Manuel Ojeda

Acting

Manuel Ojeda

Born 1940-11-04 · La Paz, Baja California Sur, Mexico

Manuel Salvador Ojeda Armenta (4 November 1940 – 11 August 2022) was a Mexican actor. Ojeda was one of the most active actors of television and cinema in Mexico. He played the villain, Zolo, in the Hollywood film Romancing the Stone.

Acting credits

Romancing the Stone poster
6.8

Though she can spin wild tales of passionate romance, novelist Joan Wilder has no life of her own. Then one day adventure comes her way in the form of a mysterious package. It turns out that the parcel is the ransom she'll need to free her abducted sister, so Joan flies to South America to hand it over. But she gets on the wrong bus and winds up hopelessly stranded in the jungle.

Romancing the Stone

1984

Salón México poster
5.7

In this remake of the 40's classic, two lovers murder each other, leading to an investigation and the closing of the Saln Mxico, a famous place where people used to go to dance before WWII. The police investigation leads to several flashbacks about the life and death of a low-life dancer named Mercedes (Maria Rojo) and her lover.

Salón México

1996

Niños y Criminales poster
5.7

No synopsis available yet.

Niños y Criminales

2001

La señorita poster
5.8

Violent death of a loan shark investigated by diligent policeman.

La señorita

1994

Operación Coyote poster
6.5

No synopsis available yet.

Operación Coyote

2000

Seducción judicial poster
5.7

No synopsis available yet.

Seducción judicial

1994

Eagle's Wing poster
5.4

Two men, an aging Native American and a ne'er-do-well trapper from North America, race to claim the stallion Eagle's Wing in antebellum Mexico, meeting marauded stagecoach travelers and garrisoned Mexicans along the way.

Eagle's Wing

1979

Naná poster
4.7

Based on the Émile Zola same name novel. The life of Nana, a French prostitute of the 19th century. The film includes numerous musical acts performed by Irma Serrano.

Naná

1985

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

Victorio poster
6.3

A story of redemption, drama and action, where only love can overcome all obstacles.

Victorio

2008

Herod's Law poster
8.0

In the 1940s, a small Mexican town has seen its last three mayors assassinated in rapid succession. A naive janitor is recruited to become the new mayor, and he believes he will modernize the little town and usher in a reign of peace. But the system corrupts him very quickly, and he takes to abusing his power while associating with an unscrupulous assortment of opportunists, hypocrites and criminals.

Herod's Law

1999

No artwork available
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Perversión

1996

Free Love poster
5.2

Two single women share an apartment, work together, and sometimes swap boyfriends. None of their romantic attachments seem quite as stable or enduring as their friendship.

Free Love

1978

El chivatazo poster
6.7

Mexican feature film

El chivatazo

1999

The Heart of the Night poster
5.1

A young deaf-mute who lives and has intercourse with a blind man much older than she, inevitably attracts a shy driving instructor a strange, hallucinatory underworld, populated by those beings whose mutilation, impaired physical differences, have become rejected of society.

The Heart of the Night

1984

El candidato poster
NR

In the highest echelons of the ruling party, the candidacy of Mr. Serrano for state governor is being orchestrated. His history of bloodshed and corruption has helped him climb the ladder of power, but federal agent Victor is on a quest to uncover an entire network of women trafficking and blackmail linked to Mr. Serrano, which he uses to control his enemies and party members with the help of Luisa, who runs the city's most exclusive brothels.

El candidato

2016

Carga blanca poster
6.7

No synopsis available yet.

Carga blanca

1997

Llamadas obscenas poster
6.7

No synopsis available yet.

Llamadas obscenas

1996

Green Ice poster
5.7

A down on his luck engineer gets involved in an adventure with a mysterious woman and an emerald magnate.

Green Ice

1981

No One Will Ever Know poster
5.3

An anodyne environment and a perennial lack of affection, push Lucia and Braulio to turn in the fiction world; to materialize their dreams. Neither inclement reality can stop them.

No One Will Ever Know

2018

Dinero marcado poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Dinero marcado

2015

Fray Justicia poster
5.0

Maximiliano runs from the law after committing a robbery and seeks refuge in a town called San Pedro where, posing as a priest, he decides to get justice by defending the townspeople from the abuses of Don Oliverio, never imagining that this will lead him to a series of adventures and an encounter with love.

Fray Justicia

2009

La Dinastía de Los Pérez poster
5.0

After the deadly conflict between the Perez and the Orozco dynasties, only 3 remain. Eric Orozco, and 2 of the Perez, Gabino and Jesus.

La Dinastía de Los Pérez

1994

Mictlan poster
5.7

No synopsis available yet.

Mictlan

2002