María Rojo

María Rojo

Birth : 1943-08-15, Mexico City, Mexico

History

María de Lourdes Rojo e Incháustegui, commonly known as María Rojo (born August 15, 1943 in Mexico City), is a Mexican actress and politician. She was Senator of the Republic in the upper house of Mexican Congress. She has participated in successful Mexican films such as: Rojo amanecer, El callejón de los milagros and El Infierno.

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María Rojo
María Rojo
María Rojo

Movies

A Not So Merry Christmas
A curse is placed on grinchy Chuy, who wakes up to find he's lived a full year, but is doomed to remember only Christmas Day. Every year. From now on.
The Cousin
Juliana
A married woman, who's husband leaves her alone way too many times, is seduced by a junior spoiled young man, leading her into the fullfillment of her unsatisfied needs.
Ayotzinapa
Thanks
This film is a story, testimony and documentation of the forced disappearance of 43 student teachers, which exposes the criminal complicity between the police and military authorities, between the political and economic elites and criminal organizations in Mexico, which appear to be different forces, but respond to similar interests.
She's Ramona
Marcela
Ramona is fat woman with too much weight and barely any luck. She recalls a childhood filled with moral abuse by her mother, sister and friends, calling her silly offensive names referencing her overweight. When she became an adult, things didn’t really get any better. She’s fired for being fat, she wants a liposuction but the doctor informs her she’s not a candidate due to her overweight, and all her universe seems to be collapsing after a series of unfortunate events. But everything will soon get better thanks to some magical beetles she finds in a Tarot café.
Las Horas Contigo
Julieta
Ema finds out she is pregnant with an unplanned child she's not sure she wants to keep, the same week her beloved grandmother becomes gravely ill. Spending her last days at her grandmother's side, Ema is forced to spend time with her estranged, larger than life mother, getting to know her and seeing her with new eyes. As she spends time with the people gathered around her grandmother in her last days; Ema re-evaluates her beliefs, her fears and her set ideas about family, love and parenthood.
The Perfect Dictatorship
Doña Chole
TV MX, the most powerful Mexican Television Corporation, discloses a scandalous story involving Governor Carmelo Vargas in serious crimes and illicit business. Governor Vargas worried about his political future, decides to clean his image and negotiates a billionaire secret agreement with the owners of the TV Corporation. Carlos Rojo, an ambitious young news producer, and Ricardo Diaz, TV network star reporter, are responsible for making a dirty campaign to change the image the public has of the corrupt Governor and make him, at any cost, a political star and a great presidential candidate. Mexican Television believes that democracy is a farce and has already placed one President... Will they do it again?
Jirón de niebla
After the dead of his mother, Daniel is put under the care of his aunt Elizabeth, a foreign woman with a severe character, who subjects the child to multiple abuses and psychological torture.
El Infierno
Doña Mari Reyes
Benjamin Garcia, Benny is deported from the United States. Back home and against a bleak picture, Benny gets involved in the drug business, in which he has for the first time in his life, a spectacular rise surrounded by money, women, violence and fun. But very soon he will discover that criminal life does not always keep its promises.
File of Attempted Murder
Madre de Arroyo
Tells the story behind an assassination attempt perpetrated in 1897, by a dipsomaniac man, against the President of the Mexican Republic, General Porfirio Diaz.
Me importas tú... y tú
Nerdy college boy gets romantic advice from the apparition of a dead film star.
Under the Same Moon
Reyna
Tells the parallel stories of nine-year-old Carlitos and his mother, Rosario. In the hopes of providing a better life for her son, Rosario works illegally in the U.S. while her mother cares for Carlitos back in Mexico.
El Garabato
Senator
The story of a naive young man, provincial and not very experienced, to whom the circumstances of destiny, when crossing with the beautiful Frida, lead him to mature with a single blow. Rodolfo helps Frida in a car accident while she orders him to deliver an envelope. There begins the desperate flight of this innocent man fighting for his life, persecuted by thugs -who want to recover the contents of the envelope- and by the police -who seeks him for being a suspect in the death of an important diplomat.
El malogrado amor de Sebastián
Sebastian meets Antonio and it is love at first sight. But the obstacles do not wait.
A Wonderful World
Comadre chismosa
A fairy tale about the political and socioeconomic realities of Mexico.
Dos auroras
When her son Mauricio suffers a severe crisis, Aurora, a wealthy woman from Guadalajara, returns from Greece to try to help him with the possible disclosure of the identity of his father.
El edén
Magda
A conservative businesswoman promises her dying husband to bring their son, long-absent and whose whereabouts, is unknown back home. The clues lead to El Edén, a male brothel dressed as a gym. Despite the fact that he refuses to return, she, accustomed to achieving what she sets out to do, will use all her weapons to recover what is her own.
The Mystery of the Almond Trees
Dona Josefina
