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Flor marchita (1969)
Character: Eugenia Almada
Adult seduces and abandons a teenaged girl, she has a baby. Fifteen years later...
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Confesiones de una adolescente (1970)
Character: N/A
Orphan girl has a secret benefactor. When she's old enough to leave the orphanage and enter the real world, she's determined to track him down. Also: having a first boyfriend, yippee!
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El juicio de los hijos (1971)
Character: Doña Rosa
Widow with teenaged children faces hostility from her dead husband's mother, who seems to know a family secret she wants to use against her.
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El primer amor (1974)
Character: N/A
Seminary students interrupts his studies for a final vacation in the real world and finds it difficult to break his worldly bonds in preparation for the pristhood.
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Flor de fango (1942)
Character: N/A
Wicked man seduces virtuous young woman; she leaves home in disgrace. Etc.
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Las Troyanas (1963)
Character: N/A
Adaptation of Euripides: lamentations of the women of Troy after their defeat in war.
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El viento distante (1966)
Character: (segment "Tarde de agosto")
Three stories: A young man disobeys his aunt by not killing a cat. An orphan boy, in love with his cousin, is fond of war novels, imagining himself as a hero. A couple of schoolboys in love wander around the city and forget the brutality of their respective homes.
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La casa de Bernarda Alba (1974)
Character: Bernarda
Bernarda, a domineering, reclusive, and ostentatiously pious widow in a small Spanish town, keeps such close watch on her daughters that they are unable to have normal social lives. However, the eldest is allowed to become engaged to an unprincipled young man.
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Tarde de agosto (1965)
Character: N/A
A boy discovers desire and love, and that even when they are close, they can sometimes be far away.
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Sangre en Rio Bravo (1966)
Character: Doña Lucrecia
Foreign mining concern resorts to illegal tactics to buy up land; two brothers are orphaned and dispossessed and they become outlaws in revenge.
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Para servir a usted (1971)
Character: Doñ Pepa
Working-class dude gets a gig as a waiter doing banquet service, and loses his moral compass through his contacts with decadent rich folk.
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Celestina (1976)
Character: Celestina
An adaptation of the tragicomedy "Calisto y Melibea", attributed to Fernando de Rojas.
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El negocio del odio (1972)
Character: N/A
An ambitious businessman searches for the perfect candidate to train and turn into a great boxing champion.
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Sor Ye-yé (1968)
Character: Sor Emilia
Maria is a young orphan who lives with her wealthy aunt. Maria sings in a cocktail bar with his friends, who form a rock band, and enjoy the night with them. One of his friends, Ernesto, is in love with her, though she does not seem to feel the same about him. In fact, multiple existential doubts and feel a strange emptiness in his life suddenly drive to enter a convent as a novice, breaking Ernestos' heart. However, with her cheerlul character, open and rebellious, not appear to conform to life in the cloister, and especially have problems with the novices director , who often punished for trying to take the right path. In the convent, which also functions as children's hospital, she meets a doctor with which it takes quite right for the contrast between his two characters, but his way with love and mutual respect.
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Pánico (1972)
Character: Witch (segment "Pánico")
Three tales of horror, isolation and insanity set in Mexico.
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El Esperado Amor Desesperado (1976)
Character: Aminta
A thirty-something woman fears that life is passing her by and that she's going to end up as the family's 'maiden aunt'. She imagines that somebody in her circle is courting her, and he's too polite to disillusion her. And then...
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La muñeca perversa (1969)
Character: Abuela
A troubled woman commits a series of murders that exposes some dark family secrets.
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Aquellos años (1974)
Character: Madre de Comonfort
President Juárez fights against the conservatives, who have ordered an emperor to be brought from France to govern Mexico
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Mi Verdad (2004)
Character: Catalina Ortiz
Film about the scandal of TV producer Juan Osorio with Cuban dancer Niurka Marcos.
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El patrullero 777 (1978)
Character: Esposa violenta
Follows Diogenes as he goes about his day as a police officer. He's prone to do things the right way, surrounded by a pretty much corrupt & citizen distant police department, & always resolves his duties with a personal method.
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Mi desconocida esposa (1958)
Character: María Linz
After moving from Guadalajara to Mexico City, a young woman gets embroiled in a series of puzzling mistaken-identity misadventures.
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El jardín de la tía Isabel (1972)
Character: Xeneta
A ship carrying Conquistadors is wrecked and the survivors are thrown ashore to struggle through the Yucatan jungle.
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El profeta Mimí (1973)
Character: Doña Eulalia, madre de Mimi
Childhood trauma and religious repression causes a little boy to grow up into a murderer.
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Los espadachines de la reina (1961)
Character: N/A
The Big Bad Wolf and the Stinky Little Skunk from the Caperucita Roja movies in their final adventure, as swashbuckling 17th century swordsmen in a king's service.
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El escapulario (1968)
Character: Maria Pérez viuda de Fernández
A woman who is about to die calls the town's priest and hands him a scapulary, saying that she knows of its great powers. Anybody who does not believe in them will end up dead.
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Quinceañera (1960)
Character: Carmen, Leonor's mother
María Antonia, Beatriz and Leonor are three classmates who are anxiously awaiting the celebration of their 15th birthday. However, each of them will have to cope with their complicated personal situation.
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Nazarín (1959)
Character: Chanfa
A Catholic priest in a poor community lives a charitable life in accordance with his religious principles, but others do not return the favor.
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El hombre y el monstruo (1959)
Character: Cornelia Magno
A failed pianist sells his soul to the devil in return for his becoming the greatest musician in the world. The catch: every time he plays he turns into a horrible monster.
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Caperucita y Pulgarcito contra los monstruos (1962)
Character: La reina bruja
The film follows adventures of Little Red Riding Hood (Maria Gracia) and Tom Thumb (Cesaro Quezadas) and their friends, fighting against the wicked Witch Queen (Ofelia Guilmáin) and her band of monsters. The film starts at the meeting of the evil monsters in the castle in the Haunted Forest, heart of the Devil's dominion, during which the Vampire (Quintín Bulnes) accuses the Wolf (Manuel Valdés) and the Ogre (José Elías Moreno) of betraying the Witch Queen (La Reina Bruja, renamed Queen of Badness in the English dub), who orders them to ber executed. Their friend Stinky the Skunk (Santanón) however escapes and informs Little Red Riding Hood and Tom Thumb, who promise to help. Meanwhile, the Queen and her sister the Old Witch cast a terrible curse, turning villagers into monkeys and mice for trying to defy her magic. The rest of the story details the heroes' quest to conquer evil.
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El barón del terror (1962)
Character: Señora Meneses
In 1661 Mexico, Baron Vitelius is executed for witchcraft. 300 years later, during a comet's return, he resurfaces as a brain-eating monster seeking revenge on the Inquisitors' descendants.
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¿Por qué nací mujer? (1970)
Character: Carmela
A family gathers to celebrate Mother's Day, that day a woman discuss many problems about her woman condition; husband, children and grandchildren will hear she tired and overwhelmed silenced by submission and obedience. Analysis of the family and gender roles.
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Las vírgenes locas (1972)
Character: Teresa Guardiola
Handsome young swindler throws himself into the clutches of three rich spinsters who live in their own little fantasy world on their crumbling estate.
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El ángel exterminador (1962)
Character: Juana Ávila
After a lavish dinner party, the guests find themselves unable to depart... and, over the next few days, all of their elaborate societal pretenses and façades deteriorate as they are reduced to living like animals.
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