
Wolf Ruvinskis
Of Jewish origins, Wolf Ruvinskis Manevics was born in 1921 in Riga (Latvia), but fearing persecution during World War II his family relocated to Argentina, where they lived in extreme poverty. In spite of his deprived childhood, Wolf excelled in sports and became interested in wrestling. When he was 19 years old he started his professional career and toured South America, the United States and Mexico, where he decided to stay. Although he stayed on the ring until the 1960s - in matches with top Mexican wrestlers, as El Santo, Black Shadow, El Médico Asesino and Lobo Negro - Wolf was also a tango singer and a magician, and in 1949 he was called to act on the stage and in films. One of his biggest successes was _Bestia magnífica, La (1953)_, the first in a series of movies centered on Neutron, a character he created. His popularity was firmly established with his role as the handsome rural boy who becomes the victim of a mad scientist in the cult film The Body Snatcher (1957), he was a regular performer in all kinds of movies until the 1990's and was nominated for an Ariel as Best Supporting Actor for _Juego limpio (1996/II)_. He was also a businessman, and married three times: to Beatriz Perez, to dancer Armida Herrera, and to actress Lilia Micheluntil his death in 1999.
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 2.922 |
Birthday | 1921-10-30 |
Place of Birth | Riga, Latvia |
Also Known As | Wolf Rubinski, Wolf Rubinskis, Wolf Rubinsky, Wolf Rubinskys, Wolf Ruvinskis Manevics, |

1957

Diabolical Kidnapping
5/2
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Diabolical Kidnapping

1986

Mientras México duerme
5.5/8
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Mientras México duerme

1986

The Kidnapping of Lola
6.1/12
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The Kidnapping of Lola

1962

Neutron and the Black Mask
5/8
Dr. Charon and his group of mad scientists built a neutron bomb with trying to blackmail the free world for global power. But the hero appears, Neutro...
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Neutron and the Black Mask

1967

Santo vs. the Martian Invasion
5.6/17
In this Mexican sci-fi fantasy, big beefy Martians invade the earth. Ostensibly, they have come to warn people about the dangers of nuclear testing an...
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Santo vs. the Martian Invasion

1965

Neutron Battles the Karate Assassins
4.4/7
Superhero wrestler Neutron battles a gang of robotic assassins who use their hands and feet as deadly weapons.
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Neutron Battles the Karate Assassins

1989

Bonampak
5/2
The film narrates the discovery of the last great Mayan city, which occurred during the spring of 1946. It is the story of Charles Frey, a smuggler of...
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Bonampak

1953

La sexta carrera
5/2
Mexican feature film
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La sexta carrera

1962

Neutron the Atomic Superman vs. the Death Robots
5.3/13
The evil scientist Dr. Caronte plots to revive the brains of three dead scientists and use them to obtain the formula for the super-powerful neutron b...
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Neutron the Atomic Superman vs. the Death Robots

1977

El mexicano
5/2
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1995

Juego limpio
5/2
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2024

La Lucha Invade el Cine Mexicano
10/1
Lucha libre is part of Mexican culture, but how did something that was shown in circuses and fairs become a cinematic genre? Join us to learn about th...
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1955

La vida no vale nada
8.207/46
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 ma...
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La vida no vale nada

1957

The Body Snatcher
5.5/11
A detective and his cowboy friend team up to stop a mad scientist who is stealing the bodies of murdered wrestlers, and bringing them back to life whi...
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1952

El luchador fenómeno
5.2/4
Amado is an employee of a brewery that dreams of success in football. Inveterate dreamer sends a letter to the pantheon of athletes. There champions A...
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1984

Knock Out
6.2/7
Rodrigo Zaracho, once a promising boxer, is in decline. While fleeing from a gang that is chasing him, he remembers his past.
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1963

Neutron vs. Dr. Caronte
4.8/6
Neutron, a superhero/wrestler, goes up against a mad scientist and his army of monsters.
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Neutron vs. Dr. Caronte

1953

The Magnificent Beast
5.1/7
The Magnificent Beast (Free Fight) is a 1953 Mexican film. It was directed by Chano Urueta. The first film of the Luchadores genre.
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1984

Mexico vs. Estados Unidos
5/2
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1994

Wall of Darkness
5/2
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1945

Secreto profesional
5/2
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1956

The Hawks
6.7/44
The story of two half brothers who do not know they are such, who fight over a woman and nearly kill each other. One of them belongs to Los Gavilanes,...
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1958

A Media Luz Los Tres
5.8/4
"Confirmed bachelor" quits playing the field and gets married.
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A Media Luz Los Tres

