Josefina Echánove

Acting

Josefina Echánove

Born 1928-07-21 · Guanajuato, Guanajuato, Mexico

Josefina Echánove is a Mexican actress, model and journalist. Echánove started working as an actress and then later became a journalist. Actress-journalist Josefina Echánove was born and raised in Guanajuato, Mexico. She came to fame with the release of the short film Laberinto in 1975. In late 1970s, Josefina worked in the Premios ACE award winning Drama Telenovela "La Plaza de Puerto Santo". She married lawyer Alonso Echánove, and together they have two daughters and one son. Their oldest son, Alonso Echánove, is an actor. Their daughters are Peggy Echánove and pop singer Marisol de las Mercedes Echánove, who is publicly known as María del Sol.

Acting credits

Missing poster
7.2

Based on the real-life experiences of Ed Horman. A conservative American businessman travels to Chile to investigate the sudden disappearance of his son after a military takeover. Accompanied by his son's wife he uncovers a trail of cover-ups that implicate the US State department which supports the dictatorship.

Missing

1982

Pure Luck poster
5.6

The daughter of a wealthy businessman has disappeared in Mexico, and all the efforts to find her have been unsuccessful. A psychologist, knowing that the girl has an ultra bad luck, persuades her father to send to Mexico one of his employees, an accountant with super bad luck, to find her. Perhaps he will be lucky, and his bad luck could help to find the unlucky girl.

Pure Luck

1991

Violent Stories poster
5.9

Five surreal short stories make up this Mexican anthology film.

Violent Stories

1985

The Honorary Consul poster
5.8

Set in a small politically unstable Latin American country, the story follows the half English and half Latino Dr. Eduardo Plarr, who left his home to find a better life. Along the way he meets an array of people, including British Consul Charley Fortnum, a representative in Latin America who is trying to keep Revolution from occurring. He is also a remorseful alcoholic. Another person the doctor meets is Clara, whom he immediately falls in love with, but there is a problem: Clara is Charley's wife.

The Honorary Consul

1983

Amityville 3-D poster
4.6

To debunk the Amityville house's infamous reputation and take advantage of a rock-bottom asking price, skeptical journalist John Baxter buys the place and settles in to write his first novel.

Amityville 3-D

1983

Dance with the Devil poster
6.5

She's sexy, shameless and loves taking people to their limit. She's a dangerous young woman who dreams about a jaguar that licks her naked body and sleeps by her side. Her past is bathed in blood and weird passions. Now she's met the man of her wildest dreams. He's dark, tough and mysterious. He likes robbing banks, trafficking in corpses and spicing it all with voodoo rituals. Together, the duo sets off toward Mexico destined to become the most feared outlaws in the continent.

Dance with the Devil

1997

Little Saints poster
5.0

After St. Jude appears in Esperanza's oven, she sets out to find her daughter, who died under mysterious circumstances. The journey forces Esperanza to challenge her own beliefs and face her fears in order to be reunited with her beloved daughter.

Little Saints

1999

Cabeza de Vaca poster
6.8

In 1528, a Spanish expedition flounders off the coast of Florida with 600 lives lost. One survivor, Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, roams across the American continent searching for his Spanish comrades. Instead, he discovers the Iguase, an ancient Indian tribe. Over the next eight years, Cabeza de Vaca learns their mystical and mysterious culture, becoming a healer and a leader. But soon this New World collides with the Old World as Spanish conquistadors seek to enslave the Indians, and Cabeza de Vaca must confront his own people and his past.

Cabeza de Vaca

1991

Por Tu Maldito Amor poster
7.5

One man must decide two women: one is mature, confident, and an owner of land while the other is young, beautiful, and impetuous. But there’s a problem, they’re both sisters.

Por Tu Maldito Amor

1990

Los hijos de Sanchez poster
NR

The Sanchez clan have seen the worst of times, but they have survived by sticking together. When Sanchez's oldest daughter Consuelo plans to build a life of her own, the family and Sanchez face an enormous challenge.

