Lucha Villa

Acting

Lucha Villa

Born

1936-11-30 (89)

Place of birth

Camargo, Chihuahua, Mexico

Known for

Acting

Credits

60 titles

Luz Elena Ruiz Bejarano (born November 30, 1936), more commonly known by her stage name Lucha Villa, is a Mexican singer and actress. She appeared in several films during the 1950s and early 1960s, received her first starring role in El gallo de oro (1965), and starred in Me cansé de rogarle, a musical with Jiménez and recording star Marco Antonio Muñiz. She has appeared in some fifty films and won an Ariel Award for Best Actress (the Mexican equivalent of the Oscar) for Mecánica nacional (1973).

Known for

Film credits

1990s · 8 titles

Misa de cuerpo presente poster
6.7

No synopsis available yet.

Misa de cuerpo presente

1993

El Fiscal De Hierro 3 poster
5.4

Mario Almada returns as "el fiscal de hierro", in this entry his family is kidnapped by gang leader Ramona Pineda.

El Fiscal De Hierro 3

1992

Golpe de suerte poster
6.0

A bureaucrat gets a house and even a car on credit thanks to the support of a compadre who is a union leader, but then has difficulty paying because he is fired in a job cut despite the many years he has been working.

Golpe de suerte

1992

La sombra del Tunco poster
6.7

No synopsis available yet.

La sombra del Tunco

1990

El fiscal De Hierro 4 poster
5.8

Ramona survives her brush with death and plots revenge against el fiscal de hierro, her mortal enemy.

El fiscal De Hierro 4

1993

Sor Batalla poster
6.7

As punishment for participating in a game show a nun is sent to a small town. The chief and presidential hopeful municipal Instead, a pinko comecuras that attacks capitalism and refuses to let children be vaccinated and go to school, is opposed to the presence of the newcomer, but as the religious conquest people and helps to rescue the kidnapped daughter of the chief, the evil becomes good.

Sor Batalla

1990

Lolo poster
6.0

Lolo lives in a poor neighborhood on the outskirts of Mexico City. One day he is assaulted and injured out of the factory where he works. After a week of hospitalization, Lolo loses his job and is forced to seek sustenance. The accidental death of an elderly woman, whom Lolo trying to steal a watch that his mother had insisted, facing the young people in your neighborhood and forces him to flee, full of guilt and shame.

Lolo

1993

El Fiscal De Hierro 2: La Venganza De Ramona poster
6.2

Sequel to El Fiscal de Hierro. Ramona returns and is up for revenge against El Fiscal de Hierro

El Fiscal De Hierro 2: La Venganza De Ramona

1990

1980s · 11 titles

El Mil Usos II poster
6.4

Transit must deal with his impulse to leave the country to go to the United States in search of the famous American dream.

El Mil Usos II

1984

El Fiscal De Hierro poster
6.2

This action-packed flick starring Mario Almada and Lucha Villa tells the story of Eduardo Lobo, the “iron prosecutor” sent to Monterrey to battle evil Ramona Pineda and her family. The movie was inspired by Mexico City cop Salvador del Toro, who was sent to Nuevo Laredo in the early ’70s to clean up the city.

El Fiscal De Hierro

1989

Lagunilla 2 poster
6.3

No synopsis available yet.

Lagunilla 2

1982

Doña Herlinda and Her Son poster
5.3

A manipulative mama deftly manages the life of her homosexual son so that he can have his cake and eat it too. A woman of means, she does this by allowing her son, a doctor, to tryst in her home with his lover. Putting her son's happiness above all else, she then arranges a marriage of convenience to a woman.

Doña Herlinda and Her Son

1985

Del otro lado del puente poster
5.4

Among Chicanos in Los Angeles, young Alberto lives with the family of Dany, his older brother. Alberto studies at UCLA with the support of Professor Bob. Another young man, Jimy Joe, who lives with his sister Estela, is encouraged to quit drugs at a youth rehabilitation center coordinated by Many. Estela sees Jimy Joe being beaten up by gang members. Disillusioned with a gringa, Alberto meets Estela at a nightclub and becomes her boyfriend. Jimy Joe and his friends are surprised by a gang, and he is the only one left alive after a fierce fight, but with a fractured skull. The operation is very expensive, so Alberto and Many decide to raise funds with a show at the Convention Center. Alberto triumphs there as a composer and singer. Now saved, Jimy Joe dances in the street to one of Alberto's songs with Alberto, Estela, and others.

