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La revancha (1985)
Character: N/A
Industrial spies are holed up in a safe-house after killing a half-dozen people to steal some data. On their way to the private airfield where their handlers are waiting to extract them, they run afoul of a small-town wedding. Unfortunately, it's the wedding of the town's chief of police.
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Violeta (1997)
Character: N/A
Violeta is a Cuban prostitute who tells her tempestuous life story to a young male journalist. Her first lover was a revolutionary killed by government soldiers. She fled to New York, where she had an affair with a famous American actor. After he gets her pregnant and dumps her, she sells her story to the tabloids in revenge. The revenge escalates - he has his friends rape her, and she slashes his face, putting an end to his career. Back in Cuba, the older Violeta relies on foreign customers to make ends meet.
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¿Cómo Ves? (1986)
Character: Fish vendor
Award-Winning filmmaker Paul Leduc (Frida, Naturaleza Viva, Reed: Insurgent Mexico, Barroco) directed this gritty musical drama about life in the ghettos of Mexico City during the 1980s. With a soundtrack of Mexican rock music, the camera takes the viewer through the streets, to rock concerts, and to the bars and clubs, where he exposes the hunger, repression, unhealthy conditions and violence in the marginal communities of Mexico's capital city.
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Mamá, soy Paquito (1984)
Character: Susana Gomez
Paquito lives with his mother in poverty. When she dies, he looks for his father's love, who is a very wealthy man.
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En la trampa (1979)
Character: Isabel Salas
Oscar Cardenas is a free young man who dreams of being a racer. One day he is trapped by Isabel Salas, a young secretary, who while finds a husband, she is sleeping with her boss. Oscar and Isabel end at the altar. From that moment Oscar, is falling into the traps that the 'society' puts over him...
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La segua (1984)
Character: Petronila Quesada
Encarnacion is a beautiful villager and Petronila is her jealous, evil nemesis. When Petronila's love interest, a fetching young Spanish lieutenant, starts to fall for Encarnacion, Petronila gets even by simply destroying his sanity with a vile potion. Petronila begins to delude Encarnacion with suggestions that she is actually a "segua" or a female spirit that attacks men.
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Memorias de un Visitador Médico (1980)
Character: Sra. Gayosso
A pharmaceutical salesman travels around the country and has sexual adventures in every place, but no woman really interests him. When returning from one of his travels, he is hit by a car and falls in love with the driver, but none of his tactics of conquest get results. Written by Anonymous
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Morirse está en hebreo (2007)
Character: Julia Palafox
After Moishe's death, family and friends sit Shiva in Mexico City. During seven days, secrets will be disclosed.
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El sinvergüenza (1984)
Character: N/A
Married man hires a surrogate to pose as the father of the four children he has had with his mistress.
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Mojado Power (1981)
Character: Xochitl
An undocumented man becomes the leader of a movement that defends the working conditions of migrants in the United States.
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Chile Picante (1983)
Character: Wife of Compadre #1 (segment "Los Compadres")
A woman uses her husband's money to open a beauty parlor/spa... so she'll have a place to meet with her lover.
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Dos de abajo (1983)
Character: Sara
Two bozo construction workers discover a cache of 19th century gold coins while demolishing a building.
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El complot mongol (1977)
Character: Martita
In the context of a visit by the President of the United States to Mexico, there is a threat that China will attack his life. Policeman Filiberto is commissioned to avoid it, at any cost. His searches in the Chinatown will lead him to endanger his life, while he will find love in the young Marta.
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El caballito volador (1982)
Character: N/A
Mythical and fantastic story on the wishes of a peasant boy, Diego, who become reality in the course of a day and a night. On the eve of his birthday, the child's godfather gives her a shot of cardboard. At night, the little dreams that is mounted on the horse and find a nymph that describes the exact location of much needed water does to your family.
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Orinoco (1986)
Character: Fifi
Two ditzy dance-hall girls are stranded on a tugboat floating down the big river after a night when all the crew kill each other in an unexplained frenzy.
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Falcon's Gold (1982)
Character: B.G. Alvarez
An archaeologist travels to Mexico to investigate rumors of the discovery of the ancient statue of a fertility goddess.
