Prudencia Grifell
Actor · 1879 – 1970 · Lugo, Galicia, Spain
Prudencia Grifell (December 27, 1879 – June 7, 1970), born Prudencia Grifell Masipon, was a prolific actress of the Golden Era of the Cinema of Mexico. Grifell was born to Spanish stage actors and started her acting career herself at the age of ten in theater in Venezuela and touring Spain and Latin America. By the 1900s she had become very popular and moved to Mexico to continue her career in stage, after the Spanish Civil War she decided not to go back to that country but instead to relocate in Mexico permanently after 1940. Three years later, already at the age of 61, she appeared in her first film Internado para señoritas ("Girls Boarding School") with the stars Mapy Cortés, Emilio Tuero and Katy Jurado. Just as Sara García, her co-star as the Vivanco sisters in two films, she mostly played feisty but lovable granny roles.
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Movie8.0ComedyIt's about a country doctor that comes to the city while a clinic is built in his home town... he rubs off his care and compassion on others at the hospital with his humor and wit.
El señor doctor
1965 · 116 votes
Movie6.3Twin sisters butt heads over a feller. One goes into a convent, the other becomes a professional thiefstress.
La ladrona
1954 · 6 votes
Movie5.7Gangster's daughter learns about her dad's illegalist lifestyle.
El plagiario
1955 · 3 votes
Movie7.5FamilyAdventureThe classic story of the Red Riding Hood spiced up by a couple of funny characters like the dog Duke, companion to the girl in her adventures, and the stinky Skunk, henchman to the Wolf.
Movie6.2Mischievous little girl pulls a variety of pranks for the purpose of preventing her parents from divorcing.
Movie7.0HistoryDramaIn 1920s Mexico, the candidates being chosen to succeed the current president, El Caudillo, find themselves at his mercy as he will resort to anything to accomplish his will, including kidnapping, betrayal, and murder.
Movie5.4ComedyDramaAfter moving from Guadalajara to Mexico City, a young woman gets embroiled in a series of puzzling mistaken-identity misadventures.
Mi desconocida esposa
1958 · 5 votes
Movie7.0DramaGoverness falls in love with the uncle of the children she's teaching. Then complications.
Las infieles
1953 · 6 votes
Movie6.3DramaEsposa o amante
1950 · 3 votes
Movie6.5Four brothers try to manage their careers and love-lives under the close supervision of a domineering mother.
Póker de ases
1952 · 6 votes
Movie7.0ComedyRomanceA young teacher is sent to a remote estate to educate a wealthy man who has grown up isolated from society. As she introduces him to formal education and social conventions, their contrasting views of the world lead to a series of unexpected encounters.
Movie6.0Young widow with kindergarten-age daughter butts heads with her mother-in-law.
Sublime melodía
1956 · 6 votes
Movie5.5DramaRomance between a flamenco singer performing in Mexico and a gov't soldier during the Mexican Revolution.
Prisionera del pasado
1954 · 6 votes
Movie8.1DramaA 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.
Movie6.0ComedyDramaRosa, a mayor, faces pressure from her police chief father to imprison her cousins. After a kidnapping and tampering with vaccines, Rosa realizes politics isn't for women.
Al diablo las mujeres
1955 · 5 votes
Movie6.3DramaCrimeEntre tu amor y el cielo
1950 · 4 votes
Movie6.7ComedyMusicMelodías de amor
1955 · 3 votes
Movie7.2ComedyMusicBetween-engagements troupers at a theatrical boarding-house con a rich acquaintance into financing a show.
Pensión de artistas
1956 · 9 votes
Movie6.2DramaThe story of Nora, a poor but ambitious young woman, who uses her beauty to seduce a rich and married lawyer.
Senda prohibida
1961 · 5 votes
Movie6.2MysteryCrimeRuined alcoholic doctor escapes a tropical plague and begins a new life back in civilization, taking over the identity of a dead man.
Movie5.6DramaWealthy libertine tries to seduce another man's mistress by threatening to send him to jail if she doesn't put out. Blowback from his sleazy behavior affects five other people; everybody suffers. Enormously.
Lodo y Armiño
1951 · 5 votes
Movie5.6Newly-married woman discovers that her husband's a virgin and not the notorious Don Juan that she'd heard rumors about, and their marriage almost collapses because he's faithful and monogamous and good.
Recién casados... no molestar
1951 · 5 votes
Movie6.0DramaRomanceEl amor abrió los ojos
1947 · 3 votes
Movie6.8DramaFictionalized version of the life of songwriter Maria Grever.
Cuando me vaya
1954 · 6 votes