
Acting
Marta Zamora
Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
Acting credits
5.7Librado, 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
6.3A woman abandons her partner, a journalist, but tortures him by sending him photos of her with her lovers.
El infierno tan temido
1975
5.7A 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
5.7Mexican feature film
La Otra Ciudad
1967
5.0In 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
6.4This is the story of a man, Emiliano Zapata, and of a revolution, the Mexican Revolution.
Emiliano Zapata
1970
Short film by Paco del Toro
Vuelve a tu primer amor
1989
6.6A 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 synopsis available yet.
Noche de Calífas
1987
4.4The 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
6.7After 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
6.3Good son vs bad son melodrama complicates life on the hacienda.
Volver, volver, volver
1977
5.7No synopsis available yet.
Me llaman Madrina
1997
5.8A 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
5.2Film about child trafficking in México.
Traficantes de Niños
1992
4.8A group of young people makes a plan to escape from the problems of their neighborhood.
The Zodiac Signs
1964
5.4The 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
6.0Indian 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
5.8An 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
6.0As 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
7.4The 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