María Rojo

María Rojo

Born: August 15, 1943
in Mexico City, Mexico
María Rojo is the artistic name of María de Lourdes Rojo e Incháustegui (Mexico City, August 15, 1943), a Mexican film, theater and television actress. Daughter of Roberto Rojo, an agronomist, and Águeda Incháustegui, a school teacher.

From her childhood, she remembers being nervous and suffering from dyslexia, which brought her personality problems and insecurity, but she soon stood out for her artistic skills.

She began her artistic career at the age of eight, when she was selected in a casting to participate in the Teatro Fantástico program, where she played the girl Ciquirritica. Then, she has developed a fruitful career that exceeds 60 years, and in 2018, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences officially invited her to be a special part of its new members.

She is the first actress to receive the "Premio Bellas Artes" for her great career, and Winner of the Ariel Award, including the "Ariel de Oro" out of a total of 11 nominations, she is considered one of the best actresses in the history of Mexico.

Movies for María Rojo...

Tespis Teporocho
Title: Tespis Teporocho
Released: December 27, 2024
Type: Movie
In "Tespis Teporocho", a boy who interacts with vagabonds thirsty for knowledge, finally absorb them from an unexpected teacher.
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Pole Dance
Title: Pole Dance
Character: Lic. García
Released: December 15, 2023
Type: Movie
Magda is getting divorced from an alcoholic mariachi in rehab. While she tries to find her inner strength by practicing pole dance she meets Jaime, who gets obsessed with her, unleashing a story of abuse and gender violence.
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Malvada
Title: Malvada
Character: Doña Claudia
Released: December 29, 2022
Type: Movie
A desperate mother contacts his son's ex-girlfriend to tell her that he's about to marry a wicked witch.
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A Not So Merry Christmas
Title: A Not So Merry Christmas
Character: Silvia
Released: December 20, 2022
Type: Movie
A curse is placed on grinchy Chuy, who wakes up to find he's lived a full year, but is doomed to remember only Christmas Day. Every year. From now on.
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Title: Sorry for others
Character: Tere
Released: May 19, 2022
Type: TV
Jesús and Nuria live in an apartment belonging to her father. His best hope at winning him over his is hosting an exhibition of his photography, but things do not turn out as planned
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Title: Mi fortuna es amarte
Character: Magos Domínguez Negrete (Recast)
Released: November 8, 2021
Type: TV
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Mi Canción
Title: Mi Canción
Character: Abue
Released: August 19, 2021
Type: Movie
"Mi Canción" follows the rise of young Guadalajara rapper C-Kan, as he realizes the danger he put himself in by working with the local Cartel. After falling in love with Valeria, she convinces him to leave this llife of crime and pursue his dream and become a Rap star. Conflicted, he decides to stop working with the Cartel, but that is easier said than done!
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The Day I Lost Myself
Title: The Day I Lost Myself
Character: Sofía “Old Twinky”
Released: November 1, 2020
Type: Movie
Xochil is a woman who must immerse in her past to find herself, opening the doors to a world that she thought was long forgotten.
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Title: Narcos: Mexico
Character: Norma Arellano Felix
Released: November 16, 2018
Type: TV
See the rise of the Guadalajara Cartel as an American DEA agent learns the danger of targeting narcos in 1980s Mexico.
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Valentina's Wedding
Title: Valentina's Wedding
Character: Luz Evelia
Released: February 9, 2018
Type: Movie
Valentina's seemingly idyllic life in the US is interrupted when planning a wedding means introducing her fiancé to her scandalous family in Mexico.
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The Cousin
Title: The Cousin
Character: Juliana
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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Crimes of the North Sea
Title: Crimes of the North Sea
Released: March 10, 2017
Type: Movie
Year 1942 in Mexico City, Goyo Cárdenas studies biology and has a beautiful girlfriend, but Goyo also has some contained violence about to explode on the brink of World War II.
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Title: Sincronía
Character: Madame
Released: March 7, 2017
Type: TV
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Title: Su nombre era Dolores, la Jenn que yo conocí
Character: Doña Rosa
Released: January 15, 2017
Type: TV
In a world dominated by men, a tenacious woman with an outspoken personality makes headway into success through the use of determination, perseverance and savviness.
