Marta Zamora

Acting

Marta Zamora

Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico

Acting credits

Mexico, Mexico, ra, ra, ra! poster
5.7

Librado, an unemployed man, lives in a crowded small house with numerous children and relatives, is beaten for stealing a car antenna. His godmother and her children try to settle in his place. She then is arrested at a supermarket for stealing, however, she offers herself and volunteers a friend of hers for sex to the policemen so she can be released. She is a maid of an employee who acts subservient to his boss, a mid-level government employee at once servile who delivers speeches on sexuality in educational texts and then discusses the matter with his brother, a corrupt inspector.

Mexico, Mexico, ra, ra, ra!

1976

El infierno tan temido poster
6.3

A woman abandons her partner, a journalist, but tortures him by sending him photos of her with her lovers.

El infierno tan temido

1975

The Children's Hour poster
5.7

A married couple entrusts the care of their young son to a strange clown. The film focuses on the relationship between the clown and the child, to whom he reluctantly tells stories and tries to keep entertained while waiting for his fee to be paid.

The Children's Hour

1969

La Otra Ciudad poster
5.7

Mexican feature film

La Otra Ciudad

1967

The Food of Fear poster
5.0

In an underclass neighborhood of Mexico City, a place where a unique troupe features a circus act, led by Don Ramón, he and his wife Petra have to take care of the daughter of a neighbor who has been jailed for drug trafficking. Petra decides that the girl must earn a living, entrusting her several domestic tasks; while befriending Pepito, who works as a clown on the street. Things get complicated when someone with satanic tendencies arrives to Ramon's house, and the visitor develops an interest on Petra. A fight between the three adults causes that the little girl suffers a fatal accident, so the solution will be to use her meat for the tamales sold by Petra.

The Food of Fear

1994

Emiliano Zapata poster
6.4

This is the story of a man, Emiliano Zapata, and of a revolution, the Mexican Revolution.

Emiliano Zapata

1970

No artwork available
10.0

Short film by Paco del Toro

Vuelve a tu primer amor

1989

Maten al León poster
6.6

A pilot is called back to his homeland, the Latin American republic of Arepa, by the rich islanders to participate in a complot to kill the dictator known as El León (The Lion).

Maten al León

1977

No artwork available
3.8

No synopsis available yet.

Noche de Calífas

1987

They Call Him Marcado poster
4.4

The Kid is a vicious psychopath given to laughing a lot, an actor manqué who leads a gang of looters and rapists, and is incestuous with his father to boot. The town’s resident Mater Dolorosa, madam of the brothel, hires her lover Marcado to kill the Kid, who is of course her son.

They Call Him Marcado

1971

The Coming of the King Olmos poster
6.7

After spending some time with the Mennonite community in Chihuahua, Reynaldo Olmos goes back to Mexico City and establishes a ministry in the poorest of poor neighborhoods. Is he sincere, or is this a scam?

The Coming of the King Olmos

1975

Volver, volver, volver poster
6.3

Good son vs bad son melodrama complicates life on the hacienda.

Volver, volver, volver

1977

Me llaman Madrina poster
5.7

No synopsis available yet.

Me llaman Madrina

1997

Las cenizas del diputado poster
5.8

A political player is presumed dead in a traffic accident; his relatives all try to cash in on his estate while he goes into hiding with schemes of his own.

Las cenizas del diputado

1977

Traficantes de Niños poster
5.2

Film about child trafficking in México.

Traficantes de Niños

1992

The Zodiac Signs poster
4.8

A group of young people makes a plan to escape from the problems of their neighborhood.

The Zodiac Signs

1964

A Good Death Beats a Dull Life poster
5.4

The women of a prosperous provincial family hide unsuspected secrets which range from the entanglements of love to murder for mercy or for greed. The story of these eccentric women combines love, potions, black humor and death.

A Good Death Beats a Dull Life

2006

The House in the South poster
6.0

Indian village experiences forced relocation; their experience is paralleled by that of other groups dating back to the 18th century.

The House in the South

1976

The House of the Pelican poster
5.8

An elementary school teacher tries to rebuild her life with her son, which is the result of a rape in a distant city.

The House of the Pelican

1978

Mariana poster
6.0

As a teenager and student at a convent school, young Mariana runs away with her boyfriend, provoking the wrath of her father who sends her to Switzerland for ten years.

Mariana

1968

The Mind and the Crime poster
7.4

The discovery of a human torso thrown into a waterway, leads the viewer to observe the work of modern criminology and the task of special agents to track and record the psychopath's mentality through the elucidation of techniques present in the reality of the police investigation.

The Mind and the Crime

1963