Emma Roldán
Emma Roldán (February 3, 1893 – August 29, 1978) was a Mexican character actress and costume designer. She is remembered as the sharp-tongued, domineering matron of Mexican cinema, and was nominated three times for a Silver Ariel Award.
Castle of Purity
as ClerkA disciplined and sexually driven man forces his family to stay isolated in their home in order...
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El mil amores
as GertrudisCarmen has a daughter, Patricia, who attends a school for young ladies where they think Carmen...
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The Robot vs. The Aztec Mummy
as Maria, the housekeeperA mad doctor builds a robot in order to steal a valuable Aztec treasure from a tomb guarded by a...
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Entrega Inmediata
as Doña AngustiasImmediate delivery recounts the misadventures of Feliciano Callosum (Cantinflas), a postman who...
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El mariachi canta
as Doña MelaRivalry and romance between the leaders of a male mariachi band and a female one.
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The Place Without Limits
as LudoviniaFamily honor, greed, machismo, homophobia, and dreams collide in a small Mexican town.
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One Way Street
as CatalinaAfter stealing a gangster's money and his girlfriend, a doctor heads for a small village in...
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Vertigo
as uncreditedYoung woman's fiance unexpectedly falls in love with her mom, and ends up arranging the young...
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Los hijos de María Morales
as Doña María MoralesTwo brothers known in town for their womanizing, drinking and rowdiness meet their matches when...
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Tailored gentleman
as Doña PelosCantinflas works as a model of tuxedos in a prestigious store, your job is to use the smoking in...
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The Curse of the Aztec Mummy
as MariaThe evil Dr. Krupp, once again trying to get possession of the Aztec princess Xochitl's jewels,...
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Naufragio
as RaquelitoOne woman lives waiting for her son who is a sailor. She hasn't seen him for years although he...
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El compadre Mendoza
as MaríaIn the midst of the Mexican Revolution, the landowner Mendoza manages to get along with both the...
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Romeo y Julieta
as Lady CapuletVerona's peace is disturbed by the rivalry between noble families: the Montesco and the...
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El gran mentiroso
as uncreditedA respectable, married gent has made up a passel of stories to cover for his fifteen years of...
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A Letter of Love
as Nana LupeMoments before he will be executed by the French Intervention Army, the liberal leader reads a...
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Fear Doesn't Ride a Donkey
as Doña PazThis funny Mexican film tell the tale of a family who will do anything to get rid of the rich...
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¡Que viene mi marido!
as Doña TomasaRom-com: collecting on a big inheritance "forces" a family to play games with their daughter's...
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La edad de la inocencia
as La pitochaA poor little girl slips in a circus one day and sees a puppets' show. Later she returns to the...
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El ahijado de la muerte
as La muerteFather of a newborn makes a deal with Death to protect his son.
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El jinete justiciero en retando a la muerte
as uncreditedGuy gets mugged on horseback and left for dead; farmgal nurses him back to health and when he's...
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The Abduction
as Esposa de Constancio (uncredited)In a small Mexican village the news shock neighbors, Ricardo Alfaro, a wealthy local rancher has...
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La Cucaracha
as ComadronaThe Mexican Revolution serves as a backdrop to a torrid love triangle composed of three freedom...
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La Hermanita Dinamita
as Anciana esposa de borrachoAfter accidentally hitting a boy with her car, a young woman pretends to be a nurse in order...
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Cuidado con el amor
as ChonaSalvador accompanied by two friends of his father whom he calls uncles, they arrive at a fair in...
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Furias desatadas
as uncreditedCollege student enters the pro wrestling circuit, hoping to find out who killed his father....
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Una luz en mi camino
as uncreditedA blind songwriter struggles to get his work published, and meanwhile a girl he's sweet on...
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El malvado Carabel
as uncreditedFrustrated salaryman responds to career setbacks by embarking on a life of crime.
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Los hermanos Muerte
as uncreditedWoman swears to avenge her brother's murder.. Then she falls in love with the murderer, before...
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Matrimonio y mortaja
as uncreditedA series of misadventures leaves a city slicker trapped into a shotgun marriage with a country...
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The Underdogs
as Mamá de CamilaDuring the Mexican Revolution, the people tired of living in poverty and enduring the atrocities...
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Free Love
as ViejitaTwo single women share an apartment, work together, and sometimes swap boyfriends. None of their...
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The Third Word
as AntoniaThe English-language title of this Mexican musical was The Third Word. Singer Pedro Infante...
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Allá en el Rancho Grande
as ÁngelaTwo good friends — the owner and general manager of a ranch — fall in love with the same girl at...
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La casa del ogro
as La portera (Librada)Lives of the tenants in a shabby-genteel apartment house. Miserly landlord learns valuable life...
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El perdon de la hija de nadie
as uncreditedWhile she's conducting an obsessive search for the father she never met, a nightclub owner falls...
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She-Wolves of the Ring
as Loreta's MotherIntimate problems and the wickedness of friends is resolved in the ring.
