Ernesto Gómez Cruz

Ernesto Gómez Cruz

Born: November 8, 1933
Died: April 6, 2024
in Puerto de Veracruz, Mexico
Ernesto Gómez Cruz (November 8, 1933 - April 6, 2024) was a prolific Mexican actor with more than 154 films.

In his beginnings, he began as a photographer in his native Veracruz, where he met a friend who invited him to study dramatic art. In his notes from yesterday, he mentions that he wanted to be a singer, but his shyness and lack of preparation led him to abandon this path. He has more than two hundred films to his credit. He has worked with great directors such as Miguel Littin, Felipe Cazals, Arturo Ripstein and Luis Estrada; He has also worked with actors of the stature of Damián Alcázar, Ignacio López Tarso and Pedro Armendáriz Jr., among others.

His long artistic career has allowed him to be deserving and awarded with different recognitions; one of the most recent was in 2014, at the 56th Ariel award, where he was awarded the Ariel de Oro. He is the second Mexican actor with the most Ariel awards and nominations.

In 2018 the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences officially invited him to be a special part of its new members.

Movies for Ernesto Gómez Cruz...

Tespis Teporocho
Title: Tespis Teporocho
Character: Tespis
Released: December 27, 2024
Type: Movie
In "Tespis Teporocho", a boy who interacts with vagabonds thirsty for knowledge, finally absorb them from an unexpected teacher.
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Title: Laws of love
Character: Plutarco
Released: February 12, 2018
Type: TV
The story of two lawyers specializing in family law, Ricardo and Alejandra, that despite coming from two disappointments and being in a world where it seems that love loses strength, before so much divorce, they still have faith in finding true love.
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The Cousin
Title: The Cousin
Character: Cacique gordo
Released: February 2, 2018
Type: Movie
A married woman, who's husband leaves her alone way too many times, is seduced by a junior spoiled young man, leading her into the fullfillment of her unsatisfied needs.
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Cómo Filmar Una XXX
Title: Cómo Filmar Una XXX
Released: November 29, 2017
Type: Movie
Ulises Alpuyeca, a film initiate, wants to make his debut feature and he accepts the first opportunity offered to him to direct a film, without knowing that it is foing to be a porn movie. Gudelio Medina, photographer and Ulysses's old mate, convinces him to do it. All participants in the film, start, unaware of the main porn star gender, making room for hilarious entanglements, but once committed to the project they must discover how to shoot a porn movie and in the process, just maybe, discover love.
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Juan Diego: El indio de Guadalupe
Title: Juan Diego: El indio de Guadalupe
Character: Juan Bernardino
Released: December 31, 2016
Type: Movie
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Title: Hasta que te conocí
Character: Juan "Juanito" Contreras
Released: April 18, 2016
Type: TV
"Hasta que Te Conocí" unravels the life of the Divo de Juárez: Juan Gabriel. Gabriel's extraordinary talent as a singer-songwriter allowed him to rise above poverty, betrayal, and prejudice, eventually making him one the most beloved performers in all of Ibero-America.
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A Shred Of Mist
Title: A Shred Of Mist
Character: Doctor
Released: April 10, 2014
Type: Movie
After the dead of his mother, Daniel is put under the care of his aunt Elizabeth, a foreign woman with a severe character, who subjects the child to multiple abuses and psychological torture.
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Familia Gang
Title: Familia Gang
Released: March 25, 2014
Type: Movie
A senior official of the Mexican political system decides to fake the capture and death of The Coyote, public enemy number one in Mexico, to make this happen, he cuts a deal with his family, who require a dead body to pose as a double. Topillero is responsible of executing the plan. But on this journey he is reunited with his wife and son, whom he abandoned years ago.
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Las Armas
Title: Las Armas
Character: Gobernador Giner
Released: August 5, 2013
Type: Movie
A group of peasants and teachers of education, tired of abuse, take up arms and decide to attack the Madera military barracks; most of them lose their lives.
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The Fifth Commandment
Title: The Fifth Commandment
Released: March 2, 2012
Type: Movie
Víctor, a psychopath, loves carving crosses onto women post-mortem, blames paedophile priest and mother-in-denial for his behaviour, falls in love with one of his intended victims and decides to give up his adopted lifestyle. An alcoholic detective (he’s mourning his sister’s passing), eventually tracks down Víctor, and manages to break his habit with the bottle.
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Así es la Suerte
Title: Así es la Suerte
Character: Esposo de Lidia
Released: August 18, 2011
Type: Movie
Ramiro is a theater actor who lives estranged from his father and half brother. One morning, he runs into a suicide, who says he is an evil omen. Despite Ramiro´s efforts, the young man dies before his eyes, which leads him to believe that he has caught his bad luck. From then on, his life turns upside down, at the same time as he gets together with his family to fulfill his father´s last wish: to find the love of his life and say goodbye to her.
