Alma Muriel

Acting

Alma Muriel

Born — Died

1951-10-20 — 2014-01-05

Place of birth

Mexico City, Mexico

Known for

Acting

Credits

49 titles

Alma Muriel del Sordo (20 October 1951 – 5 January 2014), simply known as Alma Muriel, was a Mexican actress who appeared in plays, films, and telenovelas.

Known for

Film credits

1980s · 15 titles

Violent Stories poster
5.9

Five surreal short stories make up this Mexican anthology film.

Violent Stories

1985

D.F./Distrito Federal poster
6.3

Anthology film, six little anecdotes about life in the big city.

D.F./Distrito Federal

1981

Barcelona sur poster
4.4

Obsessed with finding her old boyfriend, Gumer, a 25-year-old girl, is released from jail in Barcelona, one of Europe's most sought-after port cities for drug trafficking and prostitution. Charo, her best friend, tries to help her, although she is not free, since depends on her pimp "Toni". But Gumer will persuade Charo to abandon Toni and form, along with other friends, a band to start businesses on their own.

Barcelona sur

1981

A Married Woman poster
6.0

Irene is a young housewife and mother who tries to raise her young family, love her husband and keep her home all the while studying her masters' degree. Mario, her husband, is a good man, but he's tied by convention. When she has a strange mishap one day, her domestic life is catapulted in a whirl of horror and violence that will tear the fabric of her very existence apart.

A Married Woman

1982

El Secreto poster
6.0

Mexican feature film

El Secreto

1980

Luna de sangre poster
6.7

Mexican feature film

Luna de sangre

1984

Marcados Por El Destino poster
6.3

The film is a social drama that follows the characters' challenges as they try to make it in the city, only to find their dreams dashed.

Marcados Por El Destino

1984

El tonto que hacía milagros poster
6.3

A movie projectionist discovers that he has magical powers.

El tonto que hacía milagros

1984

Mar brava poster
6.3

Mingo, a kid whose father and brother have disappeared in shipwrecks, finds an amnesic man lying on the beach. Might he be St. Elmo?

Mar brava

1983

El preso No. 9 poster
5.5

Domestic melodrama about infidelity set against an illegal immigration/"making a better life" background.

El preso No. 9

1981

Burlesque poster
5.1

Recreation of a nightclub's burlesque show, alternating between dance numbers and bits of narrative involving performers backstage or audience members.

Burlesque

1980

Robachicos poster
6.3

One woman and a detective are looking for lost children, in México City.

Robachicos

1986

Teatro Follies poster
5.8

Young dancer joins the cast of a musical-comedy production, falls in love with young comic actor.

Teatro Follies

1983

Semilla de muerte poster
5.8

No synopsis available yet.

Semilla de muerte

1980

No artwork available
6.0

Mexican feature film

Territorio sin ley

1984

1970s · 12 titles

Free Love poster
5.2

Two single women share an apartment, work together, and sometimes swap boyfriends. None of their romantic attachments seem quite as stable or enduring as their friendship.

Free Love

1978

Why Was I Born a Woman? poster
8.2

A family gathers to celebrate Mother's Day, that day a woman discuss many problems about her woman condition; husband, children and grandchildren will hear she tired and overwhelmed silenced by submission and obedience. Analysis of the family and gender roles.

Why Was I Born a Woman?

1970

Lo mejor de Teresa poster
6.5

Ambitious young woman decides to leave her backwards hometown and move to Mexico City to study for a scientific degree.

Lo mejor de Teresa

1977

El valle de los miserables poster
4.3

In 1909, former judge Cristóbal Zamarripa owns Valle Nacional, a tobacco plantation where he exploits workers with the support of the tyrant Porfirio Díaz, who sends him political prisoners as slaves. The others are lured with the promise of high wages, but end up owing everything to the company store. All are tortured, raped, or killed when they protest. Another landowner whose brother was killed by Zamarripa and who falls in love with one of his daughters is going to be punished, but he flees and becomes a revolutionary.

El valle de los miserables

1975

Confesiones de una adolescente poster
5.6

Orphan girl has a secret benefactor. When she's old enough to leave the orphanage and enter the real world, she's determined to track him down. Also: having a first boyfriend, yippee!

Confesiones de una adolescente

1970

Cuando tejen las arañas poster
5.6

Young woman tries to discover the family secret that led to her father being murdered, and she gradually is manipulated into a lesbian relationship.

