Cecilia Leger

Cecilia Leger

Movies for Cecilia Leger...

Everyone's Hell so Feared
Title: Everyone's Hell so Feared
Character: Old Nurse
Released: September 9, 1981
Type: Movie
The inner demons of an aspiring writer, whose dissatisfaction has pushed him to alcohol and drugs, lead him to his self-destruction under the guise of confusing political positions.
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Aunt Alejandra
Title: Aunt Alejandra
Character: Neighbor
Released: August 9, 1979
Type: Movie
The arrival of Aunt Alejandra triggers a series of nightmarish events that will put the life of a family at mysterious risk.
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El patrullero 777
Title: El patrullero 777
Character: Vecina de hombre suicida (uncredited)
Released: April 27, 1978
Type: Movie
Follows Diogenes as he goes about his day as a police officer. He's prone to do things the right way, surrounded by a pretty much corrupt & citizen distant police department, & always resolves his duties with a personal method.
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The Passion of Berenice
Title: The Passion of Berenice
Character: Rodrigo's mother
Released: November 18, 1976
Type: Movie
Berenice is a young woman with traditional customs who lives with her godmother in a quiet provincial town. The appearance of Rodrigo in his life will cause him a profound and unusual transformation. The calm without major shocks in Aguascalientes turns out to be just a disguise, an illusory cover-up of what will really happen.
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El ministro y yo
Title: El ministro y yo
Character: Cliente (uncredited)
Released: July 1, 1976
Type: Movie
Mateo Melgarejo is a notary public and scribe for the illiterate people of Santo Domingo, a neighborhood north of Mexico City's Zócalo. A squatter friend asks for his help in negotiating with the land census bureau to regularize a land title. After a great deal of frustration with the government bureaucracy, he writes a letter to the cabinet minister, earning an audience with him. The minister hires Melgarejo to reform the bureau, and the appointee proceeds to lecture the officials on their duties in a democratic society. At the end, he gives up the post, returning to Santo Domingo to help its poor residents.
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Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
Title: Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
Character: Party Guest (uncredited)
Released: August 1, 1974
Type: Movie
An American bartender and his prostitute girlfriend go on a road trip through the Mexican underworld to collect a $1 million bounty on the head of a dead gigolo.
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The Prophet Mimi
Title: The Prophet Mimi
Character: Mujer en iglesia (uncredited)
Released: December 27, 1973
Type: Movie
Childhood trauma and religious repression causes little boy to grow up and murder .
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Castle of Purity
Title: Castle of Purity
Character: María Luisa
Released: May 10, 1973
Type: Movie
A disciplined and sexually driven man forces his family to stay isolated in their home in order to protect them from the “evil nature” of human beings.
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Eva and Dario
Title: Eva and Dario
Character: Clienta tienda
Released: January 25, 1973
Type: Movie
Two young people are in love, but at the same time very confused about sex, love and the world.
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El vals sin fin
Title: El vals sin fin
Character: Anciana en parque
Released: November 30, 1972
Type: Movie
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The Innocent
Title: The Innocent
Character: Mujer en parque
Released: November 2, 1972
Type: Movie
The innocence of a woman due to a mental deficit will become the worst nightmare for her loved ones, after the harsh reality of the outside world made her their victim.
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El águila descalza
Title: El águila descalza
Character: Dona Tencha
Released: December 8, 1971
Type: Movie
Shmuck makes a superhero costume, rides his bike to crime scenes. He gets involved with something big involving US capitalists taking over local Mexican businesses.
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La Chamuscada
Title: La Chamuscada
Released: January 14, 1971
Type: Movie
A sharecropper and his daughter, a swarthy beauty, flee from the hacienda on which they live and join the Mexican Revolution.
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El Topo
Title: El Topo
Character: Señora 4
Released: December 18, 1970
Type: Movie
El Topo decides to confront warrior Masters on a trans-formative desert journey he begins with his 6 year old son, who must bury his childhood totems to become a man.
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The Island of the Dinosaurs
Title: The Island of the Dinosaurs
Character: Misha
Released: March 15, 1967
Type: Movie
A group of scientists in search of lost Atlantis are plane wrecked on an uncharted island full of stock footage monsters fresh from One Million BC. Occasionally we get an original papier mache monster peaking out from behind an alcove, but for the most part this is typical Mexican filmmaking for the period. With Armond Silvestre and Alma Delia Fuentes.
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Napoleoncito
Title: Napoleoncito
Character: (uncredited)
Released: December 3, 1964
Type: Movie
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Campeón del barrio
Title: Campeón del barrio
Character: Doña Encarna
Released: September 24, 1964
Type: Movie
A young man eagerly prepares for triumph as a boxer in a neighborhood gym with the firm intention of escaping poverty to marry his girlfriend, who sings in a nightclub.