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Mudstained Flower
Title: Mudstained Flower
Character: Don Trini
Released: March 23, 2011
Type: Movie
A married, middle-aged well-known biochemist and university teacher Augusto, leaves his wife, his job and the comfort of his life to go after Marlene, a 14-year-old teenager with extraordinary beauty who burst into his life unexpectedly. One day, Marlene is taken from the custody of Augustus by Genaro, a psychotic sailor, who seduces and finally kidnaps her by taking to the ominous port of Tampico, where Augustus will seek her to try to free her, not without giving her life to pain and atonement, undergoing a deep personal transformation.
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El lado oscuro de la noche
Title: El lado oscuro de la noche
Character: Papá Valeria
Released: January 1, 2011
Type: Movie
Mexican feature film
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Another Mexican
Title: Another Mexican
Character: Don Leodegario
Released: November 12, 2010
Type: Movie
Antonio (Ricky Mergold) is a 16 year old boy from a village in the Mexican province, living the awakening of consciousness with the intensity of the contradictions that surround him: a dogmatic religion, mediocre educational institutions, corrupt politicians an a society full of conformity. His life changes when a young teacher with a genuine desire to teach their students comes to the town, a guide that encourages them to live with dignity and to be critical of the world around them. This story is full of drama and misadventures, which Antonio lives without proper orientation and promiscuity.
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El Infierno
Title: El Infierno
Character: Don José Reyes
Released: September 3, 2010
Type: Movie
Benjamin Garcia, Benny is deported from the United States. Back home and against a bleak picture, Benny gets involved in the drug business, in which he has for the first time in his life, a spectacular rise surrounded by money, women, violence and fun. But very soon he will discover that criminal life does not always keep its promises.
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De la infancia
Title: De la infancia
Character: Aguacate
Released: March 14, 2010
Type: Movie
It tells the story of Niebla, who died in a shootout with the police and whose ghost comes back to help change Francisco´s fate, a 10 years old boy. Francisco´s father, Basilio, an abusive and violent thief, adored and feared by his son, destroys his mother and brothers, when he takes out his frustrations at home. The ghost protects Francisco from his father´s violence and handholds him threw his first love with Roxana who has her own story of abuse. Feeling protected, Francisco is able to face his oppression.
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El maestro prodigioso
Title: El maestro prodigioso
Released: January 1, 2010
Type: Movie
Three stories, each one with a teacher as the protagonist of the struggle against the many deficiencies of our country's educational system. The first story, Memorial of a Madman, is a testimony to the marginalized education offered in our rural communities. The Mission deals with the expulsion and death of the Jesuit teaching missionaries. The third one, The Prodigious Teacher, tells of the persecution and imprisonment of the free students and prodigious teachers of 1968.
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Teo's Journey
Title: Teo's Journey
Released: October 10, 2008
Type: Movie
Separated from his father after illegally crossing the Mexico-U.S. border, young Teo and his new friend, Chuy, set off on a dangerous quest across the desert to find his dad in this touching tale of courage, adventure and friendship.
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Title: Capadocia
Character: Fernando Mirana
Released: March 2, 2008
Type: TV
Capadocia is a Mexican HBO Latin America television series. It started on March 2, 2008 and its second season was planned for 2010.
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El guapo
Title: El guapo
Released: March 17, 2007
Type: Movie
Unattractive man receives a large inheritance on condition that he use the money to get plastic surgery and create a better life for himself.
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Los amorosos
Title: Los amorosos
Released: January 1, 2007
Type: Movie
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A Wonderful World
Title: A Wonderful World
Character: Compadre Filemón
Released: March 17, 2006
Type: Movie
A fairy tale about the political and socioeconomic realities of Mexico.
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Crazy Carnival
Title: Crazy Carnival
Character: El indio
Released: March 4, 2006
Type: Movie
In a seedy brothel, their frustrations parade: A poet who has never published, a revolutionary who came late to history, a provocative angel, a bureaucrat with delusions of a dancer, a greedy Chinese man and his timorous wife, Monica, a whore with low professional esteem, a group of prostitutes of dubious sensuality and, finally, a priest with a stench of holiness and another with redeeming instincts. But a stranger with the air of a princess appears, and upsets the balance of the establishment.
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Bandidas
Title: Bandidas
Character: Brujo
Released: January 18, 2006
Type: Movie
Set in the late 19th century. When a ruthless robber baron takes away everything they cherish, a rough-and-tumble, idealistic peasant and a sophisticated heiress embark on a quest for justice, vengeance…and a few good heists.
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El baile de la iguana
Title: El baile de la iguana
Released: January 1, 2005
Type: Movie
Mexican feature film
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Santos Peregrinos
Title: Santos Peregrinos
Character: Don Emiliano
Released: November 26, 2004
Type: Movie
When greed comes calling, say goodbye to saintliness. An irresistible comedy about what happens when the residents of a Mexico City apartment building discover that three religious figurines passed down through the decades from Emiliano Zapata are full of solid gold. Tempers fly, libidos flare and no one emerges unscathed, including viewers overcome by a heavenly dose of hilarity in Santos Peregrinos.
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The Crime of Padre Amaro
Title: The Crime of Padre Amaro
Character: Obispo
Released: October 1, 2002
Type: Movie
Sent to Mexico to help take care of aging Father Benito, young Father Amaro faces a moral challenge when he meets a 16-year-old girl who he starts an affair with. Likewise, the girl's mother had been having an affair with Father Benito. Father Amaro must choose between a holy or sinful life.
