Marta Aura

Marta Aura

Born: April 9, 1942
Died: July 8, 2022
in Mexico City, Mexico
Marta Aura Palacios was a renowned Mexican actress. She was born on September 4, 1942 in Mexico City and would remain active in the entertainment world for more than 60 years. She studied acting at the National Academy of Fine Arts, making her debut with the play Judith, presented at the Teatro La Capilla in 1959 and later she would be a very active member of the National Theater Company (CNT).

Movies for Marta Aura...

Courage
Title: Courage
Character: Alma
Released: December 31, 2021
Type: Movie
A story about aging, motherhood and life. About looking back and not understanding how you got to where you are, about wounds so deep that all the energy is spent on not wanting to see them. An intimate drama where, through fiction, the director delves into the wounds of his own family.
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Honest Days
Title: Honest Days
Character: Natalia Miranda
Released: September 18, 2021
Type: Movie
When she is fired from her only job in a series of infomercials, Amanda, an actress with little talent and whose film career is forgotten, decides to resume her career in the midst of an economic crisis that leads her to a questionnaire about her vocation, but also, that the shore to rethink its responsibility as the mother of Nicolás, a 7-year-old boy to whom she had not paid much attention until then.
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The Cousin
Title: The Cousin
Character: Tía Virginia
Released: February 2, 2018
Type: Movie
A married woman, who's husband leaves her alone way too many times, is seduced by a junior spoiled young man, leading her into the fullfillment of her unsatisfied needs.
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4 Moons
Title: 4 Moons
Character: Petra
Released: March 21, 2014
Type: Movie
Four interwoven stories about love and self-acceptance: An eleven year-old boy struggles to keep secret the attraction he feels towards his male cousin. Two former childhood friends reunite and start a relationship that gets complicated due to one of them’s fear of getting caught. A gay long lasting relationship is in jeopardy when a third man comes along. An old family man is obsessed with a young male prostitute and tries to raise the money to afford the experience.
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Family Blood
Title: Family Blood
Character: Estela
Released: May 24, 2013
Type: Movie
Two young people, who knew each other in a previous life, meet again. Alejandro recognizes Yolanda, who is from a strange family that has the disadvantage of living a very long time, which is also to blames for the mysterious disappearance of his father. Alejandro embarks on an adventure to delve into the secret of his fathers’ death and in the meantime, wonder if he’s capable of abandon his life to fulfill his destiny.
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The Walls Talk
Title: The Walls Talk
Character: voz - Casa Espíritu
Released: December 7, 2012
Type: Movie
A tragic and epic love that transcends time and generations unites Maria and Javier forever. During important periods in Mexico (The War of Independence, the Revolution and current times) these souls play out their destiny facing political squabbles, social pressures, family hatred and historical battles, seeking to make a relationship flower which seems fated to die.
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The Reasons of the Heart
Title: The Reasons of the Heart
Character: Emilia's mother
Released: October 7, 2011
Type: Movie
In a reinterpretation of Madame Bovary set on contemporary Mexico City, Emilia, a middle class housewife, tries to deal with the monotony of her life. One day, she loses the two things which makes everything beareable: her lover and her credit card.
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El baile de San Juan
Title: El baile de San Juan
Character: Genoveva
Released: October 22, 2010
Type: Movie
It is the final decade of the 18th century in New Spain. We are in Mexico City, inhabited by local adventurers, native inhabitants and Europeans of every kind. In these surroundings, our characters, Jerónimo Marani, court choreographer, Giovanni, his mestizo son, and Victoria, the daughter of the most prominent family in the city, who is in love with Giovanni, live a life of love and aversion, court intrigue and popular grievances, Viceregal dogmas and dreams of freedom. Mexico´s war of independence is only a few years in the future.
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Becloud
Title: Becloud
Character: Josefina
Released: June 25, 2010
Type: Movie
Alejandro Gerber Bicecci's "Vaho" (Becloud) tells the story of three childhood friends, Andres, Felipe, and Jose, and their lives in a dusty, run down corner of Mexico City. The boys were inseparable until they witnessed a tragedy that haunts them to the present day. The tragedy shaped each boy differently, and had a profound effect on their lives.
