustenance. The accidental death of an elderly woman, whom Lolo trying to steal a watch that his mother had insisted, facing the young people in your neighborhood and forces him to flee, full of guilt and shame.
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Dollar Mambo
Title: Dollar Mambo
Character: The Thief
Released: January 2, 1993
Type: Movie
Music and dance nurture the story of a group of people who live in a popular neighborhood. The invasion of North American soldiers to Panama will break the tranquility of the place bringing a wave of violence with them.
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Death and the Compass
Title: Death and the Compass
Character: Drug Addict I
Released: August 5, 1992
Type: Movie
In a totalitarian future, in a nightmare metropolis, inhabited only by criminals and police, Erik Lonnrot, a gifted detective, investigates a series of strange murders and disappearances that seem to implicate a insane crime lord. (Re-released in 1996 as a feature film, 86 minutes.)
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Highway Patrolman
Title: Highway Patrolman
Character: Pedro
Released: December 28, 1991
Type: Movie
A naïve rookie in the Mexican highway patrol must adapt in order to survive as he contends with widespread corruption, dangerous drug runners and the consequences of his often morally gray actions.
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City of the Blind
Title: City of the Blind
Character: Salvador
Released: October 31, 1991
Type: Movie
Over more than thirty years, a department of the Condesa in Mexico City, is the setting in which they are carried out ten stories, mixed, form one whose only constant is the rupture. The passage of time and the outside world only guess through the windows and objects that come with the characters. The set is a great solitude, possible in a city of the blind.
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Cabeza de Vaca
Title: Cabeza de Vaca
Character: Cascabel / Araino
Released: October 11, 1991
Type: Movie
An international award winning saga of old Mexico. In 1528, a Spanish expedition flounders off the coast of Florida with 600 lives lost. One survivor, Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, roams across the American continent searching for his Spanish comrades. Instead, he discovers the Iguase, an ancient Indian tribe. Over the next eight years, Cabeza de Vaca learns their mystical and mysterious culture, becoming a healer and a leader. But soon this New World collides with the Old World as Spanish conquistadors seek to enslave the Indians, and Cabeza de Vaca must confront his own people and his past.
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Latino Bar
Title: Latino Bar
Released: July 6, 1991
Type: Movie
A woman working in a caribean Cabaret meets a man in the harbour that just went out of jail. They recognise in each other common feelings of rage and fury and then they fall in love in a story without words.
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Seeds of Tragedy
Title: Seeds of Tragedy
Released: June 15, 1991
Type: Movie
Coca leaves making their way from Peru to Downtown Los Angeles.
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Angel of Fire
Title: Angel of Fire
Character: Sacramento
Released: January 2, 1991
Type: Movie
The young trapeze artist Alma is part of the show of a miserable traveling circus. In an act of desperation, Alma commits incest with her father, a sick clown obsessed with the woman who abandoned them. Determined to have his child, Alma leaves the circus and joins a group of preachers led by Refugio, a woman who performs puppet shows with biblical passages in poor neighborhoods.
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With Fear in the Veins
Title: With Fear in the Veins
Character: Billy
Released: December 24, 1990
Type: Movie
Compilation tape of Hora Marcada episodes.
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Lola
Title: Lola
Character: Duende
Released: December 1, 1989
Type: Movie
A single mother sells clothes on the streets to support her daughter in Mexico City after the earthquake.
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Baroque
Title: Baroque
Released: October 10, 1989
Type: Movie
A series of images, music and sounds which transport through Mexico's history, without any narrative sequence. The film spins constantly round the question 'Where are the singers from?'
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Las asesinas del panadero
Title: Las asesinas del panadero
Released: January 1, 1989
Type: Movie
Mexican feature film
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José, hijo del hombre
Title: José, hijo del hombre
Released: January 1, 1989
Type: Movie
Mexican feature film
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De la calle
Title: De la calle
Released: January 1, 1988
Type: Movie
Mexican feature film
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Los confines
Title: Los confines
Character: Lisandro
Released: May 17, 1987
Type: Movie
Mix magical universe of Juan Rulfo, in which Juan Preciado, "Pedro Paramo", located incestuous siblings "Talpa" while Juvencio Nava, of "Diles que no me maten", flee several men who pursue for killing Colonel Terrones.
