Salvador Sánchez
Alfredo Salvador Sánchez Bolaños (born October 28th, 1943) is a Mexican actor and director.
He was one of the most relevant actors among those who renewed the list of interpreters of Mexican cinema at the beginning of the seventies. Since then, he has stood out in films such as The devil fell from glory (Cayó de la gloria el diablo, .1971), The bump (La choca, 1973), The heist (El apando, 1975), Canoa (1975), Las Poquianchis (1976), Los albañiles (1976), Under the shrapnel (Bajo la metralla, 1983), Motel (1983), Journey to Paradise (1985), Going for a nut (1986), Fire Angel (1991), Lady at night (1993), Leap into the void (1994), Natural death (1996) , Only once (2000) and Herod's law (2000).
He directed Pedro Páramo in 1981. Deserving of various distinctions for his acting work in film, including two Diosas de Plata, he has also developed an outstanding theatrical career and has participated repeatedly on television.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 5.807 |
| Birthday | 1943-10-28 |
| Place of Birth | Tehuacan, Puebla, Mexico |
| Also Known As |
1999
Ojitos mentirosos
0/0
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Ojitos mentirosos
2023
¡Que viva México!
7.336/177
After his grandfather's death, a man travels with his wife and kids to his hometown, where chaos ensues with his relatives over the inheritance.
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¡Que viva México!
1994
Amor que mata
5/2
Diego is a young musician who lives the terrible death of his uncle to AIDS. While in his deep depresion he meets Gabriela, which brings back a smile...
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Amor que mata
1970
Emiliano Zapata
5.9/9
This is the story of a man, Emiliano Zapata, and of a revolution, the Mexican Revolution.
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Emiliano Zapata
1972
Cayó de la gloria el diablo
5/2
Subsistence-economy slum guy who sells used newsprint for a living breaks into showbiz with an inadvertantly-comical fire-eater act. The novelty of hi...
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Cayó de la gloria el diablo
1979
La madre
5/2
Mexican feature film
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La madre
1977
Caminando pasos... caminando
5/2
In a community of the Matlatzinca ethnic group, a teacher tries to integrate the inhabitants into the struggle of a guerrilla group.
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Caminando pasos... caminando
2025
1938: When the Oil was Ours
0/0
A chronicle of the Mexican oil expropriation in 1938 through the eyes of President Lazaro Cardenas and journalist Alberto Miranda.
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1938: When the Oil was Ours
1991
One Man’s War
6.8/4
Anthony Hopkins plays an English medical doctor living with his family in Paraguay and treating the poor people from the surroundings, who has his lif...
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One Man’s War
1981
Pedro Páramo
5/2
The third film version of the popular Mexican novel, about a wayfarer who travels to a mysterious arid village, to meet the father who long ago abando...
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Pedro Páramo
1991
Angel of Fire
5.9/10
The young trapeze artist Alma is part of the show of a miserable traveling circus. In an act of desperation, Alma commits incest with her father, a si...
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Angel of Fire
1991
Jóvenes delincuentes
5/2
A group of young people lives in a world of drugs and crime, they wanna be free.
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Jóvenes delincuentes
1979
Maria of My Heart
6.1/8
Héctor and María meet again after eight years of not seeing each other. She works as a magician in cabarets and he robs houses. María convinces Héctor...
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Maria of My Heart
1975
Esa mi Irene
0/0
A 43 minutes short film filmed in Mexico in 1975
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Esa mi Irene
1988
Difficult Days
5/3
Two shareholder brothers close several factories due to economic problems, except for their chemical plants.
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Difficult Days
2010
File of Attempted Murder
5.7/9
Tells the story behind an assassination attempt perpetrated in 1897, by a dipsomaniac man, against the President of the Mexican Republic, General Porf...
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File of Attempted Murder
1983
Under the Shrapnel
5.1/7
A guerrilla commando tries to kidnap a politician. In the attempt, several policemen and a guerrillero die. By chance the head of the kidnappers meets...
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Under the Shrapnel
1978
Drizzle
7/10
Returning from a business trip, a man meets some peasants who arouse fears in him.
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Drizzle
1984
Motel
4.9/7
The discovery of the mutilated body of a wealthy woman leads a detective to an isolated motel.
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Motel
2015
Between Shadows
6.9/15
In an attempt to solve their marriage problems, Eric and Mari take a trip to the Mexican southeast, but she disappears under mysterious circumstances....
