Roberto Cobo
Birthday: 1930-02-20
Place of Birth: General Zuazua, Nuevo Leon, Mexico
Biography: Roberto Cobo was born on February 20, 1930 in General Zuazua, Nuevo Leon, Mexico as Roberto Garcia Romero. He was an actor, known for Los olvidados (1950), Dulces compañías (1996) and Subida al cielo (1952). His apartment collapsed during the 1985 Mexico City earthquake. Fortunately, he was rescued but his hip was damaged badly. He had to use a staff to walk after the earthquake. He died on August 2, 2002 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico.
Movies
The Young and the Damned
A group of juvenile delinquents live a violent life in the infamous slums of Mexico City; among them...
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Cabeza de Vaca
In 1528, a Spanish expedition flounders off the coast of Florida with 600 lives lost. One survivor, ...
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Mexican Bus Ride
Newlywed Oliverio receives disturbing news that his mother is on her deathbed. He travels to a remot...
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Little Saints
After St. Jude appears in Esperanza's oven, she sets out to find her daughter, who died under myster...
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The Image Book
In Le Livre d’Image, Jean-Luc Godard recycles existing images (films, documentaries, paintings, tele...
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Life Sentence
After being released from jail, "Tarzan" Lira seeks to rebuild his life as a bank employee. Unfortun...
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Speaking of Buñuel
Surrealist master Luis Buñuel is a towering figure in the world of cinema history, directing such gr...
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Knock Out
Rodrigo Zaracho, once a promising boxer, is in decline. While fleeing from a gang that is chasing hi...
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La leyenda de Rodrígo
Rodrigo is a seminarist that soon will be a priest, but a demon woman seduce him. He doesn't know wh...
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Without Destination
Sin Destino follows the life of a 15 year old Mexican boy, Francisco, as he struggles to survive on ...
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Estas ruinas que ves
In this sexy romantic comedy from Mexico, the life of a college professor is turned upside down when...
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The Magic Hour
Minerva, a middle age writer, decides to break the uncertainty that prevents her from creating the n...
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Se alquila marido
Female CEO hires a man to pass as her husband and act as figurehead of her business concerns....
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At a Lame Pace
Ragtag crew of indigents from an asylum for the handicapped form a squadron to defend the Church dur...
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Dulces Compañías
A geography teacher hires a male sex worker, yet the man is not what he appears to be....
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The Glories of the Great Púas
Journalist becomes a member of a boxing champion's entourage to write a book about the boxer's caree...
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Caribbean Rhythms
A Cuban rumbera dancer undergoes an ordeal to fall in love with a married Mexican doctor....
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Los enredos de una gallega
Cándida is a Galician who lives in Mexico and has been selling lottery tickets. Her dream is to buy ...
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Angel del barrio
Patada de Mula, an old retired boxer, lives with the guilt of having killed his opponent in his last...
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Esmeralda Comes by Night
The husbands of a charismatic nurse devise a plan to free her from prison when she is arrested for b...
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Hembra o macho
A lawyer fears he's gay after falling for a girl he thinks is a transvestite....
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D.F./Distrito Federal
Anthology film, six little anecdotes about life in the big city....
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La casa colorada
Mexican Revolution: rich man's son kills somebody over a woman, runs off to the war, goes home after...
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El águila descalza
Shmuck makes a superhero costume, rides his bike to crime scenes. He gets involved with something bi...
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El agujero
After twenty or thirty or forty unproductive years "up north" an emigrant gives up and goes home....
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Free Love
Two single women share an apartment, work together, and sometimes swap boyfriends. None of their rom...
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Deceitful Appearances
The sexual misunderstandings caused by the real identity of a rich woman serve Hermosillo to satiriz...
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Pompeyo el conquistador
Timid guy creates an alter-ego who will get tough with people while he continues being gentle and jo...
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Long live Tepito!
Slice of life covering four or five days in a badly run-down neighborhood. Matriarch of a slum famil...
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Black Wind
The building of a railroad under tough conditions from searing heat to freezing cold in the Sonora d...
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Vuelva el sábado
Young woman loses her secretarial job, so she tries to become a bill-collector....
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Slaughter Night
Three part anthology with stories involving a Phantom of the Opera-style killer haunting a theater, ...
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Bring Me the Vampire
A group of would-be beneficiaries gather for the reading of a will, and discover that they must spen...
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Donde nacen los pobres
Working-class boy, pampered rich girl. She thinks their love is strong enough to overcome all the cl...
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The King of the Neighborhood
A poor man becomes a modern Robin Hood, robbing the rich to give to the poor....
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Jóvenes y bellas
Five city boys and five country boys compete for the attentions of five city girls....
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Pedro Páramo, el hombre de la Media Luna
Juan Preciado, son of Pedro Páramo, goes to Comala to claim his inheritance; but when he arrives he ...
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El Mil Usos II
Transit must deal with his impulse to leave the country to go to the United States in search of the ...
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Los hermanos Machorro
Aging rancher reaches out to absorb an illegitimate son from long ago into his family. That son turn...
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A Beautiful Secret
The beloved screen legend Katy Jurado, the lights one last time in the history of a special friendsh...
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The Heart of the Night
A young deaf-mute who lives and has intercourse with a blind man much older than she, inevitably att...
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El día del compadre
The inhabitants of a condominium prepare to party and have a baile where various things happen cause...
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La reina del mambo
Nightclub performer escapes from her abusive manager and starts life over in a new city....
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Long Sleepless Nights
Bruno, a young prostitute on the streets of Mexico city, spends his free time yearning for his strai...
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Naná
Based on the Émile Zola same name novel. The life of Nana, a French prostitute of the 19th century. ...
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The Place without Limits
Family honor, greed, machismo, homophobia, and dreams collide in a small Mexican town....
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Una gringuita en México
A USA girl decides to vacation in Mexico and experience first hand all the stereotypical scenes she'...
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Ahí viene Vidal Tenorio
Two military goons slaughter a young man's parents and siblings. A few years later, the same guys ra...
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Los pasos de Ana
A divorced mother decides to do in life what she always wanted: To become a movie director. So she s...
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Amsterdam Boulevard
Gaby, a gay guy, lives with his sick father. One day Salvador, an ex-lover, appears in his apartment...
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The Legend of a Mask
A reporter starts investigating the life of the recently deceased wrestler "The Masked Angel"...
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El hijo de Lamberto Quintero
Lamberto Quintero is assassinated and his son intends to avenge him following in his footsteps. The ...
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Nosotras, las taquígrafas
Young women in the steno-pool have to balance work, romance, and touchy-feely bosses....
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Caiman's Dream
Iñaki, a petty thief, is forced to leave Spain because of a crime that got complicated. He decides t...
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Beso nocturno
A young man witnesses the horrible death of his girlfriend. He then sells his sexual services to a w...
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A Mexican Buñuel
A documentary covering the years Luis Buñuel spent in Mexico making films....
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