René Cardona
René Cardona (October 8, 1905 – April 25, 1988) was a Mexican director, actor, producer, screenwriter, and film editor, who was prominent during part of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema.
René Cardona was born in Havana, Cuba, on October 8, 1905, and began medical school in Cuba, but due to the political problems of the island, he and his family moved to New York City in 1926, where he continued his studies. Economic circumstances experienced by his family caused him to leave his studies. He befriended famous actor Rodolfo Valentino and obtained work as an extra in several films, until 1929 when he produced, wrote, directed and starred in the first Spanish-language film made in Hollywood, Sombras habaneras (Havana Shadows). He also had the opportunity to work in various positions in the film industry such as second assistant, technical advisor and first assistant director, and learned film and lighting technique. In 1932, he moved to Mexico, where he debuted as an actor and met Julieta Zacarías, sister of the director Miguel Zacarías, and soon after married her. His wife's support would be central to his career in Mexican cinema, in films Mano a mano (1932) directed by Ramón Peón and Sobre las olas (1932) directed by Zacarías. At this early stage as an actor, Cardona participated in three key Mexican films Marihuana (1936), El baúl macabro (1936) and Allá en el Rancho Grande (1936), which officially inaugurate the golden age of Mexican cinema and made stars of its protagonists: Esther Fernández, Tito Guízar, and Cardona.
| Known For | Directing |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.8447 |
| Birthday | 1905-10-09 |
| Place of Birth | Havana, Cuba |
| Also Known As | René Cardona Sr., Рене Кардона, Рене Кардона-старший, Рене Кардона-ст., René Cardona Andre, |
1930
When Love Laughs
7/1
José Mojica plays a singing vacquero who stops off in la cantina to have muchas cervezas with los muchachos. While José is all beered up, he boasts th...
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When Love Laughs
1930
Common Clay
9/1
A maid with a checkered past falls in love with the son in the posh household where she works, and gives him a baby.
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Common Clay
1973
Masajista de señoras
6.667/3
This fun comedy presents two masseurs who, by getting a job, dress up as women and thus live comic adventures.
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Masajista de señoras
1974
The Vengeance of the Crying Woman
5.625/20
Santo and Mantequilla Nápoles team up to end the curse of La Llorona by getting ahold of a special medallion. Unfortunately, La Llorona escapes in the...
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The Vengeance of the Crying Woman
1931
Carne de Cabaret
5.5/2
This is the Spanish-language version of Ten Cents a Dance (1931), shot concurrently with a different cast but the same director, Christy Cabanne (as "...
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Carne de Cabaret
1989
Viva la risa II
6.667/3
Mexican feature film
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Viva la risa II
1963
La Bandida
5/10
During a lull in the Mexican Revolution when Francisco Madero became president and attempted to implement land reforms, two former revolutionaries are...
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La Bandida
1978
Tempestad
5.667/3
The emotional journeys of two women victimized by corruption and injustice in Mexico and of the love, dignity and resistance that allowed them to surv...
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Tempestad
1971
Jesús, el niño Dios
6.4/5
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Jesús, el niño Dios
1974
Guns and Guts
5.233/15
An outlaw and a scorned husband both team up to track down and kill the man that wronged them. Along the way, the two men meet a hired gun that loves...
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Guns and Guts
1975
El pequeño Robin Hood
6.25/4
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El pequeño Robin Hood
1971
La mula de Cullen Baker
5.714/7
A young Cullen Baker rides his mule throughout the old west with his father, when bandits attack them, killing his father. Cullen becomes a loner, aga...
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La mula de Cullen Baker
1978
El Llanto de los Pobres
6/3
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El Llanto de los Pobres
1947
Soledad
5.857/7
Soledad, a maid born in Argentina, works at a Mexican farm. The son of her employer will deceive her, pretending to marry her and leaving her pregnant...
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Soledad
1973
Zindy, the Swamp Boy
5.05/20
The story is about a fugitive who lives apart from society in a jungle area with the company of his grandson
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Zindy, the Swamp Boy
1943
The Rock of Souls
6.2/10
The love between María Ángela and Fernando is impossible because there's an ancient history of hate between their families. His father killed hers, an...
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The Rock of Souls
1975
Fantastic Voyage in a Baloon
5.8/10
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Fantastic Voyage in a Baloon
1982
The Fury of the Karate Experts
5.444/9
An evil priestess and her twin sister battle for control of a powerful crystal.