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Between Shadows
1974
La Choca
7.7/20
A smuggler lives far from civilization, in a hut in the jungle with his wife, La Choca, his son and his sister-in-law Flor. One day some men arrive, w...
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La Choca
2023
The Beast
0/0
Pipo, Pau and Mau, three youngsters who spend their time shooting video pranks, visit a distant town where a beast is attacking its residents. Upon ar...
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The Beast
1951
Crimen y castigo
5/5
Adaptation of Dostoyevsky's novel about a student who plans a conceptual murder and then butts heads with a police detective.
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Crimen y castigo
1988
Furia en la sangre
5/2
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Furia en la sangre
1989
Old Gringo
5.6/30
A writer forms a triangle with a schoolmarm and a Mexican general on the run.
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Old Gringo
1989
El jardín de la paz
5.5/4
An American's couple who live peaceful and quiet in their summer house in Cuernavaca, Mexico, see how their peace and security is broken when a band o...
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El jardín de la paz
1972
No One Will Love You Like I Do
5/4
A student-movement leftist becomes a nun and absorbs lots of deep, deep TV-movie spiritual lessons about God's glorious plan.
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No One Will Love You Like I Do
1973
Valente Quintero
5/2
Two best friends tragically fall in love with the same woman.
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Valente Quintero
1971
La Generala
5.4/10
During the Mexican Revolution, a hardened and rich lady landowner is overtaken by the violence of the times. Losing her land and house, she falls in l...
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La Generala
1990
Dos judiciales en aprietos
5/3
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Dos judiciales en aprietos
1973
La yegua colorada
5.2/6
Landowner counts on his super-champeen race-horse to help him win back the hacienda he was swindled out of.
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La yegua colorada
1975
Aventuras de un caballo blanco y un niño
5.3/3
Frontier boy orphaned after a military actiion,, escapes with his horse into Mexico and has adventures.
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Aventuras de un caballo blanco y un niño
1990
Violaciónes, casos de la vida real
3.7/3
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Violaciónes, casos de la vida real
2011
Tequila, historia de una pasión
4.2/6
Tequila in Mexico, 1940s: Honor and dignity come first here. The town is protecting a certain secret. In spite of all prohibitions, Antonio, a respect...
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Tequila, historia de una pasión
1991
La fuerza bruta
5/2
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La fuerza bruta
1992
La dama y el judicial
5/2
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La dama y el judicial
1993
Abuelita de Bakman
5/2
A novelist cannot create new and original stories, his wife suggests that he go out and write about the people he sees as he passes by.
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Abuelita de Bakman
1991
Mujer de cabaret
3.7/7
Alicia Conde is famous and successful cabaret singer is going to marry Octavio and quit her career. But this Octavio turns to be a gambler and in a fe...
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Mujer de cabaret
1951
Kill Me Because I'm Dying!!!
7.5/28
Tin Tan falls in love with a young woman who does not love him, but when he wins the lottery she changes her mind.
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Kill Me Because I'm Dying!!!
1992
El último narco
5/2
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El último narco
1993
Un ángel para los diablillos
5/3
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Un ángel para los diablillos
1995
Salto al vacío
5.3/3
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Salto al vacío
1991
La leyenda del escorpión
5/2
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La leyenda del escorpión
1991
Diplomatic Immunity
3.8/6
Cole Hickel, a Marine, pursues his daughter's killer when he is allowed to go back to Paraguay because of "diplomatic immunity."
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Diplomatic Immunity
1993
Dama de Noche
6.9/7
Bruno, a novelist with no luck goes to call for help from his love always sofia, who is in Veracruz desolate without knowing what to do with the corps...
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Dama de Noche
1989
Raptola, violola y matola
5/2
Mexican feature film
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Raptola, violola y matola
2002
Solamente una vez
5/2
Mexican feature film
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Solamente una vez
2000
A Breakfast Chronicle
4.4/7
A view of the end-of-the-century Mexican family. A father who comes back home after a long absence, but who would rather be somewhere else. A daughter...
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A Breakfast Chronicle
1999
El fantasma de la coca
5/2
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El fantasma de la coca
2009
Héroes de la seguridad
5/1
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Héroes de la seguridad
2006
Jack's Law
2.5/2
Jack Santos is a retired undercover vice cop whose world is suddenly torn apart by the murder of his wife and daughter. After serving a prison term fo...
