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El Monje Blanco (1945)
Character: Galata Orsina
In an Italian monastery during the XIII century, a white image appears sculpted by Fray Paracleto humble mystically and sew clothes. Besides a mysterious woman appears Orsina Galata. She tells her story to the Father Provincial and thus dates back to his past.
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Acuérdate de Acapulco (2013)
Character: Self (archive footage)
A captivating diva, incarnation of Acapulco, remembers when she was the most famous movie star of Mexico. Meanwhile, Marco, Javier, Félix, Alfonso and Yolanda are getting ready for Easter Week, the period when the city revives, recovering for a few days its past glory. Each one tries to survive his own way in that paradisiacal set that everyday looks more like hell.
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Café Colón (1959)
Character: N/A
Expensively-kept woman unexpectedly falls for a Zapatista general. She sells her jewels to help finance the revolution and ends up fighting on the front lines. Yeah, right.
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María Eugenia (1943)
Character: 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 dying, Carlos quiets and everything takes an unexpected course.
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La noche del sábado (1950)
Character: Donina
Rome, Italy, February 1900. While a malaria epidemic sweeps the city, the young and beautiful Donina meets Leonardo, an ambitious sculptor, who makes her his model.
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Doña Diabla (1950)
Character: Angela
A woman, after committing a murder, flees into a church, confessing her life story to a priest.
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La mujer de todos (1946)
Character: María Romano
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 son so that her reputation will not hold him back.
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La estrella vacía (1960)
Character: Olga Lang
Mourners share their memories of a dead film-star at her wake, a la Citizen Kane. Only melodrama.
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Vértigo (1945)
Character: N/A
Young woman's fiance unexpectedly falls in love with her mom, and ends up arranging the young woman's death.
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Mare nostrum (1948)
Character: Freyra
The Spanish merchant "Mare Nostrum", captained by Ulises Ferragut, docked in September 1939 at the port of Naples to repair a breakdown. Walking through the ruins of Pompeii, Ferragut meets Freyra, an enigmatic and beautiful woman of whom she instantly falls madly in love, unaware that the girl is in fact a dangerous spy of the Third Reich.
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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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Il falso bugiardo (2008)
Character: Self (archive footage)
Based upon Vincenzoni's biography, "Pane e cinema", the documentary traces the story of the screen play writer who invented many stories that became blockbusters throughout the world.
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Inasible María Félix (2001)
Character: Himself
Untouchable, inaccessible, ungraspable... Maria Felix is one of the great myths of Latin American cinema. Fatal passions, multiple marriages, sudden deaths and fabulous diamonds, these are the components of the legendary life of this artist. Through the excerpts of her films and the archive material we can understand her characters and how this life of splendor also led her to the high solitude of her mansions, temples of her cultures.
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Canasta de Cuentos Mexicanos (1956)
Character: Luisa Bravo
Strong-willed Luisa attracts lots of men, but her intelligence and sharp tongue often sends them running. When she meets Carlos, who is equally cagey, sparks fly. The two of them marry, and quickly begin clashing on a daily basis, humiliating each other as they try to teach one another lesson after lesson.
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Camelia (1954)
Character: 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 involving the doomed love of a bullfighter and a beautiful but ailing actress/courtesan.
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Faustina (1957)
Character: 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 like a woman’s scorn.
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Sonatas (1959)
Character: La Niña Chole
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 escape to America. Adaptation of "Sonata de Otoño" and "Sonata de Estío" of Ramón María del Valle-Inclan, which included elements Bardem later works of the author.
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La Belle Otéro (1954)
Character: Carolina Otero
An Italo-French biopic about one of the most famous women of Belle Époque, Spanish-born dancer and actress, star of Folies-Bèrgere: Carolina Otero.
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French Cancan (1955)
Character: Lola
Nineteenth-century Paris comes vibrantly alive in Jean Renoir’s exhilarating tale of the opening of the world-renowned Moulin Rouge. Jean Gabin plays the wily impresario Danglard, who makes the cancan all the rage while juggling the love of two beautiful women—an Egyptian belly-dancer and a naive working girl turned cancan star.
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La escondida (1956)
Character: Gabriela
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 cannot forget her love for a rebel leader.
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Quand Jean devint Renoir (2017)
Character: Lola de Castro (archive footage)
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 of his genius as a father, the painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir.
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El Peñón de las Ánimas (1943)
Character: María Ángela Valdivia
The love between María Ángela and Fernando is impossible because there's an ancient history of hate between their families. His father killed hers, and other family members have killed each other for years. When María Ángela's grandfather finds she's in love with Fernando, he frames the young man and forces her to marry Manuel. Maria Ángela finds that Manuel doesn't love her and together plan her escape with Fernando. But things go wrong and the lovers find their destiny in The Spirit's Canyon.
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La Generala (1971)
Character: Mariana Sampedro, 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 love with a revolutionary leader that is killed by a sadistic and corrupt federal officer. She takes the revolutionary flag and leads a rampage of violence and destruction.
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Río escondido (1948)
Character: Rosaura Salazar
Called by the Mexican President himself, a rural teacher goes to work in a village that is dominated by a malevolent chieftain.
