Ada Carrasco

Ada Carrasco

Birth : 1912-09-14, Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico

Death : 1994-04-05

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Ada Carrasco

Movies

Like Water for Chocolate
Nacha
Tita is passionately in love with Pedro, but her controlling mother forbids her from marrying him. When Pedro marries her sister, Tita throws herself into her cooking and discovers she can transfer her emotions through the food she prepares, infecting all who eat it with her intense heartbreak.
Matrimonio y mortaja
Contigo en la distancia
El Chácharas
El regreso del carro rojo
Doña Amalia
Mexican feature film
Fieras en brama
Before being confirmed in the priesthood, a seminary student is ordered to go back out into the world for a year to confirm his vocation. It turns out that mundane activities hold a certain appeal for him.
The White Indian
Doña Juana
La combi asesina
Daniela
Mexican feature film
Fuego en el mar
Rosario
Uneventful but unhappy life of a guy who works on an oil platform in the Gulf Of Mexico.
Pedro Páramo, el hombre de la Media Luna
Pedro Páramo's Mother
Juan Preciado, son of Pedro Páramo, goes to Comala to claim his inheritance; but when he arrives he finds an abandoned and sinister town, inhabited by mysterious voices and whispers…
The Dried Butterflies
Gloria / Maid
A disturbed middle aged writer becomes obsessed with a little boy who reminds her of a former lover.
El elegido
Madre de Andres
A guy is peer-pressured, despite his reluctance, to play the role of Christ in a local production of the Passion Play.
Renzo el gitano
Rodolfo wants to marry the aristocrat Adriana who rejects him. Humberto, her brother, kills a man for her. Rodolfo attributes the crime to the gypsy Renzo so that Adriana will gratefully marry him. Renzo is sent to the island of the condemned, where he is left for dead.
Mi mesera
Elena y Raquel
Elena's sterile and her younger cousin Raquel gets pregnant before marriage.They scream at each other a lot.
Temporada salvaje
Justina
Two Mules for Sister Sara
Juan's Mother
When a wandering mercenary named Hogan rescues a nun called Sister Sara from the unwanted attentions of a band of rogues on the Mexican plains, he has no idea what he has let himself in for. Their chance encounter results in the blowing up of a train and a French garrison, as well as igniting a spark between them that survives a shocking discovery.
La casa de las muchachas
A whore house is transformed into a decent household by a respectable man.
The Book of Stone
Paulina "Sirvienta"
Julia, a governess, comes to work for a bourgeois family that lives in a forested property they have recently bought. Julia is to take care of a little girl named Silvia, whose unusual demeanor may find its roots in the family garden.
Memories of the Future
A story where the Cristero Rebellion creates a story of love, passion, and betrayal. When the Federal Rosas and his lover arrive in a town, a local woman feels strangely attracted to him. The woman will surrender under the pretext that the population is liberated when in reality she wants to consummate the passion that ignites her.
Si quiero
Girlfriends's Mother
Newlyweds find married life to be challenging.
Baron Brakola
Aurora
Santo goes up against the vampire Baron Brakola, who has returned to seek vengeance on the descendants of the Knight in the Silver Mask (Santo's colonial era ancestor).
El señor doctor
Doña Lola
It's about a country doctor that comes to the city while a clinic is built in his home town... he rubs off his care and compassion on others at the hospital with his humor and wit.
El tejedor de milagros
Doña Agustina
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 ".
Los secretos del sexo débil
Simitrio
Simitrio's mother
A blind teacher is the victim of endless pranks and pranks from his students.
Sonatas
Nana
In the fall of 1824 Javier Montenegro, Bradomin Marquis is spared death hanging by Captain Casares, and in return, the Marquis agrees to help him escape to America. Adaptation of "Sonata de Otoño" and "Sonata de Estío" of Ramón María del Valle-Inclan, which included elements Bardem later works of the author.
Nazarin
Josefa
Nazarín is the priest who leaves his order and decides to go on a pilgrimage. As he goes along subsisting on alms, he shelters a prostitute wanted by the police for murder. He is released from suspicion and she eventually catches up with him when she escapes imprisonment. Another woman joins the duo and soon the ex-priest is learning more about the human heart and suffering than when he wore robes.
Mysteries of Black Magic
Espectadora nerviosa
Six hundred year old witch butts heads with a scholar over the possession of a rare ancient grimoire and then discovers that his daughter's fiance is the reincarnation of her first boyfriend.
The Bravados
Jim Douglass arrives in the small town of Rio Arriba in order to witness the hanging of the four men he believes murdered his wife. When the convicts escape, Jim tracks them into Mexico, determined to see that justice is done. But the farther Jim goes in his quest for vengeance, the more merciless he becomes, losing himself in an unrelenting spiral of hatred and violence.
El buen ladrón
Alma de Acero
Doña Soledad de Gallardo
Inspired by Alexander Dumas's novel The Corsican Brothers, Alma de Acero presents a delightful spin on the classic story of twin brothers (both played by Luis Aguilar) and their contrasting lives. As a singer in a nightclub, one brother has chosen a life of peaceful simplicity; the other, however, has chosen a troublesome lifestyle that leads to numerous run-ins with the law, forcing the vocalist to risk his own life to save his sibling.
Fruto prohibido
Señora Luz María Gómez
A writer is given custody of his editor's daughter after she is orphaned. Once she grows up, they become romantically involved.