The murder of a taxi dancer and her pimp provide the motivation for this crime melodrama, a remake of Emilio Fernandez's...
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1994
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1993
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Although the title evokes a swashbuckling adventure, Roman Polanski's Pirates tuns out to be a seagoing tale with a bit of a...
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1986
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As a sequel to the popular Lola la Trailer, an action film about a female trucker, this tale focuses on Lola's...
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Police Chief
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1986
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Greed was originally released as Treasure of the Amazon, the literal translation of its Spanish-language title. Ostensibly...
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1985
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A strange, hallucinatory adaptation of the Malcolm Lowry novel of the same name, John Huston's bleak drama is set during the...
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1984
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An action adventure about a group of fortune hunters who search for gold and jewels in the jungles of South America. ~ Rovi...
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Paco
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1984
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1984
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This Spanish language action opus stars Rosa Gloria Chagoyan, Irma Selmano and Rolando Fernandez, in its tale of a young...
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1983
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1978
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Not much is explained in this film in which a poor young man carries away his true love from the bordello in which she has...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1975
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1975
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During the Prohibition era, Walker (Burt Reynolds) and Kibby (Gene Hackman) run a liquor smuggling operation in Mexico; they...
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1975
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Wealthy Mexican Emilio Fernandez puts a million-dollar bounty on the head of Alfredo Garcia, who has seduced and knocked up...
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1974
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In rural Mexico, during the silent-film era, people who could read were delegated to narrate the films' story cards. In this...
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1974
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A former friend betrays a legendary outlaw in Sam Peckinpah's final Western. Holed up in Fort Sumner with his gang between...
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1973
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This entertaining video tells the story of smugglers who turn on a fellow member and slaughter him. The victim's wife and...
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Director
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1973
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In this drama set in Guatemala, the leader of a revolution kills a general and hides out in the Mexican embassy and is...
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Police Director
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1972
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"If they move, kill 'em!" Beginning and ending with two of the bloodiest battles in screen history, Sam Peckinpah's classic...
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1969
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1968
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John Wayne and Kirk Douglas spend half of The War Wagon trying to knock one another off and the other half working shoulder...
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1967
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Emilio Fernandez directs and stars in this lavishly produced drama about one of Pancho Villa's loyal henchmen. The Major...
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Director
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1967
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1967
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1966
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In this courtroom drama, a Mexican American judge must preside over the case of the town ne'er-do-well, who is accused of...
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1966
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The Appaloosa is one of the more tolerable Marlon Brando westerns, if only because Brando seems to be aspiring to merely...
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Lazaro
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1966
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1965
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Sargento Lopez
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1965
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Yo, El Valiente tells the story of a man who travels with a friend to his hometown in order to make peace with his elderly...
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1964
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Filmed on location in Mexico by John Huston, Night of the Iguana stars Richard Burton as Rev. Shannon, an alcoholic defrocked...
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1964
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Overcooked melodrama characterizes this tale set during the Mexican Revolution and starring some of Mexico's most famous,...
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Epigmenio
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1962
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This effective drama about vengeance and its results is loosely based on practices in the Mexican boondocks where the law can...
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1961
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Director, Screenwriter
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1961
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Well-known Mexican actor and director Emilio Fernandez adapted this political drama from a 1947, tell-it-like-it-is stage...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1960
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Soldiers of Pancho Villa is the English-language title for the Mexican historical epic La Cucaracha. The matchless Maria...
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1959
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Four of the best-known, most popular actors in Mexican cinematic history star in this drama about the Mexican Revolution by...
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Antonio Zeta
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1959
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Director
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1958
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Maverick Mexican filmmaker Emilio Fernandez completed Nosotros Dos (We Two) in 1954. Thanks to the legal and political...
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Director
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1957
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Director
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1954
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The title of this grim Emilio Fernandez-directed character study translates to The Net. On the lam from the police, Antonio...
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Director
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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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Director, Screenwriter
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1953
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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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Director
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1952
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Director
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1951
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The Torch was originally released in Mexico as La Malquerida. It also bore several other titles, including...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1950
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Director
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1950
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Emilio Fernandez, the politically volatile "bad boy" of Mexican filmmakers, served as director of Pueblerina (Town Tale). The...
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Director
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1949
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Emilio Fernandez directs Dolores Del Rio and Pedro Armendariz in a classic tale of family and obsession. Raimunda's daughter...
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Director
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1949
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Director
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1948
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Director, Screenwriter
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1948
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Gabriel Figueroa's evocative photography makes the Mexican-American co-production The Pearl seem a more significant piece of...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1948
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Director, Screenwriter
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1948
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Associate Producer
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1948
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Director, Screenwriter
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1947
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Director
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1946
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Enamorada, Mexican filmmaker Emilio Fernandez' only 1946 effort, was released in the US early the following year. The film's...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1946
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Mexican helmer Emilio Fernandez's unusual period drama Las Abandonadas (The Abandoned) unfurls in Mexico at the turn of the...
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Director
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1945
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The title character is a young woman (Dolores DelRio) who is shunned by local townsfolk because her mother once posed naked...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1944
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Actress Dolores del Rio teams up with one of her frequent directors, Emilio Fernández, for the melodrama Bugambilia. She...
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Director
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1944
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Filmmaker Emilio Fernandez' second directorial effort was the thrill-a-minute Soy Puro Mexicano (I'm a Mexican Too) Pedro...
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Director
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1943
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Completed before his immensely successful Maria Candelaria, Emilio Fernandez' Flor Sylvestre was released second in the...
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Director, Screenwriter, Rogellio Torres
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1943
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1943
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Passion Island (La Isla de Passion) represented the first directorial effort of legendary Mexican filmmaker-patriot...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1941
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1940
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1940
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1940
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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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1939
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1939
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1938
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The stunningly beautiful Lupita Tovar stars in the Mexican drama El Traidor. The storyline, however, is carried by Jose Bohr,...
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1938
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1938
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First Assistant Director
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1938
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Screenwriter
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1937
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1937
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Having begun his directorial career in 1932, Fernando De Fuentes had four years' experience -- and ten pictures -- under his...
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1936
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1934
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1934
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An average entry in Columbia Pictures' Tim McCoy Western series, The Western Code features perennial Bad Guy Wheeler Oakman...
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1932
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Disguising himself as a bandit, diminutive cowboy star Bob Steele infiltrates the gang who abducted his father, the sheriff....
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1930
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The fourth of eight westerns made by diminutive Bob Steele for poverty row's Tiffany Productions, The Land of Missing Men is...
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1930
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The Mexican western Duelo en el Dorado was lensed sometime in the late 1960s. Luis Aguilar and Emilio Fernandez (yes, the...
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