Luis Alcoriza

Luis Alcoriza

Luis Alcoriza de la Vega (5 September 1918 – 3 December 1992) was a respected Mexican screenwriter, film director, and actor. Alcoriza was born in Spain and established himself in Mexico from 1940. His 1962 film Tlayucan was nominated for theAcademy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. His 1987 film Lo que Importa es Vivir was entered into the 15th Moscow International Film Festival.

  • Title: Luis Alcoriza
  • Popularity: 3.165
  • Known For: Writing
  • Birthday: 1918-09-05
  • Place of Birth: Badajoz, Spain
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  • Also Known As: Луис Алькориса
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Luis Alcoriza Movies

  • 1945
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    El capitán Malacara

    El capitán Malacara

    6 1945 HD

    Misogynist military man is laid up for a month with a broken leg and during his convalescence he learns all the needed life-lessons.

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  • 1948
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    Flor de caña

    Flor de caña

    5 1948 HD

    Rural-community gal is being courted by a peon and by a land-owner.

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  • 1950
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    Tú, solo tú

    Tú, solo tú

    5.8 1950 HD

    Small-town guy goes to The City to look up his absent girlfriend. He discovers she's become a sex-worker, so he gets a job at a riding stable and...

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  • 1946
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    María Magdalena, pecadora de Magdala

    María Magdalena, pecadora de Magdala

    5.8 1946 HD

    The story of Mary Magdalene from being a sinner to follow Jesus Christ.

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  • 1949
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    The Great Madcap

    The Great Madcap

    7.1 1949 HD

    Portrayal of a family’s attempt to change the spending habit of the indulgent and hedonistic patriarch, Alfredo. The family decides to try to...

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  • 1943
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    Los miserables

    Los miserables

    5.1 1943 HD

    Police officer makes life hell for an ex-convict. Based on that novel.

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  • 1942
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    La vírgen morena

    La vírgen morena

    5.8 1942 HD

    Intensifying skirmishes between a brutally oppressive conquistador imperialist and the last holdouts of Aztec resistance... and meanwhile, miraculous...

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  • 1948
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    Reina de reinas: La Virgen María

    Reina de reinas: La Virgen María

    5.6 1948 HD

    Standard retelling of the the Gospels, with a brief epilogue about the death of Mary.

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  • 1943
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    El rayo del sur

    El rayo del sur

    5 1943 HD

    Latter part of the career of Padre Morelos, the 18th/19th century military leader. Sequel to... um... El Padre Morelos.

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  • 1950
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    The Young and the Damned

    The Young and the Damned

    8.051 1950 HD

    A group of juvenile delinquents live a violent life in the infamous slums of Mexico City; among them Pedro, whose morality is gradually corrupted and...

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  • 1953
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    The Brute

    The Brute

    6.9 1953 HD

    A tough young man, who helps to kick poor people out of their houses, falls in love with a girl. She lives with her father in the building about to...

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  • 1953
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    Él

    Él

    7.6 1953 HD

    Gloria encounters Francisco, a man whose social veneer betrays a truer self burrowed underneath.

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  • 1951
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    Daughter of Deceit

    Daughter of Deceit

    5.8 1951 HD

    In the drama, a father, firmly believing that the baby daughter in his arms is not his own, abandons her upon the doorstep of the town drunk. Many...

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  • 1960
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    Our Daily Hunger

    Our Daily Hunger

    8 1960 HD

    Trophy wife of a crooked industrialist meets a philanthropic doctor and develops a social conscience. Mexican remake of Born Yesterday.

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  • 1974
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    The Wall of Silence

    The Wall of Silence

    4.7 1974 HD

    Regina, who lives with her son Daniel, loses her teaching job because his illegitimacy. She opens a sewing shop and keeps her child away from people....

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  • 1974
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    The Wall of Silence

    The Wall of Silence

    4.7 1974 HD

    Regina, who lives with her son Daniel, loses her teaching job because his illegitimacy. She opens a sewing shop and keeps her child away from people....

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  • 1988
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    All Souls' Day

    All Souls' Day

    5.3 1988 HD

    Two families gather at a cemetery to honor their departed.

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  • 1970
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    Paradise

    Paradise

    5.7 1970 HD

    Problems arise between the divers Román and Lauro when the former falls in love with a prostitute on the beaches of Acapulco.

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  • 1961
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    Suicídate mi amor

    Suicídate mi amor

    5 1961 HD

    Tin Tan is an eccentric wealthy man who comes across a beautiful woman who doesn't want to live anymore.

