Diana Bracho

Diana Bracho

Born: December 12, 1944
in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
Diana Bracho (born Diana Bracho Bordes on December 12, 1944 in Mexico City, Mexico) is a Mexican actress.

Diana Bracho is the daughter of actor/director Julio Bracho, the niece of actress Andrea Palma and the aunt of actor Julio Bracho (named after his grandfather). She married Dr. Felipe Bracho, a university professor. They have a daughter, Andrea. She married, secondly, to Rafael Cortes, an artist, designer and painter.  She made her film debut as a child actress in two of her father's films: San Felipe (1949) and Immaculate Conception(1950). She studied Philosophy and Letters in New York. She debuted professionally on stage in the play Israfel by Abelardo Rodríguez alongside Sergio Bustamante. Her television debut was in 1973. Diana Bracho won the Silver Ariel award twice, the first time in 1973. She won her second Silver Ariel for El infierno, de todos tan temído and was nominated for Best Actress for Letters from Marusia (1976) and Entre Pancho Villa y una mujer desnuda (1996). On August 6, 2002 she was appointed president of theAcademia Mexicana de Artes y Ciencias Cinematográficas. She has been involved in co-productions with countries such asThe Chess Player (France); Edmilson (Germany), The Dogs of War (Britain), The Aleph (Italy), The legend of the Drum (Spain), Antonieta (Spain) and On Wings of Eagles (United States). She starred in several television series and soap operas, notably as Leonora Navarro in the telenovela Cuna de lobos (1986), produced by Carlos Tellez. She also played the villainous Evangelina Vizcaíno in Cadenas de Amargura (1991), produced by Carlos Sotomayor. She is set to play the role of the black widow in the third season of Mujeres Asesinas. Though Diana was confirmed to star in Salvador Mejía's new telenovela: La tempestad, she rejected her participation.

Movies for Diana Bracho...

All the Silence
Title: All the Silence
Released: October 6, 2023
Type: Movie
Miriam teaches sign language in the mornings and is part of a professional theater production in the afternoons, maintaining a stable and passionate relationship with her girlfriend Lola. Although her life is very much connected to the routine of a deaf person, her world begins to crumble when she discovers that she is losing her hearing.
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Title: El show: crónica de un asesinato
Character: Self / Leonora Navarro (archive footage)
Released: June 6, 2023
Type: TV
The murder of Paco Stanley, the most popular comedian on television in Mexico, unleashes a series of intrigues in the world of politics and entertainment. Through an in-depth investigation, the use of archival material of the time and the direct testimony of the main people involved in the case, this documentary series delves into the culture of show business and exposes the lies and tragedies that unexpectedly marked the arrival of democracy in Mexico in the year 2000.
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María: La Diva Eterna
Title: María: La Diva Eterna
Character: Self
Released: April 6, 2023
Type: Movie
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Title: Eternamente Amándonos
Character: Martina Rangel Vda. de Iturbide
Released: February 27, 2023
Type: TV
Paula and Rogelio's whirlwind romance leads the two to get married in secret. When Paula arrives at Rogelio's family home, his controlling and manipulative mother Martina becomes obsessed with ruining Paula's life.
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The Exorcist
Title: The Exorcist
Character: La Serpiente (voice)
Released: November 2, 2022
Type: Movie
Ophelia, a young nun recently arriving in the town of San Ramon, is forced to perform an exorcism on a pregnant woman in danger of dying. Just when she thinks her possession has ended, she discovers that the evil presence hasn't disappeared yet. The director of the award-winning Here Comes the Devil and Late Phases adds a new twist to possession movies in one of this year's Latin American horror surprises.
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Title: Léemelo
Character: Self
Released: August 29, 2022
Type: TV
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What a Father!
Title: What a Father!
Released: February 9, 2022
Type: Movie
Pedro is a single man in his forties who likes to party, has no children and lives at night. Everything changes when he meets Alin. She mentions to him that she is looking for her dad and that there is a high probability that it is him.
