Fernando Trueba's El Embrujo de Shanghai (The Shanghai Spell) is a drama set just after the Spanish Civil War. Dani...
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Capt. Blay
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2002
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Max (Fernando Fernán Gómez), the wealthy family patriarch and head of a pharmaceuticals business, is dying of cancer and has...
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Max
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2002
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This drama from Spain was inspired by a real-life incident in the 1930s when a number of people living in a small Basque...
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Governor
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2001
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Director, Screenwriter
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2001
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Veteran director Jose Luis Cuerda delivered this sensitive portrait of a child coming of age during a tense political...
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Don Gregorio
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2000
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Romance and murder walk side by side in this psychological drama from Spain. A serial killer has been plying his grisly trade...
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Father Orduna
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2000
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Pedro Almodóvar directed this story of a woman and her circle of friends who find themselves suffering a variety of emotional...
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1999
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Rodrigo de Arista (Fernando Fernan-Gomez) is an elderly Spanish gentleman who went to the United States in hopes of cashing...
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Rodrigo de Arista
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1999
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Veteran Spanish film star Fernando Fernan-Gomez plays, appropriately enough, a veteran actor looking back on his career and...
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Don Agustin
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1999
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Based on the semi-autobiographical novel by Spanish author Manuel Vincent, this drama chronicles the coming-of-age of a...
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1997
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It is 1620, and the young King of Spain (Gabino Diego) is technically a married man, because the great churchmen have...
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1992
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Manolo
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1992
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A young boy abandoned at a monastery attempts to come to reconcile his faith with the violence and unpredictability of the...
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1991
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Screenwriter
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1991
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1991
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After the Spanish Civil War (1936-39), Spain was governed by the moralistic and occasionally heavy-handed Falangist regime of...
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Director, Screenwriter, Eusebio
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1989
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Rosa (Angela Molina) has one burning desire: to escape the grinding poverty in which she was born. To this end, Rosa takes a...
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Don Pedro
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1988
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After the death of Carlos II in 1700, the throne of Spain was up for grabs, and all the European powers got involved. Even...
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1988
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Brazilian teenager Vera (Ana Beatriz Nogueria) is released from the orphanage where she has spent most of her life. Her...
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1987
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In this comedy, a manufacturer of turrón, a candy which resembles the honey-almond confection halvah, wants to promote it...
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Fernando
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1987
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In a story with a good premise, a man who has been hiding in a cave for 40 years decides he is finally ready to come out and...
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Director
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1986
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The spirit, hopes, and failures of a troupe of itinerant performers in the 1950s create a poignant, humorous leitmotif in...
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1986
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1986
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Antonio (Jose M. Sacristan) is a vagabond traveler who hitches a ride into a small town. He takes a job in a restaurant...
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Madariaga
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1986
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A turbulent era in Argentine politics is highlighted in this well-wrought drama, set in Buenos Aires at the end of 1945,...
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1986
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1985
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Hypocrisy and betrayal are the two dramatic pivots in this effective, emotionally gripping tragedy about the life and death...
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Don Valeriano
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1985
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The poetic and iconoclastic lights of Bohemia have been dimmed in this interpretation of the original play by Ramon...
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Minister
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1985
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While at a Spanish resort town, a wealthy man is lifted of $3 million as part of a nefarious scheme. ~ John Bush, Rovi...
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1985
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La Corte de Faraon is a romp of a zarzuela ("operetta" is a loose translation) that first appeared in 1910 (original libretto...
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Roque
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1985
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Screenwriter, Angel
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1984
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Leopoldo Contreras (Fernando Fernán Gómez) is a burnt-out university professor who convinces a married couple to take him on...
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Leopoldo Contreras (Stico)
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1984
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In his second successful starring role in 1983, Agustín Gonzalez is a father who runs a wine shop in Madrid, a city under a...
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Play Author
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1984
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This ostensible comedy about the affairs or non-existent affairs of television executive Federico José Sacristán and his...
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Luis
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1984
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1983
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This fantasy about a young man who becomes a bear, who becomes a young man again is equally ambivalent in its identity -- it...
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1983
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Confusion seems to settle over this drama like dust on a polished surface, until the layers are so thick that nothing is seen...
