Silvia Pinal

Silvia Pinal

Birth : 1931-09-12, Guaymas, Sonora, Mexico

History

Silvia Pinal (born Silvia Pinal Hidalgo on September 12, 1931 in Guaymas, Sonora) is a Mexican actress, who had roles in several of Luis Buñuel's movies such as El ángel exterminador and Viridiana. Pinal is also considered as one of the few surviving legends of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema.

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Silvia Pinal
Silvia Pinal

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The Last Call
Turmoil becomes the order of the day when a Mexican theatrical company begins its rehearsals of absurdist philosopher Albert Camus's “Caligula” for an influential upcoming international theater festival.
The Mayor
The film tells the story of Mauricio Fernandez, mayor of the wealthiest municipality in Latin America, located in the North of Mexico. He presents himself as a polemical figure who takes justice into his own hands in order to "clean" his municipality of the drug cartels' presence. Mauricio is a key character to better understand the present situation in Mexico and through the unusual views of this politician, the audience will be a privileged witnesses of an scenario where political tasks and excessive violence mingle with one another.
Tin Tan
Herself
Germán Cipriano Gómez Valdés Castillo, a young radio announcer from Cuidad Juárez, succeeds in drawing attention to the pachuco movement through his character Tin Tan, laying the groundwork for a new form of binational and mass linguistic expression: Spanglish. He soon became a leading figure in theater and film on the American Continent. Singled out by critics as a destroyer of the language, he quickly won the approval of the public. His ability to improvise revolutionized the film industry. His talent as an actor, singer, dancer and comedian contributed to the Golden Age of Mexican Cinema. From El Hijo Desobediente to Capitán Mantarraya, from Cuidad Juárez to Havana, from mambo to rock, the legacy of Tin Tan makes him one of the great icons of Mexico today. This film tells his story as it has never been told before.
Addicto de Salsa
Crucial outline following the life of a heroin addicted salsa singer.
Agent Macaw: Shaken & Stirred
Mamá Osa
Tambo Macaw, an overweight macaw who works as a janitor at the Central Intelligentus Animalus (CIA), dreams of becoming a secret agent. His opportunity arises when he is assigned by mistake the most important mission in the agency's history: stop the wicked plans of Mama Bear and her evil organization. Tambo is helped by Jack Tortoise, an old turtle that's in charge of the advanced technology lab in the agency and is one of Tambo's few friends.
¡Pedro Infante... Vive!
Herself - Guest
Ya no los hacen como antes
Recently widowed, Benito faces the jealousy of his daughters when, reunited by an old ford car, he finds a new love and new meaning for his life.
Speaking of Buñuel
Herself
Surrealist master Luis Buñuel is a towering figure in the world of cinema history, directing such groundbreaking works as Un Chien Andalou, Exterminating Angels, and That Obscure Object of Desire, yet his personal life was clouded in myth and paradox. Though sexually diffident, he frequently worked in the erotic drama genre; though personally quite conservative, his films are florid, flamboyant, and utterly bizarre.
Vintage Model
Carmen
Life unravels when famous radio talk-show host Carmen (Sylvia Pinal) discovers she has just months to live. To tie up the loose ends of her life, she hires a chauffeur to drive her around Mexico City and visit her old haunts. But he does far more than that; instead, he gives her life a much-needed spark and shows her the road to happiness. Alonso Echanove and Raul Araiza Jr. co-star.
Buñuel
Analysis of the work of Luis Buñuel in fifty mini chapters. A co-production of Arsenal Films, Barcelona International Film Festival and Ovideo TV in collaboration with the Menéndez Pelayo International University (UIMP). The film won the 1st Prize at the European Biennial for the Conservation of European Cultural Heritage.
Luis Buñuel: constructor de infiernos
Herself
Pubis Angelical
It's about three women, three stories, or perhaps a single story in different projections of time and space. The Mistress wishes to unravel the meaning of being a woman is the victim of Hollywood. Ana is the product of a society ruled or dominated by men.
Amor es... veneno, Carlota
Carlota Cavendish
Dos y dos, cinco
Julia
The Song of the Cicada
Elisa
El niño de su mamá
México de mis amores
Anthology of clips from classic-era Mexican films, with reality-footage of elderly actors discussing their memories of the period.