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Jack's Law
1996
De muerte natural
5/2
Four women get mad at a bakery while they recall their lives at their neighborhood.
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De muerte natural
2004
Sobre el arco iris
5/2
A man buys a video camera and goes to Berlin adopting a new identity: Ludwig. Fascinated by the magic of cinema, he films his trip in an obsessive fas...
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Sobre el arco iris
1989
Las asesinas del panadero
5/2
Mexican feature film
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Las asesinas del panadero
2022
The Exorcist
6.2/115
Ophelia, a young nun recently arriving in the town of San Ramon, is forced to perform an exorcism on a pregnant woman in danger of dying. Just when sh...
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The Exorcist
1984
Under the Volcano
6.5/93
Against a background of war breaking out in Europe and the Mexican fiesta Day of Death, we are taken through one day in the life of Geoffrey Firmin, a...
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Under the Volcano
1994
The Food of Fear
5/2
The story unfolds in an underclass neighborhood of Mexico City, a place where a unique troupe features a circus act, led by Don Ramón (López Moctezuma...
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The Food of Fear
1986
Frida Still Life
5.2/12
This film is a chronicle of painter Frida Kahlo, and her encounter with the personalities of her time. Despite being confied to a wheelchair as a resu...
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Frida Still Life
1976
The House in the South
4.7/3
Indian village experiences forced relocation; their experience is paralleled by that of other groups dating back to the 18th century.
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The House in the South
2000
His Most Serene Highness
6.2/6
This historical drama depicts the waning days of the life of Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, who waged a war against the United States that ultimately co...
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His Most Serene Highness
1998
Fuera de la ley
5/2
Four raw stories about justice and law.
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Fuera de la ley
1975
Letters from Marusia
5.3/13
Chronicle of the repression that a foreign company exerts on the miners of a small nitrate town in Chile, whose workers decide to claim their most ess...
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Letters from Marusia
2001
The Mexican
5.928/1454
Jerry Welbach, a reluctant bagman, has been given two ultimatums: The first is from his mob boss to travel to Mexico and retrieve a priceless antique...
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The Mexican
1976
Canoa: A Shameful Memory
7.8/75
A group of students arrives in a small town during a hiking expedition. Once there, the local priest accuses them of being communist agitators on the...
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Canoa: A Shameful Memory
1992
Octagon and Mascara Sagrada in Fight to the Death
4.5/8
Heroic Mexican wrestler duo Octagon and Mascara Sagrado take on a bevvy of sexy female catburglars led by Lina Santos
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Octagon and Mascara Sagrada in Fight to the Death
1992
Octagon and Atlantis, the rematch
4.3/9
A Colombian gangster buys modern weapons to re-sell them to guerrillas of various countries, under the patronage of the Mafia. Interpol is after Galla...
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Octagon and Atlantis, the rematch
1976
The Heist
6.6/21
In Mexico City's infamous Lecumberri prison, three drug-addicted convicts celebrate getting drugs from one of their the mothers. They are found out an...
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The Heist
2010
Acorazado
5.1/6
Silverio Palacios, 40, a failed union worker from Veracruz, decides to turn his life around. Tired of earning his money panhandling in the streets, he...
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Acorazado
1986
Salvador
7.041/354
In 1980, an American journalist covering the Salvadoran Civil War becomes entangled with both the leftist guerrilla groups and the right-wing military...
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Salvador
1999
Herod's Law
7.9/176
In the 1940s, a small Mexican town has seen its last three mayors assassinated in rapid succession. A naive janitor is recruited to become the new may...
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Herod's Law
2010
El Infierno
7.9/677
After being deported back to Mexico, a man has no choice but to join the vicious drug cartel that has corrupted his hometown in order to survive.
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El Infierno
2007
Charm School
6.8/134
Defiant 18-year-old Adela León pushes her father and an unbending headmistress to the limit in this delicious comedy.
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Charm School
1994
Loving Ghosts
5/3
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Loving Ghosts
1982
The Eve
5.3/3
Aging politicians who have faded from the public eye hold a cocktail party to celebrate one friend's appointment to the President's Cabinet. Illusions...
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The Eve
1985
Viaje al paraíso
4/5
Family plans for a quiet weekend at the beach, but everything goes wrong.
