Lupita Tovar

Actor · 1910 – 2016 · Matias Romero, Oaxaca, Mexico

Guadalupe Natalia Tovar, known as Lupita Tovar (July 27, 1910, Matías Romero Avendaño, Mexico - November 12, 2016, Los Angeles, California, USA), was a Mexican-American actress. Among her most important works as an actress, her participation in the films stands out: "Dracula", which was the Hispanic version of the original film and "Santa", considered the first sound film in Mexico.

Movies24

Movie6.0
TV MovieDocumentary
Eight hundred German filmmakers (cast and crew) fled the Nazis in the 1930s. The film uses voice-overs, archival footage, and film clips to examine Berlin's vital filmmaking in the 1920s; then it follows a producer, directors, composers, editors, writers, and actors to Hollywood: some succeeded and many found no work. Among those profiled are Erich Pommer, Joseph May, Ernst Lubitsch, Fritz Lang, Billy Wilder, and Peter Lorre. Once in Hollywood, these exiles helped each other, housed new arrivals, and raised money so others could escape. Some worked on anti-Nazi films, like Casablanca. The themes and lighting of German Expressionism gave rise in Hollywood to film noir.
Cinema's Exiles: From Hitler to Hollywood
2009 · 1 votes
Movie7.1
Western
Drifter Cole Harden is accused of stealing a horse and faces hanging by self-appointed Judge Roy Bean, but Harden manages to talk his way out of it by claiming to be a friend of stage star Lillie Langtry, with whom the judge is obsessed, even though he has never met her. Tensions rise when Harden comes to the defense of a group of struggling homesteaders who Judge Bean is trying to drive away.
The Westerner
1940 · 139 votes
Movie6.0
Mystery
A criminal psychiatrist investigates the murder of a two-time widower.
The Crime Doctor's Courage
1945 · 5 votes
Movie5.5
ComedyAction
An investigator checks into the rumors of harsh working conditions on an Amazon rubber plantation.
Tropic Fury
1939 · 2 votes
Movie6.5
Documentary
Documentary about the presence of Latin American culture and actors in American movies.
The Bronze Screen: 100 Years of the Latino Image in American Cinema
2002 · 6 votes
Movie6.8
Horror
A British estate agent travels to Transylvania to meet the mysterious Count Dracula, who is interested in leasing a London castle. After Dracula enslaves the agent and drives him to insanity, the pair return to London together, where Dracula, a secret bloodsucker, begins preying on socialites.
Drácula
1931 · 143 votes
Movie6.0
Western
A federal agent and his partner hang out in Mexico to check a revolution.
South of the Border
1939 · 2 votes
Movie4.6
AdventureRomance
A group of adventurers head deep into South American jungle in search of an ancient Incan treasure.
Green Hell
1940 · 14 votes
Movie4.8
MusicComedy
Two Marines are sent to South Sea island where they fight over a local island girl.
The Cock-Eyed World
1929 · 5 votes
Movie5.5
Mystery
Cornell employs clips from 1931's jungle melodrama East of Borneo – more specifically, clips of its lead actress, Rose Hobart – to disquieting effect. Through Cornell's collage editing, Hobart becomes a singular object of desire and dread, trapped in an exotic paradise.
Rose Hobart
1936 · 50 votes
Movie5.5
CrimeDrama
An agent of the anti-drug brigade is captured and ends up addicted to marijuana, which causes him to enter the mafia.
Marihuana (El monstruo verde)
1936 · 6 votes
Movie5.7
DramaRomance
This is an early film from Director Gilberto Martinez Solares, who would go on to become better-known for his unique perspective on horror films of the 60's and 70's - like "Santanico Pademonium" "Face of the Screaming Wolf" and his own "House of Terror", (these features, in turn, would inspire future award-wining Directors such as Tarantino and Del Toro). As far as Resurreccion goes, it is a semi-historical Drama, based on Leo Tolstoy's novel also titled "Resurrection" . However, Solares' movie loosely uses the start of the 1910 to 1920 Mexican Revolution as its cornerstone, (instead of the Russian battle that Tolstoy relied on for his 1899 literary work ). It essentially documents one man's effort to find redemption for his past sins. It stars actors Emilio Tuero, Lupita Tovar, Sara Garcia and Jose Pulido, among others.
Resurrección
1943 · 3 votes
Movie6.3
Drama
The story narrates the idyllic and tragic love between María and her cousin Efraín, both natives of Valle del Cauca. In the middle of a romantic and bucolic landscape, the young characters fall in love with each other but circumstances prevent the full realization of their love.
María
1938 · 3 votes
Movie7.5
Documentary
A documentary from Universal about the movie "Dracula" (1931) starring Bela Lugosi.
The Road to 'Dracula'
1999 · 15 votes
Movie10.0
Documentary
A documentary that explores man's enduring fascination with the vampire legend by examining historical accounts, literary works, and as they are portrayed in film and television.
Vampires: Thirst for the Truth
1996 · 1 votes
Movie7.0
Documentary
"Secrets of a Hollywood Star" is another documentary made after "Calling Hedy Lamarr" in 2006. It features interviews with Hedy's friends in both Europe and Hollywood and her film/studio partners.
Hedy Lamarr: Secrets of a Hollywood Star
2006 · 1 votes
Movie6.3
El rosario de Amozoc
1938 · 3 votes
Movie7.1
DocumentaryTV Movie
A documentary about the era of classic monster movies that were made at Universal Studios during the 1930s and 1940s.
Universal Horror
1998 · 21 votes
Movie5.6
Drama
Santa 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 Hipólito.
Santa
1932 · 17 votes
Movie5.8
AdventureHistory
A Russian courier has to deliver a message from the Czar to the Grand Duke across enemy lines. He encounters many colorful characters along the way.
Miguel Strogoff
1944 · 4 votes
Movie5.8
WarDrama
A simple peasant is forced to take up arms to defend his farm during the Spanish Civil War. Along the way he falls in love with a Russian girl whose father is involved in espionage.
Blockade
1938 · 14 votes
Movie7.5
Western
A notorious outlaw is recruited by a cattle buyer, secret boss of a gang of cattle rustlers, to impersonate the town sheriff, who is the outlaw's twin brother; and complications ensue, as the sheriff, now a hostage, is on the eve of his marriage while the outlaw's cantina-dancer girlfriend has followed him to town and is at risk of exposing him.
Two Gun Sheriff
1941 · 2 votes
Movie7.3
HorrorMystery
This is the Spanish-language version of The Cat Creeps, shot at the same time and on the same sets.
La voluntad del muerto
The Will of the Dead Man
1930 · 3 votes
Movie4.0
Comedy
A bumbling yachtsman sails to the South of Spain with a fiery seductress, only to become the pawn in her dangerous game of love.
The Invader
1936 · 6 votes