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Benny More: Hoy Como Ayer (1987)
Character: N/A
This documentary follows the career of celebrated Cuban musician Benny More, who, before he made it big, started out as a farmer but eventually found his calling as one of the leading members of the band Matamoros. His talent has lived on decades after his death and is in full display in the numbers he performs in collected footage, including such hits as "Como Fue," "Batanga No. 2," "Hoy Como Aye," and more.
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Carita de cielo (1947)
Character: Dancer
A young woman is brought before a prosecutor after stealing food. She is defended by Julio, a university professor who decides to exhibit her as an example in his class on the theory of theft. Then he hires her as a housemaid. Her face and charms won’t only save her family from serious quandaries; they will also inspire the professor’s love.
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Noche de carnaval (1984)
Character: Ninón
On Carnival Night, many people come together at a nightclub near the docks. The stories of an aging beauty and her cousin, a faded poet, young Marxists, corrupt politicians, and a group of dock workers cross in a night of ribald fun with a darker edge.
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Música de ayer (1958)
Character: Niña Pancha
Laura Gayán, a young singing student, is secretly in love with Carlos, Count of San Telmo, and she lives in his palace because his father is the porter. Stephen, a fellow student, drinker and womanizer, attempts to seduce her, taking advantage of the girls' sentimental bad situation due to the recent news of the wedding of his beloved. Eventually, Laura gets a contract to make "small forms" and, against her heart, she married Stephen. Meanwhile, dissolves the marriage of Charles ...
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Amor y pecado (1956)
Character: Teresa
A dramatic encounter between passionate love and fraternal love. Two brothers fall in love with the same woman, played by the beautiful dancer Ninón Sevilla, an orphan they rescued during their childhood. Though she loves only one of them, she decides to give up her happiness rather than destroying the reason of the other she doesn't love.
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Pecadora (1947)
Character: N/A
Prostitution and drug-smuggling in Mexico City and Cd. Juarez.
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Mulata (1954)
Character: Caridad / María
In the port of Havana, two biracial children, Mateo (Ricardo Román) and Caridad (Ninón Sevilla) grow up together. She is the daughter of a white man who died in a shipwreck and of a black laundress of African origin. Over the years, Mateo falls for Caridad, but she doesn't love him back because she has fallen for a Mexican captain, Martin (Pedro Armendáriz), who she happened to meet at the port. The captain also fell in love with Caridad and proposes that they live together and she accepts. Caridad works in a cabaret in the port and the owner, Guevara (René Cardona), feels an attraction for the girl, and in a moment of jealousy, tries to kill Martin. Martin falls into financial trouble and has to mortgage his boat to Guevara. When Martin returns to Veracruz, Mexico, Guevara feels that he's the new owner of Caridad.
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No niego mi pasado (1952)
Character: Rosa / Luisa
This is a film by Alberto Gout that deals with the story of a marriage in crisis. It all starts when Leonardo surprises his wife Susana with her lover and threatens him with death for stealing her.
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El mexicano feo (1984)
Character: N/A
Semi-employed street musician butts heads with his wife and grown(ish) children because of his irresponsible lifestyle. Then he lucks into a cushy government job.
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Perdida (2009)
Character: N/A
This film traces the unbelievable true story of the Calderón family, who built grand movie palaces in Mexico and the U.S., employing thousands to produce incomparable, hugely successful, and often reprehensible populist-genre films that were utterly and uniquely Mexican.
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México de mis amores (1979)
Character: N/A
Anthology of clips from classic-era Mexican films, with reality-footage of elderly actors discussing their memories of the period.
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Coqueta (1949)
Character: Marta del Valle
Blind nightclub pianist takes in a young singer/entertainer when she hits bottom... but once she gets stable and starts thinking about maybe a boyfriend, his unspoken intentions start to surface.
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Revancha (1948)
Character: Rosa
A man steals to buy medicine for his sick mother but when she dies he gets into drug trafficking at a local cabaret.
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Aventura en Río (1953)
Character: Alicia / Nelly
Tourist gets bonked on the head, suffers an amnesiac fugue, wanders away from her husband and children, becomes an evil prostitute-y thief-y saloon gal.
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Sensualidad (1951)
Character: Aurora Ruiz
A saloon singer is released from prison after being convicted on a prostitution charge. She plans to blackmail the judge from her case by seducing him, but after she grows close to the judge she has a change of heart.
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Viva el chubasco (1983)
Character: N/A
The struggle between two rival families brings many complications into the life of a people. The priest, with the agreement of the women, get a strike of crossed legs until peace is a fact.
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Señora Tentación (1948)
Character: N/A
Famous singer hires a pianist/songwriter on the strength of his compositions, then seduces him away from his fiancee and from the paths of righteousness in general.
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Perdida (1950)
Character: Rosario Gómez / Norma
Her stepfather rapes her and she runs away to home. After that, she's exploited by a series of men, and...
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Llévame en tus brazos (1954)
Character: Rita Rosales
To pay off her father's debts, Rita leaves her humble fishing village in Yucatan and gets exploited by several men, including a married politician who turns her into a big dancing star.
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Aventurera (1950)
Character: Elena Tejero
Left alone after her mother runs off with another man and her father kills himself, Elena attempts to make a new life for herself in a new city. Believing he's a friend, Elena goes to dinner with "Pretty Boy" Lucio, but he drugs her champagne and sells her to Rosaura, who runs a brothel out of her nightclub. Elena becomes a sensation as a dancer, but all the while she nurtures plans of revenge against those who have conspired against her.
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Víctimas del pecado (1951)
Character: Violeta
A nightclub performer decides to raise the baby boy she found abandoned in a trash can, putting her job and social life in jeopardy.
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Yambaó (1957)
Character: Yambaó
A freed slave, who is descended from a murdered witch, plots revenge with her grandmother on a sugar plantation's inhabitants. Complications ensue due to her love for the master of the estate.
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