
Acting
Irma Dorantes
Born 1934-12-22 · Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico
Irma Aguirre Martínez (born 21 December 1934), commonly known as Irma Dorantes, is a Mexican actress, singer, and equestrian.
Acting credits
5.7Two very good friends become wrestlers to leave poverty behind, but the arrival of an ambitious woman will tragically change their destinies.
The Magnificent Beast
1953
6.5Pops is dismissed from his banking job for embezzlement, and his family have to adjust to a more modest lifestyle.
Padre nuestro
1953
5.0After 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
6.7A dead man's brother tracks his murderer down, years later, and intercedes to prevent him from taking over a young woman's farm.
La mano de Dios
1966
7.3The movie starts with Braulio Peláez (Pedro Infante), a schoolteacher, having just fallen off his horse, representing the situation he and his family are in. The next scenes introduce the viewer to his family and their poor financial and social situation. As Braulio stumbles around looking for his glasses, he causes a famous film star, Alfonso de Madrazo (Rafael Alcaide) to crash his car. Braulio offers him to eat at his house as an apology. Braulio's sister and mother, big film fans, immediately recognise Alfonso and attempt to get him to bring the girl, Luisa Peláez (Irma Dolores) to Mexico City to become a film star. Alfonso agrees and tells them to come to the capital.
They also sing of pain
1950
8.3This is the story of three brothers - a priest, a soldier, and an outlaw - that are raised separately by their godfathers once their mother dies. They cross their paths again when the soldier and the priest move into two towns near the town the outlaw lives in. The drama will unfold once the three brothers meet each other.
Los tres huastecos
1948
6.3Five stories that tell the tale of winning the lottery in Mexico and how it changes lives.
Suerte en la vida (La Lotería III)
1994
5.8Four expert marksmen compete in a target shooting competition. Each has a back-story that explains why he really really really needs the prize money.
Duelo de pistoleros
1966
8.1Luis Fuentes, a singer of Mexican music, comes to know a journalist by the name of Maria Luisa Cortéz and fall madly in love with each other. In time, the couple gets married and come to have a son, Rafael. However, they soon divorce because of Luis's many commitments as a singer. This strains the relationship between Luis and Maria, so much so that Maria, stung by bitterness, teaches her son to despise his father and manages to move from Mexico to the United States to keep Luis from contacting his son. Luis wants nothing more than to regain his lost relationship and affection with his beloved son. Therefore, time after time he visits Maria in hope of winning over his son's affection with little success. Over time, Rafael, now a young man, comes to have a passion for music just like his father despite having a hatred for him.
Mi Querido Viejo
1991
6.5In the beautiful hills of the Copper Canyon in Chihuahua, Mexico, a young boy (Emilio) is adopted by the mailman (Teo). As part of their daily tasks, they not only deliver the mail but read letters to the villagers, as well as take dictation, since most are illiterate. Young Emilio quickly learns to read and write but feels saddened by the mostly difficult stories sent by relatives, that moved north to Denver, Colorado in pursuit of a better future. One day Teo becomes disabled and Emilio takes over the mail route and with great imagination, he changes the letters to happy and optimistic stories. Within days, the village is transformed. The elders, once hopeless, lonely and sad, are now happy and enthusiastic, enjoying the "supposed" success their loved ones write from the United States. But the enjoyment is short lived, as they realize that all the wonderful stories are the same...
Cartas a Elena
2012
5.0No synopsis available yet.
Una tumba para dos hermanos
2000
6.0When criminals kidnap her brother and force her to secretly exchange their counterfeit dollars for real ones, bank cashier Rosa looks to an unassuming office boy named Julio to help her pull it off. But Rosa's buttoned-up bank manager boyfriend can't help but notice that something suspicious is going on, so he resolves to get to the bottom of it. Armando Silvestre, Irma Dorantes and Carlos Montesco star in this classic crime drama.
Falsificadores y Asesinos
1966
A man, about to marry his pregnant fiance, is deceived by his brothers into believing he's dead.
Los amores de Juan Charrasqueado
1968
7.6Pedro Gonzalez first gets into trouble as part of a criminal gang and then works honourably to become rich. Money is his undoing allowing him to become a womanizer and drinker, almost losing his wife. Finally he rejoins her, they have a son and he pays for his mistakes.
Far from Heaven
1952
7.6India María raises a kidnapped newborn and is pursued by criminals who want the boy.
The Stork's Mistake
1993
8.0An elderly man falls in love with a beautiful young woman, without knowing that she is in love with his son.
No desearás la mujer de tu hijo
1950
6.4Elderly home is struggling for funds; one of the residents competes on a game show to win a jackpot she can donate.
El gran premio
1958
6.2Orphaned, abandoned by her fiance, forced into prostitution by the absence of "respectable" alternatives.And the-e-en...
La mujer del puerto
1949
6.5The simple life and the values of loyalty and solidarity of the poor people in the environment of professional boxing, is the plot of this film, where Pepe el Toro shows the effort and tragedies that are experienced in this profession.
Pepe El Toro
1953
6.2Follows an "unlucky" gun across the paths of five owners.
El revólver sangriento
1964
6.0Masked Rider adventure-hero.
El jinete solitario
1958
6.0The director of a hospital deceives a poor couple in order to steal their newborn child and sell the baby to a wealthy couple.
Médico de guardia
1950
5.8Love in bloom between two ranching families: boy A and girl B, boy B and girl A, the surviving grandparent of each family, their elderly man-baby house stewards, and the prize racehorse from each family all end up pairing off together. Transitory problems, inevitable happy solutions.
Nos lleva la tristeza
1965
5.3No synopsis available yet.
La vida de Pedro Infante
1966