Sara García
Birthday: Born in 1895-09-08 in Orizaba, Veracruz, Mexico
Deathday: 1980-11-21
Sara García (8 September 1895 – 21 November 1980) was a Mexican actress who made her biggest mark during the "Golden Age of Mexican cinema". During the 1940s and 1950s, she often played the part of a no-nonsense but lovable grandmother in numerous Mexican films. In later years, she played parts in Mexican telenovelas. Known as "Mexican Cinema's Grandmother", García's image is displayed on the label of Mexico's traditional Abuelitachocolate, a company now owned by Nestlé.
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Viviana
Character: Doña Angustias
A poor but beautiful woman comes to the city looking for her husband ... who is married to another woman, the evil Gloria. While she falls in love to a handsome and good hearted doctor, she decides to work at nights to earn money at a "Model School" which is, in reality, a high profile brothel......
Mundo de Juguete
Character: Nana Tomasita
Mundo de Juguete is a telenovela produced in Mexico by Televisa in 1974. It is a remake of telenovela Papá Corazón. This telenovela holds the record for having the second longest run ever for a Latin American telenovela, with a total of 605 episodes. Most telenovelas run for an average of six to eight months; the shortest ones run about four months, and the longest up to a year. Many "Mundo de Juguete" fans believe that either all or some of the tapes and film from the telenovela were lost when...
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Solicito marido para engañar
Character: Tía Mariana
Rich and misogynistic Fabián is determined to seduce married women, whom he literally undresses with his eyes due to a strange obsession. He also receives an inheritance from an aunt and announces that he will give part of it to his three cousins when they become widows. They harass him out of interest and he becomes Virginia's lover, and harasses Maura, who rejects him....
The Stone Crucifix
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A young prostitue woman arrives severely injured to a hospital and finds a chance to have a new life when the grandmother of another woman who has just died there mistakenly takes her as her grandaugther and takes her to live with her....
El Papelerito
Character: Dominga
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Vuelven los García
Character: Grandma Luisa García
Ruled by a tough grandma, the Garcías are three charro cousins who fall in love with young American-born Lupita and fight for her love until grandma quiets them....
The Three Garcías
Character: Grandma Luisa García
Ruled by a tough grandma, the Garcías are three charro cousins who fall in love with young American-born Lupita and fight for her love until grandma quiets them....
Dicen que soy mujeriego
Character: Doña Rosa
Pedro has had many lovers but he only loves one of them, but this romance stop going on for his flirts with other women....
Dos mexicanos en Sevilla
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Bello recuerdo
Character: Dona Sara
Back from vacation, Lucy, a school's music teacher, misses a boy. People say he will not return because he recently lost his father. She is very affected by his favorite student, so she decides to go to see him, finding the house in utter ruin. But chance makes Lucy forced to take the child and immediately found in him the son that was kidnapped years ago in America when she was a famous artist....
Yo quiero ser tonta
Character: Doña Atilana
Dreamer father wants son to become a bullfighter, and daughter to become a singer, so they become instant millionares, although their talent is not apparently there....
Un novio para dos hermanas
Character: Sra. Cáceres
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 her uncle, she decides to seek work. Meanwhile, Pili works in a department store and meets Rodolfo, the grandson of Mrs. Caceres, owner of the store, which she takes for the chauffeur of the lady. In turn, Ms. Caceres hires Mili to dance at her party, where she meets and falls for Rodolfo. Rodolfo, who does not know of the existence of a twin siste...
El dinamitero
Character: La Abuela
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Those Who Came Back
Character: Marta Ortos
A small disparate group of people board a multi-day, multi-stop flight from Mexico City to Buenos Aires. A remake of the film Five Came Back (1939) directed by John Farrow....
The Living Idol
Character: Elena
An archaeologist believes a Mexican woman is the reincarnation of an Aztec princess....
El baisano Jalil
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Aristocratic but penniless, the Veradada have to resort to loans Lebanese businessman Jalil, whose son Selim, suffers the scorn of Martha, the daughter of the Veradada wasteful. Being invited to the house of Don Guillermom, Jalil and his wife Suan and Selim are teased and contempt. Finally, the Lebanese family worker puts in place the family of Don Guillermo ridiculous....
National Mechanics
Character: Doña Lolita
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 elderly person....
El Capitan Aventurero
Character: Catalina, corregidora
Don Gil de Alacala (José Mojica), a swashbuckler also known as Captain Adventure, must overcome a series of difficult trials and tribulations in order to save the love of his life, Carmina (Manolita Saval), who is engaged to marry a terrible nobleman. Based upon the libretto "Don Gil de Alcala" by Manuel Penella, this classic black-and-white romance also stars Margarita Mora, Carlos Orellana and Sara García....