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Viaje al paraíso
1990
Motel of Death
5/1
Murders take place in and around a hotel. Debuted on Mexican TV.
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Motel of Death
1991
Perseguida
3.7/7
A journalist Lorena and her friend photographer Raul decide to try to take an interview from influential politician Hermenegildo Parra. After several...
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Perseguida
1980
What if we talk about August?
5/5
It tells the story of two young people who, in the context of the 1968 student movement, awaken to love life and social conscience.
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What if we talk about August?
The Healer
0/0
Manuel is desperate to save his wife from death. A mysterious man appears to him one day at church, convincing him to go to a Healer who can help her.
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The Healer
1976
The Bricklayers
6.593/27
When a worker is found murdered on the construction side, the investigation swiftly turns from things criminal to the political circumstances surround...
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The Bricklayers
1991
The Mexican Ninja
5/6
A criminal organization hires some ninjas to steal the formula for a new drug, described as cheaper and more powerful than cocaine. As it turns out, t...
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The Mexican Ninja
1987
Zapata en Chinameca
5.8/4
Urbino Martínez, on his deathbed, regrets his wrongdoing after betraying Emiliano Zapata.
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Zapata en Chinameca
2014
The Perfect Dictatorship
7.3/174
TV MX, the most powerful Mexican Television Corporation, discloses a scandalous story involving Governor Carmelo Vargas in serious crimes and illicit...
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The Perfect Dictatorship
1978
The Recourse to the Method
6.1/7
Set in the early 1900s, this film charts the rule of a Latin American dictator as he moves from being a charming despot to a tyrannical ruler before h...
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The Recourse to the Method
2018
The Voice of a Dream
5.1/7
At a pivotal moment in her singing career, Rocío discovers that her mother is ill and that her final wish is to meet with her again before she dies. A...
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The Voice of a Dream
1994
Una buena forma de morir
5/2
After his wife is murdered by gang members, a man must take revenge.
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Una buena forma de morir
2019
The Mongolian Conspiracy
6.3/26
1963, the Soviet Union intercepts a rumour that China pretends to assassinate the president of the US in his visit to Mexico. Filiberto Garcia, a loca...
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The Mongolian Conspiracy
1975
Do You Hear the Dogs Barking?
6.8/9
Carrying his son on his back, a man travels from place to place looking for a doctor to treat the sick boy. As they journey, the indio father tells th...
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Do You Hear the Dogs Barking?
1977
El elegido
6.3/7
A guy is peer-pressured, despite his reluctance, to play the role of Christ in a local production of the Passion Play.
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El elegido
1976
Las Poquianchis
6.9/35
During the mid-1970s, in the Mexican state of Guanajuato, authorities discover a clandestine burial ground. The corpses are from murdered prostitutes....
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Las Poquianchis
1990
With Fear in the Veins
5.2/5
Compilation tape of Hora Marcada episodes.
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With Fear in the Veins
2002
Collateral Damage
5.8/1365
Firefighter Gordon Brewer is plunged into the complex and dangerous world of international terrorism after he loses his wife and child in a bombing cr...
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Collateral Damage
1988
Angel River
5/2
It's love on the old frontier in this western adventure set in Arizona in the 1870s. It centers on a beautiful, young blonde girl whose peaceful life...
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Angel River
1992
Imperio de los Malditos
5.3/3
On the day of his first communion, the boy Honorato is orphaned because the mafia murders his parents. Before dying, the father recommends that the so...
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Imperio de los Malditos
1976
Anyway, Juan is Your Name
5/4
Analytical view of one of the least reported conflicts of national cinema: the Cristero movement that developed in the regions of western Mexico betwe...
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Anyway, Juan is Your Name
1990
El hijo de Lamberto Quintero
5.2/4
Lamberto Quintero is assassinated and his son intends to avenge him following in his footsteps. The pair of father and son, Antonio Aguilar and Pepe A...
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El hijo de Lamberto Quintero
1972
El vals sin fin
5.3/3
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El vals sin fin
1974
The Master of Ballantrae
5/4
Adult brothers compete for pateral affection and for control of the family estate.
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The Master of Ballantrae
1974
Those Years
5.5/4
President Juárez fights against the conservatives, who have ordered an emperor to be brought from France to govern Mexico
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Those Years
2013
Puras mentiras
0/0
Life is giving Benito the best stories for his first work without knowing what the end of this love story will be, which he writes and lives in his ow...
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