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Mimí Derba

Mimí Derba

Mimí Derba (1893–1953) was a Mexican actress and the first female director in Mexico. Derba founded one of the very first Mexican production companies, Azteca Films. She had a successful career in Vaudeville before entering films.

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Movies Starring Mimí Derba (51)

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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Cuatro horas antes de morir (1953)

The film tells the intense countdown of a woman sentenced to death. ...

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The Absentee (1952)

After arguing with her husband, a woman runs out of the house in the car and dies in a mysterious accident ...

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Sangre en el barrio (1952)

Slumlord and his daughter interfere in the lives of the proletariat for personal gratification. ...

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Acapulco (1952)

Young lady goes shopping for a millionaire husband. ...

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Oh, Love… How Have You Put Me! (1951)

A low-class baker accidentally gets to know an attractive but bitter fiancée. By getting her snobby, dead-pan family to spend some time with his scumbag friends, he changes their lives, while at the time stealing the girl's heart. ...

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Mi mujer no es mía (1951)

Bachelor pretends that he got married, thinking that will stop his aunt from trying to play matchmaker. ...

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Nosotras, las taquígrafas (1950)

Young women in the steno-pool have to balance work, romance, and touchy-feely bosses. ...

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Rosauro Castro (1950)

Cardoza's death, a candidate for mayor of a village chief enemy and Rosauro Castro, leads to Mr. Garcia Mata to undertake an investigation. Upon arriving realizes that even the whole town, including the mayor, lives in fear by the chief and only achieved r ...

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La loca de la casa (1950)

A nun reevaluates her life and decides to give up her vows to marry and help her father. ...

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Inmaculada (1950)

A single mother discovers her daughter getting ready to elope with an unworthy boyfriend, so she sits the girl down and tells her the whole entire story of her own very unhappy marriage. ...

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Médico de guardia (1950)

The director of a hospital deceives a poor couple in order to steal their newborn child and sell the baby to a wealthy couple. ...

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La vida en broma (1950)

Many many mistaken identities and impostures overlapping among a group of husbands, wives and others. ...

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White hair (1950)

Singer's-rise-to-stardom plot combined with long-lost-son plot. ...

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La hija del penal (1949)

A young woman who was born and grew up on an island prison-colony decides to move to the island and try life in the real world. Romance, bad luck and astonishing coincidences wait in her path. ...

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The Seminarian (1949)

Returning to his home town, seminarist Miguel is forced to trade the robes for a charro costume in order to solve several problems that appear in his way, including the female kind. ...

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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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Rondalla (1949)

Romantic triangle on the hacienda. ...

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The Unloved Woman (1949)

Emilio Fernandez directs Dolores Del Rio and Pedro Armendariz in a classic tale of family and obsession. Raimunda's daughter Acacia hates her stepfather Esteban, and in order to escape her suffocating home life she's accepted a marriage proposal from a man ...

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El abandonado (1949)

Based on a popular song. An unhappy love affair becomes an excuse for heavy drinking and all-round debauchery. ...

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Salon Mexico (1949)

Mercedes works as a cabaret performer to pay for her sister's studies. Problems begin when Mercedes and Paco, her exploiter, win a dance contest, but he refuses to share the prize with her. ...

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You the Rich (1948)

Pepe el Toro is married to Celia la Chorreada and they have two children. ...

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Fantasía ranchera (1947)

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. Over half the movie is taken up with a performance of his masterpiece. ...

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When the Brave Cry (1947)

A farmer is in love during revolutionary times. ...

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Rocambole (1946)

Convict breaks out of jail to undo aristocratic crimes involving a fortune in jewels, a servant wrongfully accused of theft, and a dispossessed young heiress. ...

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La casa de la zorra (1945)

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 rehabilitate himself. ...

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El capitán Malacara (1945)

Misogynist military man is laid up for a month with a broken leg and during his convalescence he learns all the needed life-lessons. ...

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Toda una vida (1945)

A beautiful young woman, adopted as a child by a man, falls in love with her stepfather and wants to conceive a child with him. ...

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Me he de comer esa tuna (1945)

In rural Mexico, a young man competes with his best school friend for the love of a girl whose marriage has been arranged by her parents. ...

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Woman Without a Soul (1944)

Ambitious young woman climbs the social ladder. A bit too fast. ...

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La trepadora (1944)

Romantic triangles between city folk and country folk, with new money/old money issues complicating the story. ...

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Balajú (1944)

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México de mis recuerdos (1944)

After listening to the waltz "Carmelita", dedicated to his wife, President Diaz instructs Don Susanito seeking the composer Chucho Flores to give her a piano. Don Susanito located Chucho, a bohemian who lives drunk and surrounded by poets and artists. Don ...

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A Letter of Love (1943)

Moments before he will be executed by the French Intervention Army, the liberal leader reads a love letter by his girlfriend. His memories provide the poetic pictures of this romantic historical drama. ...

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El espectro de la novia (1943)

British-born David T. Bamberg was a magician who went by the stage name of Fu Manchu. He was so popular in Mexico and South America that he was given the opportunity to star in a series of crime / horror / mystery films between 1943 and 1949. This is one o ...

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Wild Flower (1943)

The film features Fernandez himself as a character named Rogellio Torres. The lion's share of the footage, however, is devoted to the romance between Esperanza, granddaughter of a common laborer, and Jose Luis Castro, the firebrand son of a landowner. Join ...

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La razón de la culpa (1943)

Roberto on a journey to Mexico knows to Maria de La Paz, a woman older than he, who falls in love, she also has feelings for him, but doesn't give him hopes cause she is married. Fate reunites them without imagine it, they will have to face a moral dilemma ...

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María Eugenia (1943)

Before marrying María Eugenia, landowner Carlos are away to visit her godmother to break the promise to marry his daughter. The godmother is dying, Carlos quiets and everything takes an unexpected course. ...

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El baisano Jalil (1942)

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 Seli ...

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Café Concordia (1939)

During the early XX Century, a lovely woman dancer has an amazing success in a place called "Cafe Concordia". She is courting by many men, buts he is in love with Ernesto, a young man whose parents are against their relationship. Ernesto invites Raquel to ...

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María (1938)

The story narrates the idyllic and tragic love between María and her cousin Efraín, both natives of Valle del Cauca. In the middle of a romantic and bucolic landscape, the young characters fall in love with each other but circumstances prevent the full r ...

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Martín Garatuza (1935)

Sixteenth-century swashbuckler helps a young woman claim a rightful inheritance in the face of opposition from her father's widow and co-conspirators. ...

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Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1935)

A biopic that narrates the life of the novohispanic poetess. ...

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Santa (1932)

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 by arrogant soldier Marcelino, she's rejected by her family and friends and expelled of Chimalistac. Santa ...

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