Acting

Elsa Benn

Acting credits

Las ficheras: Bellas de noche II poster
6.9

Bellas de noche continues. The ex-fichera who bought the cabaret continues to work with several of her former companions, the waiter Fabian, the pugilist Bronco who returns to boxing, Carmen, his wife, who returns to booking, the drunk “La Corcholata”, in love with an old man, and a French woman and the pimp “El Vaselinas”, whose favors are disputed by all the women, but who loses his virility and fights to regain it.

Las ficheras: Bellas de noche II

1977

Espejismo de la ciudad poster
6.3

Family from a farming community move to the capital and lose their moral compass.

Espejismo de la ciudad

1976

The Children of Sanchez poster
6.5

Hall Bartlett directs the rural drama The Children of Sanchez, based on the tome The Children of Sanchez: Autobiography of a Mexican Family written by Oscar Lewis in the '60s. Anthony Quinn stars as the widowed Jesus Sanchez, a poor farmer struggling to provide for his family in Mexico City. Also starring Lupita Ferrer as Consuelo and Stathis Giallelis as Roberto. This is the last film in the 50-year career of international star Dolores del Rio, who plays the Grandma. Jazz-pop performer Chuck Mangione was nominated for a Golden Globe and won a Grammy award for his original musical score.

The Children of Sanchez

1978

Bellas De Noche poster
6.3

The Boxer Germán Bronco Torres loses his license, and works as bouncer at the cabaret El Pirulí, where he falls for the fichera Carmen, and befriends of the pimp Margarito Fuensanta El Vaselinas, who lost a bet and has to pay to a gangsters. For 500 pesos for El Vaselinas, Bronco prepares a trap in the cabaret to the taxi driver Raul, to seduce his girlfriend, not knowing that the victim is his own sister Lupita.

Bellas De Noche

1975

41: El hombre perfecto poster
4.8

Widowed,middle-aged sadsack has never known love in any of his marriages.

41: El hombre perfecto

1982

El sexo me da risa poster
5.9

Blackout comedy bits about people getting their perv on. As it were.

El sexo me da risa

1979

Las Perfumadas poster
4.8

A gang of robbers sowing unrest in the city are attempting dislodge the police for a crime kingpin; the band are composed of three women and a business magnate.

Las Perfumadas

1983

Chin Chin el teporocho poster
6.1

Rogelio’s story, a young man of humble origin in the neighborhood of Tepito, who falls in love with the daughter of a wealthy grocer, Michelle, but his marriage to her will be a failure and he will end up as a one more drunk.

Chin Chin el teporocho

1976

El regreso de la suburban dorada poster
6.0

A former judicial police officer, a former undercover agent and a former drug lord seek revenge against a commander-turned-drug trafficker.

El regreso de la suburban dorada

1998

At a Lame Pace poster
4.5

Ragtag crew of indigents from an asylum for the handicapped form a squadron to defend the Church during the Cristero Uprising.

At a Lame Pace

1980

Life Changes poster
6.0

An unhappy marriage is complicated when hubby starts an affair with his sister-in-law. Darkest before the dawn...

Life Changes

1976

Anyway, Juan is Your Name poster
6.3

Analytical view of one of the least reported conflicts of national cinema: the Cristero movement that developed in the regions of western Mexico between 1926 and 1929, highlighting the inability to be faithful to both the Church and the State.

Anyway, Juan is Your Name

1976