1952

Música, mujeres y amor
5.2/5
Two women are installed in the cabin of a ship that was already occupied by two gentlemen.
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Música, mujeres y amor

1975

Acapulco 12-22
4.8/6
Tourist industry dudes moonlight as karate detectives, solving crimes committed among the mod young jet-setters.
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Acapulco 12-22

1969

El crepúsculo de un dios
6.2/4
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El crepúsculo de un dios

1957

El diablo desaparece
5/2
Cowboy justice: drifter takes on unscrupulous rancher and his sociopathic son.
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El diablo desaparece

1986

Chido Guan, el tacos de oro
4.7/3
Street-punk drafted to soccer team, rises to stardom. Cuz he plays so good.
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Chido Guan, el tacos de oro

1966

El mexicano
5/3
After USA's appropriation of Texas, a Mexican resident responds to prejudice and injustice by forming a band of bandits.
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El mexicano

1998

Living in Wrestling: History of Wrestling in Mexico
10/1
A comprehensive history of Wrestling in Mexico. Starring some of the most famous Mexican wrestlers of our times.
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1952

The Sleeping Beauty
7.2/38
A Mexican comedy loosely playing off of the tale of Sleeping Beauty. A caveman wakes up after a thousand year slumber. When he awakens he is seen as a...
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The Sleeping Beauty

1962

Dinamita Kid
6.1/5
Young boxer on the rise butts head with dishonest promoters. Etc etc.
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Dinamita Kid

1962

El justiciero vengador
5/4
White-hat with two sidekicks masquerades as a priest to break the stranglehold a blackhat has on a small town.
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El justiciero vengador

1957

El gato sin botas
5.7/10
Target of ridicule from fellow military academy, the cowardly Augustin did not want to return to their village for fear of confronting his grandfather...
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El gato sin botas

1958

¡Paso a la juventud..!
4.7/7
Champion diver on a Uni swim team trains for the Olympics and contends with his buffoonish room-mate.
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¡Paso a la juventud..!

1955

El túnel 6
5/2
Engineering crew excavating a tunnel through a mountain, are trapped by a landslide.
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El túnel 6

1956

El sultán descalzo
6.9/7
Jack-of-all-trades interferes in his neighbors' lives, then has to set everything straight.
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El sultán descalzo

1951

Hell Road
6.3/9
When a robbery goes wrong, the thief takes a singer as hostage, they fall in love and try to rebuild their lives, but tragedy surges in the most unexp...
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Hell Road

1950

Una mujer sin destino
4.4/5
"Brilliant" young painter watches his wife lapse into schizophrenia.
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Una mujer sin destino

1989

Mi compadre Capulina
5/5
Baseball sketch, restaurant sketch, store-detective sketch, lucha libre sketch. Remake of No me defiendes, compadre.
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Mi compadre Capulina

1959

La última lucha
5.8/5
Slice-of-life melodrama: backstage at the wrestling arena.
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La última lucha

1952

Los tres alegres compadres
5.3/3
Father and two sons raise hell at the county fair.
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1956

Una piedra en el zapato
5.3/3
Police procedural: some detail pertaining to a murder case is nagging at the back of a detective's mind "like having a stone in his shoe." Once he tea...
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Una piedra en el zapato

1957

Asesinos, S.A.
4.8/5
Incompetent clown is drafted into a Murder Incorporated style squad of hitmen.
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1960

Vivo o muerto
5/4
Cowboy/western: hero fakes cowardice to trap the bad guys into showing their hands.
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Vivo o muerto

1962

The Shame of the Sabine Women
4.7/7
The Sabine tribe battles Romulus in the early days of Rome after Romans seize their women as unwilling brides.
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1961

El jinete enmascarado
5/2
Horseman. With a mask on. First in a series, "El Norteño."
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1959

El superflaco
5.6/5
Mad scientist gives Atomic Powers to a 98 pound weakling.
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1974

Descenso del pais de la noche
5.3/3
A young woman of wealthy class rejects the world that surrounds her and dies, but in her wake a shaman resuscitates her. She is dedicated to transgres...
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1966

Jinetes de la llanura
5.8/4
Cowboy-hero series, first of two. Sequel: Pistoleros de la frontera.
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1951

The Troublemaker
6.8/9
Well-intentioned Tin Tan who is always making trouble for other people, sometimes on purpose and sometimes by accident.
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1968

Esclava del deseo
4.8/9
Criminals hiding out on an island find a shipwrecked stranger.
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Esclava del deseo

1960

La estrella vacía
5.8/4
Mourners share their memories of a dead film-star at her wake, a la Citizen Kane. Only melodrama.
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1966

