Leonor Llausás

Acting

Leonor Llausás

Born — Died

1929-08-03 — 2003-02-13

Place of birth

Durango City, Durango, Mexico

Known for

Acting

Credits

55 titles

Leonor Llausás was born on August 3, 1929 in Durango, Durango, Mexico as Leonor del Socorro Llausas Tostado. She was an actress, known for Poison for the Fairies (1984), The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz (1955) and Talpa (1956). She died on February 13, 2003 in Mexico City, Mexico.

Known for

Film credits

1980s · 23 titles

Poison for the Fairies poster
7.8

In 1965 Mexico City, Flavia, a wealthy yet lonely schoolgirl, befriends Veronica, a young orphan girl who has a fascination with witchcraft. Veronica convinces Flavia that she is a real witch and forces her to be her assistant. The children's games gradually become more serious and Veronica demands more from Flavia.

Poison for the Fairies

1986

Una leyenda de amor poster
6.3

The romance between two young people intensifies the bitter feud between their rival families, which has been going on for three generations.

Una leyenda de amor

1982

The Realm of Fortune poster
5.3

Poor Dionisio finds himself as recipient of the good fortune, but soon he forgets that everything that goes up also has to go down, and that in the depressing nothingness of his town it is easy to die.

The Realm of Fortune

1986

Little Treasure poster
4.4

Margo is an ex-stripper who meets her long, lost father in Mexico. She looks after him in the waning days of his life, with the help of a traveling projectionist. The father passes away, telling of the loot from a botched bank robbery that he buried years earlier. The two get jobs in town as their relationship grows and they search for the treasure on the weekends. But while the treasure seems to bring them together, it also seems to be tearing them apart.

Little Treasure

1985

La Muerte Cruzo El Rio Bravo poster
5.5

Rich man's son in a small town thinks he can get away with anything, including rape and murder.

La Muerte Cruzo El Rio Bravo

1984

The Castaways of Liguria poster
6.0

A fire started by Harry Thompson destroys the Liguria, a legendary ship of the 19th century, and its treasure of gold and diamonds sinks in the sea. Thompson manages to escape unaware that Albizetti sleeps in the same lifeboat he uses. They manage to arrive at a deserted island, which has also been reached on the opposite shore– by the other survivors of the shipwreck: three children, a woman and three men.

The Castaways of Liguria

1985

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

Violent Stories poster
5.9

Five surreal short stories make up this Mexican anthology film.

Violent Stories

1985

Everyone's Hell So Feared poster
6.1

The inner demons of an aspiring writer, whose dissatisfaction has pushed him to alcohol and drugs, lead him to his self-destruction under the guise of confusing political positions.

Everyone's Hell So Feared

1981

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 Noa Noa poster
7.1

Juan Gabriel became one of the most popular Mexican singer-songwriters, beginning his career in this Ciudad Juárez cabaret. This is his story.

El Noa Noa

1981

Panic in the Forest poster
4.8

People lost in a forest are murdered one-by-one.

Panic in the Forest

1989

Astucia poster
6.3

A landowner known as Bulldog seeks to take over a ranch, but is opposed by the Brotherhood of the Blade, a group of tobacco smugglers made up of skilled horsemen who operated during the turbulent times of General Antonio López de Santa Anna.

Astucia

1986

Love Around the Corner poster
7.0

Maria escapes from prison. On the run, she breaks her ankle. Julian, a truck driver, finds her sitting at the roadside, crying. He picks her up and takes her to a hospital. On her first chance, Maria flees again and goes to a hotel, where she ends up as a prostitute. She frequents bars and saloons, commits some robberies, but neither sex, nor the tequila, can replace love.

Love Around the Corner

1986

Historia de una mujer escandalosa poster
6.2

No synopsis available yet.

Historia de una mujer escandalosa

1984

Nocturnal Love that Goes Away poster
6.3

A taxi driver goes missing after driving a passenger out of town.

Nocturnal Love that Goes Away

1987

Las asesinas del panadero poster
5.0

Mexican feature film

Las asesinas del panadero

1989

El héroe desconocido poster
6.0

An outcast, Rodolfo Martínez, whom no one loves and whom everyone despises and undervalues ​​in his town of Valle Verde, in Mexico, decides to change his luck. He decides to invent that he has a very important ancestor and that is why he deserves a statue that will remind future generations of everything he has done. Rodolfo doesn't care what happens, all he wants is to stop being a failure and for people to see him as an equal.

El héroe desconocido

1983

La casa de Bernarda Alba poster
5.1

A domineering, reclusive and ostentatiously pious widow in a small Spanish town keeps such close watch on her daughters that they are unable to have normal social lives. However, the eldest is allowed to become engaged to an unprincipled young man, primarily for the financial advantages it will bring the mother, Bernarda. Jealousy and envy ensues among the other daughters.

La casa de Bernarda Alba

1982

The Black Widow poster
6.5

Intrigues and secrets come together because of a woman, who has the protection of the parish priest.

The Black Widow

1983

It's my Life poster
6.5

Alberto Aguilera arrives from Ciudad Juárez to the capital to pursue a career in music, but in the midst of confusion he is accused of stealing and is sent to prison.

It's my Life

1982

Mexicano ¡Tú puedes! poster
6.8

Vicente and Carmen, are spouses, he works in a factory, although he is a womanizer and irresponsible; she sells cosmetics or fayuca. Both dream of owning a home. Vincent did not want to leave their neighborhood but after several discussions they decide to buy a land...

Mexicano ¡Tú puedes!

1985

Palenque sangriento poster
6.3

Ranchera love triangle resolved with violence.

Palenque sangriento

1980

1970s · 12 titles

The Year of the Plague poster
5.3

A terrible disease is found in a Mexican town. A doctor tries to alert the authorities when he discovers its epidemic nature. No one listen to him and soon after the disease spreads. The government tries to control the information in order to prevent panic.

