
Acting
Marta Aura
Born — Died
1942-04-09 — 2022-07-08
Place of birth
Mexico City, Mexico
Known for
Acting
Credits
59 titles
Marta Aura Palacios was a renowned Mexican actress. She was born on September 4, 1942 in Mexico City and would remain active in the entertainment world for more than 60 years. She studied acting at the National Academy of Fine Arts, making her debut with the play Judith, presented at the Teatro La Capilla in 1959 and later she would be a very active member of the National Theater Company (CNT).
Known for
7.1Marina is a beautiful, sweet young woman who makes a living driving a tourist boat. Her simple life transforms when her mother dies unexpectedly and she inherits a large family fortune. Marina moves into an elegant mansion owned by the wealthy Alarcón Morales family, who treat her with evil, scorn and rejection.
Marina
2006
No synopsis available yet.
Golpe bajo
2000
7.4In Mexico, two teenage boys and an attractive older woman embark on a road trip and learn a thing or two about life, friendship, sex, and each other.
Y Tu Mamá También
2001
7.0Cenizas y diamantes is a Mexican telenovela produced by Eugenio Cobo for Televisa and originally broadcast on Canal de las Estrellas from June 4, 1990, to January 18, 1991. Created by Paulino Sabugal and adapted by Josefina Palos, the telenovela stars Ernesto Laguardia and Lola Merino. The story follows Celeste Ortiz, a kind and beautiful young woman who lives under the control of her ambitious stepmother Andrea and her stepsisters. Her life changes when she meets Julián Gallardo, a wealthy young man who also faces conflicts within his own family. As their love grows, they must overcome betrayal, family rivalries, and the schemes of those determined to keep them apart.
Cenizas y diamantes
1990
7.0Una luz en el camino is a Mexican children's telenovela produced by Mapat L. de Zatarain for Televisa and originally broadcast on Canal de las Estrellas from March 30 to July 31, 1998. It is an adaptation of the Argentine children's telenovela El árbol azul (1991–1992), created by Mario L. Mortheo and adapted for Mexican television by Alejandro Orive and Carlos Daniel González. The story follows Luciana, a young girl who loses her mother at an early age and longs to have a loving family again. After meeting child psychologist Marcela, she becomes determined to bring her and her widowed father, Rodrigo, together. Along the way, they must overcome grief, misunderstandings, and the schemes of the ambitious Astrid, who seeks to marry Rodrigo for his fortune.
Una luz en el camino
1998
No synopsis available yet.
Te amo
1984
Film credits
2020s · 2 titles
NRA story about aging, motherhood and life. About looking back and not understanding how you got to where you are, about wounds so deep that all the energy is spent on not wanting to see them. An intimate drama where, through fiction, the director delves into the wounds of his own family.
Courage
2021
5.5When she is fired from her only job in a series of infomercials, Amanda, an actress with little talent and whose film career is forgotten, decides to resume her career in the midst of an economic crisis that leads her to a questionnaire about her vocation, but also, that the shore to rethink its responsibility as the mother of Nicolás, a 7-year-old boy to whom she had not paid much attention until then.
Honest Days
2021
2010s · 7 titles
7.3Four interwoven stories about love and self-acceptance: An eleven year-old boy struggles to keep secret the attraction he feels towards his male cousin. Two former childhood friends reunite and start a relationship that gets complicated due to one of them’s fear of getting caught. A gay long lasting relationship is in jeopardy when a third man comes along. An old family man is obsessed with a young male prostitute and tries to raise the money to afford the experience.
4 Moons
2014
4.9Alejandro Gerber Bicecci's "Vaho" (Becloud) tells the story of three childhood friends, Andres, Felipe, and Jose, and their lives in a dusty, run down corner of Mexico City. The boys were inseparable until they witnessed a tragedy that haunts them to the present day. The tragedy shaped each boy differently, and had a profound effect on their lives.
Becloud
2010
6.0In a reinterpretation of Madame Bovary set on contemporary Mexico City, Emilia, a middle class housewife, tries to deal with the monotony of her life. One day, she loses the two things which makes everything beareable: her lover and her credit card.
