
Helena Rojo
Actor · 1944 – 2024 · Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
Helena Rojo (Mexico City; August 18, 1944 - February 4, 2024), was a renowned Mexican film, television and theater actress. She enjoyed a successful career spanning several decades in Mexican cinema, television, and theater. Rojo gained recognition for her versatile and compelling performances in films like "Las Pirañas aman en Cuaresma" (1969) and TV series such as "Cuna de Lobos" (1986). She continues to be celebrated as one of Mexico's most distinguished actresses.
Movies23
Movie7.4HistoryAdventureA few decades after the destruction of the Inca Empire, a Spanish expedition led by the infamous Aguirre leaves the mountains of Peru and goes down the Amazon River in search of the lost city of El Dorado. When great difficulties arise, Aguirre’s men start to wonder whether their quest will lead them to prosperity or certain death.
Movie5.7ComedyMysteryEccentric millionaire Olivia sends her half sister Agatha, and a group of old acquaintances, a mysterious invitation for a weekend on her yacht, where they will discover the true motive behind this invitation: the celebration of… a murder?
Movie7.0DramaMysteryA young man inherits a broken down estate at the edge of the Peruvian desert, with no explanation about the former owners or what had become of the once thriving house.
Movie5.4Traveling salesman's amoral/sometimes criminal behavior catches up with him after he settles in at his brother's vinyard.
El Cínico
1970 · 5 votes
Movie6.5DramaHall Bartlett directs the rural drama The Children of Sanchez, based on the tome The Children of Sanchez: Autobiography of a Mexican Family written by Oscar Lewis in the '60s. Anthony Quinn stars as the widowed Jesus Sanchez, a poor farmer struggling to provide for his family in Mexico City. Also starring Lupita Ferrer as Consuelo and Stathis Giallelis as Roberto. This is the last film in the 50-year career of international star Dolores del Rio, who plays the Grandma. Jazz-pop performer Chuck Mangione was nominated for a Golden Globe and won a Grammy award for his original musical score.
The Children of Sanchez
1978 · 8 votes
Movie5.0DramaSasha, a young woman from Mexico meets Damian, a man from Angola. They begin a relationship in Los Angeles, CA. She invites him to her hometown in northern Mexico for the weekend. This loveless romance quickly turns into a roaring silence when both try to tear down each other's walls.
Borderline
2009 · 2 votes
Movie6.3Mexican feature film
Crónica íntima
1979 · 3 votes
Movie5.8HorrorOn his 17th birthday, a boy named Michael has a surprise party thrown by his friends, where a session with a Ouija board accidentally unleashes a demon named Virgil, who possesses one of them to go on a killing spree. Michael, now plagued by violent nightmares and premonitions, sets out to try and stop the killings.
Movie5.1DramaHorrorMexican horror film about an American painter named Mary who is living in Mexico where she sells her works and also kills people for their blood. It turns out Mary is a vampire but not the traditional one with fangs. Since she has no fangs she must stab or slash the throats of her victims but soon she has a new man in her life as well as a mysterious man in black who appears to be doing the same type of murders.
Mary, Mary, Bloody Mary
1975 · 29 votes
Movie7.0ComedyDramaWork colleagues Hanna and Amanda are unexpectedly laid off. Since Amanda is leaving town, Hanna deposits both of their severance checks into her account. Unfortunately, Hanna screwed up and the money went somewhere it wasn’t intended – which puts her on a direct collision course with some eligible and not so eligible bachelors. Now, between her search for a new job and her hilarious forays into babysitting Amanda’s son, Hanna has to find and retrieve the loot in this hilarious misadventure that proves romance happens where and when you least expect it.
Amor letra por letra
2008 · 23 votes
Movie6.9HorrorMysteryWhen four women move into an old house left by one woman's aunt, strange things begin to happen. Bizarre voices, visions of ghosts, and mysterious noises lead them to discover the darkest powers of evil and a horror and agony beyond terror.
Movie4.8DramaA Romanian aristocrat retreats to a desert isle with his wife and servants on the eve of World War II.
Foxtrot
1976 · 18 votes
Movie4.5Sea creature who looks like a human girl takes the place of a couple's drowned daughter. She grows up into a beautiful woman who wears very little clothing, and she meets a young man and they fall in love. Then...
Más allá del deseo
1992 · 8 votes
Movie5.4WesternThrillerA vengeful widow hires a professional killer to train her son so that he can hunt down and kill the men who murdered her husband. The quest for revenge soon becomes an obsession.
Movie7.2DramaMysteryA soap opera actor is mixed in a real drama very similar to what he represents in his work.
Movie5.7On a whim, a retired gentleman decides to track down an old girlfriend from decades back.