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El padrecito
Title: El padrecito
Character: Mujer de Pueblo
Released: September 3, 1964
Type: Movie
Young priest Father Sebastián is assigned to a parish in San Jeronimo el Alto, where he is not welcomed by the community, particularly the resident priest Father Damián. The newcomer gradually earns the trust of the people through humor, but firmly captures their hearts by saving the town fiesta by fighting a bull when the hired torero failed to show. Father Sebastián counsels the townspeople, lecturing them on their duties in a modern society. He used the collection plate to redistribute the town's wealth more evenly.
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Zodiac Signs
Title: Zodiac Signs
Released: February 26, 1964
Type: Movie
A group of young people makes a plan to escape from the problems of their neighborhood.
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El tejedor de milagros
Title: El tejedor de milagros
Character: Mujer en iglesia (uncredited)
Released: December 27, 1962
Type: Movie
Arnulfo is a man weaving baskets. Remedios has given birth in front of the house of a woman and her aid, but the village is spread the word that the child born as a child God and an atheist would think exploit to their advantage the "miracle ".
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The Man and the Monster
Title: The Man and the Monster
Released: October 7, 1959
Type: Movie
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.
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The Woman and the Beast
Title: The Woman and the Beast
Character: Taquillera
Released: July 23, 1959
Type: Movie
Dedicated, saintly nurse has a twin sister who is a Bad Girl.
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Nazarin
Title: Nazarin
Character: Mujer de la piña (uncredited)
Released: June 4, 1959
Type: Movie
After hiding a murderer, a Catholic priest is forced into self-exile and decides to embark on a pilgrimage through the Mexican countryside.
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Love Your Neighbor
Title: Love Your Neighbor
Character: Acompañante de novia de Rodolfo (uncredited)
Released: October 23, 1958
Type: Movie
This film tells several short stories that end up lapsing in the emergency room of a hospital, because it is dedicated to nurses. Cantinflas appears at the end of the film playing the role of Luis, a man who has five daughters and looks forward to a boy, but fate plays a trick and the child dies at birth, but history gives a nice twist and a message of hope.
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Pretty sky!
Title: Pretty sky!
Released: November 25, 1957
Type: Movie
Revolutionist and Army General compete for a woman
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Para siempre
Title: Para siempre
Character: Cocinera
Released: June 22, 1955
Type: Movie
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La sospechosa
Title: La sospechosa
Character: Madre de paciente
Released: June 3, 1955
Type: Movie
Young woman returns home from her travels and discovers that her mother's new husband is up to no good.
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The River and Death
Title: The River and Death
Character: Pueblerina (uncredited)
Released: August 22, 1954
Type: Movie
A useless and bloody vendetta has been going on for ages between two families in this Mexican village. Men, sons, have killed each other for generations, for a so-called conception of honor in a revenge that never ends since it is also triggered by people of the village. Now, today, there are only two sons left, one in each family. One has become a doctor in the big city and his culture is modern. The other last one - of the other family - hasn't left the village and is waiting for the doctor to come "home" as he plans to kill him, to settle this war on this matter of honor once and for all. And the people of the village want blood.
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Orquídeas para mi esposa
Title: Orquídeas para mi esposa
Character: Monja
Released: June 1, 1954
Type: Movie
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Venganza en el circo
Title: Venganza en el circo
Released: February 17, 1954
Type: Movie
Criss-crossing love affairs and jealousies result in a murder attempt.
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Camelia
Title: Camelia
Character: Invitada a cena (uncredited)
Released: February 16, 1954
Type: Movie
A sort of meta riff on Alexandre Dumas fils' novel The Lady of the Camellias (La Dame aux Camélias or Camille) here in Mexican melodrama form involving the doomed love of a bullfighter and a beautiful but ailing actress/courtesan.
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Lo que no se puede perdonar!..
Title: Lo que no se puede perdonar!..
Character: Reverenda madre
Released: October 9, 1953
Type: Movie
Hortensia is almost ready to take her vows at the convent... but she gets distracted by her stepmother's boyfriend. Things do not go well.
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The Three Perfect Married
Title: The Three Perfect Married
Character: Mujer en aeropuerto (uncredited)
Released: June 8, 1953
Type: Movie
Three married couples gather to celebrate the eighteenth anniversary of their marriage mourning the absence of a friend who was best man at all three weddings.
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The Brute
Title: The Brute
Character: Vecina (uncredited)
Released: February 5, 1953
Type: Movie
A tough young man, who helps to kick poor people out of their houses, falls in love with a girl. She lives with her father in the building about to be demolished.
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Mexican Bus Ride
Title: Mexican Bus Ride
Character: Doña Clara (uncredited)
Released: June 25, 1952
Type: Movie
Newlywed Oliverio receives disturbing news that his mother is on her deathbed. He travels to a remote part of Mexico to fetch a lawyer who can sort out her will. Leaving his wife behind, he embarks on a bus ride that’s interrupted by an increasingly absurd series of episodes, including an impromptu birthday celebration; a one-legged man writhing in the mud; come-ons from an insatiable small-town belle, Raquel; and Oliverio’s frequent, Freudian nightmares.