Cuando tejen las arañas

1979

Rosario poster
5.7

Rosario and Carlos, husbands, are part of a theater company. In a scene of jealousy, she should shoot and kill him. Carlos has had an affair with Zulma, another acriz of the company. On opening day, in the final scene, Rosario accidentally kills her husband. Someone change the gun ...

Rosario

1971

Más allá de la violencia poster
5.7

The young pacifist Claudio is saddened to see some children playing war. He goes with a group of rebels who make fun of him and invite him to participate in a motorcycle race where the prize is a girl. Ál wins the race with the help of Rafael, the head of the band, and decides to buy to join the group, on a trip they meet with some hippies led by a psychologist who opposes drugs. Two of the gang members, Gabriel and Bernardo, attack one of the girls; the hippies in revenge violate Mimi and sa Julia, for which Bernardo kills a hippie. Claudio fights with him but Mimi intervenes and receives a stab aimed at Claudio. Ál recalls that Rafael was a brother and a lover of her. The police arrest the hippies and scold the parents for the behavior of the young people.

Más allá de la violencia

1971

National Mechanics poster
7.4

A mechanic takes his family to a car race and a series of events occur which brings problems, betrayals, violence and the unexpected death of an elderly person.

National Mechanics

1972

Cool Dad poster
6.1

Fiftyish head of household tries to hang onto his fun-loving youth while imposing his most rigid value judgements on his young-adult children.

Cool Dad

1971

The Corrupted poster
5.8

Hotel with a dozen stories unfolding simultaneously: man with brain tumor, child with leukemia, drug-traffic magnate and his paid escort, rich widow and her paid escort, lesbian seduction scenario, etc etc...

The Corrupted

1971

No artwork available
4.4

No synopsis available yet.

El imponente

1973

Series credits

La rosa de Guadalupe poster
7.1

Stories about people who get into problems who use the help of Virgin Mary and where a rose appears and their problems are solved.

La rosa de Guadalupe

2008

Vivir enamorada poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Vivir enamorada

1982

Burning for Revenge poster
7.5

Fuego en la sangre is a telenovela that began transmissions on January 21, 2008, through Mexico's Canal de las Estrellas network. Starring Adela Noriega, Eduardo Yáñez, Diana Bracho, and Guillermo García Cantú. It is the Mexican remake of the Colombian soap operas Las Aguas Mansas and Pasion de Gavilanes. The theme song called "Para Siempre" is sung by Vicente Fernández. The telenovela received TVyNovelas Award for Best Telenovela, in 2009.

Burning for Revenge

2008

Principessa poster
7.0

Principessa is a Mexican telenovela produced by Valentín Pimstein for Televisa in 1984.

Principessa

1984

El extraño retorno de Diana Salazar poster
7.6

El extraño retorno de Diana Salazar is a 1988 Mexican telenovela starring Lucía Méndez and Jorge Martinez. It is an unusual example of a telenovela which addresses supernatural topics.

El extraño retorno de Diana Salazar

1988

Yara poster
8.0

Yara is an indigenous woman who comes to Mexico City in search of a better quality of life. Yara suffered the contempt of society and the people around her.

Yara

1979

Dark Fate poster
7.2

Mariana lives with her father, Atílio, and is motherless. He is a very powerful man, and he keeps a big secret: Mariana is not his biological daughter, Atílio has two sisters: Isabel, the oldest, a good and caring woman, who raised Mariana and loves her as if she were her own daughter; Márcia, the youngest, arrogant and very vain, has a cold heart, has never fallen in love with anyone and always mistreated Mariana, until a boy called Inácio Lugo Navarro arrives in the city, very attractive, who uses a false name and is looking for his roots and revenge.

Dark Fate

2003

Yo compro esa mujer poster
9.8

In the early 20th century, the Montes de Oca family—comprising two sisters and a cousin—finds itself entangled in an intense love triangle. Matilde is in love with her cousin Rodrigo, who loves the other sister, Branca Flor; she, in turn, loves a humble fisherman. Upon discovering this, Rodrigo accuses the fisherman of theft, leading to his arrest. The lovestruck cousin’s malice knows no bounds; learning that Branca Flor is carrying the fisherman's child, he waits for the baby to be born so he can make it disappear.

