Lorena Velázquez

Acting

Lorena Velázquez

Born — Died

1937-12-16 — 2024-04-11

Place of birth

Mexico City, México

Known for

Acting

Credits

68 titles

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.

Known for

Killer Women poster
7.6

Mujeres Asesinas is a series that shows the dark side of women who have been mistreated or abused and become cruel murderers. The series shows how violence and death can overcome the feminine mind.

Killer Women

2008

Mi Pequeña Traviesa poster
7.0

Mi Pequeña Traviesa is a Mexican youth and family telenovela produced and directed by Pedro Damián for Televisa and originally broadcast on Canal de las Estrellas from December 8, 1997, to April 24, 1998. It is an adaptation of the Argentine telenovela Me llaman Gorrión, created by Abel Santa Cruz. The telenovela stars Michelle Vieth and Héctor Soberón. The story follows Julia González, a young woman whose dreams of pursuing a professional career are interrupted after her father is left paralyzed in an accident. To support her family, she disguises herself as a boy in order to find work. Along the way, she falls in love with Alberto Miranda, and together they must overcome social differences, family conflicts, and the many obstacles that stand in the way of their happiness.

Mi Pequeña Traviesa

1997

El manantial del milagro poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

El manantial del milagro

1974

A Double Identity poster
2.0

Niña de mi Corazón is a teen Mexican telenovela produced by Televisa and Telefe adapted from Pedro Damian's 1997 Mi Pequeña Traviesa, that premiered on March 8, 2010 and ended on July 9, 2010. Damian was also the producer of this telenovela.

A Double Identity

2010

I love you, Güero poster
7.7

“La mexicana y el güero” is the story of some scammers who try to deceive a millionaire who is looking for his biological mother through a plan that is funny about what is complicated. Itatí Cantoral, Gala Montes, Juan Soler, Luis Roberto Guzmán, Montserrat Marañón, Jacqueline Andere, Rodrigo Abed and Laura Vignatti, among many other stars.

I love you, Güero

2020

La casa en la playa poster
8.5

La casa en la playa is a Mexican telenovela produced by Yuri Breña and Pinkye Morris for Televisa and originally broadcast on Canal de las Estrellas from April 10 to July 7, 2000. The story follows the wealthy Villarreal family after the death of its patriarch, whose final wishes ignite conflicts over inheritance, power, and loyalty. As hidden secrets and old rivalries emerge, the family becomes entangled in a web of love, betrayal, ambition, and revenge.

La casa en la playa

2000

Film credits

2010s · 4 titles

Love of My Loves poster
7.4

Two couples get to know what we all dream about: love at first sight. The problem is they meet it with different people to the ones they are engaged with, and they are just at seven days to get married. Up to that moment, they have to reconsider what’s love and what’s a habit, and to face them going against an idea with an expiration date: marriage. "Love of my loves" is based upon the successful mexican theatrical play "Un dos tres por mí y por todos mis amores", and explores compromise, doubts and commitment mixing drama and comedy.

Love of My Loves

2014

Cartas a Elena poster
6.5

In the beautiful hills of the Copper Canyon in Chihuahua, Mexico, a young boy (Emilio) is adopted by the mailman (Teo). As part of their daily tasks, they not only deliver the mail but read letters to the villagers, as well as take dictation, since most are illiterate. Young Emilio quickly learns to read and write but feels saddened by the mostly difficult stories sent by relatives, that moved north to Denver, Colorado in pursuit of a better future. One day Teo becomes disabled and Emilio takes over the mail route and with great imagination, he changes the letters to happy and optimistic stories. Within days, the village is transformed. The elders, once hopeless, lonely and sad, are now happy and enthusiastic, enjoying the "supposed" success their loved ones write from the United States. But the enjoyment is short lived, as they realize that all the wonderful stories are the same...

Cartas a Elena

2012

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

Más sabe el Diablo por Viejo poster
7.5

Teo, a young and struggling actor, disguises himself as a 79 year old man to take advantage from the benefits of a retirement home, while also trying to sort out his personal and love life.

Más sabe el Diablo por Viejo

2018

1980s · 3 titles

1970s · 10 titles

Los Hombres No Lloran poster
5.4

Man is manipulated into thinking his wife is unfaithful and abandons her, taking one of their two sons with him.

Los Hombres No Lloran

1973

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

Los Desalmados poster
6.3

No synopsis available yet.

Los Desalmados

1971

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

Caín, Abel... y el Otro poster
6.2

Three early twenties guys in Acapulco competing for women... they end up marooned on a desert island together...

Caín, Abel... y el Otro

1971

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

Cinco mil dolares de recompensa poster
5.5

A gunfighter is appointed sheriff of a town that is terrorized by a gang of criminals.

Cinco mil dolares de recompensa

1974

Mi amorcito de Suecia poster
4.4

A failed marriage takes in a young niece while the wife tries to take away her inheritance.

Mi amorcito de Suecia

1974

The Innocent poster
7.9

The innocence of a woman due to a mental deficit will become the worst nightmare for her loved ones, after the harsh reality of the outside world made her their victim.

The Innocent

1972

No artwork available
5.8

Based on the novel by Caridad Bravo Adams.

Estafa de amor

1970

1960s · 27 titles

El escándalo poster
5.5

No synopsis available yet.

El escándalo

1964

Santo vs. the Zombies poster
4.8

Masked luchador "Santo" fights against an evil doctor and his zombie army.

Santo vs. the Zombies

1962

El tragabalas poster
5.8

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

El tragabalas

1966

Doctor of Doom poster
4.8

A mad scientist terrorizes a city by kidnapping young women with his ape-man Gomar and then using them as subjects in sadistic brain transplant experiments. A female wrestler whose sister was one of the victims swears vengeance against the Mad Doctor.