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For Better, For Worse
Title: For Better, For Worse
Character: Elena
Released: March 15, 2019
Type: Movie
Sebastian and Valeria are about to get married. Everything seems perfect but a woman tries to seduce Sebastian while Valeria is pregnant.
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A ti te quería encontrar
Title: A ti te quería encontrar
Released: June 29, 2018
Type: Movie
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Cerulia
Title: Cerulia
Character: (Voice)
Released: October 27, 2017
Type: Movie
Cerulia comes back home to bid her final farewell, but her childhood memories and grandparents presence would not let her go.
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Title: Mi marido tiene familia
Character: Blanca Gómez Beltrán de Córcega
Released: June 5, 2017
Type: TV
Julieta is quite happy in her relationship with her live in boyfriend, Robert... and thrilled that she won't have to deal with in-laws since Robert doesn't know his family. Things start going downhill for the couple when they rent an apartment from a very eccentric family dealing with a traumatic incident from their past.
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Title: Secrets at the Hotel
Character: Teresa Alarcón
Released: January 25, 2016
Type: TV
The story of Secrets at the Hotel begins in 1908. Julio Olmedo and Isabel Alarcón travel on the same train to the Gran Hotel, property of the Alarcón family. Both of them ignore that their lives will take a new twist in that place, produced by love, treason, and the secrets hidden there.
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María Bonita
Title: María Bonita
Character: María Félix
Released: October 1, 2015
Type: Movie
The Mexican diva of cinema, María Felix, age 80, is staying as a guest at the home of a family in Veracruz. There she meets the daughter of the owners, Agatha, age 16, who wants to know what does the actress do to be so beautiful at her age. They become friends, live adventures and María reveals her secrets.
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My Universe in Lowercase
Title: My Universe in Lowercase
Character: Josefina
Released: November 8, 2013
Type: Movie
Director Hatuey Viveros' beautiful film unfolds as a fascinating exploration of contemporary life in Mexico, searching to understand today's world, while portraying a younger generation who lack an understanding of their past. And as we journey with Aina on her own discovery, it becomes clear that the process of her search is just as important as the results.
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Title: Quiero Amarte
Character: Lucrecia Ugarte de Montesinos
Released: October 21, 2013
Type: TV
Karyme Lozano, Cristian de la Fuente and Adriana Louvier will star as the protagonists, while Diana Bracho, Flavio Medina and Salvador Zerboni will star as the antagonists, and with the stellar participations of Alejandra Barros, José Elías Moreno and Olivia Bucio.
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Amorous Pancho Villa
Title: Amorous Pancho Villa
Character: Señora Corral
Released: September 20, 2013
Type: Movie
The assassination of Pancho Villa, on the outskirts of Parral, Chihuahua, plunged the city into mourning, and a wake for the revolutionary hero was held by his closest collaborators. Conspicuous among the mourners were the four women with whom Villa was having intimate relationships at the time of his death. Now that Villa is no longer around to mediate and keep them apart, tensions between the women grow and intensify, with unexpected consequences. An intimate and human portrait of the Centaur of the North.
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Martin at Dawn
Title: Martin at Dawn
Character: Lucía
Released: August 16, 2013
Type: Movie
When Martin's car breaks down in the middle of the desert, he has no choice but to head off across the empty landscape to look for help. Along the road he happens upon a mysterious brothel. He has no choice but to go there. But when he goes inside he unknowingly is drawn into a fateful game of chance. In this suspenseful film from Mexico, not everything is what it seems.
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La noche de las flores
Title: La noche de las flores
Released: September 23, 2011
Type: Movie
The story of a wooing in which the stepdaughter, Elena, seduces her stepmother. A love story that is unpredictable for both, where reality overcomes their principles and traditions.
