
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
7.2Family honor, greed, machismo, homophobia, and dreams collide in a small Mexican town.
The Place Without Limits
1978
6.4Transit 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
6.7Lawman 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
6.6Widow becomes professional singer to meet expenses. Love complications come along with the territory.
Los Reyes del Palenque
1979
7.1A 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
6.7No synopsis available yet.
Misa de cuerpo presente
1993
Film credits
1990s · 8 titles
6.7No synopsis available yet.
Misa de cuerpo presente
1993
5.4Mario 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
6.0A 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
6.7No synopsis available yet.
La sombra del Tunco
1990
5.8Ramona survives her brush with death and plots revenge against el fiscal de hierro, her mortal enemy.
El fiscal De Hierro 4
1993
6.7As 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
6.0Lolo 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
6.2Sequel 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
6.4Transit 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
6.2This 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
6.3No synopsis available yet.
Lagunilla 2
1982
5.3A 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
5.4Among 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
6.3After 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
3.9Everyone living around a truck terminal has their destinies intertwined.
Central camionera
1988
6.2A 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
4.8A 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
5.7Mexican feature film
Las noches del Blanquita
1981
6.3Mexican feature film
Diana, René y El Tíbiri
1988
1970s · 13 titles
7.2Family honor, greed, machismo, homophobia, and dreams collide in a small Mexican town.
The Place Without Limits
1978
6.6Widow becomes professional singer to meet expenses. Love complications come along with the territory.
Los Reyes del Palenque
1979
5.0While 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
5.2Agapito, 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
6.4Western revenge drama.
Chico Ramos
1971
5.8A 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
5.5Mexico 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
6.2Cowboy 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
5.8A 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
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
6.0No synopsis available yet.
Adriana del Rio, actriz
1979
7.4A 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
7.0Small-town priest invites his three rambunctious nieces to visit him.
Las tres magnificas
1970
1960s · 28 titles
6.7Lawman 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
7.1A 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
6.0Two cowboys fight over ownership of a horse and a woman.
Mi caballo prieto rebelde
1967
7.8Two Mexican-American gals in LA win a vacation in Mexico City in a talent show.
México de mi corazón
1964
6.0Manuel, 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
5.8Three 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
5.8No synopsis available yet.
Amanecí en tus brazos
1967
5.7A group of beautiful female vampires lure men to their estate so they can feed on their blood.
The Empire of Dracula
1967
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
A man, about to marry his pregnant fiance, is deceived by his brothers into believing he's dead.
Los amores de Juan Charrasqueado
1968
6.2A shady character takes over as owner/manager of a nightclub, conflicts evolve.
Un callejón sin salida
1965
5.8Dishonest 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
5.6A young Yaqui man fights against intolerant townspeople.
Yaqui
1969
5.6Drifter returns to his home town for revenge, but he get caught up in the town's interpersonal dramas.
El fugitivo
1966
6.7M/F couple joins the Revolution, but she ends up in bed with Villa.
El centauro Pancho Villa
1967
6.2Chief of police fakes his death and returns as a masked avenger. On horseback. And stuff.
El halcón solitario
1964
6.0An anxious father wants to trap the Sanchez brothers into marrying his two daughters.
Los Sánchez deben morir
1966
6.7Public health thriller: rabies in Mexico City.
Seis días para morir
1967
6.6Rivalry and romance between the leaders of a male mariachi band and a female one.
El mariachi canta
1963
6.5Two 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
6.0Father and son butt heads over a mutual girlfriend, mostly.
El corrido del hijo desobediente
1968
6.3Masked 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
5.5Two young ladies hire bodyguards. Romance blooms.
Agarrando parejo
1964
6.0Semi-comic series western about two brothers what is good-guys. From the series "Los Hermanos Barragan."
Shadow of the Black Hand
1964
7.0Ranchera comedy -- the hero thinks his girlfriend has another suitor... but the suitor is really she herself in man-drag.
The Two Rivals
1966
5.5After being gunned down in a bar-fight, a guy reappears in town looking for revenge on his murderer.
El terror de la frontera
1963
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
6.6Juan 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
