Ricardo Montalban
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Ricardo Gonzalo Pedro Montalbán y Merino, KSG ( November 25, 1920 – January 14, 2009) was a Mexican radio, television, theatre and film actor. He had a career spanning seven decades (motion pictures from 1943 to 2006) and multiple notable roles. During the mid-1970s, Montalbán was most notable as the spokesman in automobile advertisements for the Chrysler Cordoba, in which he famously extolled the "soft Corinthian leather" used for its interior. He also advertised the Chrysler New Yorker. From 1977 to 1984, he became famous as Mr. Roarke the main star in the television series Fantasy Island. He played Khan Noonien Singh in both the 1967 episode "Space Seed" of the first season of the original Star Trek series, and the 1982 film Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. He won an Emmy Award in 1978 for his role in the mini series How the West Was Won and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Screen Actors Guild in 1993. Into his 80s, he continued to perform, often providing voices for animated films and commercials, and appearing in several Spy Kids films as "Grandfather Valentin". Date of Death 14 January 2009, Los Angeles, California (congestive heart failure)
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 10.822 |
| Birthday | 1920-11-25 |
| Place of Birth | Mexico City, Mexico |
| Also Known As | Ricardo Montalbán, Ricardo Montalvan , |
1982
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
7.443/1903
The starship Enterprise and its crew is pulled back into action when old nemesis, Khan, steals a top secret device called Project Genesis.
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Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
1978
El asalto al castillo de la Moncloa
2/1
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El asalto al castillo de la Moncloa
1972
Conquest of the Planet of the Apes
6.2/947
In a futuristic world that has embraced ape slavery, a chimpanzee named Caesar resurfaces after almost twenty years of hiding from the authorities, an...
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Conquest of the Planet of the Apes
1967
Code Name: Heraclitus
0/0
A man who dies on an operating table is brought back to life, but he has total amnesia. A government agent decides that he would make a perfect underc...
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Code Name: Heraclitus
1949
Battleground
6.6/86
Members of the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division are fighting for their country amidst the rugged terrain of Bastogne, Belgium, in December 1944. Ho...
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Battleground
1984
Cannonball Run II
5.4/312
When a wealthy sheikh puts up $1 million in prize money for a cross-country car race, there is one person crazy enough to hit the road hard with wheel...
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Cannonball Run II
2003
Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over
5.122/2192
Carmen's caught in a virtual reality game designed by the Kids' new nemesis, the Toymaker. It's up to Juni to save his sister, and ultimately the worl...
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Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over
1949
Border Incident
6.8/39
The story concerns two agents, one Mexican (PJF) and one American, who are tasked to stop the smuggling of Mexican migrant workers across the border t...
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Border Incident
1951
Across the Wide Missouri
5.9/31
In the 1830's beaver trapper Flint Mitchell and other white men hunt and trap in the then unnamed territories of Montana and Idaho. Flint marries a Bl...
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Across the Wide Missouri
2006
The Ant Bully
5.733/1359
Fed up with being targeted by the neighborhood bully, 10-year-old Lucas Nickle vents his frustrations on the anthill in his front yard ... until the i...
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The Ant Bully
1957
Sayonara
6.6/126
Air Force Major Lloyd Gruver (Marlon Brando) is reassigned to a Japanese air base, and is confronted with US racial prejudice against the Japanese peo...
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Sayonara
1964
Cheyenne Autumn
6.7/130
A reluctant cavalry Captain must track a defiant tribe of migrating Cheyenne.
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Cheyenne Autumn
1977
Mission to Glory: A True Story
5/1
Father Kino , a 17th-century Jesuit missionary, dedicated his life to helping Native Americans in the Southwest by teaching them agricultural skills a...
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Mission to Glory: A True Story
1969
Sweet Charity
6.8/73
Taxi dancer Charity continues to have faith in the human race despite apparently endless disappointments at its hands, and hope that she will finally...
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Sweet Charity
1976
Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood
4.1/15
A would-be filmmaker and actress shake up the industry with a trick dog who gets discovered by a studio bus driver in the 1920s.
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Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood
1981
Space For Women
0/0
Designed for class instruction and career education, and to prove that space exploration isn’t just for the boys. The film interviews women employed i...
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Space For Women
1966
Madame X
6.5/38
A woman married to a wealthy socialite, is compromised by the accidental death of a man who had been romantically pursuing her, and is forced by her m...
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Madame X
1988
The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!
7.252/3655
When the incompetent Lieutenant Frank Drebin seeks the ruthless killer of his partner, he stumbles upon an attempt to assassinate Queen Elizabeth II.
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The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!
