Lumi Cavazos

Acting

Lumi Cavazos

Born

1968-12-21 (57)

Place of birth

Monterrey, Nuevo León, México

Known for

Acting

Credits

41 titles

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Lumi Cavazos (born December 21, 1968) is a Mexican actress who won the Best Actress awards at the Tokyo Film Festival, and Brazil’s Festival de Gramado for her portrayal of "Tita" in the 1993 adaptation of Laura Esquivel’s Mexican novel, Like Water for Chocolate. The film grabbed the attention of US film critics and moviegoers, and facilitated her entry into the American film industry. She subsequently relocated to Los Angeles. Born in Monterrey, Cavazos began her acting career at the age of 15, and made her film debut in Busi Cortes’ 1988 El Secreto de Romalia. She has acted in numerous Mexican films and television series since then, and has also done…

Known for

Falco poster
4.3

A policeman with a promising future and a young family must rebuild his life in 2018 after he wakes up from a 24-year coma after being shot in the line of duty.

Falco

2018

Bottle Rocket poster
6.7

Upon his release from a mental hospital following a nervous breakdown, the directionless Anthony joins his friend Dignan, who seems far less sane than the former. Dignan has hatched a harebrained scheme for an as-yet-unspecified crime spree that somehow involves his former boss, the (supposedly) legendary Mr. Henry.

Bottle Rocket

1996

LaLola poster
7.3

A prosperous businessman used to getting his way with women to boost his ego. He receives his comeuppance when he wakes one morning in the body of a woman. Desperate to revert to his original body, he struggles to protect his job and his relationships with his family and his best friend.

LaLola

2024

Cecilia poster
7.6

The story of a woman whose world seemingly crumbles when she suffers a stroke. What at first seems like a tragedy ends up being an opportunity to reunite her family and rebuild her life.

Cecilia

2021

Bless the Child poster
5.4

When Maggie's sister Jenna saddles her with an autistic newborn named Cody she touches Maggie's heart and becomes the daughter she has always longed for. But six years later Jenna suddenly re-enters her life and, with her mysterious new husband, Eric Stark, abducts Cody. Despite the fact that Maggie has no legal rights to Cody, FBI agent John Travis takes up her cause when he realizes that Cody shares the same birth date as several other recently murdered children.

Bless the Child

2000

Like Water for Chocolate poster
7.3

Tita is passionately in love with Pedro, but her controlling mother forbids her from marrying him. When Pedro marries her sister, Tita throws herself into her cooking and discovers she can transfer her emotions through the food she prepares, infecting all who eat it with her intense heartbreak.

Like Water for Chocolate

1992

Film credits

2010s · 7 titles

This Is Not Berlin poster
6.9

Seventeen-year-old Carlos doesn't fit in anywhere, not in his family nor with the friends he has chosen in school. But everything changes when he is invited to a mythical nightclub where he discovers the underground LGBTQ nightlife scene: punk, sexual liberty and drugs.

This Is Not Berlin

2019

Half of the World poster
5.5

The story is about a young man suffering mental retardation and sexual awakening, poet is charismatic and has the ability to pay attention to those little insignificant details of everyday life. His new status as a lover will bring popularity and with it problems will expose prejudice and false morality of a blinded people to wash their sins charged with the death of the less guilty.

Half of the World

2011

Once Upon a Time in Durango poster
5.5

In the plains of Durango, the old west town still exists where Mexican and foreign westerns used to be filmed. Old Antonio takes care of the place. One day, Gabriel Navárez, a 13-year-old boy from a small nearby community, secretly gets into the old west town and discovers a fascinating world.

Once Upon a Time in Durango

2010

Gritos D Muerte y Libertad poster
NR

An special and heroic Representation of Independence, the Past Narrated in “Gritos de Muerte y Libertad,” which examines the roles of independence heroes in the series’ narrative and in Mexican historiography. Extended and more detailed pilot that expands the show.

Gritos D Muerte y Libertad

2010

Rock Marí poster
6.2

An 11 year old girl who has just lost her mother is at the same time fighting to fulfill her greatest dream: to become a great singer and for her music to be heard by millions of people. Throughout this great adventure, Rock Mari is accompanied by her faithful squire Baqueta, as they travel together in search of her destiny.

