One of the last and the best of those infamous Mexican nightclub melodramas (“Películas de Cabareteras”), it features a stunning noirish cinematography, over-the-top acting by half a dozen of wonderfully weird and wicked latina beauties such as Columba Dominguez and Kitty de Hoyos (looking like a drag queen performing Marilyn Monroe!) plus great -if low budget- musical show clips performed by the mesmerizing Esquivel, the “King of Zu-Zu-Zu”! Another masterpiece from the great (beer-drinking?) director Alfonso “Corona” Blake, who began as an assistant to Luis Bunuel and Emilio “Indio” Fernandez and gave the world some of the finest campy horror- and “Il Santo”-classics. Great fun to watch – if you ever get the chance to, for it’s not available on tape or DVD.

Late in the Rumbera cycle and from a pinnacle year for Mexican cinema (1957, imdb is wrong), this is almost nostalgic lament for a Mexico City perennial largely disappeared by right-wing morals campaigner Ernesto Uruchurtu (strictly speaking genrewise, this is an Exoticas, & Polynesian etc stylings figure among the RnB & jazz blues).

Top-billed Columba Dominguez sings a couple numbers; Kitty De Hoyos smokes up a storm & maintains her dignity while essaying a fine twist in a sequin bikini. Expressionist lensing from Rosalio Solano who shot El vampiro for Mendez that same year. At the helm, Alfonso Corona Blake, who made 3 top Mex-gothic horrors in the next decade (including arguably the best Santo film, Santo vs. las mujeres vampiro. & of course soundtrack duties are the province of Juan Garcia Esquivel, on the eve of his relocation northwards.

Cabaret trágico.mkv

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Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1h 38mn
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https://nitro.download/view/7A3913B31FCA60A/Cabaret_tragico.mkv
https://nitro.download/view/C91AA7B079FC0C8/Cabaret_trágico.eng_02.srt

Language(s):Spanish
Subtitles:English

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Aurelio Rodríguez is released from jail, and tries to start a new life marrying Paloma and working his land. But the local landowners, the brothers González, interfere with his plans.

Pueblerina.DVDRip.x264.mkv

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Runtime: 	1 h 46 min
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#1:  	2.0ch AC-3 @ 256 kb/s (Stereo)

https://nitro.download/view/8160F70804032F8/Pueblerina.DVDRip.x264.mkv

Language(s):Spanish
Subtitles:English

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MY SON, THE HERO (1961)
In northern Mexico, in the early twentieth century, Reynaldo and Martín Del Hierro are witnesses of the murder of their father by Pascual Velasco. Spurred to vengeance by their mother, they grow up to carry out a vendetta against the killer. But their revenge only begets more violence, a cycle the brothers are helpless to stop.

Ismael Rodríguez cast melodrama star Columba Domínguez as the suffering mother who encourages her sons (Antonio Aguilar and Julio Alemán) to avenge the murder of their father (Pedro Armendáriz) by legendary director Emilio Fernández.

1.34GB | 1h 36m | 1280×720 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/7C93DAA3E2C167D/Los_Hermanos_Del_Hierro_(_1961)_ENG_SUB_Free_Download,_Borro.mkv
https://nitro.download/view/5E5ADC06AA75A0E/Los_Hermanos_Del_Hierro_(_1961)_ENG_SUB_Free_Download,_Borro.srt

Language(s):Spanish
Subtitles:English

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Plot
The film’s setting is a town in Oaxaca during the festival of its patron saint, for which the church appoints a layman as mayordomo or steward, an honor that in effect is gained by being able to organize and cover the high costs of most of the saint’s local festivities. The post is however very coveted by the locals as it is socially prestigious.

Ánimas Trujano (Mifune, dubbed by Narciso Busquets) is a drunken, irresponsible peasant who abuses his children and does nothing while his long-suffering wife supports the family. Obsessed with earning the respect which is denied to him by his peers as a result of his behavior, Trujano aims to be mayordomo in the annual festival and begins to do everything he can to get the needed money. After his eldest daughter is impregnated out of wedlock by the son of the local land baron (played by Eduardo Fajardo), Trujano sells the baby to the land baron in exchange for a small fortune that makes him eligible to be appointed mayordomo.

Meanwhile, Trujano’s wife (Columba Domínguez) encounters trouble when it is revealed that her husband has been seeing a local woman of dubious morals (Flor Silvestre).

The film was nominated for the Academy and the Golden Globe Awards as Best Foreign Language Film of 1962.

1.47GB | 1 h 39 min | 704×544 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/1D92615A1112D8E/Animas_Trujano.mkv

Language:Spanish
Subtitles:Spanish, English, French, Portuguese

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