Joaquín Cordero
Birthday: 1923-08-16
Place of Birth: Puebla, Mexico
Biography: Joaquín Cordero (August 16, 1923 – February 19, 2013) was a Mexican actor of the cinema, theatre and telenovelas. Shortly after his birth, Cordero’s family moved to Mexico City, and in the following years he studied in a seminary and even considered becoming a priest, but eventually he decided to pursue a law career. After three years of law classes, against his family’s wishes he decided to become an actor. He initially appeared in small roles but by his early fifties he was getting much larger roles. Eventually he became one of the most popular actors in Mexican cinema. Cordero also shown appeared in theatre and on television and in the latter medium in numerous telenovelas and winning numerous awards. His most recent telenovelas included La Madrastra and Destilando Amor. February 19, 2013, Lamb died in a clinic in the city of Mexico, victim of heart problems that ended his life at the age of 89 years. According to his family, the Mexican actor died of love, facing a deep depression over the death of his beloved wife, Alma Guzman, which occurred on July 18, 2012.
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Once at Night
Landowner Raúl marries Norma, twenty-five years younger. His son Armando graduates and becomes his s...
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Orlak, the Hell of Frankenstein
A mad scientist creates a remote-controlled monster and sends it to terrorize the city....
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A Woman Without Love
After indulging in an affair with a man (a friend of the family) she truly loves, a woman returns to...
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Reclusorio
The human and divine justice are exposed through five real life stories related to the legal process...
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Dr. Satan
Dr. Satan, a mad scientist and sorceror, plans to take over the world. In order to do so, he wakes u...
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El gran autor
A story of passion and deceit, where love overcomes the misfortunes and finally triumphs....
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Dr. Satan vs. Black Magic
Plutarco Satan returns, this time he's pitted against a rival evil organization intent on owning the...
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La Madrastra: Años después
Set ten years after the finale's quintuple wedding, the special portrays the happily reunited San Ro...
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La faraona
Pastora Heredia is a beautiful gypsy with great character who always tries to help the needy. One da...
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Santo vs. Evil Brain
In his first film El Santo was still referred to as ‘El Enmascarado’. Rendered compliant by a scient...
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No me quieras tanto...
A ruthless nightclub owner involved in drug trafficking exploits a naive singer while plotting to ki...
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Un novio para dos hermanas
Pili and uncle Angel travel to Mexico to see Mili dancing at her debut in a theater in the capital. ...
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The Book of Stone
Julia, a governess, comes to work for a bourgeois family that lives in a forested property they have...
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El hijo del diablo
Victor Rincon is a smuggler who burns down the coastal ranch of an old man who refused to sell it to...
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Patsy My Love
Written by future Nobel-prize winner Gabriel García Márquez, this is the story of Patsy, a wealthy d...
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Arrabalera
Working-class girl marries rich playboy, gets implicated in his criminal activities....
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Remember to Live
In Guanajuato, a piano teacher delays her marriage to an engineer not to let her younger sisters alo...
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Santo vs. Infernal Men
Agent Joaquin recalls his latest mission while lying wounded in an ambulance: Joaquin has infiltrate...
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The River and Death
A useless and bloody vendetta has been going on for ages between two families in this Mexican villag...
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100 Cries of Terror
A husband and his lover hatch a plan to murder his wife, and a woman is buried alive in a mausoleum....
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A gozar, a gozar, que el mundo se va acabar
The casual, fun-loving naughtiness of a small town is interrupted when the local priest has an 'end ...
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La santa del barrio
Wicked old lady arranges to sell the virginity of a young neighbor. Her boyfriend gets upset over th...
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Asesinos de la lucha libre
Cowboy sheriff investigates the murder of a crooked lucha-libre promoter....
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El gran mentiroso
A respectable, married gent has made up a passel of stories to cover for his fifteen years of freque...
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Campeón del barrio
A young man eagerly prepares for triumph as a boxer in a neighborhood gym with the firm intention of...
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Tres tristes tigres
Three childhood friends are reunited after twenty years to receive an inheritance....
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El derecho a la vida
Four interlocking stories about pregnancy all intersecting in an obstetrician's office....
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El manantial del amor
Boy/girl stuff at a health spa that's famous for aphrodisiac waters....
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Herencia maldita
Itinerant cowboy impersonates the missing-presumed-dead owner of a hacienda to set matters straight ...
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¡Qué bravas son las costeñas!
Mexican-American playboy anchors his yacht offshore of a Veracruz fishing village and chases skirts ...
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El boxeador
Undefeated boxing champion for 15 years faces retirement. One final bout......
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Vacation of Terror II: Diabolical Birthday
Julio is back, quietly running an antique shop, when a chance encounter with singer Mayra and her yo...
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Las dos huerfanitas
Two young girls escape from an orphanage to go look for their mommies....
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Matar es fácil
Among Delia, a socialite, and Jorge a bohemian cabaret pianist, begins a relationship that ends in t...