A pair of macho private detectives pose as a gay couple to gain access into the world of a perverted wealthy widow, Doña Josefina, also known as “Mrs. Open Mind.” The widow’s summer home, it seems, is a legendary lightning rod for scandal because of mysterious and evil incidents that occur there.
Violet Perfume
Madre de Yessica
A poignant and moving urban drama, focusing on the growing problem of sexual assault in Mexico City. Director Sistach fictionalizes the true story of a friendship between two adolescent girls which is torn apart when one of them is brutally raped.
Crónica de un desayuno
Luzma
A view of the end-of-the-century Mexican family. A father who comes back home after a long absence, but who would rather be somewhere else. A daughter suffering from a trapped pain. A son full of guilt and recriminations. A little kid who soaks up all the tension in the house, like a sponge, and a self-effacing mother who would like to go away and leave everything behind.
Reclusorio
Gloria Castro (segment "La Prostituta violada")
The human and divine justice are exposed through five real life stories related to the legal processes of a prison. The cases presented are: "I want to stay in jail", "Blood between women", "The raped prostitute", "The kidnapped policeman", and "Euthanasia or murder?"
Esmeralda Comes by Night
Esmeralda Loyden
Esmeralda is married with 5 husbands at the same time, so she has to explain to the judge why she has done this.
Alta Tensión
A retired man that used to work for the National Electricity Company fight with his sons who want to get his money.
The Overturning Of The Heart
1941, Jose Antelmo Cruz regrets his past while writing a novel and falling in love with a prostitute.
De muerte natural
Four women get mad at a bakery while they recall their lives at their neighborhood.
Salón México
Mercedes
In this remake of the 40's classic, two lovers murder each other, leading to an investigation and the closing of the Saln Mxico, a famous place where people used to go to dance before WWII. The police investigation leads to several flashbacks about the life and death of a low-life dancer named Mercedes (Maria Rojo) and her lover.
Danish Girls Show Everything
Nun
Despite its suggestive title, this multi-part Danish omnibus film is not a work of exploitation. Instead, it presents 20 different short films (back-to-back) on the general theme of Danish women, directed by filmmakers including Krzysztof Zanussi, Monika Treut, Gustav Hamos, David Blair, Vibeke Vogel, Dusan Makavejev, Morten Skallerud and Lars Norgaard. Some dramatic vignettes mix with other comedic ones, but all are offbeat and experimental. The picture includes one animated sequence (by Norgaard).
Midaq Alley
Doña Cata
Heated tempers, frustrated desires and dashed hopes plague a diverse group of individuals whose lives cross paths in Mexico City. There is the bar-owner's son, Chava, who yearns to emigrate to America. A poor barber, Abel, is madly in love with the gorgeous Alma, who eventually becomes a high-class prostitute. Finally, there is Susanita, the desperate spinster who pursues many love affairs in hopes of finding a husband.
La señorita
Violent death of a loan shark investigated by diligent policeman.
Móvil pasional
Gyula Kodar is a commissioner who investigates the murder of an American executive. Keep track of Macabí, an ex and former lover of Mary Laya, widow of the victim. With the help of Kelly, a prostitute who is his sometime lover, Gyula able to find Macabí ; then he discovers that love is superior to survival and freedom is stronger than betrayal.
Encuentro Inesperado
Estela
Pilar Landeros, famous singer, comes to a huge and luxurious mansion from the airport. The journey has been long and Pilar wants to rest. Dismissed his driver and his butler; will try to sleep until breakfast time. The diva dreams of being killed by one of her admirers, but who appears in her room is the new maid, Estela...
Autumn
Woman
A woman, who lives alone with her mother, invents a fantasy life to escape her reality.
El chupes
Martha
A bureaucrat sees how little by little his world is disintegrating because of alcoholism. Based on a true story
Forbidden Homework
María / Aisel / Mother
A young man completing an assignment for his film class invites Marieda, a middle-aged woman, over to his aunt's house to rehearse for a drama she believes they will eventually record. But she doesn't realize that she is being videotaped since her arrival.
Tequila
Nearly thirty years after making his surrealist La Formula Secreta, director Rubén Gámez returned to filmmaking with this impressionistic portrait of modern-day Mexico. Reminiscent in some ways of Godfrey Reggio’s Koyaanisqatsi, Tequila appears to be a cinematic extension of Mexico’s muralist tradition, a contemporary equivalent of Diego Rivera or David Alfaro Siqueiros with vignettes, quick ideas, visual puns, cartoons, and political statements.
Homework
Virginia / María
Virginia is taking a class at film school, and has decided on her solo project for the class. She will secretly film herself and her ex-husband Marcelo with a candid camera while they make love.
Danzón
Julia Solórzano
A telephone operator from Mexico City tries to support a family and her passion for popular dance.
Triste recuerdo
Drug-trade kingpin tries to coerce a woman into marriage, but her former boyfriend turns up and she finds new reasons to resist being pressured.
The Legend of a Mask
Emilia
A reporter starts investigating the life of the recently deceased wrestler "The Masked Angel"
Con El Miedo En Las Venas
Francisca
Compilation tape of Hora Marcada episodes.