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Title: Las Lunas del Auditorio
Character: Himself
Released: September 4, 2002
Type: TV
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Pachito Rex: I'm Leaving but Not for Good
Title: Pachito Rex: I'm Leaving but Not for Good
Character: Sobrino
Released: November 9, 2001
Type: Movie
The attack on a popular singer known as Pachito -who becomes the favorite candidate to win the presidential election in an imaginary Latin American country- is the starting point of several stories, including: the alleged murderer, a police officer investigating the disappearance of the murdered body and an architect hired to design the mausoleum to the memory of the possible dictator.
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The Mexican
Title: The Mexican
Character: Tropillo
Released: March 1, 2001
Type: Movie
Jerry Welbach, a reluctant bagman, has been given two ultimatums: The first is from his mob boss to travel to Mexico and retrieve a priceless antique pistol, known as "the Mexican"... or suffer the consequences. The second is from his girlfriend Samantha to end his association with the mob. Jerry figures alive and in trouble with Samantha is better than the more permanent alternative, so he heads south of the border.
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Cháman, viento de muerte
Title: Cháman, viento de muerte
Released: January 1, 2000
Type: Movie
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13 Días antes de vivir
Title: 13 Días antes de vivir
Character: Fiscal Especial
Released: January 1, 2000
Type: Movie
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Amor de mis amores
Title: Amor de mis amores
Released: December 31, 1999
Type: Movie
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Herod's Law
Title: Herod's Law
Character: Gobernador
Released: November 9, 1999
Type: Movie
Mexico, 1949. The fable of a janitor turned Mayor on a little town lost in the Mexican desert, who gradually realizes how far his new acquainted power and corruption can get him.
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Para matar al presidente
Title: Para matar al presidente
Released: January 1, 1999
Type: Movie
Mexican feature film
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Las delicias del poder
Title: Las delicias del poder
Character: Carmelo Barriga
Released: January 1, 1999
Type: Movie
A political candidate has an accident that will bring her out if the campaign unless her twin sister may be able to supplant her while she recovers.
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Manos mágicas
Title: Manos mágicas
Released: January 1, 1998
Type: Movie
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Fraude en el sexenio
Title: Fraude en el sexenio
Released: January 1, 1998
Type: Movie
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Alta Tensión
Title: Alta Tensión
Released: June 6, 1997
Type: Movie
A retired man that used to work for the National Electricity Company fight with his sons who want to get his money.
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El sexenio de la muerte
Title: El sexenio de la muerte
Released: January 1, 1997
Type: Movie
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Sweet Release
Title: Sweet Release
Character: Papá
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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The Overturning Of The Heart
Title: The Overturning Of The Heart
Released: October 18, 1996
Type: Movie
1941, Jose Antelmo Cruz regrets his past while writing a novel and falling in love with a prostitute.
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Una papa sin catsup
Title: Una papa sin catsup
Released: July 6, 1995
Type: Movie
Gloria's grandmother is kidnapped by "La greñas", a gang leader, and is forced to impersonate her to save her grandmother's life.
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Midaq Alley
Title: Midaq Alley
Character: Don Ru
Released: May 5, 1995
Type: Movie
Heated tempers, frustrated desires and dashed hopes plague a diverse group of individuals whose lives cross paths in Mexico City. There is the bar-owner's son, Chava, who yearns to emigrate to America. A poor barber, Abel, is madly in love with the gorgeous Alma, who eventually becomes a high-class prostitute. Finally, there is Susanita, the desperate spinster who pursues many love affairs in hopes of finding a husband.
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The Human Hyena
Title: The Human Hyena
Released: April 21, 1995
Type: Movie
The dead body of a young man who was kidnapped is found, the police looks for the kidnappers as a web of corruption its uncovered in the police department.
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Title: María José
Character: Serafín
Released: February 13, 1995
Type: TV
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Una buena forma de morir
Title: Una buena forma de morir
Released: November 11, 1994
Type: Movie
After his wife is murdered by gang members, a man must take revenge.
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Ya la hicimos
Title: Ya la hicimos
Released: March 4, 1994
Type: Movie
Virginia and Nacho, is a poor marriage, living precariously on their meager salaries, insufficient to support his child nine years of age. Until fortune smiles and Nacho wins a late model car. But sometimes it's better that luck will smile.
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The Throne of Hell
Title: The Throne of Hell
Character: The Wizard
Released: January 17, 1994
Type: Movie
A group of archeologists excavating Aztec ruins in Mexico City uncover a bizarre statue, which unleashes satanic powers and possesses the chief archaeologist. The demonized man goes on a rampage of bloody murders while being pursued by one of his female colleagues and a police officer. Horribly burned in an explosion, he still continues his ungodly crimes, including crucifying a woman upside down. A bishop sends for a mystic called “The Angel”, a character who dresses in medieval clothing and is armed with a demon-destroying sword. The possessed archeologist transforms into a club-wielding monster and challenges The Angel in a duel to the death.
