Juan Ferrara

Acting

Juan Ferrara

Born 1943-10-08 · Mexico City, Mexico

Acting credits

The Holy Mountain poster
7.5

The Alchemist assembles together a group of people from all walks of life to represent the planets in the solar system. The occult adept's intention is to put his recruits through strange mystical rites and divest them of their worldly baggage before embarking on a trip to Lotus Island. There they ascend the Holy Mountain to displace the immortal gods who secretly rule the universe.

The Holy Mountain

1973

The Secret poster
6.7

The life of a woman changes completely after the murder of her mother and when she comes to live with her aunt, she realizes that she keeps a secret that has remained hidden and protected for centuries.

The Secret

2010

La Valentina poster
6.4

A smuggler, condemned to be shot, is pardoned in exchange for kidnapping "La Valentina."

La Valentina

1966

The Angels of Puebla poster
6.3

An angel who is three good deeds short of earning his wings chooses the city of Puebla to carry out her mission.

The Angels of Puebla

1968

Mentiras poster
5.7

Lupita Montero, a young singer , tries to break into the art world which is always hostile and complicated. Skillfully she knows a great entrepreneur of a record company who promises to make her a big star. The image of the young man begins to change, it is very frequent. Logically they end up falling in love and think it will be a great love, but in that environment everything is so complicated that Lupita decides to leave everything, both the love of his life and his career.

Mentiras

1986

Pedro Paramo poster
7.2

When his mother Dolores dies, Juan Preciado, son of Pedro Páramo, goes to Comala to claim his inheritance; but when he arrives he finds an abandoned and sinister place, inhabited by mysterious voices and whispers…

Pedro Paramo

1967

Crown of Tears poster
6.5

Doña Refugio works in an office until the bounce and has three children: Fernando who is studying to be a lawyer, doctor and Nacho Edmundo to work in a company as a truck driver gas. Things become difficult within the family and each seek solutions to economic oppression living.

Crown of Tears

1968

Dos y dos, cinco poster
6.7

No synopsis available yet.

Dos y dos, cinco

1981

Death Arrives on Time poster
5.8

Several lives intertwine: those of a group of vandals, a drug addict, and a girl who works as a waitress in a restaurant where her mother cooks.

Death Arrives on Time

1967

Mystery poster
7.2

A soap opera actor is mixed in a real drama very similar to what he represents in his work.

Mystery

1980

When Things Happen poster
4.2

Sebastian, a renowned orchestra conductor, loses his son in a motorcycle accident for which his wife blames him, leading to the family's disintegration. With the intention to recover his daughter's affection, he takes her to Guanajuato, where he has a presentation. However, the unexpected encounter with a mortally wounded old man, who asks him for help to fulfill his last wish, will involve them in that mysterious murder, starting at that point a battle against their conscience and their own survival... a dangerous race against the clock. A touching story of drama and action, which shows us how a common family can be, when they less expect it, the main players in a surprising and dangerous adventure, for in life anything can change... when things happen.

When Things Happen

2007

The Suicide Club poster
4.4

Enrique lives in the midst of danger until he falls in love with a girl and learns to appreciate the little things in life. However, a series of strange situations unfold before him towards his own death, which he must deal with.

The Suicide Club

1970

The Two Elenas poster
10.0

Victor and Elena are newlyweds and lead a busy social life. While Victor is cultured and quiet, Elena is beautiful, brilliant and restless, constantly criticized by her mother, also named Elena, who is very refined, correct and bourgeois. The three of them will be involved in a rather ambiguous and at the same time terribly moving moment in their lives.

The Two Elenas

1965

No artwork available
4.8

Blended family comedy/drama -- the narrative hook is that the two original families are fans of opposing soccer teams.

Tirando a gol

1966

There are not Crosses in the Sea poster
6.0

A mute fisherman helps another whose boat capsizes, he dies and leaves behind a girl whom he raises as his own daughter.

There are not Crosses in the Sea

1968

Didn't Do It For Love poster
4.8

DIDN'T DO IT FOR LOVE is a documentary portrait of Eva Norvind, a.k.a. Mistress Ava Taurel, born Eva Johanne Chegodaieva Sakonskaya in Trondheim, Norway. The film follows Eva's many careers, from her time as a showgirl in Paris to becoming Mexico's Marilyn Monroe in the 1960s to establishing herself as New York's most famous dominatrix in the 1980s. Using clips from Norvind's Mexican films, stills from various periods, and interviews with friends, partners and family, Treut's documentary traces Eva's search for the wellspring of her obsessive and dark sexuality.

Didn't Do It For Love

1998

Esclava del deseo poster
4.7

Criminals hiding out on an island find a shipwrecked stranger.

Esclava del deseo

1968

Rio Hondo poster
5.9

A gang of bandits attacks the population of Río Hondo, shooting left and right; a man decides to act.

Rio Hondo

1965

Distant Wind poster
7.0

Three stories: A young man disobeys his aunt by not killing a cat. An orphan boy, in love with his cousin, is fond of war novels, imagining himself as a hero. A couple of schoolboys in love wander around the city and forget the brutality of their respective homes.

Distant Wind

1966

Anyway, Juan is Your Name poster
6.3

Analytical view of one of the least reported conflicts of national cinema: the Cristero movement that developed in the regions of western Mexico between 1926 and 1929, highlighting the inability to be faithful to both the Church and the State.

Anyway, Juan is Your Name

1976