The Reasons of the Heart
2011
3.0A tragic and epic love that transcends time and generations unites Maria and Javier forever. During important periods in Mexico (The War of Independence, the Revolution and current times) these souls play out their destiny facing political squabbles, social pressures, family hatred and historical battles, seeking to make a relationship flower which seems fated to die.
The Walls Talk
2012
4.6It is the final decade of the 18th century in New Spain. We are in Mexico City, inhabited by local adventurers, native inhabitants and Europeans of every kind. In these surroundings, our characters, Jerónimo Marani, court choreographer, Giovanni, his mestizo son, and Victoria, the daughter of the most prominent family in the city, who is in love with Giovanni, live a life of love and aversion, court intrigue and popular grievances, Viceregal dogmas and dreams of freedom. Mexico´s war of independence is only a few years in the future.
El baile de San Juan
2010
3.0Two young people, who knew each other in a previous life, meet again. Alejandro recognizes Yolanda, who is from a strange family that has the disadvantage of living a very long time, which is also to blames for the mysterious disappearance of his father. Alejandro embarks on an adventure to delve into the secret of his fathers’ death and in the meantime, wonder if he’s capable of abandon his life to fulfill his destiny.
Family Blood
2013
5.8A married woman, who's husband leaves her alone way too many times, is seduced by a junior spoiled young man, leading her into the fullfillment of her unsatisfied needs.
The Cousin
2018
2000s · 18 titles
7.4In Mexico, two teenage boys and an attractive older woman embark on a road trip and learn a thing or two about life, friendship, sex, and each other.
Y Tu Mamá También
2001
7.9A young girl recounts her girlhood and eventual marriage to a general of the Mexican revolution. by one of the most outstanding writers of the new feminist Mexican literature, it is at once a haunting novel of one woman's life and a powerful account of post-revolutionary Mexico from a female perspective.
Tear This Heart Out
2008
7.8The story of a dysfunctional couple, whose problems will inevitably deteriorate their marriage and their son's life.
Scars
2005
5.4After her husband leaves her for a younger woman, the helping of her caring, but cynical godmother, is not enough to prevent Julia from plotting her revenge.
Such is Life
2001
2.0No synopsis available yet.
Malos Presagios
2005
3.8Having partaken in Eden not only of the tree of knowledge, but of the tree of life eternal as well, Adam and Eve became immortal and now find themselves wandering throughout the world in a journey of extreme sexuality and boredom.
Adán Y Eva (Todavía)
2004
9.0No synopsis available yet.
Azar
2000
4.6In a seedy brothel, their frustrations parade: A poet who has never published, a revolutionary who came late to history, a provocative angel, a bureaucrat with delusions of a dancer, a greedy Chinese man and his timorous wife, Monica, a prostitute with low professional esteem, a group of prostitutes of dubious sensuality and, finally, a priest with a stench of holiness and another with redeeming instincts. But a stranger with the air of a princess appears, and upsets the balance of the establishment.
Crazy Carnival
2006
7.4Futuristic movie about Alejandro, a gifted left-handed child marble player who must win a competition as the entire town's hopes - and money - rest on him.
Leftie
2003
5.7Marcelo and Sofía love each other, but both suspect the other of infidelity. Marcelo, a film director, accidentally discovers condoms in Sofías purse. They are really for Marcelos younger sister, but he thinks the discovery confirms his suspicions and keeps one as evidence. Sofía discovers the condom in Marcelos wallet and takes for granted that he is cheating on her. Pepe, Marcelos cousin, pretends to be him to impress a girl, further complicating the mix up.
Mosquita muerta
2007
4.9Julieta is a young child psychologist hired by millionaire Eugenio Ruvalcaba, to work with his only daughter, Sylvia, who has severe emotional problems, while staying in their isolated island mansion. Once there, she finds out there's much more to Sylvia's imaginary friend than what everybody knows... and the results can be horrifying... Remake of Carlos Enrique Taboada's classic film from 1969.
The Book of Stone
2009
8.0What would happen if the world's largest city ran out of clean water? The situation is portrayed through the eyes of a mature couple who are reluctant to leave their home and who defend their last drops of water at gunpoint.
El Día Menos Pensado
2005
4.9A look back at a director's life with his neurotic mother.