Del otro lado del puente

1980

Lagunilla, mi barrio poster
6.3

After 42 years of working as an antiquarian , Abel is fired by the children of his recently deceased employer; however, after this unexpected situation that leaves him in solitude and with little chance to get a new job, he decides to start again as antiques dealer in the popular Lagunilla market . There he will find real friends ; a humble life and, above all , a new opportunity to fall in love regardless of social differences.

Lagunilla, mi barrio

1981

Central camionera poster
3.9

Everyone living around a truck terminal has their destinies intertwined.

Central camionera

1988

San Miguel el alto poster
6.2

A cocker and his driver were attacked by strangers, but leave unharmed. Jesús denounces the fact to his friend Mario, mayor of San Miguel el Alto.

San Miguel el alto

1982

La Puerta Negra poster
4.8

A horse breeder needs to acquire his rival's horse at the same time protecting his three beautiful daughters from marrying three musicians who work for his rival.

La Puerta Negra

1988

Las noches del Blanquita poster
5.7

Mexican feature film

Las noches del Blanquita

1981

Diana, René y El Tíbiri poster
6.3

Mexican feature film

Diana, René y El Tíbiri

1988

1970s · 13 titles

The Place Without Limits poster
7.2

Family honor, greed, machismo, homophobia, and dreams collide in a small Mexican town.

The Place Without Limits

1978

Los Reyes del Palenque poster
6.6

Widow becomes professional singer to meet expenses. Love complications come along with the territory.

Los Reyes del Palenque

1979

Omen poster
5.0

While attending the birth of Isabel, the wife of foreigner Felipe, Mama Santos predicts that "something terrible is going to happen in the town." From this omen, calamities will torment the locals.

Omen

1974

El Quelite poster
5.2

Agapito, leader of the revolutionary movement of his state, comes to a town, kills all the federales, and gets a girl who was promised to him for his heroic deeds.

El Quelite

1970

Chico Ramos poster
6.4

Western revenge drama.

Chico Ramos

1971

The Useless Life of Pito Pérez poster
5.8

A man goes on a trip and then returns to his village pretending that everything went well for him.

The Useless Life of Pito Pérez

1970

El principio poster
5.5

Mexico is in the midst of Revolution when the protagonist returns after studying in Paris to find his native town in Chihuahua occupied by Francisco Villa’s revolutionary forces. He visits his deserted home and remembers people and events from his adolescence that provide glimpses of pre-Revolutionary society under dictatorship: his uncle, the chief of police; his sister’s involvement with a liberal political association; bathing with the girls from a local brothel; a labor strike that ended in a massacre. Returning to the present he discovers that his father has been assassinated and, in the company of his father’s former servant, joins the revolutionary movement.

El principio

1973

Juan El Desalmado poster
6.2

Cowboy on a revenge trip gets caught up in the sadistic games of some black-hats and goes through a whole narrative cycle with them before discovering the identity of the people he was originally looking for.

Juan El Desalmado

1970

Las cenizas del diputado poster
5.8

A political player is presumed dead in a traffic accident; his relatives all try to cash in on his estate while he goes into hiding with schemes of his own.

Las cenizas del diputado

1977

No artwork available
6.4

José Guadalupe García was born in the United States, but seems very Mexican. Winning his American girlfriend creates many comic situations, but he also faces discrimination and racism.

El pocho

1970

Adriana del Rio, actriz poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Adriana del Rio, actriz

1979

National Mechanics poster
7.4

A mechanic takes his family to a car race and a series of events occur which brings problems, betrayals, violence and the unexpected death of an elderly person.

National Mechanics

1972

Las tres magnificas poster
7.0

Small-town priest invites his three rambunctious nieces to visit him.

Las tres magnificas

1970

1960s · 28 titles

El norteño poster
6.7

Lawman on horseback cracks a case involving stolen gold bullion, the title to a mine, an evil twin and a plucky pre-adolescent boy. First in a series.

El norteño

1963

The Golden Cockerel poster
7.1

A poor, but very lucky man in the cock fighting business, is hired by a rich man, but both are in love with the same woman.

The Golden Cockerel

1964

Mi caballo prieto rebelde poster
6.0

Two cowboys fight over ownership of a horse and a woman.

Mi caballo prieto rebelde

1967

México de mi corazón poster
7.8

Two Mexican-American gals in LA win a vacation in Mexico City in a talent show.