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Title: Hasta que te conocí
Character: Maribel
Released: April 18, 2016
Type: TV
"Hasta que Te Conocí" unravels the life of the Divo de Juárez: Juan Gabriel. Gabriel's extraordinary talent as a singer-songwriter allowed him to rise above poverty, betrayal, and prejudice, eventually making him one the most beloved performers in all of Ibero-America.
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Gabo & Cinema
Title: Gabo & Cinema
Character: Self
Released: April 17, 2016
Type: Movie
It is said that Nobel Prize winner Gabriel Garcia Marquez never allowed for a film adaptation of his singular masterpiece 'One Hundred Years of Solitude', arguably the most influential novel in any language of the second half of the twentieth century, to be produced. However, the prolific Colombian writer had strong ties to the movies.
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She's Ramona
Title: She's Ramona
Character: Marcela Godínez
Released: June 17, 2015
Type: Movie
Ramona is fat woman with too much weight and barely any luck. She recalls a childhood filled with moral abuse by her mother, sister and friends, calling her silly offensive names referencing her overweight. When she became an adult, things didn’t really get any better. She’s fired for being fat, she wants a liposuction but the doctor informs her she’s not a candidate due to her overweight, and all her universe seems to be collapsing after a series of unfortunate events. But everything will soon get better thanks to some magical beetles she finds in a Tarot café.
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Las Horas Contigo
Title: Las Horas Contigo
Character: Julieta
Released: February 5, 2015
Type: Movie
Ema finds out she is pregnant with an unplanned child she's not sure she wants to keep, the same week her beloved grandmother becomes gravely ill. Spending her last days at her grandmother's side, Ema is forced to spend time with her estranged, larger than life mother, getting to know her and seeing her with new eyes. As she spends time with the people gathered around her grandmother in her last days; Ema re-evaluates her beliefs, her fears and her set ideas about family, love and parenthood.
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The Perfect Dictatorship
Title: The Perfect Dictatorship
Character: Doña Chole
Released: October 16, 2014
Type: Movie
TV MX, the most powerful Mexican Television Corporation, discloses a scandalous story involving Governor Carmelo Vargas in serious crimes and illicit business. Governor Vargas worried about his political future, decides to clean his image and negotiates a billionaire secret agreement with the owners of the TV Corporation. Carlos Rojo, an ambitious young news producer, and Ricardo Diaz, TV network star reporter, are responsible for making a dirty campaign to change the image the public has of the corrupt Governor and make him, at any cost, a political star and a great presidential candidate. Mexican Television believes that democracy is a farce and has already placed one President... Will they do it again?
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Title: Senora Acero
Character: Mercedes "La Mecha" Berríos
Released: September 23, 2014
Type: TV
The adventures of Vicenta Acero, the feared coyote who now leads the dynasty of illicit dealings once under the control of her father.
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Title: Until the End of Time
Character: Guadalupe
Released: July 28, 2014
Type: TV
After their father's death, Sofía Ripoll, the oldest of three sisters, takes over the family's fictional successful chocolate factory. Though she is engaged to a man who uses her for money, she quickly falls in love with Salvador Cruz, a former racecar driver who takes a job as her chauffeur.
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Castle Chronicle
Title: Castle Chronicle
Character: Bertha
Released: May 30, 2014
Type: Movie
Dramatized series that shows a mosaic of stories, which run in parallel and sometimes intertwine, around Tepito and its identity as a neighborhood, revealing the social prejudices that manifest themselves in classism and racism, as part of a historical reality in Mexico.
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A Shred Of Mist
Title: A Shred Of Mist
Character: Tía Elizabeth
Released: April 10, 2014
Type: Movie
After the dead of his mother, Daniel is put under the care of his aunt Elizabeth, a foreign woman with a severe character, who subjects the child to multiple abuses and psychological torture.
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The Crime of Cacaro Gumaro
Title: The Crime of Cacaro Gumaro
Character: María Cocinera
Released: March 15, 2014
Type: Movie
After their fathers death, two brothers dispute the inheritance: the local movie theater known as Linterna Mújica. Their dispute may or not bring the town to its apocalypse, but it will for sure turn it upside-down.
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Cloroform
Title: Cloroform
Character: Doña Consuelo
Released: April 2, 2012
Type: Movie
Life of boxing in Mexico city, bets, deception, love, crime and courage takes place in the lives of amateur boxers to professional fighters.
