
Acting
Rodrigo Puebla
Born 1929-03-13 · San Diego de La Union, Guanajuato, Mexico
Rodrigo Puebla was born in San Diego de La Union, Guanajuato, Mexico, on March 13, 1929, and grew up in a modest environment. His life was marked by perseverance and sacrifice to achieve his dream of becoming an actor. Before becoming an actor, he worked in various occupations to support his family. Puebla was a recognized actor in the theatrical and television world in Latin America. His legacy as an actor continues to be remembered and appreciated for his talent and dedication to his career. He passed away on January 15, 1993 in Mexico City, Mexico.
Acting credits
6.8Though she can spin wild tales of passionate romance, novelist Joan Wilder has no life of her own. Then one day adventure comes her way in the form of a mysterious package. It turns out that the parcel is the ransom she'll need to free her abducted sister, so Joan flies to South America to hand it over. But she gets on the wrong bus and winds up hopelessly stranded in the jungle.
Romancing the Stone
1984
7.5An academic tags along among a crew of rowdy delivery-truck drivers, taking notes on their colorful and idiomatic use of language.
Picardía mexicana
1978
7.0A writer of pulpy book series in which he's the hero and his beautiful English roommate is the love interest attempts to finish his new book in time at the publisher's demand.
The Magnificent One
1973
7.1Brother and sister Enrique and Rosa flee persecution at home in Guatemala and journey north, through Mexico and on to the United States, with the dream of starting a new life.
El Norte
1983
7.1When the boss' unlucky daughter is missing in South America, Campana is sent to watch the boss' most unlucky employee who is sent as a private detective in hopes he can duplicate the daughter's mistakes.
La Chèvre
1981
5.0Baseball cards and a food-aid worker help a woman follow her shady husband's money trail around the world.
Ruby Cairo
1992
6.0No synopsis available yet.
Traición
1991
6.8After being released from jail, "Tarzan" Lira seeks to rebuild his life as a bank employee. Unfortunately, it might not be as easy as he thinks.
Life Sentence
1979
6.5Alberto Aguilera arrives from Ciudad Juárez to the capital to pursue a career in music, but in the midst of confusion he is accused of stealing and is sent to prison.
It's my Life
1982
6.5Escaping after a heist, bank-robbers run afoul of an ex bounty hunter with whom they have back story.
The Cursed Twelve
1974
7.8A group of students arrives in a small town during a hiking expedition. Once there, the local priest accuses them of being communist agitators on the run from an army crack-down against student demonstrations in nearby Mexico City and rallies the townsfolk to lynch them. Based on a true story.
Canoa: A Shameful Memory
1976
5.4When King Motecuzoma dies in 1468, a drought sets upon the Mexicas' land. The younger Motecuzoma sends a retinue to collect tributes from the peasants and make an offering to Coatlicue at Aztlán, the home of their ancestors. The peasant Ollin finds a discarded tribute and makes his own journey to Aztlán to appease his rulers.
Return to Aztlán
1990
5.8Juan Preciado, son of Pedro Páramo, goes to Comala to claim his inheritance; but when he arrives he finds an abandoned and sinister town, inhabited by mysterious voices and whispers…
Pedro Páramo, el hombre de la Media Luna
1978
6.0A retired police officer looks for revenge after his family is attacked by a gang of criminals.
Cazador De Asesinos
1983
6.2A bad man holds the power of life and death over the inhabitants of a village... for no apparent reason... and he's fond of torturing them, tying them to crosses and leaving them to die. A cowboy with necromantic powers comes along and leads a rebellion to overthrow that reign of terror.
Los Caciques
1975
5.5Series western, adaptation of a popular comic-book.
El Payo: Un Hombre Contra el Mundo
1972
5.9Based on the novel Tomochic by Heriberto Frías; tells the story of the rebellion of the inhabitants of the village of Tomochi, Chihuahua, against the government of Porfirio Diaz in 1891. Mexico's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1976.
Longitud de Guerra
1976
5.8Anthology movie that presents 3 stories about romance.
Mundo mágico
1983
6.0President Juárez fights against the conservatives, who have ordered an emperor to be brought from France to govern Mexico
Those Years
1974
6.1Rene Cardona directs the film version of Jose Leon Sanchez's best-selling novel, which relates the author's 20 years of imprisonment on an island ruled by brutality. When a sadistic man declares himself the boss of an island pueblo, an innocent husband and wife become the victims of his selfish rule. Once the evil man's deeds reach the authorities on the mainland, however, he sinks further into madness and declares "his" island its own republic.
Island of Lost Souls
1974
5.2Agapito, 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
5.5Adaptation of cowboy comic-book El Payo, #2 in a series.
Devil's Mountain
1975
7.1A guy is peer-pressured, despite his reluctance, to play the role of Christ in a local production of the Passion Play.
El elegido
1977
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