
Ofelia Guilmáin
Actor · 1921 – 2005 · Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Ofelia Guilmáin (November 17, 1921 – January 14, 2005) was an actress of telenovelas, stage and the cinema of Mexico. She is also the mother of actors Juan Ferrara and Lucía Guilmáin.
Movies24
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.
Movie7.6DramaA Catholic priest in a poor community lives a charitable life in accordance with his religious principles, but others do not return the favor.
Nazarín
1959 · 164 votes
Movie7.9ComedyFollows Diogenes as he goes about his day as a police officer. He's prone to do things the right way, surrounded by a pretty much corrupt & citizen distant police department, & always resolves his duties with a personal method.
El patrullero 777
1978 · 126 votes
Movie5.5HorrorScience FictionIn 1661 Mexico, Baron Vitelius is executed for witchcraft. 300 years later, during a comet's return, he resurfaces as a brain-eating monster seeking revenge on the Inquisitors' descendants.
Movie4.5DramaComedyWorking-class dude gets a gig as a waiter doing banquet service, and loses his moral compass through his contacts with decadent rich folk.
Para servir a usted
1971 · 6 votes
Movie8.1DramaA family gathers to celebrate Mother's Day, that day a woman discuss many problems about her woman condition; husband, children and grandchildren will hear she tired and overwhelmed silenced by submission and obedience. Analysis of the family and gender roles.
Movie5.8WesternForeign mining concern resorts to illegal tactics to buy up land; two brothers are orphaned and dispossessed and they become outlaws in revenge.
Sangre en Rio Bravo
1966 · 4 votes
Movie6.3Traveling cowboy gets involved in political issues in a town he passes through. Also a romance.
Aquella Rosita Alvírez
1965 · 3 votes
Movie6.0RomanceDramaA thirty-something woman fears that life is passing her by and that she's going to end up as the family's 'maiden aunt'. She imagines that somebody in her circle is courting her, and he's too polite to disillusion her. And then...
Movie5.1ComedyMusicMaria is a young orphan who lives with her wealthy aunt. Maria sings in a cocktail bar with his friends, who form a rock band, and enjoy the night with them. One of his friends, Ernesto, is in love with her, though she does not seem to feel the same about him. In fact, multiple existential doubts and feel a strange emptiness in his life suddenly drive to enter a convent as a novice, breaking Ernestos' heart. However, with her cheerlul character, open and rebellious, not appear to conform to life in the cloister, and especially have problems with the novices director , who often punished for trying to take the right path. In the convent, which also functions as children's hospital, she meets a doctor with which it takes quite right for the contrast between his two characters, but his way with love and mutual respect.
Sor Ye-yé
1968 · 16 votes
Movie5.5HistoryAdventureA ship carrying Conquistadors is wrecked and the survivors are thrown ashore to struggle through the Yucatan jungle.
Movie6.4HorrorA failed pianist sells his soul to the devil in return for his becoming the greatest musician in the world. The catch: every time he plays he turns into a horrible monster.
Movie7.5HorrorTV MovieCompilation tape of Hora Marcada episodes.
Movie6.0DramaHistoryPresident Juárez fights against the conservatives, who have ordered an emperor to be brought from France to govern Mexico
Movie3.9MusicComedyThe film follows adventures of Little Red Riding Hood (Maria Gracia) and Tom Thumb (Cesaro Quezadas) and their friends, fighting against the wicked Witch Queen (Ofelia Guilmáin) and her band of monsters. The film starts at the meeting of the evil monsters in the castle in the Haunted Forest, heart of the Devil's dominion, during which the Vampire (Quintín Bulnes) accuses the Wolf (Manuel Valdés) and the Ogre (José Elías Moreno) of betraying the Witch Queen (La Reina Bruja, renamed Queen of Badness in the English dub), who orders them to ber executed. Their friend Stinky the Skunk (Santanón) however escapes and informs Little Red Riding Hood and Tom Thumb, who promise to help. Meanwhile, the Queen and her sister the Old Witch cast a terrible curse, turning villagers into monkeys and mice for trying to defy her magic. The rest of the story details the heroes' quest to conquer evil.
