Aurora Clavel

Acting

Aurora Clavel

Born 1936-08-14 · Oaxaca, Mexico

Aurora Clavel (born August 14, 1936) is a Mexican film and television actress who is noted for her roles in the movies Tarahumara (1965) and Once Upon a Scoundrel (1973), as well as in numerous telenovelas. For example, she played Mama Lupe in Mariana de la Noche.

Acting credits

The Wild Bunch poster
7.6

An aging group of outlaws look for one last big score as the "traditional" American West is disappearing around them.

The Wild Bunch

1969

Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid poster
7.2

Pat Garrett is hired as a lawman on behalf of a group of wealthy New Mexico cattle barons to bring down his old friend Billy the Kid.

Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid

1973

Soldier Blue poster
6.8

After a cavalry group is massacred by the Cheyenne, only two survivors remain: Honus, a naive private devoted to his duty, and Cresta, a young woman who had lived with the Cheyenne two years and whose sympathies lie more with them than with the US government. Together, they must try to reach the cavalry's main base camp. As they travel onward, Honus is torn between his growing affection for Cresta.

Soldier Blue

1970

Major Dundee poster
6.7

During the last winter of the Civil War, cavalry officer Amos Dundee leads a contentious troop of Army regulars, Confederate prisoners and scouts on an expedition into Mexico to destroy a band of Apaches who have been raiding U.S. bases in Texas.

Major Dundee

1965

Guns for San Sebastian poster
7.0

Leon Alastray is an outlaw who has been given sanctuary by Father John, whom he then escorts to the village of San Sebastian. The village is deserted, with its cowardly residents hiding in the hills from Indians, who regularly attack the village and steal all their supplies. When Father John is murdered, the villagers mistakenly think the outlaw is the priest. Alastray at first tells them he is not a priest, but they don't believe it, and an apparent miracle seems to prove they are correct. Eventually, he assists them in regaining their confidence and defending themselves.

Guns for San Sebastian

1967

The Wrath of God poster
5.5

Set in the 1920s, several foreigners held by a South American military group are offered possible freedom if they accept to topple a local crazed military leader.

The Wrath of God

1972

Mi niño Tizoc poster
6.4

Tizoc wishes to eat a chicken by himself and have his own piñata. At Christmas his father Carmelo grants his wish.

Mi niño Tizoc

1972

La vibora poster
6.3

No synopsis available yet.

La vibora

1995

Rancho solo poster
6.7

The film is a typical whodunit story, combined with a "ranchero" and western flavor. A young engineer arrives to his godfather hacienda, along with his fiancée. But the things got complicated when the godfather's wife reveals that she had an affair with the young man. One night, the young man's father is murdered in the wood, and he will look for revenge.

Rancho solo

1967

Desires poster
5.1

Snippets of a family drama involving a rebellious son coming to his depressing home village, his father, and a jaded ex-lover, mixed with various surrealist scenes and statements about sin.

Desires

1983

The Walls Talk poster
3.0

A tragic and epic love that transcends time and generations unites Maria and Javier forever. During important periods in Mexico (The War of Independence, the Revolution and current times) these souls play out their destiny facing political squabbles, social pressures, family hatred and historical battles, seeking to make a relationship flower which seems fated to die.

The Walls Talk

2012

Miracles Weaver poster
6.0

Arnulfo is a man weaving baskets. Remedios has given birth in front of the house of a woman and her aid, but the village is spread the word that the child born as a child God and an atheist would think exploit to their advantage the "miracle ".

Miracles Weaver

1962

Los amantes frios poster
5.0

Three-fer anthology of black-humor sex-n-death anecdotes.

Los amantes frios

1978

You Live for Me poster
4.5

A tale about the fragile lives of four characters during a month of their lives. One of them, Ana, is waiting for a kidney donor.

You Live for Me

2017

Goitia: A God for Himself poster
4.1

The Mexican painter Francisco Goitia, feeling his death approaching, manages to make a memory of his life: the reunion with his country and his people, his permanent search for identity as a man and as an artist and his struggle against the demons of the body and his subsequent religious conversion.

Goitia: A God for Himself

1989

Pedro infante vive? poster
6.7

Reporter/photographer covering a Pedro Infante commemorative event discover an uncanny look-alike lurking on the periphery.

Pedro infante vive?

1991

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

El soplador de vidrio

Los lavaderos II poster
4.3

No synopsis available yet.

Los lavaderos II

1988

Birds of Prey poster
6.6

1938, a Central America country. A Frenchman who goes by the name "Le Rital" is hired to take out the local dictator. Young Chico is assigned as his right-hand man, whom he impresses. Will a friendship form between them?

Birds of Prey

1968

Once Upon a Scoundrel poster
5.4

After falling for Alicia, greedy and powerful Mexican landowner Carlos has her fiancé thrown in prison on a bogus charge. To trick Carlos into releasing her man, Alicia teams up with her Aunt Delfina and tries to convince Carlos that he's a ghost.

Once Upon a Scoundrel

1974

Hombres de tierra caliente poster
6.0

Old man kills his alleged best friend over the title to a piece of land. The adult sons of the two old guys get involved in looking for the murderer.

Hombres de tierra caliente

1983

La maestra inolvidable poster
5.5

Idealistic young teacher takes a post in a small, backwoods town and dedicates her life to schooling the village's children.

La maestra inolvidable

1969

Do You Hear the Dogs Barking? poster
7.3

Carrying his son on his back, a man travels from place to place looking for a doctor to treat the sick boy. As they journey, the indio father tells the boy stories to keep him distracted. These stories reveal the life of native peoples in Mexico, both in the countryside and in cities, and they shed light on characteristic beliefs and rituals.

Do You Hear the Dogs Barking?

1974

Mundo mágico poster
5.8

Anthology movie that presents 3 stories about romance.

Mundo mágico

1983