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Aventurera (1950) TMDB IMDb WikiData
Aventurera
director: Alberto Gout actor: Ninón Sevilla / Tito Junco …
other title: Maison de rendez-vous / L'Aventurière …
Left alone after her mother runs off with another man and her father kills himself, Elena attempts to make a new life for herself in a new city. Believing he's a friend, Elena goes to dinner with "Pretty Boy" Lucio, but he drugs her champagne and sells her to Rosaura, who runs a brothel out of her nightclub. Elena becomes a sensation as a dancer, but all the while she nurtures plans of revenge against those who have conspired against her.
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Illusion Travels by Streetcar (1954) Douban IMDb WikiData TMDB
La ilusión viaja en tranvía
director: Luis Buñuel actor: Lilia Prado / Carlos Navarro …
other title: L'illusione viaggia in tranvai / Die Illusion fährt mit der Straßenbahn …
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 all-night and all-day scramble to stay out of trouble, as they are confronted with situation after sometimes bizarre situation that prevents them from returning the "borrowed" Streetcar!
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Poison for the Fairies (1986) NeoDB Douban WikiData TMDB Skybridge IMDb
Veneno para las hadas
director: Carlos Enrique Taboada actor: Ana Patricia Rojo / Elsa Maria Gutierrez …
other title: Veneno para las hadas
In 1965 Mexico City, Flavia, a wealthy yet lonely schoolgirl, befriends Veronica, a young orphan girl who has a fascination with witchcraft. Veronica convinces Flavia that she is a real witch and forces her to be her assistant. The children's games gradually become more serious and Veronica demands more from Flavia.
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Folk Songs of Mexico Spotify
Alfonso Cruz Jimenez
release date Jan. 1, 1958 publisher: (C) 1958 Smithsonian Folkways Recordings / (P) 1958 Smithsonian Folkways Recordings. Originally released on Folkways Records.
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Natalia Lafourcade Spotify
Natalia Lafourcade
release date July 5, 2002 publisher: Sony
Jan. 23, 2026 listened
Great début, full of verve & joy.

(Except for Mírame, Mírate, which is so out of keeping with the rest of the album that I suspect a record exec insisted on having a formulaic ballad.)
2000s NataliaLafourcade Mexico Pop Spanish
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¡Qué Viva México! (1979) IMDb TMDB IMDb WikiData TMDB
Да здравствует Мексика!
director: Sergei Eisenstein actor: Sergey Bondarchuk / Grigori Aleksandrov
other title: ¡Que Viva Mexico! / Да здравствует Мексика! …
Lauded Soviet director Sergei Eisenstein spent an extended period of time in Mexico working on an ambitious project that was never realized until much later, when this film was assembled from the largely abandoned footage. Moving from ancient Mayan times to the 1930s, the episodic movie features various dramatic segments, including scenes of a marriage ceremony and of bullfighting, as well as a Day of the Dead celebration and depictions of the Mexican Revolution.
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Ship of the Monsters (1960) TMDB IMDb WikiData
La nave de los monstruos
director: Rogelio A. González actor: Eulalio González / Ana Bertha Lepe …
other title: La nave dei mostri / La nave de los monstruos
A singing cowboy falls foul of alien invaders and beautiful women from Venus.