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The Aztec Mummy
as CriadaA scientist discovers through hypnosis a mummy who watches over the jewels of an Aztec god for...
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Guadalajara en verano
as LucretiaTourists and exchange students find romance.
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Deceitful Appearances
as Anciana del AsiloThe sexual misunderstandings caused by the real identity of a rich woman serve Hermosillo to...
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La santa del barrio
as uncreditedWicked old lady arranges to sell the virginity of a young neighbor. Her boyfriend gets upset...
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El seductor
as NanaA young artist's affair with a married woman destroys her family. Twenty-odd years later, her...
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Do You Know Your Wife?
as uncreditedAt a big party, Robert Felton, now a woman-hater, right to the core - this all due to a failed...
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Los dos rivales
as uncreditedRanchera comedy -- the hero thinks his girlfriend has another suitor... but the suitor is really...
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Un hombre peligroso
as CriadaSequel to El Zurdo: ten years later, El Zurdo returns to his home town. The little boy whose...
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La barranca sangrienta
as Chole (as Ema Roldan)Alberto and Leonor have a son, they find out that one of the masked men who attacked them was...
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La flecha envenenada
as uncreditedBad hats try to conduct a land-grab when it's announced that a dam's going to be built.
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Two Monks
as GertrudisIn a Gothic-styled monastery, a monk named Javier sees the face of another monk, Juan, and...
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Memories of the Future
as GregoriaA story where the Cristero Rebellion creates a story of love, passion, and betrayal. When the...
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Mi candidato
as uncreditedYoung silversmith runs for office, butts heads with political machine that's sucking the town dry.
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El superhombre
as uncredited1946 Mexican film directed by Chano Urueta.
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Cadetes de la naval
as uncreditedTwo young men go through military training, then enlist to fight in WWII
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Women's prison
as PetronaEvangelina murders her lover Alberto. In prison she meets Dora, Alberto's girlfriend, who was...
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Our Daily Hunger
as uncreditedTrophy wife of a crooked industrialist meets a philanthropic doctor and develops a social...
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Prisoner 13
as Margarita RamosColonel Carrasco's wife Marta leaves him taking his young son. The child, Juan, grows into an...
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Santa
as PepaSanta is a beautiful and very humble young girl living in Chimalistac, a small and quiet spot...
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El rey del tomate
as Tía MilagrosEl rey del tomate ("The Tomato King") is a 1964 Mexican comedy-drama film, directed by Miguel M....
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El hermano Capulina
as uncreditedShoplifter evades police by joining a monastery.
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Forbidden Kisses
as NanaNightclub singer has to choose between marrying again or reuniting with her divorced husband.
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The Crying Woman
as MariaA woman takes revenge in the family of her lover.
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Muerte en la feria
as uncreditedFour bad eggs from the traveling carney are setting up local men for a blackmail scam, and it's...
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Las hermanas Karambazo
as uncreditedThree brothers meet three sisters from the nearest town.
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Mi ley es un revólver
as uncreditedMasked justice on horseback, again: guy plays it meek & mild in his civilian identity so...
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The Passion of Berenice
as JosefinaBerenice is a young woman with traditional customs who lives with her godmother in a quiet...
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Simitrio
as CatalinaA blind teacher is the victim of endless pranks and pranks from his students.
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Un milagro de amor
as uncreditedYoung man goes to Mexico City in search of opportunity and gets framed for another person's...
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Monte de piedad
as Doña RosauraAnthology-movie, series of anecdotes about the personal tragedies that lead people to take their...
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El museo del crimen
as EnfermeraStage magician/amateur detective helps police to solve a murder.
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La infame
as LeonorFor love, the rules of society and justice are broken, leading to abduction, exposing life and...
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The Illegitimate
as uncreditedFamily melodrama: manipulative parents ruin lives with their meddling.
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Los tres bohemios
as uncreditedThree struggling musicians share an apartment.
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Despedida de soltera
as SirvientaFive young women hold a weekend-long bachelorette party for their engaged girlfriend.
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Salón de belleza
as uncreditedEmployees and clients at Merle's Beauty Stuff have illicit romances and cheating husbands and...
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Los hijos de Rancho Grande
as Doña ÁngelaSequel to Alla en el Rancho Grande, twenty years later -- sons and daughters of the original...
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Harvest of Hate
as uncreditedA 1940 film directed by William Rowland.
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Por qué peca la mujer
as Doña MatiWorking-class girl-next--door type is seduced into a high-glam lifestyle when an oily promoter...
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Woman Without a Soul
as Sra. CamparelliAmbitious young woman climbs the social ladder. A bit too fast.
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Peligros de juventud
as uncreditedEach of the boys and girls at the coffee shop has something snarled in their love life.
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The Devil's Visitations
as TonaA young architect returns from Europe to live in the house of his uncles and cousins, where...
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Magdalena’s True Vocation
as Vendedora de loteríaSex and middle class are the main topics in "La verdadera vocación de Magdalena". Hermosillo...
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Si quiero
as Juan's MotherNewlyweds find married life to be challenging.