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The Book of Stone
Title: The Book of Stone
Character: Soledad
Released: April 19, 2009
Type: Movie
Remake of Carlos Enrique Taboada's classic film from 1969, IMDB says: "Julieta is a young child psychologist hired by millionaire Eugenio Ruvalcaba, to work with his only daughter, Sylvia, who has severe emotional problems, while staying in their isolated island mansion. Once there, she finds out there's much more to Sylvia's imaginary friend than what everybody knows... and the results can be horrifying..."
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Ella(s)
Title: Ella(s)
Released: January 1, 2009
Type: Movie
Documentary about the life of Mercedes Pinto by three women, student, journalist and writer, go in search of another woman: Mercedes Pinto Canarian writer. The film recovers the memory of one of the most important figures in the defense of the rights of women, to get into what their struggles were vital: gender violence, the social status of women ...
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Música de ambulancia
Title: Música de ambulancia
Released: January 1, 2009
Type: Movie
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Tear This Heart Out
Title: Tear This Heart Out
Character: Josefina
Released: September 12, 2008
Type: Movie
A young girl recounts her girlhood and eventual marriage to a general of the Mexican revolution. by one of the most outstanding writers of the new feminist Mexican literature, it is at once a haunting novel of one woman's life and a powerful account of post-revolutionary Mexico from a female perspective.
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Mosquita muerta
Title: Mosquita muerta
Character: Mamá de Sofía
Released: October 26, 2007
Type: Movie
Marcelo and Sofía love each other, but both suspect the other of infidelity. Marcelo, a film director, accidentally discovers condoms in Sofía’s purse. They are really for Marcelo’s younger sister, but he thinks the discovery confirms his suspicions and keeps one as evidence. Sofía discovers the condom in Marcelo’s wallet and takes for granted that he is cheating on her. Pepe, Marcelo’s cousin, pretends to be him to impress a girl, further complicating the mix up.
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Malos hábitos
Title: Malos hábitos
Character: Chelo
Released: March 24, 2007
Type: Movie
Matilde is a nun convinced that faith moves mountains. She secretly begins a mystic fasting to end what she considers to be the second great flood. Elena is a thin and fashion-conscious woman ashamed of her daughter's chubbiness. She's willing to do the impossible to make her daughter Linda thin so Linda will look like a little princess on the day she receives her first communion. At the same time Elena's husband Gustavo - a professor of architecture - cannot cope with his wife's bones poking him during intimate moments so he turns his attention to a buxom female student with a hearty appetite.
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Paper Cemetery
Title: Paper Cemetery
Released: February 6, 2007
Type: Movie
A thriller about four young people who investigate the murder of a woman who worked in the National Archive. They discover that she had stolen documents incriminating an ex president and a high level police officer involved in crimes during the Dirty War.
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Si muero lejos de ti
Title: Si muero lejos de ti
Released: January 1, 2007
Type: Movie
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Title: Marina
Character: Guadalupe "Lupe" Tovar
Released: October 16, 2006
Type: TV
Marina is a beautiful, sweet young woman who makes a living driving a tourist boat. Her simple life transforms when her mother dies unexpectedly and she inherits a large family fortune. Marina moves into an elegant mansion owned by the wealthy Alarcón Morales family, who treat her with evil, scorn and rejection.
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Crazy Carnival
Title: Crazy Carnival
Character: Caricoña
Released: March 4, 2006
Type: Movie
In a seedy brothel, their frustrations parade: A poet who has never published, a revolutionary who came late to history, a provocative angel, a bureaucrat with delusions of a dancer, a greedy Chinese man and his timorous wife, Monica, a whore with low professional esteem, a group of prostitutes of dubious sensuality and, finally, a priest with a stench of holiness and another with redeeming instincts. But a stranger with the air of a princess appears, and upsets the balance of the establishment.
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Scars
Title: Scars
Released: September 16, 2005
Type: Movie
The story of a dysfunctional couple, whose problems will inevitably deteriorate their marriage and their son's life.
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Malos Presagios
Title: Malos Presagios
Released: January 1, 2005
Type: Movie
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El día menos pensado
Title: El día menos pensado
Released: January 1, 2005
Type: Movie
What would happen if the world's largest city ran out of clean water? The situation is portrayed through the eyes of a mature couple who are reluctant to leave their home and who defend their last drops of water at gunpoint.
