Emma Roldán
Emma Roldán (February 3, 1893 – August 29, 1978) was a Mexican character actress and costume designer. She is remembered as the sharp-tongued, domineering matron of Mexican cinema, and was nominated three times for a Silver Ariel Award.
Castle of Purity
as ClerkA disciplined and sexually driven man forces his family to stay isolated in their home in order...
Movie pageRomeo y Julieta
as Lady CapuletVerona's peace is disturbed by the rivalry between noble families: the Montesco and the...
Movie pageThe Robot vs. The Aztec Mummy
as Maria, the housekeeperA mad doctor builds a robot in order to steal a valuable Aztec treasure from a tomb guarded by a...
Movie pageEl mil amores
as GertrudisCarmen has a daughter, Patricia, who attends a school for young ladies where they think Carmen...
Movie pageLos hijos de María Morales
as Doña María MoralesTwo brothers known in town for their womanizing, drinking and rowdiness meet their matches when...
Movie pageEntrega Inmediata
as Doña AngustiasImmediate delivery recounts the misadventures of Feliciano Callosum (Cantinflas), a postman who...
Movie pageThe Place Without Limits
as LudoviniaFamily honor, greed, machismo, homophobia, and dreams collide in a small Mexican town.
Movie pageEl compadre Mendoza
as MaríaIn the midst of the Mexican Revolution, the landowner Mendoza manages to get along with both the...
Movie pageCuidado con el amor
as ChonaSalvador accompanied by two friends of his father whom he calls uncles, they arrive at a fair in...
Movie pageTailored gentleman
as Doña PelosCantinflas works as a model of tuxedos in a prestigious store, your job is to use the smoking in...
Movie pageFear Doesn't Ride a Donkey
as Doña PazThis funny Mexican film tell the tale of a family who will do anything to get rid of the rich...
Movie pageEl mariachi canta
as Doña MelaRivalry and romance between the leaders of a male mariachi band and a female one.
Movie pageLos hermanos Muerte
as uncreditedWoman swears to avenge her brother's murder.. Then she falls in love with the murderer, before...
Movie pageMatrimonio y mortaja
as uncreditedA series of misadventures leaves a city slicker trapped into a shotgun marriage with a country...
Movie page¡Que viene mi marido!
as Doña TomasaRom-com: collecting on a big inheritance "forces" a family to play games with their daughter's...
Movie pageOne Way Street
as CatalinaAfter stealing a gangster's money and his girlfriend, a doctor heads for a small village in...
Movie pageEl jinete justiciero en retando a la muerte
as uncreditedGuy gets mugged on horseback and left for dead; farmgal nurses him back to health and when he's...
Movie pageEl ahijado de la muerte
as La muerteFather of a newborn makes a deal with Death to protect his son.
Movie pageShe-Wolves of the Ring
as Loreta's MotherIntimate problems and the wickedness of friends is resolved in the ring.
Movie pageLa Cucaracha
as ComadronaThe Mexican Revolution serves as a backdrop to a torrid love triangle composed of three freedom...
Movie pageThe Curse of the Aztec Mummy
as MariaThe evil Dr. Krupp, once again trying to get possession of the Aztec princess Xochitl's jewels,...
Movie pageVertigo
as uncreditedYoung woman's fiance unexpectedly falls in love with her mom, and ends up arranging the young...
Movie pageLa edad de la inocencia
as La pitochaA poor little girl slips in a circus one day and sees a puppets' show. Later she returns to the...
Movie pageFree Love
as ViejitaTwo single women share an apartment, work together, and sometimes swap boyfriends. None of their...
Movie pageNaufragio
as RaquelitoOne woman lives waiting for her son who is a sailor. She hasn't seen him for years although he...
Movie pageThe Third Word
as AntoniaThe English-language title of this Mexican musical was The Third Word. Singer Pedro Infante...
Movie pageA Letter of Love
as Nana LupeMoments before he will be executed by the French Intervention Army, the liberal leader reads a...
Movie pageEl gran mentiroso
as uncreditedA respectable, married gent has made up a passel of stories to cover for his fifteen years of...