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Mi campeón
Title: Mi campeón
Character: Invitada a fiesta (uncredited)
Released: June 20, 1952
Type: Movie
Catita is a simple and poor woman who dreams of that her son stands out on something important to help her out of his humble. But she opposes to him being boxer, therefore constantly fighting with her husband.
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The Hell of the Poor
Title: The Hell of the Poor
Released: November 1, 1951
Type: Movie
A young woman becomes pregnant but when his boyfriend leaves her she gets a job as a prostitute in order to provide for her child.
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Doña Perfecta
Title: Doña Perfecta
Character: Beata (uncredited)
Released: October 10, 1951
Type: Movie
Liberal farmer Pepe has arrived in Santa Fe to visit his aunt, Dona Perfecta. While he's there, Pepe is eager to teach the traditional-minded townspeople a new way of living. Unfortunately for Pepe the people of Santa Fe aren't eager to embrace change, and when the citizens begin to voice resentment Pepe is forced to seek refuge with his sympathetic aunt. Dona Perfecta is just as traditional as any of the other townspeople though, and only suffers Pepe due to the fact that he is family. When Pepe and his cousin Rosario fall deeply in love, the situation quickly comes to a head.
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Ella y Yo
Title: Ella y Yo
Character: Cocinera (uncredited)
Released: October 2, 1951
Type: Movie
Pedro Muñoz is a womanizer that does not escape one until Irene Garza arrives and makes him to see his luck, while the aunt of her tries to separate them.
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Daughter of Deceit
Title: Daughter of Deceit
Character: Vecina (uncredited)
Released: August 28, 1951
Type: Movie
In the drama, a father, firmly believing that the baby daughter in his arms is not his own, abandons her upon the doorstep of the town drunk. Many years pass, and the man finds himself continually wracked with guilt about deserting her.
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Streetwalker
Title: Streetwalker
Character: Ambassador's wife
Released: June 22, 1951
Type: Movie
In Mexico City, two sisters, Maria and Elena, fight over the love of pimp Rodolfo. Elena escapes her sad marriage to an old banker into Rodolfo's arms. Meanwhile, life is hard for sex worker Maria, who-along with her supportive group of fellow sex workers-must deal with exploitative clients.
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El Siete Machos
Title: El Siete Machos
Character: Invitada a fiesta (uncredited)
Released: February 5, 1951
Type: Movie
Rosario, the niece of the rancher, returns to the ranch after ten years of absence. She takes in Margarito, a worker at the ranch, who is immediately smitten by her. Rosario is rescued from a runaway horse by the Seven Men, an outlaw a la Robin Hood that steals from the rich and gives to the poor. He also happens to be the twin brother of Margarito, unbeknownst to him. The confusion between Margarito and the Seven Men generates great comical situations in the film.
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Wild Love
Title: Wild Love
Character: Señora López (uncredited)
Released: April 6, 1950
Type: Movie
Alma leaves Panama to go live with her aunt Antonia and with Manuel, her husband. There she meets Julio, who tries to woo her.
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Confidencias de un ruletero
Title: Confidencias de un ruletero
Character: Amante casada de Rigoberto (uncredited)
Released: November 16, 1949
Type: Movie
Taxi driver takes the wrong passenger at the wrong time and gets caught up in a murder investigation.
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El Mago
Title: El Mago
Character: Invitada a cena (uncredited)
Released: May 4, 1949
Type: Movie
A slapstick fantasy of the amorous adventures of a magician a la Cantinflas.
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You the Rich
Title: You the Rich
Character: Mujer en club (uncredited)
Released: December 31, 1948
Type: Movie
Pepe el Toro is married to Celia la Chorreada and they have two children.
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The Three Garcia
Title: The Three Garcia
Character: Invitada a fiesta (uncredited)
Released: August 15, 1947
Type: Movie
Ruled by a tough grandma, the Garcías are three charro cousins who fall in love with young American-born Lupita and fight for her love until grandma quiets them.
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Enamorada
Title: Enamorada
Character: Invitada a boda (uncredited)
Released: December 25, 1946
Type: Movie
In Mexican Revolution times, a guerrilla general and his troops take the conservative town of Cholula, near by Mexico City. As the revolutionaries mistreat the town's riches, General Reyes falls for beautiful and wild Beatriz Peñafiel, the daughter of one of the town's richest men.
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The Spirit's Canyon
Title: The Spirit's Canyon
Character: Modista (uncredited)
Released: February 25, 1943
Type: Movie
The love between María Ángela and Fernando is impossible because there's an ancient history of hate between their families. His father killed hers, and other family members have killed each other for years. When María Ángela's grandfather finds she's in love with Fernando, he frames the young man and forces her to marry Manuel. Maria Ángela finds that Manuel doesn't love her and together plan her escape with Fernando. But things go wrong and the lovers find their destiny in The Spirit's Canyon.