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Title: El Albergue
Character: Esperanza de la Lama
Released: March 12, 2012
Type: TV
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El Infierno
Title: El Infierno
Character: Doña Mari Reyes
Released: September 3, 2010
Type: Movie
Benjamin Garcia, Benny is deported from the United States. Back home and against a bleak picture, Benny gets involved in the drug business, in which he has for the first time in his life, a spectacular rise surrounded by money, women, violence and fun. But very soon he will discover that criminal life does not always keep its promises.
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Title: Gritos de Muerte y Libertad
Character: Madre de Pedro
Released: August 30, 2010
Type: TV
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File of Attempted Murder
Title: File of Attempted Murder
Character: Madre de Arroyo
Released: August 27, 2010
Type: Movie
Tells the story behind an assassination attempt perpetrated in 1897, by a dipsomaniac man, against the President of the Mexican Republic, General Porfirio Diaz.
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Exquisite Corpse
Title: Exquisite Corpse
Released: January 6, 2010
Type: Movie
Dark humor that shows human misery.
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Title: Wild Heart
Character: Clemencia
Released: October 12, 2009
Type: TV
Corazón salvaje is a Mexican telenovela produced by Salvador Mejía Alejandre in conjunction with Televisa and broadcast on El Canal de las Estrellas. The telenovela debuted on 12 October 2009 at 9:00 pm, replacing Sortilegio, and aired for a total of 135 episodes. The final episode was broadcast on 16 April 2010, and the program was replaced with Soy tu dueña. In the United States, the telenovela debuted on 22 February 2010 at 9:00 pm on Univisión, again replacing Sortilegio. However, beginning on 26 April, the program was moved from prime time to the 12:00 midnight time slot.
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Me importas tú... y tú
Title: Me importas tú... y tú
Released: September 4, 2009
Type: Movie
Nerdy college boy gets romantic advice from the apparition of a dead film star.
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Todos hemos pecado
Title: Todos hemos pecado
Character: La Perfida
Released: November 1, 2008
Type: Movie
No one could ever imagine that one day La Chingada Vieja would fall in love. Because she is always alone, because no one has ever turn to see her, because everyone is always closing the door at her nose, because when they feel her coming they cross themselves, but most of all because no one could ever fall in love with death. But El Hombre sin nombre, has appeared in her life for good. Only the confusion of an avenging town and the desire of four men to arrive to heaven could change the plans of these two beings. Of whom the purist feelings alive have resurrected them.
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Title: Tomorrow is forever
Character: Soledad Cruz
Released: October 20, 2008
Type: TV
Mañana es para siempre is a Mexican telenovela that began airing on October 20, 2008 on XEW-TV, also known as Canal de las Estrellas. It is produced by the Televisa television network and is a production of Nicandro Díaz González. It stars Silvia Navarro as "Fernanda Elizalde", Fernando Colunga as "Franco Santoro and Eduardo Juarez" and Lucero as "Bárbara Greco" the main villain of the story. Its was one of the most popular soap operas in the history of Univision, its finale having been watched by over 11 million viewers, faring well against US mainstream shows. It is a remake of the 2007–2008 Colombian telenovela by RCN Pura Sangre, which starred Rafael Novoa, Marcela Mar and Kathy Saenz in the antagonic role.
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Title: Killer Women
Character: Milagros
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: Killer Women
Character: Emma Ramírez
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: Killer Women
Character: Emilia, cocinera
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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Under the Same Moon
Title: Under the Same Moon
Character: Reyna
Released: March 20, 2008
Type: Movie
Tells the parallel stories of nine-year-old Carlitos and his mother, Rosario. In the hopes of providing a better life for her son, Rosario works illegally in the U.S. while her mother cares for Carlitos back in Mexico.
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El Garabato
Title: El Garabato
Character: Senator
Released: January 11, 2008
Type: Movie
The story of a naive young man, provincial and not very experienced, to whom the circumstances of destiny, when crossing with the beautiful Frida, lead him to mature with a single blow. Rodolfo helps Frida in a car accident while she orders him to deliver an envelope. There begins the desperate flight of this innocent man fighting for his life, persecuted by thugs -who want to recover the contents of the envelope- and by the police -who seeks him for being a suspect in the death of an important diplomat.
