Lorena Velázquez

Acting

Lorena Velázquez

Born 1937-12-16 · Mexico City, México

One of the quintessential vamps of Mexican cinema from the late 1950s through the early '70s, Lorena Velázquez is the daughter of character actor Víctor Velázquez, and the older sister of actress Tere Velázquez. She made her screen debut in 1955, and her role as Thorina, queen of the vampires, in _Santo contra las mujeres vampiros, El (1961)_, elevated her to the status of cult icon.

Acting credits

Tin Tan y las modelos poster
6.6

Ambitious non-starter gets a job as a bill-collector at a beauty-products company and tries to bluff his way into a management position, then tries a couple of other business schemes with minimal success.

Tin Tan y las modelos

1960

No artwork available
4.5

The discovery of a young woman murdered in her car triggers unrelated problems among a diverse group of people.

Ellas también son rebeldes

1961

El escándalo poster
5.5

No synopsis available yet.

El escándalo

1964

No artwork available
4.6

No synopsis available yet.

Jóvenes y rebeldes

1961

Boda fatal poster
6.5

No synopsis available yet.

Boda fatal

2001

Dormitorio para señoritas poster
5.6

Young lawyer is mistaken for music professor and goes to live at a boarding school for young women.

Dormitorio para señoritas

1960

El tragabalas poster
5.8

Piporro doesn’t need to use his gun to get away with murder.

El tragabalas

1966

Wrestling Women vs. the Aztec Mummy poster
4.9

Gloria Venus and Golden Rubi are tag-team Luchadoras, helping a scientist on a quest to discover an ancient Aztec treasure, but the fiendish Prince Fugiyata wants to get there first. Both are in for a surprise, as the treasure is guarded by Xochitl, the Aztec Mummy Sorcerer, who can turn into a bat at will.

Wrestling Women vs. the Aztec Mummy

1964

Los Desalmados poster
6.3

No synopsis available yet.

Los Desalmados

1971

Suicide Mission poster
5.5

Santo must investigate a secret conspiracy involving a spy training camp, a brainwashing plot, and a kidnapped Nazi scientist.

Suicide Mission

1973

Planet of the Female Invaders poster
6.3

A group of sexy space vixens flies down to Earth, sets up a shop at a carnival (disguising their ship as a ride), and kidnap some earthlings in their scheme to conquer our planet. The humans, including Marcos, a crooked boxer and our hero, Silvia, his love interest, and a gang of comical mobsters out to kill Marcos, are taken to the women’s home planet. There they are held prisoner by the evil queen Adastrea and aided by her selfless twin Alburnia. Meanwhile, a standard issue hunky scientist back on Earth, who happens to be Silvia’s boss, tries to rescue them.

Planet of the Female Invaders

1966

Leyenda Macabras de La Colonia poster
5.6

The Mexican luchador Tinieblas buys an ancient painting of a dead woman ignoring the warning that it is haunted. Later, after a fight his partners El Fantasma Blanco and Mil Máscaras joins him in a party at his apartment with two beautiful ladies, but when the clock reaches midnight the painting transports them all to colonial times. In order to return home they must face Spanish Conquistadores, Aztec Warriors and an evil witch whose mother, an unstoppable living dead hungry for human sacrifices, is the woman in the painting.

Leyenda Macabras de La Colonia

1974

Las bravuconas poster
5.7

Three big-city wimps have to pass for machos when they go to their home-town.

Las bravuconas

1963

No artwork available
6.7

A love story, of boyfriends and songs¸ of three sisters who travel to Colombia with their jealous father Hipólito to receive the inheritance of their late aunt Encajosa¸ who made it a condition that the three girls must be married to receive it.

Elena's Daughters

1964

El malvado Carabel poster
6.7

Frustrated salaryman responds to career setbacks by embarking on a life of crime.

El malvado Carabel

1961

El charro de Tacubaya poster
NR

A humble shoe shiner finds fame and fortune as a wrestler without knowing he wears a dead man's mask.

El charro de Tacubaya

2006

Adorada enemiga poster
6.3

Young Patricia returns from studying in Europe and finds her mother has married to a man named Jaime. The young woman falls in love with him, who has also seduced a servant who still loves him.

Adorada enemiga

1965

Las movidas de Juan Pérez poster
NR

Juan Pérez is a drunk, a party-goer, and a gambler, but above all, a womanizer. His weakness for the female sex is such that he has been married three times to satisfy each of his macho facets.

Las movidas de Juan Pérez

2015

La Chilindrina en apuros poster
7.3

No synopsis available yet.

La Chilindrina en apuros

1994

Se les pelo Baltazar poster
5.0

No synopsis available yet.

Se les pelo Baltazar

1998

Friar Juan poster
6.7

A Dominican friar finds himself wrapped in tangled skirts because he is mistaken for his twin brother, a womanizer.

Friar Juan

1970

El puma poster
6.3

Son of a ranching family returns home after studying in the city for a law degree. He sides with the peons in a labor dispute and his father disowns him; he sets up a law office in another town. First of three movies in a masked-avenger series.

El puma

1959

No artwork available
5.4

A gunslinger avenges his father's murder.

A Clean Shot

1960

Deadly Embroidered Memories poster
5.0

A woman with a degree in biology and a particular taste for arachnids gets involved with some unfinished business left by her dead mother, leading her to face unlikely events that revolve around the banana mafia in a South American country, such as an etheric eminence that anticipates tragedies, a cryptozoological being that is mentioned with skepticism and a terrorist society that seeks to dismantle the fraudulent and sinister structure of land concessions.

Deadly Embroidered Memories

2020