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Burdel (1982)
Character: Malena
(AKA: Ratero 2 or Cada quien su madre.) Innocent man forced to hide from the police, ends up taking refuge in a brothel.
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Aquel famoso Remington (1982)
Character: Anita
Historical drama about the career of a hit-man who specialized in political assassinations in Mexico in the 1920s-30s.
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La cripta (1981)
Character: Mercedes
A patient is released from a mental hospital to help the police find a student who disappeared a few days ago.
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Kada kien su karma (2008)
Character: Eva
Every abandoned woman has dreamed of taking revenge on her husband. Fate gives Eva that possibility. On the first anniversary of running away to find the love of a younger woman, Joaquín, her ex-husband, has to return to the family home temporarily disabled. Eva will be in charge of taking care of him. A film about women's fear of abandonment and men's fear of impotence.
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Sabor latino (1996)
Character: Norma
An officer (Francis Lorenzo) from Madrid keeps a general's daughter (Patricia Vico) in the dark about his love affair with a Central American guerrilla leader (Blanca Guerra).
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Un embrujo (1999)
Character: Felipa / Teacher
In the Yucatan coast of the thirties , Elisha, a boy of 13, is initiated into the art of love by Felipa , his schoolteacher. After discovering the relationship, Felipa runs away from the village , leaving Elisha mired in nostalgia. Forced to marry another woman and lead a routine life , recalling the years passed Eliseo romance with Felipa until ten years later, the woman returns , removing his wounds and changing forever the life of Elisha , his family and the whole town
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Nocaut (1984)
Character: Lilia Montero
Rodrigo Zaracho, once a promising boxer, is in decline. While fleeing from a gang that is chasing him, he remembers his past.
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Conexión Criminal (1987)
Character: N/A
Two secret police officers fight against drug dealers and a sadistic criminal who executes the mafia's enemies.
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Sonata de luna (1992)
Character: N/A
A high-strung love triangle of mystery and suspense arises between Julia, a beautiful and ambitious woman who, helped by Raúl, her lover, kill her husband.
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Motel (1984)
Character: Marta Camargo
The discovery of the mutilated body of a wealthy woman leads a detective to an isolated motel.
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En Medio de la Nada (1993)
Character: N/A
A retired union leader runs a restaurant by the highway with the help of his wife and his young son. One day a wounded criminal, his lover and his brother, all fugitives from law and being pursued by the woman's husband, forcefully seek out a hiding place. They take the family hostage until the delinquents are confronted.
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El cafre (1986)
Character: Adriana Rojas
Trucker accepts an assignment to haul an extremely dangerous load of explosives from Tijuana to Mexico City.
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La reina de la noche (1994)
Character: La Jaira
The legendary life of Mexican singer Lucha Reyes is the basis of this fictionalized biography ( or as director Arturo Ripstein puts it "an imaginary biography"). Lucha Reyes was an unconventional, and sexually liberated woman, most famous for her "cancion ranchera" style singing. Her story begins in 1939, where at 33 she still lived at home with her mother, Dona Victora, the madame of a renowned Mexico City whorehouse. Lucha marries the liberal Pedro Calderon and then buys a beggar's daughter. She becomes the mother to this child, Luzma. Lucha craves lasting love like junkies crave heroin. But for her loyal daughter, she never finds it and in the end no one can help her.
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Walker (1987)
Character: Yrena
William Walker and his mercenary corps enter Nicaragua in the middle of the 19th century in order to install a new government by a coup d'etat.
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Caras vemos (2024)
Character: Viviana
It follows an unconventional family who find themselves embroiled in a personality swap after little Zoe has a mystical encounter with an ancient god. As a result, each family member finds themselves in the body of another.
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Un sentimiento honesto en el calabozo del olvido (2020)
Character: Claudia Castejón
A woman with a degree in biology and a particular taste for arachnids gets involved with some unfinished business left by her dead mother, leading her to face unlikely events that revolve around the banana mafia in a South American country, such as an etheric eminence that anticipates tragedies, a cryptozoological being that is mentioned with skepticism and a terrorist society that seeks to dismantle the fraudulent and sinister structure of land concessions.