1950
Two Weeks with Love
5.9/9
The Robinson family are spending two weeks of summer vacation at a resort in the Catskills. Older daughter Patti vies with her friend, Valeria, for th...
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Two Weeks with Love
1949
Neptune's Daughter
5.8/26
Scatterbrained Betty Barrett mistakes masseur Jack Spratt for Jose O'Rourke, the captain of the South American polo team. Spratt goes along with the c...
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Neptune's Daughter
1948
On an Island with You
5.3/13
A young navy lieutenant is brought in as technical adviser on a song-dance-and-swim film being made by screen star Rosalind Reynolds. Having once done...
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On an Island with You
1947
Fiesta
4.7/3
When a matador leaves town to focus on his music, his twin sister takes on his identity in the bullfighting ring.
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Fiesta
1965
The Money Trap
4.9/18
When half a million dollars disappears from a doctor office's safe, the cops assigned to the burglary case, Joe and Pete, decide to find the money and...
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The Money Trap
1966
The Singing Nun
5.6/18
Belgian nun Sister Ann is sent to another order where she's at first committed to helping troubled souls, like Nichole and little Dominic. When Father...
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The Singing Nun
1950
Mystery Street
6.7/51
When a young woman's skeletal remains turn up on a Massachusetts beach, Barnstable cop Peter Moralas teams with Boston police and uses forensics, with...
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Mystery Street
1977
Fantasy Island
6/1
Mr. Roarke and his assistant Tattoo greet a former reporter in World War II who wants to relive a brief romance that took place in London 30 years ago...
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Fantasy Island
1973
Fade-In
3.6/5
A sophisticated Hollywood film editor, on location for a film she is working on, falls for a local cowboy who is hired to work on the film.
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Fade-In
1967
The Longest Hundred Miles
6.2/4
During the Japanese invasion of the Philippines, an assorted group of refugees, including an American soldier, an Army nurse, a priest and a group of...
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The Longest Hundred Miles
1979
Where Dreams Come True
0/0
Directed by African American William Greaves and narrated by actor Ricardo Montalban, Where Dreams Come True is a 1979 NASA film highlighting the cont...
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Where Dreams Come True
1955
A Life in the Balance
5.9/8
A widower's young son leads the police to a killer of sinners in Mexico City.
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A Life in the Balance
1957
Desert Warrior
5/1
Omar Sultan's army has been defeated. However, Prince Said, son of the Sultan died, encourages people to form an army and fight again to Ibrahim. The...
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Desert Warrior
1962
Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man
4.8/13
Young and restless Nick Adams, the only son of a domineering mother and a weak but noble doctor father, leaves his rural Michigan home to embark on an...
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Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man
1963
Love Is a Ball
4.6/7
Etienne makes a good living out of marrying off poor but titled young men to rich but untitled young ladies. Millicent is now in his sights on the Riv...
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Love Is a Ball
1991
Marian Apparitions of the 20th Century: A Message of Urgency
0/0
Deeply rooted in humanity's history, the Blessed Virgin Mary has been making repeated visitations throughout the world, particularly in the latter par...
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Marian Apparitions of the 20th Century: A Message of Urgency
1962
The Reluctant Saint
7.6/5
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The Reluctant Saint
1974
The Mark of Zorro
5.9/16
The swishing fop Don Diego de la Vega becomes the swashbuckling masked hero Zorro when tyranny threatens his people in nineteenth-century California.
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The Mark of Zorro
1948
The Kissing Bandit
3/2
Ricardo, the milquetoast son of a Mexican bandit, would rather lead a quiet life in Boston. But the family would rather that he follow in his father's...
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The Kissing Bandit
1960
Let No Man Write My Epitaph
6.1/7
Nick Romano lives in a poor tenement building on the south side of Chicago with his well-meaning but drug-addicted mother, Nellie. She encourages him...
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Let No Man Write My Epitaph
1974
Wonder Woman
4.9/33
A super-hero uses her powers to thwart an international spy ring.
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Wonder Woman
1968
Sol Madrid
6.3/3
Government agent Sol Madrid travels to Mexico with hooker Stacey to bring mobster Villanova and drug kingpin Dietrich to justice.
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Sol Madrid
1968
Blue
5.2/14
A young man is torn between the woman he loves and his loyalty to his father, the leader of a Mexican gang.
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Blue
1953
Latin Lovers
4.6/7
An heiress searches for true love while vacationing in Brazil.
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Latin Lovers
1954
Untouched
6.7/16
With the purpose of using barbasco roots in the production of cortisone, a pharmaceutical company sends a scientist to investigate the possibilities o...
