
Silvia Pinal
Actor · 1931 – 2024 · Guaymas, Sonora, Mexico
Silvia Pinal (September 12, 1931 - November 28, 2024) was a Mexican actress, who had roles in several of Luis Buñuel's movies such as El ángel exterminador and Viridiana. Pinal is also considered as one of the legends of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema.
Movies23
Movie7.7DramaViridiana is preparing to start her life as a nun when she is sent, somewhat unwillingly, to visit her aging uncle, Don Jaime. He supports her; but the two have met only once. Jaime thinks Viridiana resembles his dead wife. Viridiana has secretly despised this man all her life and finds her worst fears proven when Jaime grows determined to seduce his pure niece. Viridiana becomes undone as her uncle upends the plans she had made to join the convent.
Viridiana
1962 · 568 votes
Movie7.9ComedyDramaAfter a lavish dinner party, the guests find themselves unable to depart... and, over the next few days, all of their elaborate societal pretenses and façades deteriorate as they are reduced to living like animals.
Movie8.0ComedyDramaA woman jumping from the poverty of the countryside to the splendor of wealth in the city without losing its simplicity
María Isabel
1967 · 42 votes
Movie7.0WesternLeon Alastray is an outlaw who has been given sanctuary by Father John, whom he then escorts to the village of San Sebastian. The village is deserted, with its cowardly residents hiding in the hills from Indians, who regularly attack the village and steal all their supplies. When Father John is murdered, the villagers mistakenly think the outlaw is the priest. Alastray at first tells them he is not a priest, but they don't believe it, and an apparent miracle seems to prove they are correct. Eventually, he assists them in regaining their confidence and defending themselves.
Movie6.0DramaCrimeJilted lover takes revenge on her ex's new wife.
La adúltera
1956 · 6 votes
Movie5.8DramaRomanceLife unravels when famous radio talk-show host Carmen (Sylvia Pinal) discovers she has just months to live. To tie up the loose ends of her life, she hires a chauffeur to drive her around Mexico City and visit her old haunts. But he does far more than that; instead, he gives her life a much-needed spark and shows her the road to happiness. Alonso Echanove and Raul Araiza Jr. co-star.
Movie6.4DocumentaryThe film tells the story of Mauricio Fernandez, mayor of the wealthiest municipality in Latin America, located in the North of Mexico. He presents himself as a polemical figure who takes justice into his own hands in order to "clean" his municipality of the drug cartels' presence. Mauricio is a key character to better understand the present situation in Mexico and through the unusual views of this politician, the audience will be a privileged witnesses of an scenario where political tasks and excessive violence mingle with one another.
Movie7.1RomanceDramaFollow up to Maria Isabel. Newly wed to a rich man, Maria Isabel must still struggle with being branded as a lowly maid and endure the scorn of her adoptive daughter and the infidelity of her husband.
El amor de María Isabel
1968 · 7 votes
Movie7.7ComedyDramaSimon, a deeply religious man living in the 4th century, wants to be nearer to God so he climbs a column. The Devil wants him come down to Earth and is trying to seduce him.
Movie5.7Mexican feature film
Hijas casaderas
1954 · 3 votes
Movie6.7MysteryCrimeAfter a trip to Europe, Regina de Alba comes home and finds out her mother is nowhere to be found. When her step-father's criminal past becomes known, her suspicions increase.
Movie7.5ComedyThe famous couplet singer Mimi Pompon leaves everything to marry Heriberto Promenade, a wealthy merchant of Limoges with five marriages behind her. Of course Mimi has also been widowed five times. Saintpaul, an astute police, suspicious of so many accidental deaths and closely monitor both the mansion. Gradually, we discover that Heriberto, fearing that their wives may betray him, the killer, always with the complicity of her mother.
¡Adiós, Mimí Pompón!
1961 · 2 votes
Movie4.3ActionThrillerA gunrunner loses his cargo near a small coastal Sudanese town so he's stuck there. When a woman hires him to raid a sunken ship in the shark-infested waters, he sees a chance to compensate for his losses. He's not the only one.
Shark
1969 · 33 votes
Movie5.6DramaWife-killer narrates flashbacks about how his obsessive jealousy led him to tragedy.
Locura pasional
1956 · 5 votes
Movie7.7ComedyCantinflas works as a porter, who writes letters and speeches in his old writing machine to earn an extra money, despite the fact that he still goes to school. The sentimental issues come when Cantinflas falls in love of his pretty neighborhood (Silvia Pinal), who is handicapped and unable to walk. The thing wont be easy, because a young military man also has feelings for the girl. But the porter wants to see her happy, and he will become a sort of Cyrano De Bergerac, writing love letters to her signed by the young soldier. His plan is simple: to win money in the horse races in order to pay the operation which will make her walk again.