Written on the Body of Night
2001
6.2Matilde is a nun convinced that faith moves mountains. She secretly begins a mystic fasting to end what she considers to be the second great flood. Elena is a thin and fashion-conscious woman ashamed of her daughter's chubbiness. She's willing to do the impossible to make her daughter Linda thin so Linda will look like a little princess on the day she receives her first communion.
Malos hábitos
2007
Documentary about the life of Mercedes Pinto by three women, student, journalist and writer, go in search of another woman: Mercedes Pinto Canarian writer. The film recovers the memory of one of the most important figures in the defense of the rights of women, to get into what their struggles were vital: gender violence, the social status of women ...
Ella(s)
2009
4.0A thriller about four young people who investigate the murder of a woman who worked in the National Archive. They discover that she had stolen documents incriminating an ex president and a high level police officer involved in crimes during the Dirty War.
Paper Cemetery
2007
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Si muero lejos de ti
2007
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Música de ambulancia
2009
1990s · 15 titles
8.3On October 2, 1968, a student uprising descends into violence after the Mexican government begins to use lethal force against the protesters.
Red Dawn
1990
7.0Alcoholic prostitute Gloria is in the middle of a business deal with gangsters when a fatal confrontation occurs. She flees Mexico City, returning to her native Madrid, where she's reunited with her comatose husband and his mother, while hitman Eduardo is pursuing her to retrieve information.
Nobody Will Speak of Us When We're Dead
1995
6.0A bureaucrat gets a house and even a car on credit thanks to the support of a compadre who is a union leader, but then has difficulty paying because he is fired in a job cut despite the many years he has been working.
Golpe de suerte
1992
5.1The legendary life of Mexican singer Lucha Reyes is the basis of this fictionalized biography ( or as director Arturo Ripstein puts it "an imaginary biography"). Lucha Reyes was an unconventional, and sexually liberated woman, most famous for her "cancion ranchera" style singing. Her story begins in 1939, where at 33 she still lived at home with her mother, Dona Victora, the madame of a renowned Mexico City whorehouse. Lucha marries the liberal Pedro Calderon and then buys a beggar's daughter. She becomes the mother to this child, Luzma. Lucha craves lasting love like junkies crave heroin. But for her loyal daughter, she never finds it and in the end no one can help her.
The Queen of the Night
1994
5.5"La Nueva Jerusalem" is a small community of believers lead by Papá Basilio and Mamá Dorita. They're waiting for the second coming of Christ, so they've abandoned the world, searching for a new spiritual life. Mamá Dorita sees in young Tomasa the signals of the chosen one. The young girl will be the new leader in "La Nueva Jerusalem".
Divine
1998
5.9The young trapeze artist Alma is part of the show of a miserable traveling circus. In an act of desperation, Alma commits incest with her father, a sick clown obsessed with the woman who abandoned them. Determined to have his child, Alma leaves the circus and joins a group of preachers led by Refugio, a woman who performs puppet shows with biblical passages in poor neighborhoods.
Ángel de fuego
1992
5.6Gina, a modern business woman in her late forties, has a lover named Adrian, a journalist, who she sees once in a while just to have sex. They are both attracted to the historic figure of Pancho Villa: he admires his power while she admires his virility. As Gina helps Adrian to write a book about Villa, she discovers the similarity between Villa's relation to women to that of Adrian and hers, and that Villa's revolution never included her, nor the rest of the female half of the human species. Can the love of a woman and a man survive machismo?
Between Pancho Villa and a Naked Woman
1996
6.0In the middle of a city facing a new century, a group of friends between the ages of 15 and 18 live out the adventures, deceptions and anxiety of "The First Night."
The First Night
1998
6.7No synopsis available yet.
La secta del sargon
1990
5.5No synopsis available yet.
Loving Ghosts
1994
6.7Four childhood friends decide to play a prank on an aunt of one of the four. Two enter the house and two others remain waiting in the car. When the alarm goes off, the two waiting in the car escape, leaving the other two to escape on their own. After that, the friends begin distrusting each other wondering what really happened during those three minutes in the dark inside the house.
