
Wolf Ruvinskis
Oyuncu · 1921 – 1999 · Riga, Latvia
Of Jewish origins, Wolf Ruvinskis Manevics was born in 1921 in Riga (Latvia), but fearing persecution during World War II his family relocated to Argentina, where they lived in extreme poverty. In spite of his deprived childhood, Wolf excelled in sports and became interested in wrestling. When he was 19 years old he started his professional career and toured South America, the United States and Mexico, where he decided to stay. Although he stayed on the ring until the 1960s - in matches with top Mexican wrestlers, as El Santo, Black Shadow, El Médico Asesino and Lobo Negro - Wolf was also a tango singer and a magician, and in 1949 he was called to act on the stage and in films. One of his biggest successes was _Bestia magnífica, La (1953)_, the first in a series of movies centered on Neutron, a character he created. His popularity was firmly established with his role as the handsome rural boy who becomes the victim of a mad scientist in the cult film The Body Snatcher (1957), he was a regular performer in all kinds of movies until the 1990's and was nominated for an Ariel as Best Supporting Actor for _Juego limpio (1996/II)_. He was also a businessman, and married three times: to Beatriz Perez, to dancer Armida Herrera, and to actress Lilia Micheluntil his death in 1999.
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Film5.5KomediDramCatita is a simple and poor woman who dreams of that her son stands out on something important to help her out of his humble. But she opposes to him being boxer, therefore constantly fighting with her husband.
Mi campeón
1952 · 4 votes
Film7.3KomediThe adventures of two friends, one a chicken vendor in a market and the other a policeman. They have love affairs and capture criminals.
Los Verduleros
1986 · 193 votes
Film7.3KomediDramCantinflas works as a model of tuxedos in a prestigious store, your job is to use the smoking in the street along with an advertising sign on his back. The use of smoking gives you access to exclusive places and meet important people. During this time, Cantinflas was the manager of an amateur boxer, it is an attractive nurse assistant and occasionally attending a priest in the church and the orphanage. However, a Cantinflas day while wearing tuxedo, is a rich man, who mistakenly believe that Cantinflas is a millionaire too.
Film7.9KomediFollows Diogenes as he goes about his day as a police officer. He's prone to do things the right way, surrounded by a pretty much corrupt & citizen distant police department, & always resolves his duties with a personal method.
El patrullero 777
1978 · 126 votes
Film8.3KomediGerilimCantinflas, a traveling photographer, is captured by some gangsters while trying to get some flowers for his girlfriend. The gangsters have confused him with the assistant of Dr. Penongo, a scientist who has discovered the formula of a new atomic bomb. Meanwhile, Penongo has suffered a car accident and has lost his memory ...
Film5.5DramRomantikAlma leaves Panama to go live with her aunt Antonia and with Manuel, her husband. There she meets Julio, who tries to woo her.
Film5.9SuçDramEl Secuestro De Lola - Lola La Trailera 2
1986 · 16 votes
Film8.0KomediIt's about a country doctor that comes to the city while a clinic is built in his home town... he rubs off his care and compassion on others at the hospital with his humor and wit.
El señor doctor
1965 · 117 votes
Film6.7The film narrates the discovery of the last great Mayan city, which occurred during the spring of 1946. It is the story of Charles Frey, a smuggler of archaeological pieces who upon hearing some legends about the immense riches that the jungle regions of southeastern Mexico keep, decides to go looking for him. After several months and a point of giving up, Frey detects some archaeological evidence of the Mayan culture, so he continues his explorations until he finds the majestic city of Bonampak.
Bonampak
1989 · 3 votes
Film6.4GerilimKorkuA faceless killer who hunts women can only be stopped by a detective with a disturbing past.
Film6.1SuçDramA disfigured woman is helped by a talented composer to recover her face with plastic surgery. Then he discovers that she's a beautiful woman and a talented singer.
Hipócrita..!
1949 · 8 votes
Film5.3DramPoor 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.
Film5.1Bilim KurguAksiyonNeutron, a superhero/wrestler, goes up against a mad scientist and his army of monsters.
Film6.4KomediTo conquer the beautiful vedette Rosita, journalist Tin Tan is subject to her whims. Fired along with his friend Narciso from the newspaper they worked, Tin Tan trying to sell a movie plot. A woman looking to buy it and Tin Tan will visit her in a gloomy mansion where a mess is unleashed.
Me traes de un ala
1953 · 10 votes
Film8.1DramPablo, a wandering laborer, has imprisoned himself in a hell of alcoholism. Cruz, a widow, reaches out to the troubled man, but even her compassion may not be enough to save him.
La vida no vale nada
1955 · 50 votes
Film6.1SuçRene Cardona directs the film version of Jose Leon Sanchez's best-selling novel, which relates the author's 20 years of imprisonment on an island ruled by brutality. When a sadistic man declares himself the boss of an island pueblo, an innocent husband and wife become the victims of his selfish rule. Once the evil man's deeds reach the authorities on the mainland, however, he sinks further into madness and declares "his" island its own republic.
Film5.7Bilim KurguAksiyonThe evil scientist Dr. Caronte plots to revive the brains of three dead scientists and use them to obtain the formula for the super-powerful neutron bomb. The resulting creation needs blood lots of blood, sending Caronte's midget assistant Nick and his legion of mutant monsters out to get fresh victims. However, the masked atom-superman Neutron vows to put a stop to Caronte's deeds.
Film5.5Crooked promoter has a secret weapon who goes around beating fighters to death after their matches if they aren't in line with his rigging schedule. Part one of two.
Los tigres del ring
1960 · 6 votes
Film5.7SuçDramLibrado, 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, however, she offers herself and volunteers a friend of hers for sex to the policemen so she can be released. She is a maid of an employee who acts subservient to his boss, a mid-level government employee at once servile who delivers speeches on sexuality in educational texts and then discusses the matter with his brother, a corrupt inspector.
Mexico, Mexico, ra, ra, ra!
1976 · 10 votes
Film6.5DramGizemA young woman of wealthy class rejects the world that surrounds her and dies, but in her wake a shaman resuscitates her. She is dedicated to transgressing all the rules of her society. In the end a strange character offers him a flower and they both love each other.
Descenso del País de la Noche
1974 · 4 votes
Film5.7AksiyonDramTwo very good friends become wrestlers to leave poverty behind, but the arrival of an ambitious woman will tragically change their destinies.
Film5.7AksiyonBilim KurguIn this Mexican sci-fi fantasy, big beefy Martians invade the earth. Ostensibly, they have come to warn people about the dangers of nuclear testing and exploring space, but their real mission becomes manifest when they begin using their special powers and gadgets to exploit weak earthlings.
Santo el enmascarado de plata vs. la invasión de los marcianos
Santo vs. the Martian Invasion
1967 · 17 votes
Film5.3AksiyonDramNeutron, a masked wrestler/superhero, battles a gang of crooks who are plotting to steal a secret formula.
Film5.2Bilim KurguAksiyonNeutron, a wrestler/superhero, investigates a series of murders at a sanitarium.
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Dizi8.0DramMañana es primavera
1982 · 2 votes