Luces de la noche
1998 · 3 votes
Movie7.2ActionAdventureThe De La Vega's are a wealthy and prestigious family known throughout the territory. When Diego, the youngest son of Don Alejandro de La Vega, returns from his 4 year stay in Spain, he finds him hometown oppressed by the corrupt military forces. The farmers are being run out of their homes and their land is being used as military camps and/or sold off to pay for military supplies and wages, along with taking the poor villagers and using them as slaves. So Diego/Zorro has multiple face offs with the local military and swears to restore order and freedom to the oppressed.
Movie5.7AdventureDramaDuring his vacations, 12-year-old Manuel travels by train with his mother to the Sierra Tarahumara to spend a few days with his father, who works in the mountains with the indigenous people protecting nature. Manuel befriends Jesus, who takes him to his town and teaches him the customs of his own. Both children discover illegal loggers.
Movie5.5ActionDramaSeries western, adaptation of a popular comic-book.
El Payo: Un Hombre Contra el Mundo
1972 · 6 votes
Movie6.0DramaAging politicians who have faded from the public eye hold a cocktail party to celebrate one friend's appointment to the President's Cabinet. Illusions are indulged, illusions are shattered.
Movie6.0DramaHistoryPresident Juárez fights against the conservatives, who have ordered an emperor to be brought from France to govern Mexico
Movie6.5DramaElderly woman bonds with other senior citizens for emotional support.
Los años de Greta
1992 · 6 votes
Movie5.4DramaMysteryA motorcycle gang goes to a mansion where a party is being held and joy turns into tragedy.
Series22
TV7.1DramaSoapStories about people who get into problems who use the help of Virgin Mary and where a rose appears and their problems are solved.
La rosa de Guadalupe
2008 · 301 votes
TV7.5DramaSoapWhen Marichuy was born, her mother—believing she was on the verge of death—handed her over to a priest, who took her to an orphanage. At the age of fourteen, Marichuy ran away from the institution and began wandering from place to place, scraping together a living however she could. Years later, she was attacked by a drunkard; the incident left her harboring resentment toward men and plagued by harrowing nightmares.
TV7.7SoapVictoria's life is perfect. She is a famous designer, mother of two and the wife of an actor. But she suffers the absence of her daughter Maria, who was separated from her when she was a little girl.
TV7.1SoapDramaJuan de la Cruz, a young seminarian, visits the home of his mother, Ana Joaquina—a religious zealot who has always imposed her will on her son and instilled in him a calling to serve God. Working in Ana Joaquina’s household is Luciana, an innocent, dreamy young woman who falls in love with Juan de la Cruz. One night, swept up in the passion of youth, they give in to their feelings with tenderness and innocence. Upon discovering this, Ana Joaquina throws Luciana out; by then, Luciana is already pregnant with Juan de la Cruz’s child. When the time comes to give birth, she leaves her daughter at a stranger's doorstep, hoping the child will be raised there, but the baby is instead taken to an orphanage. To survive, Luciana becomes involved with a series of unsavory men—including Pedro Trujillo, a brutal man who beats and abuses her.
El Privilegio de Amar
1998 · 132 votes
TV7.8ComedyDramaA handsome man, unjustly accused, transforms into a woman named Eva to win over Helena—the love of his life—and unmask the true culprits behind a financial fraud and the theft of Helena's project.
Por ella soy Eva
2012 · 303 votes
TV6.8DramaSoapInocente de Ti is a Miami-based 130 episode telenovela that first aired on the Univision network in 2005. It features Camila Sodi, Valentino Lanús, and Helena Rojo.
Inocente de Ti
2004 · 100 votes
TV7.6DramaSoapRebeca murders her sister Adriana to end up with the man she loved, and becomes the step mother of her niece Lucía. Nora, Lucía's half sister and daughter of Rebeca, resents Lucía for the same reasons Rebeca hated Adriana, as history repeats itself.
TV6.5Action & AdventureDramaRamona is a Mexican telenovela, based on the 1884 novel Ramona by Helen Hunt Jackson. It aired in 2000 on Televisa and was written by Lucy Orozco and Humberto Robles. This production featured Kate Del Castillo as Ramona and Eduardo Palomo as Alejandro.
Ramona
2000 · 2 votes
TV7.8SoapDramaTrue love threatens to tear a family apart in this epic Mexican serial set in the 1800s. Rich and beautiful Matilde falls in love with Adolfo, but her mother, Augusta, disapproves of the relationship when she learns Adolfo is poor. Augusta forces her daughter to marry rich and handsome Manuel Fuentes Guerra, but Matilde plays with fire by continuing to be with Adolfo. Adela Noriega, Fernando Colunga, Helena Rojo and Chantal Andere star.
