
Acting
Prudencia Grifell
Born — Died
1879-12-27 — 1970-06-07
Place of birth
Lugo, Galicia, Spain
Known for
Acting
Credits
60 titles
Prudencia Grifell (December 27, 1879 – June 7, 1970), born Prudencia Grifell Masipon, was a prolific actress of the Golden Era of the Cinema of Mexico. Grifell was born to Spanish stage actors and started her acting career herself at the age of ten in theater in Venezuela and touring Spain and Latin America. By the 1900s she had become very popular and moved to Mexico to continue her career in stage, after the Spanish Civil War she decided not to go back to that country but instead to relocate in Mexico permanently after 1940. Three years later, already at the age of 61, she appeared in her first film Internado para señoritas ("Girls Boarding School") with the stars Mapy Cortés, Emilio Tue…
Known for
8.0It'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
8.2A family gathers to celebrate Mother's Day, that day a woman discuss many problems about her woman condition; husband, children and grandchildren will hear she tired and overwhelmed silenced by submission and obedience. Analysis of the family and gender roles.
Why Was I Born a Woman?
1970
7.0In 1920s Mexico, the candidates being chosen to succeed the current president, El Caudillo, find themselves at his mercy as he will resort to anything to accomplish his will, including kidnapping, betrayal, and murder.
The Shadow of the Tyrant
1960
7.0A young teacher is sent to a remote estate to educate a wealthy man who has grown up isolated from society. As she introduces him to formal education and social conventions, their contrasting views of the world lead to a series of unexpected encounters.
The Third Word
1956
6.3Twin sisters butt heads over a feller. One goes into a convent, the other becomes a professional thiefstress.
La ladrona
1954
6.2No synopsis available yet.
Entre tu amor y el cielo
1950
Film credits
1960s · 8 titles
8.0It'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
7.0In 1920s Mexico, the candidates being chosen to succeed the current president, El Caudillo, find themselves at his mercy as he will resort to anything to accomplish his will, including kidnapping, betrayal, and murder.
The Shadow of the Tyrant
1960
5.3Unmarried opera singer has a baby, and her friends convince her to pass it off as the grandchild of a wealthy old lady.
The Waltzes came from Vienna and the Children from Paris
1966
6.2Villagers think the Big Bad Wolf has returned to his fierce, wild-animal ways. Also gypsies.
Caperucita y sus tres amigos
1961
5.8Bush-league actor allows two adorable grannies to believe he's their long-lost grandson. Then: complications!
Mis abuelitas... no más!
1961
After being arrested the two adorable grannies spend some time in jail and then stand trial for the robberies they've committed.
The Trial of the Vivanco Ladies
1961
6.2The story of Nora, a poor but ambitious young woman, who uses her beauty to seduce a rich and married lawyer.
Senda prohibida
1961
6.2A young woman believes her fiance has died, and she enters a convent.
La hermana blanca
1960
1950s · 42 titles
7.0A young teacher is sent to a remote estate to educate a wealthy man who has grown up isolated from society. As she introduces him to formal education and social conventions, their contrasting views of the world lead to a series of unexpected encounters.
The Third Word
1956
6.3Twin sisters butt heads over a feller. One goes into a convent, the other becomes a professional thiefstress.
La ladrona
1954
6.2No synopsis available yet.
Entre tu amor y el cielo
1950
7.2Between-engagements troupers at a theatrical boarding-house con a rich acquaintance into financing a show.
Pensión de artistas
1956
5.6Newly-married woman discovers that her husband's a virgin and not the notorious Don Juan that she'd heard rumors about, and their marriage almost collapses because he's faithful and monogamous and good.
Recién casados... no molestar
1951
5.7Gangster's daughter learns about her dad's illegalist lifestyle.
El plagiario
1955
6.0Los dineros del diablo (The Devil's Money) is a Mexican drama film directed by Alejandro Galindo. It was released in 1953 and starring Amalia Aguilar and Roberto Cañedo.
The Devil's Money
1953
6.8This Mexican melodrama may have been released above the border as After the Storm. The principal characters are a pair of twin lighthouse keepers. They try their best to live together with their wives under the same roof, but the delicate balance is shattered when one of the brothers falls in love with his sister-in-law. When one twin is lost during a storm, the other assumes his identity, with the expected romantic complications. If Despues de la Termenta sounds familiar, it is because the screenplay was inspired by the 1946 Bette Davis vehicle A Stolen Life.
Después de la tormenta
1955
6.2Ruined alcoholic doctor escapes a tropical plague and begins a new life back in civilization, taking over the identity of a dead man.
Two Faces Have the Destiny
1952
7.5The classic story of the Red Riding Hood spiced up by a couple of funny characters like the dog Duke, companion to the girl in her adventures, and the stinky Skunk, henchman to the Wolf.
Little Red Riding Hood
1959
6.7No synopsis available yet.
Tale of a Heart
1951
6.0Rosa, a mayor, faces pressure from her police chief father to imprison her cousins. After a kidnapping and tampering with vaccines, Rosa realizes politics isn't for women.
Al diablo las mujeres
1955
5.4After moving from Guadalajara to Mexico City, a young woman gets embroiled in a series of puzzling mistaken-identity misadventures.
Mi desconocida esposa
1958
5.8A clumsy investigator must unravel a deadly mystery when a passenger is killed during a long-distance rail journey.
El genial Detective Peter Pérez
1952
6.8Ghosts and premonitions; a married woman discovers the true love of her life while being plagued with supernatural phenomena relating to her imminent murder. It's a comedy.