Yo compro esa mujer

1990

Unforgettable poster
7.2

Nunca te olvidaré is a Mexican telenovela produced by Juan Osorio for Televisa in 1999. It is based on a novel by Caridad Bravo Adams and starring Edith González, Fernando Colunga and antagonistic interests of Alma Muriel, Eugenia Cauduro and Humberto Elizondo.

Unforgettable

1999

El Noveno mandamiento poster
6.1

El Noveno Mandamiento is a Mexican soap opera produced by Lucero Suárez in 2001. As of June 24th, 2013, Unimas is broadcasting 2 hour episodes of this soap opera.

El Noveno mandamiento

2001

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Al rojo vivo

1980

Atrapada poster
8.0

Atrapada is a Mexican telenovela produced by Ernesto Alonso for Televisa and originally broadcast on Canal de las Estrellas from August 19, 1991, to April 24, 1992. Created by Carmen Daniels and Liliana Abud, with literary editing by Tere Medina, the telenovela stars Christian Bach and Héctor Bonilla. The story begins when Antonio Montero, the wealthy president of the Montermex company, is found dead in what appears to be a suicide. Convinced that her father was actually murdered, his daughter Camila sets out to uncover the truth. As her investigation unfolds, she becomes entangled in a web of family secrets, betrayal, romance, and murder, where everyone around her becomes a suspect.

Atrapada

1991

Desencuentro poster
7.0

Desencuentro is a Mexican telenovela produced by Ernesto Alonso for Televisa and originally broadcast on Canal de las Estrellas from November 17, 1997, to April 3, 1998. It is based on the story El enemigo by Caridad Bravo Adams and Luis Moreno, with adaptation by Liliana Abud, Carmen Daniels, and Jorge Lozano Soriano. The telenovela stars Daniela Castro, Juan Ferrara, Ernesto Laguardia, and Alma Muriel. The story follows Victoria San Román, a young woman whose privileged life is shattered after the sudden death of her father leaves her family bankrupt. Believing that powerful businessman Andrés Rivera is connected to her father's downfall, Victoria travels to Mexico City determined to uncover the truth. There she meets Luis Torres, a widowed firefighter and devoted father, and finds herself torn between two very different men as love, revenge, family secrets, and deception shape her destiny.

Desencuentro

1997

La Culpa poster
6.0

La Culpa is a Mexican telenovela produced by Yuri Breña and Pinkye Morris for Televisa and originally broadcast on Canal de las Estrellas from August 12 to October 11, 1996. Created by Nora Alemán, with literary editing by Marco García, the telenovela stars Tiaré Scanda and Raúl Araiza. Due to low ratings, it was shortened to 45 episodes. The story follows Isabel Lagarde, the adopted daughter of a wealthy family, who falls in love with Miguel Nava, the son of a former boxing champion. Their lives are torn apart after Miguel becomes involved in the accident that kills Isabel's sister, Juana Inés. As grief, suspicion, and revenge threaten to destroy their relationship, Isabel and Miguel must uncover the truth behind the tragedy and identify the real person responsible.

La Culpa

1996

Cómo duele callar poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Cómo duele callar

1987

Los años felices poster
7.5

No synopsis available yet.

Los años felices

1984

Amar sin límites poster
6.4

Amar sin límites is a Mexican telenovela that was produced by Televisa and broadcast on that company's El Canal de las Estrellas. The program debuted on 16 October 2006 at 7:30 pm; the first ten episodes were only thirty minutes long, with the program expanding to an hour long on 30 October and taking over the 7:00 time slot previously occupied by Duelo de Pasiones. After 135 episodes, the telenovela completed its run on 20 April 2007, and was subsequently replaced with Muchachitas como tú. In the United States, Amar sin límites aired on Univisión from 17 July 2007 through 18 January 2008 at 8:00 pm. This limited-run serial is a remake of the 2003 Argentine telenovela Resistiré; it is the first such remake, as a second adaptation, Watch Over Me, was created for MyNetworkTV in the United States and debuted in December 2006. Amar sin límites stars as protagonists Karyme Lozano and Valentino Lanús, whose characters, Diego and Azul, endure a tortured romance that becomes entangled in the world of organized crime thanks to Azul's fiancé, Mauricio, portrayed by René Strickler.

Amar sin límites

2006

No artwork available
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Marcha nupcial

1977

Ven conmigo poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Ven conmigo

1975