Caperucita y Pulgarcito contra los monstruos
Little Red Riding Hood and Tom Thumb vs. the Monsters
1962 · 14 votes
Movie6.0DramaEl caso de una adolescente
1958 · 3 votes
Movie5.8Widow with teenaged children faces hostility from her dead husband's mother, who seems to know a family secret she wants to use against her.
El juicio de los hijos
1971 · 4 votes
Movie5.4ComedyDramaAfter moving from Guadalajara to Mexico City, a young woman gets embroiled in a series of puzzling mistaken-identity misadventures.
Mi desconocida esposa
1958 · 5 votes
Movie4.5Drama
Movie5.6Orphan girl has a secret benefactor. When she's old enough to leave the orphanage and enter the real world, she's determined to track him down. Also: having a first boyfriend, yippee!
Confesiones de una adolescente
1970 · 5 votes
Movie5.8ActionDramaAn ambitious businessman searches for the perfect candidate to train and turn into a great boxing champion.
Movie7.0DramaBernarda, a domineering, reclusive, and ostentatiously pious widow in a small Spanish town, keeps such close watch on her daughters that they are unable to have normal social lives. However, the eldest is allowed to become engaged to an unprincipled young man.
La casa de Bernarda Alba
1974 · 1 votes
Movie6.9HorrorMysteryA troubled woman commits a series of murders that exposes some dark family secrets.
Movie8.3DramaHorrorA woman who is about to die calls the town's priest and hands him a scapulary, saying that she knows of its great powers. Anybody who does not believe in them will end up dead.
Series7
TV6.7SoapDramaVivo Por Elena is a Mexican telenovela starring Victoria Ruffo and Saul Lisazo with the antagonic roles of Ana Patricia Rojo and Sebastian Ligarde. The telenovela aired on Univision in 1998. The theme song for the telenovela was Vivo Por Ella, sung by Andrea Bocelli with a duet by Marta Sanchez. The telenovela has been repeated several times on different channels since its original airing.
Vivo Por Elena
1998 · 3 votes
TV8.5DramaA Mexican telenovela produced in 1996. It was the last historical telenovela produced by Televisa. The plot tells the Independence of Mexico, with an emphasis on historical accuracy.
La antorcha encendida
1996 · 6 votes
TV8.0DramaMysteryEl manantial del milagro
1974 · 1 votes
TV9.0DramaDías sin luna is a 1990 Mexican telenovela produced by Juan Osorio and directed by Rafael Banquells based on an original script by Eric Vonn. It was aired in Canal de las Estrellas Monday to Friday at 17:00 between May 14 and August 31, 1990.
Días sin luna
1990 · 1 votes
TV8.0DramaMañana es primavera
1982 · 2 votes
TVDramaYesenia is a beautiful Roma woman who lives different situations in an aimlessly fixed way with the company of her caravan. In one of her many trips she meets a military man, Osvaldo Moncada, and falls in love with him. They will have to prove that their love is stronger than their differences and social prejudice that separate them. One of the opponents of their relationship is Rashay, the patriarch of the Roma people, who opposes the relationship because the military youth does not belong to the Romani tribe.
Yesenia
1987
TV8.5DramaMilagro y magia is a Mexican telenovela produced by Roberto Gómez Bolaños and Florinda Meza for Televisa and originally broadcast on Canal de las Estrellas from April 29 to August 30, 1991. Written by Florinda Meza and directed by Roberto Gómez Bolaños, the telenovela marked the duo's debut as telenovela producers and Florinda Meza's first leading role in the genre. The story is set in post-revolutionary Mexico and follows two orphaned children, Elisa and Pepe, as they leave their rural hometown in search of a better life in Mexico City. Separated by fate after escaping exploitation, they face hardship, love, and betrayal while struggling to reunite and build a brighter future.
Milagro y magia
1991 · 2 votes