
Acting
Andrea Palma
Born — Died
1903-04-16 — 1987-11-11
Place of birth
Durango, Mexico
Known for
Acting
Credits
57 titles
Andrea Palma was the stage name of Guadalupe Bracho Pérez-Gavilán (April 16, 1903 - November 11, 1987), who was a Mexican actress of the Golden Age Cinema.
Known for
9.0No synopsis available yet.
Pobre Clara
1975
7.3A bizarre black comedy about a man whose overwhelming ambition in life is to be a renowned serial killer of women, and will stop at nothing to achieve it - but not everything goes according to plan...
The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz
1955
6.0Directed by Juan Ortega and set in 19th Century Victorian England, a struggling single woman of the noble class , named Juana Champion (played by actress Andrea Palma), has absolutely no marriage prospects. After finally resigning herself to becoming a Spinster or "Old Maid", she decides to go live with her very wealthy Aunt, none other than the Dutchess of Meldrum. Not long after her arrival, she quickly becomes infatuated with a charming, good-looking and talented painter named Garth, who works for her prim and proper Aunt. Although there is a mutual attraction between them from the start, Garth does not truly fall in love with Juana until he hears her sing a wonderful song called "The Rosary".
El rosario
1944
6.0A high priest tries to force a young beauty to marry a pearl trader who is masquerading as the god Balu.
Tarzan and the Mermaids
1948
6.7The disaffected wife of a failed civil servant, is thrilled to re-encounter Octavio, a former lover who is now a union activist on the run from a corrupt politician. Hoping to help him, she descends into the Mexican underworld, where she finds a purpose-and a thrill-missing from her married life.
Another Dawn
1943
5.1To pay off her father's debts, Rita leaves her humble fishing village in Yucatan and gets exploited by several men, including a married politician who turns her into a big dancing star.
Take Me in Your Arms
1954
Film credits
1970s · 4 titles
6.0Anthology of clips from classic-era Mexican films, with reality-footage of elderly actors discussing their memories of the period.
México de mis amores
1979
6.0The life of the Mexican muralist José Clemente Orozco and his quest to create a career in New York.
Looking for a Wall
1974
6.4Elena's sterile and her younger cousin Raquel gets pregnant before marriage.They scream at each other a lot.
Elena y Raquel
1971
6.3Three episodes: 1) "A Christmas dinner" where the family members fantasize about being somewhere else. The fetishist father wants to put on feminine clothes. The son longs for another transvestite adventure. The daughter yearns to be a singer and destroy the saints of the church with her voice. The youngest son wants to stab everyone dead. 2) "Game of mirrors". Two young classmates kiss on a picnic, but the girl's brother accuses the couple of being immoral. Bizarre things develop. 3) "Tetrahedron". A very fat man faces his girlfriend's longing for love.
Pubertinaje
1978
1960s · 11 titles
6.3A woman betrayed by a man falls into despair and kills him. What fate will the jury decide for her?
History of a Scoundrel
1964
6.4The story of The Last Hours of Jesus Christ.
El proceso de Cristo
1966
6.2Nun interferes in the lives of a dysfunctional family.
Heaven and Earth
1962
6.0No synopsis available yet.
México de mis recuerdos
1963
6.7Public health thriller: rabies in Mexico City.
Seis días para morir
1967
6.2A young woman believes her fiance has died, and she enters a convent.
La hermana blanca
1960
5.8Mom doesn't approve of her son's fiancée, so she schemes a scheme to throw him together with a woman she likes better. It involves him leaving town to become a bullfighter, and...
Viva Jalisco que es mi tierra
1961
From the hill of Tepeyac arise the most extraordinary miracles.
Retablos de la Guadalupana
1967
6.3Tourists and exchange students find romance.
Guadalajara en verano
1965
4.9Santo goes up against the vampire Baron Brakola, who has returned to seek vengeance on the descendants of the Knight in the Silver Mask (Santo's colonial era ancestor).
Baron Brakola
1967
6.7A young woman falls in love with a classical pianist and has problems with her friends from high society.
Andante
1969
1950s · 28 titles
7.3A bizarre black comedy about a man whose overwhelming ambition in life is to be a renowned serial killer of women, and will stop at nothing to achieve it - but not everything goes according to plan...
The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz
1955
5.1To pay off her father's debts, Rita leaves her humble fishing village in Yucatan and gets exploited by several men, including a married politician who turns her into a big dancing star.
Take Me in Your Arms
1954
6.5Pops is dismissed from his banking job for embezzlement, and his family have to adjust to a more modest lifestyle.
Padre nuestro
1953
4.61913: A young woman is raped by a priest and turns away from the Church as a result of the experience. 1924: She now is the owner of an expensive brothel, and she plays a small role on both sides of the Cristero Uprising, when foreign-born clergy were deported from Mexico.
Ash Wednesday
1958
6.6Bernardo is in love with Adela and although she does not belong, he has always helped her family although they only care about money and not the virtues of man.
By the False Door
1950
6.0One of the boys is a radical, one's a playboy, and the girls want to get jobs first before they think about marriage! Mom and Pop have their own #firstworldproblems.
Where Are Our Children Going?
1958
7.6Left alone after her mother runs off with another man and her father kills himself, Elena attempts to make a new life for herself in a new city. Believing he's a friend, Elena goes to dinner with "Pretty Boy" Lucio, but he drugs her champagne and sells her to Rosaura, who runs a brothel out of her nightclub. Elena becomes a sensation as a dancer, but all the while she nurtures plans of revenge against those who have conspired against her.