Tres minutos en la oscuridad
1996
4.2Alberto is a disc-jockey at a radio station. His life is torn apart by the memories of his ex-wife and his free and careless life in the 60s. Alberto remembers, and his memories don't let him live his present life with Ana, his current girlfriend.
On the Air
1995
6.3No synopsis available yet.
Pueblo viejo
1993
5.7No synopsis available yet.
La insaciable
1992
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Tony Tijuana
1990
1980s · 7 titles
6.0Aging politicians who have faded from the public eye hold a cocktail party to celebrate one friend's appointment to the President's Cabinet. Illusions are indulged, illusions are shattered.
The Eve
1982
6.0Slice of life covering four or five days in a badly run-down neighborhood. Matriarch of a slum family dies unexpectedly; relatives from neighboring blocks cope with the loss and arrange her funeral.
Long live Tepito!
1981
5.4Luz is in jail, accused of murdering her own children. Her husband and her mother-in-law say she killed them in cold blood. Dr. Rebollar tries to help the woman, but she refuses to remember anything. Luz thinks of jail as the purgatory: it's only one step to reach the Heaven.
Luz's Motives
1986
5.7Four nuns are raped by a group of lepers. Although they all turn out to be pregnant, their status is hidden from them in the convent.
The Humiliated
1986
5.1A domineering, reclusive and ostentatiously pious widow in a small Spanish town keeps such close watch on her daughters that they are unable to have normal social lives. However, the eldest is allowed to become engaged to an unprincipled young man, primarily for the financial advantages it will bring the mother, Bernarda. Jealousy and envy ensues among the other daughters.
La casa de Bernarda Alba
1982
No synopsis available yet.
Va de Nuez
1986
6.7Mexican feature film
Max Dominó
1981
1970s · 5 titles
7.2Family honor, greed, machismo, homophobia, and dreams collide in a small Mexican town.
The Place Without Limits
1978
5.8A woman is sent to Mexico to kill the person who presumptly killed her father.
Someone Wants to Kill Us!
1970
6.8Subsistence-economy slum guy who sells used newsprint for a living breaks into showbiz with an inadvertantly-comical fire-eater act. The novelty of him wears off very quickly, and then...
Cayó de la gloria el diablo
1972
5.2After having his genitals brutally mutilated during childhood, a man must face prejudice and himself.
The Cubs
1973
5.8Shmuck 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
Series credits
7.1Marina is a beautiful, sweet young woman who makes a living driving a tourist boat. Her simple life transforms when her mother dies unexpectedly and she inherits a large family fortune. Marina moves into an elegant mansion owned by the wealthy Alarcón Morales family, who treat her with evil, scorn and rejection.
Marina
2006
No synopsis available yet.
Golpe bajo
2000
7.0Cenizas y diamantes is a Mexican telenovela produced by Eugenio Cobo for Televisa and originally broadcast on Canal de las Estrellas from June 4, 1990, to January 18, 1991. Created by Paulino Sabugal and adapted by Josefina Palos, the telenovela stars Ernesto Laguardia and Lola Merino. The story follows Celeste Ortiz, a kind and beautiful young woman who lives under the control of her ambitious stepmother Andrea and her stepsisters. Her life changes when she meets Julián Gallardo, a wealthy young man who also faces conflicts within his own family. As their love grows, they must overcome betrayal, family rivalries, and the schemes of those determined to keep them apart.
Cenizas y diamantes
1990
7.0Una luz en el camino is a Mexican children's telenovela produced by Mapat L. de Zatarain for Televisa and originally broadcast on Canal de las Estrellas from March 30 to July 31, 1998. It is an adaptation of the Argentine children's telenovela El árbol azul (1991–1992), created by Mario L. Mortheo and adapted for Mexican television by Alejandro Orive and Carlos Daniel González. The story follows Luciana, a young girl who loses her mother at an early age and longs to have a loving family again. After meeting child psychologist Marcela, she becomes determined to bring her and her widowed father, Rodrigo, together. Along the way, they must overcome grief, misunderstandings, and the schemes of the ambitious Astrid, who seeks to marry Rodrigo for his fortune.
Una luz en el camino
1998
No synopsis available yet.
Te amo
1984
