
María Luisa Alcalá
Actor · 1943 – 2016 · Mexico City, Mexico
Movies19
Movie5.5ThrillerDramaIn Mexico City, a woman is raped every 9 minutes. This film details some of the legal and social problems in the country and how it's often difficult for women to find justice. Awarded Best Film by Mexican Cinema Journalists and nominated for three Ariel Awards.
Violación
1989 · 13 votes
MovieComedyAn irreverent candidate launches her presidential bid. Everything will change for this nation, including for a dysfunctional Mexican family and society, who let their lives face all the vicissitudes of a country in search of its identity. A politician willing to reveal her true social intentions, triggering unexpected events inside a minibus filled with a subversive man, a couple of Jehovah's Witnesses, a sweet old lady, and a trio of young people who will understand that a country is either applauded or resented.
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
Movie3.7ComedyA cop goes undercover as a mobster and gets a plumber involved in his mess. Meanwhile, a producer falls in love with a drag queen that isn't what she seems to be...
Los plomeros y las ficheras
1988 · 7 votes
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Movie3.8ComedyA couple about to get married receives a bachelor party organized by their coworkers.
Las borrachas
1989 · 5 votes
Movie5.8HorrorHorror anthology with three stories all taking place in the same apartment building. The first involves a pair of newlyweds who attempt to hide the corpse of a plumber after accidentally killing him. The second tale features two guys throwing a party who meet two beautiful women who aren't what they seem. Finally, an actor has a desire to drink human blood.
Movie4.3ComedyAn altar boy goes to the city and finds himself in raunchy situations.
El inocente y las pecadoras
1990 · 7 votes
Movie4.0DramaThrillerStranger with a dark past infects a small-town girl with HIV, and the contagion spreads out from there. Public health officials get involved...
Casos de Alarma
1986 · 6 votes
Movie6.7CrimeDrama3 real life stories taken from the Mexican police archive.
Reclusorio III
1999 · 3 votes
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Movie6.2ComedyEse loco, loco hospital
1986 · 5 votes
Movie4.0HorrorThose involved in the making of an amateur porn video end up getting slashed to death with a cane sword. It's up to the brave policewoman Eugenia aka The Scorpion (Maribel Guardia) to stop him.
Movie4.3ComedyInheriting the mansion of a forgotten aunt, José Luis, a simple apothecary leaves the countryside for the capital. When he arrives, he discovers that it is a brothel, inhabited by a bunch of beautiful girls.
Duro y Parejo en La Casita del Pecado
1987 · 7 votes
Movie6.0Mexican Revolution era: a guerilla faction kidnaps two members of a governing family to negotiate a ransom.
El Rey
1976 · 6 votes
Movie5.0ComedyLas aventuras de Lencho
1996 · 1 votes
Movie4.3ComedyIn the neighborhood there is no place more visited than the dairy 'Las Glorias de Don Zacarias'. Don Juan and his assistant Mariano adulterate the famous products of the dairy without imagining the consequences that this would bring them.
La lechería
1986 · 7 votes
Movie6.5ComedyLos 6 mandamientos de la risa
1999 · 4 votes
Movie6.0Mexican feature film
Historia de payasos
1984 · 3 votes
Series5
TV8.1ComedyFamilyThe mishaps of Chavo, an 8-year-old Mestizo-Latino American orphan boy who lives in a village. Together with Quico, Chilindrina, Ñoño and La Popis, Chavo experiences a series of humorous entanglements.
El Chavo del Ocho
1973 · 2.1K votes
TV7.1DramaSoapStories about people who get into problems who use the help of Virgin Mary and where a rose appears and their problems are solved.
La rosa de Guadalupe
2008 · 301 votes
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
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.
TV6.8ComedyDr. Cándido Pérez is a Mexican television sitcom that aired on Televisa from 1987 to 1993, starring Jorge Ortiz de Pinedo as the title character. The show is based on the 1962 film, Dr. Cándido Pérez, señoras. It was recorded at Televisa San Angel before a live studio audience.
Dr. Cándido Pérez
1987 · 10 votes