The Case of the Wee Murdered Woman
1955
5.8Ten or twelve years ago, a young man wrecked his car and his wife was killed in the accident. Today, his wealthy mother-in-law is still full of hatred and bitterness toward him, and she prefers not to acknowledge her granddaughter. Will love and tenderness find their way into the crusty old bitch's heart?
El ruiseñor del barrio
1952
6.2Mischievous little girl pulls a variety of pranks for the purpose of preventing her parents from divorcing.
Angel Face
1956
6.3No synopsis available yet.
Esposa o amante
1950
5.8A man facing bankruptcy and ruin rehearses a couple of scenarios relating to suicide, until his family convinces him he's worth more alive than dead.
The Man That Pleases Me
1958
6.0Young widow with kindergarten-age daughter butts heads with her mother-in-law.
Sublime melodía
1956
6.3Family rescues a woman from the river nearby where their daughter committed suicide years before. Unresolved mysteries. And meanwhile, there's a mysterious woman in black who shows up at the hacienda just before somebody dies.
La dama del alba
1950
6.5Mexican feature film
La sexta carrera
1953
5.7Marita, a charming little girl, lives in the country with her grandmother. Her best friend is a modest servant, Anselmo, who almost everyday takes the girl to visit the church known as "Guadalupe's Basilica", an important cathedral in Mexico City, where she discovers Virgin Guadalupe and the legend about her apparitions in that place. Marita doesn't behave properly in school, and her teacher always has a punishment for the girl. She doesn't like school, and she doesn't want to return to school anymore. Besides, Marita's worried about her animals, like a cow who doesn't produce milk. The girl asks many miracles of Virgin Guadalupe, one of them is to not have to go to school. During a visit to the Basilica, Marita hears the Virgin's voice, and this could be the beginning of a responsible life for the girl, like to study and to be a good child.
The Smile of the Virgin
1958
6.4A young woman tries to stop the sale of a house that serves as a shelter for orphaned children and retired actors.
Un minuto de bondad
1954
6.3A single mother discovers her daughter getting ready to elope with an unworthy boyfriend, so she sits the girl down and tells her the whole entire story of her own very unhappy marriage.
Inmaculada
1950
6.1Women connected with a female-run employment agency and a women-only boarding house bond together in mutual support.
Mujeres que trabajan
1953
4.8An unlikely friendship develops when respectable Doña Nena spends her days looking out her window across the street to the sex workers who spend their nights there. One night, she helps helps Alicia one of the girls, escape a police raid and spend several nights painting her portrait.
Una mujer en la calle
1955
6.3Personal dramas among the residents of an apartment house.
Apartment house
1951
5.5Romance between a flamenco singer performing in Mexico and a gov't soldier during the Mexican Revolution.
Prisionera del pasado
1954
6.8Fictionalized version of the life of songwriter Maria Grever.
Cuando me vaya
1954
The boy Pepito, is looking for work to help his grandmother, who is not receiving her pension. He wants to be a magician's assistant, and thus begin his problems because a crime happens and a monster appears.
Pepito and the Monster
1957
6.0No synopsis available yet.
El monstruo en la sombra
1955
6.7No synopsis available yet.
Melodías de amor
1955
4.1Wicked girl uses nude modeling as a way to seduce a wealthy painter into marriage, while still trying to keep an artschool stud piece on the side.
The Force of Desire
1955
6.5Four brothers try to manage their careers and love-lives under the close supervision of a domineering mother.
Póker de ases
1952
6.1The life of the musician Juventino Rosas, who despite his talent lived an existence of misfortune and poverty.
Over the Waves
1950
7.0Two women of lesser descent are dedicated to stealing to support their brother's daughter.
The Vivanco Ladies
1959
5.4The old folks back home in Spain have arranged a marriage for their niece living in Mexico. To side-step their demands, she pretends to be already married, with a male acquaintance who agrees to pose as her husband while her relatives are visiting.
Mi adorado salvaje
1952
7.0Governess falls in love with the uncle of the children she's teaching. Then complications.
Las infieles
1953
5.6Wealthy libertine tries to seduce another man's mistress by threatening to send him to jail if she doesn't put out. Blowback from his sleazy behavior affects five other people; everybody suffers. Enormously.
Lodo y Armiño
1951
6.3Heaven Can Wait scenario; a young woman dies forty years ahead of schedule because her guardian angel made a mistake... so the divine powers that be put her back on earth in a new body.
Préstame tu cuerpo
1958
5.4A murderer turns himself to the police, but claims amnesia and insists he's unable to tell them anything about his crime.
X Murderer
1955
1940s · 9 titles
4.9Man commits suicide over his wife's infidelity. His father spends the rest of his life trying to figure out which of son's two children is illegitimate.
Adultery
1945
5.8A puritanical man travels to the capital to visit nightclubs and introduces himself as a bachelor, but to his surprise, he finds himself there with his wife.
Los nietos de Don Venancio
1946
5.8Three boys and three girls in the 1890s.
El globo de Cantolla
1944
6.0No synopsis available yet.
El amor abrió los ojos
1947
6.21940s-style teen comedy set in a private school for girls.
Internado para señoritas
1943
5.7Mexican movie
Una sombra en mi destino
1946
5.9Soledad, a maid born in Argentina, works at a Mexican farm. The son of her employer will deceive her, pretending to marry her and leaving her pregnant. When she finds out that she has been tricked, she runs away from the farm. During her flight she meets a group of artists that'll change her life.
Soledad
1947
6.7Homeless girl placed in a court-appointed foster home under the care of a social worker.
Ladronzuela
1949
6.2A young woman, a thief and a lawyer find themselves in the same hotel room without planning it. Mercedes, the thief, has a brother who, by mistake, kidnaps the lawyer Alberto, which will cause a mess.
Nosotros los rateros
1949