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Title: Rafaela
Character: Morelia Echaverria de de La Vega
Released: January 31, 2011
Type: TV
Rafaela is a Mexican telenovela produced by Nathalie Lartilleux for Televisa. It is based on the Venezuelan telenovela of the same name produced in 1977. Scarlet Ortiz and Jorge Poza star as the main protagonists, while Chantal Andere, Diana Bracho and Arturo Carmona star as the main antagonists. Though Rafaela was nominated for best female antagonist, best first actor, and best first actress, it did not win any awards. Canal de las Estrellas originally broadcast Rafaela at 5pm MDT from January 31 to March 11, 2011. From March 14 to July 15, 2011, it was moved to 4PM MDT. From June 20 to August 5, 2011, Univision transmitted Rafaela weekdays at 1pm central for 2 hours, replacing Niña de mi Corazón. From August 8, 2011 to October 14, 2011, one episode was shown weekdays at 1pm central.
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Buddah's Head
Title: Buddah's Head
Character: Tomás's Mother (voice)
Released: May 17, 2009
Type: Movie
Tomás, a famous and egocentric actor, buying a Buddha head in Lagunilla . In an attempt to avoid being robbed, the thief accidentally kills in self-defense , with the relic . His life starts to change , forcing him to confront this crime and discover the sheer banality of existence. Seeking redemption faced with the mother of the thief and asks forgiveness , learning to forgive yourself
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Divine Confusion
Title: Divine Confusion
Character: Julia
Released: September 26, 2008
Type: Movie
The Greek Olimpian Gods engage in the human life experience to its full intensity, for which they choose Mexico City's trendy night club: "Olimpus Dancing Club". Once living in the mortal's world, the naughty Eros (with help of a gang of ill-behaved gods), is responsible for unleashing a forbidden passion that disrupts the lives of the members of two families of not-so-simple mortals.
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3:19
Title: 3:19
Character: Lucía
Released: June 20, 2008
Type: Movie
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Title: Killer Women
Character: Norma
Released: June 17, 2008
Type: TV
Mujeres Asesinas is a series that shows the dark side of women who have been mistreated or abused and become cruel murderers. The series shows how violence and death can overcome the feminine mind.
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Title: Burning for Revenge
Character: Doña Gabriela Acevedo Vda. de Elizondo
Released: January 21, 2008
Type: TV
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.
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Eros una vez María
Title: Eros una vez María
Character: María, madre de Tonatiuh
Released: November 9, 2007
Type: Movie
When Tonatiuh loses his beloved Maria, grief and obsession to be loved lead him to seek love in a variety of women also called Maria.
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Burn the Bridges
Title: Burn the Bridges
Character: Catalina
Released: April 5, 2007
Type: Movie
Eugenia is a former pop singer who is bedridden and dying of cancer. She is cared for by her daughter, Helena, who dreams of traveling the world and wishes she could be a glamorous pop star like her mother was. Helena’s younger brother Sebastian's dreams are simple and he merely wants to move to the beach. Helena is smart and pretty but she has no friends, male or female and is totally devoted to her mother's care and is also on the verge of initiating an incestuous relationship with Sebastian. Sebastian however, is falling in love with a boy at school named Juan who is the school roughneck and the son of a single father who owns a little bar. Juan is the nemesis of the school preppy named Ismael who comes from such a wealthy home that he has his own chauffeur and bodyguards. Ismael's ping-pong obsessed girlfriend Aurora rents a room at Helena and Sebastian's house where Ismael discovers he is also attracted to Sebastian.
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Curse of the Weeping Woman: J-ok'el
Title: Curse of the Weeping Woman: J-ok'el
Character: J-ok'el
Released: March 2, 2007
Type: Movie
An unworldly and closed-minded American travels to a small village in exotic Chiapas, Mexico; at the behest of his estranged mother when his half-sister disappears during a local epidemic of kidnappings attributed to the legendary J-ok'el, the weeping woman, who drowned her own babies, centuries ago and whose spirit has returned to claim more children as her own.
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Title: Heridas de Amor
Character: Bertha de Aragón
Released: April 3, 2006
Type: TV
Heridas de Amor is a Mexican telenovela from Televisa. It is a remake of the telenovela Valeria y Maximiliano.