The White Horse
Character: Doña Refugio
Claimed by his grandmother, who lives in a Mexican village, Joselito begins the journey from Spain. Once there, while traveling in a stagecoach, is assaulted by bandits. Joselito manages to escape and, walking aimlessly, he meets Antoine, a rider who is ex officio of random player, and become close friends....
Story of a Great Love
Character: doña Josefa
Manuel leaves town leaving Soledad in deep sadness. After several years of absence, the young man returns to find Soledad married to Antonio. However, the woman continues to be in love with him and both are determined to consummate their love....
Calumnia
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La Casa del Farol Rojo
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La vida de Pedro Infante
Character: Sara Garcia
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Los Fernández de Peralvillo
Character: doña Conchita Fernández; doña Chita
A young man fails as a seller of household goods and his sister, tired of poverty, elopes with a criminal....
The Innocent
Character: La abuela
The innocence of a woman due to a mental deficit will become the worst nightmare for her loved ones, after the harsh reality of the outside world made her their victim....
Mamá Inés
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En un burro tres baturros
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Three Spaniards emigrate to Mexico and become prosperous landowners....
Perjura
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Musical romance set in 1880s Mexico....
To the Sound of the Marimba
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Shabby-genteel big city family tries to marry their daughter off to a wealthy landowner from the southern provinces....
La trepadora
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Romantic triangles between city folk and country folk, with new money/old money issues complicating the story....
Como yo te quería
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Romantic comedy/drama....
El día de las madres
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Three interwoven stories about generational conflicts beween single mothers and their adolescent/adult children....
End of the Party
Character: Doña Beatriz
A motorcycle gang goes to a mansion where a party is being held and joy turns into tragedy....
Los dinamiteros
Character: Doña Pura
Doña Pura, don Benito and don Augusto are three venerable old people who usually coincide each month in the queues of the mutuality windows to collect their pension, an opportunity they take advantage of to talk about life. When they learn that the old don Felipe, an acquaintance, is very sick and is alone and without money for a decent funeral, they decide to ask for a loan to help him, but, as they do not grant it, they decide to rob the savings bank. To do this, they will plan everything thor...
Joselito vagabundo
Character: Mrs. Guadalupe
Rene, a street urchin, is coerced by the head of a gang of thieves, Frank, who wants to force him to remain in their organization. One day, Rene meets Anita, a young aristocrat to whom Frank attempted to rob. And because she feels sympathy for him, the boy will have the opportunity to change his life and leave the country to make a deal with a rich heir, Fernando de Ponce, which proposes Rene to supplant him before his old aunt, who does not know him....
Why Was I Born a Woman?
Character: Doña Rosario
A family gathers to celebrate Mother's Day, that day a woman discuss many problems about her woman condition; husband, children and grandchildren will hear she tired and overwhelmed silenced by submission and obedience. Analysis of the family and gender roles....
The Innocent
Character: Madre de Mané
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. The car breaks down in the highway and Mane has to ask for help. Mechanic Cruci arrives and, after testing the car, offers Mane a ride on his motorcycle. Back in Mane's house, she invites him some drinks to celebrate New Year's Eve. They get drunk and, the morning after, Mane's parents arrive and find them sleeping together. Not knowing what happene...
El lunar de la familia
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Fernando Mendez's 1953 Spanish-language melodrama El Lunar de la Familia unfurls against the backdrop of a deceptively innocent-sounding family reunion. Two freewheeling, party-happy young men, Luis and his buddy Antonio, catch the train in to San Miguel, on a visit to Luis's grandmother, Doña Luisa, and his sister Esther. Unfortunately for the visitors, Luisa's goddaughter Rosita, is sitting near them in the same train car. She soon catches wind of the boys' wild tendencies, and makes a point o...
La miel se fue de la luna
Character: Doña Martirio
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 Cuba. With her, he poses as a friend industrial, Ricardo and his intention is not to see her again. While Africa is out he marries Mini, which proves to be terribly jealous. Complications ensue when Africa returns to Mexico and start searching for the fake Richard. By chance a friend of Mini will be in a beauty salon and this ensures she can take to "Ricar...
El ropavejero
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Cirilo, a used clothes dealer, falls in love with Maria, who works as a cook in a house. One day they find by chance in the basement something that will change their lives....
El Verdugo De Sevilla
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Comedy set in Spanish boarding house....
Alejandra
Character: Doña Elena
There's a lot of confusion about who Alejandra's parents are, and until those questions are resolved, she may not be able to get married....