Doctor of Doom

1963

Santo vs. the Vampire Women poster
4.2

A professor recruits a professional wrestler to protect his daughter from vampires intent on kidnapping her and marrying her to the devil.

Santo vs. the Vampire Women

1962

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

Pilotos de la muerte poster
5.8

A couple of provincial gas station employees travel to the capital seeking fortune of vehicle mechanics accidental career passing drivers.

Pilotos de la muerte

1962

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

Quiero morir en carnaval poster
5.8

No synopsis available yet.

Quiero morir en carnaval

1961

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

Si yo fuera millonario poster
5.4

White-collar criminals conspire to prevent a shmuck from collecting an inheritance.

Si yo fuera millonario

1962

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

¡En peligro de muerte! poster
7.7

No synopsis available yet.

¡En peligro de muerte!

1962

Ship of the Monsters poster
6.3

A singing cowboy falls foul of alien invaders and beautiful women from Venus.

Ship of the Monsters

1960

Las bravuconas poster
5.7

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

Las bravuconas

1963

The Shame of the Sabine Women poster
5.1

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

The Shame of the Sabine Women

1962

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

La edad de piedra poster
5.9

Capulina chip and are transported back to prehistoric times with a time machine. There they live crazy adventures.

La edad de piedra

1964

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

The Diabolical Axe poster
5.3

In the Age of the Inquisitions, 1603, Santo, El Enmascarado de Plata, is being laid to rest by a group of monks. The Black Hood, an axe-wielder and a tormented soul who sold his soul to the devil after losing his love to El Santo, appears at the foot of his tomb and swears to seek his revenge no matter how many centuries it takes. El Santo is the chosen one and is sworn to fight for good and justice at any cost. After he finds his love, Alicia, dead at the hands of the Black Hood, El Santo must trust his faith and use his strength in this battle of good vs. evil.

The Diabolical Axe

1965

Un padre a toda máquina poster
5.6

Two neighboring towns have a hostile relationship... but one town has a surplus of marriageable bachelors, and the other has too many young women to marry off locally, so both towns need to get over their damn selves. A hip young priest on a motorcycle is assigned to set things right between them.

Un padre a toda máquina

1964

El último cartucho poster
5.8

Dishonest business practices and corrupt local government lead a large number of townsfolk to set up an alternative village out in the countryside, from which to practice banditry and improvised social justice.

El último cartucho

1965

She-Wolves of the Ring poster
5.8

Intimate problems and the wickedness of friends is resolved in the ring.

She-Wolves of the Ring

1965

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

No artwork available
4.6

No synopsis available yet.

Jóvenes y rebeldes

1961

Ay Chabela...! poster
6.7

Two guys fight over two girls, ranchera style.

Ay Chabela...!

1961

Vuelve el Norteño poster
5.8

Two rival gangs of outlaws are terrorizing a small town; el Comandante and his sidekicks pit them against each other and pick up the pieces.

Vuelve el Norteño

1964

1950s · 7 titles

Series credits

Killer Women poster
7.6

Mujeres Asesinas is a series that shows the dark side of women who have been mistreated or abused and become cruel murderers. The series shows how violence and death can overcome the feminine mind.

Killer Women

2008

Mi Pequeña Traviesa poster
7.0

Mi Pequeña Traviesa is a Mexican youth and family telenovela produced and directed by Pedro Damián for Televisa and originally broadcast on Canal de las Estrellas from December 8, 1997, to April 24, 1998. It is an adaptation of the Argentine telenovela Me llaman Gorrión, created by Abel Santa Cruz. The telenovela stars Michelle Vieth and Héctor Soberón. The story follows Julia González, a young woman whose dreams of pursuing a professional career are interrupted after her father is left paralyzed in an accident. To support her family, she disguises herself as a boy in order to find work. Along the way, she falls in love with Alberto Miranda, and together they must overcome social differences, family conflicts, and the many obstacles that stand in the way of their happiness.

Mi Pequeña Traviesa

1997

El manantial del milagro poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

El manantial del milagro

1974

A Double Identity poster
2.0

Niña de mi Corazón is a teen Mexican telenovela produced by Televisa and Telefe adapted from Pedro Damian's 1997 Mi Pequeña Traviesa, that premiered on March 8, 2010 and ended on July 9, 2010. Damian was also the producer of this telenovela.

A Double Identity

2010

I love you, Güero poster
7.7

“La mexicana y el güero” is the story of some scammers who try to deceive a millionaire who is looking for his biological mother through a plan that is funny about what is complicated. Itatí Cantoral, Gala Montes, Juan Soler, Luis Roberto Guzmán, Montserrat Marañón, Jacqueline Andere, Rodrigo Abed and Laura Vignatti, among many other stars.

I love you, Güero

2020

La casa en la playa poster
8.5

La casa en la playa is a Mexican telenovela produced by Yuri Breña and Pinkye Morris for Televisa and originally broadcast on Canal de las Estrellas from April 10 to July 7, 2000. The story follows the wealthy Villarreal family after the death of its patriarch, whose final wishes ignite conflicts over inheritance, power, and loyalty. As hidden secrets and old rivalries emerge, the family becomes entangled in a web of love, betrayal, ambition, and revenge.

La casa en la playa

2000

The Incredibly Strange Film Show poster
8.3

A series of documentaries focusing on the world of psychotronic movies; focusing on the lives of filmakers such as Hershell Gordon Lewis, Saim Raimi, Doris Wishman, Ed Wood Jr, and Tsui Hark. Covers weird movie genres, like Mexican wrestling movies and Hong Kong horror films.

The Incredibly Strange Film Show

1988

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Los Güeros también somos nacos

2026