María Félix
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1914-04-08
Locus Natus: Alamos, Sonora, Mexico
Et ut: María Bonita, La Doña, Мария Феликс
Fever Mounts at El Pao
Aroused citizens assassinate an unpopular Caribbean despot, then two men vie for his gorgeous widow Ines. Ojeda is a steamy, isolated island, the...
release : 1959.12.05popularis : 2.984
The Abduction
In a small Mexican village the news shock neighbors, Ricardo Alfaro, a wealthy local rancher has disappeared without a trace. Taking advantage of the...
release : 1954.04.23popularis : 3.469
La Bandida
During a lull in the Mexican Revolution when Francisco Madero became president and attempted to implement land reforms, two former revolutionaries...
release : 1963.01.01popularis : 2.499
La Cucaracha
The Mexican Revolution serves as a backdrop to a torrid love triangle composed of three freedom fighters: a colonel, a widow, and a fiery female...
release : 1959.11.12popularis : 5.89
Tizoc
An Indian arouses envy for his expertise in hunting animals without ruining their skins, for his wisdom and his kindness.
release : 1957.10.23popularis : 4.951
María Eugenia
Before marrying María Eugenia, landowner Carlos are away to visit her godmother to break the promise to marry his daughter. The godmother is...
release : 1943.04.01popularis : 2.498
Sonatas
In the fall of 1824 Javier Montenegro, Bradomin Marquis is spared death hanging by Captain Casares, and in return, the Marquis agrees to help him...
release : 1959.10.12popularis : 1.839
La noche del sábado
In Rome, a beautiful young model named Donina is hired by a sculptor, Leonardo, inspired her to do a statue he hopes will be his masterpiece. The...
release : 1950.12.29popularis : 0.732
Enamorada
In Mexican Revolution times, a guerrilla general and his troops take the conservative town of Cholula, near by Mexico City. As the revolutionaries...
release : 1946.12.25popularis : 8.544
Doña Bárbara
A woman hardened by her past now runs a ranch she acquired through manipulation and bribery.
release : 1943.09.16popularis : 4.623
Río escondido
Called by the Mexican President himself, a rural teacher goes to work in a village that is dominated by a malevolent chieftain.
release : 1948.02.12popularis : 1.942
The Kneeling Goddess
Businessman Antonio is carrying on an affair with Raquel, who wants him to divorce his wife Elena. He purchases for Elena as an anniversary gift a...
release : 1947.08.13popularis : 6.938
The Spirit's Canyon
The love between María Ángela and Fernando is impossible because there's an ancient history of hate between their families. His father...
release : 1943.02.25popularis : 3.497
Faustina
A conquering woman of love, power, and fame is challenged by the devil, as he too wants to conquer all. Even the devil learns that there is no wrath...
release : 1957.05.13popularis : 1.08
Maclovia
On a small Mexican island dwells a group of Indians who live in the traditional manner and who disdain outsiders. The beautiful Maclovia and the...
release : 1948.09.30popularis : 7.45
The White Monk
In an Italian monastery during the XIII century, a white image appears sculpted by Fray Paracleto humble mystically and sew clothes. Besides a...
release : 1945.10.06popularis : 1.697
Black Crown
A woman suffers from amnesia after killing her husband, who was just about to demand a divorce for having found her engaging in an affair with a...
release : 1951.05.23popularis : 2.342
Basket of Mexican Tales
Strong-willed Luisa attracts lots of men, but her intelligence and sharp tongue often sends them running. When she meets Carlos, who is equally...
release : 1956.05.17popularis : 2.997
La Devoradora
After her lover commits suicide, Diana involves her fiancé and his nephew in a scheme to help her disappear with the corpse.
release : 1946.04.18popularis : 1.682
May God Forgive Me
Lena, a beautiful and mysteriously sinister refugee haunted by her past, is chased into the arms of a rich, unsuspecting industrialist not for love,...
release : 1948.03.25popularis : 3.107
Amok
After being caught embezzling from his clinic to impress his high society lover and support his gambling habit, a doctor flees to a remote Indian...
release : 1944.12.22popularis : 2.362
Heroes and Sinners
A good cast smooths over the rough spots of Les Heros sont Fatigues. The scene is the African republic of Liberia, which in this film proves to be a...
release : 1955.09.12popularis : 1.561
Every Man’s Woman
A beautiful woman of affairs falls in love with a handsome young man of great promise. Fearing for his future, the man's father begs her to leave his...