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Dreaming of Julia
Title: Dreaming of Julia
Character: Beta
Released: October 24, 2003
Type: Movie
The year is 1958, and in Holguín, Cuba, a boy's world is about to change forever.
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Title: Bajo la misma piel
Character: Sara Ortiz Escalante de Murillo
Released: September 15, 2003
Type: TV
Bajo la misma piel, or internationally known as Under your Skin, is a Mexican television series produced by Televisa starting in 2003. It is an original telenovela from Martha Carrillo and Cristina García. Despite huge exposure prior to its premiere, Bajo la misma piel was only a moderate success in its country of origin, Mexico.
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Title: Las Lunas del Auditorio
Character: Herself
Released: September 4, 2002
Type: TV
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The Faces of the Moon
Title: The Faces of the Moon
Character: Magdalena Hoyos
Released: May 17, 2002
Type: Movie
The Faces of the Moon is the story of five women from five different countries (Argentina, Uruguay, Mexico, USA and Spain), invited to Mexico City to be the jury of the Third Annual Latin American Women's Film Festival. In six vertiginous days these women share their past experiences, their ghosts and, their expectations. The group views and critiques the festival's film entries, and, in the process, the women reveal their personal, political and national histories.
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Life Kills
Title: Life Kills
Character: Reportera
Released: January 25, 2002
Type: Movie
A romantic comedy of our times about passion, friendship and lies, on one of those days when the city and its inhabitants go crazy and anything seems possible. Diego and Silvia meet each other and fall in love thanks to their masterly lies. The morning after, with their respective friends, they remember the encounter and slowly begin to realize how sincere and honest that relationship was. When the opportunity arises, both struggle to meet again on a day in which a sudden and unusual disorder reigns in Mexico City.
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Y Tu Mamá También
Title: Y Tu Mamá También
Character: Silvia Allende de Iturbide
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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Title: El derecho de nacer
Character: Clemencia Rivera de del Junco
Released: February 5, 2001
Type: TV
El Derecho de Nacer is a Mexican telenovela that was produced by Televisa and broadcast on El Canal de las Estrellas from 5 February 2001 to 25 May 2001. A remake of the popular 1981 telenovela of the same name, it stars Kate del Castillo and Saúl Lisazo.
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Title: Conversando con Cristina Pacheco
Character: Self
Released: September 26, 1997
Type: TV
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Title: Conversando con Cristina Pacheco
Character: Diana Bracho
Released: September 26, 1997
Type: TV
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De muerte natural
Title: De muerte natural
Released: August 9, 1996
Type: Movie
Four women get mad at a bakery while they recall their lives at their neighborhood.
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Between Pancho Villa and a Naked Woman
Title: Between Pancho Villa and a Naked Woman
Character: Gina López
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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Title: Alondra
Character: Alondra
Released: January 23, 1995
Type: TV
Alondra is a Mexican telenovela shown in 1995, written by Yolanda Vargas Dulché and produced by Carla Estrada, starring with Ana Colchero and the late Beatriz Sheridan. This telenovela contains 78 episodes.
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Title: Capricho
Character: Eugenia Montaño de Aranda
Released: January 11, 1993
Type: TV
Story about a woman that is unhappily married and with two daughters. She constantly reprimands Cristina and baby Raquel. What the people around her don't know is that Raquel is not her husband's daughter as everyone believes. Raquel is Eugenia and León's daughter. She has always loved him, not her husband. That is the reason she's always angry at Cristina.
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Serpientes y escaleras
Title: Serpientes y escaleras
Character: Adelaida
Released: December 4, 1992
Type: Movie
Two young girls used to play Serpents and Ladders. One of them always won, but they are very close friends. When they grow up, the winner is still the lucky one in the game of life, but life can be treacherous...