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Santa Sangre (1989)
Character: Concha
A former circus artist escapes from a mental hospital to rejoin his armless, cult leader mother, and is forced to enact brutal murders in her name.
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Zapata en Chinameca (1987)
Character: Ernestina Martínez
Urbino Martínez, on his deathbed, regrets his wrongdoing after betraying Emiliano Zapata.
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Pedro Páramo, el hombre de la Media Luna (1978)
Character: Dolores Preciado
Juan Preciado, son of Pedro Páramo, goes to Comala to claim his inheritance; but when he arrives he finds an abandoned and sinister town, inhabited by mysterious voices and whispers…
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Su alteza serenísima (2000)
Character: N/A
This historical drama depicts the waning days of the life of Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, who waged a war against the United States that ultimately cost his nation half of its territory
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Cosas insignificantes (2008)
Character: Mara
Esmeralda is a teenager with an unusual obsession: she collects lost, forgotten or discarded objects from people she doesn't know and keeps them in a box beneath her bed. This is the tale of three objects in the box and the people behind them, all in some way incapable of relating to the person they love most. It is also a tale of the box itself, and of how Esmeralda learns to open it, to feel and to hoard the most valuable thing of all: human relations.
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Looking Through Water (2025)
Character: Julia
William McKay’s successful New York executive career is in ruins after a shocking betrayal. Called by his estranged father, William travels to Belize for a father & son fishing tournament that reopens old wounds and sparks new understanding. Decades later, William recalls that pivotal trip as he tries to connect with his angry, distant grandson.
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El Coyote y la Bronca (1980)
Character: María Trinidad / La Bronca
A murder forces Juan "El Coyote" and Trinidad "La Bronca" to escape from a life of easy money and prostitution and become a real couple.
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Estas ruinas que ves (1979)
Character: Gloria Revirado
In this sexy romantic comedy from Mexico, the life of a college professor is turned upside down when he falls for a former student, who is already pledged to marry another man.
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Las siete cucas (1981)
Character: Cuca's Stammering Daughter
A worker's wife and six pretty daughters are desired by all the men in their little town, so he decides to move his family elsewhere.
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Cien años con Juan Rulfo (2017)
Character: Self
This documentary explores key moments in the life of writer Juan Rulfo, with artists such as Werner Herzog and Eduardo Galeano reflecting on his work.
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Mystery of the Maya (1995)
Character: Archaeologist
Filmed in IMAX, a young Mayan boy who lives close to the ruins becomes acquainted with an archaeologist (Guerra) and asks her to tell him about his ancestors. The crew travelled to over 15 locations in Mexico and Guatemala, including Tulum and Chichén Itzá.
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Viva México y sus corridos (1982)
Character: N/A
Song/action clips from 8 or 12 movies that starred Antonio Aguilar as historical figures, with an onscreen narrator who splains things.
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La Revolución De Juan Escopeta (2011)
Character: La Soldadera (voice)
Mexico 1914. During the Revolution, a raid by the army in a small mining town leaves Gapo, 11, orphaned. Taken captive to be turned into a child soldier he escapes with the help of Juan Escopeta, a gunman for hire. Together they travel through a country absorbed in civil war in search of Gapo’s older and only brother: a famed revolutionary outlaw.
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Красные колокола. Мексика в огне. Фильм первый. (1982)
Character: N/A
American journalist John Reed travels to Mexico during the Mexican Revolution and interviews Francisco Villa. At the same time, we learn about his relationship with his lover Mabel Dodge, his participation in the Patterson strike, and his work as a reporter during World War I.
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Morir en el golfo (1990)
Character: Leonora
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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El último vagón (2023)
Character: Maga Etérea
Georgina is a teacher determined to make a difference in the lives of the children she educates in the classroom of a wagon school in rural Mexico.
