In this film, a reclusive violin player is finally compelled to seek out the source of his mysterious birthday gifts. ~...
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2003
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1965
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In this comedy, a spaced-out fellow marries a woman. The absent minded fellow has completely forgotten about the wife he...
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1965
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This crime drama is set within a Panamanian jungle and centers on a prison inmate who escapes during a spectacularly bloody...
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1962
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Based on a story by the late 19th and early 20th-century fantasy and horror writer Arthur Machen, this adapted tale plays...
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1960
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An intense drama about divorce portrayed by two leading stars of the Mexican screen. ~ Rovi...
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1959
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1958
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1958
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Though Miercoles de Ceniza was released in English-speaking countries as Ash Wednesday, it bears no relation to the...
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Dr. Federico Lamadrid
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1958
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1957
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The English-language title of this Mexican social drama is Boy's Town; the mood and texture of the film was obviously...
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1957
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True to its title, Canasta de Cuentos Mexicanos (Basket of Mexican Tales) is based on a series of short stories, all written...
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Pierre Duval
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1956
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Maos Sangrentas translates to Bloody Hands, and that's just what this gruesome Brazilian melodrama delivers. The story begins...
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1955
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1954
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1953
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The Mexican comedy Reportaje follows the wacky adventures that ensue when a man offers a large reward to the journalist that...
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1953
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The English-language title of the Mexican La Ausente is The Absentee. The title is explained within the context of the story,...
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1952
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Alberto
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1952
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Produced in Mexico, Stronghold was distributed in the U.S. by Lippert Pictures. The studio hoped that the presence of...
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Don Pedro Alvarez
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1952
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In El, it is director Luis Bunuel's contention that uncontrollable insanity can grow within even the most rational of men....
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Francisco Galvan de Montemayor
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1952
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The Spanish language romantic drama Las Tres Perfectas Casadas features Mexican film star Mauricio Garces as one of the...
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1952
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Algo Flota Sobre el Agua translates as the somewhat less exotic-sounding Something Floats on the Water. Arturo de Cordova...
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1948
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1948
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Unusually lavish for an Eagle-Lion production, The Adventures of Casanova lacks only Technicolor and "star" names. Lensed in...
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Casanova
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1948
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New Orleans is Republic Pictures' spin on such "musical origin" films as Birth of the Blues and Dixie. Covering nearly four...
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Nick Duquesne
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1947
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When an unwed mother consents to marry her lover's cousin, the man comes to love his new wife. ~ Rovi...
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1947
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1947
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John Steinbeck cowrote this sometimes hilarious, sometimes heart-wrenching study of small-town hypocrisy. Shiftless Benny...
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Joe Morales
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1945
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Several of Paramount Pictures brightest stars make cameo appearances in this comedy set in "Duffy's Tavern," a favorite...
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1945
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1945
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Incendiary Blonde is a highly entertaining if historically suspect biopic of "Queen of the Nightclubs" Texas Guinan. As...
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Bill Kilgannon
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1945
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The Technicolor musical Masquerade in Mexico is Mitchell Leisen's remake of his own Midnight. Stranded in Mexico City without...
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Manolo Segovia
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1945
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Jean Benoit Aubrey
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1944
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Mexican matinee idol Arturo De Cordova stars in Alejandra. De Cordova plays a famous novelist named Ricardo Ibanez, who...
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Richardo Ibanez
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1943
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Luise Rainer's last Hollywood film was the economically produced wartime drama Hostages. Adapted from the novel by Stefan...
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Paul Breda
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1943
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The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexander Dumas' oft-filmed novel of adventure, intrigue, revenge and justice, was given a class-A...
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Elmond Dantes
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1943
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Based on the novel by Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls is a romantic drama set against the turbulent tapestry of the...
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Agustin
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1943
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1941
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Miguel
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1941
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La Noche de Los Mayas was adapted by director Chano Urueta from the novel by Antonio Mediz Bollo). Filmed on location amidst...
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Uz
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1939
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Refugiados en Madrid (Refugees in Madrid) boasts an impressive array of Mexican film talent, chief among them Maria Conesa,...
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Carlos
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1938
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Esos Hombres (These Men) offers a few new and novel twists on a familiar story. The hero (if he can be called that) is...
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Fernando
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1937
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The 1937 Spanish-language romantic drama La Zandunga unfolds against the backdrop of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec Fruit Fair,...
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1937
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Celos charts the rocky relationship between an engaged couple after the husband-to-be discovers a picture of her with an old...
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1936
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Problems arise when a man can't get his mind off the wife of his best friend. ~ John Bush, Rovi...
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