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Title: Cadenas de amargura
Character: Evangelina Vizcaíno Lara
Released: January 1, 1991
Type: TV
After her parents death, the little Cecilia is under the care of her aunts: Natalia and Evangelina. Evangelina is a cruel woman who doesn't love the child and she treats her bad. Unlike Evangelina, Natalia is good and will help Cecilia because she is her real mother. She was seduced and got pregnant by Padre Julio. Evangelina hates Padre Julio because in the past he preferred Natalia to her. Many years later, there is a problem, because Evangelina doesn't want to give Cecilia money to attend the University. But Cecilia wins a grant and she can study now. She is engaged and wants to marry Giovanni, but Evangelina is against. She will poison him with a drink. Then Cecilia meets and falls in love with Gerardo, who is engaged to Sofia. Sofia's parents are Marta and Armando. Armando returns home after abandoning his family for many years. Marta has a romance with Manuel, but Sofia and Armando are opposed. Ines and Renato, who are Gerardo's parents, also are opposed to his romance with Cecilia. She breaks up the romance and goes to sor Angelina's nunnery to become a nun. Sonia and Roberto try to separate Gerardo from Cecilia. Then Cecilia finds out the truth about her birth and meets padre Julio. Natalia discovers that Evangelina tries to appropriate the whole patrimony of Cecilia and Evangelina kills her.
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Las asesinas del panadero
Title: Las asesinas del panadero
Released: January 1, 1989
Type: Movie
Mexican feature film
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Romelia's Secret
Title: Romelia's Secret
Character: Dolores de Román
Released: December 4, 1988
Type: Movie
The way three different generations of women view virginity and the mystery that a love story hides.
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Title: Pasión y poder
Character: Ana Laura Montesinos de Gómez-Luna
Released: August 8, 1988
Type: TV
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Title: Papá soltero
Released: February 11, 1987
Type: TV
Papá soltero was a series on the Televisa network that began on February 11, 1987 and ended on July 6, 1994. It was produced by Luis de Llano Macedo and broadcast on Canal de las Estrellas It was starred by César Costa, along with Luis Mario Quiroz, Edith Márquez, Gerardo Quiroz, with stellar performances by José Luis Cordero, Aurora Alonso and Octavio Galindo.
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Title: Den of Wolves
Character: Leonora Navarro
Released: October 13, 1986
Type: TV
Cuna de lobos is a Mexican soap opera produced by Televisa and broadcast by Canal de las Estrellas in 1986 to 1987. The serial, about the struggle for power within a wealthy Mexican dynasty, was enormously popular in its native Mexico. It was also a hit in several foreign countries, including the United States, Germany and Australia. The soap opera starring antagonistically María Rubio as the main villain interpreting the evil "Catalina Creel", with Gonzalo Vega, Diana Bracho, Alejandro Camacho and Rebecca Jones.
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Round
Title: Round
Character: María Magdalena
Released: August 16, 1986
Type: Movie
Loosely based on the novel "Leakage, iron and fire" by Paco Ignacio Taibo I, "Redondo" is an amazing and brilliant cinematic journey, biting and irreverently funny, for the fantastic world of a spontaneous novelist who finds himself, putting in crisis some of the institutions and traditional values of his society​​.
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Los Abandonados – Die Niemandskinder von Camanducaia
Title: Los Abandonados – Die Niemandskinder von Camanducaia
Released: May 8, 1986
Type: Movie
Based on the true story of boys from Brazilian jails taken to the state border and abandoned without food or clothing to relieve overcrowding in prison. Once discovered it became a major scandal in the 70s.
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Violent Stories
Title: Violent Stories
Released: August 29, 1985
Type: Movie
Five surreal short stories make up this Mexican anthology film.
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I Don't Know For Sure, But I Suppose
Title: I Don't Know For Sure, But I Suppose
Character: Dalia
Released: July 30, 1982
Type: Movie
Dalia and Daniel are a couple running away from the noise, the pollution and the social prejudice, so they take shelter at an isolated farmhouse, which used to belong to Daniel's father. There they are, in full intimacy with each other, only with nature and their own memories. However, the monotony and the loneliness gradually deteriorates their relationship.
