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Wolf Ruvinskis

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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.

30-10-1921

Birthday

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Wolf Rubinskis, Wolf Rubinsky, Wolf Rubinskys, Wolf Ruvinskis Manevics

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Riga, Latvia

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La Lucha Invade el Cine Mexicano

La Lucha Invade el Cine Mexicano

Lucha libre is part of Mexican culture, but how did something that was shown in circuses and fairs become a cinematic genre? Join us to learn about this trajectory.
10.0

Year:

2024

Living in Wrestling: History of Wrestling in Mexico

Living in Wrestling: History of Wrestling in Mexico

A comprehensive history of Wrestling in Mexico. Starring some of the most famous Mexican wrestlers of our times.
10.0

Year:

1998

La mujer de los dos

La mujer de los dos

The boys in a famous pop-band all have girl troubles. And other problems. Sucks being them.
7.0

Year:

1996

Juego limpio

Juego limpio

5.0

Year:

1995

Días de combate

Días de combate

A novice private detective is on the trail of a serial strangler in Mexico City.
5.0

Year:

1994

Wall of Darkness

Wall of Darkness

5.0

Year:

1994

Extraños caminos

Extraños caminos

During the rainy Christmas season, a troupe of five actors who are college students lose their way in the mountains of Hidalgo when they try to take a short cut. With their van in need of repairs, they are stranded in a village where a local boss, Don Elias, pays peasants to log the forest illegally. The five collegians have little sensitivity to village ways and are shocked to be treated as foreigners in their own country. When two of them witness assaults on the town's priest and on a harmless simpleton, and when Don Elias frames the troupe for murder, their cries of innocence fall on deaf ears. Vigilantes call for their deaths and give chase. Will anyone help them?
5.0

Year:

1993

Mi compadre Capulina

Mi compadre Capulina

Baseball sketch, restaurant sketch, store-detective sketch, lucha libre sketch. Remake of No me defiendes, compadre.
5.0

Year:

1989

Bonampak

Bonampak

The 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.
5.0

Year:

1989

Rosa de dos aromas

Rosa de dos aromas

Two women meet by accident and discover that they both have 10 year+ relationships with the same man. Also, unrelated subplots involving other women.
4.2

Year:

1989

By Fire And Sword

By Fire And Sword

Offbeat Mexican police officer must transport 3 convicts to a trial before a local drug kingpin kills them.
5.5

Year:

1988

The Realm of Fortune

The Realm of Fortune

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.
5.8

Year:

1986

Chido Guan, el tacos de oro

Chido Guan, el tacos de oro

Street-punk drafted to soccer team, rises to stardom. Cuz he plays so good.
4.7

Year:

1986

Los verduleros

Los verduleros

The adventures of two friends, one a chicken vendor in a market and the other a policeman. They have love affairs and capture criminals.
7.3

Year:

1986

Los matones del norte

Los matones del norte

Young man grows up thinking that his father's murderer is dead but wanting revenge against the guys who hired him to commit that crime.
5.0

Year:

1985

A garrote limpio

A garrote limpio

A series of murders have occurred in the uppermost circles of society. Detective Felipe Fierro vows to solve the killings, or die trying (which is a strong possibility).
5.0

Year:

1985

Knock Out

Knock Out

Rodrigo Zaracho, once a promising boxer, is in decline. While fleeing from a gang that is chasing him, he remembers his past.
6.2

Year:

1984

El patrullero 777

El patrullero 777

Follows 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.
7.8

Year:

1978

La puerta falsa

La puerta falsa

Young heroin addict dies in the pursuit of his calling, and his brother goes on a vendetta against the narco gang that supplied his drugs.
4.5

Year:

1977

El mexicano

El mexicano

5.0

Year:

1977

El hombre del puente

El hombre del puente

A man without identity/citizenship papers is stuck in the no-man's-land between two countries.
5.5

Year:

1976

Mexico, Mexico, ra, ra, ra!

Mexico, Mexico, ra, ra, ra!