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Adán Y Eva (Todavía)
Title: Adán Y Eva (Todavía)
Released: July 16, 2004
Type: Movie
Having partaken in Eden not only of the tree of knowledge, but of the tree of life eternal as well, Adam and Eve became immortal and now find themselves wandering throughout the world in a journey of extreme sexuality and boredom.
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Leftie
Title: Leftie
Released: February 20, 2003
Type: Movie
Futuristic movie about Alejandro, a gifted left-handed child marble player who must win a competition as the entire town's hopes - and money - rest on him.
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Y Tu Mamá También
Title: Y Tu Mamá También
Character: Enriqueta 'Queta' Allende
Released: June 8, 2001
Type: Movie
In Mexico, two teenage boys and an attractive older woman embark on a road trip and learn a thing or two about life, friendship, sex, and each other.
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Written on the Body of Night
Title: Written on the Body of Night
Released: May 26, 2001
Type: Movie
A look back at a director's life with his neurotic mother.
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Such is Life
Title: Such is Life
Released: September 14, 2000
Type: Movie
After her husband leaves her for a younger woman, Julia plans her revenge with the help of her grandmother.
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Title: Golpe bajo
Character: Lupita
Released: May 29, 2000
Type: TV
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Azar
Title: Azar
Released: January 1, 2000
Type: Movie
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Divine
Title: Divine
Released: September 16, 1998
Type: Movie
"La Nueva Jerusalem" is a small community of believers lead by Papá Basilio and Mamá Dorita. They're waiting for the second coming of Christ, so they've abandoned the world, searching for a new spiritual life. Mamá Dorita sees in young Tomasa the signals of the chosen one. The young girl will be the new leader in "La Nueva Jerusalem".
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The First Night
Title: The First Night
Released: March 27, 1998
Type: Movie
In the middle of a city facing a new century, a group of friends between the ages of 15 and 18 live out the adventures, deceptions and anxiety of "The First Night."
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Between Pancho Villa and a Naked Woman
Title: Between Pancho Villa and a Naked Woman
Character: 2da esposa de Adrián
Released: April 11, 1996
Type: Movie
Gina is a modern business woman in her late forties, she has a lover named Adrian, who she sees once in a while just to have sex; they are both atracted to the historic figure of Pancho Villa, while he admires his power, she admires his virility. As Gina helps Adrian (who is a journalist) to write a book about Pancho Villa, she discovers the similarity between Villa's relation to women to that of Adrian and hers. She gets sick of only having sex, and when she decides to get married with him and have a baby, he escapes to buy cigarrettes and gets lost for three months. Gina forgets about him and gets a new boyfriend (half the age she is), and when Adrian tries to get her back and she refuses him and humiliates him, the one and only Pancho Villa appears as his machista conscience ready to do anything to get Gina back.
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Tres minutos en la oscuridad
Title: Tres minutos en la oscuridad
Released: January 1, 1996
Type: Movie
Four childhood friends decide to play a prank on an aunt of one of the four. Two enter the house and two others remain waiting in the car. When the alarm goes off, the two waiting in the car escape, leaving the other two to escape on their own. After that, the friends begin distrusting each other wondering what really happened during those three minutes in the dark inside the house.
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On the Air
Title: On the Air
Character: Madre de Laura
Released: December 8, 1995
Type: Movie
Alberto is a disc-jockey at a radio station. His life is torn apart by the memories of his ex-wife and his free and careless life in the 60s. Alberto remembers, and his memories don't let him live his present life with Ana, his current girlfriend.
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Nobody Will Speak of Us When We're Dead
Title: Nobody Will Speak of Us When We're Dead
Character: María Luisa
Released: October 5, 1995
Type: Movie
Escaping gangsters trying to kill her because of being witness to a crime, Gloria (Victoria Abril), a young woman of lower class, comes back to Madrid, Spain and to her family. There she tries to find work and earn some money.
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The Queen of the Night
Title: The Queen of the Night
Character: Balmori
Released: September 7, 1994
Type: Movie
The legendary life of Mexican singer Lucha Reyes is the basis of this fictionalized biography ( or as director Arturo Ripstein puts it "an imaginary biography"). Lucha Reyes was an unconventional, and sexually liberated woman, most famous for her "cancion ranchera" style singing. Her story begins in 1939, where at 33 she still lived at home with her mother, Dona Victora, the madame of a renowned Mexico City whorehouse. Lucha marries the liberal Pedro Calderon and then buys a beggar's daughter. She becomes the mother to this child, Luzma. Lucha craves lasting love like junkies crave heroin. But for her loyal daughter, she never finds it and in the end no one can help her.