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El malogrado amor de Sebastián
Title: El malogrado amor de Sebastián
Character: Herself
Released: May 27, 2006
Type: Movie
Sebastian meets Antonio and it is love at first sight. But the obstacles do not wait.
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Amor
Title: Amor
Released: May 13, 2006
Type: Movie
The presence and tortuous inner life of a film student stimulate the creativity of Jaime Humberto Hermosillo and promote the making of a film, Rencor. A combination of fiction and behind the scenes.
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A Wonderful World
Title: A Wonderful World
Character: Comadre chismosa
Released: March 17, 2006
Type: Movie
A fairy tale about the political and socioeconomic realities of Mexico.
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Dos auroras
Title: Dos auroras
Character: Aurora
Released: November 10, 2005
Type: Movie
When her son Mauricio suffers a severe crisis, Aurora, a wealthy woman from Guadalajara, returns from Greece to try to help him with the possible disclosure of the identity of his father.
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Title: Alborada
Character: Victoria Mansera de Oviedo
Released: October 24, 2005
Type: TV
Alborada is a telenovela made by the Mexican TV network Televisa. It is an historical drama, set in colonial Panama and Mexico a few years before Mexican Independence from Spain. The series was broadcast from December 2005 to April 2006 on Univision in the United States. Alborada won the TV y Novelas award for best telenovela of the year.
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Title: Casados con Hijos
Character: Fabiola
Released: April 12, 2005
Type: TV
Argentine re-make of American television series Married... with Children. It follows the Argento family and their lives.
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El edén
Title: El edén
Character: Magda
Released: March 24, 2004
Type: Movie
A conservative businesswoman promises her dying husband to bring their son, long-absent and whose whereabouts, is unknown back home. The clues lead to El Edén, a male brothel dressed as a gym. Despite the fact that he refuses to return, she, accustomed to achieving what she sets out to do, will use all her weapons to recover what is her own.
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The Mystery of the Almond Trees
Title: The Mystery of the Almond Trees
Character: Dona Josefina
Released: January 1, 2004
Type: Movie
A pair of macho private detectives pose as a gay couple to gain access into the world of a perverted wealthy widow, Doña Josefina, also known as “Mrs. Open Mind.” The widow’s summer home, it seems, is a legendary lightning rod for scandal because of mysterious and evil incidents that occur there.
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Title: Dark Fate
Character: Lucrecia Vargas
Released: October 20, 2003
Type: TV
Mariana de la Noche is a Mexican telenovela from 2003. Written by Delia Fiallo and produced by Salvador Mejia, it starred Angélica Rivera, Jorge Salinas, Alejandra Barros and César Évora.
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Title: Las Lunas del Auditorio
Character: Self
Released: September 4, 2002
Type: TV
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To Love Too Much
Title: To Love Too Much
Character: Tía Greta
Released: June 7, 2002
Type: Movie
Laura and Beatriz are two sisters in search of a dream in common: to run a guest house abroad and live off the rents. Laura travels to Spain to start off the project, and Beatriz remains alone in Mexico waiting for the right moment to catch up to her sister. While Beatriz nurtures the desire of moving away, she begins to feed off dreams and fantasies. In the midst of easy love affairs that earn her enough money to support Laura, Beatriz meets Carlos, a man with whom she travels throughout Mexico, discovering the inimaginable beauty of her country, her soul and her own body.
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Violet Perfume
Title: Violet Perfume
Character: Madre de Yessica
Released: March 11, 2001
Type: Movie
A poignant and moving urban drama, focusing on the growing problem of sexual assault in Mexico City. Director Sistach fictionalizes the true story of a friendship between two adolescent girls which is torn apart when one of them is brutally raped.
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A Breakfast Chronicle
Title: A Breakfast Chronicle
Character: Luzma
Released: November 1, 2000
Type: Movie
A view of the end-of-the-century Mexican family. A father who comes back home after a long absence, but who would rather be somewhere else. A daughter suffering from a trapped pain. A son full of guilt and recriminations. A little kid who soaks up all the tension in the house, like a sponge, and a self-effacing mother who would like to go away and leave everything behind.
