
María Rojo
Actor · b. 1943 · Mexico City, Mexico
María Rojo is the artistic name of María de Lourdes Rojo e Incháustegui (Mexico City, August 15, 1943), a Mexican film, theater and television actress. Daughter of Roberto Rojo, an agronomist, and Águeda Incháustegui, a school teacher. From her childhood, she remembers being nervous and suffering from dyslexia, which brought her personality problems and insecurity, but she soon stood out for her artistic skills. She began her artistic career at the age of eight, when she was selected in a casting to participate in the Teatro Fantástico program, where she played the girl Ciquirritica. Then, she has developed a fruitful career that exceeds 60 years, and in 2018, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences officially invited her to be a special part of its new members. She is the first actress to receive the "Premio Bellas Artes" for her great career, and Winner of the Ariel Award, including the "Ariel de Oro" out of a total of 11 nominations, she is considered one of the best actresses in the history of Mexico.
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Movie8.0ActionCrimeAfter being deported back to Mexico, a man has no choice but to join the vicious drug cartel that has corrupted his hometown in order to survive.
El Infierno
2010 · 819 votes
Movie7.9DramaTells the parallel stories of nine-year-old Carlitos and his mother, Rosario. In the hopes of providing a better life for her son, Rosario works illegally in the U.S. while her mother cares for Carlitos back in Mexico.
Movie8.2DramaThrillerOn October 2, 1968, a student uprising descends into violence after the Mexican government begins to use lethal force against the protesters.
Movie4.4ComedyAfter their fathers death, two brothers dispute the inheritance: the local movie theater known as Linterna Mújica. Their dispute may or not bring the town to its apocalypse, but it will for sure turn it upside-down.
Movie7.3DramaHeated tempers, frustrated desires and dashed hopes plague a diverse group of individuals whose lives cross paths in Mexico City. There is the bar-owner's son, Chava, who yearns to emigrate to America. A poor barber, Abel, is madly in love with the gorgeous Alma, who eventually becomes a high-class prostitute. Finally, there is Susanita, the desperate spinster who pursues many love affairs in hopes of finding a husband.
Movie7.4DramaComedyTV MX, the most powerful Mexican Television Corporation, discloses a scandalous story involving Governor Carmelo Vargas in serious crimes and illicit business. Governor Vargas worried about his political future, decides to clean his image and negotiates a billionaire secret agreement with the owners of the TV Corporation. Carlos Rojo, an ambitious young news producer, and Ricardo Diaz, TV network star reporter, are responsible for making a dirty campaign to change the image the public has of the corrupt Governor and make him, at any cost, a political star and a great presidential candidate. Mexican Television believes that democracy is a farce and has already placed one President... Will they do it again?
Movie5.3ComedyThe husbands of a charismatic nurse devise a plan to free her from prison when she is arrested for being a polygamist.
Movie6.5ComedyValentina's seemingly idyllic life in the US is interrupted when planning a wedding means introducing her fiancé to her scandalous family in Mexico.
Movie5.1ThrillerMysteryA young deaf-mute who lives and has intercourse with a blind man much older than she, inevitably attracts a shy driving instructor a strange, hallucinatory underworld, populated by those beings whose mutilation, impaired physical differences, have become rejected of society.
Movie5.7DramaCrimeIn this remake of the 40's classic, two lovers murder each other, leading to an investigation and the closing of the Saln Mxico, a famous place where people used to go to dance before WWII. The police investigation leads to several flashbacks about the life and death of a low-life dancer named Mercedes (Maria Rojo) and her lover.
Salón México
1996 · 9 votes
Movie5.8MysteryDramaViolent death of a loan shark investigated by diligent policeman.
La señorita
1994 · 5 votes
Movie6.7ComedyFamilyA curse is placed on grinchy Chuy, who wakes up to find he's lived a full year, but is doomed to remember only Christmas Day. Every year. From now on.
Movie6.7DramaA telephone operator from Mexico City tries to support a family and her passion for popular dance.
Danzón
1991 · 31 votes
Movie4.7DramaA view of the end-of-the-century Mexican family. A father who comes back home after a long absence, but who would rather be somewhere else. A daughter suffering from a trapped pain. A son full of guilt and recriminations. A little kid who soaks up all the tension in the house, like a sponge, and a self-effacing mother who would like to go away and leave everything behind.