Aventurera
1950
6.0Melodrama involving a young woman returning to Mexico from abroad after a failed romance and dealing with an unwanted pregnancy and a meddling Aunt.
Stolen Tears
1954
6.0No synopsis available yet.
El caso de una adolescente
1958
6.6After arguing with her husband, a woman runs out of the house in the car and dies in a mysterious accident
The Absentee
1952
6.7No synopsis available yet.
Melodías de amor
1955
5.7A humble bartender falls into a world of gambling and vices, losing everything.
El dinero no es la vida
1952
6.3Loosely-plotted melodrama about five "hostesses" and the owners of a waterfront nightclub.
Mujeres sin mañana
1951
5.2Seven dresses/seven models at a fashion show, and each one represents one of the seven deadly sins.
Siete pecados
1959
6.3Grandmother-type provides structure in the lives of orphaned/abandoned children.
Angels of the Street
1953
6.0The film tells the intense countdown of a woman sentenced to death.
Cuatro horas antes de morir
1953
5.6Woman discovers she's dying of an incurable illness, so she tries to make her husband hate her; dumping her on moving on would be better for him than watching her decline and feeling sad.
Pobre corazón
1950
6.5A saloon singer is released from prison after being convicted on a prostitution charge. She plans to blackmail the judge from her case by seducing him, but after she grows close to the judge she has a change of heart.
Sensualidad
1951
6.7A stranded ship. A man and two boys go to its rescue - uncle Arturo and his two nephews. The ship is empty, except for a little girl - the only survivor.
The Coward
1953
6.7A miserly father quashes his daughter's marriage plans because he thinks her fiance is a fortune-hunter.
Eugenia Grandet
1953
6.2Man in the final stages of a fatal illness gets immersed in a new romance and a murder investigation.
Quiero vivir
1953
5.8Everything-but-the-kitchen-sink melodrama: young widow suffers everything life can throw at her.
Dios nos manda vivir
1954
4.4Employees and clients at Merle's Beauty Stuff have illicit romances and cheating husbands and that kind of thing. Meanwhile, the cop that directs traffic outside gets an opportunity to become a movie star.
Salón de belleza
1951
6.1Women connected with a female-run employment agency and a women-only boarding house bond together in mutual support.
Mujeres que trabajan
1953
Borderline mentally-ill woman with neurotic compulsion to behave like a child and the psychiatrist who looooves her.
La mujer que no tuvo infancia
1957
6.0Through hard work, the Spaniard Alejandro has become wealthy and powerful. In contrast, the banker Don Victorino—who once refused a loan to the then-poor Alejandro—has fallen on difficult times. Victorino is married to Ana, who spends her life playing the piano, and they are the parents of the proud Julia, who is engaged to Enrique Régules. Julia is forced to marry Alejandro in order to save her family’s financial situation. Despite her husband’s blunt and often harsh honesty, Julia gradually finds herself falling in love with him, and vainly tries to make him jealous with Licenciado Héctor, who courts her. Julia becomes nervously ill, troubled by the fact that Alejandro does not love her in the romantic, storybook way she longs for.
La entrega
1954
6.4When Demetrio arrives at the mine to meet his brother Ricardo, he finds out that Ricardo has committed suicide for the love of a woman. He promises to avenge the death of his brother..
La mentira
1952
7.2No synopsis available yet.
Sor Alegría
1952
1940s · 7 titles
6.0Directed by Juan Ortega and set in 19th Century Victorian England, a struggling single woman of the noble class , named Juana Champion (played by actress Andrea Palma), has absolutely no marriage prospects. After finally resigning herself to becoming a Spinster or "Old Maid", she decides to go live with her very wealthy Aunt, none other than the Dutchess of Meldrum. Not long after her arrival, she quickly becomes infatuated with a charming, good-looking and talented painter named Garth, who works for her prim and proper Aunt. Although there is a mutual attraction between them from the start, Garth does not truly fall in love with Juana until he hears her sing a wonderful song called "The Rosary".
El rosario
1944
6.0A high priest tries to force a young beauty to marry a pearl trader who is masquerading as the god Balu.
Tarzan and the Mermaids
1948
6.7The disaffected wife of a failed civil servant, is thrilled to re-encounter Octavio, a former lover who is now a union activist on the run from a corrupt politician. Hoping to help him, she descends into the Mexican underworld, where she finds a purpose-and a thrill-missing from her married life.
Another Dawn
1943
6.4The owner of an illegal gambling casino witnesses all the problems in the life of her dissolute son and finally acts in a way that'll help him rehabilitate himself.
La casa de la zorra
1945
5.7Mexican movie
Una sombra en mi destino
1946
6.7Mexican movie
Los buitres sobre el tejado
1946
6.0Unscrupulous cad sleeps his way to the top of belle epoque Paris society.
El Buen Mozo
1946
1930s · 6 titles
6.7Luisa, who is actually happily married, begins an affair with her cousin while her husband is away.
El primo Basilio
1935
6.0Her father dies... her fiance dumps her... and she can't find a job... so she covers the waterfront. And then one night...
The Woman of the Port
1934
5.7A biopic that narrates the life of the novohispanic poetess.
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
1935
6.0In a small city, talented María was trained as a singer by blind composer Joaquín. They both dream of making it big in the capital but, when they finally make the move, they find that success is not achieved without struggles.
Una luz en mi camino
1939
6.0A woman with a past meets a man with a past; the back story of each one represents an obstacle to their couple-bonding. Will they work through their traumas?
Ave sin rumbo
1937
6.7A young woman is forced to marry an old pharmacist, but she is in love with a young man who is leaving town
Amapola Del Camino
1937