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  • 1990
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    La sombra del ciprés es alargada

    La sombra del ciprés es alargada

    5.4 1990 HD

    Avila, early twentieth century. Pedro, a boy of nine years, accompanied by his tutor, comes to live in the house of Don Mateo, a teacher that from...

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  • 1960
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    The Skeleton of Mrs. Morales

    The Skeleton of Mrs. Morales

    7.9 1960 HD

    A taxidermist decides to murder his wife after having to put up with her after twenty years of hellish marriage.

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  • 1963
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    Shark Hunters

    Shark Hunters

    6.5 1963 HD

    Aurelio is a shark fisherman who works very hard to send money to his family in the city and keep Manela, his young lover on the coast. One day, he...

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  • 1963
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    Shark Hunters

    Shark Hunters

    6.5 1963 HD

    Aurelio is a shark fisherman who works very hard to send money to his family in the city and keep Manela, his young lover on the coast. One day, he...

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  • 1968
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    Romeo contra Julieta

    Romeo contra Julieta

    5.3 1968 HD

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  • 1968
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    Romeo contra Julieta

    Romeo contra Julieta

    5.3 1968 HD

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  • 1954
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    The River and Death

    The River and Death

    6.2 1954 HD

    A useless and bloody vendetta has been going on for ages between two families in this Mexican village. Men, sons, have killed each other for...

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  • 1953
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    Él

    Él

    7.6 1953 HD

    Gloria encounters Francisco, a man whose social veneer betrays a truer self burrowed underneath.

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  • 1972
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    National Mechanics

    National Mechanics

    7.2 1972 HD

    A mechanic takes his family to a car race and a series of events occur which brings problems, betrayals, violence and the unexpected death of an...

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  • 1972
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    National Mechanics

    National Mechanics

    7.2 1972 HD

    A mechanic takes his family to a car race and a series of events occur which brings problems, betrayals, violence and the unexpected death of an...

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  • 1985
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    Terror and Black Lace

    Terror and Black Lace

    5.958 1985 HD

    A psycho with a hair fetish is caught in the act of disposing of a body and the lonely housewife that witnesses it must fight for her life.

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  • 1985
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    Terror and Black Lace

    Terror and Black Lace

    5.958 1985 HD

    A psycho with a hair fetish is caught in the act of disposing of a body and the lonely housewife that witnesses it must fight for her life.

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  • 1987
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    Living Is What Matters

    Living Is What Matters

    5.4 1987 HD

    A drifter named Candelario asks to spend the night at the hacienda of Don Lazaro. Once there, he gets the offer to stay and work as a laborer with a...

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  • 1996
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    Pesadilla para un rico

    Pesadilla para un rico

    3 1996 HD

    A mature and successful businessman leads a peaceful life with his ​​family and his lover. However, his life is greatly complicated when found...

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  • 1996
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    Pesadilla para un rico

    Pesadilla para un rico

    3 1996 HD

    A mature and successful businessman leads a peaceful life with his ​​family and his lover. However, his life is greatly complicated when found...

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  • 1965
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    Tarahumara (Further and farther)

    Tarahumara (Further and farther)

    5.4 1965 HD

    An anthropologist goes to the mountains to study the problems of the indigenous people and finds out that they are being dispossessed of their lands.

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  • 1962
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    Tlayucan

    Tlayucan

    6.4 1962 HD

    Desperate because of his son's illness, the peasant Eufemio steals a pearl from the image of Santa Lucía in the village church.

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  • 1962
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    Tlayucan

    Tlayucan

    6.4 1962 HD

    Desperate because of his son's illness, the peasant Eufemio steals a pearl from the image of Santa Lucía in the village church.

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  • 1975
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    Omen

    Omen

    4.7 1975 HD

    While attending the birth of Isabel, the wife of foreigner Felipe, Mama Santos predicts that "something terrible is going to happen in the town."...

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  • 1975
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    The Living Forces

    The Living Forces

    5.3 1975 HD

    It narrates the phenomenon of the Mexican Revolution, satirically reflected through what happens in a town far from the places where the true...

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  • 1982
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    Han violado a una mujer (Tac-tac)

    Han violado a una mujer (Tac-tac)

    5 1982 HD

    A good looking Iberian macho courts a free spirited young woman. The passionate temperament of her romantic beau might become too much for her to...

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  • 1982
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    Han violado a una mujer (Tac-tac)

    Han violado a una mujer (Tac-tac)

    5 1982 HD

    A good looking Iberian macho courts a free spirited young woman. The passionate temperament of her romantic beau might become too much for her to...

