Tamara Garina

Tamara Garina

Born: October 15, 1901
Died: October 19, 1979
in Tbilisi, Georgia

Movies for Tamara Garina...

Morir de madrugada
Title: Morir de madrugada
Character: Woman at Daniela's House
Released: March 29, 1980
Type: Movie
A successful lawyer has his life shattered when his beautiful wife is found murdered. An investigation reveals she was lying to him and leading a double life... but who killed her?
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Pubertinaje
Title: Pubertinaje
Released: February 9, 1978
Type: Movie
Three episodes: 1) "A Christmas dinner" where the family members fantasize about being somewhere else. The fetishist father wants to put on feminine clothes. The son longs for another transvestite adventure. The daughter yearns to be a singer and destroy the saints of the church with her voice. The youngest son wants to stab everyone dead. 2) "Game of mirrors". Two young classmates kiss on a picnic, but the girl's brother accuses the couple of being immoral. Bizarre things develop. 3) "Tetrahedron". A very fat man faces his girlfriend's longing for love.
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Maten al León
Title: Maten al León
Character: Viuda de Saldaña
Released: January 27, 1977
Type: Movie
A pilot is called back to his homeland, the Latin American republic of Arepa, by the rich islanders to participate in a complot to kill the dictator known as El León (The Lion).
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El ministro y yo
Title: El ministro y yo
Character: Tamarita
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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Santo vs. the She-Wolves
Title: Santo vs. the She-Wolves
Character: Luba
Released: May 13, 1976
Type: Movie
Also known as Santo vs. the She-Wolves
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Blacker Than the Night
Title: Blacker Than the Night
Character: Tia Susana
Released: December 25, 1975
Type: Movie
When four women move into an old house left by one woman's aunt, strange things begin to happen. Bizarre voices, visions of ghosts, and mysterious noises lead them to discover the darkest powers of evil and a horror and agony beyond terror.
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Devil's Mountain
Title: Devil's Mountain
Character: La Duquesa / The Duchess
Released: October 2, 1975
Type: Movie
Adaptation of cowboy comic-book El Payo, #2 in a series.
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Do You Hear the Dogs Barking?
Title: Do You Hear the Dogs Barking?
Released: September 25, 1975
Type: Movie
Carrying his son on his back, a man travels from place to place looking for a doctor to treat the sick boy. As they journey, the indio father tells the boy stories to keep him distracted. These stories reveal the life of native peoples in Mexico, both in the countryside and in cities, and they shed light on characteristic beliefs and rituals.
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Recodo de purgatorio
Title: Recodo de purgatorio
Released: January 1, 1975
Type: Movie
An unnamed man goes to a hotel to commit suicide with pills while listening to songs by Marlene Dietrich. But that act that seems to trigger the mere memory of places and experiences before dying, suddenly merges with other characters and dramatic experiences, which give life to a limit work, of desperate, almost intolerable courage, obstinate in dismantling all institutional discourses of the history of Mexico, without ceasing to use extraordinarily all possible cinematographic resources.
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Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
Title: Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
Character: Grandmother Moreno
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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Cinco mil dolares de recompensa
Title: Cinco mil dolares de recompensa
Released: April 18, 1974
Type: Movie
A gunfighter is appointed sheriff of a town that is terrorized by a gang of criminals.
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Once Upon a Scoundrel
Title: Once Upon a Scoundrel
Released: January 1, 1973
Type: Movie
After falling for Alicia, greedy and powerful Mexican landowner Carlos has her fiancé thrown in prison on a bogus charge. To trick Carlos into releasing her man, Alicia teams up with her Aunt Delfina and tries to convince Carlos that he's a ghost.
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Los cacos
Title: Los cacos
Released: December 28, 1972
Type: Movie
A group of Soccer-loving friends devise a plan to make easy money.
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El águila descalza
Title: El águila descalza