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Vagabunda
Title: Vagabunda
Character: Don Melitón
Released: January 1, 1994
Type: Movie
Vagabunda is the story of young girl (Flor), well aware about her seductive skills, who arrives from an unknown place into a small town in Verazcruz where she is protected by the widowed father of a family who has two sons; one married and the other one lame. After weighting possibilities she ends up dividing the family to get the benefits of the family patrimony causing the married man to killed his pregnant wife, fact that is covered up by his father. At his sister in law's funeral, the head of the family announced his wedding with Flor which takes place before the burial. But since the now widowed son was cheating with Flor, he ends up being killed by his father as he did when killing his pregnant wife, Perla, giving this initial sensual movie a tragic end.
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The Stork's Mistake
Title: The Stork's Mistake
Character: Don Cosme
Released: July 9, 1993
Type: Movie
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La sangre de un valiente
Title: La sangre de un valiente
Released: May 21, 1993
Type: Movie
General Pershing invades Mexican territory in retaliation for Villa's attack on the town of Columbus.
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Su herencia era matar
Title: Su herencia era matar
Released: January 1, 1993
Type: Movie
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La hija del odio
Title: La hija del odio
Released: January 1, 1993
Type: Movie
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Odio, amor y muerte
Title: Odio, amor y muerte
Released: January 1, 1993
Type: Movie
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La loteria
Title: La loteria
Released: January 1, 1993
Type: Movie
Four stories that tell the tales of lottery winner. Each story features a different cast of street vendors.
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Santo: la leyenda del enmascarado de plata
Title: Santo: la leyenda del enmascarado de plata
Character: Lucas Pereda López
Released: January 1, 1993
Type: Movie
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La casa de los cuchillos
Title: La casa de los cuchillos
Released: December 31, 1992
Type: Movie
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Lost Objects
Title: Lost Objects
Character: Professor Robles
Released: July 11, 1992
Type: Movie
Juan and Pilar return to Mexico City on the same train. Destiny cross their paths in a taxi stop, off the train station. A cab arrives and they take each other's baggage by mistake. After that, they spend two days looking for each other, trying to recover their stuff. In the meantime, Juan reads Pilar's diary and she listens to his thoughts recorded on tape. Love begins to grow between these two proper strangers.
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Angeles Infernales
Title: Angeles Infernales
Released: January 1, 1992
Type: Movie
A gang of cross-dressers terrorize a city and a vengeful cop is after them.
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Mister barrio
Title: Mister barrio
Released: January 1, 1992
Type: Movie
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Rulfo aeternum
Title: Rulfo aeternum
Released: January 1, 1992
Type: Movie
Adaptation of Juan Rulfo's classic short tale "La herencia de Matilde Arcángel". Tranquilino Herrera, a man of the time of the Mexican Revolution, tells the story of her beloved, Matilde Arcangel, who was stolen from him by his boss, from whom he gives birth a child.
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Perro rabioso III: Tras el rostro
Title: Perro rabioso III: Tras el rostro
Released: January 1, 1992
Type: Movie
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Nocturno a Rosario
Title: Nocturno a Rosario
Released: January 1, 1992
Type: Movie
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Alto poder
Title: Alto poder
Released: January 1, 1992
Type: Movie
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Highway Patrolman
Title: Highway Patrolman
Character: Comandante Navarro
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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Latino Bar
Title: Latino Bar
Character: Blind musician
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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Paty chula
Title: Paty chula
Character: Mr. Gutierrez
Released: May 18, 1991
Type: Movie
Paty, an employee of an advertising company, is summoned to a business dinner by Mr. Gutiérrez, a successful businessman. She cannot refuse the invitation since the signing of the contract depends on this meeting. In 1993 this film received the Ariel Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for best medium-length fiction film.
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El extensionista
Title: El extensionista
Character: Nazario
Released: February 28, 1991
Type: Movie
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Mafia En Jalisco
Title: Mafia En Jalisco
Released: January 1, 1991
Type: Movie
A battle between Jalisco mobsters & federal agents.
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Invitación a morir
Title: Invitación a morir
Released: January 1, 1991
Type: Movie
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El amarrador
Title: El amarrador
Released: January 1, 1991
Type: Movie
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Las caguamas ninja
Title: Las caguamas ninja
Released: January 1, 1991
Type: Movie
A group of workers at a beer factory fight crime together.
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Chacales de la frontera
Title: Chacales de la frontera
Released: January 1, 1990
Type: Movie
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Satanic Sect: Messenger of the Lord
Title: Satanic Sect: Messenger of the Lord
Character: Carlitos
Released: January 1, 1990
Type: Movie
A satanic preacher comes to a small town where he unleashed the terror of the inhabitants.
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Sandino
Title: Sandino
Character: Farabundo Martí
Released: January 1, 1990
Type: Movie
Narrative of a period of life (1926 - 1934) of the Nicaraguan revolutionary leader Sandino, who was known as "The general of free men."
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Zone of Silence
Title: Zone of Silence
Released: January 1, 1990
Type: Movie
Several fantastic stories occur in the Mexican "Zone of Silence." It begins in the 1920s when a man steals a train and then flees to enter the present. Another man finds a colonizer guarded by a ghost treasure, two girls are attacked by an evil car and finally a man steals money, then he flees to enter the past.
