Eduardo López Rojas

Acting

Eduardo López Rojas

Born — Died

1937-05-03 — 1999-07-31

Place of birth

New York, New York, USA

Known for

Acting

Credits

58 titles

Eduardo López Rojas was born in 1937 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for La mujer de Benjamín (1991), La ley de Herodes (1999) and Reed, México insurgente (1973). He died on September 2, 1999 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico.

Known for

Los Parientes Pobres poster
6.8

Los Parientes Pobres is a telenovela made by Mexican TV network Televisa. It is a telenovela set in Mexico. This telenovela was broadcast in 1993.

Los Parientes Pobres

1993

La Dueña poster
7.6

La Dueña (Mexico) is a Mexican telenovela produced by Florinda Meza in 1995 for Televisa. It was transmitted by El Canal de las Estrellas in Mexico and Univision in the United States in 1995 and 1998, and on Galavisión in 2000.

La Dueña

1995

Cuentos de Borges poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Cuentos de Borges

1993

My Family poster
7.4

Traces over three generations an immigrant family's trials, tribulations, tragedies, and triumphs. Maria and Jose, the first generation, come to Los Angeles, meet, marry, face deportation all in the 1930s. They establish their family in East L.A., and their children Chucho, Paco, Memo, Irene, Toni, and Jimmy deal with youth culture and the L.A. police in the '50s. As the second generation become adults in the '60s, the focus shifts to Jimmy, his marriage to Isabel (a Salvadorian refugee), their son, and Jimmy's journey to becoming a responsible parent.

My Family

1995

El profe poster
8.0

Mario Moreno portrays a professor in this movie. A small town in the middle of no where requests the school Mario Moreno is working in for a teacher. He ends up going to give the town a hand. When he arrives he comes to know the corrupt leaders who through out the movie try to make him leave. Although he is being harassed you can see how much he cares for the kids and their circumstances. He deals with problems by using his hilarious comments.

El profe

1971

Herod's Law poster
8.0

In the 1940s, a small Mexican town has seen its last three mayors assassinated in rapid succession. A naive janitor is recruited to become the new mayor, and he believes he will modernize the little town and usher in a reign of peace. But the system corrupts him very quickly, and he takes to abusing his power while associating with an unscrupulous assortment of opportunists, hypocrites and criminals.

Herod's Law

1999

Film credits

1990s · 17 titles

My Family poster
7.4

Traces over three generations an immigrant family's trials, tribulations, tragedies, and triumphs. Maria and Jose, the first generation, come to Los Angeles, meet, marry, face deportation all in the 1930s. They establish their family in East L.A., and their children Chucho, Paco, Memo, Irene, Toni, and Jimmy deal with youth culture and the L.A. police in the '50s. As the second generation become adults in the '60s, the focus shifts to Jimmy, his marriage to Isabel (a Salvadorian refugee), their son, and Jimmy's journey to becoming a responsible parent.

My Family

1995

Herod's Law poster
8.0

In the 1940s, a small Mexican town has seen its last three mayors assassinated in rapid succession. A naive janitor is recruited to become the new mayor, and he believes he will modernize the little town and usher in a reign of peace. But the system corrupts him very quickly, and he takes to abusing his power while associating with an unscrupulous assortment of opportunists, hypocrites and criminals.

Herod's Law

1999

Highway Patrolman poster
6.4

A naïve rookie in the Mexican highway patrol must adapt in order to survive as he contends with widespread corruption, dangerous drug runners and the consequences of his often morally gray actions.

Highway Patrolman

1991

Death and the Compass poster
5.7

In a totalitarian future, in a nightmare metropolis, inhabited only by criminals and police, Erik Lonnrot, a gifted detective, investigates a series of strange murders and disappearances that seem to implicate a insane crime lord. (Re-released in 1996 as a feature film, 86 minutes.)

Death and the Compass

1992

45 expansiva poster
4.0

No synopsis available yet.

45 expansiva

1996

Amor de mis amores poster
5.0

No synopsis available yet.

Amor de mis amores

1999

Benjamín's Wife poster
6.9

Benjamin is an old bachelor who lives with his sister. One day he falls in love with the young Natividad. Seeing that the love letter strategy doesn't work with the girl, Benjamín decides to kidnap her.

Benjamín's Wife

1991

La paloma de Marsella poster
6.0

Amelia is an old retired prostitute who lives at an asylum, where she decides to enter a T.V. contest.

La paloma de Marsella

1999

Dollar Mambo poster
3.8

Music and dance nurture the story of a group of people who live in a popular neighborhood. The invasion of North American soldiers to Panama will break the tranquility of the place bringing a wave of violence with them.