Movie pageWomen's prison
as PetronaEvangelina murders her lover Alberto. In prison she meets Dora, Alberto's girlfriend, who was...
Movie pageOur Daily Hunger
as uncreditedTrophy wife of a crooked industrialist meets a philanthropic doctor and develops a social...
Movie pageTwo Monks
as GertrudisIn a Gothic-styled monastery, a monk named Javier sees the face of another monk, Juan, and...
Movie pageEl hermano Capulina
as uncreditedShoplifter evades police by joining a monastery.
Movie pageThe Abduction
as Esposa de Constancio (uncredited)In a small Mexican village the news shock neighbors, Ricardo Alfaro, a wealthy local rancher has...
Movie pageAllá en el Rancho Grande
as ÁngelaTwo good friends — the owner and general manager of a ranch — fall in love with the same girl at...
Movie pageLas hermanas Karambazo
as uncreditedThree brothers meet three sisters from the nearest town.
Movie pageMi ley es un revólver
as uncreditedMasked justice on horseback, again: guy plays it meek & mild in his civilian identity so...
Movie pageUna luz en mi camino
as uncreditedA blind songwriter struggles to get his work published, and meanwhile a girl he's sweet on...
Movie pageLos tres bohemios
as uncreditedThree struggling musicians share an apartment.
Movie pageLa casa del ogro
as La portera (Librada)Lives of the tenants in a shabby-genteel apartment house. Miserly landlord learns valuable life...
Movie pageLos hijos de Rancho Grande
as Doña ÁngelaSequel to Alla en el Rancho Grande, twenty years later -- sons and daughters of the original...
Movie pageLa flecha envenenada
as uncreditedBad hats try to conduct a land-grab when it's announced that a dam's going to be built.
Movie pageEl seductor
as NanaA young artist's affair with a married woman destroys her family. Twenty-odd years later, her...
Movie pageLa Hermanita Dinamita
as Anciana esposa de borrachoAfter accidentally hitting a boy with her car, a young woman pretends to be a nurse in order...
Movie pageUn hombre peligroso
as CriadaSequel to El Zurdo: ten years later, El Zurdo returns to his home town. The little boy whose...
Movie pageSanta
as PepaSanta is a beautiful and very humble young girl living in Chimalistac, a small and quiet spot...
Movie pageLa barranca sangrienta
as Chole (as Ema Roldan)Alberto and Leonor have a son, they find out that one of the masked men who attacked them was...
Movie pageGuadalajara en verano
as LucretiaTourists and exchange students find romance.
Movie pagePeligros de juventud
as uncreditedEach of the boys and girls at the coffee shop has something snarled in their love life.
Movie pageThe Crying Woman
as MariaA woman takes revenge in the family of her lover.
Movie pageWoman Without a Soul
as Sra. CamparelliAmbitious young woman climbs the social ladder. A bit too fast.
Movie pageMagdalena’s True Vocation
as Vendedora de loteríaSex and middle class are the main topics in "La verdadera vocación de Magdalena". Hermosillo...
Movie pageMiente y serás feliz
as Doña MargaritaA Spanish, Juan, is obsessed with telling the truth always. As a result he is consistently in...
Movie pageFurias desatadas
as uncreditedCollege student enters the pro wrestling circuit, hoping to find out who killed his father....
Movie pageLa calle de los amores
as uncreditedHubby latches onto a series of side-pieces and wifey finds it increasingly hard to put up with...
Movie pageLas coronelas
as uncreditedTwo young women 'forced' to masquerade as soldiers in military troop.
Movie pageThe Midnight Ghost
as uncreditedA young orphan girl begins to witness strange phenomena in the house where she lives with her...
Movie pageLa santa del barrio
as uncreditedWicked old lady arranges to sell the virginity of a young neighbor. Her boyfriend gets upset...
Movie pagePrisoner 13
as Margarita RamosColonel Carrasco's wife Marta leaves him taking his young son. The child, Juan, grows into an...
Movie pageEl malvado Carabel
as uncreditedFrustrated salaryman responds to career setbacks by embarking on a life of crime.
Movie pageMi candidato
as uncreditedYoung silversmith runs for office, butts heads with political machine that's sucking the town dry.