Rock Marí

2010

The Promise poster
5.0

A talented rural student struggles with his teacher and fellow students.

The Promise

2018

Olimpia poster
6.6

The film tells the story of Raquel, Rodolfo and Hernán, members of a brigade at the UNAM during the student movement in Mexico in 1968. Through their photographs, films and writings, we will know the history of the day that the army took the university and how their students united, shouted and never forgot.

Olimpia

2018

2000s · 13 titles

Bless the Child poster
5.4

When Maggie's sister Jenna saddles her with an autistic newborn named Cody she touches Maggie's heart and becomes the daughter she has always longed for. But six years later Jenna suddenly re-enters her life and, with her mysterious new husband, Eric Stark, abducts Cody. Despite the fact that Maggie has no legal rights to Cody, FBI agent John Travis takes up her cause when he realizes that Cody shares the same birth date as several other recently murdered children.

Bless the Child

2000

Never Too Young to Dream poster
6.2

A group of kids have a dream: to play a football championship and to win. Their dream is going to be fulfilled by Don Pepe, an old guy with lots of expectations for his kids.

Never Too Young to Dream

2001

Exposed poster
6.5

As the presenter of tabloid news show 'Probe', Bob Smith stoops to new lows to expose stories at any cost. When covering the lives of three high-flying women vying for the 'Woman of Distinction' award in broadcasting, he hopes to break through the glossy facade and reveal secrets all three women strive to keep hidden...even if that means inventing a few secrets himself.

Exposed

2003

In the Time of the Butterflies poster
6.3

Based on the book by Julia Alvarez. Three sisters become activists during the Dominican Republic's Trujillo regime when members of their family are killed by the government's troops.

In the Time of the Butterflies

2001

7 Days poster
7.6

Claudio Caballero decides to gamble $500,000 in a desperate attempt to raise the cash necessary to bring the world's biggest band (U2) to Mexico.

7 Days

2005

The Black Pimpernel poster
5.2

The story about Swedish ambassador in Chile - Harald Edelstam - and his heroic actions to protect the innocent people from the execution during and after the military coup on September 11th 1973.

The Black Pimpernel

2007

Viva High School Musical: Mexico poster
6.5

Football captain Cristóbal discovers that his neighbor and classmate, Mariana, has changed a lot over the summer. Meanwhile, Luli is still as vain as ever and overshadows her poor brother, Fernando. As a new year begins at High School Mexico (HSM, initially interpreted), the school has announced a "Battle of the Bands" contest hosted by Jesse & Joy. Working against the clock and with limited resources, Cristobal, Mariana, and a few of their peers unite as a band. In a desperate effort, Luli dares the impossible task of separating Cristobal from his friends. But only one band will be the winner; the one who understands that teamwork, personal development, and hard work will not only make them better artists but also better people.

Viva High School Musical: Mexico

2008

The Magic Hour poster
4.4

Minerva, a middle age writer, decides to break the uncertainty that prevents her from creating the novel that for years she has nested in her mind. Unintentionally, she returns to the port where she was born and she encounters a past full of ghosts and chimeras. Paradoxically, she founds herself because of this journey back home, so she begins writing the story of her life, of her own childhood, with its magical past and tragedy.

The Magic Hour

2000

No artwork available
NR

Nico drives her car with difficulty, next to her is the corpse of her sister. Nico crashes the car and she falls in a deep comma. When she wakes up 20 years later, she feels like just before the moment of the guilt, like a misled Minotaur crossing its own labyrinth.

Panoram Project

2006

El brassier de Emma poster
5.8

It was the year of 1962 when I turned 12 and my breasts began to grow. Cecilia, my sister, went to study in Paris, I was left alone with my parents and their problems. I discovered that the breasts made men and women crazy, while mine began to draw the attention of my friends without adults realizing that I needed a bra.

El brassier de Emma

2007

A Good Death Beats a Dull Life poster
5.4

The women of a prosperous provincial family hide unsuspected secrets which range from the entanglements of love to murder for mercy or for greed. The story of these eccentric women combines love, potions, black humor and death.