Dollar Mambo

1995

¡Maten a Chinto! poster
6.8

Based on real events during Christmas of 1944 in the Pacific coast port city of Manzanillo. Hotel manager Chinto loses his temper and assaults "Inés," the homosexual cook. Inés complains to the police, but when several patrolmen come to arrest Chinto, he pulls a pistol and shoots them. The authorities soon lay seige to the hotel; Chinto's employees, follow his orders without question and assist him in barricading the hotel's doors and windows.

¡Maten a Chinto!

1990

Loving Ghosts poster
5.5

No synopsis available yet.

Loving Ghosts

1994

Días de combate poster
5.3

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

Días de combate

1994

Me llaman Madrina poster
5.7

No synopsis available yet.

Me llaman Madrina

1997

El extensionista poster
5.7

No synopsis available yet.

El extensionista

1991

Una papa sin catsup poster
5.9

Gloria's grandmother is kidnapped by "La greñas", a gang leader, and is forced to impersonate her to save her grandmother's life.

Una papa sin catsup

1995

The Other Side poster
3.8

Alejandro and Beto are in love. Their relationship, however, is being seriously tested. Alejandro is HIV+ and becoming more desperate as he finds the drug treatments in Mexico City are not working as he had hoped, and his t-cells continue to plummet. After much anguish, he decides, without input from Beto, that he needs to go to the U.S. for better information, medication and treatment. That decision unleashes havoc for Alejandro as he and Beto fight, slip up and finally reconcile. At the U.S. embassy, Alejandro is denied a visa, which ultimately leads him to try crossing the border illegally.

The Other Side

1999

Asedio criminal poster
6.7

Containing gore, snuff movies, zombies, the Mafia and the supernatural, this was one of the most notorious "solo para adultos" direct-to-video releases in Mexico during the 90s.

Asedio criminal

1996

1980s · 12 titles

Red Menace poster
6.5

A female doctor uses the body of a young playboy to insert him the brain of his teacher, an eminent physician who she loves, in order to perpetuate his life. But something goes wrong and this broken Jesus with superhuman strength escapes and hides to avoid showing his deformity. Disguised with a wrestler's mask and cape, circumstances lead him to undertake a heroic journey.

Red Menace

1985

Romero poster
6.9

Romero is a compelling and deeply moving look at the life of Archbishop Oscar Romero of El Salvador, who made the ultimate sacrifice in a passionate stand against social injustice and oppression in his county. This film chronicles the transformation of Romero from an apolitical, complacent priest to a committed leader of the Salvadoran people.

Romero

1989

The Realm of Fortune poster
5.3

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.

The Realm of Fortune

1986

Gaby: A True Story poster
6.5

The life of Gaby Brimmer, a girl physically handicapped, who finally gets her goals of study and triumph.

Gaby: A True Story

1987

'Ora sí ¡tenemos que ganar! poster
6.4

Subjugated by power, the workers of a mining town organize clandestinely.

'Ora sí ¡tenemos que ganar!

1981

Pretextos poster
5.7

Mexican feature film

Pretextos

1987

Death Squad poster
6.5

Mario Balbuena, a honest cop, becomes the victim of an ambush by drug dealers and dirty cops, after that, he recruits a group of sleazy criminals in order to strike his revenge.

Death Squad

1985

Mission Kill poster
4.9

An ex-Green Beret visits one of his army buddies, and finds himself involved in his friend's scheme to smuggle arms into a turbulent South American country.

Mission Kill

1986

What Do You Think? poster
5.2

A gritty musical drama about life in the ghettos of Mexico City during the 1980s. With a soundtrack of Mexican rock music, the camera takes the viewer through the streets, to rock concerts, and to the bars and clubs, where he exposes the hunger, repression, unhealthy conditions and violence in the marginal communities of Mexico's capital city.

What Do You Think?

1986

Lamberto Quintero poster
6.6

No synopsis available yet.

Lamberto Quintero

1987

Historia de payasos poster
6.0

Mexican feature film

Historia de payasos

1984

El misterio de la casa abandonada poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

El misterio de la casa abandonada

1987

1970s · 22 titles

El profe poster
8.0

Mario Moreno portrays a professor in this movie. A small town in the middle of no where requests the school Mario Moreno is working in for a teacher. He ends up going to give the town a hand. When he arrives he comes to know the corrupt leaders who through out the movie try to make him leave. Although he is being harassed you can see how much he cares for the kids and their circumstances. He deals with problems by using his hilarious comments.

El profe

1971

Story of a Girl Alone poster
6.6

A chronicle of the different reactions of a girl when she finds that her boyfriend decides to end their relationship.

