Helena Rojo

Acting

Helena Rojo

Born 1944-08-18 · Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico

Helena Rojo (Mexico City; August 18, 1944 - February 4, 2024), was a renowned Mexican film, television and theater actress. She enjoyed a successful career spanning several decades in Mexican cinema, television, and theater. Rojo gained recognition for her versatile and compelling performances in films like "Las Pirañas aman en Cuaresma" (1969) and TV series such as "Cuna de Lobos" (1986). She continues to be celebrated as one of Mexico's most distinguished actresses.

Acting credits

Aguirre, the Wrath of God poster
7.4

A few decades after the destruction of the Inca Empire, a Spanish expedition led by the infamous Aguirre leaves the mountains of Peru and goes down the Amazon River in search of the lost city of El Dorado. When great difficulties arise, Aguirre’s men start to wonder whether their quest will lead them to prosperity or certain death.

Aguirre, the Wrath of God

1972

Mirage poster
7.0

A young man inherits a broken down estate at the edge of the Peruvian desert, with no explanation about the former owners or what had become of the once thriving house.

Mirage

1972

A Deadly Invitation poster
5.7

Eccentric millionaire Olivia sends her half sister Agatha, and a group of old acquaintances, a mysterious invitation for a weekend on her yacht, where they will discover the true motive behind this invitation: the celebration of… a murder?

A Deadly Invitation

2023

Crónica íntima poster
6.3

Mexican feature film

Crónica íntima

1979

Amor letra por letra poster
7.0

Work colleagues Hanna and Amanda are unexpectedly laid off. Since Amanda is leaving town, Hanna deposits both of their severance checks into her account. Unfortunately, Hanna screwed up and the money went somewhere it wasn’t intended – which puts her on a direct collision course with some eligible and not so eligible bachelors. Now, between her search for a new job and her hilarious forays into babysitting Amanda’s son, Hanna has to find and retrieve the loot in this hilarious misadventure that proves romance happens where and when you least expect it.

Amor letra por letra

2008

El Cínico poster
5.4

Traveling salesman's amoral/sometimes criminal behavior catches up with him after he settles in at his brother's vinyard.

El Cínico

1970

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

Mary, Mary, Bloody Mary poster
5.1

Mexican horror film about an American painter named Mary who is living in Mexico where she sells her works and also kills people for their blood. It turns out Mary is a vampire but not the traditional one with fangs. Since she has no fangs she must stab or slash the throats of her victims but soon she has a new man in her life as well as a mysterious man in black who appears to be doing the same type of murders.

Mary, Mary, Bloody Mary

1975

Lovers, Partners & Spies poster
8.0

Retired international police agent, now suburban housewife, is asked by her former partner to help him catch a serial killer.

Lovers, Partners & Spies

1988

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

Don't Panic poster
5.8

On his 17th birthday, a boy named Michael has a surprise party thrown by his friends, where a session with a Ouija board accidentally unleashes a demon named Virgil, who possesses one of them to go on a killing spree. Michael, now plagued by violent nightmares and premonitions, sets out to try and stop the killings.

Don't Panic

1989

Blacker Than the Night poster
6.9

When four women move into an old house left by one woman's aunt, strange things begin to happen. Bizarre voices, visions of ghosts, and mysterious noises lead them to discover the darkest powers of evil and a horror and agony beyond terror.

Blacker Than the Night

1975

Eye for an Eye poster
5.4

A vengeful widow hires a professional killer to train her son so that he can hunt down and kill the men who murdered her husband. The quest for revenge soon becomes an obsession.

Eye for an Eye

1971

Borderline poster
5.0

Sasha, a young woman from Mexico meets Damian, a man from Angola. They begin a relationship in Los Angeles, CA. She invites him to her hometown in northern Mexico for the weekend. This loveless romance quickly turns into a roaring silence when both try to tear down each other's walls.

Borderline

2009

Guerrero Negro poster
5.2

No synopsis available yet.

Guerrero Negro

1994

The Eve poster
6.0

Aging 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

Luces de la noche poster
5.7

On a whim, a retired gentleman decides to track down an old girlfriend from decades back.

Luces de la noche

1998

Foxtrot poster
4.8

A Romanian aristocrat retreats to a desert isle with his wife and servants on the eve of World War II.

Foxtrot

1976

Más allá del deseo poster
4.5

Sea creature who looks like a human girl takes the place of a couple's drowned daughter. She grows up into a beautiful woman who wears very little clothing, and she meets a young man and they fall in love. Then...

Más allá del deseo

1992

End of the Party poster
5.4

A motorcycle gang goes to a mansion where a party is being held and joy turns into tragedy.

End of the Party

1972

El Payo: Un Hombre Contra el Mundo poster
5.5

Series western, adaptation of a popular comic-book.

El Payo: Un Hombre Contra el Mundo

1972

The Cubs poster
5.2

After having his genitals brutally mutilated during childhood, a man must face prejudice and himself.

The Cubs

1973

Noche de juerga poster
5.3

Spur-of-the-moment nightclub hookup leaves a straying husband framed for a murder.

Noche de juerga

1981

Those Years poster
6.0

President Juárez fights against the conservatives, who have ordered an emperor to be brought from France to govern Mexico

Those Years

1974