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, 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.
5.3

Year:

1976

Acapulco 12-22

Acapulco 12-22

Tourist industry dudes moonlight as karate detectives, solving crimes committed among the mod young jet-setters.
4.8

Year:

1975

Descenso del pais de la noche

Descenso del pais de la noche

A 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.
5.3

Year:

1974

Island of Lost Souls

Island of Lost Souls

Rene 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.
5.8

Year:

1974

Mujeres de medianoche

Mujeres de medianoche

Crime melodrama involving blackmail, murder, mystery and the obligatory police investigation.
3.8

Year:

1969

Esclava del deseo

Esclava del deseo

Criminals hiding out on an island find a shipwrecked stranger.
4.8

Year:

1968

Santo the Silver Mask vs. The Ring Villains

Santo the Silver Mask vs. The Ring Villains

Santo fights a group of phony spiritualists who are trying to scam his god-daughter out of her 6 million peso inheritance.
5.2

Year:

1968

Pistoleros de la frontera

Pistoleros de la frontera

"The fastest gun of all" visits his home-town for a few days. All he really wants is to see his wife and som, talk with them about starting over someplace far away... but life interferes with his plans. Remake of The Gunfighter (1950).
5.0

Year:

1967

Santo vs. the Martian Invasion

Santo vs. the Martian Invasion

In 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.
5.6

Year:

1967

Demonios sobre ruedas

Demonios sobre ruedas

"Demons on Wheels". A gang of bikers terrorize a town and its inhabitants who can not do anything to prevent it.
5.0

Year:

1967

Jinetes de la llanura

Jinetes de la llanura

Cowboy-hero series, first of two. Sequel: Pistoleros de la frontera.
5.8

Year:

1966

El mexicano

El mexicano

After USA's appropriation of Texas, a Mexican resident responds to prejudice and injustice by forming a band of bandits.
5.0

Year:

1966

Forbidden Cargo

Forbidden Cargo

Federal agent infiltrates smuggling gang in seaport.
5.8

Year:

1966

El proceso de Cristo

El proceso de Cristo

The story of The Last Hours of Jesus Christ.
6.3

Year:

1966

El señor doctor

El señor doctor

It'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.
7.8

Year:

1965

Neutron vs. the Maniac

Neutron vs. the Maniac

Neutron, a wrestler/superhero, investigates a series of murders at a sanitarium.
4.9

Year:

1965

Neutron Battles the Karate Assassins

Neutron Battles the Karate Assassins

Superhero wrestler Neutron battles a gang of robotic assassins who use their hands and feet as deadly weapons.
4.4

Year:

1965

The Devil in the Blood

The Devil in the Blood

Three episodes about the influence of Satan: a black boxer commits killings under the influence of his manager.A pair of lovers is haunted by the memory of a murdered wife.A wedding in the mountains is disrupted when the bride sees an apparation of the Devil who shares his expertise in astrology and the female heart.
0.0

Year:

1964

Rata de puerto

Rata de puerto

The son of a prostitute, longshoreman, fighter and bully.
0.0

Year:

1963

Neutron vs. Dr. Caronte

Neutron vs. Dr. Caronte

Neutron, a superhero/wrestler, goes up against a mad scientist and his army of monsters.
4.8

Year:

1963

Sangre en el ring

Sangre en el ring

Boxing melodrama; heroic middleweight vs. crooked promoters. Sequel to Dinamita Kid.
5.0

Year:

1962

Bajo un mismo rostro

Bajo un mismo rostro

Two twin sisters have completely different ways of loving: to one love is profound, to the other is carnal.
5.5

Year:

1962

Neutron the Atomic Superman vs. the Death Robots

Neutron the Atomic Superman vs. the Death Robots

The 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.
5.3

Year:

1962

The Shame of the Sabine Women

The Shame of the Sabine Women

The Sabine tribe battles Romulus in the early days of Rome after Romans seize their women as unwilling brides.
4.7

Year:

1962

Dinamita Kid

Dinamita Kid

Young boxer on the rise butts head with dishonest promoters. Etc etc.
6.1

Year:

1962

El justiciero vengador

El justiciero vengador

White-hat with two sidekicks masquerades as a priest to break the stranglehold a blackhat has on a small town.
5.0

Year:

1962

Neutron and the Black Mask

Neutron and the Black Mask

Dr. Charon and his group of mad scientists built a neutron bomb with trying to blackmail the free world for global power. But the hero appears, Neutron, who, with the help of Dr. Thomas and reporter Nora spoil those plans.
5.0

Year:

1962

El jinete enmascarado

El jinete enmascarado

Horseman. With a mask on. First in a series, "El Norteño."
5.0

Year:

1961

Las canciones unidas

Las canciones unidas

Film clips of songs by performers from around the world.
5.5

Year:

1960

Vivo o muerto

Vivo o muerto

Cowboy/western: hero fakes cowardice to trap the bad guys into showing their hands.
5.0

Year:

1960

La estrella vacía

La estrella vacía

Mourners share their memories of a dead film-star at her wake, a la Citizen Kane. Only melodrama.
5.8

Year:

1960

Los tigres del ring

Los tigres del ring

Crooked 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.
5.0

Year:

1960

La última lucha

La última lucha

Slice-of-life melodrama: backstage at the wrestling arena.
5.8

Year:

1959

Born to Love

Born to Love

5.0

Year:

1959

El superflaco

El superflaco

Mad scientist gives Atomic Powers to a 98 pound weakling.
5.6

Year:

1959

¡Paso a la juventud..!