Story of a Girl Alone

1971

Jory poster
7.4

Jory is a fifteen-year-old boy who joins a horse-drive after his father is killed by a drunkard. The drive's leader and a likable cowhand take the boy under their wing, and find that tragedy has taught him how to take care of himself better than anyone could expect.

Jory

1973

Apuntes poster
6.7

Recounts the union struggle of taxi drivers supported by the Communist Party.

Apuntes

1976

Meridiano 100 poster
5.8

The task of some guerrillas is to try to foment the conscience among peasants of a town, but their attempts will be tragically restricted.

Meridiano 100

1976

Diamantes, Oro y Amor poster
5.6

No synopsis available yet.

Diamantes, Oro y Amor

1973

Letters from Marusia poster
5.6

Chronicle of the repression that a foreign company exerts on the miners of a small nitrate town in Chile, whose workers decide to claim their most essential rights. A reflection of the historic union struggles in the northern Chile that ended with terrible repressive acts.

Letters from Marusia

1975

Uno y medio contra el mundo poster
6.9

Small-time crook teams up with a street urchin for mutual support on the margins of society.

Uno y medio contra el mundo

1973

El Quelite poster
5.2

Agapito, leader of the revolutionary movement of his state, comes to a town, kills all the federales, and gets a girl who was promised to him for his heroic deeds.

El Quelite

1970

Tu camino y el mio poster
4.6

She rejects him, but he's there for her, even after she gets married and then is abandoned by her babydaddy. Remake of Bajo El Cielo De Mexico (1958) (and also 1937?).

Tu camino y el mio

1973

River of Gold poster
10.0

A pair of beach bums wind up in Acapulco, where they get involved in a search for a beautiful woman and a sunken treasure.

River of Gold

1971

El principio poster
5.5

Mexico is in the midst of Revolution when the protagonist returns after studying in Paris to find his native town in Chihuahua occupied by Francisco Villa’s revolutionary forces. He visits his deserted home and remembers people and events from his adolescence that provide glimpses of pre-Revolutionary society under dictatorship: his uncle, the chief of police; his sister’s involvement with a liberal political association; bathing with the girls from a local brothel; a labor strike that ended in a massacre. Returning to the present he discovers that his father has been assassinated and, in the company of his father’s former servant, joins the revolutionary movement.

El principio

1973

El águila descalza poster
5.8

Shmuck makes a superhero costume, rides his bike to crime scenes. He gets involved with something big involving US capitalists taking over local Mexican businesses.

El águila descalza

1971

Those Years poster
6.0

President Juárez fights against the conservatives, who have ordered an emperor to be brought from France to govern Mexico

Those Years

1974

Reed: Insurgent Mexico poster
6.0

A dramatization of John Reed's newspaper accounts of the Mexican Revolution. Considered the first real film in Mexican cinema to be made on the Mexican Revolution.

Reed: Insurgent Mexico

1973

Maria of My Heart poster
6.5

Héctor and María meet again after eight years of not seeing each other. She works as a magician in cabarets and he robs houses. María convinces Héctor to become a magician and work together. Life seems to smile on them until one day, when Maria travels to another city, the couple's situation will be overshadowed by an unfortunate event.

Maria of My Heart

1979

The Encounter of a Lonely Man poster
6.0

Alberto is a journalist who remembers an event 15 years ago, when his friend Gabriel saved a girl from a fire suffering third-degree burns. When he tells the story to his friends, one of them asks him to write it with realism, so Alberto comes back to his old town to meet Gabriel again.

The Encounter of a Lonely Man

1974

Cuartelazo poster
6.2

Narration of one of the bloodiest episodes of the Mexican national history, The Tragic Ten, beginning when General Victoriano Huerta sent to kill President Francisco I. Madero, Vice President José María Pino Suárez and Senator Belisario Dominguez. The film recreates the moment of the execution at the hands of Huerta and his accomplices Bernardo Reyes, Félix Díaz and Manuel Mondragón.

Cuartelazo

1977

Tú, yo, nosotros poster
6.3

Three interwoven stories where the characters experience deception, passion, love and rejection.

Tú, yo, nosotros

1972

No artwork available
9.0

A 43 minutes short film filmed in Mexico in 1975

Esa mi Irene

1975

El medio pelo poster
5.8

A woman who fancies herself an aristocrat rejects a potential suitor because he's not of her class. Also: their adult children have their own drama, a bit inflected with hippie-ish values.

El medio pelo

1972

Anacrusa poster
6.2

The divorced university professor, Victoria, signs a letter of protest for the political disappeared that her students request, although she is not interested in politics. That afternoon his daughter, a twenty-year-old medical student, disappears. This event will change the vision of Victoria and her participation together with relatives of other political disappeared to obtain justice.

Anacrusa

1979

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