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Cuchillo
After the 14th Ammendment to the US Constitution, everyone has rights - except the Native Americans....
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La gaviota
Local gal in a fishing/seaport resort has to decide between a local fisherman and a doctor who comes...
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Los tres Villalobos
Three brothers cowboy-up to battle crime. Based on a radio serial....
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El tesoro de Chucho el Roto
A notorious bandit dies and adventurers try to track down his hidden loot....
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Un par de sinvergüenzas
Itinerant cowboy learns that his horse can talk. Horse ends up giving him singing-lessons... and......
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Así amaron nuestros padres
Elderly roue interferes in the love life of a young woman because she's secretly his daughter. Remak...
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Estrategia matrimonio
Pragmatic young woman plots out her flirtations with five rich, eligible bachelors to play to the we...
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Atrás de las nubes
All it says in my notes is "Like 'Juan Sin Miedo', only with soldiers." So... Army officer seeks rev...
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Los tres mosqueteros de Dios
Three priests resort to desperate long-shots (like quiz-shows) to raise money for their parish....
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El pecador
College professor has mid-life crisis, gets mixed up with prostitutes and gangsters....
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El centauro Pancho Villa
M/F couple joins the Revolution, but she ends up in bed with Villa....
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24 horas de placer
Man develops a reputation as a great bedroom athlete after publishing a 'spicy' novel....
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El deseo llega de noche
Prison colony on an island: the staff Doctor has some neuroses he's trying to overcome, and his "wea...
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The Laughter Of The City
The underside of Mexico City: street performers, factory workers, a drunk, an old man with civic pri...
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Perverse Doll
A troubled woman commits a series of murders that exposes some dark family secrets....
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Land of Men
On his family's farm, Gilberto keeps weapons to support the revolutionaries. When his father find ou...
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El cafre
Trucker accepts an assignment to haul an extremely dangerous load of explosives from Tijuana to Mexi...
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The Monster of the Volcano
A yeti-like monster is stalking the mountains of rural Mexico, sometimes displaying the powers of hy...
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Los bravos de California
Zorroesque adventure pitting two swordsmen against a newly-appointed governor who wastes no time in ...
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Justice is Twelve Years Old
A mischievous girl must deal with her idiotic parents and her libertine relatives during the holiday...
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Los años vacios
A young woman's older brother returns home for the first time since before she was born. But... is i...
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Monte de piedad
Anthology-movie, series of anecdotes about the personal tragedies that lead people to take their val...
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Quinto patio
Model son/employee/student is frustrated by poverty and surrenders to the temptations of a criminal ...
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La niña de los hoyitos
Teenage Ferco falls in love with Rosalba who's already in love with Rafael. To impress Rosalba, Ferc...
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Comisario en turno
Night shift at police headquarters; criminals and victims of all sorts pass through to get their cas...
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Trampas de amor
Love, infidelity and desire are the protagonists of three stories full of entanglements and romance....
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La dulce enemiga
The story of a femme fatale whose adventures are narrated in flashbacks by the ghosts of her former ...
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El escuadrón del pánico
The story of the 65th Infantry Regiment of the US Army composed almost entirely of Puerto Ricans and...
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Sandunga para tres
Three boys and three girls. First all the boys are fighting over one of the girls, then all the boys...
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¡Qué bonito amor!
Bride backs out of her wedding at the last possible minute; she and her fiance get caught up in a po...
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Wrestling Women vs. the Killer Robot
A lady wrestler and her boyfriend, a policeman, battle a mad scientist who has developed a murderous...
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Mamá nos quita los novios
Amanda, a widow, is a beautiful woman that finds comfort seducing every man in her path, including h...
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Se la llevó el Remington
While tracking down the three men that killed his father, a notorious bad-ass commits other misdeeds...
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Sucedió en México
Woman has plastic surgery and reevaluates her relationships with husband and lover while pretending ...
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Museum Of Horror
A mysterious killer abducts girls off the street and covers them in wax....
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Satanic Sect: Messenger of the Lord
A satanic preacher comes to a small town where he unleashed the terror of the inhabitants....
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Dos esposas en mi cama
Missing-presumed-dead wife reappears after husband has remarried....
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¡A volar, joven!
Cantinflas is a private in the military, who doesn't know anything about discipline or following rul...
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El rey de la pistola
Western heist movie; a complicated bank job goes bad, and two groups of thieves fight the sheriff an...
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La venganza de los Villalobos
Cowboy-hero series, number two of two: Townsfolk pledge all their jewels and valuables as security f...
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Flor de canela
Nightclub entertainer discovers the truth about her birth mother while making the right choice in he...
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Te quiero
Claudia is a young executive who works with her father in a successful company. When Claudia’s fathe...
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Fieras contra fieras
In a small town governed by two rival families, the children break a decades-long feud by running aw...
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Fugitivos: Pueblo de proscritos
After breaking out of jail, a group of convicts finds a ghost town they can take possession of. They...
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Pepe El Toro
The simple life and the values of loyalty and solidarity of the poor people in the environment of ...
