Lina Montes

Acting

Lina Montes

Born — Died

1923-01-01 — 1984-10-02

Place of birth

Havana, Cuba

Known for

Acting

Credits

26 titles

Known for

Film credits

1970s · 18 titles

Los Caciques poster
6.2

A bad man holds the power of life and death over the inhabitants of a village... for no apparent reason... and he's fond of torturing them, tying them to crosses and leaving them to die. A cowboy with necromantic powers comes along and leads a rebellion to overthrow that reign of terror.

Los Caciques

1975

The Birthday of the Dog poster
6.0

Two men who kill their wives so they can be together. A tailor goes from having his dog as his best friend to a young man, in a friendship that becomes so very close that the younger man murders his wife. He is helped by the other man. The husband wants to help him, but his wife wants to turn him in to the police. So he also kills his wife.

The Birthday of the Dog

1975

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

El vals sin fin poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

El vals sin fin

1972

Nest of Virgins poster
5.6

"Faith-healer" develops a cult-like following in 1920s Jalisco.

Nest of Virgins

1972

Wild Wind poster
4.0

Bandits rob a church and kidnap Maria, although the priest manages to accidentally kill one of them.

Wild Wind

1974

The Coming of the King Olmos poster
6.7

After spending some time with the Mennonite community in Chihuahua, Reynaldo Olmos goes back to Mexico City and establishes a ministry in the poorest of poor neighborhoods. Is he sincere, or is this a scam?

The Coming of the King Olmos

1975

Secreto de confesión poster
5.4

Young woman falls in love with a cub reporter who's investigating the illegal activities of her father. Then there's secret marriages and secret murders and secret babies and... family melodrama in full flower.

Secreto de confesión

1971

Inspector Calzonzin poster
7.5

A rumor reaches a small town, San Garabato, that a government infiltrator will arrive to check the conditions of the community. Quickly, the municipal president, Don Perpetuo del Rosal, orders the imprisonment of those who might give a bad image. An indigenous man named Calzonzin arrives in town, pursued by two men. He is quickly taken as the infiltrated inspector, and protected by all the local authorities.

Inspector Calzonzin

1974

4 hembras y un macho menos poster
6.2

No synopsis available yet.

4 hembras y un macho menos

1979

El amor tiene cara de mujer poster
5.8

The owner of a beauty salon and her employees discuss their lives and their struggles to get ahead in life.

El amor tiene cara de mujer

1973

The Fight with the Panther poster
5.3

Three nymphets struggle to have a beneficial youth: Ana is suicidal, Mercedes is attracted to her brother William, and Patricia desires to be sexually abused.

The Fight with the Panther

1975

La casta divina poster
6.7

Chronicle Caste War in Yucatan held in the nineteenth century, where the land and the people were the property of the landowners, who called themselves " divine caste ". On one hand, General Salvador Alvarado organized the revolution; on the other, the landowners hire Colonel Ortiz Argumedo to organized the defense of their autonomy. Don Wilfrido, one of the masters, do not hesitate to send his son to fight to maintain their wealth and privileges.

La casta divina

1977

Triángulo poster
5.4

The story of Mother and Daughter for a Husband and Stepfather who was killed by shotgun.

Triángulo

1972

Longitud de Guerra poster
5.9

Based on the novel Tomochic by Heriberto Frías; tells the story of the rebellion of the inhabitants of the village of Tomochi, Chihuahua, against the government of Porfirio Diaz in 1891. Mexico's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1976.

Longitud de Guerra

1976

Me he de comer esa tuna poster
6.0

In rural Mexico, a young man competes with his best school friend for the love of a girl whose marriage has been arranged by her parents.

Me he de comer esa tuna

1972

No artwork available
6.3

No synopsis available yet.

Trio y cuarteto

1972

The Braid poster
6.6

A town confused by religion persecutes a woman who stole the braid from the statue of the Virgin.

The Braid

1975

1940s · 6 titles