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  • 1961
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    Los Jóvenes

    Los Jóvenes

    6.6 1961 HD

    A gang member is attracted to a beautiful young woman, but approaching her only causes problems that will be difficult to solve.

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  • 1958
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    A Media Luz Los Tres

    A Media Luz Los Tres

    5.8 1958 HD

    "Confirmed bachelor" quits playing the field and gets married.

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  • 1974
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    The Wall of Silence

    The Wall of Silence

    4.7 1974 HD

    Regina, who lives with her son Daniel, loses her teaching job because his illegitimacy. She opens a sewing shop and keeps her child away from people....

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  • 1951
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    Engagement ring

    Engagement ring

    5 1951 HD

    Newlyweds struggle with career issues and poverty.

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  • 1946
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    El ahijado de la muerte

    El ahijado de la muerte

    5.6 1946 HD

    Father of a newborn makes a deal with Death to protect his son.

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  • 1971
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    Departamento De Soltero

    Departamento De Soltero

    6.5 1971 HD

    Newlywed couple are jealous of each other's imagined infidelities.

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  • 1970
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    The World's Oldest Profession

    The World's Oldest Profession

    5 1970 HD

    Having an example of piety and Christian devotion in their midst may help the girls in this whorehouse reform. Maybe.

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  • 1950
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    The League of Girls

    The League of Girls

    5.3 1950 HD

    Two women form The League of Girls invite an interesting repertoire of young ladies to become members and get rid of men and all the evils that come...

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  • 1980
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    At a Lame Pace

    At a Lame Pace

    4.5 1980 HD

    Ragtag crew of indigents from an asylum for the handicapped form a squadron to defend the Church during the Cristero Uprising.

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  • 1970
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    The World's Oldest Profession

    The World's Oldest Profession

    5 1970 HD

    Having an example of piety and Christian devotion in their midst may help the girls in this whorehouse reform. Maybe.

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  • 1974
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    Faith, Hope and Charity

    Faith, Hope and Charity

    6.2 1974 HD

    Three episodes. Faith: a woman is attacked. Hope: a fakir is crucified. Charity: a woman faces bureaucracy.

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  • 1974
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    Faith, Hope and Charity

    Faith, Hope and Charity

    6.2 1974 HD

    Three episodes. Faith: a woman is attacked. Hope: a fakir is crucified. Charity: a woman faces bureaucracy.

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  • 1974
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    Faith, Hope and Charity

    Faith, Hope and Charity

    6.2 1974 HD

    Three episodes. Faith: a woman is attacked. Hope: a fakir is crucified. Charity: a woman faces bureaucracy.

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  • 1988
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    All Souls' Day

    All Souls' Day

    5.3 1988 HD

    Two families gather at a cemetery to honor their departed.

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  • 1961
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    Guantes de oro

    Guantes de oro

    5 1961 HD

    By-the-numbers boxing melodrama.

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  • 1956
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    The King of México

    The King of México

    5.5 1956 HD

    A humble tramp is turned, for a couple of days, into the richest and most famous man in México.

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  • 1959
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    El cariñoso

    El cariñoso

    5 1959 HD

    Romcom with music: owner of an auto-repair shop woos the owner of a beauty parlor.

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  • 1964
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    Love & Sex (Sappho 1963)

    Love & Sex (Sappho 1963)

    5.5 1964 HD

    Independently-wealthy woman tries to break free of repressive, conservative cultural constraints.

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  • 1965
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    The Gangster

    The Gangster

    6 1965 HD

    An old gangster returns from the United States to Mexico City to live with his sister-in-law and his two nephews, where he will face the daily life...

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  • 1979
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    En la trampa

    En la trampa

    5.8 1979 HD

    Oscar Cardenas is a free young man who dreams of being a racer. One day he is trapped by Isabel Salas, a young secretary, who while finds a husband,...

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  • 1967
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    Dangerous Game

    Dangerous Game

    5.2 1967 HD

    Two dark-comedy stories involving blackmail, murder and love triangles in Rio de Janeiro

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  • 1967
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    Dangerous Game

    Dangerous Game

    5.2 1967 HD

    Two dark-comedy stories involving blackmail, murder and love triangles in Rio de Janeiro

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  • 1975
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    The Living Forces

    The Living Forces

    5.3 1975 HD

    It narrates the phenomenon of the Mexican Revolution, satirically reflected through what happens in a town far from the places where the true...

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  • 1951
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    Los enredos de una gallega

    Los enredos de una gallega

    5.5 1951 HD

    Cándida is a Galician who lives in Mexico and has been selling lottery tickets. Her dream is to buy an inn, but doesn't have enough money. In...