Los hijos de Sanchez

1978

Old Gringo poster
5.7

A writer forms a triangle with a schoolmarm and a Mexican general on the run.

Old Gringo

1989

The Children of Sanchez poster
6.5

Hall Bartlett directs the rural drama The Children of Sanchez, based on the tome The Children of Sanchez: Autobiography of a Mexican Family written by Oscar Lewis in the '60s. Anthony Quinn stars as the widowed Jesus Sanchez, a poor farmer struggling to provide for his family in Mexico City. Also starring Lupita Ferrer as Consuelo and Stathis Giallelis as Roberto. This is the last film in the 50-year career of international star Dolores del Rio, who plays the Grandma. Jazz-pop performer Chuck Mangione was nominated for a Golden Globe and won a Grammy award for his original musical score.

The Children of Sanchez

1978

The Other Conquest poster
6.6

The film is a drama about the aftermath of the 1520s Spanish Conquest of Mexico told from the perspective of the indigenous Aztec people. It explores the social, religious, and psychological changes brought about by a historical process of colonization that both defined the American continent and is also highly reminiscent of today’s neocolonialism.

The Other Conquest

1999

The Burning Season poster
6.3

Based on the true story of a Brazilian rubber tapper who leads his people in protest against government and developers, who want to cut down their part of the rainforest for a new road and ranch land. The rich and the powerful will stop at nothing, and frequently resort to murder

The Burning Season

1994

Morir de madrugada poster
6.8

A successful lawyer has his life shattered when his beautiful wife is found murdered. An investigation reveals she was lying to him and leading a double life... but who killed her?

Morir de madrugada

1980

The Fungi Man poster
5.0

Racial conflicts, love triangles and the awakening of passion will lead to disaster for a decadent aristocratic family in the newly independent Mexico.

The Fungi Man

1976

Savage Summer poster
4.4

After a romantic betrayal, young Cecilia decides to sleep around with the men she grew up with.

Savage Summer

1980

Serpientes y escaleras poster
6.1

Two young girls used to play Serpents and Ladders. One of them always won, but they are very close friends. When they grow up, the winner is still the lucky one in the game of life, but life can be treacherous...

Serpientes y escaleras

1992

Estas ruinas que ves poster
4.2

In this sexy romantic comedy from Mexico, the life of a college professor is turned upside down when he falls for a former student, who is already pledged to marry another man.

Estas ruinas que ves

1979

Todos hemos pecado poster
6.3

No one could ever imagine that one day La Chingada Vieja would fall in love. Because she is always alone, because no one has ever turn to see her, because everyone is always closing the door at her nose, because when they feel her coming they cross themselves, but most of all because no one could ever fall in love with death. But El Hombre sin nombre, has appeared in her life for good. Only the confusion of an avenging town and the desire of four men to arrive to heaven could change the plans of these two beings. Of whom the purist feelings alive have resurrected them.

Todos hemos pecado

2011

Never on a Sunday poster
5.8

A middle-class Mexican family is forced to hire the services of a funeral home with a dubious reputation, without imagining the danger that the owner of the business will put them through.

Never on a Sunday

2006

The Border poster
5.4

Frank Cooper, a senior immigration police, remains a daily struggle against mafias operating between Mexico and the United States. Although it has a good standing with the poorest of Mexican towns near the border. Two are Leina and Benny, a couple of young boys who have decided to marry and have chosen Frank as best man. The problems are not slow to appear when Suarez, a mobster local forces Benny to work for him in their dirty business. Now, for Frank, the job becomes personal.

The Border

1980

Romelia's Secret poster
7.4

The way three different generations of women view virginity and the mystery that a love story hides.

Romelia's Secret

1988

La Pura poster
5.0

A bra-less girl with large breasts and a shapely caboose walks around town in a miniskirt wiggling her rear end. This causes the townsmen to make fools of themselves.

La Pura

1994