Adriana del Rio, actriz
Self
Divinas palabras
Mari Gaila
Mari Gaila (Silvia Pinal), is an adulteress who lives between ragged, thieves, prostitutes, dwarfs and other misshapen beings, in a rare box at a country and a vague time. Her husband, is a poor sacristan who agrees with other relatives to do business with the display of his orphaned nephew, a mentally retarded dwarf. Caught in committing adultery with her lover, Mari Gaila is caged naked and punished by the people.
The Dried Butterflies
Cassandra / Writer
A disturbed middle aged writer becomes obsessed with a little boy who reminds her of a former lover.
Los cacos
Bertha
A group of Soccer-loving friends devise a plan to make easy money.
¡Cómo hay gente sinvergüenza!
Two criminal rivals and two crooked insurance adjusters jockey for ownership of a batch of stolen jewels.
Secreto de confesión
Young woman falls in love with a cub reporter who's investigating the illegal activities of her father. Then there's secret marriages and secret murders and secret babies and... family melodrama in full flower.
Caín, Abel y el otro
Three early twenties guys in Acapulco competing for women... they end up marooned on a desert island together...
Los novios
Near the end of a very long engagement, two lovers break away from each other to cut loose and have one crazy weekend before their wedding.
La mujer de oro
Heist movie: bank teller develops an elaborate game plan to lift money from the vault where she works.
La hermana Trinquete
Career-thief hides from the police by joining a convent.
El cuerpazo del delito
Magda Bustamante / Enriqueta (segment "La insaciable")
Anthology film: three "sophisticated" rom-com scenarios.
El despertar del lobo
Young woman looking for a rich husband, sets her sights on a very pious and old-fashioned neighbor.
Shark!
Anna
A gunrunner loses his cargo near a small coastal Sudanese town so he's stuck there. When a woman hires him to raid a sunken ship in the shark-infested waters, he sees a chance to compensate for his losses. He's not the only one.
24 horas de placer
Catalina
Man develops a reputation as a great bedroom athlete after publishing a 'spicy' novel.
El amor de María Isabel
María Isabel Sánchez
Follow up to Maria Isabel. Newly wed to a rich man, Maria Isabel must still struggle with being branded as a lowly maid and endure the scorn of her adoptive daughter and the infidelity of her husband.
La Bataille de San Sebastian
Félicia
Leon Alastray is an outlaw who has been given sanctuary by Father John, whom he then escorts to the village of San Sebastian. The village is deserted, with its cowardly residents hiding in the hills from Indians, who regularly attack the village and steal all their supplies. When Father John is murdered, the villagers mistakenly think the outlaw is the priest. Alastray at first tells them he is not a priest, but they don't believe it, and an apparent miracle seems to prove they are correct. Eventually, he assists them in regaining their confidence and defending themselves.
La soldadera
Lázara
While waiting for a train which will take them on their honeymoon, two newlyweds, Juan and Lázara, are separated by a federal army commander who is going around enlisting men to fight against the revolutionaries. Traveling with the troops, Lázara follows Juan until he dies in a battle against the Villistas. From that moment on, the young woman's fate will be in the hands of whoever happens to win the latest contest, an uncertain fate for someone whose only wish is for a home of her own.
Dangerous Game
Lena Anderson
Two dark-comedy stories involving blackmail, murder and love triangles in Rio de Janeiro
María Isabel
María Isabel Sánchez
A woman jumping from the poverty of the countryside to the splendor of wealth in the city without losing its simplicity
Estrategia matrimonio
Mónica Ferrer
Pragmatic 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.
Simon of the Desert
The Devil
Simon, a deeply religious man living in the 4th century, wants to be nearer to God so he climbs a column. The Devil wants him come down to Earth and is trying to seduce him.
Los cuervos están de luto
Piedad
The family of a dying man celebrates his wake while the man is still alive, showing their darker, selfish ambitions and trying to take the best part of the inheritance.
¡Buenas noches, año nuevo!
Silvia
Backstage comedy; singer-dancer and her songwriter husband pretend to have an open relationship, because it makes them look smart and modern.
The Exterminating Angel
Leticia 'La Valkiria'
After a lavish dinner party, the guests find themselves mysteriously unable to leave the room.
Viridiana
Viridiana
Viridiana is preparing to start her life as a nun when she is sent, somewhat unwillingly, to visit her aging uncle, Don Jaime. He supports her; but the two have met only once. Jaime thinks Viridiana resembles his dead wife. Viridiana has secretly despised this man all her life and finds her worst fears proven when Jaime grows determined to seduce his pure niece. Viridiana becomes undone as her uncle upends the plans she had made to join the convent.