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  • 1950
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    Yo quiero ser hombre

    Yo quiero ser hombre

    5.8 1950 HD

    In order to come into a large inheritance, young Divina must marry her cousin Pablo. Her aunt, Milagros, hatches a plan to disguise themselves as a...

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  • 1975
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    The Other Virginity

    The Other Virginity

    4.7 1975 HD

    Two young waitresses, Laura and Eva, become romantically involved with a movie distributor, Adrian, and his friend Luis.

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  • 1951
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    Si usted no puede, yo sí

    Si usted no puede, yo sí

    5.6 1951 HD

    Out-of-work actor and his burglar pal get jobs at an agency that pledges to do things the client doesn't want to deal with. Meanwhile, their boss is...

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  • 1970
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    Paradise

    Paradise

    5.7 1970 HD

    Problems arise between the divers Román and Lauro when the former falls in love with a prostitute on the beaches of Acapulco.

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  • 1969
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    The Door and The Butcher's Wife

    The Door and The Butcher's Wife

    7.2 1969 HD

    A movie divided in two segments, the first "La puerta" (The Door) is about a high society gathering in which a door inside the mansion leads to a...

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  • 1951
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    El Siete Machos

    El Siete Machos

    8.099 1951 HD

    Rosario, the niece of the rancher, returns to the ranch after ten years of absence. She takes in Margarito, a worker at the ranch, who is immediately...

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  • 1954
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    Robinson Crusoe

    Robinson Crusoe

    6.1 1954 HD

    An English slave trader is marooned on a remote tropical island, forced to fend for himself and deal with crushing loneliness.

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  • 1962
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    The Exterminating Angel

    The Exterminating Angel

    7.956 1962 HD

    A formal dinner party starts out normally enough, but after the bourgeois group retire to the host’s music room, they inexplicably find...

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  • 1965
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    Tarahumara (Further and farther)

    Tarahumara (Further and farther)

    5.4 1965 HD

    An anthropologist goes to the mountains to study the problems of the indigenous people and finds out that they are being dispossessed of their lands.

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  • 1956
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    The Innocent

    The Innocent

    6.3 1956 HD

    After a quarrel with her boyfriend on New Year's Eve, Mane drives her car from Mexico City to Cuernavaca to meet her parents in their country house....

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  • 1958
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    School for Buglars

    School for Buglars

    7.1 1958 HD

    The police plan to capture a killer by using a double that looks exactly as one of his victims.

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  • 1953
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    Gitana tenías que ser

    Gitana tenías que ser

    7.5 1953 HD

    Pastora de los Reyes is a beautiful Spanish that goes to Mexico with a contract to film a movie. The main actors will receive her at the airport,...

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  • 1972
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    National Mechanics

    National Mechanics

    7.2 1972 HD

    A mechanic takes his family to a car race and a series of events occur which brings problems, betrayals, violence and the unexpected death of an...

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  • 1955
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    La vida no vale nada

    La vida no vale nada

    8.2 1955 HD

    Pablo, a wandering laborer, has imprisoned himself in a hell of alcoholism. Cruz, a widow, reaches out to the troubled man, but even her compassion...

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  • 1960
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    La tijera de oro

    La tijera de oro

    5.1 1960 HD

    The charitable Emilio is a jealous barber tries to prevent at all costs the rich toting Mario mess with his girlfriend Rosita. Although Emilio help...

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  • 1950
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    Huellas del pasado

    Huellas del pasado

    5 1950 HD

    A young singer falls madly in love with a man, with whom she forms a family. Problems, however, are not long in coming when she receives unfair...

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  • 1946
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    Esperanza

    Esperanza

    5 1946 HD

    Mexican movie

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  • 1987
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    Living Is What Matters

    Living Is What Matters

    5.4 1987 HD

    A drifter named Candelario asks to spend the night at the hacienda of Don Lazaro. Once there, he gets the offer to stay and work as a laborer with a...

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  • 1948
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    Nocturno de amor

    Nocturno de amor

    5.6 1948 HD

    Venice Film Festival 1948

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  • 1951
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    Canasta Uruguaya

    Canasta Uruguaya

    5 1951 HD

    Screwball comedy about country girl who inherits a fortune.

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  • 1980
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    Buscando un campeon

    Buscando un campeon

    4.3 1980 HD

    A group of veteran boxers find a young potential champion to train.

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  • 1971
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    La Chamuscada

    La Chamuscada

    6 1971 HD

    A sharecropper and his daughter, a swarthy beauty, flee from the hacienda on which they live and join the Mexican Revolution.