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Principio y fin (1994)
Character: Julia
The film tells the story of the Boteros, a middle-class Mexican family struggling against poverty after their father's death. Ignacia (Egurrola) is the Boteros mother, a desperate woman who chooses to sacrifice the destiny of her three older children, in order to protect Gabriel (Laguardia) the youngest one. She believes Gabriel will climb the social structure and bring back the lost fortune to the family. But destiny has other plans for the Boteros and tragedy will overcome eventually. Based on the novel of Nobel Prize winner Naguib Mahfouz.
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Clear and Present Danger (1994)
Character: Escobedo's Wife
Agent Jack Ryan becomes acting Deputy Director of Intelligence for the CIA when Admiral Greer is diagnosed with cancer. When an American businessman, and friend of the president, is murdered on his yacht, Ryan starts discovering links between the man and drug dealers. As former CIA agent John Clark is sent to Colombia to kill drug cartel kingpins in retaliation, Ryan must fight through multiple cover-ups to figure out what happened and who's responsible.
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Eréndira (1983)
Character: Ulysses' mother
While Erendira, a beautiful teenage girl, has a surreal mystical vision, her grandmother's house catches on fire and burns to the ground. Her grandmother holds Erendira responsible and, in order to extract restitution from the girl, forces her into prostitution. Erendira's surreal mystical experiences continue while her grandmother grows rich from exploiting her.
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Niñas Mal (2007)
Character: Maca Ribera
Defiant 18-year-old Adela León pushes her father and an unbending headmistress to the limit in this delicious comedy.
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Días difíciles (1988)
Character: Luisa Castelar
Two shareholder brothers close several factories due to economic problems, except for their chemical plants.
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Kino (1993)
Character: Courtesan
Propped up on his deathbed, a 17th century Spanish missionary named Father Kino (Enrique Rocha) looks back on his remarkable life and relives one of his greatest challenges: bringing the teachings of Christianity to California's native population while convincing the Spanish military to respect the Indians' traditions.
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Salón México (1996)
Character: Almendrita
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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La Zona (2007)
Character: Lucía
Residents of an enclosed neighborhood in the middle of Mexico DF are shocked by a violent crime, and for one resident in particular, young Alejandro, the drama is ratcheted up when he encounters the lone kid who escaped the event and is hiding out within the neighborhood's borders.
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Danzón (1991)
Character: Colorada
A telephone operator from Mexico City tries to support a family and her passion for popular dance.
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Separate Vacations (1986)
Character: Alicia the Working Girl
A young architect finds himself in a situation that he never had to deal with before--now that he is successful (and married), sexy young women are throwing themselves at him!
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El sueño de ayer (2022)
Character: Cristina
Dámaso Pérez Prado, known as "el rey del mambo", came back from the dead to look for the love of his life.
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Perro callejero (1980)
Character: La Chiquis
An abandoned child steals to survive and has problems when he decides to steal from the priest who helps him.
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Bendita Suegra (2023)
Character: Blanca
Andrea, a successful veterinarian who loves her job and is in a relationship with Lucio, an up-and-coming lawyer who grew up in the country. Lucio has some news for Andrea: his mother is turning 60 and is throwing a big party to celebrate. Andrea visits the town where Lucio was raised for the first time and would like to become very close to his family, especially her new Mother-in-law Blanca, who is an overprotective mother, ultra-conservative and always thinks she’s right about everything. Andrea tries to fit in by tolerating all her quirks and harsh treatment during the torturous weekend.
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¿Cómo matar a mamá? (2023)
Character: Rosalinda
After learning an irreversible truth, Camila, Teté and Margo must abandon their busy lives to come up with a plan to end their mother Rosalinda's life.
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Bajo la Sal (2008)
Character: Guadalupe Calva
A series of murders leads Commander Trujillo to Santa Rosa de la Sal a town close to a salt mine, where he meets Victor Zepeda - a lonely teenager who works in his father's funeral home and spends his free time making crude animated horror films - who's strange behavior seems to point at him as the culprit of the crimes.
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El imperio de la fortuna (1986)
Character: La Caponera
Poor Dionisio finds himself as recipient of the good fortune, but soon he forgets that everything that goes up also has to go down, and that in the depressing nothingness of his town it is easy to die.
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