La gallina clueca
Character: Doña Teresa de Treviño
Divorced mother struggles to raise her large family....
Marihuana El Monstruo Verde
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Policeman goes undercover to bust drug-smuggling ring....
No te engañes corazón
Character: Doña Petro
No te engañes corazón (released in English as Don't Fool Yourself Dear) is the first full-feature film of Cantinflas after becoming a star of the carpa circuit (folk theater). It was also one of the earliest films of Sara García and Carlos Orellana and the first where they share the screen. Don Boni (Orellana) is diagnosed with a deadly disease and decides to spend his last days doing good deeds. He leaves his wife and decides to help people. He then gets drunk and wakes up with a winning lotte...
You’re Missing the Point
Character: Clotilde Regalado
Cantinflas, the boyfriend of the servant of a rich industrial man, gets into the house in order to kill a mad dog. Suddenly this man appears so the servant tells him that Cantinflas is his wife's brother (Leonardo), who had been lost for years. The rich man then remembers that his father in law's testament could only be paid when all brothers get together, so treats Cantinflas, a real bum, as a king....
The Secret of the Spinster
Character: Marta
A homeless orphan girl is adopted by a wealthy man against his wife wishes. When the man dies, the girl endures endless humiliations under the wife's harsh grip, so she finds solace with mysterious old maid who lives near by....
Dueña y señora
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After his wife dies, the master of the house can... maybe... acknowledge that he had children with the houseekeeper. But will he?...
El diablo no es tan diablo
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Gender-reversal comedy about husband and wife trading places....
Los Cristeros
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When the government places restrictions on the Catholic church's autonomy, an armed uprising takes place. Disagreements over the new laws create conflict within the protagonist's family....
Dos pesos dejada
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Comedy/melodrama: player runs out on his pregnant girlfriend, and her mother's boyfriend steps in to set matters straight....
Escuadrón 201
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Personal stories of a handful of Air Force recruits....
El hombre inquieto
Character: Doña Fátima Sayeh
Adult street urchin passes himself off as rich man's long-lost son....
El malvado Carabel
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Frustrated salaryman responds to career setbacks by embarking on a life of crime....
¡Viva México!
Character: Doña Josefa Ortiz de Domínguez
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Pobres millonarios
Character: Doña Margarita del Valle
Squatter neighborhood finds a wealthy sponsor....
La honradez es un estorbo
Character: Doña Refugio
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The Third Word
Character: Matilde
The English-language title of this Mexican musical was The Third Word. Singer Pedro Infante stars as a pampered young man who is sheltered by his doting aunts. Deciding that their darling boy needs an education, the ladies hire pretty schoolteacher Marga Lopez. Upon discovering that her pupil is 28 years old, Marga is momentarily nonplused, but then settles into her duties. Inevitably, romance blossoms between Pedro and Marga, much to the aunts' dismay....
Faith, Hope and Charity
Character: Old woman (segment "Caridad")
Three episodes. Faith: a woman is attacked. Hope: a fakir is crucified. Charity: a woman faces bureaucracy....
La duquesa del Tepetate
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Romantic comedy....
When the Children are Gone
Character: Doña Lupe Rosales
Unjustly accused of theft, the noble Raimundo is forced to leave his paternal home. A new incident, caused by the ambition of his brother José, causes Raimundo to be disowned by his girlfriend María and by his father, the just and strict Don Pepe. The only one who believes in Raimundo is his mother, Dona Lupita, a woman who suffers deeply because of the wrong decisions of her children....
Los leones del ring contra la Cosa Nostra
Character: Doña Refugio
Twin brother of murdered pro-wrestler goes after the killerses....
Perez Family
Character: Natalia Vivanco de Pérez
Gumaro Pérez must fulfill all the whims of his wife, who is sworn lady of society even though the Pérez are not a wealthy family. In order not to look bad with his wife, Gumaro asks for a loan, but when he receives it, all his co-workers take it from him since he owes everyone money....
Miente y serás feliz
Character: Constancia
A Spanish, Juan, is obsessed with telling the truth always. As a result he is consistently in the middle of troubles......
El buena suerte
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An acquaintance from Venezuela visits the owner of a Mexican ranch, causes upheavals in the love-life of the foreman....
Como gallos de pelea
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Young man returns from college to his family estate; when he learns that a rival family is trying to take over all available acreage, he gradually warms up to the idea of defending his turf....
No matarás
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A mother stands by helplessly while a scandal involving marital infidelity, blackmail and murder takes shape around her daughter....
Las chivas rayadas
Character: Doña Pancha
The comical misadventures of two brothers who are part of the local soccer team and their family....