Movie pageForbidden Kisses
as NanaNightclub singer has to choose between marrying again or reuniting with her divorced husband.
Movie pageZorro vs. the Teenage Monster
as uncreditedWitch retrieves the corpse of a hanged criminal and brings it back to life as an unstoppable...
Movie pageThe Aztec Mummy
as CriadaA scientist discovers through hypnosis a mummy who watches over the jewels of an Aztec god for...
Movie pageFlor de durazno
as CandelaCity slicker scams on young farmgirl while her fiance's in USA on a work permit.
Movie pageRatero
as uncreditedSolovino is called like that because no one knows where he came from. He is a miserable province...
Movie pageMonte de piedad
as Doña RosauraAnthology-movie, series of anecdotes about the personal tragedies that lead people to take their...
Movie pageMuseum Of Horror
as Doña LeonorA mysterious killer abducts girls off the street and covers them in wax.
Movie pageLos tigres del ring
as uncreditedCrooked promoter has a secret weapon who goes around beating fighters to death after their...
Movie pageEl vestido de novia
as Doña MatildeA young professional hires a sex-worker to pass as his wife in a situation that requires him to...
Movie pageThe Underdogs
as Mamá de CamilaDuring the Mexican Revolution, the people tired of living in poverty and enduring the atrocities...
Movie pageEl superhombre
as uncredited1946 Mexican film directed by Chano Urueta.
Movie pageDeceitful Appearances
as Anciana del AsiloThe sexual misunderstandings caused by the real identity of a rich woman serve Hermosillo to...
Movie pageJalisco nunca pierde
as uncreditedArranged marriages vs romance down on the hacienda.
Movie pageVíctimas del divorcio
as uncreditedThe 'other woman' tricks her fella into filing to divorce his wife.
Movie pageEl perdon de la hija de nadie
as uncreditedWhile she's conducting an obsessive search for the father she never met, a nightclub owner falls...
Movie pageDespedida de soltera
as SirvientaFive young women hold a weekend-long bachelorette party for their engaged girlfriend.
Movie pageLos dos rivales
as uncreditedRanchera comedy -- the hero thinks his girlfriend has another suitor... but the suitor is really...
Movie pageDo You Know Your Wife?
as uncreditedAt a big party, Robert Felton, now a woman-hater, right to the core - this all due to a failed...
Movie pageEl rey del tomate
as Tía MilagrosEl rey del tomate ("The Tomato King") is a 1964 Mexican comedy-drama film, directed by Miguel M....
Movie pageLa norteña de mis amores
as uncreditedChild whose father was murdered grows up and seeks revenge, also falling in love with a new...
Movie pageMemories of the Future
as GregoriaA story where the Cristero Rebellion creates a story of love, passion, and betrayal. When the...
Movie pageCadetes de la naval
as uncreditedTwo young men go through military training, then enlist to fight in WWII
Movie pageStorm in the souls
as uncreditedLives in a "model factory," designed to create a progressive community among the workers.
Movie pageSalón de belleza
as uncreditedEmployees and clients at Merle's Beauty Stuff have illicit romances and cheating husbands and...
Movie pageLa carne manda
as uncreditedChildhood friends move up the economic ladder from slumrat to middle class comfort, but the...
Movie pageThe Illegitimate
as uncreditedFamily melodrama: manipulative parents ruin lives with their meddling.
Movie pageSe la llevó el Remington
as AdivinadoraWhile tracking down the three men that killed his father, a notorious bad-ass commits other...
Movie pageUn milagro de amor
as uncreditedYoung man goes to Mexico City in search of opportunity and gets framed for another person's...
Movie pageEspecialista en señoras
as Tía Fe ItaFrenetic rom-com about doctors overwhelmed with amorous female patients.
Movie pageThe Encounter of a Lonely Man
as AbuelaAlberto is a journalist who remembers an event 15 years ago, when his friend Gabriel saved a...
Movie pageVino el remolino y nos alevantó
as La generalaThree generations of a stable, middle-class family in the capitol are scattered to the four...
