Elda Peralta

Movies

There Are No Thieves in This Village
When a young boy steals billiard balls from a local saloon, a stranger is charged with the crime. The local layabouts find there is no reason to hang out at the bar without being able to shoot pool, and the boy entertains thoughts of forming a gang to steal more billiard balls in hopes of making money.
The Skeleton of Mrs. Morales
(uncredited)
A taxidermist decides to murder his wife after having to put up with her after twenty years of hellish marriage.
Dos gallos en palenque
Venezuelan guy and Mexican rancher get competitive toward each other -- mostly over "the girl".
Blessed Among Women
Two male cousins inherit a ranch occupied by three female cousins and their separatist aunt.
Maratón de baile
Several couples are lured into becoming contestants in a dance marathon that awards a large cash prize to the couple still standing at the end of this grueling test of endurance.
This Was Pancho Villa: Third chapter
Cecilia, the teacher
The third and final chapter of director Ismael Rodríguez's series about Pancho Villa. Several stories about the life and death of the famous mexican revolutionary general.
El diario de mi madre
Patricia
Scheming secretary sabotages her boss's wedding plans and snags him for herself. She, him, his brother and the abandoned pregnant fiance all suffer as a result.
Here is Heraclius Bernal
Historical drama/biopic about 1880s Social Justice bandits in a mining community in Sinaloa. First of three in series.
La pantera negra
Fed agent goes undercover as roving cowboy to solve rural crimes. "Mauricio Rosales" Series.
The King of México
Elda Negri
A humble tramp is turned, for a couple of days, into the richest and most famous man in México.
El gavilán vengador
Masked rider exposes the criminal misdeeds of a wealthy land-owner and his henchmen.
El rayo justiciero
New sheriff cleans up the town. First (?) in "Mauricio Rosales" series.
Pecado Mortal
Julia Falcón
Juan Manuel intends his wife Clara, who is blind, sign the will in his favor, but she refuses. With them lives Soledad, goddaughter Clara. A day comes Carlos, nephew of Juan Manuel, who is interested in Soledad. Carlos is going to study medicine in the United States and maintains correspondence with Soledad. Juan Manuel shows interest in Soledad but prevents Clara meet her. She is the daughter of Clara, who hid that Juan Manuel had killed the father of Soledad and also caused her blindness.
Pobre huerfanita
Little girl with a cruel nanny and neglectful parents hears mumsy and popsy talking about divorce, and runs away from home.
Chucho el Roto
Humble craftsman runs afoul of a rich girl's father and ends up in prison; the ill-fated romance has repercussions over the course of twenty-odd years and ultimately drives him to a life of crime.
La calle de los amores
Hubby latches onto a series of side-pieces and wifey finds it increasingly hard to put up with his behavior.
Un divorcio
Divorced woman has to deal with blowback from the fact that her second marriage is only a civil union and not a church wedding. Meanwhile, her young-adult son is falling in love with a divorcee of his own, and faing severe opposition from his father over his choice of partners..
Mi adorada Clementina
A woman in an unhappy marriage trades places with her grandmother's ghost; Grandma whupps the girl's husband into line AND proves to her own husband that she was innocent of the infidelity that he was suspecting when she died, fifty years earlier.
Legítima defensa
Mr. X is convicted of killing Mr. Y and serves a jail sentence. After being released, he discovers that Mr. Y is still alive...
Acuérdate de vivir
Marta
In Guanajuato, a piano teacher delays her marriage to an engineer not to let her younger sisters alone. As he is love with her voice, he is mistaken for a sister whom he marries. The teacher then goes to the capital. There she becomes part of a family of young students, who believe she is the mistress of his father, so she suffers the scorn and reproach. Over the years the parents die and she renounces to the inheritance they leave her.
Apasionada
Gloria Zavaleta
Returning veteran with PTSD/amnesia returns home and gets tangled up in a criminal investigation.
La hija del ministro
A young bureaucrat's career takes off when it's believed he's keeping company with the daughter of a higher-ranking official.
A Woman Without Love
Luisa
After indulging in an affair with a man (a friend of the family) she truly loves, a woman returns to her young son and husband for good, and loses contact with the man. Her husband is unaware of the affair. Twenty years later, there is news that the friend has died and left all of his money to the younger son in the family, which leads us to question this younger son's biological origin.
Sangre en el barrio
Slumlord and his daughter interfere in the lives of the proletariat for personal gratification.
Salón de belleza
Employees and clients at Merle's Beauty Stuff have illicit romances and cheating husbands and that kind of thing. Meanwhile, the cop that directs traffic outside gets an opportunity to become a movie star.
Women's prison
Prisionera
Evangelina murders her lover Alberto. In prison she meets Dora, Alberto's girlfriend, who was deprived of her freedom for his illicit business. An interesting story is about to be woven.
Crimen y castigo
María
Adaptation of Dostoyevsky's novel about a student who plans a conceptual murder and then butts heads with a police detective.
Streetwalker
Maria/Azalea
The story of two estranged sisters, both of whom end up as prostitutes but for very different reasons.
Flor de sangre
Nosotras, las taquígrafas
Lupe, hermana de Elsa
Young women in the steno-pool have to balance work, romance, and touchy-feely bosses.
Inmaculada
Guillermina Perea
A single mother discovers her daughter getting ready to elope with an unworthy boyfriend, so she sits the girl down and tells her the whole entire story of her own very unhappy marriage.
Hipócrita..!
Teresa, la cigarrera
A disfigured woman is helped by a talented composer to recover her face with plastic surgery. Then he discovers that she's a beautiful woman and a talented singer.