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Title: Conversando con Cristina Pacheco
Character: María Rojo
Released: September 26, 1997
Type: TV
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Reclusorio
Title: Reclusorio
Character: Gloria Castro (segment "La Prostituta violada")
Released: September 19, 1997
Type: Movie
The human and divine justice are exposed through five real life stories related to the legal processes of a prison. The cases presented are: "I want to stay in jail", "Blood between women", "The raped prostitute", "The kidnapped policeman", and "Euthanasia or murder?"
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Esmeralda Comes by Night
Title: Esmeralda Comes by Night
Character: Esmeralda Loyden
Released: September 5, 1997
Type: Movie
Esmeralda is married with 5 husbands at the same time, so she has to explain to the judge why she has done this.
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Alta Tensión
Title: Alta Tensión
Released: June 6, 1997
Type: Movie
A retired man that used to work for the National Electricity Company fight with his sons who want to get his money.
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Reencuentros
Title: Reencuentros
Character: Soledad
Released: January 1, 1997
Type: Movie
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Title: Sigo Te Amando
Character: Felipa
Released: November 18, 1996
Type: TV
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The Overturning Of The Heart
Title: The Overturning Of The Heart
Character: Raquel
Released: October 18, 1996
Type: Movie
1941, Jose Antelmo Cruz regrets his past while writing a novel and falling in love with a prostitute.
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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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Danish Girls Show Everything
Title: Danish Girls Show Everything
Character: Nun
Released: June 14, 1996
Type: Movie
Despite its suggestive title, this multi-part Danish omnibus film is not a work of exploitation. Instead, it presents 20 different short films (back-to-back) on the general theme of Danish women, directed by filmmakers including Krzysztof Zanussi, Monika Treut, Gustav Hamos, David Blair, Vibeke Vogel, Dusan Makavejev, Morten Skallerud and Lars Norgaard. Some dramatic vignettes mix with other comedic ones, but all are offbeat and experimental. The picture includes one animated sequence (by Norgaard).
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Salón México
Title: Salón México
Character: Mercedes
Released: February 2, 1996
Type: Movie
In this remake of the 40's classic, two lovers murder each other, leading to an investigation and the closing of the Saln Mxico, a famous place where people used to go to dance before WWII. The police investigation leads to several flashbacks about the life and death of a low-life dancer named Mercedes (Maria Rojo) and her lover.
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Doble indemnización
Title: Doble indemnización
Character: Paulina
Released: January 1, 1996
Type: Movie
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Midaq Alley
Title: Midaq Alley
Character: Doña Cata
Released: May 5, 1995
Type: Movie
Heated tempers, frustrated desires and dashed hopes plague a diverse group of individuals whose lives cross paths in Mexico City. There is the bar-owner's son, Chava, who yearns to emigrate to America. A poor barber, Abel, is madly in love with the gorgeous Alma, who eventually becomes a high-class prostitute. Finally, there is Susanita, the desperate spinster who pursues many love affairs in hopes of finding a husband.
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La señorita
Title: La señorita
Character: Amida
Released: June 2, 1994
Type: Movie
Violent death of a loan shark investigated by diligent policeman.
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Passionate Mobile
Title: Passionate Mobile
Released: February 2, 1994
Type: Movie
Gyula Kodar is a commissioner who investigates the murder of an American executive. Keep track of Macabí, an ex and former lover of Mary Laya, widow of the victim. With the help of Kelly, a prostitute who is his sometime lover, Gyula able to find Macabí ; then he discovers that love is superior to survival and freedom is stronger than betrayal.
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Amor que mata
Title: Amor que mata
Character: Adriana
Released: January 1, 1994
Type: Movie
Diego is a young musician who lives the terrible death of his uncle to AIDS. While in his deep depresion he meets Gabriela, which brings back a smile to his face. Just when life seems more promising than ever, one beutiful night death once again took a toll on his life. It seems as though the phantoms of the past are never going to let him go.
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Encuentro Inesperado
Title: Encuentro Inesperado
Character: Estela
Released: April 29, 1993
Type: Movie
Pilar Landeros, famous singer, comes to a huge and luxurious mansion from the airport. The journey has been long and Pilar wants to rest. Dismissed his driver and his butler; will try to sleep until breakfast time. The diva dreams of being killed by one of her admirers, but who appears in her room is the new maid, Estela...
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Autumn
Title: Autumn
Character: Woman
Released: March 25, 1993
Type: Movie
A woman, who lives alone with her mother, invents a fantasy life to escape her reality.