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Untouched
1950
Right Cross
6.6/5
A sportswriter forms a ring triangle with a fight manager's daughter and her Mexican-American boxer.
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Right Cross
1966
Alice Through the Looking Glass
6/4
Alice returns to Wonderland through the looking glass in this TV musical.
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Alice Through the Looking Glass
1954
The Queen of Babylon
4.5/2
In this Biblical epic, a brave Chaldean rebel takes on his evil nemesis, a cruel Assyrian king. En route to his fateful meeting, the rebel hides in th...
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The Queen of Babylon
1969
The Pigeon
0/0
A private eye is hired to protect a young woman who has a black book on a crime syndicate.
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The Pigeon
1961
Rage of the Buccaneers
5.2/4
Gordon, The Black Pirate, battles the slavery trade.
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Rage of the Buccaneers
1953
Sombrero
4.2/10
Mexican love stories follow a dying man, a bullfighter's sister and lovers from feuding villages.
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Sombrero
1956
Three for Jamie Dawn
5/1
Three jurors are ripe for bribery by the lawyer of a playgirl up for murder.
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Three for Jamie Dawn
1971
Centinelas del Silencio
6.4/7
Sentinels of Silence is a 1971 short documentary film on ancient Mexican civilizations. The film was directed and written by Mexican filmmaker Robert...
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Centinelas del Silencio
1952
My Man and I
6.8/5
In California, a Mexican-American laborer is falsely accused of shooting the racist farmer he was working for after the farmer stiffed him with a bad...
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My Man and I
1951
The Mark of the Renegade
5.2/9
An agent of Mexico poses as a pirate to foil a would-be emperor in 1820s California.
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The Mark of the Renegade
1964
¡Buenas noches, año nuevo!
4/3
Backstage comedy; singer-dancer and her songwriter husband pretend to have an open relationship, because it makes them look smart and modern.
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¡Buenas noches, año nuevo!
1971
Sarge: The Badge or the Cross
0/0
After his wife is murdered, a veteran cop quits the police department and becomes a priest. Several years later he is assigned to a parish where he me...
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Sarge: The Badge or the Cross
1941
He's a Latin from Staten Island
0/0
1941 Soundies short starring Ricardo Montalban
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He's a Latin from Staten Island
1943
Cinco fueron escogidos
5/5
Cinco fueron escogidos taking place in Slavko, a "peaceful town in Yugoslavia," with only Yugoslavians and Germans as characters, not a Mexican or Spa...
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Cinco fueron escogidos
1978
Return to Fantasy Island
3.2/2
A second feature-length pilot film for the wish-fulfillment series sees six lucky people having their dreams fulfilled on the luxury resort island. Ca...
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Return to Fantasy Island
1971
Escape from the Planet of the Apes
6.371/1067
The world is shocked by the appearance of three talking chimpanzees, who arrived mysteriously in a spacecraft. Intrigued by their intelligence, humans...
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Escape from the Planet of the Apes
1972
Fireball Forward
5/1
A hard-nose general takes over a division with a bad combat record.
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Fireball Forward
1983
All-Star Party for Frank Sinatra
6/1
A Celebration of the great life of Frank Sinatra with song, dance, and many famous guests.
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All-Star Party for Frank Sinatra
1944
La Fuga
5.3/3
A stagecoach full of conflictive passengers makes its dangerours way from Mexico to Veracruz during the days of the French Intervention.
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La Fuga
1973
The Train Robbers
6.3/136
A gunhand named Lane is hired by a widow, Mrs. Lowe, to find gold stolen by her husband so that she may return it and start fresh.
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The Train Robbers
1946
Pepita Jimenez
4.8/5
On March 22, four days after returning to his home in Andalusia, Luis de Vargas writes the first of his letters to his uncle and favorite professor at...
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Pepita Jimenez
2009
Perdida
6.6/7
This film traces the unbelievable true story of the Calderón family, who built grand movie palaces in Mexico and the U.S., employing thousands to prod...
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Perdida
1997
Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down The Line
7/1
Born Ruby Stevens, she was orphaned when she was four. A chance audition led to a chorus job. By 17 she was a Ziegfeld Girl. At 20 she earned excellen...
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Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down The Line
1971
The Face of Fear
5.7/6
A young Iowa schoolteacher, thinking she is dying of leukemia, goes to San Francisco, where she hires a mob killer to take her life. However, she soon...
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The Face of Fear
1954
The Saracen Blade
4.8/4
Based on the book of the same name by Frank Yerby. Pietro is an orphan who is raised by a family friend in 15th century Italy. When the friend is kill...
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The Saracen Blade
1969
The Desperate Mission
4.5/4
A man who has lost everything joins others paid to convey a wealthy man's wife - and a mysterious treasure - to safety in San Francisco.