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La norteña de mis amores
as uncreditedChild whose father was murdered grows up and seeks revenge, also falling in love with a new...
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Flor de durazno
as CandelaCity slicker scams on young farmgirl while her fiance's in USA on a work permit.
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Miente y serás feliz
as Doña MargaritaA Spanish, Juan, is obsessed with telling the truth always. As a result he is consistently in...
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Beyond All Limits
as CarmelaThis typical Mexican melodrama is set in a coastal fishing village where a wealthy fisherman...
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Los tigres del ring
as uncreditedCrooked promoter has a secret weapon who goes around beating fighters to death after their...
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La señora de enfrente
as uncreditedTwo travelers visiting a small town link up together and then run afoul of the gossip of church...
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La calle de los amores
as uncreditedHubby latches onto a series of side-pieces and wifey finds it increasingly hard to put up with...
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Las coronelas
as uncreditedTwo young women 'forced' to masquerade as soldiers in military troop.
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El vestido de novia
as Doña MatildeA young professional hires a sex-worker to pass as his wife in a situation that requires him to...
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El revólver sangriento
as tía de RosaFollows an "unlucky" gun across the paths of five owners.
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The Midnight Ghost
as uncreditedA young orphan girl begins to witness strange phenomena in the house where she lives with her...
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Especialista en señoras
as Tía Fe ItaFrenetic rom-com about doctors overwhelmed with amorous female patients.
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The Encounter of a Lonely Man
as AbuelaAlberto is a journalist who remembers an event 15 years ago, when his friend Gabriel saved a...
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Canción del alma
as uncreditedJose and Esperanza got married just before the Revolution blew up, and they got separated in the...
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Los miserables
as uncreditedPolice officer makes life hell for an ex-convict. Based on that novel.
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Zorro vs. the Teenage Monster
as uncreditedWitch retrieves the corpse of a hanged criminal and brings it back to life as an unstoppable...
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Ratero
as uncreditedSolovino is called like that because no one knows where he came from. He is a miserable province...
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Póker de ases
as uncreditedFour brothers try to manage their careers and love-lives under the close supervision of a...
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Museum Of Horror
as Doña LeonorA mysterious killer abducts girls off the street and covers them in wax.
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Matinée
as VecinaJorge and Aarón, two young boys growing up in a quiet town often miss classes to go together to...
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Se la llevó el Remington
as AdivinadoraWhile tracking down the three men that killed his father, a notorious bad-ass commits other...
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Jalisco nunca pierde
as uncreditedArranged marriages vs romance down on the hacienda.
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Víctimas del divorcio
as uncreditedThe 'other woman' tricks her fella into filing to divorce his wife.
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La gallina clueca
as RosaritoDivorced mother struggles to raise her large family.
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Vino el remolino y nos alevantó
as La generalaThree generations of a stable, middle-class family in the capitol are scattered to the four...
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El jefe máximo
as uncreditedA 1940 film directed by Fernando de Fuentes.
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Mi caballo prieto rebelde
as uncreditedTwo cowboys fight over ownership of a horse and a woman.
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María
as Efraín's MotherMaría tells the tragic love story of María, a beautiful young woman, and her half brother...
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Amanecer ranchero
as uncreditedThe old massa dies and his son comes home to take over the hacienda. Things are going to be a...
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Los tres vivales
as Doña DeliaThe rowdiest guy in each of three states hears rumors about the badassness of the other two and...
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Pobres millonarios
as JuanitaSquatter neighborhood finds a wealthy sponsor.
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Storm in the souls
as uncreditedLives in a "model factory," designed to create a progressive community among the workers.
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Guitarras de medianoche
as uncreditedWealthy land-owner poses as a bandit, robbing only his own properties, to get the romantic...
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La carne manda
as uncreditedChildhood friends move up the economic ladder from slumrat to middle class comfort, but the...
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Aquella Rosita Alvírez
as uncreditedTraveling cowboy gets involved in political issues in a town he passes through. Also a romance.
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La Adelita
as uncreditedBeautiful peasant girl runs afoul of her landlord's horny son and he poisons the well between...
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Thirst for Love
as AbuelaRosaura, a devout religious woman, lives in a fishing village with her sister María who stopped...
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Basket of Mexican Tales
as Doña LauraStrong-willed Luisa attracts lots of men, but her intelligence and sharp tongue often sends them...
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La estrella vacía
as Emilia González, parteraMourners share their memories of a dead film-star at her wake, a la Citizen Kane. Only melodrama.
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Tierra brava
as uncreditedFinancier threatens to foreclose on a cigar-factory's mortgage, but a secret benefactor pays off...
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Mujer
as uncreditedOrphan girl grows up, meets the wrong man and falls into disgrace.
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Albur de amor
as uncreditedDark romantic melodrama, played out with high-stakes card games and cockfights.
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Dios sabrá juzgarnos
as uncreditedRejected suitor goes all-out in his efforts to break up an engaged couple.
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Vístete Cristina
as uncreditedAspiring big-band singer who doubles as an art forger takes in a teenaged runaway who wants to...
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