Movies: Socorro Avelar
- 1959
Nazarin (1959)
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After hiding a murderer, a Catholic priest is forced into self-exile and decides to embark on a pilgrimage through the Mexican countryside....
- 1967
Los Caifanes (1967)
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A couple on the verge of getting married gets mixed up with a gang of thugs in this routine crime drama that underscores the Socio-economic disparity in the Mexican culture. The upper-class couple rides along with outsiders who go club-hopping and re...
- 1996
Solo (1996)
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An android fighting-machine is charged with destroying a small brigade of rebels in a Latin American war who are fighting to maintain their freedom and protect their village. Contrary to his programming, Peebles decides to stay and assist the rebels ...
- 2001
Powder Keg (2001)
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The Driver is drafted by the UN to rescue a wounded war photographer named Harvey Jacobs from out of hostile territory. While they are leaving Jacobs tells the Driver about the horrors he saw as a photographer, but he regrets his inability to help wa...
- 1976
El ministro y yo (1976)
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Mateo Melgarejo is a notary public and scribe for the illiterate people of Santo Domingo, a neighborhood north of Mexico City's Zócalo. A squatter friend asks for his help in negotiating with the land census bureau to regularize a land title. After a...
- 1986
The Realm of Fortune (1986)
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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 depressing nothingness of his town it is easy to die....
- 1972
Azul (1972)
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Rich man who owns an island sanctuary is involved in some shady business. Meanwhile, his daughter... and also meanwhile, the tribe of hippies that are racing around on dune buggies......
- 1993
The Stork's Mistake (1993)
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- 1994
The Queen of the Night (1994)
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The legendary life of Mexican singer Lucha Reyes is the basis of this fictionalized biography ( or as director Arturo Ripstein puts it "an imaginary biography"). Lucha Reyes was an unconventional, and sexually liberated woman, most famous for her "ca...
- 1977
Caminando pasos... caminando (1977)
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Directed by Federico Weingartshofer...
- 1978
Pedro Páramo, el hombre de la Media Luna (1978)
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Juan Preciado, son of Pedro Páramo, goes to Comala to claim his inheritance; but when he arrives he finds an abandoned and sinister town, inhabited by mysterious voices and whispers…...
- 1989
Goitia: A God for Himself (1989)
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- 1977
Volver, volver, volver (1977)
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Good son vs bad son melodrama complicates life on the hacienda....
- 1976
Mexico, Mexico, ra, ra, ra! (1976)
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Librado, an unemployed man, lives in a crowded small house with numerous children and relatives, is beaten for stealing a car antenna. His godmother and her children try to settle in his place. She then is arrested at a supermarket for stealing, howe...
- 1991
Return to Aztlán (1991)
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When King Motecuzoma dies in 1468, a drought sets upon the Mexicas' land. The younger Motecuzoma sends a retinue to collect tributes from the peasants and make an offering to Coatlicue at Aztlán, the home of their ancestors. The peasant Ollin finds a...
- 1986
Contrabando y muerte (1986)
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A young man gets involved in the drug trade and is murdered. His father sets out to find the killers....
- 1962
El tejedor de milagros (1962)
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Arnulfo is a man weaving baskets. Remedios has given birth in front of the house of a woman and her aid, but the village is spread the word that the child born as a child God and an atheist would think exploit to their advantage the "miracle "....
- 1983
Mundo mágico (1983)
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Anthology movie that presents 3 stories about romance....
- 1996
Katuwira, donde nacen y mueren los sueños (1996)
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Sofia meets a stranger man who hacks the computer system where she works before she has an accident. After the accident, she is the only one that remember seeing this man, so she decides to search for him....
- 1973
Partners and Lovers (1973)
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Three short films about intimacy, infidelity and life as a couple (or almost)...