¡Paso a la juventud..!

Champion diver on a Uni swim team trains for the Olympics and contends with his buffoonish room-mate.
4.7

Year:

1958

A Media Luz Los Tres

A Media Luz Los Tres

"Confirmed bachelor" quits playing the field and gets married.
5.8

Year:

1958

Los tres mosqueteros y medio

Los tres mosqueteros y medio

Spoofy adaptation of The Three Musketeers, follows the original very closely.
6.5

Year:

1957

The Body Snatcher

The Body Snatcher

A detective and his cowboy friend team up to stop a mad scientist who is stealing the bodies of murdered wrestlers, and bringing them back to life while electronically replacing their minds with those of animals to make them stronger and live longer. Posing as a successful masked wrestler, the cowboy quickly attracts the attention of the scientist and his henchmen as their next experimental subject...
5.5

Year:

1957

Asesinos, S.A.

Asesinos, S.A.

Incompetent clown is drafted into a Murder Incorporated style squad of hitmen.
4.8

Year:

1957

El gato sin botas

El gato sin botas

Target of ridicule from fellow military academy, the cowardly Augustin did not want to return to their village for fear of confronting his grandfather, a revolutionary colonel. In love with the movie star Laura, Agustin flee to the capital but encounters the dangerous Humberto, another in love with the actress. Thanks to his "nine lives", he attains overcome perilous adventures and, incidentally, overcome their fears.
5.7

Year:

1957

Furias desatadas

Furias desatadas

College student enters the pro wrestling circuit, hoping to find out who killed his father. Third of four in a series.
5.0

Year:

1957

El diablo desaparece

El diablo desaparece

Cowboy justice: drifter takes on unscrupulous rancher and his sociopathic son.
5.0

Year:

1957

Una piedra en el zapato

Una piedra en el zapato

Police procedural: some detail pertaining to a murder case is nagging at the back of a detective's mind "like having a stone in his shoe." Once he teases it to the surface, he solves the case.
5.3

Year:

1956

El sultán descalzo

El sultán descalzo

Jack-of-all-trades interferes in his neighbors' lives, then has to set everything straight.
6.9

Year:

1956

The Hawks

The Hawks

The story of two half brothers who do not know they are such, who fight over a woman and nearly kill each other. One of them belongs to Los Gavilanes, a group of men who live live hidden and looting to give to the poor. Revenge, love and hate will at the end bring out the truth and everyone will get what he deserves.
6.7

Year:

1956

El gavilan vengador

El gavilan vengador

Masked rider exposes the criminal misdeeds of a wealthy land-owner and his henchmen.
5.0

Year:

1955

El túnel 6

El túnel 6

Engineering crew excavating a tunnel through a mountain, are trapped by a landslide.
5.0

Year:

1955

The Medallion of Crime

The Medallion of Crime

Going out for a drink with the guys after work, a salaryman get in over his head with a gangster's moll and a murder.
6.2

Year:

1955

La vida no vale nada

La vida no vale nada

Pablo, 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.
8.2

Year:

1955

Tailored gentleman

Tailored gentleman

Cantinflas 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.
6.8

Year:

1954

La gitana blanca

La gitana blanca

5.0

Year:

1954

¿Por qué ya no me quieres?

¿Por qué ya no me quieres?

Tired of struggling, Lilia, played by Sara Montiel, moves to the city to live with her aunt, a former actress. There she strives to become a singer and meets Raul a singer, played by Agustin Lara, who helps her succeed.
5.0

Year:

1954

Reportaje

Reportaje

Reporters compete for cash prize awarded for biggest scoop on New Year's Eve.
6.9

Year:

1953

El señor fotógrafo

El señor fotógrafo

Cantinflas, 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 ...
8.2

Year:

1953

Pepe El Toro

Pepe El Toro

The simple life and the values ​​of loyalty and solidarity of the poor people in the environment of professional boxing, is the plot of this film, where Pepe el Toro shows the effort and tragedies that are experienced in this profession.
6.3

Year:

1953

El vagabundo

El vagabundo

Homeless/unemployed dude has a spiritual awakening and rehabilitates himself working at a circus.
6.1

