Mónica Dionne

Acting

Mónica Dionne

Born 1967-02-07 · Waterbury, Connecticut, USA

Mónica Xochitl Dionne Lazo is an American actress born in Waterbury, Connecticut. She is of Mexican descent. Dionne is best known for her roles in telenovelas produced by TV Azteca. She also acted in movies such as "Sexo, pudor y lágrimas" where she played the role of "María". In 2007 she played the role of Flavia Portillo de Cisneros in the telenovela Madre Luna.

Acting credits

The Arrival poster
6.0

Zane Ziminski is an astrophysicist who receives a message that seems to have extraterrestrial origins. Eerily soon after his discovery, Zane is fired. He then embarks on a search to determine the origins of the transmission that leads him into a Hitchcockian labyrinth of paranoia and intrigue.

The Arrival

1996

No manches, Frida poster
7.7

After being released from prison, Zequi, a bank robber, sets out to recover money buried by his accomplice; but is horrified to learn that a high school gymnasium is now over the site where the loot is hidden.

No manches, Frida

2016

Sex, Shame & Tears poster
6.6

A comedic drama featuring two couples and two old friends in Mexico City. Tomas visits Carlos and Ana, while Miguel and Andrea are joined by Maria. The presence of guests triggers lust, rejection, infidelities, reconciliation and other consequences.

Sex, Shame & Tears

1999

Crossing the Desert poster
4.0

Victor, a successful and well-respected businessman, is obsessed by the legend that an indigenous woman told him when he was a child. Victor lives a conventional life with a family that knows and complains about his constant infidelities. When the woman is dying, she sends for Victor and her son Jose Francisco, who is working as his chauffeur. They both answer the summons. Their lives take an unexpected turn.

Crossing the Desert

2012

The Divine Tragedy poster
NR

Follows Cristián, a refined traditionalist homosexual who is abandoned by his rich husband Carlos after a 24-year relationship and is forced to live with his wild, sexually hedonistic gay half-brother Roy.

The Divine Tragedy

2026

Fantasías poster
6.6

The movie tells the story of a middle-class couple with two teenage children and a boring sex life, in search of new experiences- first with their sexy maid. Later with the advice of an older female friend who has swinger lifestyle with her husband, they decide to explore the possibility of sparking fresh passion by hooking up with a swinger couple. But then, problems arrive when they start to get blackmailed by the male swinger, who wants money to not show some private pictures of the wife. Written by lament

Fantasías

2004

Eros una vez María poster
3.4

When Tonatiuh loses his beloved Maria, grief and obsession to be loved lead him to seek love in a variety of women also called Maria.

Eros una vez María

2007

Dear Sobriety: You're Killing Me poster
5.3

Raffi, nearly forty and defiant of the system, has cycled through rehab countless times. After being kicked out of the clinic in his fifth attempt to get clean, he is forced to return to the person he despises most: his mother. Two days later, she kicks him out, and Raffi turns to Trino, his last remaining friend, for refuge. When he learns that his high school crush, Inés, is newly divorced, Raffi vows to win her over, even if it means getting a regular job, growing up, and finally taking his recovery seriously.

Dear Sobriety: You're Killing Me

2026

Canon (Fidelidad al límite) poster
7.2

Mariana and Julian are a couple that have been happily married for many years. They have two kids: Juan Maria and Bibiana. They are in love and are very successful in their professional lives. They have a wonderful sex life and in the foreplay that they enjoy in privacy, he tells her that she can have sex with other man if she tells him everything in detail.

Canon (Fidelidad al límite)

2014

Sex, Shame and Tears 2 poster
6.7

Twenty years have passed since those two apartments in the heart of Mexico City were the battlefield of a war of the sexes between Ana, Carlos, Andrea, Miguel, Tomás and María. All that is left of those apartments are memories and the image of Tomás' dead body at the bottom of the elevator shaft. Their lives have changed, their families have grown and new and unexpected characters have come to unsettle their daily lives and trigger a chain of events that will make them realize that modesty has been replaced by public disclosure; sex is only an app away; but love...love is still something elusive that everyone in today's banal and chaotic world is seeking.

Sex, Shame and Tears 2

2022

Parejas poster
8.0

Comedy about different forms of love in this busy period in which we live. Two pairs of great friends celebrate together their weddings. Between drunkenness and friendship , things get confused. Will love defeat guilt? A prominent businessman lives unbeatable location : it has a beautiful lover, a new job, and wants a child with your partner. But she discovers that she cheats on him . Is a type of self- love?

Parejas

1996

Little Saints poster
5.0

After St. Jude appears in Esperanza's oven, she sets out to find her daughter, who died under mysterious circumstances. The journey forces Esperanza to challenge her own beliefs and face her fears in order to be reunited with her beloved daughter.

Little Saints

1999

4 Moons poster
7.2

Four interwoven stories about love and self-acceptance: An eleven year-old boy struggles to keep secret the attraction he feels towards his male cousin. Two former childhood friends reunite and start a relationship that gets complicated due to one of them’s fear of getting caught. A gay long lasting relationship is in jeopardy when a third man comes along. An old family man is obsessed with a young male prostitute and tries to raise the money to afford the experience.

4 Moons

2014

The Insomnia Club poster
6.7

Three people with insomnia get together at a supermarket where they share their experiences.

The Insomnia Club

2018

Sólo con tu pareja poster
6.5

Tomás Tomás is a young yuppie playboy with a string of discarded girlfriends. But when Silvia, the victim of one of his adventures, tries to get revenge by typing "positive" on his AIDS test, Tomás experiences for the first time the realities of love and death.

Sólo con tu pareja

1992

Cómplices poster
5.3

An expert seducer takes his nephew on a beach trip in search of hot women. But an old love, the only woman capable of causing him trouble, shows up there.

Cómplices

2018

Perro Que Ladra... No Muerde poster
NR

not released yet

Perro Que Ladra... No Muerde

Guerrero Negro poster
5.2

No synopsis available yet.

Guerrero Negro

1994

Te Presento a Laura poster
6.8

This is the story of 23-year-old Laura who lives in the largest city in the world and yet feels alone. She also knows the exact date in which she'll die: April 30. What Laura doesn't know is what she'll do from now till then, and thus she enrolls in a group of optimists, which she finds pathetic but fun. In that group she writes a list of 10 things she wants to do before she dies, some that mean a lot and some that are a lot of fun. The first thing on her list is to save a life.

Te Presento a Laura

2010

ADN: La prueba poster
5.0

Married couple's son is hit by a car and killed. Their marriage comes very close to falling apart, and while they're working back toward their relationship, they learn about a son born to a former girlfriend of the husband's; the child may be his. And then...

ADN: La prueba

2005

The Wingwalker poster
8.2

A young widower is deported as his daughter is scheduled for a heart transplant, this will lead him to orchestrate the boldest border crossing plan in history.

The Wingwalker

2024

Te juro que yo no fui poster
6.9

Running away from some evil arabs, a woman hides in a counterbass case, causing problems to his owner, a musician with a jelous wife who is trying to win her back.

Te juro que yo no fui

2018

El sabor de la Navidad poster
8.5

Three parallel stories revolving around Mexico City’s Christmas celebrations intertwine in the film’s finale. In the first story, an estranged daughter seeks reconciliation with her family. In the second, two friends put their friendship to the test when they start working as competing Santa Clauses in Alameda Central Park. In the third, a lonely chef that cooks Christmas dinners for other families confronts her feelings for her kitchen assistant.

El sabor de la Navidad

2023

No artwork available
NR

Mexican short film

Blue Note

1999