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A Walk on the Moon
Title: A Walk on the Moon
Character: Candy
Released: January 1, 1987
Type: Movie
A Peace Corps volunteer, bubbling o'er with idealism, learns to his delight that he has been assigned to a remote, backward Colombian village. When he arrives, he is confused by the cynical attitude of his predecessor
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As You See?
Title: As You See?
Character: Boy
Released: August 1, 1986
Type: Movie
Award-Winning filmmaker Paul Leduc (Frida, Naturaleza Viva, Reed: Insurgent Mexico, Barroco) directed this gritty musical drama about life in the ghettos of Mexico City during the 1980s. With a soundtrack of Mexican rock music, the camera takes the viewer through the streets, to rock concerts, and to the bars and clubs, where he exposes the hunger, repression, unhealthy conditions and violence in the marginal communities of Mexico's capital city.
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Three of Cups
Title: Three of Cups
Released: January 4, 1986
Type: Movie
While touring the towns, two revelers meet a beautiful woman who awakens greed and passion in both.
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The Humiliated
Title: The Humiliated
Character: Leper
Released: January 1, 1986
Type: Movie
Four nuns are raped by a group of lepers. Although they all turn out to be pregnant, their status is hidden from them in the convent.
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Under the Volcano
Title: Under the Volcano
Character: Few Fleas
Released: June 12, 1984
Type: Movie
Against a background of war breaking out in Europe and the Mexican fiesta Day of Death, we are taken through one day in the life of Geoffrey Firmin, a British consul living in alcoholic disrepair and obscurity in a small southern Mexican town in 1939. The consul's self-destructive behaviour, perhaps a metaphor for a menaced civilization, is a source of perplexity and sadness to his nomadic, idealistic half-brother, Hugh, and his ex-wife, Yvonne, who has returned with hopes of healing Geoffrey and their broken marriage.
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The Heart of the Night
Title: The Heart of the Night
Character: Invitado en Fiesta
Released: March 15, 1984
Type: Movie
A young deaf-mute who lives and has intercourse with a blind man much older than she, inevitably attracts a shy driving instructor a strange, hallucinatory underworld, populated by those beings whose mutilation, impaired physical differences, have become rejected of society.
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The flying pony
Title: The flying pony
Released: January 1, 1982
Type: Movie
Mythical and fantastic story on the wishes of a peasant boy, Diego, who become reality in the course of a day and a night. On the eve of his birthday, the child's godfather gives her a shot of cardboard. At night, the little dreams that is mounted on the horse and find a nymph that describes the exact location of much needed water does to your family.
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Barrio de campeones
Title: Barrio de campeones
Released: September 2, 1981
Type: Movie
Extended family in working-class neighborhood; story mostly focuses on a young man who aspires to a pro boxing career, his grandma and the restaurant she owns.
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Caminando pasos... caminando
Title: Caminando pasos... caminando
Released: April 10, 1977
Type: Movie
Directed by Federico Weingartshofer
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Mexico, Mexico, ra, ra, ra!
Title: Mexico, Mexico, ra, ra, ra!
Released: February 4, 1976
Type: Movie
Librado, an unemployed man, lives in a crowded small house with numerous children and relatives, is beaten for stealing a car antenna. His godmother and her children try to settle in his place. She then is arrested at a supermarket for stealing, however, she offers herself and volunteers a friend of hers for sex to the policemen so she can be released. She is a maid of an employee who acts subservient to his boss, a mid-level government employee at once servile who delivers speeches on sexuality in educational texts and then discusses the matter with his brother, a corrupt inspector.
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Title: The Dentist
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV
Forensic dentist Nolasco Black investigates a gruesome murder that turns out to be committed by Jack the Ripper. With the help of the secretive Flammarion society and, aided by Sofia, a brilliant chemist, Black sets out to stop Jack.
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Title: Los Reyes de Oriente
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV
Three friends from East Mexico City —and the forbidden love one of them feels for another's mother— will be forced to reformulate everything they believe about love, happiness, and family.
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Siempre Vivos
Title: Siempre Vivos
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie