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Manuel Noriega

Manuel Noriega

Manuel "Manolo" Noriega, (July 24, 1880 - August 12, 1961) was a stage and film actor, screenwriter, and film director. Born Manolo Noriega Ruiz in Spain, I have worked in live theatre for many years, performing in his native Spain as well in Mexico, Cuba, and the United States. Pioneer in silent film, he made his first screen appearance in 1907. It is believed some of his early silent films have been lost but his main body of work began in talkies in the early 1930s, performing in close to two hundred sound films. Noriega earned an Ariel Award nomination for "Best Actor in a minor role" for his performance in the 1946 film, "Pepita Jiménez." Married to Hortensia Castañeda, their daughter Carmen became a singer who married Tito Guízar. Manuel Noriega, died in Mexico City in 1961.

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Macario (1960)

Poor, hungry peasant Macario longs for just one good meal on the Day of the Dead. After his wife cooks a turkey for him, he meets three apparitions, the Devil, God, and Death. Each asks him to share his turkey, but he refuses all except Death. In return, D ...

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The River and Death (1954)

A useless and bloody vendetta has been going on for ages between two families in this Mexican village. Men, sons, have killed each other for generations, for a so-called conception of honor in a revenge that never ends since it is also triggered by people ...

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La entrega (1954)

Through hard work, the Spaniard Alejandro has become wealthy and powerful. In contrast, the banker Don Victorino—who once refused a loan to the then-poor Alejandro—has fallen on difficult times. Victorino is married to Ana, who spends her life playing ...

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The Abduction (1954)

In a small Mexican village the news shock neighbors, Ricardo Alfaro, a wealthy local rancher has disappeared without a trace. Taking advantage of the circumstance, Aurora Campos, a strong woman with overwhelming beauty, convinces the authorities to sell he ...

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Illusion Travels by Streetcar (1954)

Confronted with the unfortunate news that their favorite Streetcar, no. 133, is going to be decommissioned, two Municipal Transit workers get drunk and decide to "take 'er for one last spin," as it were. Unfortunately, the "one last spin" ends up being an ...

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Reportaje (1953)

Reporters compete for cash prize awarded for biggest scoop on New Year's Eve. ...

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Dos tipos de cuidado (1953)

Jorge Bueno and Pedro Malo are best friends who consider giving up their womanizing ways when they each fall in love. As fate would have it, Pedro Malo unexpectedly marries Jorge Bueno's girlfriend, and the conflict between the former buddies begins. ...

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Mexican Bus Ride (1952)

Newlywed Oliverio receives disturbing news that his mother is on her deathbed. He travels to a remote part of Mexico to fetch a lawyer who can sort out her will. Leaving his wife behind, he embarks on a bus ride that's interrupted by an increasingly absurd ...

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Two Faces Have the Destiny (1952)

Ruined alcoholic doctor escapes a tropical plague and begins a new life back in civilization, taking over the identity of a dead man. ...

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Cuatro noches contigo (1952)

Traveling salesman meets a young woman who's running away from home, and helps her evade detectives who are tracking her. ...

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¿Qué te ha dado esa mujer? (1951)

This musical comedy tells the story of two men whose friendship (whose beginning is told in "A toda máquina") is affected by assumptions love triangles and misunderstandings between the two, however, the value of that friendship overcomes all difficulties ...

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Los apuros de mi ahijada (1951)

Irresponsible playboy-type needs to cut down on his nightclubbing and his expensive women-friends and buckle down to his Uni studies. Meanwhile, his godfather... ...

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Prisión de sueños (1949)

Luis el Roto is a laborer who, due to a lack of money, cannot marry his girlfriend Rosa; they live in a poor alleyway with their respective mothers. Luis is loved by the prostitute Carlota, and for this reason he despises the pimp Rodolfo, who beats Luis i ...

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Conozco a los dos (1949)

Twin brothers separated at birth accidentally meet each other 25 years later. Girlfriends and coworkers are confounded, wacky hijinks! ...

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El Mago (1949)

A slapstick fantasy of the amorous adventures of a magician a la Cantinflas. ...

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The Cockfighter (1948)

In Michoacan in the 1920s, Gabriel, a young farmer and champion cockfighter, finds himself in violent opposition to Roman, who not only wants to beat Gabriel's fighting cock, but to steal Gabriel's wife Rosa. ...

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El Supersabio (1948)

Cantinflas is the apprentice of a renowned scientist, Prof. Arquimides Monteagudo (Carlos Martinez Baena). But Cantinflas has the soul of a poet rather than a serious researcher, and he wants to find the formula that achieves the immortality of the roses. ...