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The Fury of the Karate Experts
1971
Santo vs. the Head Hunters
5.778/9
Santo battles a mad scientist reviving the dead
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Santo vs. the Head Hunters
1966
La vida de Pedro Infante
5.286/7
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La vida de Pedro Infante
1942
El conde de Montecristo
5.556/9
Based on the famous novel by Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo tells the story of a man who is unjustly imprisoned alongside an old man, who...
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El conde de Montecristo
1942
Jesusita en Chihuahua
6.667/3
Ranchera comedy.
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Jesusita en Chihuahua
1955
A los cuatro vientos
6.2/5
Career-biography of a fictional ranchera singer, played by Rosita Quintana.
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A los cuatro vientos
1936
Marihuana (El monstruo verde)
5.5/6
An agent of the anti-drug brigade is captured and ends up addicted to marijuana, which causes him to enter the mafia.
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Marihuana (El monstruo verde)
1941
El secreto del sacerdote
6/5
Three boys grow up to be a priest, a military commander and the town mayor.
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El secreto del sacerdote
1962
Santo vs. the King of Crime
5/11
El Santo and his loyal friends will try to disarm a dangerous criminal organization.
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Santo vs. the King of Crime
1947
Si me han de matar mañana
6.4/5
Romantic triangle during the Mexican Revolution.
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Si me han de matar mañana
1947
La barca de oro
6.2/5
Ranch-heiress chooses a husband.
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La barca de oro
1948
Cartas Marcadas
6.5/6
A tale of intrigue and deceit concerning two young lovers who, despite the fact that their relationship was originally founded on greed, soon discover...
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Cartas Marcadas
1964
Dos caballeros de espada
5.6/5
It's Mexico in the 1600's. Fifteen years after arriving from Spain, Pedro "Dagoberto Rodríguez" teaches his son Carlos "Rodolfo De Anda" his famous fe...
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Dos caballeros de espada
1985
La Casa Que Arde de Noche
5.667/21
A prostitute enters a brothel and establishes a rivalry faking love with the old owner.
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La Casa Que Arde de Noche
1943
Divorciadas
6.25/4
Three newly unmarried women room together, start a business, share the ups and downs of their love lives
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Divorciadas
1944
El abanico de Lady Windermere
6.667/3
A woman with a dubious reputation causes problems in an aristocratic marriage.
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El abanico de Lady Windermere
1962
The Brainiac
5.588/51
In 1661 Mexico, the Baron Vitelius of Astara is sentenced to be burned alive by the Holy Inquisition of Mexico for witchcraft, necromancy, and other c...
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The Brainiac
1979
Crónica roja
6.125/8
After one is arrested - possibly unjustly - for murder, the lives of two brothers spiral out of control.
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Crónica roja
1936
The Macabre Trunk
5.7/10
A crazed scientist tries to keep his terminally ill wife alive by transfusing into her the blood of young women he murders.
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The Macabre Trunk
1957
Girl Merchants
2.5/4
A young French woman travels to South America for a job offer and ends up a prisoner in a slave camp for women by a sadistic gangster.
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Girl Merchants
1967
Un novio para dos hermanas
7.5/24
Pili and uncle Angel travel to Mexico to see Mili dancing at her debut in a theater in the capital. When Mili finds out the bad economic situation of...
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Un novio para dos hermanas
1956
Los hijos de Rancho Grande
6.667/3
Sequel to Alla en el Rancho Grande, twenty years later -- sons and daughters of the original characters go through a courtship melodrama of their own.
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Los hijos de Rancho Grande
1952
El genial Detective Peter Pérez
5.8/5
A clumsy investigator must unravel a deadly mystery when a passenger is killed during a long-distance rail journey.
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El genial Detective Peter Pérez
1947
Soy charro de Rancho Grande
6.333/6
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Soy charro de Rancho Grande
1954
As negro
6.6/5
Two poor children swear an oath: one will study, the other will work and support them both. The worker turns to crime...
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As negro
1936
Allá en el Rancho Grande
6/12
Two good friends — the owner and general manager of a ranch — fall in love with the same girl at the same time. The owner tries to 'buy' the girl with...
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Allá en el Rancho Grande
1964
El revólver sangriento
6.2/5
Follows an "unlucky" gun across the paths of five owners.
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El revólver sangriento
1940
Con su amable permiso
6/5
Unassuming elderly gent is installed as Mayor, by a cabal of financiers that expect to use him as a cat's paw.
