Irma Dorantes
Actor · b. 1934 · Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico
Irma Aguirre Martínez (born 21 December 1934), commonly known as Irma Dorantes, is a Mexican actress, singer, and equestrian.
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Movie8.1DramaLuis Fuentes, a singer of Mexican music, comes to know a journalist by the name of Maria Luisa Cortéz and fall madly in love with each other. In time, the couple gets married and come to have a son, Rafael. However, they soon divorce because of Luis's many commitments as a singer. This strains the relationship between Luis and Maria, so much so that Maria, stung by bitterness, teaches her son to despise his father and manages to move from Mexico to the United States to keep Luis from contacting his son. Luis wants nothing more than to regain his lost relationship and affection with his beloved son. Therefore, time after time he visits Maria in hope of winning over his son's affection with little success. Over time, Rafael, now a young man, comes to have a passion for music just like his father despite having a hatred for him.
Mi Querido Viejo
1991 · 41 votes
Movie5.7ActionDramaTwo very good friends become wrestlers to leave poverty behind, but the arrival of an ambitious woman will tragically change their destinies.
Movie6.5DramaIn the beautiful hills of the Copper Canyon in Chihuahua, Mexico, a young boy (Emilio) is adopted by the mailman (Teo). As part of their daily tasks, they not only deliver the mail but read letters to the villagers, as well as take dictation, since most are illiterate. Young Emilio quickly learns to read and write but feels saddened by the mostly difficult stories sent by relatives, that moved north to Denver, Colorado in pursuit of a better future. One day Teo becomes disabled and Emilio takes over the mail route and with great imagination, he changes the letters to happy and optimistic stories. Within days, the village is transformed. The elders, once hopeless, lonely and sad, are now happy and enthusiastic, enjoying the "supposed" success their loved ones write from the United States. But the enjoyment is short lived, as they realize that all the wonderful stories are the same...
Cartas a Elena
2012 · 10 votes
Movie6.5FamilyDramaPops is dismissed from his banking job for embezzlement, and his family have to adjust to a more modest lifestyle.
Padre nuestro
1953 · 6 votes
Movie6.5DramaThe simple life and the values of loyalty and solidarity of the poor people in the environment of professional boxing, is the plot of this film, where Pepe el Toro shows the effort and tragedies that are experienced in this profession.
Pepe El Toro
1953 · 29 votes
Movie8.3ComedyDramaThis is the story of three brothers - a priest, a soldier, and an outlaw - that are raised separately by their godfathers once their mother dies. They cross their paths again when the soldier and the priest move into two towns near the town the outlaw lives in. The drama will unfold once the three brothers meet each other.
Los tres huastecos
1948 · 118 votes
Movie6.6DramaCrimeMercedes works as a cabaret performer to pay for her sister's studies. Problems begin when Mercedes and Paco, her exploiter, win a dance contest, but he refuses to share the prize with her.
Movie8.2ComedyDramaA political candidate has an accident that will bring her out of the campaign unless her twin sister may be able to supplant her while she recovers.
Movie7.7DramaPedro Gonzalez first gets into trouble as part of a criminal gang and then works honourably to become rich. Money is his undoing allowing him to become a womanizer and drinker, almost losing his wife. Finally he rejoins her, they have a son and he pays for his mistakes.
Movie7.6AdventureComedyIndia María raises a kidnapped newborn and is pursued by criminals who want the boy.
Movie7.4ComedyRomanceTwo brothers known in town for their womanizing, drinking and rowdiness meet their matches when two girls who like them decide to tame the two machos.
Los hijos de María Morales
1952 · 55 votes
Movie6.0DramaThe director of a hospital deceives a poor couple in order to steal their newborn child and sell the baby to a wealthy couple.
Médico de guardia
1950 · 3 votes
Movie5.8Four expert marksmen compete in a target shooting competition. Each has a back-story that explains why he really really really needs the prize money.
Duelo de pistoleros
1966 · 4 votes
Movie7.1HorrorScience FictionA mad scientist creates a remote-controlled monster and sends it to terrorize the city.
Movie5.0ActionCrimeA Young boy takes after his father as a drug lord and rises to power ultimately resulting in a tragic feud between the two.
Entre Hierba, Polvo y Plomo
1984 · 2 votes
Movie6.2DramaOrphaned, abandoned by her fiance, forced into prostitution by the absence of "respectable" alternatives.And the-e-en...
La mujer del puerto
1949 · 5 votes
Movie8.0DramaAn elderly man falls in love with a beautiful young woman, without knowing that she is in love with his son.
No desearás la mujer de tu hijo
1950 · 46 votes
- Movie6.0WesternComedy
A man, about to marry his pregnant fiance, is deceived by his brothers into believing he's dead.
Los amores de Juan Charrasqueado
1968 · 3 votes
Movie7.3ComedyDramaThe movie starts with Braulio Peláez (Pedro Infante), a schoolteacher, having just fallen off his horse, representing the situation he and his family are in. The next scenes introduce the viewer to his family and their poor financial and social situation. As Braulio stumbles around looking for his glasses, he causes a famous film star, Alfonso de Madrazo (Rafael Alcaide) to crash his car. Braulio offers him to eat at his house as an apology. Braulio's sister and mother, big film fans, immediately recognise Alfonso and attempt to get him to bring the girl, Luisa Peláez (Irma Dolores) to Mexico City to become a film star. Alfonso agrees and tells them to come to the capital.
Movie5.3DramaMusicLa vida de Pedro Infante
1966 · 7 votes
Movie5.8Love in bloom between two ranching families: boy A and girl B, boy B and girl A, the surviving grandparent of each family, their elderly man-baby house stewards, and the prize racehorse from each family all end up pairing off together. Transitory problems, inevitable happy solutions.
Nos lleva la tristeza
1965 · 5 votes
Movie5.0Una tumba para dos hermanos
2000 · 1 votes
Movie6.3Loosely-plotted melodrama about five "hostesses" and the owners of a waterfront nightclub.
Mujeres sin mañana
1951 · 6 votes
Movie7.1DramaA woman, after committing a murder, flees into a church, confessing her life story to a priest.
Doña Diabla
1950 · 21 votes