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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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Title: Mi segunda madre
Character: Nacho
Released: January 19, 1989
Type: TV
The story tells the story of Diana (Maria Sortè), a highly successful fashion designer married to an unreliable and lying man, Giacomo, and of Gianluca (Enrique Novi), a widower with a 10-year-old girl, Arianna. Diana, after discovering that Giacomo has another wife and two children, Davide and Chicco, abandons him, and leaves for a cruise with her friend Gloria. On the ship he meets Gianluca in the company of Viviana, who is actually staying with him for money. The meeting between Gianluca and Diana is one of those that are not forgotten and, what seemed only physical attraction, turns into true love. Diana is introduced by Gianluca to her daughter and immediately wins her sympathy.
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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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They Call Me Violence
Title: They Call Me Violence
Released: January 1, 1989
Type: Movie
Female-lead action film.
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All Souls' Day
Title: All Souls' Day
Character: Poet
Released: October 27, 1988
Type: Movie
Two families gather at a cemetery to honor their departed.
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Neighborhood Rats
Title: Neighborhood Rats
Character: Héctor Malagón Ruiz
Released: January 1, 1988
Type: Movie
Mexican feature film
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La ley del ejecutor
Title: La ley del ejecutor
Released: January 1, 1988
Type: Movie
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El rutas
Title: El rutas
Released: January 1, 1988
Type: Movie
Mexican feature film
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Living Is What Matters
Title: Living Is What Matters
Character: Lázaro
Released: October 21, 1987
Type: Movie
A drifter named Candelario asks to spend the night at the hacienda of Don Lazaro. Once there, he gets the offer to stay and work as a laborer with a fixed salary. Over time, Candelario is gaining the confidence of his employer, and becomes indispensable. The situation will change radically when Don Lazarus discovers that Candelario is having a love affair with his wife.
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Mariana Mariana
Title: Mariana Mariana
Character: Gardener
Released: August 5, 1987
Type: Movie
The story runs in the 1940s Mexico City. A schoolboy (Carlos) falls in love with his best friend's mother (Mariana). Carlos is impressed because this family is not like the ordinary mexican families of the time, because they have many expensive American things, although they are not rich. The drama begins when Carlos gets out of school to go to declare his love to Mariana, and is discovered by his teachers.
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Los confines
Title: Los confines
Character: Juvencio Nava
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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Zapata en Chinameca
Title: Zapata en Chinameca
Character: Pancracio Rodríguez
Released: February 15, 1987
Type: Movie
Urbino Martínez, on his deathbed, regrets his wrongdoing after betraying Emiliano Zapata.
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The Realm of Fortune
Title: The Realm of Fortune
Character: Dionisio Pinzón
Released: November 28, 1986
Type: Movie
Poor Dionisio finds himself as recipient of the good fortune, but soon he forgets that everything that goes up also has to go down, and that in the depressing nothingness of his town it is easy to die.
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Crónica de familia
Title: Crónica de familia
Released: October 7, 1986
Type: Movie
Esteban and María are a young couple of lovers, both belonging to aristocratic families. When María announces she's moving to London to study, the sullen Esteban decides to follow her, and both opt to steal from their parents to escape and be free, with shocking results.
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Los Abandonados – Die Niemandskinder von Camanducaia
Title: Los Abandonados – Die Niemandskinder von Camanducaia
Released: May 8, 1986
Type: Movie
Based on the true story of boys from Brazilian jails taken to the state border and abandoned without food or clothing to relieve overcrowding in prison. Once discovered it became a major scandal in the 70s.
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El puente II
Title: El puente II
Released: January 1, 1986
Type: Movie
Mexican feature film
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Viaje al paraíso
Title: Viaje al paraíso
Character: Víctor
Released: September 8, 1985
Type: Movie
Family plans for a quiet weekend at the beach, but everything goes wrong.
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Dos pistoleros violentos
Title: Dos pistoleros violentos
Released: August 30, 1985
Type: Movie
Two little boys grow up and go after the two blackhats that killed their parents.
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Violent Stories
Title: Violent Stories
Released: August 29, 1985
Type: Movie
Five surreal short stories make up this Mexican anthology film.
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La revancha
Title: La revancha
Released: February 21, 1985
Type: Movie
Industrial spies are holed up in a safe-house after killing a half-dozen people to steal some data. On their way to the private airfield where their handlers are waiting to extract them, they run afoul of a small-town wedding. Unfortunately, it's the wedding of the town's chief of police.
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Operacion marihuana
Title: Operacion marihuana
Released: January 29, 1985
Type: Movie
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Tiempo de lobos
Title: Tiempo de lobos
Released: January 3, 1985
Type: Movie
Two young emigres return home from USA to their family farm to visit for a week.
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Nosotros los pelados
Title: Nosotros los pelados
Character: Don Seve
Released: June 14, 1984
Type: Movie
Slice-of-life comedy/melodrama aout life in a working-class neighborhood.