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Loving Ghosts
Title: Loving Ghosts
Released: February 28, 1994
Type: Movie
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Pueblo viejo
Title: Pueblo viejo
Character: Anastasia
Released: January 1, 1993
Type: Movie
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Lucky Break
Title: Lucky Break
Released: January 1, 1992
Type: Movie
A bureaucrat gets a house and even a car on credit thanks to the support of a compadre who is a union leader, but then has difficulty paying because he is fired in a job cut despite the many years he has been working.
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La insaciable
Title: La insaciable
Released: January 1, 1992
Type: Movie
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Angel of Fire
Title: Angel of Fire
Character: Marta
Released: January 2, 1991
Type: Movie
The young trapeze artist Alma is part of the show of a miserable traveling circus. In an act of desperation, Alma commits incest with her father, a sick clown obsessed with the woman who abandoned them. Determined to have his child, Alma leaves the circus and joins a group of preachers led by Refugio, a woman who performs puppet shows with biblical passages in poor neighborhoods.
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Tony Tijuana
Title: Tony Tijuana
Released: January 1, 1990
Type: Movie
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La secta del sargon
Title: La secta del sargon
Released: January 1, 1990
Type: Movie
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Red Dawn
Title: Red Dawn
Character: Vecina
Released: February 10, 1989
Type: Movie
On October 2, 1968, a student uprising descends into violence after the Mexican government begins to use lethal force against the protesters.
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Va de Nuez
Title: Va de Nuez
Released: January 1, 1986
Type: Movie
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The Humiliated
Title: The Humiliated
Character: Sister Concepción
Released: January 1, 1986
Type: Movie
Four nuns are raped by a group of lepers. Although they all turn out to be pregnant, their status is hidden from them in the convent.
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Luz's Motives
Title: Luz's Motives
Character: Lic. Marisela Alférez
Released: January 2, 1985
Type: Movie
Luz is in jail, accused of murdering her own children. Her husband and her mother-in-law say she killed them in cold blood. Dr. Rebollar tries to help the woman, but she refuses to remember anything. Luz thinks of jail as the purgatory: it's only one step to reach the Heaven.
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La casa de Bernarda Alba
Title: La casa de Bernarda Alba
Character: Amelia
Released: April 1, 1982
Type: Movie
A domineering, reclusive and ostentatiously pious widow in a small Spanish town keeps such close watch on her daughters that they are unable to have normal social lives. However, the eldest is allowed to become engaged to an unprincipled young man, primarily for the financial advantages it will bring the mother, Bernarda. Jealousy and envy ensues among the other daughters.
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Long live Tepito!
Title: Long live Tepito!
Character: Chelo
Released: January 15, 1981
Type: Movie
Slice of life covering four or five days in a badly run-down neighborhood. Matriarch of a slum family dies unexpectedly; relatives from neighboring blocks cope with the loss and arrange her funeral.
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Max Dominio
Title: Max Dominio
Released: January 1, 1981
Type: Movie
Mexican feature film
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The Place Without Limits
Title: The Place Without Limits
Character: Emma (acompañante de Octavio)
Released: April 28, 1978
Type: Movie
Father and daughter compete for the same passion in a ruthless place where kindness mixes with hate.
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The Cubs
Title: The Cubs
Character: Enfermera
Released: May 10, 1973
Type: Movie
After having his genitals brutally mutilated during childhood, a man must face prejudice and himself.
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Cayó de la gloria el diablo
Title: Cayó de la gloria el diablo
Character: Zoila Margarita Acosta, soprano
Released: May 11, 1972
Type: Movie
Subsistence-economy slum guy who sells used newsprint for a living breaks into showbiz with an inadvertantly-comical fire-eater act. The novelty of him wears off very quickly, and then...
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El águila descalza
Title: El águila descalza
Character: Trabajadora factoria
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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Someone Wants to Kill Us!
Title: Someone Wants to Kill Us!
Released: November 5, 1970
Type: Movie
A woman is sent to Mexico to kill the person who presumptly killed her father.