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El cuarto mandamiento (1948)

A Mexican family drama. ...

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Tarzan and the Mermaids (1948)

A high priest tries to force a young beauty to marry a pearl trader who is masquerading as the god Balu. ...

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¡A volar, joven! (1947)

Cantinflas is a private in the military, who doesn't know anything about discipline or following rules. He only wants to think about his girlfriend, the maid in an opulent hacienda. The owner of the hacienda has an ugly and shy daughter, who is in love wit ...

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El ladrón (1947)

Bank employee is tempted to make use of banknotes scheduled for destruction. ...

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Quite a Gentleman (1947)

An unmarried lawyer defends his ward's boyfriend, accused of murder. One of only a handful of films produced by RKO's short lived Latin American production arm Ramex. ...

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Encadenada (El yugo) (1947)

A marriage becomes a living hell when hubby's pathologies start surfacing. ...

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Cinco rostros de mujer (1947)

"The great love of his life" happened five times; one of those women just wrote him a letter. Which one will it be? ...

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A media luz (1947)

Tango singer exploits the women in his life. Learns a valuable life-lesson. ...

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Tragic Weddings (1946)

Jalisco, 19th century. Diego, a wealthy landowner, secretly marries Amparo, defying her father Juan Manuel, who fiercely opposes the union. Juan Manuel still holds a grudge against Diego, having once been his employer when Diego was just a laborer. Their s ...

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Pepita Jiménez (1946)

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 the seminary. He reports that his father intends to fatten him up during his vacation, to have him ready ...

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Cantaclaro (1946)

A rootless wilderness-dude in the Venezuelan outback gets caught up in some human dramas despite himself. ...

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La reina de la opereta (1946)

Mario marries Blanca, the queen of operetta, but after their daughter is born, they separate and she leaves on a world tour to continue her artistic career. Meanwhile, he stays behind and waits with the baby until they reunite again. ...

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The Barracks (1945)

The film chronicles the adventures of a peasant family of the late nineteenth century to push through his work with the opposition and hatred of the rest of the villagers. ...

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Twilight (1945)

Doctor Alejandro Mangino falls in love with Lucía just before he goes on a round-the-world trip. Pining for her all the while, he returns to find that she's married his best friend. ...

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La mujer que engañamos (1945)

Woman chooses between two suitors. The lucky one is a cad and cheats on her, the one who was rejected hangs around in the background to set things right whenever she has a problem. ...

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Cuando escuches este vals (1944)

During World War II, Nazi spies tried to infiltrate everywhere, and the Mexican Military Academy was no exception. ...

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Cruel destino (1944)

Two children grow up together and when the girl gets married, the young man realizes that he has always been in love with her. ...

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El sombrero de tres picos (1944)

The corregidor, or magistrate, of a small Spanish village tries to seduce the miller's wife, with rather humorous results. ...

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San Francisco de Asís (1944)

Historical drama on the life of the medieval Italian saint, Francis of Assisi. ...

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El ametralladora (1943)

Peasant farmer and landowner are rivals for a woman. Sequel to Ay Jalisco No Te Rajes. ...

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Los miserables (1943)

An ex-convict struggling to start anew faces relentless pursuit by a remorseless cop while protecting an orphan amid the 1832 Paris student uprisings. ...

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Romeo y Julieta (1943)

Verona's peace is disturbed by the rivalry between noble families: the Montesco and the Capuleto, irreconcilable enemies. The two families have continued fighting to make life unbearable in the Italian town. The Prince of Verona informs the chiefs that the ...

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Hooray for Women! (1943)

Movie in which funny situations based on the entanglements caused by a woman named Felicidad to her family because of her feminist ideology are presented, to the extent of bringing her daughters and herself to a divorce trial. ...

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Morenita clara (1943)

Priest nags a crusty old man into reconciling with his daughter-in-law and granddaughter after the death of his son. ...

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Alejandra (1942)

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. ...

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El que tenga un amor (1942)

Victor must leave his life of partying and change his girlfriend, Lucero, for the bride that awaits him in his hometown. ...

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Mil estudiantes y una muchacha (1942)

The dream of Atenodoro is to be a professor at the Faculty of Law. The students show enthusiasm for Ana, the professor's daughter. Atenodoro resigns from his class, and the students try to make him return by pretending to be the rector and his family. ...

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When the Children are Gone (1941)

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 on ...

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El milagro de Cristo (1941)

A 1941 Mexican film. ...