México de mi corazón

1964

Luna de miel en Puerto Rico poster
6.0

Manuel, the manager of the (real-life) Hotel Condado Beach in San Juan, and his assistant Paquito decide to promote their establishment by offering free "honeymoons in Puerto Rico" to newlywed couples.

Luna de miel en Puerto Rico

1966

Los hombres de Lupe Alvírez poster
5.8

Three bad dudes are each hot for Lupe. They kill a guy while committing some crimes together, and that guy's brother goes gunning for them. Eventually, he meets Lupe; she helps him track down the killers and a thing develops between them.

Los hombres de Lupe Alvírez

1967

Amanecí en tus brazos poster
5.8

No synopsis available yet.

Amanecí en tus brazos

1967

The Empire of Dracula poster
5.7

A group of beautiful female vampires lure men to their estate so they can feed on their blood.

The Empire of Dracula

1967

No artwork available
5.7

Lucha Vazquez, a beautiful and wealthy young woman seems pursued by bad luck. She has had two boyfriends who died at the announcement of the wedding. Manuel, a young man from the same town is in love with Lucha, but she fears that if he falls in love, he will die too.

Me cansé de rogarle

1966

No artwork available
6.0

A man, about to marry his pregnant fiance, is deceived by his brothers into believing he's dead.

Los amores de Juan Charrasqueado

1968

Un callejón sin salida poster
6.2

A shady character takes over as owner/manager of a nightclub, conflicts evolve.

Un callejón sin salida

1965

El último cartucho poster
5.8

Dishonest business practices and corrupt local government lead a large number of townsfolk to set up an alternative village out in the countryside, from which to practice banditry and improvised social justice.

El último cartucho

1965

Yaqui poster
5.6

A young Yaqui man fights against intolerant townspeople.

Yaqui

1969

El fugitivo poster
5.6

Drifter returns to his home town for revenge, but he get caught up in the town's interpersonal dramas.

El fugitivo

1966

El centauro Pancho Villa poster
6.7

M/F couple joins the Revolution, but she ends up in bed with Villa.

El centauro Pancho Villa

1967

El halcón solitario poster
6.2

Chief of police fakes his death and returns as a masked avenger. On horseback. And stuff.

El halcón solitario

1964

Los Sánchez deben morir poster
6.0

An anxious father wants to trap the Sanchez brothers into marrying his two daughters.

Los Sánchez deben morir

1966

Seis días para morir poster
6.7

Public health thriller: rabies in Mexico City.

Seis días para morir

1967

El mariachi canta poster
6.6

Rivalry and romance between the leaders of a male mariachi band and a female one.

El mariachi canta

1963

Los apuros de dos gallos poster
6.5

Two con-artists run roughshod over the local economy of a small town they visit... but then they fall in love with two young women related to the rich landowners who are the target of their primary swindle.

Los apuros de dos gallos

1963

El corrido del hijo desobediente poster
6.0

Father and son butt heads over a mutual girlfriend, mostly.

El corrido del hijo desobediente

1968

Mi ley es un revólver poster
6.3

Masked justice on horseback, again: guy plays it meek & mild in his civilian identity so no-one will suspect him of being Mr. Cowboy Hero.

Mi ley es un revólver

1965

Agarrando parejo poster
5.5

Two young ladies hire bodyguards. Romance blooms.

Agarrando parejo

1964

Shadow of the Black Hand poster
6.0

Semi-comic series western about two brothers what is good-guys. From the series "Los Hermanos Barragan."

Shadow of the Black Hand

1964

The Two Rivals poster
7.0

Ranchera comedy -- the hero thinks his girlfriend has another suitor... but the suitor is really she herself in man-drag.

The Two Rivals

1966

El terror de la frontera poster
5.5

After being gunned down in a bar-fight, a guy reappears in town looking for revenge on his murderer.

El terror de la frontera

1963

No artwork available
6.2

In his home-town, he's a respectable rancher... but out on the range he's a hitman for hire. His son finds out about his double life, and...

Dos valientes

1969

Guitarras lloren guitarras poster
6.6

Juan from Altamira, Tamaulipas, arrives at the train station in the capital and is assaulted by Gus. As he finds only ten dollars in his wallet, he believes that Juan brings more money and offers him accommodation in his room to pay the rent. Juan is dedicated to singing and Gus makes his representative. Juan is successful singing together with Susana on stage and radio Azteca, but she does not correspond to his love. As she wants to succeed alone, she goes to Guadalajara but without success. Juan helps her and when she gets a heart illness, she agrees to marry him.

Guitarras lloren guitarras

1965