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The Evil That Men Do
Title: The Evil That Men Do
Character: Café Owner
Released: March 14, 1984
Type: Movie
Professional killer Holland is forced out of retirement to break a Central American government's political torture ring when one of his friends, a Latin American journalist, is killed. The murderer, Doctor Clement Molloch, is the master sadist behind the political torture of innocent victims. Posing as a journalist, Holland lures Molloch out of his fortress-like headquarters by using his murdered friend's wife and daughter as bait. When Holland kidnaps Molloch's sister, the doctor is led on a wild chase that takes him to an abandoned opal mine where he finally comes face to face with Holland.
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Las lupitas
Title: Las lupitas
Released: January 1, 1984
Type: Movie
Mexican feature film
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Arizona
Title: Arizona
Released: January 1, 1984
Type: Movie
Tragedy strikes a group of immigrants crossing the border between Arizona and Mexico.
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Figuras de la Pasión
Title: Figuras de la Pasión
Released: January 1, 1984
Type: Movie
This fairy type of movie is divided in episodes (Figuras) that are settle either on a jail or an play, in this surrealistic film we are immerse in a Dogville type of stage were the combination of Poetry, testaments and political discourse of the mix of characters of the daily basis and religious figures such as Judas, the virgin, the labor workers, homosexuals, drag queens. Ironically 'Figuras de la passion' has been banned for several years as a product of the attack and angriness of right – winged parties and scholars.
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Mundo mágico
Title: Mundo mágico
Released: December 29, 1983
Type: Movie
Anthology movie that presents 3 stories about romance.
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El Norte
Title: El Norte
Character: Arturo
Released: October 11, 1983
Type: Movie
Brother and sister Enrique and Rosa flee persecution at home in Guatemala and journey north, through Mexico and on to the United States, with the dream of starting a new life. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with the Getty Foundation in 2017.
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Erendira
Title: Erendira
Character: Grocer
Released: June 1, 1983
Type: Movie
While Erendira, a beautiful teenage girl, has a surreal mystical vision, her grandmother's house catches on fire and burns to the ground. Her grandmother holds Erendira responsible and, in order to extract restitution from the girl, forces her into prostitution. Erendira's surreal mystical experiences continue while her grandmother grows rich from exploiting her.
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El guerrillero del norte
Title: El guerrillero del norte
Released: January 1, 1983
Type: Movie
The Mexican Revolution in the state of Sonora.
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Cosa fácil
Title: Cosa fácil
Character: Gilberto Gómez
Released: December 9, 1982
Type: Movie
This is a story of revenge, as detective Shayne's own clients sabotage his actions, and leave him blind in one eye. The cases then become personal and Shayne vows to destroy the guilty.
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La víspera
Title: La víspera
Released: October 7, 1982
Type: Movie
Aging politicians who have faded from the public eye hold a cocktail party to celebrate one friend's appointment to the President's Cabinet. Illusions are indulged, illusions are shattered.
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Días de Combate
Title: Días de Combate
Character: Gilberto Gómez Letras
Released: September 30, 1982
Type: Movie
A private detective starts a game of cat and mouse with a psychopath who strangles women who leaves messages on the bodies of his victims.
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In the Land of Light Feet
Title: In the Land of Light Feet
Released: August 10, 1982
Type: Movie
During his vacations, 12-year-old Manuel travels by train with his mother to the Sierra Tarahumara to spend a few days with his father, who works in the mountains with the indigenous people protecting nature. Manuel befriends Jesus, who takes him to his town and teaches him the customs of his own. Both children discover illegal loggers.
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La guerra es un buen negocio
Title: La guerra es un buen negocio
Released: July 17, 1982
Type: Movie
Comatose little village gets rich overnight selling minerals to arms manufacturers.
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Los gemelos alborotados
Title: Los gemelos alborotados
Released: March 4, 1982
Type: Movie
Gumaro and his buddy Chon are among the First Citizens locally. One day, unexpectedly, twin brothers of both of them turn up in town. Adaptation of A Comedy Of Errors.
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A Married Woman
Title: A Married Woman
Character: Guillermo
Released: January 28, 1982
Type: Movie
Irene is a young housewife and mother who tries to raise her young family, love her husband and keep her home all the while studying her masters' degree. Mario, her husband, is a good man, but he's tied by convention. When she has a strange mishap one day, her domestic life is catapulted in a whirl of horror and violence that will tear the fabric of her very existence apart.
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La combi asesina
Title: La combi asesina
Character: Capitan de la Cruz
Released: January 1, 1982
Type: Movie
Mexican feature film
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Trail of Death
Title: Trail of Death
Character: Torres
Released: November 29, 1981
Type: Movie
Thriller directed by Arturo Ripstein.
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Everyone's Hell so Feared
Title: Everyone's Hell so Feared
Released: September 9, 1981
Type: Movie
The inner demons of an aspiring writer, whose dissatisfaction has pushed him to alcohol and drugs, lead him to his self-destruction under the guise of confusing political positions.
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Long live Tepito!
Title: Long live Tepito!