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Incantesimo tragico (1951)
Character: Oliva
Some peasants are excited to marry their first-born with a young woman, but they are unaware of his ambitious personality. When the father-in-law finds a treasure, everything gets complicated.
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María: La Diva Eterna (2023)
Character: Self (archive footage)
Twenty years after her death, María Félix, a figure of Mexican cinema, is a model for free and independent women who are in control of their lives. Known as La Doña, she was a beautiful and strong woman. Admired and ahead of her time, she is our eternal diva.
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Doña Bárbara (1943)
Character: Doña Bárbara
A woman hardened by her past now runs a ranch she acquired through manipulation and bribery.
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Tizoc (1957)
Character: María
An Indian arouses envy for his expertise in hunting animals without ruining their skins, for his wisdom and his kindness.
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Una mujer cualquiera (1949)
Character: Nieves Blanco
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 tries to incriminate her.
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Reportaje (1953)
Character: Movie star
Reporters compete for cash prize awarded for biggest scoop on New Year's Eve.
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Les héros sont fatigués (1955)
Character: Manuella
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 stopping-off point for a number of shady characters. Yves Montand plays a French ex-pilot who becomes involved in a scheme to smuggle stolen diamonds. His cohorts include a Nazi collaborator, a German refugee, and the white mistress of a prominent Liberian. A romance develops between the ex-pilot and the aforementioned mistress. Meanwhile, one of the conspirators (Curt Jurgens) has a last-minute attack of conscience, effectively queering the deal. The steamier romantic passages in Les Heros sont Fatigues had to be trimmed for American consumption.
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Maclovia (1948)
Character: 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 poverty-stricken Jose Maria are in love, but her father refuses to allow their marriage, or even any communication between them, due to Jose Maria's lack of means.
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La Cucaracha (1959)
Character: Refugio / 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 soldier.
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La fièvre monte à El Pao (1959)
Character: Inés Rojas
After Caribbean despot Mariano Vargas is murdered at the hands of his enraged populace, his secretary Ramón Vázquez takes not just control but also Vargas' widow Inés, with whom he's been having an affair. Special military unit leader Alejandro Gual arrives to overthrow Vázquez by turning the people and Inés against him.
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La Devoradora (1946)
Character: Diana de Arellano
After her lover commits suicide, Diana involves her fiancé and his nephew in a scheme to help her disappear with the corpse.
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Flor de mayo (1959)
Character: Magdalena Gamboa
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 turned upside down when an American of dubious morality comes into town. The American and the fisherman's wife had been lovers years and years ago -- and now the fisherman begins to suspect that the son he always thought was his, is really the offspring of this foreign intruder.
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La diosa arrodillada (1947)
Character: Raquel
Antonio, a millionaire, gifts his wife a statue of a naked, kneeling woman for their wedding anniversary.
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La Bandida (1963)
Character: María Mendoza 'La Bandida'
During a lull in the Mexican Revolution when Francisco Madero became president and attempted to implement land reforms, two former revolutionaries are pitted against each other for the love of the same woman.
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El rapto (1954)
Character: Aurora Campos
In a small Mexican village the news shock neighbors, Ricardo Alfaro, a wealthy local rancher has disappeared without a trace. Taking advantage of the circumstance, Aurora Campos, a strong woman with overwhelming beauty, convinces the authorities to sell her the property in exchange for twelve thousand dollars. Soon after, when Ricardo suddenly reappears, a real battle is about to begin.
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Messalina (1951)
Character: 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 Claudius, and her eventual hounding to death.
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La pasión desnuda (1953)
Character: N/A
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.
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La corona negra (1951)
Character: Mara Russell
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 lover, who is only interested in her to find where some precious jewels are hidden.
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Miércoles de ceniza (1958)
Character: Victoria
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 brothel, and she plays a small role on both sides of the Cristero Uprising, when foreign-born clergy were deported from Mexico.
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Juana Gallo (1961)
Character: Ángela Ramos (Juana Gallo)
Peasant woman leads a regiment during the final days of the Mexican Revolution. Also, romantic entanglements.
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Amok (1944)
Character: Madame Travis / Sra. Belmont
A doctor embezzles the proceeds of his Parisian clinic in order to better support the manipulative woman with whom he is having an affair. After losing all the money while gambling, he is forced to flee to an undeveloped region of India. There, he tries to mitigate the onslaught of a disease the natives term "Amok," while his past mistakes still plague him.
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Enamorada (1946)
Character: Beatriz Peñafiel
In Mexican Revolution times, a guerrilla general and his troops take the conservative town of Cholula, near by Mexico City. As the revolutionaries mistreat the town's riches, General Reyes falls for beautiful and wild Beatriz Peñafiel, the daughter of one of the town's richest men.
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La monja alférez (1944)
Character: Catalina de Erauso
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 sent to a convent by her aunt when her father died, of escaping by dressing as a man, and of her life as a man following the escape.
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Que Dios me perdone (1948)
Character: Sofía / Lena Kovach
Lena, a beautiful and mysteriously sinister refugee haunted by her past, is chased into the arms of a rich, unsuspecting industrialist not for love, but for information.
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La Valentina (1966)
Character: Valentina Zúñiga
A smuggler, condemned to be shot, is pardoned in exchange for kidnapping "La Valentina."
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