Pilar Pellicer

Acting

Pilar Pellicer

Born — Died

1938-02-12 — 2020-05-16

Place of birth

Villahermosa, Tabasco, Mexico

Known for

Acting

Credits

54 titles

Pilar Pellicer (February 2, 1938 - May 16, 2020) was a Mexican actress who worked in film, theater, and television. She began her film career in the late 1950s and established herself as one of the most prominent actresses in Mexican cinema. She worked with directors such as Luis Buñuel, Emilio Fernández, Arturo Ripstein, and Alejandro Galindo. Among her best-known films are Nazarín (1959), Días de otoño (1962), La Choca (1974), and La víspera (1982). For her performance in La Choca, she received the Ariel Award for Best Actress in 1975. Throughout her career, she received numerous honors for her work and was awarded the Ariel de Oro in 2018 for her contribution to Mexican cinema.

Known for

Film credits

2010s · 5 titles

1990s · 6 titles

1980s · 6 titles

1970s · 15 titles

Why Was I Born a Woman? poster
8.2

A family gathers to celebrate Mother's Day, that day a woman discuss many problems about her woman condition; husband, children and grandchildren will hear she tired and overwhelmed silenced by submission and obedience. Analysis of the family and gender roles.

Why Was I Born a Woman?

1970

Life Sentence poster
6.8

After being released from jail, "Tarzan" Lira seeks to rebuild his life as a bank employee. Unfortunately, it might not be as easy as he thinks.

Life Sentence

1979

Las Poquianchis poster
7.0

Three sisters run brothels protected by the authorities, abuse and prostitute young women under the false pretense of employing them as servants.

Las Poquianchis

1976

Three Women in a Bonfire poster
5.5

Alex, a real estate businessman, has no concerns in giving her wife every kind of freedom. They invite Gloria, an old friend of both, to spend the summer break in their countryside house next to the beach. Gloria doesn't come alone: she comes with young Susy, her lover. Alex will use all of his charms and luxury to manipulate his new guests; meanwhile, his wife and Gloria will gang up to murder him.

Three Women in a Bonfire

1979

Balún Canán poster
5.4

Based on Rosario Castellanos' novel, Balún Canán is about the turmoil created by the Cardenas’ land reforms. Events occur in Chiapas on the border with Guatemala, mainly in a town called Comitán. Zoraida struggles and fights to keep her properties, inheritance for her only son. For her actions, the sorcerers of Chacjatal cast a death spell over her son.

Balún Canán

1977

The She Wolf's Orgy poster
4.7

A woman with a troubled past introduces lust, depravity and sex to a religious commune.

The She Wolf's Orgy

1972

Manuel Saldivar, el texano poster
5.6

Cowboy-justice dude has to figure out who the masterminds are behind a string of murders.

Manuel Saldivar, el texano

1972

There's Always a First Time poster
4.5

No synopsis available yet.

There's Always a First Time

1971

The Mexican poster
6.7

On the border between Mexico and the United States, there is a man willing to do anything. Handsome and adventurous, he prepares to live a new life that will make him a legend.

The Mexican

1977

Una mujer honesta poster
6.7

No synopsis available yet.

Una mujer honesta

1972

The World of the Dead poster
6.0

Santo and Blue Demon take on a 300-year-old witch with a nasty attitude. She raises a legion of zombies and sends them to fight Santo in his home and in the rings.

The World of the Dead

1970

Los amantes frios poster
5.0

Three-fer anthology of black-humor sex-n-death anecdotes.

Los amantes frios

1978

La Choca poster
7.5

A smuggler lives far from civilization, in a hut in the jungle with his wife, La Choca, his son and his sister-in-law Flor. One day some men arrive, who accuse him of having betrayed them.

La Choca

1974

Los perturbados poster
4.3

No synopsis available yet.

Los perturbados

1972

Las del talon poster
4.7

At The Play Boy strip club, everybody's got a story. Owners, employees, customers...

Las del talon

1978

1960s · 11 titles

Day of the Evil Gun poster
6.2

Returning home after disappearing three years ago, former gunslinger Lorn Warfield finds that an Apache raiding party has kidnapped his wife and children. Though he has renounced violence, he now takes up his gun and joins forces with his neighbor, Owen Forbes. Complicating matters, Forbes is engaged to Warfield's wife, who believed her husband was dead. As they pursue the Apaches, the two men are joined by an Indian trader, Jimmy Noble.

Day of the Evil Gun

1968

La trinchera poster
6.5

No synopsis available yet.

La trinchera

1969

The Gangster poster
6.8

An old gangster returns from the United States to Mexico City to live with his sister-in-law and his two nephews, where he will face the daily life of a middle-class family.

The Gangster

1965

Pedro Paramo poster
7.2

When his mother Dolores dies, Juan Preciado, son of Pedro Páramo, goes to Comala to claim his inheritance; but when he arrives he finds an abandoned and sinister place, inhabited by mysterious voices and whispers…

Pedro Paramo

1967

Tajimara poster
7.3

First of two films that make up the collaborative film "Los Bienamados" (The Beloved, 1965). It narrates the encounters and misunderstandings of a pair of lovers during the years, from their adolescence to maturity.

Tajimara

1965

The Bandits poster
5.1

Three Americans get involved into the Mexican fight against the French Intervention.

The Bandits

1967

Santa poster
5.4

A young and innocent girl is betrayed by the man whom she loves and has to become a prostitute because her family rejects her.

Santa

1969

The Devil's Visitations poster
6.2

A young architect returns from Europe to live in the house of his uncles and cousins, where someone pretends to be the Devil.

The Devil's Visitations

1968

Los amigos poster
4.3

Ambition, social climbing and insincerity shape the emotional climate among a circle of young professionals launching their careers.

Los amigos

1968

No artwork available
6.3

Two stories: 'Tajimara' the platonic love of a couple; and 'Un Alma Pura' (A Pure Soul) about the incestuous love of some siblings.

The Beloved Ones

1965

Quinceañera poster
7.2

María Antonia, Beatriz and Leonor are three classmates who are anxiously awaiting the celebration of their 15th birthday. However, each of them will have to cope with their complicated personal situation.

Quinceañera

1960

Series credits

Behind the camera