Amor Real
2003 · 1.1K votes
TV5.7DramaSoapPeregrina is a Mexican telenovela produced by Nathalie Lartilleux for Televisa and originally broadcast on Canal de las Estrellas from November 14, 2005, to March 31, 2006. It is a remake of the 1973 Venezuelan telenovela of the same name, created by Delia Fiallo. The story follows Peregrina, a young gypsy woman who works as a dancer in a traveling circus with her grandmother. After arriving in a coastal town, she meets Rodolfo, and the two fall in love, unaware that a dark secret from their past connects them. As family secrets, ambition, and betrayal emerge, Peregrina must fight for her identity and her happiness.
Peregrina
2005 · 3 votes
TV8.0DramaSoapVictoria is a free spirited girl from a humble background and an aspirant Sprinter. She was abandoned by her biological mother when she was a child. A woman named Chencha took her in and treated her as her own daughter. Victoria dreams to become a Champion at the Olympics and much determined to fight any obstacle that gets her way. Victoria also finds herself in between two men, Andres and Raul who are willing to fight for her love.
TV8.1DramaAction & AdventureA wrongful conviction changes the life of Alejandro Gaitán and separates him from the woman he loves, Mariana Zambrano. After 17 years in jail, he becomes a count with the help of another prisoner and seeks revenge on those who turned on him.
El Conde: Amor y Honor
2024 · 40 votes
TV8.2SoapLove story between Aristóteles & Temo, who leave Oaxaca to start a new life together in Mexico City.
TV5.7DramaRetrato de familia is a Mexican telenovela produced by Lucy Orozco for Televisa and originally broadcast on Canal de las Estrellas from October 23, 1995, to January 19, 1996. Created by Jesús Calzada, the telenovela stars Helena Rojo, Alfredo Adame, Diana Bracho, and Yolanda Andrade. The story is set in Guadalajara and centers on the Mariscal Preciado family. The story follows Cecilia Mariscal, a devoted mother whose troubled marriage to Agustín falls apart, leaving her to rebuild her life. When she falls in love with Dr. Esteban Acuña, she faces unexpected opposition from her own daughter, Elvira, who also becomes obsessed with him. As family rivalries, forbidden love, betrayal, and long-hidden secrets emerge, the Mariscal family's relationships are pushed to the breaking point.
Retrato de familia
1995 · 3 votes
TV9.0DramaSoapThe plot tells the story of Maria Olivares, a humble peasant woman living with her grandfather Maximiliano in a thatched hut on the Narváez estate. Maria falls in love with Xavier Narváez, a pilot, but his brother Rafael and his wife Carmen oppose the marriage because Maria is poor.
La venganza
1977 · 2 votes
TV7.0DramaSoapAmor sin Maquillaje is a mini novela that was shown in 2007. It is a production of Rosy Ocampo, who also produced La Fea Mas Bella. The stars are Sergio Goyri and Marlene Favela; It was a tribute to the 50 years of telenovelas in Mexico.
TV7.0DramaLike many women, Regina struggles every day for the welfare of her family, having to cope from the worn relationship with her husband to the rebellion of her teenage son ... but in her case everything is in sight, because she is the wife of Head of Government of the city and, as if that were not enough, an honorable senator, who always tries to do what is best for her fellow men. In the world of politics, a world where men build power at any cost, is Regina, who strives to improve the reality of people and impose ideals over power.
TV7.5DramaAction & AdventureLa traición
1984 · 2 votes
TV9.0DramaMysteryExtraños caminos del amor
1981 · 2 votes
TV8.2DramaThe life story of María Félix, from her humble beginnings as one of fifteen children to her rise to fame and infamy as one of the most storied Mexican actresses of the 1940s and beyond.
María Félix La Doña
2022 · 53 votes
TV10.0DramaSoapExtraño en su pueblo
1973 · 1 votes
TV7.4DramaSoapMariela Salvatierra is an orphan and was only 11 when her grandfather Manuel died because of Demián Ferrer. Being left on her own, destiny pushed her to leave the country under the care of Leonardo Del Río. 15 years have passed since they left, but now Mariela and Leonardo have returned to face Demián Ferrer. Demián is a fairly powerful and unscrupulous business man who doesn’t even honor his own family. He disregards Santiago, his youngest son, and manipulates and deceives his oldest son, Alonso. This attitude affects Mariela too, since Alonso doesn’t dare to turn his back on his father, which tinges their relationship with love and hatred at once. To make things worse, Renata, a luscious and dishonest girl, moves in to the Ferrer’s home and becomes obsessed with Alonso, doing everything she can to separate him from Mariela and making her come closer to another man who is in love with her.