Martha Roth

Acting

Martha Roth

Born — Died

1932-05-29 — 2016-10-07

Place of birth

Padua, Veneto, Italy

Known for

Acting

Credits

50 titles

Martha Roth (29 May 1932 – 7 October 2016) was an Italian-born Mexican film actress. She became a star during the Golden age of Mexican cinema.

Known for

Distilling Love poster
7.7

A romance blossoms between a young country woman and the grandson of the late owner of a tequila company. The young man promises to return and marry his girlfriend once he finishes his studies abroad, unaware that she has become pregnant.

Distilling Love

2007

Gotita de Amor poster
7.6

Isabel is abandoned at the door of an orphanage a few days after birth. There she grows between the jokes of the other girls and the mistreatment of the harsh director called "Justa." One day her classmates show her a false birth certificate where it says that her father's name is Jesús García, that he is alive and resides in Mexico City, so she, with the hope of having a family, escapes from the orphanage towards Mexico City to look for her supposed father.

Gotita de Amor

1998

En carne propia poster
6.5

The year is 1972: Magdalena Dumont and Octávio Muriel are celebrating the birthday of their daughter, little Estefanía, at a party in the family mansion. However, this party is merely a backdrop and an opportunity to commit a crime.

En carne propia

1990

El pecado de Oyuki poster
7.8

El Pecado de Oyuki is a Mexican telenovela produced by Televisa in 1988. It was based on an original story by Yolanda Vargas Dulché, who also adapted the screenplay for television. The original comic book series was in the style of the foto-novela. For the role of Oyuki, the photographer selected the Mexican Japanese Sachiko Tsuchiya. Born in Tepic, Nayarit, she became the most recognizable Asian Mexican of her time. The telenovela was shown in the United States in 1988 through Univision. Dulché's story was also adapted for Brazilian television in 1967 and as a comic published starting April 11, 1975 by Grupo Editorial Vid. The Brazilian version was called "Yoshiko, um poema de amor" and starred actors Luis Gustavo and Rosa Miake.

El pecado de Oyuki

1988

The Outsider poster
6.9

Rodrigo Junquera finds out he is close to death, he decides to ask the nanny of his young child, Virginia Martínez, a beautiful and honest woman, to marry him with the intention of preparing the road so she can look after his children when he's gone. Virginia has to deal with the contempt of Rodrigo's children who acuse her of being an ambitious woman who married their father for his money. Virginia is in love with Rodrigo's eldest son, Carlos Alberto, who has come to mistreat her after finding out she married his dad.

The Outsider

2001

Mi Pequeña Traviesa poster
7.0

Mi Pequeña Traviesa is a Mexican youth and family telenovela produced and directed by Pedro Damián for Televisa and originally broadcast on Canal de las Estrellas from December 8, 1997, to April 24, 1998. It is an adaptation of the Argentine telenovela Me llaman Gorrión, created by Abel Santa Cruz. The telenovela stars Michelle Vieth and Héctor Soberón. The story follows Julia González, a young woman whose dreams of pursuing a professional career are interrupted after her father is left paralyzed in an accident. To support her family, she disguises herself as a boy in order to find work. Along the way, she falls in love with Alberto Miranda, and together they must overcome social differences, family conflicts, and the many obstacles that stand in the way of their happiness.

Mi Pequeña Traviesa

1997

Film credits

1970s · 3 titles

1950s · 24 titles

Una gringuita en México poster
6.0

A USA girl decides to vacation in Mexico and experience first hand all the stereotypical scenes she's seen in movies. When she gets there, everything isn't all charros and bandidos, though -- surprise, surprise!

Una gringuita en México

1951

Love Me Because I Die poster
6.2

No synopsis available yet.

Love Me Because I Die

1953

The Black Pirates poster
4.9

Pirates searching for treasure take over a small town in Central America where they believe the loot is buried, but discover that a church has been built over the spot. They force the townspeople to dig for it, but there are more surprises in store for them than they counted on.

The Black Pirates

1954

Se le pasó la mano poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Se le pasó la mano

1952

El derecho de nacer poster
6.9

In Santiago de Cuba in the early 1950s, history begins. A young woman of high society becomes pregnant with a false love, her father orders his black maid (Dolores) to kill the baby (Alberto), but she flees to Havana where Alberto becomes a renowned doctor.

El derecho de nacer

1952

The Sea and You poster
6.4

A man long thought dead returns to his fishing village home to find the love he left married to the village’s top power broker, a man who control’s the fish production with an iron fist.

The Sea and You

1952

Y si ella volviera (Guantanamera) poster
6.3

Sonia, a school teacher, is excited about her new post in the Cuban beach town of Caibarien since her childhood friend Guillermo lives there. However she finds Guillermo a tormented soul and evil lurks in town.

Y si ella volviera (Guantanamera)

1957

The Man and the Monster poster
6.4

A failed pianist sells his soul to the devil in return for his becoming the greatest musician in the world. The catch: every time he plays he turns into a horrible monster.

The Man and the Monster

1959

The Case of the Wee Murdered Woman poster
6.8

Ghosts and premonitions; a married woman discovers the true love of her life while being plagued with supernatural phenomena relating to her imminent murder. It's a comedy.