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Las mil y una aventuras del metro
Title: Las mil y una aventuras del metro
Released: January 1, 1993
Type: Movie
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La casa de los cuchillos
Title: La casa de los cuchillos
Released: December 31, 1992
Type: Movie
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El chupes
Title: El chupes
Character: Martha
Released: December 31, 1992
Type: Movie
A bureaucrat sees how little by little his world is disintegrating because of alcoholism. Based on a true story
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Forbidden Homework
Title: Forbidden Homework
Character: María / Aisel / Mother
Released: December 4, 1992
Type: Movie
A young man completing an assignment for his film class invites Marieda, a middle-aged woman, over to his aunt's house to rehearse for a drama she believes they will eventually record. But she doesn't realize that she is being videotaped since her arrival.
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Tequila
Title: Tequila
Character: Bailarina
Released: August 21, 1992
Type: Movie
Nearly thirty years after making his surrealist La Formula Secreta, director Rubén Gámez returned to filmmaking with this impressionistic portrait of modern-day Mexico. Reminiscent in some ways of Godfrey Reggio’s Koyaanisqatsi, Tequila appears to be a cinematic extension of Mexico’s muralist tradition, a contemporary equivalent of Diego Rivera or David Alfaro Siqueiros with vignettes, quick ideas, visual puns, cartoons, and political statements.
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Homework
Title: Homework
Character: Virginia / María
Released: August 23, 1991
Type: Movie
Virginia is taking a class at film school, and has decided on her solo project for the class. She will secretly film herself and her ex-husband Marcelo with a candid camera while they make love.
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Danzón
Title: Danzón
Character: Julia Solórzano
Released: June 27, 1991
Type: Movie
A telephone operator from Mexico City tries to support a family and her passion for popular dance.
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Blue Memories
Title: Blue Memories
Character: Esperanza Gómez
Released: March 20, 1991
Type: Movie
Drug-trade kingpin tries to coerce a woman into marriage, but her former boyfriend turns up and she finds new reasons to resist being pressured.
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El extensionista
Title: El extensionista
Character: Güera
Released: February 28, 1991
Type: Movie
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The Legend of a Mask
Title: The Legend of a Mask
Character: Emilia
Released: February 21, 1991
Type: Movie
A reporter starts investigating the life of the recently deceased wrestler "The Masked Angel"
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Vai Trabalhar Vagabundo II: A Volta
Title: Vai Trabalhar Vagabundo II: A Volta
Released: January 2, 1991
Type: Movie
Exiled in Acapulco, the bon vivant Dino cheats a rich widow into financing his coming back to Brazil. To avoid getting caught, he hides in a coffin. His fake burial is celebrated in high style and it doesn't take long before he starts getting himself into weird situations.
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Infamia
Title: Infamia
Released: January 1, 1991
Type: Movie
MARÍA ROJO, who established herself as a great actress in "Rojo Amanecer", "Danzón" and "La Tarea", offers us yet another of her excellent performances in this stupendous film, based on a chilling true event that shook public opinion. Directed by Luis Carlos Carrera ("Benjamín's Woman"), INFAMIA tells the story of a young Chicana (Daniela Castro) who sees her life destroyed by the bureaucracy of a society that denies the rights of immigrants.
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With Fear in the Veins
Title: With Fear in the Veins
Character: Francisca
Released: December 24, 1990
Type: Movie
Compilation tape of Hora Marcada episodes.
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La sombra del ciprés es alargada
Title: La sombra del ciprés es alargada
Character: Jane
Released: May 19, 1990
Type: Movie
Avila, early twentieth century. Pedro, a boy of nine years, accompanied by his tutor, comes to live in the house of Don Mateo, a teacher that from that moment will be responsible for his education. Pedro begins an almost familiar relationship with Doña Gregoria and Martina, wife and daughter of his master. The appearance of Alfredo, and roommate and colleague of studies, complete the circle of his emotional environment. Provincial life, relationships with peers and the special relationship between life and death instilled by Don Mateo, definitely will influence his future life.
