
Acting
Irma Dorantes
Born
1934-12-22 (91)
Place of birth
Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico
Known for
Acting
Credits
61 titles
Irma Aguirre Martínez (born 21 December 1934), commonly known as Irma Dorantes, is a Mexican actress, singer, and equestrian.
Known for
7.0No synopsis available yet.
La pasión de Isabela
1984
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
6.3Bankrupt millionaire discovers a treasure map belonging to a distant ancestor.
El cofre del pirata
1959
7.6India María raises a kidnapped newborn and is pursued by criminals who want the boy.
The Stork's Mistake
1993
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
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
Film credits
2010s · 2 titles
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
7.8La India María must find at all costs in the recesses of a mountain the Magic Black Mirror of Tezcatlipoca, since the spirit of his great-grandfather Moctezuma II ordered her to find it in to prevent the destruction of Mexico. Alonso, a handsome Spanish archaeologist, Bianchi, an antiquities dealer and Brigida Troncoso - an ambitious governor, are aware of the existence of such mirror, of the mysterious treasure of Moctezuma and of María, so all undertake a frantic chase after her to seize the magic glass and the gold.
The daughter of Moctezuma
2013
2000s · 2 titles
1990s · 8 titles
7.6India María raises a kidnapped newborn and is pursued by criminals who want the boy.
The Stork's Mistake
1993
3.0After 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
8.2A political candidate has an accident that will bring her out of the campaign unless her twin sister may be able to supplant her while she recovers.
The Delights of Power
1999
8.2Luis 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
6.3Five stories that tell the tale of winning the lottery in Mexico and how it changes lives.
Suerte en la vida (La Lotería III)
1994
Four raw stories about justice and law.
Fuera de la ley
1998
4.6After being convicted of killing her rapist, a woman gives birth to a baby in jail. Regrettable accidents cause her to lose contact with her son. Twenty years later...
La diosa del puerto
1990
4.4A con artist tries to help his fellow neighbors pay their rent when they face eviction.
Las Nenas de Quinto Patio
1995
1960s · 21 titles
7.1A mad scientist creates a remote-controlled monster and sends it to terrorize the city.
Orlak, the Hell of Frankenstein
1960
6.3In a small Mexican town, two rival groups clash over water irrigation rights. While the local priest attempts to mediate, his nieces charm the landowners' sons to force a peaceful resolution.
El amor llegó a Jalisco
1963
5.8A powerful rancher loses his power and wealth during the Revolution, and his daughter falls in love with a revolutionary.
Sol en llamas
1962
A man, about to marry his pregnant fiance, is deceived by his brothers into believing he's dead.
Los amores de Juan Charrasqueado
1968
6.7Wandering cowboy hero with sidekick helps a young woman solve a murder and find a hidden treasure.
La banda del fantasma negro
1964
5.7Two feuding families are affecting the quality of life in a small town. The Church wants to intervene, but the local Priest is sorta helpless, so he brings in a younger, more aggressive, gitterdone Priest to attack the problem.
¡Que padre tan padre!
1961
5.4Pathetic shmuck loser tries to rival his twin brother's exploits in the Mexican Revolution.
Juan Polainas
1960
6.0Ana María is a beautiful young woman who sells souvenirs to help her grandpa. When she falls in love with Alberto, a wealthy young man, she has to face his father, who will do anything to keep them apart.
La fierecilla del puerto
1963
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
Two babies are switched in the cradle to gratify wealthy parents' preference for a boy. Nineteen years later, the babies meet...
Cuando el diablo sopla
1966
6.3A property owner dies from shock after his opponent tricks him into thinking his land was legally seized.
Pa' qué me sirve la vida
1961
6.2Follows an "unlucky" gun across the paths of five owners.
El revólver sangriento
1964
5.3No synopsis available yet.
La vida de Pedro Infante
1966
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
No synopsis available yet.
Tres Romeos y una Julieta
1961
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
6.7Romantic complications and silliness when two farmhands are sent to the next town to track down their employer's daughter and baby-mama from thirty years earlier.
Los parranderos
1963
Alfredo B. Crevenna helms this charming romantic comedy about a pair of skirt-chasers wooing the two lovely daughters of a land baron — who rebuffs the young swains to protect his girls.
Two Cheerful Hawks
1963
5.6Three young ladies become the owners of a rough and tumble cowboy bar that they're not well-equipped to manage.
Los fanfarrones
1960
Three childhood friends are reunited after twenty years to receive an inheritance.
Tres tristes tigres
1961
Relates the life of one of Puerto Rico's most loved and revered composer and songwriter, Rafael Hernández.
El jibarito Rafael
1968
1950s · 22 titles
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
6.3Bankrupt millionaire discovers a treasure map belonging to a distant ancestor.
El cofre del pirata
1959
6.5Pops is dismissed from his banking job for embezzlement, and his family have to adjust to a more modest lifestyle.
Padre nuestro
1953
5.7Two 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
7.5Two brothers known in town for their womanizing, drinking and rowdiness meet their matches when two girls who like them decide to tame the two machos.
Los hijos de María Morales
1952
6.5Don Anastacio, an aristocrat passing through a rough patch,He will make marry his daughter Isabel with wealthy rancher. Isabel and her family refuse to work, Jose Manuel takes them to the ranch, where they are forced to work for food.
Por ellas aunque mal paguen
1952
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
7.4The 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
7.1A woman, after committing a murder, flees into a church, confessing her life story to a priest.
Doña Diabla
1950
5.7Squatter neighborhood finds a wealthy sponsor.
Pobres millonarios
1957
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
5.7Amanda, a widow, is a beautiful woman that finds comfort seducing every man in her path, including her daughters' boyfriends.
Mamá nos quita los novios
1952
7.8Manuel is a mechanic in love with the beautiful Maria Teresa. When the rich Jose Antonio courts his beloved Maria, Manuel realizes that he needs money and gets into trouble to get it.
I Need Money
1951
5.8A craftsman who sculpts religious figures goes deaf.
El sordo
1959
7.1Martin retired from his job as a hero because of his marriage to Rosario, a beautiful and ambitious girl who passed through the workshop where he works. However, Martin has to return in principle to help a friend from robbers.
El enamorado
1952
5.7Luis Aguilar dons the mask of The Scarlet Fox, a daring masked hero who fights injustice across the rugged Mexican frontier in this thrilling introduction to the Scarlet Fox series.
The Scarlet Fox
1959
7.7Pedro 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
5.4The Scarlet Fox confronts dark secrets and deadly enemies in a suspenseful adventure where danger lurks behind every shadow.
The Scarlet Fox: Hanged Man’s Revenge
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
6.3Loosely-plotted melodrama about five "hostesses" and the owners of a waterfront nightclub.
Mujeres sin mañana
1951
6.0Masked Rider adventure-hero.
El jinete solitario
1958
6.5The rowdiest guy in each of three states hears rumors about the badassness of the other two and they all set out to meet each other. Comical complications.
Los tres vivales
1958
1940s · 3 titles
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
6.2Orphaned, abandoned by her fiance, forced into prostitution by the absence of "respectable" alternatives.And the-e-en...
La mujer del puerto
1949
6.6Mercedes works as a cabaret performer to pay for her sister's studies. Problems begin when Mercedes and Paco, her exploiter, win a dance contest, but he refuses to share the prize with her.
Salon Mexico
1949