¡Acá las Tortas!
Character: Dolores
College students, ready to start entering adult society, are ashamed of their working-class backgrounds....
Por el mismo camino
Character: Tia Justa
On vacation, an old lady and her niece pick up a hitch-hiker....
Los santos reyes
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Three criminals break out of jail and head for a town where they've hidden their steals....
Héroe a la fuerza
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Child suffers a brain injury and falls into a coma. When he regains consciousness, twenty years later, he has to deal with having become a grown-up 'overnight'....
El gran premio
Character: Soledad Fuentes Lagos 'Cholita'
Elderly home is struggling for funds; one of the residents competes on a game show to win a jackpot she can donate....
Escuela para solteras
Character: Doña Bernarda
All-star ranchera fest, rom-com style. Four charros, four eligible young ladies....
The Vivanco Ladies
Character: Hortensia Vivanco y de la Vega
Two women of lesser descent are dedicated to stealing to support their brother's daughter....
Seis días para morir
Character: Doña Mercedes
Public health thriller: rabies in Mexico City....
El barchante Neguib
Character: Sara
Small-town Arabic family moves to Mexico City to live with the oldest son who made his career there. Follow-up (not a direct sequel) to El baisano Jalil (1942)....
Los fenómenos del fútbol
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Working class family owns a restaurant: one brother's a rising star in local soccer, one's a priest/semi-pro boxer, sister's an aspiring ranchera singer and the other brother's a waterboy at the stadium....
Flor marchita
Character: Paula la nana
Adult seduces and abandons a teenaged girl, she has a baby. Fifteen years later......
¡Ay qué rechula es Puebla!
Character: Doña Severa
Two charros from Hacienda A come a-courtin' to hacienda B, owned by a friend of their father's. Also a horse-race....
La vida difícil de una mujer fácil
Character: Doña Amalia
Friends, co-workers and clients reminisce about a recently-deceased sex-worker....
Son of the Town
Character: Vicenta Aurelia Fernandez; Chenta
At the end of an unhappy romance, a Mexico City cabdriver decides he's fed up with big-city classism and hypocrisy, and goes home to his ranch. Soon, a group of city-folk are stranded on his property and dependent on him for help and sustenance....
La abuelita
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Granny rules the roost, but little sister's a bit rebellious. She listens to Cuban music, she wears make-up, she goes out un-chaperoned... Granny sees her rubbing up against a married man and it shatters her health....
Mis hijos!
Character: María
An endless series of disasters separates a mother from her children. It takes her over twenty years to find her way back to the bosom of her family....
Yo quiero ser hombre
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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 maid and her nephew in order to get to know him better....
No One Will Love You Like I Do
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A student-movement leftist becomes a nun and absorbs lots of deep, deep TV-movie spiritual lessons about God's glorious plan....
Novia a la medida
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Door-to-door salesman falls for a young woman, implements hare-brained schemes to separate her from her fiance....
Mi madrecita
Character: Doña María (as Sarah Garcia)
Woman faces the vicissitudes of life with her three adult children well in the background. But when the chips are down......
Entre monjas anda el Diablo
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A man called “The Devil” makes a living in cock-fights. He falls for a girl who's about to enter the monastery....
Póker de ases
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Four brothers try to manage their careers and love-lives under the close supervision of a domineering mother....
Yo pecador
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Biopic of a 1930s operatic tenor who ended up becoming a Franciscan monk and joining the priesthood....
Canta mi corazón
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Teen-pop singer launches his career. Family conflicts and girlfriend troubles....
La comadrita
Character: Doña Chonita
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El analfabeto
Character: Doña Epifanita
Inocencio Prieto y Calvo receives a letter telling him he is the heir to his uncle's fortune of two million pesos. Not being able to read he has no idea of who sent the letter or its content. So he goes to the drugstore because the pharmacist can read the letter to him. But while waiting to be helped he sees that a young girl can read. He figures he has to be able to discover the letter's content by himself and decides he will save the letter and go to school, and wait to read the letter on ...
Eterna agonía
Character: Doña Cholita
Convicted on flimsy evidence of complicity in a jewel robbery, there's nothing he can do afterward to put his life in order. Downward spiral....
Orange Blossoms for your Wedding
Character: Eloísa
During the time of the Mexican Revolution, the eldest daughter of a conservative family must respect the decision of her parents, and follow the traditions of using the wedding flowers her mother used....
¿Quién te quiere a tí?
Character: Dolores
Neither he nor she are very handsome, not to say ugly, and how they would like to be good looking to give and receive compliments, and that someone loves them....
La ciudad de los niños
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Priest feels a calling to open an orphanage....
