Estela Inda
Actor · 1917 – 1995 · Patzcuaro, Michoacán, Mexico
Stella (or Estela) Inda (June 28, 1917 – December 7, 1995) was a Mexican film actress. She was the star of notable Mexican films, including Los olvidados by Luis Buñuel in 1949. She started her career as extra in the successful film La Mujer del Puerto, starred by Andrea Palma. Also, she participated in Mexican films such as La Noche de los Mayas (1939), Santa (second souns version, 1943), Bugambilia (1944, with Dolores del Río), Amok (1945, with María Félix), and the success films Los olvidados (1949, directed by Luis Buñuel and El Rebozo de Soledad (1955). In the later years, she was an acting teacher in the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes in Mexico, and directed a folkloric dance group called "Stella Inda y su Conjunto". In 1947 she had a prominent but uncredited role as the historical personage La Malinche in the Hollywood epic Captain from Castile, opposite Cesar Romero as Hernán Cortés.
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Movie8.1DramaCrimeA group of juvenile delinquents live a violent life in the infamous slums of Mexico City; among them Pedro, whose morality is gradually corrupted and destroyed by the others.
Movie5.5ComedyDramaThe two largest ranches in a small town are operated entirely by women, because their menfolk have all emigrated. Seceral of the younger women have boyfriend troubles, and all the women band together to vote their own representative into City Hall as Mayor.
Arriba Michoacán
1987 · 4 votes
Movie7.2AdventureSpain, 1518: young caballero Pedro De Vargas offends his sadistic neighbor De Silva, who just happens to be an officer of the Inquisition. Forced to flee, Pedro, friend Juan Garcia, and adoring servant girl Catana join Cortez' first expedition to Mexico. Arriving in the rich new land, Cortez decides to switch from exploration to conquest...with only 500 men. Embroiled in continuous adventures and a romantic interlude, Pedro almost forgets he has a deadly enemy...
Captain from Castile
1947 · 32 votes
Movie4.1HorrorThe evil Dr. Krupp, once again trying to get possession of the Aztec princess Xochitl's jewels, hypnotizes her current reincarnation, Flor, to get her to reveal the jewels' location - Xochitl's tomb. Confusion reigns as Krupp and his thugs are opposed by Flor's lover, Dr. Almada, his assistant, and wrestling superhero, El Angel. Krupp finally meets his match, however, when he comes up against Popoca, the warrior mummy who guards Xochitl's tomb.
Movie5.6RomanceDramaPlantation owner is way too much into his peasant girls. It causes problems.
Mala yerba
1940 · 5 votes
Movie3.8DramaJulian gets framed for stealing a company check by his superior Carlos who's courting his wife Olga together trying to get him outa the way so they can be together, setting him up, the deed does the job and Julian lands in jail.
Venganza suprema
1934 · 5 votes
Movie6.0DramaHer father dies... her fiance dumps her... and she can't find a job... so she covers the waterfront. And then one night...
Movie6.5DramaComedyThree episodes. Faith: a woman is attacked. Hope: a fakir is crucified. Charity: a woman faces bureaucracy.
Movie6.4WarActionThis is the story of a man, Emiliano Zapata, and of a revolution, the Mexican Revolution.
Emiliano Zapata
1970 · 11 votes
Movie6.5DramaAlberto Robles, a young doctor, is faced with the decision to surrender to a life full of comforts and luxuries or to continue dedicating himself body and soul to serving those who need it most.
Movie6.3DramaTierra de valientes
1984 · 3 votes
Movie5.8DramaRomanceAnthology movie that presents 3 stories about romance.
Mundo mágico
1983 · 5 votes
Movie6.0DramaIn a small city, talented María was trained as a singer by blind composer Joaquín. They both dream of making it big in the capital but, when they finally make the move, they find that success is not achieved without struggles.
Una luz en mi camino
1939 · 6 votes
Movie6.0Latter part of the career of Padre Morelos, the 18th/19th century military leader. Sequel to... um... El Padre Morelos.
El rayo del sur
1943 · 5 votes
Movie3.4HorrorTV MovieA scientist seeking loot of the Nile regresses a woman to her past incarnation, a princess in ancient Egypt. (Edited from the Mexican horror film LA MOMIA AZTECA, and follows its general plot but with 36 minutes of new, American-made footage and English narration in lieu of dubbed dialogue for the original footage.)
Attack of the Mayan Mummy
1964 · 16 votes
Movie6.5DramaAmbitious young woman decides to leave her backwards hometown and move to Mexico City to study for a scientific degree.
Lo mejor de Teresa
1977 · 6 votes
Movie6.3RomanceDramaA white man seduces a local girl in an isolated Mayan village, which makes gods unhappy.
Movie6.7DramaRomanceA 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.
Amok
1944 · 6 votes
Movie4.6HorrorA scientist discovers through hypnosis a mummy who watches over the jewels of an Aztec god for all eternity.
Movie5.8ActionDramaAfter group of racist cops from Texas kill his brother, a young Mexican man stands up to the corrupt bunch in this action-drama.
Con el odio en la piel
1988 · 6 votes
Movie6.2RomanceDramaSanta is a beautiful and very humble young girl living in Chimalistac, a small and quiet spot south of the 1930's Mexico City. After Santa is cheated by arrogant soldier Marcelino, she's rejected by her family and friends and expelled of Chimalistac. Santa finds shelter in a whorehouse and becomes a cinic and bitter woman, mistreated by bullfighter "Jarameno" and silently loved by blind pianist Hipolito.
Santa
1943 · 6 votes
Movie5.7DramaJalisco, 19th century. Diego, a wealthy landowner, secretly marries Amparo, defying her father Juan Manuel, who fiercely opposes the union. Juan Manuel still holds a grudge against Diego, having once been his employer when Diego was just a laborer. Their secret marriage stirs jealousy and resentment, particularly in Octavio, Diego’s servant, and his wife Laura, who harbors unspoken feelings for him. As Diego departs for a military mission in Guadalajara, Juan Manuel, unaware of the marriage, attempts to arrange a match between Amparo and the Spaniard José Luis.