
Enrique Lizalde
Actor · 1937 – 2013 · Tepic, Nayarit, Mexico
Enrique Lizalde Chávez (9 January 1937 – 3 June 2013), better wknown simply as Enrique Lizalde, was a Mexicon actor of film, theatre, and television, noted for his distinctive voice and for playing leading-man roles from the 1960s onward. He originated the character Juan del Diablo in Corazón salvaje and later appeared in its 1990s remake in a different role. Born in Tepic, Nayarit, he pursued university studies in literature before turning to acting. He was the brother of Eduardo Lizalde and a cousin of Óscar Chávez. Lizalde began his screen career in the early 1960s and became a prominent presence in Mexican cinema; in popular accounts of the period he was grouped with Joaquín Cordero and Julio Alemán as part of a generation of high-profile leading men. He also worked extensively in theatre and is credited as a founder of the Sindicato de Actores Independientes. He married actress Tita Grieg in 1965. He died in Mexico City at age 76; biographies commonly report liver cancer as the cause of death. His remains were cremated and placed at Panteón Jardín.
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Movie6.0Violeta is a Cuban prostitute who tells her tempestuous life story to a young male journalist. Her first lover was a revolutionary killed by government soldiers. She fled to New York, where she had an affair with a famous American actor. After he gets her pregnant and dumps her, she sells her story to the tabloids in revenge. The revenge escalates - he has his friends rape her, and she slashes his face, putting an end to his career. Back in Cuba, the older Violeta relies on foreign customers to make ends meet.
Violeta
1997 · 3 votes
Movie6.3DramaA young composer falls in love with a prostitute who is paid by his father to seduce him, but she doesn't love him.
La buscona
1970 · 4 votes
Movie4.6HorrorDr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, adapted once again.
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
Movie8.0AdventureDramaThe building of a railroad under tough conditions from searing heat to freezing cold in the Sonora desert provokes clashes of passion and struggles between the engineers and the workers at the campsite. The workers also contend with sudden dust storms that are called the 'black wind'. Based on true events.
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.
Movie4.2CrimeDramaPolice are chasing him for a murder, so man breaks into an expensive home and takes husband and wife hostage. The bloodshed continues...
La noche violenta
1970 · 5 votes
Movie6.5DramaThrillerHéctor and María meet again after eight years of not seeing each other. She works as a magician in cabarets and he robs houses. María convinces Héctor to become a magician and work together. Life seems to smile on them until one day, when Maria travels to another city, the couple's situation will be overshadowed by an unfortunate event.
Movie6.5DramaFamilyDoña Refugio works in an office until the bounce and has three children: Fernando who is studying to be a lawyer, doctor and Nacho Edmundo to work in a company as a truck driver gas. Things become difficult within the family and each seek solutions to economic oppression living.
Movie5.0DramaMysteryReporter investigating an actress' death gains an overview of her whole biography.
Ángela Morante, ¿crimen o suicidio?
1981 · 7 votes
Movie5.5DramaIdealistic young teacher takes a post in a small, backwoods town and dedicates her life to schooling the village's children.
La maestra inolvidable
1969 · 4 votes
Movie6.2DramaComedyHandsome young swindler throws himself into the clutches of three rich spinsters who live in their own little fantasy world on their crumbling estate.
Movie6.3DramaMysteryA young architect returns from Europe to live in the house of his uncles and cousins, where someone pretends to be the Devil.
Movie5.6DramaRosario and Carlos, husbands, are part of a theater company. In a scene of jealousy, she should shoot and kill him. Carlos has had an affair with Zulma, another acriz of the company. On opening day, in the final scene, Rosario accidentally kills her husband. Someone change the gun ...
Rosario
1971 · 7 votes
Movie6.1DocumentaryDocumentary about the XIX Olympic Games in Mexico City in 1968. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Sony Pictures Entertainment in 1999.
Movie5.1DramaSet in 1934, and meant to dramatize social injustices, this melodrama examines an official's attempt at land reform. The landowners are against any reform and are also not interested in ending the exploitation of their workers. On the opposite side of the fence, the Native Americans have almost no way to better their living conditions or to fight oppression. They are also plagued by "superstition," which leads to some misguided actions that only make things worse. Violence and sexual encounters are interspersed throughout the story.
Movie5.6ThrillerActionCops vs counterfeiters on a cruise ship.
El asesino se embarca
1967 · 5 votes
Movie6.3DramaIn a remote Mexican monastery, a Father Prior subjects young seminarians to psychoanalysis to test their vocation. As sessions peel back secrets and doubts, faith, desire, and authority collide.
Movie4.3HorrorA Nazi scientist carries out secret experiments.