Year:

1953

The Magnificent Beast

The Magnificent Beast

The Magnificent Beast (Free Fight) is a 1953 Mexican film. It was directed by Chano Urueta. The first film of the Luchadores genre.
5.1

Year:

1953

Me traes de un ala

Me traes de un ala

To 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.
5.9

Year:

1953

La sexta carrera

La sexta carrera

Mexican feature film
5.0

Year:

1953

El luchador fenómeno

El luchador fenómeno

Amado is an employee of a brewery that dreams of success in football. Inveterate dreamer sends a letter to the pantheon of athletes. There champions Assembly decides to send the spirit of a great scorer for help. However, the devil, a fighter with no luck, decides to take the place of the player and turn beloved wrestling champion. This is one of the first incursions of Mexican cinema to the sub-genre of movies precursor struggle and many others that followed over the decades of the 50s and 60s.
5.2

Year:

1952

The Sleeping Beauty

The Sleeping Beauty

A Mexican comedy loosely playing off of the tale of Sleeping Beauty. A caveman wakes up after a thousand year slumber. When he awakens he is seen as a wonder to behold, and discovers his ancient love and romantic rival are seemingly still alive as well.
7.2

Year:

1952

Música, mujeres y amor

Música, mujeres y amor

Two women are installed in the cabin of a ship that was already occupied by two gentlemen.
5.2

Year:

1952

Mi campeón

Mi campeón

Catita 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.
5.0

Year:

1952

Night Falls

Night Falls

Marcos is an arrogant jai-alai player who seduces and discards women until he himself becomes the object of a cunning revenge.
6.4

Year:

1952

Los tres alegres compadres

Los tres alegres compadres

Father and two sons raise hell at the county fair.
5.3

Year:

1952

Las locuras de Tin Tan

Las locuras de Tin Tan

Tin-Tan wants to builds an ice cream machine.
5.6

Year:

1952

El cardenal

El cardenal

Mexican feature film
5.0

Year:

1951

Mujeres sin mañana

Mujeres sin mañana

Loosely-plotted melodrama about five "hostesses" and the owners of a waterfront nightclub.
5.5

Year:

1951

The Troublemaker

The Troublemaker

Well-intentioned Tin Tan who is always making trouble for other people, sometimes on purpose and sometimes by accident.
6.8

Year:

1951

Hell Road

Hell Road

When a robbery goes wrong, the thief takes a singer as hostage, they fall in love and try to rebuild their lives, but tragedy surges in the most unexpected way.
6.3

Year:

1951

Streetwalker

Streetwalker

In Mexico City, two sisters, Maria and Elena, fight over the love of pimp Rodolfo. Elena escapes her sad marriage to an old banker into Rodolfo's arms. Meanwhile, life is hard for sex worker Maria, who-along with her supportive group of fellow sex workers-must deal with exploitative clients.
5.1

Year:

1951

Una gringuita en México

Una gringuita en México

A USA girl decides to vacation in Mexico and experience first hand all the stereotypical scenes she's seen in movies. When she gets there, everything isn't all charros and bandidos, though -- surprise, surprise!
5.5

Year:

1951

Una mujer sin destino

Una mujer sin destino

"Brilliant" young painter watches his wife lapse into schizophrenia.
4.4

Year:

1950

The Man Without a Face

The Man Without a Face

A faceless killer who hunts women can only be stopped by a detective with a disturbing past.
6.6

Year:

1950

Wild Love

Wild Love

Alma leaves Panama to go live with her aunt Antonia and with Manuel, her husband. There she meets Julio, who tries to woo her.
5.2

Year:

1950

The Black Sheep

The Black Sheep

The Trevino family tries to overcome the irresponsible behavior of Don Cruz, an erratic father with numerous defects that contrast with his son Silvano, a young kid man that is incapable of passing judgment on his own father.
7.8

Year:

1949

¡No me defiendas, compadre!

¡No me defiendas, compadre!

A bungling wannabe-lawyer keeps interfering in his friend's lives; his desire to help always makes things worse.
6.3

Year:

1949

Hipócrita..!

Hipócrita..!

A 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.
5.7

Year:

1949

Bambucos y Corazones

Bambucos y Corazones

In a charming and gossipy town in La Sábana that they call Alpargatoca, the old aunts are surprised by everything and gossip about everything... and do not accept the modern customs of their nieces¸ intoxicated by love¸ sports and a somewhat free life¸without those cares of what will they say
0.0

Year:

1945