Movie8.3MusicCrime"Mi Canción" follows the rise of young Guadalajara rapper C-Kan, as he realizes the danger he put himself in by working with the local Cartel. After falling in love with Valeria, she convinces him to leave this llife of crime and pursue his dream and become a Rap star. Conflicted, he decides to stop working with the Cartel, but that is easier said than done!
Mi Canción
2021 · 43 votes
Movie7.4DramaA disciplined and sexually driven man forces his family to stay isolated in their home in order to protect them from the “evil nature” of human beings.
Movie5.4ComedyExiled in Acapulco, the bon vivant Dino cheats a rich widow into financing his coming back to Brazil. To avoid getting caught, he hides in a coffin. His fake burial is celebrated in high style and it doesn't take long before he starts getting himself into weird situations.
Vai Trabalhar Vagabundo II: A Volta
1991 · 7 votes
Movie5.4DramaA family crisis revealed through each member's bathroom intimacy.
MovieHistoryDocumentaryThis documentary explores key moments in the life of writer Juan Rulfo, with artists such as Werner Herzog and Eduardo Galeano reflecting on his work.
Movie5.5AdventureActionNerdy college boy gets romantic advice from the apparition of a dead film star.
Me importas tú... y tú
2009 · 4 votes
Movie5.8DramaDespite its suggestive title, this multi-part Danish omnibus film is not a work of exploitation. Instead, it presents 20 different short films (back-to-back) on the general theme of Danish women, directed by filmmakers including Krzysztof Zanussi, Monika Treut, Gustav Hamos, David Blair, Vibeke Vogel, Dusan Makavejev, Morten Skallerud and Lars Norgaard. Some dramatic vignettes mix with other comedic ones, but all are offbeat and experimental. The picture includes one animated sequence (by Norgaard).
Movie5.1ActionCrimeA reporter starts investigating the life of the recently deceased wrestler "The Masked Angel"
Movie7.9DramaYessica is a rebellious girl who forms an unlikely friendship with quiet schoolmate Miriam. Yessica's home life is ruled by her brutal stepfather and her amoral stepbrother, Jorge, while Miriam shares a calm, loving household with her mother. The girls' friendship is shattered after Jorge arranges to have one of his friends rape Yessica.
Series22
TV6.6DramaComedyAmerican Playhouse is an anthology television series periodically broadcast by Public Broadcasting Service in the United States.
American Playhouse
1982 · 8 votes
TV7.9DramaCrimeThe adventures of Vicenta Acero, the feared coyote who now leads the dynasty of illicit dealings once under the control of her father.
TV7.9DramaCrimeSee the rise of the Guadalajara Cartel as an American DEA agent learns the danger of targeting narcos in 1980s Mexico.
Narcos: Mexico
2018 · 1.5K votes
TV5.5Talk ShowConversando con Cristina Pacheco
1997 · 2 votes
TV7.4DramaFernanda is the youngest daughter of the landowner Gonzalo Elizalde, owner of a large dairy company, and Eduardo is the son of Soledad, the Elizalde family's housekeeper. The two children have grown up together, united by an innocent and pure love, despite the difference in social class.
TV8.1ComedyArgentine re-make of American television series Married... with Children. It follows the Argento family and their lives.
Casados con Hijos
2005 · 279 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.
TV7.8DramaSoapAfter their father's death, Sofía Ripoll, the oldest of three sisters, takes over the family's fictional successful chocolate factory. Though she is engaged to a man who uses her for money, she quickly falls in love with Salvador Cruz, a former racecar driver who takes a job as her chauffeur.
Hasta el fin del mundo
2014 · 150 votes
TV7.2DramaMariana lives with her father, Atílio, and is motherless. He is a very powerful man, and he keeps a big secret: Mariana is not his biological daughter, Atílio has two sisters: Isabel, the oldest, a good and caring woman, who raised Mariana and loves her as if she were her own daughter; Márcia, the youngest, arrogant and very vain, has a cold heart, has never fallen in love with anyone and always mistreated Mariana, until a boy called Inácio Lugo Navarro arrives in the city, very attractive, who uses a false name and is looking for his roots and revenge.