Forbidden Cargo
5.8/4
Federal agent infiltrates smuggling gang in seaport.
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Forbidden Cargo

1974

Island of Lost Souls
5.8/9
Rene Cardona directs the film version of Jose Leon Sanchez's best-selling novel, which relates the author's 20 years of imprisonment on an island rule...
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Island of Lost Souls

1994

Días de combate
5/5
A novice private detective is on the trail of a serial strangler in Mexico City.
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Días de combate

1968

Santo the Silver Mask vs. The Ring Villains
5.2/8
Santo fights a group of phony spiritualists who are trying to scam his god-daughter out of her 6 million peso inheritance.
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Santo the Silver Mask vs. The Ring Villains

1949

¡No me defiendas, compadre!
6.3/9
A bungling wannabe-lawyer keeps interfering in his friend's lives; his desire to help always makes things worse.
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¡No me defiendas, compadre!

1953

El señor fotógrafo
8.2/72
Cantinflas, a traveling photographer, is captured by some gangsters while trying to get some flowers for his girlfriend. The gangsters have confused h...
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El señor fotógrafo

1962

Sangre en el ring
5/5
Boxing melodrama; heroic middleweight vs. crooked promoters. Sequel to Dinamita Kid.
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Sangre en el ring

1965

El señor doctor
7.8/98
It's about a country doctor that comes to the city while a clinic is built in his home town... he rubs off his care and compassion on others at the ho...
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El señor doctor

1950

Wild Love
5.2/5
Alma leaves Panama to go live with her aunt Antonia and with Manuel, her husband. There she meets Julio, who tries to woo her.
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Wild Love

1954

Tailored gentleman
6.8/34
Cantinflas works as a model of tuxedos in a prestigious store, your job is to use the smoking in the street along with an advertising sign on his back...
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Tailored gentleman

1951

El cardenal
5/2
Mexican feature film
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El cardenal

1957

Los tres mosqueteros y medio
6.5/7
Spoofy adaptation of The Three Musketeers, follows the original very closely.
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Los tres mosqueteros y medio

1965

Neutron vs. the Maniac
4.9/8
Neutron, a wrestler/superhero, investigates a series of murders at a sanitarium.
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Neutron vs. the Maniac

1966

El proceso de Cristo
6.3/13
The story of The Last Hours of Jesus Christ.
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El proceso de Cristo

1988

By Fire And Sword
5.5/6
Offbeat Mexican police officer must transport 3 convicts to a trial before a local drug kingpin kills them.
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By Fire And Sword

1978

El patrullero 777
7.8/102
Follows Diogenes as he goes about his day as a police officer. He's prone to do things the right way, surrounded by a pretty much corrupt & citize...
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El patrullero 777

1950

The Man Without a Face
6.615/13
A faceless killer who hunts women can only be stopped by a detective with a disturbing past.
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The Man Without a Face

1969

Mujeres de medianoche
3.8/5
Crime melodrama involving blackmail, murder, mystery and the obligatory police investigation.
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Mujeres de medianoche

1976

El hombre del puente
5.5/4
A man without identity/citizenship papers is stuck in the no-man's-land between two countries.
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El hombre del puente

1949

The Black Sheep
7.8/63
The Trevino family tries to overcome the irresponsible behavior of Don Cruz, an erratic father with numerous defects that contrast with his son Silvan...
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The Black Sheep

1967

Pistoleros de la frontera
5/2
"The fastest gun of all" visits his home-town for a few days. All he really wants is to see his wife and som, talk with them about starting over somep...
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Pistoleros de la frontera

1953

Pepe El Toro
6.3/26
The simple life and the values of loyalty and solidarity of the poor people in the environment of professional boxing, is the plot of this film, whe...
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Pepe El Toro

1952

Las locuras de Tin Tan
5.6/8
Tin-Tan wants to builds an ice cream machine.
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Las locuras de Tin Tan

1952

Mi campeón
5/3
Catita is a simple and poor woman who dreams of that her son stands out on something important to help her out of his humble. But she opposes to him b...
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Mi campeón

1953

Me traes de un ala
5.9/8
To conquer the beautiful vedette Rosita, journalist Tin Tan is subject to her whims. Fired along with his friend Narciso from the newspaper they worke...
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Me traes de un ala

1953

El vagabundo
6.1/8
Homeless/unemployed dude has a spiritual awakening and rehabilitates himself working at a circus.
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El vagabundo

1955

The Medallion of Crime
6.2/7
Going out for a drink with the guys after work, a salaryman get in over his head with a gangster's moll and a murder.
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The Medallion of Crime