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Con su amable permiso
1962
Los encapuchados del infierno
5.6/5
Husband and wife team of hooded avengers, First of three in series.
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Los encapuchados del infierno
1963
Aventuras de las hermanas X
6.143/7
Adventure film about two sisters looking revenge against the man who murdered their father.
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Aventuras de las hermanas X
1959
La ley del más rápido
5.75/4
Young gunslinger gets his hero on. #2 in a series ("El Puma.")
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La ley del más rápido
1969
El deseo llega de noche
4.2/5
Prison colony on an island: the staff Doctor has some neuroses he's trying to overcome, and his "weakness" makes him vulnerable to exploitation by a s...
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El deseo llega de noche
1967
La leyenda del bandido
5.5/4
Western with romance subplot.
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La leyenda del bandido
1970
La hermana Trinquete
6.667/6
Career-thief hides from the police by joining a convent.
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La hermana Trinquete
1970
Chanoc en las garras de las fieras
5/5
Comic-book adaptation: Tarzan-type in the Mexican outback.
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Chanoc en las garras de las fieras
1972
Manuel Saldivar, el texano
5.6/5
Cowboy-justice dude has to figure out who the masterminds are behind a string of murders.
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Manuel Saldivar, el texano
1946
¡Ay qué rechula es Puebla!
5.8/5
Two charros from Hacienda A come a-courtin' to hacienda B, owned by a friend of their father's. Also a horse-race.
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¡Ay qué rechula es Puebla!
1948
Pito Pérez se va de bracero
5.6/5
Alcoholic hobo drifts across the border and has a series of random adventures.
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Pito Pérez se va de bracero
1940
Mala yerba
5.6/5
Plantation owner is way too much into his peasant girls. It causes problems.
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Mala yerba
1946
Los buitres sobre el tejado
6.667/3
Mexican movie
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Los buitres sobre el tejado
1954
La desconocida
6/3
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La desconocida
1954
Mulata
5/6
In the port of Havana, two biracial children, Mateo (Ricardo Román) and Caridad (Ninón Sevilla) grow up together. She is the daughter of a white man w...
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Mulata
1977
Prisión de mujeres
5.273/11
'Prisión de Mujeres' is a film by Fernando A. Rivero that narrates a harsh reality: the strength of women in a prison, how they lose their dignity and...
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Prisión de mujeres
1978
Cyclone
5.148/27
An airplane goes down in the ocean during a storm and a few survivors find refuge on a small tour boat. Swept out to sea, these people slowly starve t...
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Cyclone
1964
The Diabolical Duchess
5.75/4
A rare and impossible to find Mexican adventure / fantasy / horror.
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The Diabolical Duchess
1968
El día de la boda
5.429/7
The love affairs of two couples, modern parents a couple of troubled teens.
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El día de la boda
1968
Operación carambola
6.595/37
Two clumsy and absent-minded spies (Capulina and Chespirito) are hired to save the world from a nuclear attack.
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Operación carambola
1967
El matrimonio es como el demonio
6.8/5
The story of a Playboy bachelor who does not know the good that is, until he is married. Slowly, the man discovers that having a woman is not easy, bu...
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El matrimonio es como el demonio
1967
Un par de robachicos
6.923/13
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Un par de robachicos
1959
El puma
6.25/4
Son of a ranching family returns home after studying in the city for a law degree. He sides with the peons in a labor dispute and his father disowns h...
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El puma
1977
La casta divina
6.727/11
Chronicle Caste War in Yucatan held in the nineteenth century, where the land and the people were the property of the landowners, who called themselve...
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La casta divina
1953
The Three Perfect Married
4.667/9
Three married couples gather to celebrate the eighteenth anniversary of their marriage mourning the absence of a friend who was best man at all three...
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The Three Perfect Married
1968
Stranger in the House
6.273/11
An American serial killer, known for his handiwork with a straight razor, manages to escape while being transported in Mexico and hides out inside a p...
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Stranger in the House
1941
La casa del rencor
5.8/5
Martina, a sorrowful woman, is the sole inhabitant of an abandoned and eerie house, where a couple arrives on a stormy night seeking shelter. Martina...
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La casa del rencor
1987
Yo el ejecutor
5.429/7
A retired mercenary known as 'The Executioner', is forced to take one more case especially when his girlfriend is kidnapped and raped, he then wages a...
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Yo el ejecutor
1956
¡Que seas feliz!
6.6/5
Career criminal hooks up with famous singer because she looks like a long-term meal ticket.
