Elsa Benn
Actor
Movies12
Movie6.9ComedyBellas de noche continues. The ex-fichera who bought the cabaret continues to work with several of her former companions, the waiter Fabian, the pugilist Bronco who returns to boxing, Carmen, his wife, who returns to booking, the drunk “La Corcholata”, in love with an old man, and a French woman and the pimp “El Vaselinas”, whose favors are disputed by all the women, but who loses his virility and fights to regain it.
Las ficheras: Bellas de noche II parte
1977 · 23 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
Movie6.2RomanceComedyThe Boxer Germán Bronco Torres loses his license, and works as bouncer at the cabaret El Pirulí, where he falls for the fichera Carmen, and befriends of the pimp Margarito Fuensanta El Vaselinas, who lost a bet and has to pay to a gangsters. For 500 pesos for El Vaselinas, Bronco prepares a trap in the cabaret to the taxi driver Raul, to seduce his girlfriend, not knowing that the victim is his own sister Lupita.
Bellas De Noche
1975 · 24 votes
Movie5.9ComedyBlackout comedy bits about people getting their perv on. As it were.
El sexo me da risa
1979 · 19 votes
Movie6.3DramaCrimeFamily from a farming community move to the capital and lose their moral compass.
Espejismo de la ciudad
1976 · 3 votes
Movie6.3HistoryAnalytical view of one of the least reported conflicts of national cinema: the Cristero movement that developed in the regions of western Mexico between 1926 and 1929, highlighting the inability to be faithful to both the Church and the State.
Movie6.1DramaRogelio’s story, a young man of humble origin in the neighborhood of Tepito, who falls in love with the daughter of a wealthy grocer, Michelle, but his marriage to her will be a failure and he will end up as a one more drunk.
Chin Chin el teporocho
1976 · 8 votes
Movie4.5ComedyDramaRagtag crew of indigents from an asylum for the handicapped form a squadron to defend the Church during the Cristero Uprising.
Movie4.8Widowed,middle-aged sadsack has never known love in any of his marriages.
41: El hombre perfecto
1982 · 9 votes
Movie6.0A former judicial police officer, a former undercover agent and a former drug lord seek revenge against a commander-turned-drug trafficker.
El regreso de la suburban dorada
1998 · 3 votes
Movie4.8ComedyA gang of robbers sowing unrest in the city are attempting dislodge the police for a crime kingpin; the band are composed of three women and a business magnate.
Las Perfumadas
1983 · 9 votes
Movie6.0DramaAn unhappy marriage is complicated when hubby starts an affair with his sister-in-law. Darkest before the dawn...