
Lilia Prado
Actor · 1928 – 2006 · Sahuayo, Michoacan, Mexico
Lilia Prado (March 30, 1928 – May 22, 2006) was a Mexican actress and dancer. After winning a beauty contest she started working in the Mexican cinematographic industry, first as an extra, and later on in leading roles. She starred in over 100 films, being directed by Luis Buñuel in Subida al cielo (Ascent to Heaven), Abismos de pasión (Wuthering Heights), and La ilusión viaja en tranvía (Illusion Travels by Streetcar). In many films she shared scenes with Pedro Infante. She and Silvia Pinal were the only actresses who worked with Buñuel in three films.
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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
Movie6.5ComedyDramaConfronted with the unfortunate news that their favorite Streetcar, no. 133, is going to be decommissioned, two Municipal Transit workers get drunk and decide to "take 'er for one last spin," as it were. Unfortunately, the "one last spin" ends up being an all-night and all-day scramble to stay out of trouble, as they are confronted with situation after sometimes bizarre situation that prevents them from returning the "borrowed" Streetcar!
Movie6.0ActionAdventureA high priest tries to force a young beauty to marry a pearl trader who is masquerading as the god Balu.
Tarzan and the Mermaids
1948 · 66 votes
Movie6.2DramaRomanceIn 19th-century Mexico, young orphan Alejandro is adopted by the wealthy, landowning Earnshaw family and moves into their estate, Wuthering Heights. Soon, the new resident falls for his compassionate foster sister, Catalina. The two share a remarkable bond that seems unbreakable until Catalina, feeling the pressure of social convention, suppresses her feelings and marries Eduardo, a man of means who befits her stature. Alejandro vows to win her back.
Movie6.7AdventureThe film is a typical whodunit story, combined with a "ranchero" and western flavor. A young engineer arrives to his godfather hacienda, along with his fiancée. But the things got complicated when the godfather's wife reveals that she had an affair with the young man. One night, the young man's father is murdered in the wood, and he will look for revenge.
Rancho solo
1967 · 3 votes
Movie7.8ComedyInocencio Prieto y Calvo receives a letter telling him he is the heir to his uncle's fortune of two million pesos. Not being able to read he has no idea of who sent the letter or its content. So he goes to the drugstore because the pharmacist can read the letter to him. But while waiting to be helped he sees that a young girl can read. He figures he has to be able to discover the letter's content by himself and decides he will save the letter and go to school, and wait to read the letter on his own.
El analfabeto
1961 · 120 votes
Movie6.3DramaProduced on a grand scale, the Mexican Talpa relates the simple story of two brothers. The older of the siblings, Tanilo (Victor Manuel Mendoza) is a well-to-do family man; the other, Estaban (Jamie Fernandez), is one step above a wastrel. When Tanilo is felled by illness, Estaban is forced to take over the family's blacksmith business. He also inaugurates a romance with Tanilo's attractive young wife Juana (Lilia Prado). Punishment is eventually doled out in a manner which suggests that God Himself is exacting retribution on the adulterous couple. Originally released at 87 minutes, Talpa was pared down to 73 minutes for American consumption.
Talpa
1956 · 7 votes
Movie5.8DramaAdventureA man goes on a trip and then returns to his village pretending that everything went well for him.
Movie6.6ComedyDramaNewlywed Oliverio receives disturbing news that his mother is on her deathbed. He travels to a remote part of Mexico to fetch a lawyer who can sort out her will. Leaving his wife behind, he embarks on a bus ride that’s interrupted by an increasingly absurd series of episodes, including an impromptu birthday celebration; a one-legged man writhing in the mud; come-ons from an insatiable small-town belle, Raquel; and Oliverio’s frequent, Freudian nightmares.
Movie6.7WesternThe story of two half brothers who do not know they are such, who fight over a woman and nearly kill each other. One of them belongs to Los Gavilanes, a group of men who live live hidden and looting to give to the poor. Revenge, love and hate will at the end bring out the truth and everyone will get what he deserves.
Movie6.5DramaComedyThree episodes. Faith: a woman is attacked. Hope: a fakir is crucified. Charity: a woman faces bureaucracy.
Movie4.4HorrorMysteryVenusita falls in love with the son of a wealthy family whose mother sends her son off to the United States in order to keep the two apart. Not to be rejected so easily, Venusita visits Saurina the sorceress who comes up with a spell that kills off the merchant and zaps the son back home, but Venusita's problems are far from over.
Movie6.3ComedyThe family of a dying man celebrates his wake while the man is still alive, showing their darker, selfish ambitions and trying to take the best part of the inheritance.
Movie6.0Solovino is called like that because no one knows where he came from. He is a miserable province man trying to improve his life, but sees himself forced to steal to survive. When he comes up with a large jewelry bounty a pair of cops offer him his freedom in exchange of the bounty and becomes the target of the police harassment.
Ratero
1979 · 5 votes
Movie6.3CrimeThrillerJohnny Carmenta is a gunman who heads a gang of gangsters. Carmenta secretly acts as a kind of El Zorro, helping the unprotected.
El Reino de los Gángsters
1948 · 3 votes
Movie5.7RomanceYoung Raúl looks for his ex-girlfriend Alicia to resume their relationship, but she responds that she doesn't love him anymore. The young woman lives with her godfather Marcial in a hotel he owns.
El fuego de mi ahijada
1979 · 3 votes
Movie5.6ComedyDrama"Faith-healer" develops a cult-like following in 1920s Jalisco.
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Four young couples cement their primary relationships during the town fair.
Kermesse
1959 · 3 votes
Movie6.0DramaRomanceAll men who arrive on a small island fall in love with the daughters of an old fisherman who live there.
Vuelta al paraíso
1960 · 5 votes
Movie5.3DramaMusicLa vida de Pedro Infante
1966 · 7 votes
Movie7.1DramaRomanceThe encounter with an old lover puts a revolutionary general in great danger of death.
Movie4.7DramaCrimeAdaptation of Dostoyevsky's novel about a student who plans a conceptual murder and then butts heads with a police detective.
Crimen y castigo
1951 · 7 votes
Movie6.8RomanceComedyChón is rejected by his girlfriend Rosario's parents, so they both escape to the capital in search of his friend Manny, a millionaire philanthropist, who helps him but makes him adopt four children from his orphanage.
El que con niños se acuesta...
1959 · 5 votes
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TV10.0DramaMysteryEl milagro de vivir
1975 · 1 votes