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  • 1995
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    Long Life Together

    Long Life Together

    5.9 1995 HD

    Petra and Matthias are a bad marriage. He works as a janitor at the school of anatomy. Petra has a bitter and uncompromising character, so that their...

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  • 1970
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    Pancho Tequila

    Pancho Tequila

    5.3 1970 HD

    Naïve moviegoers in his hometown think a certain actor is tough like the characters he plays and will be able to clear their town of badguys.

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  • 1981
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    National Calvary

    National Calvary

    4.6 1981 HD

    Two middle-aged couples take a Murphy's Law vacation in Acapulco.

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  • 1951
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    Una gringuita en México

    Una gringuita en México

    5.5 1951 HD

    A USA girl decides to vacation in Mexico and experience first hand all the stereotypical scenes she's seen in movies. When she gets there, everything...

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  • 1954
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    Untouched

    Untouched

    6.7 1954 HD

    With the purpose of using barbasco roots in the production of cortisone, a pharmaceutical company sends a scientist to investigate the possibilities...

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  • 1979
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    Three Women in a Bonfire

    Three Women in a Bonfire

    5.6 1979 HD

    Alex, a real estate businessman, has no concerns in giving her wife every kind of freedom. They invite Gloria, an old friend of both, to spend the...

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  • 1990
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    La sombra del ciprés es alargada

    La sombra del ciprés es alargada

    5.4 1990 HD

    Avila, early twentieth century. Pedro, a boy of nine years, accompanied by his tutor, comes to live in the house of Don Mateo, a teacher that from...

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  • 1959
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    Fever Mounts at El Pao

    Fever Mounts at El Pao

    5.9 1959 HD

    Aroused citizens assassinate an unpopular Caribbean despot, then two men vie for his gorgeous widow Ines. Ojeda is a steamy, isolated island, the...

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  • 1961
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    Los Jóvenes

    Los Jóvenes

    6.6 1961 HD

    A gang member is attracted to a beautiful young woman, but approaching her only causes problems that will be difficult to solve.

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  • 1949
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    The Great Madcap

    The Great Madcap

    7.1 1949 HD

    Portrayal of a family’s attempt to change the spending habit of the indulgent and hedonistic patriarch, Alfredo. The family decides to try to...

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  • 1956
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    Death in the Garden

    Death in the Garden

    6.4 1956 HD

    In a remote Amazon jungle village, a group of angry diamond prospectors revolt when the local government undertakes a violent crackdown.

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  • 2017
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    The Metropolitan Opera: The Exterminating Angel

    The Metropolitan Opera: The Exterminating Angel

    7.7 2017 HD

    After the acclaimed Met premiere of Thomas Adès's "The Tempest" in 2012, the composer returned with another masterpiece, this time inspired by...

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  • 1947
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    Una extraña mujer

    Una extraña mujer

    5 1947 HD

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  • 1954
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    Illusion Travels by Streetcar

    Illusion Travels by Streetcar

    6.4 1954 HD

    Confronted with the unfortunate news that their favorite Streetcar, no. 133, is going to be decommissioned, two Municipal Transit workers get drunk...

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  • 1975
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    Omen

    Omen

    4.7 1975 HD

    While attending the birth of Isabel, the wife of foreigner Felipe, Mama Santos predicts that "something terrible is going to happen in the town."...

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  • 1983
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    El amor es un juego extraño

    El amor es un juego extraño

    5 1983 HD

    Mexican feature film

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  • 1983
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    El amor es un juego extraño

    El amor es un juego extraño

    5 1983 HD

    Mexican feature film

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  • 1952
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    Meat in Prison

    Meat in Prison

    5.8 1952 HD

    Pedro is found guilty of murder after accidentally killing a friend's husband. His own family will face difficult times, as will he when he entrusts...

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  • 1952
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    La miel se fue de la luna

    La miel se fue de la luna

    6 1952 HD

    Dr. Pablo, something womanizer, going to marry with Mini and cheats África, singer and his lover, telling her to wait while she is on tour in...

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  • 1965
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    The Gangster

    The Gangster

    6 1965 HD

    An old gangster returns from the United States to Mexico City to live with his sister-in-law and his two nephews, where he will face the daily life...

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  • 1969
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    The Door and The Butcher's Wife

    The Door and The Butcher's Wife

    7.2 1969 HD

    A movie divided in two segments, the first "La puerta" (The Door) is about a high society gathering in which a door inside the mansion leads to a...

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  • 1950
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    Si me viera don Porfirio

    Si me viera don Porfirio

    5 1950 HD

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