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¡Que seas feliz!
1943
Ave sin nido
5.667/3
Husband, sterile wife, fertile mistress, daughter.
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Ave sin nido
1983
La Banda De La Sotana Negra
6/7
Three punk cholos in Tijuana steal cassocks from a church so they can do crimes better.
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La Banda De La Sotana Negra
1932
Hand to Hand
6/3
A 1932 film.
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Hand to Hand
1974
La disputa
5.667/3
The wife of a philandering husband tries to engineer a situation in which she can photograph him in a compromising position in order to file for divor...
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La disputa
1973
Peluquero de señoras
5.8/5
Beauty-products czar can't attend an important industry function, so he hires a look-alike as a stand-in. The body double will have to learn to behave...
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Peluquero de señoras
1976
La Folle de Chaillot
7/1
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La Folle de Chaillot
1937
Don Juan Tenorio
5.333/6
Classic legend of a playboy meeting supernatural comeuppance.
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Don Juan Tenorio
1942
El misterioso señor Marquina
5.8/5
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El misterioso señor Marquina
1936
Malditas sean las mujeres
6.333/3
A tragicomic piece based on a novella by Manuel Ibo Alfaro.
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Malditas sean las mujeres
1961
Juana Gallo
6.5/15
Peasant woman leads a regiment during the final days of the Mexican Revolution. Also, romantic entanglements.
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Juana Gallo
1938
La cuna vacía
4.286/7
Male half of a young couple gets distracted from his family duties and considers abandoning his wife and daughter.
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La cuna vacía
1978
Brood of Vipers
4.8/5
Two cousins have always been rivals in everything, and to top it all off, they fall in love with the same woman.
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Brood of Vipers
1984
Siempre en domingo
4.8/5
Behind the scenes at a popular TV variety show, highly fictionalized.
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Siempre en domingo
1959
Night Dance Hall
8/1
Martine is a young woman plagued both by poverty and by uncaring, problem parents who in no way can provide the kind of nurturing that Martine needs d...
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Night Dance Hall
1978
The Children of Sanchez
6.5/8
Hall Bartlett directs the rural drama The Children of Sanchez, based on the tome The Children of Sanchez: Autobiography of a Mexican Family written by...
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The Children of Sanchez
1987
Las Limpias
6/5
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Las Limpias
1980
Savage Summer
4.714/7
After a romantic betrayal, young Cecilia decides to sleep around with the men she grew up with.
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Savage Summer
1956
La faraona
4.429/7
Pastora Heredia is a beautiful gypsy with great character who always tries to help the needy. One day she gots the notice of the death of his grandfat...
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La faraona
1937
Honrarás a tus padres
6.333/3
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Honrarás a tus padres
1936
El calvario de una esposa
6/3
Confederate Col. Lafe Harvey (Earl Ross) travels home after the Civil War, where he must tell his niece, Betty (Frances Grant), that her father is pre...
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El calvario de una esposa
1975
El valle de los miserables
4.333/6
In 1909, former judge Cristóbal Zamarripa owns Valle Nacional, a tobacco plantation where he exploits workers with the support of the tyrant Porfirio...
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El valle de los miserables
1986
¡Maten al fugitivo!
4.857/7
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¡Maten al fugitivo!
1949
La vorágine: abismos de amor
6.5/4
It narrates the adventures of the poet Arturo Cova and his lover Alicia, a story of passion and revenge framed in the plain lands and the Amazon jungl...
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La vorágine: abismos de amor
1954
Nuevo amanecer
5.667/3
Mexican feature film
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Nuevo amanecer
1947
El príncipe del desierto
6.333/3
A girl meets a young boy in Arabia who falls in love with her. When they grow up, he goes to Mexico while hiding the fact that he is a prince.
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El príncipe del desierto
1946
El socio
5.8/5
A former singer, determined to succeed in business, comes up with a partner and just believing their existence. In the end, wake up ...
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El socio
1933
Over the Waves
5.375/8
Based on the brief life of the Mexican composer of the famous waltz, "Over the Waves" ("Sobre las Olas"), Juventino Rosas.
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Over the Waves
1959
Milagros de San Martín de Porres
6/3
Mexican feature film
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Milagros de San Martín de Porres
1942
Unidos por el eje
6.667/3
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Unidos por el eje
1939
Una luz en mi camino
6/6
In a small city, talented María was trained as a singer by blind composer Joaquín. They both dream of making it big in the capital but, when they fina...
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