¡Adiós, Mimí Pompón!
María 'Mimí Pompón'
The famous couplet singer Mimi Pompon leaves everything to marry Heriberto Promenade, a wealthy merchant of Limoges with five marriages behind her. Of course Mimi has also been widowed five times. Saintpaul, an astute police, suspicious of so many accidental deaths and closely monitor both the mansion. Gradually, we discover that Heriberto, fearing that their wives may betray him, the killer, always with the complicity of her mother.
Maribel y la extraña familia
Maribel
The life of Maribel, a disilluisoned prostitute working the Madrid of 1960, suddenly changes when a simple man that she meets by chance without knowing her profession, decides that she is the woman of her life and that he wants to marry her and to meet his odd family.
Charlestón
Beatriz
Silvia Pinal stars as Beatriz, a woman whose troubles are brought on by the fact that she has two wildly different suitors.
Men and Noblemen
Giovanna
Nicola Peccoli has always nurtured his niece Giovanna, an orphan since the age of two and now of age, but he does not look favorably on her beloved Mario because he is just a simple employee and a lower class of society.
Las locuras de Bárbara
Bárbara
El hombre que me gusta
A man facing bankruptcy and ruin rehearses a couple of scenarios relating to suicide, until his family convinces him he's worth more alive than dead.
Una golfa
Trumpet-player in a club band falls for a streety young woman; she dumps him to become a kept woman... and his roommate the pianist is dealing weed... and...
Una cita de amor
Soledad
The story of the doomed love between Soledad and Román. She is the daughter of a rich man that wants to marry her with Ernesto, nephew of his friend, the judge. Román owns a little ranch. A brawl in the town will unleash several deaths that will affect the already difficult relationship.
Desnúdate, Lucrecia
Commercial artist and her fiancé go to Acapulco for a weekend, and she discovers that their engagement was a mistake. Lookie-here, Mr. Right just came along! (But he's got his own comical baggage.)
Préstame tu cuerpo
Heaven Can Wait scenario; a young woman dies forty years ahead of schedule because her guardian angel made a mistake... so the divine powers that be put her back on earth in a new body.
¡Viva el amor!
Man wants to dump wife for a new girlfriend; all three end up weekending in Acapulco together along with a gentleman the wife meets enroute, and all four explore the possibility of forming new relationships.
Mi desconocida esposa
Silvia Heredia
After moving from Guadalajara to Mexico City, a young woman gets embroiled in a series of puzzling mistaken-identity misadventures.
Dios no lo quiera
Felisa
Cape Horn
The whaling captain, Antonio Grez, meets in a bar in the port of Valparaiso a very beautiful woman who lives haunted by the tragic premonition that fate will give her a violent death. Grez takes command of a whaler bound for Cape Horn and Antarctica. In Punta Arenas, the owner of the whaling company embarks on together with his fiancee, who is none other than the mysterious woman with whom Grez has fallen in love. The final route of the ship is the 'Land of Desolation', a place on which there is a curse and everyone knows that, for centuries, is has been fulfilled inexorably.
La dulce enemiga
Lucrecia
The story of a femme fatale whose adventures are narrated in flashbacks by the ghosts of her former lovers.
Teatro del crimen
Herself
In a music hall has committed a murder, the police will also find the murderer.
La adúltera
Irene Gálvez
Jilted lover takes revenge on her ex's new wife.
The Innocent
Mané
After a quarrel with her boyfriend on New Year's Eve, Mane drives her car from Mexico City to Cuernavaca to meet her parents in their country house. The car breaks down in the highway and Mane has to ask for help. Mechanic Cruci arrives and, after testing the car, offers Mane a ride on his motorcycle. Back in Mane's house, she invites him some drinks to celebrate New Year's Eve. They get drunk and, the morning after, Mane's parents arrive and find them sleeping together. Not knowing what happened, Mane and Cruci are forced to get married against their will.
Locura pasional
Wife-killer narrates flashbacks about how his obsessive jealousy led him to tragedy.
La vida tiene tres días
María Andrade
Big-city songwriter and small-town music student conduct a romance by mail, then finally meet.
Love in Four Parts
Sofía
Anthology film, four episodes.
A Stranger on the Stairs
Laura
Based on Ladislas Fodor's "Stranger on the Stairs". A loved triangle composed by a cynical entrepreneur, a loan manager, and a seductive secretary will lead to a criminal plot in Cuba.
La sospechosa
Regina de Alba
Young woman returns home from her travels and discovers that her mother's new husband is up to no good.