Movie pageBasket of Mexican Tales
as Doña LauraStrong-willed Luisa attracts lots of men, but her intelligence and sharp tongue often sends them...
Movie pageMatinée
as VecinaJorge and Aarón, two young boys growing up in a quiet town often miss classes to go together to...
Movie pageLa Adelita
as uncreditedBeautiful peasant girl runs afoul of her landlord's horny son and he poisons the well between...
Movie pageMi caballo prieto rebelde
as uncreditedTwo cowboys fight over ownership of a horse and a woman.
Movie pageLa estrella vacía
as Emilia González, parteraMourners share their memories of a dead film-star at her wake, a la Citizen Kane. Only melodrama.
Movie pageLos tres vivales
as Doña DeliaThe rowdiest guy in each of three states hears rumors about the badassness of the other two and...
Movie pageMuerte en la feria
as uncreditedFour bad eggs from the traveling carney are setting up local men for a blackmail scam, and it's...
Movie pageAmanecer ranchero
as uncreditedThe old massa dies and his son comes home to take over the hacienda. Things are going to be a...
Movie pageThe Passion of Berenice
as JosefinaBerenice is a young woman with traditional customs who lives with her godmother in a quiet...
Movie pageSimitrio
as CatalinaA blind teacher is the victim of endless pranks and pranks from his students.
Movie pageMaría
as Efraín's MotherMaría tells the tragic love story of María, a beautiful young woman, and her half brother...
Movie pageEl museo del crimen
as EnfermeraStage magician/amateur detective helps police to solve a murder.
Movie pageLa infame
as LeonorFor love, the rules of society and justice are broken, leading to abduction, exposing life and...
Movie pageTierra brava
as uncreditedFinancier threatens to foreclose on a cigar-factory's mortgage, but a secret benefactor pays off...
Movie pagePor qué peca la mujer
as Doña MatiWorking-class girl-next--door type is seduced into a high-glam lifestyle when an oily promoter...
Movie pageThe Devil's Visitations
as TonaA young architect returns from Europe to live in the house of his uncles and cousins, where...
Movie pageLos miserables
as uncreditedPolice officer makes life hell for an ex-convict. Based on that novel.
Movie pageHarvest of Hate
as uncreditedA 1940 film directed by William Rowland.
Movie pageBeyond All Limits
as CarmelaThis typical Mexican melodrama is set in a coastal fishing village where a wealthy fisherman...
Movie pagePobres millonarios
as JuanitaSquatter neighborhood finds a wealthy sponsor.
Movie pageMujer
as uncreditedOrphan girl grows up, meets the wrong man and falls into disgrace.
Movie pageSi quiero
as Juan's MotherNewlyweds find married life to be challenging.
Movie pageLa señora de enfrente
as uncreditedTwo travelers visiting a small town link up together and then run afoul of the gossip of church...
Movie pageCanción del alma
as uncreditedJose and Esperanza got married just before the Revolution blew up, and they got separated in the...
Movie pageEl revólver sangriento
as tía de RosaFollows an "unlucky" gun across the paths of five owners.
Movie pageLa gallina clueca
as RosaritoDivorced mother struggles to raise her large family.
Movie pagePóker de ases
as uncreditedFour brothers try to manage their careers and love-lives under the close supervision of a...
Movie pageEl jefe máximo
as uncreditedA 1940 film directed by Fernando de Fuentes.
Movie pageThirst for Love
as AbuelaRosaura, a devout religious woman, lives in a fishing village with her sister María who stopped...
Movie pageGuitarras de medianoche
as uncreditedWealthy land-owner poses as a bandit, robbing only his own properties, to get the romantic...
Movie pageAquella Rosita Alvírez
as uncreditedTraveling cowboy gets involved in political issues in a town he passes through. Also a romance.
Movie pageAlbur de amor
as uncreditedDark romantic melodrama, played out with high-stakes card games and cockfights.
Movie pageVístete Cristina
as uncreditedAspiring big-band singer who doubles as an art forger takes in a teenaged runaway who wants to...
Movie pageDios sabrá juzgarnos
as uncreditedRejected suitor goes all-out in his efforts to break up an engaged couple.
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