The Case of the Wee Murdered Woman

1955

Romance de fieras poster
6.8

Newly-graduated lawyer gets caught up in the personal drama surrounding a rich industrialist and his sociopathic son.

Romance de fieras

1954

Cuando se quiere se quiere poster
5.7

No synopsis available yet.

Cuando se quiere se quiere

1959

El jinete poster
6.0

Farmhand and plantation-owner's daughter fall in love, but class differences and stuff.

El jinete

1954

Meat in Prison poster
6.2

Pedro is found guilty of murder after accidentally killing a friend's husband. His own family will face difficult times, as will he when he entrusts his freedom to the one he shouldn't.

Meat in Prison

1952

Nunca debieron amarse poster
5.8

Ranchera romance; two young lovers whose families are hostile to each other.

Nunca debieron amarse

1951

El monstruo en la sombra poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

El monstruo en la sombra

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

Massacre poster
5.4

Lawmen and their captured gunrunners take refuge at a deserted mission to fend off attacking Indians. Western.

Massacre

1956

Sucedió en Acapulco poster
6.3

No synopsis available yet.

Sucedió en Acapulco

1953

Engagement ring poster
5.8

Newlyweds struggle with career issues and poverty.

Engagement ring

1951

Serenata en Acapulco poster
6.5

Three broke-ass promoters ingratiate themselves with the owners of a hotel aand a rich guest, all with an eye toward putting on a show.

Serenata en Acapulco

1951

Forgotten Faces poster
6.7

A woman looses her baby girl in a train accident but, years later, the girl's father reveals that the baby survived and was raised by him with two other daughters.

Forgotten Faces

1952

Wild Heart poster
6.3

On the Caribbean island of Martinique, two half-brothers are involved in the entanglements of a frivolous and calculating young woman.

Wild Heart

1956

No artwork available
6.2

"Confirmed bachelor" quits playing the field and gets married.

A Media Luz Los Tres

1958

Las coronelas poster
5.5

Two young women 'forced' to masquerade as soldiers in military troop.

Las coronelas

1959

1940s · 7 titles

Series credits

Distilling Love poster
7.7

A romance blossoms between a young country woman and the grandson of the late owner of a tequila company. The young man promises to return and marry his girlfriend once he finishes his studies abroad, unaware that she has become pregnant.

Distilling Love

2007

Gotita de Amor poster
7.6

Isabel is abandoned at the door of an orphanage a few days after birth. There she grows between the jokes of the other girls and the mistreatment of the harsh director called "Justa." One day her classmates show her a false birth certificate where it says that her father's name is Jesús García, that he is alive and resides in Mexico City, so she, with the hope of having a family, escapes from the orphanage towards Mexico City to look for her supposed father.

Gotita de Amor

1998

En carne propia poster
6.5

The year is 1972: Magdalena Dumont and Octávio Muriel are celebrating the birthday of their daughter, little Estefanía, at a party in the family mansion. However, this party is merely a backdrop and an opportunity to commit a crime.

En carne propia

1990

El pecado de Oyuki poster
7.8

El Pecado de Oyuki is a Mexican telenovela produced by Televisa in 1988. It was based on an original story by Yolanda Vargas Dulché, who also adapted the screenplay for television. The original comic book series was in the style of the foto-novela. For the role of Oyuki, the photographer selected the Mexican Japanese Sachiko Tsuchiya. Born in Tepic, Nayarit, she became the most recognizable Asian Mexican of her time. The telenovela was shown in the United States in 1988 through Univision. Dulché's story was also adapted for Brazilian television in 1967 and as a comic published starting April 11, 1975 by Grupo Editorial Vid. The Brazilian version was called "Yoshiko, um poema de amor" and starred actors Luis Gustavo and Rosa Miake.

El pecado de Oyuki

1988

The Outsider poster
6.9

Rodrigo Junquera finds out he is close to death, he decides to ask the nanny of his young child, Virginia Martínez, a beautiful and honest woman, to marry him with the intention of preparing the road so she can look after his children when he's gone. Virginia has to deal with the contempt of Rodrigo's children who acuse her of being an ambitious woman who married their father for his money. Virginia is in love with Rodrigo's eldest son, Carlos Alberto, who has come to mistreat her after finding out she married his dad.

The Outsider

2001

Mi Pequeña Traviesa poster
7.0

Mi Pequeña Traviesa is a Mexican youth and family telenovela produced and directed by Pedro Damián for Televisa and originally broadcast on Canal de las Estrellas from December 8, 1997, to April 24, 1998. It is an adaptation of the Argentine telenovela Me llaman Gorrión, created by Abel Santa Cruz. The telenovela stars Michelle Vieth and Héctor Soberón. The story follows Julia González, a young woman whose dreams of pursuing a professional career are interrupted after her father is left paralyzed in an accident. To support her family, she disguises herself as a boy in order to find work. Along the way, she falls in love with Alberto Miranda, and together they must overcome social differences, family conflicts, and the many obstacles that stand in the way of their happiness.

Mi Pequeña Traviesa

1997

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

Los años pasan poster
8.5

No synopsis available yet.

Los años pasan

1985

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Nosotras las mujeres

1981