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1962
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A favorite era of Mexican cinema returns to the screen in this well-wrought tale of a family and how it copes with the...
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1962
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Alfredo B. Crevenna directs this amusing Mexican comedy-drama, sprinkled with a few risqué situations but not as spicy as the...
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1961
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Based on the authentic Mexican legend first filmed in 1933 as La Llorona, this film begins with a flashback to a gruesome...
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1961
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1961
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1961
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The second of four films re-edited from chapters of a Mexican horror serial, The Blood of Nostradamus involves a flamboyant...
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1960
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1960
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A simple and tragic situation is deftly developed in this family tragedy by director Julian Soler. Unlike the melodramas...
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1960
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This film (and a few others) on one of Mexico's most well-known rebels was released in celebration of the 50th anniversary of...
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1960
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The Curse of Nostradamus is the first of four features edited together from chapters of a Mexican horror serial about the...
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1960
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A moral decay leading to revolution is paralleled to the illness that is consuming the hero in this emotive tale by renowned...
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1959
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1959
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The musical drama Cuando Mexico Canta stars Rosita Quintana as a poor young woman who, with the help of a devoted teacher,...
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1958
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This typical Mexican melodrama is set in a coastal fishing village where a wealthy fisherman (Pedro Armendariz) lives with...
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1957
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1956
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1956
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Judging by the number of times it has shown up on Spanish-language cable TV, La Escandida is one of the most popular and best...
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Tata Agustino
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1955
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A once-popular fashion house that's about to go under as a result of an overweight model who insists on showcasing all of the...
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1954
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The Spanish language drama La Vida No Vale Nada stars Pedro Infante as Pablo, a stranger new to town who finds work in the...
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1954
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1954
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Con el Diablo en el Cuerpo stars Luis Aguilar as Lucio, a man who is all set to marry the woman of his dreams when some...
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1954
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This minimalist Mexican romantic comedy offers the premise that affairs of the heart are dictated by the full moon. Under the...
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1954
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A man and his godson who live in a home with three women find their tentative relationships brought into question as the...
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1954
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Based on a play by Carlos Arniches, the Mexican No Te Ofendas, Beatriz (Don't Be Offended, Beatrice) is a sophisticated...
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1953
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Seldom has there been a more descriptive and succinct film title than Illusion Travels by Streetcar. Luis Bunuel offers us...
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1953
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Priest
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1952
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One of the least-known films of Mexican director Emilio Fernandez, Quartier Interdit was given a limited U.S. release as...
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Juanito
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1952
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1952
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1952
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When a destitute country girl moves to Mexico City to work as a maid in the lavish home of a handsome rich man, she soon runs...
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1951
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1951
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Two of Mexico's most popular screen attractions are teamed in Huvia Roja. Jorge Negrete heads the cast as a self-involved...
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1950
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1950
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1950
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1949
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1949
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1949
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When a sensual cabaret dancer (Ninón Sevilla) falls for a handsome bullfighter, the woman's troubled past soon comes back to...
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1949
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The Priest
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1947
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1945
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El Intruse (The Intruder) is the melancholy story of a young crippled boy, spurned by his father in particular and society in...
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Juan Manuel Ramirez
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1945
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The title of this Mexican musical translates to The War of the Pastries, suggesting at the very least a return to the...
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Alcalde
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1944
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1944
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As can be gathered by its title, the Mexican Los Miserables is still another adaptation of Victor Hugo's mammoth novel...
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Jean Valjean
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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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1943
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1942
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Brother Martin
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1942
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Filmed in 1941, the Mexican La Gallina Clueca (Cackling Hen) received its first US showing three years later. Sara Garcia...
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Angel Chapa
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1941
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In this historical drama from Mexico, Demetrio is a rancher whose home is destroyed by local authorities. Filled with rage,...
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1940
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Mi Candidato is a "Mexican western" with appropriate musical interludes. Domingo Soler plays Don Valintin Vaca, who rules his...
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Don Valintin
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1938
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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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Colonel
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1938
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Let's Go With Pancho Villa constitutes a long-lost period epic from Mexican director Fernando de Fuentes -- oft-hailed in his...
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1936
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Pancho Villa
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1935
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1934
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A prostitute working in a seaside port makes a devastating discovery about one of her clients in this classic Mexican...
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Alberto Venegas
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1934
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