A Good Death Beats a Dull Life

2006

No artwork available
NR

Raising a number of ethical dilemmas and societal issues, this collection of five dramatic vignettes brings together diverse perspectives on the challenges of Latino life in the United States. A boy comes of age in "Cyclone"; a woman copes with love in "Crazy Life"; a doctor struggles with family duty in "Entre Dos"; a man discovers the dark side of Mexico City in "El Soldado"; and border agents question a girl's origins in "Night Breeze."

Contra Todo: Against All Odds

2006

No artwork available
6.2

Daniel is ten years old and is very ill. His parents need to find a donor for a liver transplant, nobody is willing to help, they have little time and they need to find an alternative.

A Way Out

2003

1990s · 12 titles

Bottle Rocket poster
6.7

Upon his release from a mental hospital following a nervous breakdown, the directionless Anthony joins his friend Dignan, who seems far less sane than the former. Dignan has hatched a harebrained scheme for an as-yet-unspecified crime spree that somehow involves his former boss, the (supposedly) legendary Mr. Henry.

Bottle Rocket

1996

Like Water for Chocolate poster
7.3

Tita is passionately in love with Pedro, but her controlling mother forbids her from marrying him. When Pedro marries her sister, Tita throws herself into her cooking and discovers she can transfer her emotions through the food she prepares, infecting all who eat it with her intense heartbreak.

Like Water for Chocolate

1992

Last Stand at Saber River poster
6.5

As America recovers from the Civil War, one man tries to put the pieces of his life back together but finds himself fighting a new battle on the frontier. Cable is an embittered Confederate soldier who returns from the war to reclaim his Arizona homestead from rebel pioneers who sympathize with the Union war effort.

Last Stand at Saber River

1997

Sugar Town poster
4.6

A look at the lives of several struggling L.A. musicians. Gwen, a singer-songwriter, is on a quest for the big-time. Working as an assistant to a film production designer, Gwen tries to steal her boss' boyfriend, a veteran rock producer. The producer, meanwhile, is trying to orchestrate a comeback for an '80s band.

Sugar Town

1999

Mascara poster
3.6

Mascara is the story of three very different women who rediscover the value of their friendship at a time when their lives are in turmoil. Panic sets in as they approach their thirtieth birthdays and nothing is going according to plan.

Mascara

1999

Optical Fibre poster
4.6

When a Brazilian woman is falsely accused of killing a prominent Mexican politician, Marco, a young journalist, is hired by a stranger to discover the real motive of the crime. He is assisted by his photographer girlfriend María, and they are trapped in a web of torture, prostitution, corruption and power struggle.

Optical Fibre

1998

Land of Milk & Honey poster
5.0

In this psychological drama, Sam (Richard Panebianco) has come to work on a dairy farm in Marin, California. He had been living in New York, but found himself tormented with terrible nightmares. On the farm he works closely with his friend Danny. Not long after his arrival, Sam gets in trouble with Robert, the owner. He is also in trouble with Danny's daughter, Rosie who wanted the job Sam filled. The trouble with the owner comes when Sam begins trying to save poor Rachel, the dairyman's daughter whom Robert keeps locked in the house. Thinking she is being abused, Sam talks to her. She shows her gratitude sexually. Now Sam becomes even more determined to save her. Unfortunately, Rachel isn't as much abused as she is dangerously unstable.

Land of Milk & Honey

1995

Sweet Release poster
6.3

The love secrets of a large family are revealed during a trajinera tour on Xochimilco, culminating in a suicide attempt during a jackpot drawing.

Sweet Release

1997

Viva San Isidro! poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Viva San Isidro!

1995

Serpientes y escaleras poster
6.1

Two young girls used to play Serpents and Ladders. One of them always won, but they are very close friends. When they grow up, the winner is still the lucky one in the game of life, but life can be treacherous...

Serpientes y escaleras

1992

Manhattan Merengue poster
3.7

A realistic look at the life of a young immigrant man who comes to America with the hope of dancing on Broadway.

Manhattan Merengue

1995

Bandits poster
3.7

Amos, a watchmaker, loses his wife due to post-surgery complications. Destroyed by grief, he joins old friends Karl and Maner, former revolutionaries, to kidnap Prime Minister Ullmann, once their companion, to extort money from the state.

Bandits

1995

Series credits