Claudia Islas

Claudia Islas

Birth : 1946-07-17, Pachuca, Hidalgo, Mexico

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Claudia Islas

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Reclusorio III
3 real life stories taken from the Mexican police archive.
La venganza del silla de ruedas
Sara Reynolds
A man confined to a wheelchair must stop a vicious serial killer.
Si las mujeres mandaran (o mandasen)
María
Las piernas del millón
Theatrical promoter deals with temperamental artists and temperamental investors while putting a show together and holding everything together until opening night.
La pachanga
Carmen
In a building, at the same time a girl's birthday is celebrated and an old man who died of cold is being watched.
Los mantenidos
Dying man calls in the three illegitimate sons who never met him to take over the ownership of his nightclub and brothel. Wacky hijinks and boobies.
Las tentadoras
Morir de madrugada
Daniela Parra
A successful lawyer has his life shattered when his beautiful wife is found murdered. An investigation reveals she was lying to him and leading a double life... but who killed her?
Una noche embarazosa
An Italian taxicab driver is used as a "breeding man" to save the inheritance of a wealthy family in Mexico.
Volver, volver, volver
Esperanza Reyes
Good son vs bad son melodrama complicates life on the hacienda.
Blacker Than the Night
Ofelia
When four women move into an old house left by one woman's aunt, strange things begin to happen. Bizarre voices, visions of ghosts, and mysterious noises lead them to discover the darkest powers of evil and a horror and agony beyond terror.
The Kidnapping
A woman is kidnapped and held hostage by a mentally unstable man.
Conserje en Condominio
Jackie
After reading in the newspaper, Úrsulo runs to seek employment. It is the position of caretaker of a luxury apartment building habited by people more heterogeneous: the professional model, the spiritualist, hippies and all turn to him to solve their problems. But someone in the building, kidnapped an important person and Úrsulo becomes a private investigator.
Los doce malditos
Estela
Escaping after a heist, bank-robbers run afoul of an ex bounty hunter with whom they have back story.
Besos, besos... y mas besos
Rom-com anthology movie with three anecdotes.
Los indomables
A veteran lawman must escort a brutal and bloodthirsty bandit, Big Bill, back to the prison from which he escaped. On the way, the commissioner is wounded and only finds the assistance of Nick Sanders, a young homeless man with great skill with weapons. The lawman and Sanders establish a friendly relationship, and Sanders agrees to escort the bandit. However, the two protagonists are pursued by hostile forces: the prisoner's gang, and law enforcement officers, who are after Sanders on a murder charge. The meeting point is in a town where the local sheriff tries to fulfill his duty by hosting the prisoner while facing the pressures and fears of the townspeople.
Cayó de la gloria el diablo
Esperanza / Popea
Subsistence-economy slum guy who sells used newsprint for a living breaks into showbiz with an inadvertantly-comical fire-eater act. The novelty of him wears off very quickly, and then...
Todos los pecados del mundo
The seven deadly sins are illustrated through short stories.
Los ángeles de la tarde
Ya se quien eres (te he estado observando)
Rosaura Lagos
A surreal romantic comedy
Bajo el ardiente sol
Romantic melodrama set on a Colombian coffee plantation.
Para servir a usted
Violeta
Working-class dude gets a gig as a waiter doing banquet service, and loses his moral compass through his contacts with decadent rich folk.
Juegos de alcoba
Anthology movie -- three anecdotes relating to liberated, post-sixties, sexual behavior. Swinging couples, hippie-style free-love, etc...
La hora desnuda
Los juniors
Young rich kids, disinherited by their parents, turn to blackmail as a source of income.
Las cadenas del mal
Ambitious young woman thinks she's on he fast track to fame and fortune, but her manager's a sleazeball who gets her hooked on IV drugs and pimps her out at random.
Jóvenes de la Zona Rosa
"Mod" culture in Mexico City.
Tres amigos
Man accused of murder, and the dead man's daughter, try to find proof of the real murderer's identity.
Los siete proscritos
A motley crew of seven outlaws are pressed into service to defend a town from marauding Apaches, then two of them are appointed co-Sheriffs. Also some stuff about hunting for a lost treasure.
Persiguelas y... alcanzalas
After a millionaire playboy is murdered, police enlist a look-alike of the victim to impersonate him in a sting operation.
Con licencia para matar
Four martial-artsy crime-fightin' gals and their comic sidekick, under the leadership of a middle-aged guy in a business suit, defeat some bad people who are doing bad stuff.
Alerta, alta tension
Orquídea
After a criminal gang kidnaps a scientist with valuable information about nuclear weapons, an undercover agent named Jorge Rubio tries to infiltrate this gang in order to deal with the situation. The gang, however, quickly unmasks Rubio and uses both brainwashing and torture techniques on him. They also create a clone of Rubio, thus setting up a show-down battle between the two look-alikes.
The Prodigal Son
Amante de Mario
Suffering mother is reunited with her son after a long absence... and he turns out to be a real rotter.
Despedida de casada
Caballos de acero
Male-bonding, practical jokes, romantic rivalries among cadets in a police academy.
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