TV8.3MysterySci-Fi & FantasyLa Hora Marcada was a 1986 Mexican television anthology series famous for its horror and science fiction themes in the vein of the Twilight Zone. Although virtually unknown outside the country, it achieved a popular and critical success in Mexico. It had a series of rotating writers and directors, among them Emmanuel Lubezki, Guillermo del Toro and Alfonso Cuarón.
TV7.1DramaYulissa Torres-Quintero is a beautiful young woman from an upper social class who has been orphaned at a very young age; For this reason, she and her brother Alberto were raised by their cruel grandmother, Doña Paula Garza vda. de Torres-Quintero, who pretends to be sick to manipulate her grandchildren. After several years, Paula is ruined and penniless, so she decides to mortgage all her assets to the landowner Ignacio Aguirre, owner of the Arroyo Negro hacienda, as a last resort to survive and avoid poverty.
Te Sigo Amando
1996 · 121 votes
TV8.1SoapDramaThe telenovela revolves around Leonel Carranza (Fernando Colunga), a man who lives in Villa Escarlata and owns the Montoro estate. His routine changes completely when his wife and best friend disappear together, leaving him so angry and disillusioned that he thinks they're dead, which could have serious consequences for him in the future.
Amanecer
2025 · 23 votes
TV7.7DramaComedyMy fortune is loving you tells the story of Natalia and Chente, who both suffer different situations that change their lives instantly. Natalia comes from a high social position; however, she loses everything when Adrián, her husband, leaves her for what was "her best friend" after 20 years of marriage, in addition, he leaves her on the street and penniless. Vicente, from a different socioeconomic class than Natalia, falls into the hands of a financial fraud that also leaves him in a very difficult economic situation, adding the recent loss of Lucía, his wife, at the hands of a bank robbery in which she was. For Natalia and Chente, they have no choice but to live under the same roof, with which, upon meeting the relationship, they will go through a lot of ups and downs of emotions when they try to resolve their personal situations.
TV7.8DramaSoapAlborada is a telenovela made by the Mexican TV network Televisa. It is an historical drama, set in colonial Panama and Mexico a few years before Mexican Independence from Spain. The series was broadcast from December 2005 to April 2006 on Univision in the United States. Alborada won the TV y Novelas award for best telenovela of the year.
Alborada
2005 · 18 votes
TV7.6DramaComedyMaría de Todos los Ángeles
2009 · 643 votes
TV8.7Drama"Hasta que Te Conocí" unravels the life of the Divo de Juárez: Juan Gabriel. Gabriel's extraordinary talent as a singer-songwriter allowed him to rise above poverty, betrayal, and prejudice, eventually making him one the most beloved performers in all of Ibero-America.
Hasta que te conocí
2016 · 34 votes
TV5.8DramaCorazón salvaje is a Mexican telenovela produced by Salvador Mejía Alejandre in conjunction with Televisa and broadcast on El Canal de las Estrellas. The telenovela debuted on 12 October 2009 at 9:00 pm, replacing Sortilegio, and aired for a total of 135 episodes. The final episode was broadcast on 16 April 2010, and the program was replaced with Soy tu dueña. In the United States, the telenovela debuted on 22 February 2010 at 9:00 pm on Univisión, again replacing Sortilegio. However, beginning on 26 April, the program was moved from prime time to the 12:00 midnight time slot.
TV8.0DramaEllas, inocentes o culpables
2000 · 1 votes
TV7.3DramaIn a world dominated by men, a tenacious woman with an outspoken personality makes headway into success through the use of determination, perseverance and savviness.
Su nombre era Dolores, la Jenn que yo conocí
2017 · 6 votes
TV5.0DramaWar & PoliticsGritos de Muerte y Libertad
2010 · 4 votes
TV7.0CrimeLife of boxing in Mexico City: bets, deception, love, crime, and courage, take place in the lives of amateur boxers and professional fighters.
Cloroformo
2012 · 1 votes
TV6.5DramaCrimeA tight-knit crew of three reigns over a bustling barrio in Mexico City — until a sudden tragedy breaks their crowns and renders two of them rivals.