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Dying in the Gulf
Title: Dying in the Gulf
Character: Conchita
Released: March 8, 1990
Type: Movie
The story of the oil leader Lázaro Pizarro, of his political and personal wars, the use of crime to settle conflicts and the course of his power between the basements and the domes of Mexican politics, have a narrative record made in the Gulf of accuracy and dexterity
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Bathroom Intimacy
Title: Bathroom Intimacy
Character: Esperanza
Released: July 6, 1989
Type: Movie
A family crisis revealed through each member's bathroom intimacy.
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Red Dawn
Title: Red Dawn
Character: Alicia
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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Las asesinas del panadero
Title: Las asesinas del panadero
Released: January 1, 1989
Type: Movie
Mexican feature film
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Break of Dawn
Title: Break of Dawn
Character: Maria
Released: December 1, 1988
Type: Movie
The true story of the first Spanish-language radio announcer and political activist, Pedro J Gonzalez
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All Souls' Day
Title: All Souls' Day
Character: Yolanda
Released: October 27, 1988
Type: Movie
Two families gather at a cemetery to honor their departed.
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El otro crimen
Title: El otro crimen
Released: January 1, 1988
Type: Movie
Mexican feature film
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Living Is What Matters
Title: Living Is What Matters
Character: Chabela
Released: October 21, 1987
Type: Movie
A drifter named Candelario asks to spend the night at the hacienda of Don Lazaro. Once there, he gets the offer to stay and work as a laborer with a fixed salary. Over time, Candelario is gaining the confidence of his employer, and becomes indispensable. The situation will change radically when Don Lazarus discovers that Candelario is having a love affair with his wife.
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Los confines
Title: Los confines
Character: Natalia
Released: May 17, 1987
Type: Movie
Mix magical universe of Juan Rulfo, in which Juan Preciado, "Pedro Paramo", located incestuous siblings "Talpa" while Juvencio Nava, of "Diles que no me maten", flee several men who pursue for killing Colonel Terrones.
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Zapata en Chinameca
Title: Zapata en Chinameca
Character: Amalia Martínez
Released: February 15, 1987
Type: Movie
Urbino Martínez, on his deathbed, regrets his wrongdoing after betraying Emiliano Zapata.
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Astucia
Title: Astucia
Character: Mujer Melesio
Released: November 6, 1986
Type: Movie
Historical melodrama on horseback, 1840s or so in central Mexico. Pulpy, Zorro-ish...
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The Humiliated
Title: The Humiliated
Character: Mother Teresa
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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Me llaman la Chata Aguayo
Title: Me llaman la Chata Aguayo
Released: January 1, 1986
Type: Movie
Mexican feature film
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Robachicos
Title: Robachicos
Released: January 1, 1986
Type: Movie
One woman and a detective are looking for lost children, in México City.
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Viaje al paraíso
Title: Viaje al paraíso
Character: Queta
Released: September 8, 1985
Type: Movie
Family plans for a quiet weekend at the beach, but everything goes wrong.
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The Heart of the Night
Title: The Heart of the Night
Character: Interprete
Released: March 15, 1984
Type: Movie
A young deaf-mute who lives and has intercourse with a blind man much older than she, inevitably attracts a shy driving instructor a strange, hallucinatory underworld, populated by those beings whose mutilation, impaired physical differences, have become rejected of society.
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Under the Shrapnel
Title: Under the Shrapnel
Character: Maria
Released: November 17, 1983
Type: Movie
A guerrilla commando tries to kidnap a politician. In the attempt, several policemen and a guerrillero die. By chance the head of the kidnappers meets an old colleague; to prevent him from betraying them, he kidnaps him.
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Deceitful Appearances
Title: Deceitful Appearances
Character: Fina
Released: March 24, 1983
Type: Movie
The sexual misunderstandings caused by the real identity of a rich woman serve Hermosillo to satirize the moral and social hypocrisy of the provincial that every Mexican carries inside.
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Confidencias
Title: Confidencias
Character: Anastasia
Released: December 13, 1982
Type: Movie
Rich woman and her maid start answering penpal ads in a lonelyhearts magazine, just for giggles, but...
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La víspera
Title: La víspera
Released: October 7, 1982
Type: Movie
Aging politicians who have faded from the public eye hold a cocktail party to celebrate one friend's appointment to the President's Cabinet. Illusions are indulged, illusions are shattered.