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La leyenda del tambor
Title: La leyenda del tambor
Character: Paula
Released: September 17, 1981
Type: Movie
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Everyone's Hell so Feared
Title: Everyone's Hell so Feared
Character: Andrea
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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Max Dominio
Title: Max Dominio
Released: January 1, 1981
Type: Movie
Mexican feature film
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El héroe desconocido
Title: El héroe desconocido
Character: Chela
Released: January 1, 1981
Type: Movie
An outcast, Rodolfo Martínez, whom no one loves and whom everyone despises and undervalues ​​in his town of Valle Verde, in Mexico, decides to change his luck. He decides to invent that he has a very important ancestor and that is why he deserves a statue that will remind future generations of everything he has done. Rodolfo doesn't care what happens, all he wants is to stop being a failure and for people to see him as an equal.
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Aunt Alejandra
Title: Aunt Alejandra
Character: Lucia
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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Crónica íntima
Title: Crónica íntima
Released: January 1, 1979
Type: Movie
Mexican feature film
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Las Poquianchis
Title: Las Poquianchis
Character: Adelina
Released: November 17, 1976
Type: Movie
During the mid-1970s, in the Mexican state of Guanajuato, authorities discover a clandestine burial ground. The corpses are from murdered prostitutes. The suspects are three sisters known as "Las Poquianchis".
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El hombre del puente
Title: El hombre del puente
Released: September 8, 1976
Type: Movie
A man without identity/citizenship papers is stuck in the no-man's-land between two countries.
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Chin-Chin el Teporocho
Title: Chin-Chin el Teporocho
Released: August 15, 1976
Type: Movie
Rogelio’s story, a young man of humble origin in the neighborhood of Tepito, who falls in love with the daughter of a wealthy grocer, Michelle, but his marriage to her will be a failure and he will end up as a one more drunk.
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Letters from Marusia
Title: Letters from Marusia
Character: Luisa
Released: December 26, 1975
Type: Movie
Chronicle of the repression that a foreign company exerts on the miners of a small nitrate town in Chile, whose workers decide to claim their most essential rights. A reflection of the historic union struggles in the northern Chile that ended with terrible repressive acts.
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The Birthday of the Dog
Title: The Birthday of the Dog
Character: Silvia Ballesteros
Released: September 10, 1975
Type: Movie
Two couples. One of the husbands kills his wife. He is temporarily helped by the other couple. The husband wants to help him, but his wife wants to turn him in to the police.
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La Casa de Bernarda Alba
Title: La Casa de Bernarda Alba
Character: Amelia
Released: October 25, 1974
Type: Movie
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The Holy Inquisition
Title: The Holy Inquisition
Character: Mariana de Carvajal
Released: June 6, 1974
Type: Movie
A plague is spreading through 16th century Mexico, and the Inquisition of the Roman Catholic Church is rooting out Jews, for they are believed to be its cause. At his father's funeral, a monk observes his family practicing Jewish burial rite, and he reports them, leading to devastating consequences for the whole family.
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Castle of Purity
Title: Castle of Purity
Character: Utopía
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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Inmaculada
Title: Inmaculada
Character: Rosalía (Niña)
Released: September 15, 1950
Type: Movie
A single mother discovers her daughter getting ready to elope with an unworthy boyfriend, so she sits the girl down and tells her the whole entire story of her own very unhappy marriage.
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Felipe de Jesús
Title: Felipe de Jesús
Character: Rosalia (Niña)
Released: August 5, 1949
Type: Movie
Biography of the first Catholic Saint to be born in Mexico.
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Title: The Marked Hour
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV
La Hora Marcada was a 1986 Mexican television anthology series famous for its horror and science fiction themes in the vein of the Twilight Zone. Although virtually unknown outside the country, it achieved a popular and critical success in Mexico. It had a series of rotating writers and directors, among them Emmanuel Lubezki, Guillermo del Toro and Alfonso Cuarón.