The Year of the Plague

1978

Las Poquianchis poster
7.0

Three sisters run brothels protected by the authorities, abuse and prostitute young women under the false pretense of employing them as servants.

Las Poquianchis

1976

Faith, Hope and Charity poster
6.5

Three episodes. Faith: a woman is attacked. Hope: a fakir is crucified. Charity: a woman faces bureaucracy.

Faith, Hope and Charity

1974

Small Privileges poster
4.9

Class differences in Mexican society are expressed in the life and behavior of a young couple member of the burgoisie that will soon become parents, in contrast to their servant and the fatal consequences she suffers due to an unwanted pregnancy.

Small Privileges

1978

No artwork available
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Sólo un grito solo

1978

Chin Chin el teporocho poster
6.1

Rogelio’s story, a young man of humble origin in the neighborhood of Tepito, who falls in love with the daughter of a wealthy grocer, Michelle, but his marriage to her will be a failure and he will end up as a one more drunk.

Chin Chin el teporocho

1976

No artwork available
4.4

In 1809, a woman participates in the conspiracy for the independence of Mexico and her husband blames her for infidelity.

La Güera Rodríguez

1978

La casa de Bernarda Alba poster
7.0

Bernarda, a domineering, reclusive, and ostentatiously pious widow in a small Spanish town, keeps such close watch on her daughters that they are unable to have normal social lives. However, the eldest is allowed to become engaged to an unprincipled young man.

La casa de Bernarda Alba

1974

...And Woman Made Man poster
5.8

A completely illiterate general from the Mexican Revolution “wins” a teacher in a game of dice. What happens to him with this woman is something unexpected.

...And Woman Made Man

1975

The Bricklayers poster
6.6

When a worker is found murdered on the construction side, the investigation swiftly turns from things criminal to the political circumstances surrounding the building itself. Widespread corruption and neglect by the builder himself are seen to have brought the situation about. Much of the movie is filmed using hand-held cameras, and the majority of the dialogue is in the difficult-to-understand and very slangy Spanish dialect of Mexico City's bricklayers.

The Bricklayers

1976

La tigresa poster
5.3

Orphan girl grows up to take revenge on the men who killed her parents.

La tigresa

1973

La derrota poster
4.8

No synopsis available yet.

La derrota

1975

1960s · 5 titles

1950s · 13 titles

The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz poster
7.3

A bizarre black comedy about a man whose overwhelming ambition in life is to be a renowned serial killer of women, and will stop at nothing to achieve it - but not everything goes according to plan...

The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz

1955

El pueblo sin Dios poster
6.5

Unscrupulous rich guy owns all the businesses in border towns, is challenged by town's new priest.

El pueblo sin Dios

1955

Los Fernández de Peralvillo poster
6.6

A young man fails as a seller of household goods and his sister, tired of poverty, elopes with a criminal.

Los Fernández de Peralvillo

1954

No artwork available
5.8

Young gunslinger gets his hero on. #2 in a series ("El Puma.")

La ley del más rápido

1959

La edad de la tentación poster
4.8

By the negligence of parents who not assume their responsibility in sex education, many lives are ruined

La edad de la tentación

1959

Cuatro copas poster
6.4

Upper-crust city gal falls for a rough-edged working-class guy, so she follows him to his home town and masquerades as a peasant/Indian local to win him over. All very stalky and classist.

Cuatro copas

1958

Una mujer en la calle poster
4.8

An unlikely friendship develops when respectable Doña Nena spends her days looking out her window across the street to the sex workers who spend their nights there. One night, she helps helps Alicia one of the girls, escape a police raid and spend several nights painting her portrait.

Una mujer en la calle

1955

To the Beat of Rock and Roll poster
6.7

When a romantic orchestra won't change their boring style into something more modern to get gigs, their girlfriends split and form a rock and roll orchestra that quickly becomes talk of the town. The guys are furious since they are relegated to their opening act as a comical number, but when the League of Virtue protests against the new satanic music, the old-fashioned music seems to win the day.

To the Beat of Rock and Roll

1957

Talpa poster
6.3

Produced on a grand scale, the Mexican Talpa relates the simple story of two brothers. The older of the siblings, Tanilo (Victor Manuel Mendoza) is a well-to-do family man; the other, Estaban (Jamie Fernandez), is one step above a wastrel. When Tanilo is felled by illness, Estaban is forced to take over the family's blacksmith business. He also inaugurates a romance with Tanilo's attractive young wife Juana (Lilia Prado). Punishment is eventually doled out in a manner which suggests that God Himself is exacting retribution on the adulterous couple. Originally released at 87 minutes, Talpa was pared down to 73 minutes for American consumption.

Talpa

1956

Maratón de baile poster
6.0

Several couples are lured into becoming contestants in a dance marathon that awards a large cash prize to the couple still standing at the end of this grueling test of endurance.

Maratón de baile

1958

El vagabundo poster
6.5

Homeless/unemployed dude has a spiritual awakening and rehabilitates himself working at a circus.

El vagabundo

1953

Hundred girls poster
5.5

Don Manuel is a successful bathing suit designer that decides to retire tired of his business. While doing so, he announces he will leave his company in the hands of his own employers. If during a year they manage to increase the sales of their designs, he will leave the company in their hands definitively. Otherwise, it will be inherited by his three spoiled nieces. Annoyed by the fact that his uncle has refuse them the company, the three girls plot to seduce the workers leaders in order to make them fail in their sales goal so they can recover the company.

Hundred girls

1957

No artwork available
6.0

Masked horseman avenges the deaths of family members and resolves questions about a contested inheritance. One of four in a series ("Relampago").

El jinete negro

1958

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