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The Oil Conspiracy
Title: The Oil Conspiracy
Released: January 1, 1981
Type: Movie
While Mexico swims in the oil veins that were deeded to him by the Devil, a bureaucrat is thrown into a whirlwind of intrigue and international espionage where he discovers that the guts of the beast in charge are one and the same, and the evacuation conduit itself. : We are the shit of that monster. At the same time, a man and a woman discover that behind their passion there is a dark reality that drives them to disguise as action what is only hunger, suffering, desire.
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The Enemy Sister
Title: The Enemy Sister
Released: July 5, 1979
Type: Movie
A 1979 short by Rosario Hernández.
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Maria of My Heart
Title: Maria of My Heart
Character: Maria Torres Lopez
Released: May 17, 1979
Type: Movie
Héctor and María meet again after eight years of not seeing each other. She works as a magician in cabarets and he robs houses. María convinces Héctor to become a magician and work together. Life seems to smile on them until one day, when Maria travels to another city, the couple's situation will be overshadowed by an unfortunate event.
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Naufragio
Title: Naufragio
Character: Leticia
Released: November 2, 1978
Type: Movie
One woman lives waiting for her son who is a sailor. She hasn't seen him for years although he writes to her a lot. The woman shares the letters and her grief with a co-worker and friend. This last woman begins to idealize her friend's son.
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New World
Title: New World
Character: Intérprete indígena
Released: August 10, 1978
Type: Movie
Towards the end of the 16th century, the Spanish conquerors living in the New World faced a serious problem: the evangelization of the indigenous people, who did not understand or accept Christianity due to their unshakable faith in their own religion. The court of the Inquisition cracks down on heretics and the natives prepare for a general uprising ...
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Idilio
Title: Idilio
Character: Mujer
Released: January 1, 1978
Type: Movie
Short film that seeks to identify human relationships from the deconstruction of love.
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Lo mejor de Teresa
Title: Lo mejor de Teresa
Character: Carmen
Released: February 2, 1977
Type: Movie
Ambitious young woman decides to leave her backwards hometown and move to Mexico City to study for a scientific degree.
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Las Poquianchis
Title: Las Poquianchis
Character: Lupe
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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The Heist
Title: The Heist
Character: Meche
Released: August 5, 1976
Type: Movie
In Mexico City's infamous Lecumberri prison, three drug-addicted convicts celebrate getting drugs from one of their the mothers. They are found out and locked up in the "apando," the dreaded punishment cell. Protests over the treatment of those held in the cell lead to a bloody confrontation.
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Candy Stripe Nurses
Title: Candy Stripe Nurses
Character: Marisa Valdez
Released: May 1, 1974
Type: Movie
Young, sexy nurses and their hospital adventures: free-loving Sandy tries to cure a rock star of his sexual problems, uptight Dianne has an affair with a druggie star college basketball player all while trying to expose another doctor's malpractice, and juvenile delinquent Marisa has an affair with an accused man, in turn also trying to prove his innocence.
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Castle of Purity
Title: Castle of Purity
Character: Young at store
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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The Cubs
Title: The Cubs
Character: Lucy
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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Memories of the Future
Title: Memories of the Future
Character: Prostituta del burdel
Released: June 25, 1969
Type: Movie
A story where the Cristero Rebellion creates a story of love, passion, and betrayal. When the Federal Rosas and his lover arrive in a town, a local woman feels strangely attracted to him. The woman will surrender under the pretext that the population is liberated when in reality she wants to consummate the passion that ignites her.
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Forbidden Kisses
Title: Forbidden Kisses
Character: Alicia
Released: August 16, 1956
Type: Movie
Nightclub singer has to choose between marrying again or reuniting with her divorced husband.
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Title: Los Reyes de Oriente
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV
Three friends from East Mexico City —and the forbidden love one of them feels for another's mother— will be forced to reformulate everything they believe about love, happiness, and family.
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Amarga Navidad
Title: Amarga Navidad
Character: (rumored)
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
A woman is abandoned by her partner on Christmas dates.
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Podcast °Rapaces Nocturnos
Title: Podcast °Rapaces Nocturnos
Character: Mendoza
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
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The Portrait’s Secret
Title: The Portrait’s Secret
Character: Maria
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
A true story, with multiple short stories that show human rights violations and economic exploitation within religious and government institutions.
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Title: The Marked Hour
Character: Francisca
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.