María Rubio

Acting

María Rubio

Born 1934-09-21 · Tijuana - Baja California - Mexico

María de Jesús Rubio Tejero was a first Mexican actress. She is remembered for her impeccable portrayal of Catalina Creel in the highly successful telenovela Cuna de lobos in Mexico and Latin America. Additionally, People en Español magazine ranked it as one of the ten best soap operas. Catalina Creel has been a figure throughout the world as the best villain of all time.

Acting credits

Monstroid poster
3.6

A rural Colombian village is attacked by a horrible sea serpent, aroused by industrial pollution of a nearby lake. Based on a real event that took place in June of 1971.

Monstroid

1980

El hijo de Huracán Ramírez poster
5.9

A wrestler is arrested on suspicion of assault, but his son manages to capture the real culprits.

El hijo de Huracán Ramírez

1966

El rediezcubrimiento de México poster
5.6

No synopsis available yet.

El rediezcubrimiento de México

1979

Bloody Moon poster
5.0

After being released from a mental asylum, a disfigured man becomes obsessed with a student at his sister’s boarding school while grappling with his dark past.

Bloody Moon

1981

Valentina poster
6.1

In 1939, in a French prison camp, José Garcés of the defeated Spanish Republican army raises the spirits of his fellow prisoners by telling the story of the year he was 8 years old, 1911, in a small town in northeastern Spain. He was a rascal, baffling his father, always in trouble, and in love with Valentina, a neighbor girl. On his roof top at night he sends semaphore messages to her. He writes poems. He gets them into trouble, killing her father's breeding pigeons. When the two families camp at a decaying castle, his tutor, a sympathetic priest, tells him about the most valiant men, the saints, the heroes, and the poets. Already a poet, he learns a lesson about being a hero.

Valentina

1982

Las trampas del matrimonio poster
7.0

A writer, a professional journalist currently working for his father-in-law's company, has a bad relationship with his wife and is dumped by her. He then decides to return to his real profession and moves to a new city. While there, he begins a relationship with a young woman...

Las trampas del matrimonio

1982

forty years without sex poster
4.0

Through various episodes we are shown sexual repression and desire at the same time, in the Spanish of yesteryear.

forty years without sex

1979

Some birds aren't mean to be caged poster
NR

Manuel and Adela are not going through the best stage of their relationship. In a trip to Las Cañas lake they will meet Santi, a young bird spotter.

Some birds aren't mean to be caged

2016

La noche violenta poster
4.2

Police are chasing him for a murder, so man breaks into an expensive home and takes husband and wife hostage. The bloodshed continues...

La noche violenta

1970

To Die... To Sleep... Perchance to Dream poster
6.2

Given the proximity of death, the experiences of the past come to the memory of Juan. In a fragmented, sometimes confused way, Juan relives the crucial moments of his life, always linked to the names of women. Moments that remind him of having missed numerous opportunities to be happy.

To Die... To Sleep... Perchance to Dream

1976

Perché non facciamo l'amore poster
3.9

No synopsis available yet.

Perché non facciamo l'amore

1981

No One Will Love You Like I Do poster
6.0

A student-movement leftist becomes a nun and absorbs lots of deep, deep TV-movie spiritual lessons about God's glorious plan.

No One Will Love You Like I Do

1972

Murder in the Central Committee poster
4.7

The plot follows a private detective, an ex communist and former CIA agent, who travels from Barcelona to Madrid to discover the identity of the assassin of the leader of the Spanish Communist party who was stabbed during a blackout while presiding over a meeting of the party's central committee. The film is a thriller with ironic political overtones.

Murder in the Central Committee

1982

Con el amor no se juega poster
6.5

Susana, a beautiful young girl living in 1990, is happily looking forward to her forthcoming marriage - and has bought an antique mirror to grace her future home. Three weeks before the wedding, the mirror is delivered to her Grandmother's home and taken to Susana's room. Later that day, when looking into the glass, Susana is startled to see the image of a handsome soldier, Nicolas (from 1863), instead of her own reflection. It soon becomes obvious that he can see Susana as clearly as she can see him - and life, for them both, is never quite the same again. Contains three shorts as a trilogy: The Two Way Mirror (El espejo de dos lunas) 1990, 0:29:23 With You from a Distance (Contigo en la distancia) 1991, 0:27:38 Saturday Night Thief (Ladrón de sábado) 1996, 0:24:57

Con el amor no se juega

1991

Traficantes de Niños poster
5.2

Film about child trafficking in México.

Traficantes de Niños

1992

No artwork available
6.0

Four raw stories about justice and law.

Fuera de la ley

1998

Diabolical Vengeance poster
6.3

Mexican revenge horror.

Diabolical Vengeance

1990

El caso de las envenenadas de Valencia poster
7.0

Valencia, 1955. A down-on-her-luck spinster poisons her friend and employers out of envy.

El caso de las envenenadas de Valencia

1985

A Secretary's Intimacies poster
6.8

Mexican feature film

A Secretary's Intimacies

1971

Vivir o morir poster
6.3

Mexican feature film

Vivir o morir

1990

The Simón's Jigsaw: A Trip to the Universe of Juan Piquer Simón poster
NR

A journey through the work of Spanish filmmaker Juan Piquer Simón (1935-2011).

The Simón's Jigsaw: A Trip to the Universe of Juan Piquer Simón

2015