Yolanda Ciani

Acting

Yolanda Ciani

Born 1938-01-26 · Chihuahua, Mexico

Acting credits

The Prodigal Son poster
6.0

Suffering mother is reunited with her son after a long absence... and he turns out to be a real rotter.

The Prodigal Son

1968

The Extra poster
6.9

Cantinflas is a man who hangs around the studios and helps anyone who needs his advice while at the same time envisioning his own versions of how certain scenes should be shot. Both angles provide ample opportunities for very witty, subtle barbs at the foibles of the industry.

The Extra

1962

Suerte en la vida (La Lotería III) poster
6.3

Five stories that tell the tale of winning the lottery in Mexico and how it changes lives.

Suerte en la vida (La Lotería III)

1994

Sor Ye-yé poster
5.1

Maria is a young orphan who lives with her wealthy aunt. Maria sings in a cocktail bar with his friends, who form a rock band, and enjoy the night with them. One of his friends, Ernesto, is in love with her, though she does not seem to feel the same about him. In fact, multiple existential doubts and feel a strange emptiness in his life suddenly drive to enter a convent as a novice, breaking Ernestos' heart. However, with her cheerlul character, open and rebellious, not appear to conform to life in the cloister, and especially have problems with the novices director , who often punished for trying to take the right path. In the convent, which also functions as children's hospital, she meets a doctor with which it takes quite right for the contrast between his two characters, but his way with love and mutual respect.

Sor Ye-yé

1968

El aviso inoportuno poster
7.9

The farce starring Polivoces , creative Mexican comedians duo formed by Enrique Cuenca and Eduardo Manzano, in the roles of characters and Gordolfo Naborita respectively. When the child Gordolfo question the identity of his father, devoted Naborita recounts the story of his family in five innings , located in the contexts of the Stone Age , the Roman Empire , incursions of English pirates in the Caribbean , West American and the space race of the years after World War II .

El aviso inoportuno

1969

No artwork available
6.7

No synopsis available yet.

Napoleoncito

1964

Las chivas rayadas poster
5.7

The comical misadventures of two brothers who are part of the local soccer team and their family.

Las chivas rayadas

1964

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Juana La Cantinera

1986

Departamento de soltero poster
7.0

Newlywed couple are jealous of each other's imagined infidelities.

Departamento de soltero

1971

Escuela de Placer poster
5.1

Heirs of a bankrupt relative decide that the only way they can avoid sacrificing their inherited property to pay debts is by opening a brothel.

Escuela de Placer

1984

No artwork available
6.3

Several prisoners escape with a woman and her brother across the desert.

The Flesh of the Gallows

1973

Santo in the Hotel of Death poster
4.6

Tourists visiting the pyramids in Mexico experience a string of deaths and disappearances while staying at a nearby hotel. Police investigators Fernando and Cornado are assigned to the case and attempt to solve the mystery with the help of reporter (and girlfriend of Fernando) Veronica and the wrestler Santo.

Santo in the Hotel of Death

1963

El vals sin fin poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

El vals sin fin

1972

Cananea poster
6.1

Based on a true story in the American owned Cananea mine. It depicts how the owner profits while the Mexican workers struggle to survive and are exploited for their labour.

Cananea

1978

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

Todo un hombre poster
7.7

Unsympathetic portrait of a man who's too macho to display his feelings.

Todo un hombre

1983

La Bandida poster
5.0

During a lull in the Mexican Revolution when Francisco Madero became president and attempted to implement land reforms, two former revolutionaries are pitted against each other for the love of the same woman.

La Bandida

1963

El viaje poster
6.6

After the death of his mother, a man agrees to travel to Europe as a tourist guide falls in love with the head of the agency.

El viaje

1977

La Hermanita Dinamita poster
6.7

After accidentally hitting a boy with her car, a young woman pretends to be a nurse in order secretly help him to recover.

La Hermanita Dinamita

1970

El mar poster
4.3

Local artists mingle with tourists and each other at a Mexican resort. Mingle, mingle.

El mar

1977

No artwork available
6.0

Alfredo B. Crevenna helms this charming romantic comedy about a pair of skirt-chasers wooing the two lovely daughters of a land baron — who rebuffs the young swains to protect his girls.

Two Cheerful Hawks

1963

A 16 Year Old Young-Woman poster
6.8

Papa hires a "boyfriend" to indulge her in her fantasies of old-fashioned romance.

A 16 Year Old Young-Woman

1963

Todo el horizonte para morir poster
5.8

The Mormon pastor Mateo is obsessed by the murder of his father, which he witnessed as a child, but raises a church and preaches against violence. The gunman Gumaro helps the preacher when two outlaws show up and kills one of them. Four brothers of the dead outlaw attack the preacher's ranch and kill his pregnant wife, his son, a worker and leave the pastor for dead. He recovers, forgets his sermons and sets out to take vengeance on the murderers.

Todo el horizonte para morir

1971

No artwork available
6.7

Young woman's parents don't supervise her activities closely enough; she ends up going to a beatnik nightclub and dancing the twist and getting raped.

Cuando los hijos se pierden

1963

Behind the camera