Aurora Clavel

Aurora Clavel

Birth : 1936-08-14, Oaxaca, Mexico

History

Aurora Clavel (born August 14, 1936) is a Mexican film and television actress who is noted for her roles in the movies Tarahumara (1965) and Once Upon a Scoundrel (1973), as well as in numerous telenovelas. For example, she played Mama Lupe in Mariana de la Noche.

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Aurora Clavel

Movies

You Live for Me
A tale about the fragile lives of four characters during a month of their lives. One of them, Ana, is waiting for a kidney donor.
The Walls Talk
Doña Luz
A tragic and epic love that transcends time and generations unites Maria and Javier forever. During important periods in Mexico (The War of Independence, the Revolution and current times) these souls play out their destiny facing political squabbles, social pressures, family hatred and historical battles, seeking to make a relationship flower which seems fated to die.
Cruces Desiertas
Consuelo
In Juarez, border town between Mexico and the United States, hundreds of women disappear and are brutally murdered. In this city, where impunity and violence rule, a desperate mother seeks her daughter who has vanished without a trace.
Sucedió en Garibaldi
Rocío
La vibora
The Man in White
María
After accidentally witnessing a serial killer's brutal murder of a policeman, Erika must race to get herself and her daughter out of the killer's path before his blood-soaked rampage includes them as well.
Pedro infante vive?
Reporter/photographer covering a Pedro Infante commemorative event discover an uncanny look-alike lurking on the periphery.
Goitia: A God for Himself
Mujer del rio
Los lavaderos II
Mundo mágico
Anthology movie that presents 3 stories about romance.
Hombres de tierra caliente
Old man kills his alleged best friend over the title to a piece of land. The adult sons of the two old guys get involved in looking for the murderer.
In the Land of Light Feet
During his vacations, 12-year-old Manuel travels by train with his mother to the Sierra Tarahumara to spend a few days with his father, who works in the mountains with the indigenous people protecting nature. Manuel befriends Jesus, who takes him to his town and teaches him the customs of his own. Both children discover illegal loggers.
Mi nombre es Sergio, soy alcohólico
Judith
Los amantes frios
Three-fer anthology of black-humor sex-n-death anecdotes.
Mariachi - Fiesta de sangre
Magdalena Vargas
Desires
Snippets of a family drama involving a rebellious son coming to his depressing home village, his father, and a jaded ex-lover, mixed with various surrealist scenes and statements about sin.
Do You Hear the Dogs Barking?
Made de José
Carrying his son on his back, a man travels from place to place looking for a doctor to treat the sick boy. As they journey, the indio father tells the boy stories to keep him distracted. These stories reveal the life of native peoples in Mexico, both in the countryside and in cities, and they shed light on characteristic beliefs and rituals.
The One Who Came from Heaven
Lamadre
People's hero is Anapu... He extracts the water from a rock, befriends, and baptize and get it to Mary Magdalene, konsolerar the oppressed, makes peace with the warring brothers, raises the dead, licking men and women clean. In between, he makes a lot of soul searching as he wanders through the village, mingling with the various common folk and natives, and discuss their problems, future hazards and their lack of unity, the locals often break out of ethnic song and dance. While tracking a fascist military and his girlfriend to him..
El principio
Madre Soldadera
Mexico is in the midst of Revolution when the protagonist returns after studying in Paris to find his native town in Chihuahua occupied by Francisco Villa’s revolutionary forces. He visits his deserted home and remembers people and events from his adolescence that provide glimpses of pre-Revolutionary society under dictatorship: his uncle, the chief of police; his sister’s involvement with a liberal political association; bathing with the girls from a local brothel; a labor strike that ended in a massacre. Returning to the present he discovers that his father has been assassinated and, in the company of his father’s former servant, joins the revolutionary movement.
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
Ida Garrett
Pat Garrett is hired as a lawman on behalf of a group of wealthy New Mexico cattle barons to bring down his old friend Billy the Kid.
Once Upon a Scoundrel
After falling for Alicia, greedy and powerful Mexican landowner Carlos has her fiancé thrown in prison on a bogus charge. To trick Carlos into releasing her man, Alicia teams up with her Aunt Delfina and tries to convince Carlos that he's a ghost.
National Mechanics
Sábana's Wife
A mechanic takes his family to a car race and a series of events occur which brings problems, betrayals, violence and the unexpected death of an elderly person.
The Wrath of God
Señora Moreno
Set in the 1920s, several foreigners held by a South American military group are offered possible freedom if they accept to topple a local crazed military leader.
Mi niño Tizoc
Teacher
Tizoc wishes to eat a chicken by himself and have his own piñata. At Christmas his father Carmelo grants his wish.
Chanoc vs. the Tiger and the Vampire
Flor de loto
Chanoc must defeat an evil vampire known as Count Frankenhausen.
Soldier Blue
Indian Woman
After a cavalry group is massacred by the Cheyenne, only two survivors remain: Honus, a naive private devoted to his duty, and Cresta, a young woman who had lived with the Cheyenne two years and whose sympathies lie more with them than with the US government. Together, they must try to reach the cavalry's main base camp. As they travel onward, Honus is torn between his growing affection for Cresta.
Los juniors
Young rich kids, disinherited by their parents, turn to blackmail as a source of income.
La maestra inolvidable
Idealistic young teacher takes a post in a small, backwoods town and dedicates her life to schooling the village's children.
The Wild Bunch
Aurora
An aging group of outlaws look for one last big score as the "traditional" American West is disappearing around them.
Birds of Prey
Aurora
1938, a Central America country. A Frenchman who goes by the name "Le Rital" is hired to take out the local dictator. Young Chico is assigned as his right-hand man, whom he impresses. Will a friendship form between them?
Dr. Satan vs. Black Magic
Dea
Plutarco Satan returns, this time he's pitted against a rival evil organization intent on owning the very formula rumored to turn any metal into gold! Dr. Satan must go toe to toe with the vampiric black magician Yei Lin, in order to keep it out of their hands. The cost of failure? His eternal rest!
El bastardo
Tomasa
La soldadera
Victoria
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.
Tarahumara (Further and farther)
Belén
An anthropologist goes to the mountains to study the problems of the indigenous people and finds out that they are being dispossessed of their lands.
Major Dundee
Melinche
During the last winter of the Civil War, cavalry officer Amos Dundee leads a contentious troop of Army regulars, Confederate prisoners and scouts on an expedition into Mexico to destroy a band of Apaches who have been raiding U.S. bases in Texas.
Los amores de Marieta (los fabulosos 20s)
Young woman and her godfather make up a story about her past in order to trick a suitor into marrying her. Then she becomes a musical comedy star and Mexican Revolution.
Las dos galleras
Two tough Mexican ladies avenge their father when he is set-up and shot during a cockfight.
Shark Hunters
Esposa de Rubén
Aurelio is a shark fisherman who works very hard to send money to his family in the city and keep Manela, his young lover on the coast. One day, he decides to move to the big city.
El tejedor de milagros
Jacinta
Arnulfo is a man weaving baskets. Remedios has given birth in front of the house of a woman and her aid, but the village is spread the word that the child born as a child God and an atheist would think exploit to their advantage the "miracle ".