El Portero
1950 · 62 votes
Movie5.8CrimeComedyTwo dark-comedy stories involving blackmail, murder and love triangles in Rio de Janeiro
Movie7.1ComedyMusicAfter a quarrel with her boyfriend on New Year's Eve, Mane drives her car from Mexico City to Cuernavaca to meet her parents in their country house. The car breaks down in the highway and Mane has to ask for help. Mechanic Cruci arrives and, after testing the car, offers Mane a ride on his motorcycle. Back in Mane's house, she invites him some drinks to celebrate New Year's Eve. They get drunk and, the morning after, Mane's parents arrive and find them sleeping together. Not knowing what happened, Mane and Cruci are forced to get married against their will.
Movie6.0DocumentarySurrealist master Luis Buñuel is a towering figure in the world of cinema history, directing such groundbreaking works as Un Chien Andalou, Exterminating Angels, and That Obscure Object of Desire, yet his personal life was clouded in myth and paradox. Though sexually diffident, he frequently worked in the erotic drama genre; though personally quite conservative, his films are florid, flamboyant, and utterly bizarre.
Movie7.2ComedyPragmatic young woman plots out her flirtations with five rich, eligible bachelors to play to the weaknesses of each one. Then she has to pick one for keeps.
Estrategia matrimonio
1967 · 6 votes
Movie8.4ComedyCrimeA poor man becomes a modern Robin Hood, robbing the rich to give to the poor.
Movie9.0ComedyAmor es... veneno, Carlota
1981 · 1 votes
Movie6.0DramaTrumpet-player in a club band falls for a streety young woman; she dumps him to become a kept woman... and his roommate the pianist is dealing weed... and...
Movie7.6FantasyComedyThe story of a femme fatale whose adventures are narrated in flashbacks by the ghosts of her former lovers.
La dulce enemiga
1957 · 5 votes
Series12
TV5.5Talk ShowConversando con Cristina Pacheco
1997 · 2 votes
TV7.5DramaMysteryFuego en la sangre is a telenovela that began transmissions on January 21, 2008, through Mexico's Canal de las Estrellas network. Starring Adela Noriega, Eduardo Yáñez, Diana Bracho, and Guillermo García Cantú. It is the Mexican remake of the Colombian soap operas Las Aguas Mansas and Pasion de Gavilanes. The theme song called "Para Siempre" is sung by Vicente Fernández. The telenovela received TVyNovelas Award for Best Telenovela, in 2009.
TV7.8SoapDramaDulce María is like her name, a sweet 5-year-old girl, full of joy and good feelings. With the death of his mother, his father, Luciano Larios, sinks into depression and pain, and decides to distance himself from everything and everyone. He admits Dulce María to the "Queen of America" nuns' school and goes abroad, leaving her in the care of her brother Gabriel, who is a priest. The only visit the girl receives is from her beloved Aunt Estefanía, whom she affectionately calls "Aunt Wigs" because instead of showing her hair, she wears colored wigs that match her clothes.
TV7.7SoapComedyJulieta is quite happy in her relationship with her live in boyfriend, Robert... and thrilled that she won't have to deal with in-laws since Robert doesn't know his family. Things start going downhill for the couple when they rent an apartment from a very eccentric family dealing with a traumatic incident from their past.
Mi marido tiene familia
2017 · 248 votes
TV7.7DramaValentina Vilaça is a wealthy woman who inherited a vast fortune from her parents after they died in a car accident. She lives in a mansion in Mexico City with her aunt, Isabel Rangel de Dorantes, and her cousin, Ivana Dorantes Rangel—who treats Valentina with great indifference and harbors envy toward her. Everything changes for Valentina when her fiancé, Alonso Penalva, conspires with Ivana and leaves her waiting at the altar on their wedding day. From that point on, Valentina becomes a bitter woman, eventually discovering love alongside José Miguel Montesinos.
Soy tu dueña
2010 · 605 votes
TV6.7DramaLas Vías del Amor is a Mexican telenovela that aired on the Televisa channel in Mexico and Univision in the United States from 2002-2003.
Las Vías del Amor
2002 · 53 votes
TV8.1ComedyDramaTen members of the same family share a small house and stumble together through life's mishaps.
Una familia de diez
2007 · 815 votes
TV7.6MysteryDramaMujeres Asesinas is a series that shows the dark side of women who have been mistreated or abused and become cruel murderers. The series shows how violence and death can overcome the feminine mind.
TV7.7ComedyDramaA Mexican telenovela based on the Argentinean telenovela Los Roldán.
Una familia con suerte
2011 · 162 votes
- TV7.0SoapDrama
¿Quién?
1973 · 1 votes
TV8.0DramaMañana es primavera
1982 · 2 votes
- TVDramaCrime
The show presents mature themes involving love stories and disturbing topics of real-life cases including rape, incest, child abuse, prostitution, discrimination and domestic violence. At the beginning of each episode, Silvia Pinal would discuss the social aspect surrounding the case the audience was about to view.