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¡Que padre tan padre!
Two feuding families are affecting the quality of life in a small town. The Church wants to interven...
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Las recién casadas
Three newlywed couples and the priest who married them face problems imposed on them by unquestionin...
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Los tres calaveras
A Mexican music trío go through friendships and hardships in order to be famous and travel to Spain....
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La Pura
A bra-less girl with large breasts and a shapely caboose walks around town in a miniskirt wiggling h...
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Las tapatías nunca pierden
An heiress and some friends pose as gypsies to fight back against some bad-hats who are squatting on...
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La sombra de los hijos
Dying woman refuses to surrender to her unnamed movie disease until she can help her children throug...
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¡Yo soy gallo dondequiera!
Young man returns to his home town from USA to reclaim his inherited properties....
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En la vieja California
Bastard son kidnaps legitimate heir in attempt to suborn their father's estate... but a surrogate co...
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Wild Dogs
A professional assassin (and widowed deadbeat dad set to soon remarry) decides to call it quits and ...
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Juventud sin Dios (La vida del padre Lambert)
An American priest is hired as coach at a Mexican university; he trains his students in the ways of ...
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The Corrupted
Hotel with a dozen stories unfolding simultaneously: man with brain tumor, child with leukemia, drug...
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The Bats
Cowboy-justice guy breaks up a criminal gang who are terrorizing a small town with the appearance of...
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Los problemas de mamá
Mama's four girls are all newlyweds or engaged to be married. Four hubby/fiances plus inlaws = wacky...
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Conexión Criminal
Two secret police officers fight against drug dealers and a sadistic criminal who executes the mafia...
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La fuerza de los humildes
Unethical industrialist gets taken down by a combination of forces including labor activists and a k...
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El río de las ánimas
Traveling lawman comes to town and schools the residents in collective farming practices. There's al...
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Los amores de Marieta (los fabulosos 20s)
Young woman and her godfather make up a story about her past in order to trick a suitor into marryin...
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The Terrible Giant of the Snow
A man and his wife discover they are in danger when they hear reports of a Yeti that lives on a near...
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The Grand Champion
El Kid Azteca not only fights to become someone in life; he also fights for the love of Avelina, who...
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Music of Always
Producer, director and projectionist watch an assortment of musical numbers and brainstorm about fr...
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Los aventureros
Two brothers and their pops end up helping out an orphaned young woman who wants revenge against her...
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Prisionera del pasado
Romance between a flamenco singer performing in Mexico and a gov't soldier during the Mexican Revolu...
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En carne propia
Rookie reporter and his publisher's daughter get caught up in a bizarre crime/traffic accident noir ...
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Sangre en Rio Bravo
Foreign mining concern resorts to illegal tactics to buy up land; two brothers are orphaned and disp...
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Romance de fieras
Newly-graduated lawyer gets caught up in the personal drama surrounding a rich industrialist and his...
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Tercio de quites
Spanish bullfighter and a Mexican one have a friendly rivalry spanning decades....
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Suerte te dé Dios
Two construction workers discover a stash of gold coins hidden in the walls of a building they're de...
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Todos son mis hijos!...
Good son takes the blame for father's peculations and goes off to work in the rain forest to pay off...
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Yo maté a Juan Charrasqueado
Everybody at the ranch adjacent to Juan C.'s has a reason to hate him, because he's a bad bad man....
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Venganza en el circo
Criss-crossing love affairs and jealousies result in a murder attempt....
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Venus de fuego
Wholesome young man falls hard for a woman who's identified as a luxury commodity; gangster/pimp guy...
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Los hombres de Lupe Alvírez
Three bad dudes are each hot for Lupe. They kill a guy while committing some crimes together, and th...
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Yo también soy de Jalisco
A dizzy rich woman buys their horse, and three rubes get involved in the problems and intrigues brew...
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To the Beat of Rock and Roll
When a romantic orchestra won't change their boring style into something more modern to get gigs, th...
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Cool Dad
Fiftyish head of household tries to hang onto his fun-loving youth while imposing his most rigid val...
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Una calle entre tú y yo
When the national league coach selects Luis, a football star, to participate in a match against the ...
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The Misfits
A lonely boy did not want to live until he meets a girl who pretends to be a star performer. An arro...
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Eva and Dario
Two young people are in love, but at the same time very confused about sex, love and the world....
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City Rats
A father on the search for his missing child discovers a revealing and shocking drama. The true adve...
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La reina del cielo
A tribe of Venezuelan Indians in the jungle, commanded by chief Coromoto live with fear because of t...
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La marcha a Zacatecas
Villistas, army officers, heirs and heiresses all gather at the home of a recently deceased hacendad...
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Revolt of the Ghosts
When an old house is about to be demolished to make room for a new radio station the famous ghosts w...
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Tres bribones
Three men receive a newborn child, along with a message that leaves the mother for dead and one of t...
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Las tres alegres comadres
When three poor young women fail in their attempts to break into films and night clubs in Mexico Cit...
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