Character: Brigitte, paciente manicomio
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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A Man Called Horse
Title: A Man Called Horse
Character: Elk Woman
Released: May 1, 1970
Type: Movie
In 1825, English peer Lord John Morgan is cast adrift in the American West. Captured by Sioux Indians, Morgan is at first targeted for quick extinction, but the tribesmen sense that he is worthy of survival. He eventually passes the many necessary tests that will permit him to become a member of the tribe.
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Awakening of the Wolf
Title: Awakening of the Wolf
Character: The Evil Witch
Released: February 5, 1970
Type: Movie
Young woman looking for a rich husband, sets her sights on a very pious and old-fashioned neighbor.
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Fando and Lis
Title: Fando and Lis
Character: Pope
Released: February 2, 1970
Type: Movie
Fando and his partially paralyzed lover Lis search for the mythical city of Tar. Based on Jodorowsky's memories of a play by surrealist Fernando Arrabal.
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The Candy Man
Title: The Candy Man
Released: February 1, 1969
Type: Movie
An American actress travels to Mexico to make a movie and brings her daughter with her. Upon arriving in Mexico, she is spotted by a drug dealer who also heads a kidnapping ring. He plants one of his drug-addicted "customers" with the actress as her nanny in order to be kidnap the child for ransom, but things don't work out as planned.
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Anticlimax
Title: Anticlimax
Released: January 4, 1969
Type: Movie
The Mexican Gelsen Gas side by side with Alexandro Jodorowsky (Fando y Lis, El Topo, The Holy Mountain and others) appeared as a theater director, artist and poet, had an idea about staging haiku's that would reflect the sexually-charged and politically streaming time. Early in the film finds a man buried a few rolls of film in the desert.
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The Psychedelic Girls
Title: The Psychedelic Girls
Character: Aunt Ermentrudis
Released: December 9, 1968
Type: Movie
Maura Monti (Mireya), Amedee Chabot (Adriana), Isela Vega (Dalila) and Elizabeth Campbell (Patricia), are hit women who kill men in cold blood. But not everybody, only men who don't comply with their 'godmother' (Tamara Garina)
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Los Caifanes
Title: Los Caifanes
Character: Old Prostitute
Released: August 17, 1967
Type: Movie
A couple on the verge of getting married gets mixed up with a gang of thugs in this routine crime drama that underscores the Socio-economic disparity in the Mexican culture. The upper-class couple rides along with outsiders who go club-hopping and resort to petty thievery. After their adventure, the couple questions whether or not they are right for each other.
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Estrategia matrimonio
Title: Estrategia matrimonio
Character: Verónica
Released: March 23, 1967
Type: Movie
Pragmatic young woman plots out her flirtations with five rich, eligible bachelors to play to the weaknesses of each one. Then she has to pick one for keeps.
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Los mediocres
Title: Los mediocres
Character: Tatiana, gitana (segment "Las Cucarachas")
Released: November 3, 1966
Type: Movie
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Kiss from Beyond the Grave
Title: Kiss from Beyond the Grave
Character: Aurora's Friend
Released: July 26, 1963
Type: Movie
A newlywed couple find themselves broke when the woman's father dies deeply in debt. Forced to sell their belongings, they move into a rundown house from which they get very bad vibes. It's not long before some very strange and disturbing people begin showing up at the house.
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A Life in the Balance
Title: A Life in the Balance
Character: Doña Lucrecia
Released: July 1, 1955
Type: Movie
A widower's young son leads the police to a killer of sinners in Mexico City.
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Illusion Travels by Streetcar
Title: Illusion Travels by Streetcar
Character: Pasajera gringa (uncredited)
Released: March 10, 1954
Type: Movie
Confronted with the unfortunate news that their favorite Streetcar, no. 133, is going to be decommissioned, two Municipal Transit workers get drunk and decide to "take 'er for one last spin," as it were. Unfortunately, the "one last spin" ends up being an all-night and all-day scramble to stay out of trouble, as they are confronted with situation after sometimes bizarre situation that prevents them from returning the "borrowed" Streetcar!