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The Desperate Mission
1964
The Fantasticks
6/3
Widowers Amos and Ben plot to romantically unite Amos’ daughter, Luisa, and Ben’s son, Matt, by pretending to feud and forbidding the teens to associa...
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The Fantasticks
1976
Joe Panther
5.5/2
A young Seminole indian boy comes of age outside the Florida Everglades by trying to enter the establishment (white man's world). He gets work as crew...
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Joe Panther
2002
Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams
5.629/2169
Exploring the further adventures of Carmen and Juni Cortez, who have now joined the family spy business as Level 2 OSS agents. Their new mission is to...
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Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams
1973
St. Augustine: The Oldest City
0/0
Presents a field trip through the oldest city in the United States, St. Augustine, Fla., showing restored buildings where colonial household industrie...
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St. Augustine: The Oldest City
1970
The Deserter
6/5
A young cavalry officer finds his woman tortured by the Apaches and blames the Army for not properly protecting the outpost, so becomes a deserter and...
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The Deserter
1978
NBC Salutes the 25th Anniversary of the Wonderful World of Disney
0/0
Walt Disney Presents, Walt Disney’s Wonderful World of Color, Disney’s Wonderful World, Walt Disney, The Disney Sunday Movie, The Magical World of Dis...
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NBC Salutes the 25th Anniversary of the Wonderful World of Disney
1942
The Three Musketeers
7.2/22
Cantinflas and three friends return a stolen necklace to an actress who invites them to be extras at Clasa studios. While on the set, he falls asleep...
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The Three Musketeers
1994
That's Entertainment! III
6.9/34
Some of MGM'S musical stars review the studios history of musicals. From The Hollywood Revue of 1929 to Brigadoon, from the first musical talkies to G...
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That's Entertainment! III
1960
Play of the Week: Rashomon
7/1
Several different accounts of the same incident tell quite different stories about what happened.
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Play of the Week: Rashomon
1999
Laurindo Almeida, Muito Prazer
0/0
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Laurindo Almeida, Muito Prazer
1970
The Aquarians
6/1
A scientist and his team of underwater explorers search for the culprit who has stolen the world's supply of nerve gas and hidden it somewhere in the...
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The Aquarians
1984
Fatima
6/1
This 60-minute documentary uses the reported miracle at Fatima in 1917 as a springboard for an examination of the relationship between religion and sc...
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Fatima
1998
Behind the Planet of the Apes
7.1/42
Roddy McDowall takes you, film by film, from production meetings to make-up sessions, then right onto the movie set to see the actual filming of the s...
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Behind the Planet of the Apes
1943
Santa
5.6/5
Santa is a beautiful and very humble young girl living in Chimalistac, a small and quiet spot south of the 1930's Mexico City. After Santa is cheated...
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Santa
1945
Cadetes de la naval
5.5/4
Two young men go through military training, then enlist to fight in WWII
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Cadetes de la naval
1945
La casa de la zorra
5.5/4
The owner of an illegal gambling casino witnesses all the problems in the life of her dissolute son and finally acts in a way that'll help him rehabil...
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La casa de la zorra
1947
Fantasía ranchera
6/4
Young composer in a small town where everyone is very nurturing of his talent finishes his first opera and goes to Mexico City to get it produced. Ove...
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Fantasía ranchera
I Know Catherine, The Log Lady
0/0
An authorized feature documentary about Catherine E. Coulson, best known as the Log Lady in David Lynch & Mark Frost's "Twin Peaks".
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I Know Catherine, The Log Lady
1952
The Million Dollar Nickel
4/1
Short subject anti-communist 'documentary' in which foreign-born movie stars such as Leslie Caron and Ricardo Montalban urge the audience (in their na...
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The Million Dollar Nickel
1991
Star Trek: 25th Anniversary Special
5.7/7
This documentary is hosted by William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy and they take us through the history of Trek. We also get to see bloopers from the ori...
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Star Trek: 25th Anniversary Special
1977
Captains Courageous
6/2
A spoiled little rich boy learns what life is really like after he falls overboard in the middle of the ocean and is picked up by a crusty old sea cap...
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Captains Courageous
1970
Black Water Gold
4.3/6
A scuba team, a marine archaeologist and a Mexican historian join forces to reach the wreck of an historic Spanish galleon before a well-armed commerc...
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Black Water Gold
1973
Mustang
7/3
Pechudo is a magnificent jet-black stallion who epitomizes the adjective, "freedom." Running wild in Mexico, Pechudo and his running mates are constan...
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Mustang
1945
The Hour of Truth
5/2
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