Historia de un abrigo de mink
Four anecdotes involving a mink coat in display in a shop window.
Pecado Mortal
Soledad Hernández
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.
El vendedor de muñecas
A man sells his wife, and takes care of street women turning them into ladies to sell to rich men.
Si volvieras a mi
Lidia Kane
El casto Susano
Father and son are sober, responsible pillars of the community in their home-town... but they make frequent trips to the city.
Reventa de esclavas
Mad-science/comedy scenario about reviving the corpse of an Egyptian mummy morphs into a love story set in ancient Egypt.
Las cariñosas
When three beautiful young nurses from Jalisco, afflicted with a rare disease called "sexappealitis", create commotion among the patients in a hospital, they are forced to resign. They travel to Mexico City following the suggestion of a crazy scientist, who tells them they will be cured when they get married. But they are attracted to three men who are indifferent to their sexy looks, being themselves sick with "lovetitis".
Yo soy muy macho
Mario / María Aguirre
To help her pilot brother, Maria disguises as a man to take his place, and must live in the jungle with a very "macho" captain, eventually falling in love.
Mis tres viudas alegres
Dead man's will reveals he had three wives.
Doña Mariquita de mi corazón
Paz Alegre
Adolfo, the son of Dona Mariquita, is committed to Marisa to please his mother, but his real love is Paz.
Si, Mi vida
Leticia
Dr. Castellanos is saved from bankruptcy.
Me traes de un ala
Rosita
To conquer the beautiful vedette Rosita, journalist Tin Tan is subject to her whims. Fired along with his friend Narciso from the newspaper they worked, Tin Tan trying to sell a movie plot. A woman looking to buy it and Tin Tan will visit her in a gloomy mansion where a mess is unleashed.
When Children Sin
Bad girl makes lives miserable.
A Place Close to Heaven
Sonia Iliana
On reaching the capital, Pedro Gonzalez gets a lowly job and marries Margaret. After losing that job, get a new one as a bodyguard but is fired again. With so much poverty and despair Pedro believes that his only way out is suicide.
Por ellas aunque mal paguen
Isabel
Don Anastacio, an aristocrat passing through a rough patch,He will make marry his daughter Isabel with wealthy rancher. Isabel and her family refuse to work, Jose Manuel takes them to the ranch, where they are forced to work for food.
Mujer de medianoche
Young woman elopes with her fiancé; during their honeymoon, things happen that cause them to be separated, and she finds herself alone in a big city with no resources to fall back on.
La estatua de carne
Sculptor becomes infatuated with model. Everyone suffers.
Recién casados... no molestar
Newly-married woman discovers that her husband's a virgin and not the notorious Don Juan that she'd heard rumors about, and their marriage almost collapses because he's faithful and monogamous and good.
Una gallega baila mambo
Ladylike widow hires a roughneck neighbor to help her marry off her daughter and collect an inheritance by impersonating her husband.
El Portero
Rosita
Cantinflas works as a porter, who writes letters and speeches in his old writing machine to earn an extra money, despite the fact that he still goes to school. The sentimental issues come when Cantinflas falls in love of his pretty neighborhood (Silvia Pinal), who is handicapped and unable to walk. The thing wont be easy, because a young military man also has feelings for the girl. But the porter wants to see her happy, and he will become a sort of Cyrano De Bergerac, writing love letters to her signed by the young soldier. His plan is simple: to win money in the horse races in order to pay the operation which will make her walk again.
The Mark of the Skunk
Lupita
In 1840 California, The Texmelucan viscount bizco, offers a feast for his son Tin, who returned from Italy where he studied fencing. The boy turns out to be a coward who flees in terror after refusing to fight a duel with Captain Gaspar. In their flight, Tin rescues a witch was tied to a tree. Grateful, the witch gives him an ointment that will make him invincible for an hour. The coward swordsman will have three opportunities to use it and save his father from the injustices of the evil ruler Marcelo.
El amor no es ciego
The King of the Neighborhood
Carmelita
A poor man becomes a modern Robin Hood, robbing the rich to give to the poor.
The Woman I Lost
Laura
A political revolutionary fights against injustice, his adoring wife by his side. But only in her death does he realize the depth of her love for him and their country. A dramatic romance from the 23 film library of the most iconic classic Mexican film and recording star, Pedro Infante.
Bamba
Emilia
El pecado de Laura
Juanita
Young woman breaks her engagement to be married when an opportunity for stardom comes her way.