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Don Dimas
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1983
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1982
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1982
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1982
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A young Catholic girl takes viewers through a changing Spanish political and social landscape as she develops from her...
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Fernando
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1981
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The title of this comedy refers to a section of Madrid known for its posh restaurants. When a German chef chops off his...
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Director
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1980
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1980
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For the Spanish Mama Turns a Hundred, director Carlos Saura reassembles many of his cast members from his 1972...
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Fernando
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1979
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Mañuel Azana was the last man elected as president of the Spanish Republic before the Spanish Civil War. In this 1970s film,...
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1978
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Whatever his reasons or intent, when the young man carrying a cello begins working at the old-folks home, he strikes up an...
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Maestro
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1978
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Three booze-soaked near-derelicts have a series of macabre adventures on the day when one of them was supposed to report to...
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1977
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Aurora is a dedicated feminist in the early part of this century, who doesn't need men in her life. She successfully arranges...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1977
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A group of businessmen have discovered a man whose face resembles that of the two former husbands of a woman known as "the...
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1977
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In this tragicomedy, loosely based on a tale by Anatole France, Fernando Fernan Gomez plays a man who has locked himself away...
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1976
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La Querida tells the story of a woman (Rocio Jurado), gifted as a singer, who wants to rise from her lowly status as a...
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Cinematographer, Director
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1976
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Even during the Second World War, some Spanish anti-Nazis worked to sabotage the Germans operating in their supposedly...
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1975
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When the mind of a six-year-old wakes up in a 36-year-old body, it causes some confusion for all concerned. After having...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1975
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1975
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Aurora (Ana Belen) is a high-school teacher. When two attractive men fall in love with her, she enjoys their attention. One...
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1974
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Video art by Willoughby Sharp. ~ Rovi...
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1974
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In this Spanish Gothic romance/thriller, based on a story by Villiers d'Isle-Adam, Count Alfredo is grief-stricken in the...
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1973
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Widely regarded as a masterpiece of Spanish cinema, this allegorical tale is set in a remote village in the 1940s. The life...
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Fernando
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1973
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This Spanish drama verges on parody as it explores the convoluted, repressed personalities of a family dominated by a...
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1972
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This Spanish-language detective story investigates the death of a lovely young woman (Conchita Velasco). The film begins with...
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1971
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1970
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1970
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A taxi driver and a failed actor accept an underworld job that could make them rich in this madcap crime comedy from director...
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1970
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1970
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1969
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1969
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1969
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1968
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This dark comedy directed by Fernando Fernan Gomez concerns a trio of secluded, childish siblings with a very bizarre...
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Director
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1967
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Director
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1966
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1965
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1965
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1964
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1963
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Wily police officials set a trap for corrupt Central American politician Maurice Leprince (Jean Servais) in this rare...
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1963
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1962
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1962
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1961
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1960
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1960
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1960
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Pac
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1959
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1959
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1959
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1959
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1958
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1958
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1958
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1958
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1957
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1957
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1956
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Per its title, Faustina is a distaff variation on the Faust legend. In this case, Mexican film favorite Maria Felix plays a...
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Mogon
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1956
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Alberto Sordi plays the title character in the Spanish-Italian Lo Scapolo (The Bachelor). Forever on the verge of marriage,...
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1955
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1955
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1954
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La Voca del Silenzio (Voice of Silence) was the only Italian production of fabled German director G. W. Pabst. Based on a...
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1953
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1953
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1952
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1952
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1952
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1952
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1951
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1951
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1951
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1950
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1950
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This Argentine drama (the title translates as Captain Poison) is a rare dramatic vehicle for popular Latin American comedian...
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1950
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"Balarrasa," or "Scapegrace," is the nickname bestowed upon a reckless Spanish Civil War officer Fernando Fernan Gomez....
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1950
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1949
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1949
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A man who lost everything he held dear because of the movies discovers that only the movies can give him back his life in...
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1948
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1948
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1947
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1947
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1947
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1947
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Though made in Argentina, the setting and subject matter of Embrujo (Bewitched) is distinctly Brazilian. The story takes...
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1946
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1946
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1945
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1945
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1945
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1945
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1944
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1943
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1943
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1943
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1943
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1943
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1943
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1943
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1943
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1943
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