1996

La mujer de los dos
6.955/22
The boys in a famous pop-band all have girl troubles. And other problems. Sucks being them.
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La mujer de los dos

1951

Streetwalker
5.1/7
In Mexico City, two sisters, Maria and Elena, fight over the love of pimp Rodolfo. Elena escapes her sad marriage to an old banker into Rodolfo's arms...
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Streetwalker

1960

Los tigres del ring
5/5
Crooked promoter has a secret weapon who goes around beating fighters to death after their matches if they aren't in line with his rigging schedule. P...
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Los tigres del ring

1985

A garrote limpio
5/5
A series of murders have occurred in the uppermost circles of society. Detective Felipe Fierro vows to solve the killings, or die trying (which is a s...
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A garrote limpio

1954

¿Por qué ya no me quieres?
5/2
Tired of struggling, Lilia, played by Sara Montiel, moves to the city to live with her aunt, a former actress. There she strives to become a singer an...
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¿Por qué ya no me quieres?

1977

La puerta falsa
4.5/4
Young heroin addict dies in the pursuit of his calling, and his brother goes on a vendetta against the narco gang that supplied his drugs.
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La puerta falsa

1986

Los verduleros
7.288/163
The adventures of two friends, one a chicken vendor in a market and the other a policeman. They have love affairs and capture criminals.
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Los verduleros

1976

Mexico, Mexico, ra, ra, ra!
5.3/9
Librado, an unemployed man, lives in a crowded small house with numerous children and relatives, is beaten for stealing a car antenna. His godmother a...
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Mexico, Mexico, ra, ra, ra!

1960

Las canciones unidas
5.5/4
Film clips of songs by performers from around the world.
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Las canciones unidas

1962

Bajo un mismo rostro
5.5/4
Two twin sisters have completely different ways of loving: to one love is profound, to the other is carnal.
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Bajo un mismo rostro

1989

Rosa de dos aromas
4.2/4
Two women meet by accident and discover that they both have 10 year+ relationships with the same man. Also, unrelated subplots involving other women.
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Rosa de dos aromas

1967

Demonios sobre ruedas
5/2
"Demons on Wheels". A gang of bikers terrorize a town and its inhabitants who can not do anything to prevent it.
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Demonios sobre ruedas

1955

El gavilan vengador
5/3
Masked rider exposes the criminal misdeeds of a wealthy land-owner and his henchmen.
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El gavilan vengador

1951

Una gringuita en México
5.5/4
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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Una gringuita en México

1957

Furias desatadas
5/4
College student enters the pro wrestling circuit, hoping to find out who killed his father. Third of four in a series.
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Furias desatadas

1985

Los matones del norte
5/2
Young man grows up thinking that his father's murderer is dead but wanting revenge against the guys who hired him to commit that crime.
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Los matones del norte

1952

Night Falls
6.5/17
The arrogant Arizmendi, pelota champion, lives intoxicated by his success and disdain for women who love him. Arizmendi commits blackmail to lose a ga...
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Night Falls

1986

The Realm of Fortune
5.8/18
Poor Dionisio finds himself as recipient of the good fortune, but soon he forgets that everything that goes up also has to go down, and that in the de...
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The Realm of Fortune

1953

Reportaje
6.9/12
Reporters compete for cash prize awarded for biggest scoop on New Year's Eve.
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Reportaje

1954

La gitana blanca
5/2
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La gitana blanca

1993

Extraños caminos
5/2
During the rainy Christmas season, a troupe of five actors who are college students lose their way in the mountains of Hidalgo when they try to take a...
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Extraños caminos

1949

Hipócrita..!
5.7/7
A disfigured woman is helped by a talented composer to recover her face with plastic surgery. Then he discovers that she's a beautiful woman and a tal...
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Hipócrita..!

1951

Mujeres sin mañana
5.5/4
Loosely-plotted melodrama about five "hostesses" and the owners of a waterfront nightclub.
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Mujeres sin mañana

1983

La fuga de Carrasco
5/2
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La fuga de Carrasco

1959

Born to Love
5/2
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Born to Love

1964

The Devil in the Blood
0/0
Three episodes about the influence of Satan: a black boxer commits killings under the influence of his manager.A pair of lovers is haunted by the memo...
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The Devil in the Blood

1963

Rata de puerto
0/0
The son of a prostitute, longshoreman, fighter and bully.
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Rata de puerto

1945

Bambucos y Corazones
0/0
In a charming and gossipy town in La Sábana that they call Alpargatoca, the old aunts are surprised by everything and gossip about everything... and d...
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