Character: Chucho / Jesús Ramírez
Released: January 15, 1981
Type: Movie
Slice of life covering four or five days in a badly run-down neighborhood. Matriarch of a slum family dies unexpectedly; relatives from neighboring blocks cope with the loss and arrange her funeral.
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Visita al pasado
Title: Visita al pasado
Character: Benito Juárez
Released: January 1, 1981
Type: Movie
Mexican feature film
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Pueblo de Boquilla
Title: Pueblo de Boquilla
Released: January 1, 1981
Type: Movie
Mexican feature film
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The Sowing of Others
Title: The Sowing of Others
Released: January 1, 1981
Type: Movie
Short film. Unknown plot.
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What if we talk about August?
Title: What if we talk about August?
Released: January 1, 1980
Type: Movie
It tells the story of two young people who, in the context of the 1968 student movement, awaken to love life and social conscience.
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En la cuerda del hambre
Title: En la cuerda del hambre
Released: December 25, 1979
Type: Movie
Owners of two small farms try to move forward in life by wholesaling their own produce instead of relying on dishonest brokerages. When that doesn't work, they hatch a kidnapping scheme, and the movie shifts its focus to the rich people who have been profiting off their poverty.
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La viuda de Montiel
Title: La viuda de Montiel
Character: Carmichael
Released: November 30, 1979
Type: Movie
Mexican drama film directed by Miguel Littín. It is based on a short story of the same name by Gabriel García Marquez. It was entered into the 30th Berlin International Film Festival
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Life Sentence
Title: Life Sentence
Character: Corporal Pantoja
Released: August 9, 1979
Type: Movie
After being released from jail, "Tarzan" Lira seeks to rebuild his life as a bank employee. Unfortunately, it might not be as easy as he thinks.
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La madre
Title: La madre
Released: January 1, 1979
Type: Movie
Mexican feature film
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The Recourse to the Method
Title: The Recourse to the Method
Released: June 6, 1978
Type: Movie
Set in the early 1900s, this film charts the rule of a Latin American dictator as he moves from being a charming despot to a tyrannical ruler before he is finally ousted, only to die in obscurity in Paris. Early in his regime, the resources and agricultural products his country sells command high prices, and he is a reasonably confident, even gentle, ruler who likes to take long vacations with his daughter in Paris. After World War I, with falling prices and a number of coup attempts behind him, his rule becomes quite cruel.
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Roots of Blood
Title: Roots of Blood
Released: February 9, 1978
Type: Movie
Drama - Hailed as the first film to portray the Chicano experience -- and the first Chicano film to be financed by the Mexican government -- Raíces de Sangre tells the story of immigrant workers exploited on both sides of the border. Facing unsafe conditions, a group of young Chicano workers tries to organize for better conditions but are thwarted by their own co-workers who've accepted bribes from the Americans in turn for stymieing the effort. - Richard Yniguez, León Singer, Enrique Muñoz
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Pasajeros en transito
Title: Pasajeros en transito
Released: January 1, 1978
Type: Movie
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Rattlesnake
Title: Rattlesnake
Character: Chankin
Released: September 1, 1977
Type: Movie
A filmmaker is commissioned to film a documentary on the social reality of the Lacandon people in the state of Chiapas. As he enters the harsh living conditions of this indigenous community, his social conscience forces him to confront his superiors, who threaten to destroy his material.
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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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El complot mongol
Title: El complot mongol
Released: March 28, 1977
Type: Movie
In the context of a visit by the President of the United States to Mexico, there is a threat that China will attack his life. Policeman Filiberto is commissioned to avoid it, at any cost. His searches in the Chinatown will lead him to endanger his life, while he will find love in the young Marta.
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Maten al León
Title: Maten al León
Character: Salvador Pereira
Released: January 27, 1977
Type: Movie
A pilot is called back to his homeland, the Latin American republic of Arepa, by the rich islanders to participate in a complot to kill the dictator known as El León (The Lion).
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Desires
Title: Desires
Released: January 1, 1977
Type: Movie
Snippets of a family drama involving a rebellious son coming to his depressing home village, his father, and a jaded ex-lover, mixed with various surrealist scenes and statements about sin.
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Canoa: A Shameful Memory
Title: Canoa: A Shameful Memory
Character: Lucas
Released: March 4, 1976
Type: Movie
A group of students arrives in a small town during a hiking expedition. Once there, the local priest accuses them of being communist agitators on the run from an army crack-down against student demonstrations in nearby Mexico City and rallies the townsfolk to lynch them. Based on a true story.
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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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Letters from Marusia
Title: Letters from Marusia
Character: Crisculo
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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The Coming of the King Olmos
Title: The Coming of the King Olmos
Character: Barber
Released: September 11, 1975
Type: Movie
After spending some time with the Mennonite community in Chihuahua, Reynaldo Olmos goes back to Mexico City and establishes a ministry in the poorest of poor neighborhoods. Is he sincere, or is this a scam?
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Tivoli
Title: Tivoli
Character: engineer Reginaldo
Released: June 26, 1975
Type: Movie
While trying to save the famous Tivoli burlesque theater, the participants uncover a web of commercial corruption.