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Con su amable permiso (1940)

Unassuming elderly gent is installed as Mayor, by a cabal of financiers that expect to use him as a cat's paw. ...

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El jefe máximo (1940)

A 1940 film directed by Fernando de Fuentes. ...

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You’re Missing the Point (1940)

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 ma ...

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El hipnotizador (1940)

A 1940 film directed by Antonio Helú. ...

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The Hawk (1940)

A 1940 film directed by Ramón Pereda. ...

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Los últimos días de Pompeyo (1940)

A 1940 film directed by Rafael E. Portas. ...

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El charro Negro (1940)

Masked cowboy avenger in the style of The Lone Ranger, first film in a series of four. ...

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Mi madrecita (1940)

Woman faces the vicissitudes of life with her three adult children well in the background. But when the chips are down... ...

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Viviré otra vez (1940)

Card-sharks blackmail a dissolute young man into participating in a big robbery; his brother takes the rap for him. ...

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Al son de la marimba (1940)

A broken high society man tries to keep his family expensive lifestyle by tricking a rich man from out of the town to marry his well intended daughter. ...

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In the Times of Don Porfirio (1940)

In a Mexican city at the end of the 19th century, Don Francisco, a gambler and a bohemian, almost forgets his wedding and is late. The bride, who is pregnant, is sent to Paris by the snubbed family. ...

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Odio (1940)

A 1940 film directed by William Rowland. ...

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La zandunga (1938)

It is the story of a beautiful Tehuana woman who falls in love with a sailor who leaves with the promise of returning, but due to her delay she decides to accept a former suitor as her husband. ...

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Ojos tapatios (1938)

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Eterna mártir (1937)

A dedicated wife and mother takes the blame for embezzling money that was actually stolen by her husband in order to buy medicine and a doctor's care for the couple's seriously ill infant son. Consequently, the well-meaning woman is willingly sentenced to ...

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Las cuatro milpas (1937)

Bad dude tries to make time with a good dude's fiancée. When he can't get anywhere with her, he and his sidekick frame the good dude for a murder and a bunch of thefts. ...

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Ave sin rumbo (1937)

A woman with a past meets a man with a past; the back story of each one represents an obstacle to their couple-bonding. Will they work through their traumas? ...

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Honrarás a tus padres (1937)

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Novillero (1937)

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El impostor (1937)

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Allá en el Rancho Grande (1936)

Two good friends — the owner and general manager of a ranch — fall in love with the same girl at the same time. The owner tries to 'buy' the girl without knowing she is in love with the manager. ...

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El calvario de una esposa (1936)

Confederate Col. Lafe Harvey (Earl Ross) travels home after the Civil War, where he must tell his niece, Betty (Frances Grant), that her father is presumed dead. Soon after he returns, scavengers destroy the family home and he and Betty escape westward. Me ...

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The Macabre Trunk (1936)

A crazed scientist tries to keep his terminally ill wife alive by transfusing into her the blood of young women he murders. ...

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Malditas sean las mujeres (1936)

A tragicomic piece based on a novella by Manuel Ibo Alfaro. ...

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Marihuana (El monstruo verde) (1936)

An agent of the anti-drug brigade is captured and ends up addicted to marijuana, which causes him to enter the mafia. ...

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Beyond Death (1935)

Yolanda, the wife of renowned Spanish composer Enrique Montenegro, has grown weary of her husband's constant infidelities and neglect. ...

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The Dead Speak (1935)

Professor Jiménez believes the human retina retains the image of the last thing a person sees before death. Only his student Eduardo stands by him in the face of widespread mockery. Together they will try and prove the professors theory but fate has a unp ...

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The Treasure of Pancho Villa (1935)

The last soldier alive with the knowledge of where Pancho Villa's treasure is buried, tries to get it back. ...

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Mystery of the Ghastly Face (1935)

Dr. Forti carries out strange experiments, assisted by his son Pablo. They embark on an expedition to the jungle. Eight years later Forti returns without his son but strange things start to happen in the old house where they live. ...

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Two Monks (1934)

In a Gothic-styled monastery, a monk named Javier sees the face of another monk, Juan, and suddenly attempts to bludgeon him to death with a heavy crucifix. Both men then relate their own versions of a story of romantic rivalry between them. ...

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Venganza suprema (1934)

Julian gets framed for stealing a company check by his superior Carlos who's courting his wife Olga together trying to get him outa the way so they can be together, setting him up, the deed does the job and Julian lands in jail. ...

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