La señora de enfrente
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Two travelers visiting a small town link up together and then run afoul of the gossip of church ladies....
Las amiguitas de los ricos
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On Christmas Eve, Santa Claus engineers a miracle that will rehabilitate three kept women into orthodox 'decency' and marriage....
Las mujeres mandan
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Aging bank-teller gets mixed up with a nightclub singer....
Los dos apóstoles
Character: Doña Angustias
Two boys and two girls hook up at the big festival in a neighboring town. Once they get back home they have to deal with their families' plans for them, which may not include their new sweethearts....
Nobleza ranchera
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Respected civic leader hired a gunman twenty five years ago to commit a murder for him. Now that guy is blackmailing him, and meanwhile his two daughters are competing over a boyfriend....
Mis abuelitas... no más!
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Bush-league actor allows two adorable grannies to believe he's their long-lost grandson. Then: complications!...
Regalo de reyes
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Class conflicts between two families; one's upper-class but decaying, one's industrious middle-class on the rise. Also Christmas....
Malditas sean las mujeres
Character: Señora de Ambrosaliet
A tragicomic piece based on a novella by Manuel Ibo Alfaro....
Dos cadetes
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Mama thinks one of her sons is going into the priesthood... but he wants to join the army instead. Naughty uncle from Paris help him get out from under Mom's thumb....
La reina del mambo
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Nightclub performer escapes from her abusive manager and starts life over in a new city....
Caminito alegre
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An elderly homeless man is welcomed into an Old Folks' Home and becomes acquainted with the dramas of several of his companions....
México de mis amores
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Anthology of clips from classic-era Mexican films, with reality-footage of elderly actors discussing their memories of the period....
My Dear Captain
Character: Pelancha
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Nos lleva la tristeza
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Love in bloom between two ranching families: boy A and girl B, boy B and girl A, the surviving grandparent of each family, their elderly man-baby house stewards, and the prize racehorse from each family all end up pairing off together. Transitory problems, inevitable happy solutions....
No se mande, profe
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Strait-laced teacher at a girl's school unleashes his wild side when he debuts as a pop singer in his spare time....
Paloma brava
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Paloma is bound and determined to kill the heck out of the guy that dishonored her sister, but mistaken identities and stuff....
Sor Ye-yé
Character: Madre María de los Ángeles
Maria is a young orphan who lives with her wealthy aunt. Maria sings in a cocktail bar with his friends, who form a rock band, and enjoy the night with them. One of his friends, Ernesto, is in love with her, though she does not seem to feel the same about him. In fact, multiple existential doubts and feel a strange emptiness in his life suddenly drive to enter a convent as a novice, breaking Ernestos' heart. However, with her cheerlul character, open and rebellious, not appear to conform to life...
Doña Clarines
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Aging wastrel wants to have his sister declared incompetent so he can take control of her estate....
Los leones del ring
Character: Doña Refugio
Young wrestler runs afoul of gambling-syndicate Mafiosi; his twin brother and two friends meet at his funeral and decide to avenge his murder (which they don't even start doing until the sequel)....
Toros, amor y gloria
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Farmhand moves to the city to be with his mother. He falls in love with the daughter of the rich family for whom she works as housekeeper, and decides to take advantage of his skill as a bullfighter to earn money and status enough to be able to court her....
La Hermanita Dinamita
Character: Madre Ana
After accidentally hitting a boy with her car, a young woman pretends to be a nurse in order secretly help him to recover....
Papá se desenreda
Character: Petra
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Pescadores de perlas
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Soul Sacrifice
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Soul Sacrifice is a 1917 Mexican silent film. It features Sara García as an extra....
La soñadora
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La soñadora ("The Dreamer") is a 1917 Mexican silent film. It features Sara García as an extra....
With my finger on the trigger
Character: La abuela
The Private detective Raúl Marín with the help of his grandmother and the police commander Aragón try to find out the murder of several homicides in three episodes: El Anónimo, El Ídolo and El Hipnotizador....
Sexo contra sexo
Character: Lady Owner of Can-Can Club
The engineer José Luis, husband of the fichera and dancer Estrella Raleigh, dies in a plane crash. During the burial, Estrella discovers that her husband was having an affair. It's quickly revealed that things are a bit more complicated than they initially appear....
Como México no hay dos
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Rags-to-riches story about the rise of a fictional ranchera-music superstar....
Tuya en cuerpo y alma
Character: María Antonia
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Si me viera don Porfirio
Character: Doña Martirio
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Charity
Character: Old woman
The charity of an elderly millionaire in a lost city provokes a series of reactions:...