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El valle de los miserables
Title: El valle de los miserables
Character: Comandante López
Released: April 16, 1975
Type: Movie
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The One Who Came from Heaven
Title: The One Who Came from Heaven
Character: Auándar Anapu
Released: March 6, 1975
Type: Movie
People's hero is Anapu... He extracts the water from a rock, befriends, and baptize and get it to Mary Magdalene, konsolerar the oppressed, makes peace with the warring brothers, raises the dead, licking men and women clean. In between, he makes a lot of soul searching as he wanders through the village, mingling with the various common folk and natives, and discuss their problems, future hazards and their lack of unity, the locals often break out of ethnic song and dance. While tracking a fascist military and his girlfriend to him..
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Peregrina
Title: Peregrina
Released: July 4, 1974
Type: Movie
Biopic: the last year or so in the life of Felipe Carrillo Puerto, Governor of Yucatan in the early 1920s.
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El primer paso... de la mujer
Title: El primer paso... de la mujer
Released: May 2, 1974
Type: Movie
Three girls from different social classes are forced to take that first step into adulthood that leads them to live fun adventures and also unfortunate events.
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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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Those Years
Title: Those Years
Character: Guillermo Prieto
Released: March 21, 1974
Type: Movie
President Juárez fights against the conservatives, who have ordered an emperor to be brought from France to govern Mexico
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The Prophet Mimi
Title: The Prophet Mimi
Character: Hermano Mackenzie
Released: December 27, 1973
Type: Movie
Childhood trauma and religious repression causes little boy to grow up and murder .
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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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Reed: Insurgent Mexico
Title: Reed: Insurgent Mexico
Character: Pablo Seanez
Released: January 5, 1973
Type: Movie
A dramatization of John Reed's newspaper accounts of the Mexican Revolution. Considered the first real film in Mexican cinema to be made on the Mexican Revolution.
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La derrota
Title: La derrota
Released: January 1, 1973
Type: Movie
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Los cacos
Title: Los cacos
Character: Arturo
Released: December 28, 1972
Type: Movie
A group of Soccer-loving friends devise a plan to make easy money.
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Los perturbados
Title: Los perturbados
Character: El Cacomistle (segment "La Obsesión")
Released: July 14, 1972
Type: Movie
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Tú, yo, nosotros
Title: Tú, yo, nosotros
Character: Black outlaw
Released: June 19, 1972
Type: Movie
Three interwoven stories where the characters experience deception, passion, love and rejection.
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Tacos al Carbón
Title: Tacos al Carbón
Character: Uncredited
Released: June 8, 1972
Type: Movie
Tacos al carbón is a mexican movie released on june 8th 1972 on Mexico City.
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Cayó de la gloria el diablo
Title: Cayó de la gloria el diablo
Character: Chester
Released: May 11, 1972
Type: Movie
Subsistence-economy slum guy who sells used newsprint for a living breaks into showbiz with an inadvertantly-comical fire-eater act. The novelty of him wears off very quickly, and then...
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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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Sin salida
Title: Sin salida
Released: September 16, 1971
Type: Movie
Ex-con trying to go straight is backed into a corner by "former associates."
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The Gates of Paradise
Title: The Gates of Paradise
Released: June 19, 1971
Type: Movie
Due to betting problems, Andrés and his lover, Blanca, flee the city and travel through several states of the country; During their journey they get involved with a couple of hippies with whom they live for a time until the tragedy is complete.
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Siempre hay una primera vez
Title: Siempre hay una primera vez
Character: Hilario (segment "Rosa")
Released: February 25, 1971
Type: Movie
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La Generala
Title: La Generala
Character: Cómplice de Feliciano
Released: January 1, 1971
Type: Movie
During the Mexican Revolution, a hardened and rich lady landowner is overtaken by the violence of the times. Losing her land and house, she falls in love with a revolutionary leader that is killed by a sadistic and corrupt federal officer. She takes the revolutionary flag and leads a rampage of violence and destruction.
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El Quelite
Title: El Quelite
Character: Gavillero
Released: December 10, 1970
Type: Movie
Agapito, leader of the revolutionary movement of his state, comes to a town, kills all the federales, and gets a girl who was promised to him for his heroic deeds.
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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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Trampas de amor
Title: Trampas de amor
Released: June 22, 1969
Type: Movie
Love, infidelity and desire are the protagonists of three stories full of entanglements and romance.
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Los Caifanes
Title: Los Caifanes
Character: El Azteca
Released: August 17, 1967
Type: Movie
A couple on the verge of getting married gets mixed up with a gang of thugs in this routine crime drama that underscores the Socio-economic disparity in the Mexican culture. The upper-class couple rides along with outsiders who go club-hopping and resort to petty thievery. After their adventure, the couple questions whether or not they are right for each other.
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Title: The Marked Hour
Character: (Varios)
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV
La Hora Marcada was a 1986 Mexican television anthology series famous for its horror and science fiction themes in the vein of the Twilight Zone. Although virtually unknown outside the country, it achieved a popular and critical success in Mexico. It had a series of rotating writers and directors, among them Emmanuel Lubezki, Guillermo del Toro and Alfonso Cuarón.