release : 1946.01.11popularis : 1.464
An Ordinary Woman
A woman who has walked out of an unhappy marriage is unsuccessful trying to earn herself a new living and gets mixed with a man who is a murderer and...
release : 1949.08.15popularis : 2.172
Reportaje
Reporters compete for cash prize awarded for biggest scoop on New Year's Eve.
release : 1953.11.13popularis : 2.19
Camelia
A sort of meta riff on Alexandre Dumas fils' novel The Lady of the Camellias (La Dame aux Camélias or Camille) here in Mexican melodrama form...
release : 1954.02.16popularis : 4.778
Si yo fuera millonario
White-collar criminals conspire to prevent a shmuck from collecting an inheritance.
release : 1962.08.26popularis : 1.754
Woman Without a Soul
Ambitious young woman climbs the social ladder. A bit too fast.
release : 1944.10.10popularis : 1.861
La monja alférez
A 17th century woman, imprisoned for fighting in a bar, recounts her past to a priest. She tells of her father teaching her how to fence, of being...
release : 1944.07.27popularis : 2.307
Love & Sex (Sappho 1963)
Independently-wealthy woman tries to break free of repressive, conservative cultural constraints.
release : 1964.05.14popularis : 1.103
La Valentina
A smuggler, condemned to be shot, is pardoned in exchange for kidnapping "La Valentina."
release : 1966.02.10popularis : 1.333
Café Colón
Expensively-kept woman unexpectedly falls for a Zapatista general. She sells her jewels to help finance the revolution and ends up fighting on the...
release : 1959.03.05popularis : 0.723
La estrella vacía
Mourners share their memories of a dead film-star at her wake, a la Citizen Kane. Only melodrama.
release : 1960.05.05popularis : 0.953
French Cancan
Nineteenth-century Paris comes vibrantly alive in Jean Renoir’s exhilarating tale of the opening of the world-renowned Moulin Rouge. Jean Gabin...
release : 1955.04.27popularis : 6.781
Vertigo
Young woman's fiance unexpectedly falls in love with her mom, and ends up arranging the young woman's death.
release : 1945.09.06popularis : 4.227
The Devil Is a Woman
A woman, after committing a murder, flees into a church, confessing her life story to a priest.
release : 1950.01.28popularis : 6.058
La Generala
During the Mexican Revolution, a hardened and rich lady landowner is overtaken by the violence of the times. Losing her land and house, she falls in...
release : 1971.01.01popularis : 2.718
Mare nostrum
The Spanish merchant "Mare Nostrum", captained by Ulises Ferragut, docked in September 1939 at the port of Naples to repair a breakdown. Walking...
release : 1948.12.21popularis : 2.524
The Beautiful Otero
An Italo-French biopic about one of the most famous women of Belle Époque, Spanish-born dancer and actress, star of Folies-Bèrgere:...
release : 1954.11.04popularis : 0.523
The Hidden One
Amid the Mexican Revolution, a woman rises from the depths of poverty and becomes a courtesan who is much-sought-after by high-society men, but she...
release : 1956.06.09popularis : 1.994
The Affairs of Messalina
A story, set in Rome of 44 A.D., concerning the amorous and political intrigues of the evil Empress Messalina, the wife of the Roman Emperor...
release : 1951.12.04popularis : 2.212
Juana Gallo
Peasant woman leads a regiment during the final days of the Mexican Revolution. Also, romantic entanglements.
release : 1961.05.21popularis : 1.34
Beyond All Limits
This typical Mexican melodrama is set in a coastal fishing village where a wealthy fisherman lives with his wife and young son. Their lives are...
release : 1959.07.08popularis : 2.013
Il falso bugiardo
Based upon Vincenzoni's biography, "Pane e cinema", the documentary traces the story of the screen play writer who invented many stories that became...
release : 2008.07.03popularis : 1.541
Quand Jean devint Renoir
The fascinating story of a man destined to be only a son of and who sought all his life to become "someone" by getting rid of the overwhelming image...
release : 2017.04.30popularis : 2.174
Inasible María Félix
Untouchable, inaccessible, ungraspable... Maria Felix is one of the great myths of Latin American cinema. Fatal passions, multiple marriages, sudden...
release : 2001.05.23popularis : 1.916
Naked Passion
A woman who works doing chores in the convent where her paralyzed daughter, that believes that is dead, and falls in love of a doctor.
release : 1953.04.01popularis : 2.193
Ash Wednesday
1913: A young woman is raped by a priest and turns away from the Church as a result of the experience. 1924: She now is the owner of an expensive...
release : 1958.10.01popularis : 0.804