- Movie9.0Drama
When Bobby Terón decides to return to the ring after retiring as a boxer, he faces opposition from his wife. While his wife believes that Bobby is not fit to fight, his manager Hernandez assures him that the boxer will regain his prestige. Hernandez arranges a fight, only this time he is not willing to submit to an unfair decision like the one that ended his pupil's career and decides to play with the same weapons.
Pelearán diez rounds
1991 · 1 votes
Movie5.4ComedyBride sleeps another guy on her wedding night by mistake, and he and the groom spend 90 minutes arguing over which one she belongs to.
Movie5.6Industrialist blackmails unfaithful wife and her lover into helping him fake his own death.
Sexo y crimen
1970 · 5 votes
Movie5.3HorrorAdaptation of The Fall Of The House Of Usher.
Movie6.8Adaptation of Euripides: lamentations of the women of Troy after their defeat in war.
Las Troyanas
1963 · 5 votes
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TV7.3DramaSoapEsmeralda is a telenovela that was released by Televisa in 1997. It is a remake of a 1970 Venezuelan telenovela of that same name, and was itself remade in Brazil in 2004. Another version is Topacio from Venezuela in 1984. One of the most famous telenovela all the time.
Esmeralda
1996 · 181 votes
TV8.0DramaSoapA telenovela that dramatizes the romances and rivalries between two brothers and two sisters in Mexico between the years 1885 and 1900.
Corazón salvaje
1992 · 627 votes
TV6.9DramaRodrigo Junquera finds out he is close to death, he decides to ask the nanny of his young child, Virginia Martínez, a beautiful and honest woman, to marry him with the intention of preparing the road so she can look after his children when he's gone. Virginia has to deal with the contempt of Rodrigo's children who acuse her of being an ambitious woman who married their father for his money. Virginia is in love with Rodrigo's eldest son, Carlos Alberto, who has come to mistreat her after finding out she married his dad.
TV7.7DramaSoapThe show's premise revolves around a pair of twin sisters who were separated when they were young, and as adults the younger sister is forced to act as a "replacement" for her wealthy twin who wants to temporarily leave her husband and his family to enjoy a life of luxury with multiple lovers.
TV7.7DramaEduardo, a renowned singer, and Lorena, a talented but plain-looking young woman, must overcome every obstacle to unite their lives and reach for a star together.
Alcanzar una estrella
1990 · 34 votes
TV7.5DramaSi Dios Me Quita La Vida is a telenovela made by Mexican TV network Televisa. This telenovela was broadcast in 1995. This is a remake of the 1961 telenovela La Leona starred by Amparo Rivelles and Ernesto Alonso.
Si Dios Me Quita La Vida
1995 · 2 votes
TV6.8DramaSoapDulce Desafío is a Mexican telenovela starring Adela Noriega and Eduardo Yáñez.
Dulce Desafío
1988 · 78 votes
TV7.0DramaA tycoon's daughter falls in love with the man who came to take revenge on her father for his own father's death.
TV7.3DramaThe story follows Isabel—known as "Chispita"—who was separated from her mother after the latter lost her memory in an accident. After growing up in an orphanage, Isabel is adopted by a widowed businessman, Don Alejandro; he hopes she will bring joy to the life of his daughter, Lili, who has become sad and ill-tempered since her mother's death—largely due to the influence of her teacher, the wicked Miss Irene. However, contrary to Alejandro's expectations, Isabel is not welcomed by his daughter; instead, she must contend with the malicious traps set for her by Lili and Miss Irene. Yet, Isabel also finds friends in the household, such as Juan Carlos (Lili’s older brother) and Gloria (the family’s maid). From her new home, Chispita begins the search for her mother.
Chispita
1982 · 33 votes
TV9.0DramaSoapThe plot tells the story of Maria Olivares, a humble peasant woman living with her grandfather Maximiliano in a thatched hut on the Narváez estate. Maria falls in love with Xavier Narváez, a pilot, but his brother Rafael and his wife Carmen oppose the marriage because Maria is poor.
La venganza
1977 · 2 votes
TV7.5DramaSoapCamila Flores is a sweet peasant who lost her parents very early. Its creation was in charge of his grandfather Genaro. He is a great rooster breeder, but he is very poor. Genaro's biggest fear is that Camila will one day abandon him and that she will not be happy. One day, Camila meets lawyer Miguel Gutiérrez, he came from the capital, and as soon as he sees Camila he is impressed by her beauty. He asks the girl's grandfather for permission so he can visit her. Genaro thinks that Miguel will soon forget his granddaughter so he lets Miguel see her. Before long, Camila and Miguel fall in love, which is why he asks for the girl's hand in marriage. Genaro, even against his will, allows Camila to get married.
Camila
1998 · 4 votes
TV7.5DramaLos años felices
1984 · 2 votes