La sombra del ciprés es alargada
Jane
Avila, early twentieth century. Pedro, a boy of nine years, accompanied by his tutor, comes to live in the house of Don Mateo, a teacher that from that moment will be responsible for his education. Pedro begins an almost familiar relationship with Doña Gregoria and Martina, wife and daughter of his master. The appearance of Alfredo, and roommate and colleague of studies, complete the circle of his emotional environment. Provincial life, relationships with peers and the special relationship between life and death instilled by Don Mateo, definitely will influence his future life.
Dying in the Gulf
Conchita
The story of the oil leader Lázaro Pizarro, of his political and personal wars, the use of crime to settle conflicts and the course of his power between the basements and the domes of Mexican politics, have a narrative record made in the Gulf of accuracy and dexterity
Bathroom Intimacy
Esperanza
A family crisis revealed through each member's bathroom intimacy.
Red Dawn
Alicia
On October 2, 1968, a student uprising descends into violence after the Mexican government begins to use lethal force against the protesters.
Las asesinas del panadero
Mexican feature film
Break of Dawn
Maria
The true story of the first Spanish-language radio announcer and political activist, Pedro J Gonzalez
All Souls' Day
Yolanda
Two families gather at a cemetery to honor their departed.
El otro crimen
Mexican feature film
Living Is What Matters
Chabela
A drifter named Candelario asks to spend the night at the hacienda of Don Lazaro. Once there, he gets the offer to stay and work as a laborer with a fixed salary. Over time, Candelario is gaining the confidence of his employer, and becomes indispensable. The situation will change radically when Don Lazarus discovers that Candelario is having a love affair with his wife.
Los confines
Natalia
Mix magical universe of Juan Rulfo, in which Juan Preciado, "Pedro Paramo", located incestuous siblings "Talpa" while Juvencio Nava, of "Diles que no me maten", flee several men who pursue for killing Colonel Terrones.
Zapata en Chinameca
The Humiliated
Mother Teresa
Four nuns are raped by a group of lepers. Although they all turn out to be pregnant, their status is hidden from them in the convent.
Viaje al paraíso
Family plans for a quiet weekend at the beach, but everything goes wrong.
The Heart of the Night
Interprete
A young deaf-mute who lives and has intercourse with a blind man much older than she, inevitably attracts a shy driving instructor a strange, hallucinatory underworld, populated by those beings whose mutilation, impaired physical differences, have become rejected of society.
Under the Shrapnel
Maria
A guerrilla commando tries to kidnap a politician. In the attempt, several policemen and a guerrillero die. By chance the head of the kidnappers meets an old colleague; to prevent him from betraying them, he kidnaps him.
Deceitful Appearances
The sexual misunderstandings caused by the real identity of a rich woman serve Hermosillo to satirize the moral and social hypocrisy of the provincial that every Mexican carries inside.
Confidencias
Anastasia
Rich woman and her maid start answering penpal ads in a lonelyhearts magazine, just for giggles, but...
The Oil Conspiracy
While Mexico swims in the oil veins that were deeded to him by the Devil, a bureaucrat is thrown into a whirlwind of intrigue and international espionage where he discovers that the guts of the beast in charge are one and the same, and the evacuation conduit itself. : We are the shit of that monster. At the same time, a man and a woman discover that behind their passion there is a dark reality that drives them to disguise as action what is only hunger, suffering, desire.
Maria of My Heart
Maria Torres Lopez
Héctor and María meet again after eight years of not seeing each other. She works as a magician in cabarets and he robs houses. María convinces Héctor to become a magician and work together. Life seems to smile on them until one day, when Maria travels to another city, the couple's situation will be overshadowed by an unfortunate event.
Naufragio
Leticia
One woman lives waiting for her son who is a sailor. She hasn't seen him for years although he writes to her a lot. The woman shares the letters and her grief with a co-worker and friend. This last woman begins to idealize her friend's son.
New World
Intérprete indígena
Towards the end of the 16th century, the Spanish conquerors living in the New World faced a serious problem: the evangelization of the indigenous people, who did not understand or accept Christianity due to their unshakable faith in their own religion. The court of the Inquisition cracks down on heretics and the natives prepare for a general uprising ...
Idilio
Las Poquianchis
Lupe
In the middle 70's in the mexican state of Guanajuato, authorities discover a clandestine burial ground, the corpses were from murdered prostitutes. The suspects are three sisters known as "Las Poquianchis".
The Heist
Meche
In Mexico City's infamous Lecumberri prison, three drug-addicted convicts celebrate getting drugs from one of their the mothers. They are found out and locked up in the "apando," the dreaded punishment cell. Protests over the treatment of those held in the cell lead to a bloody confrontation.
Candy Stripe Nurses
Marisa Valdez
Young, sexy nurses and their hospital adventures: free-loving Sandy tries to cure a rock star of his sexual problems, uptight Dianne has an affair with a druggie star college basketball player all while trying to expose another doctor's malpractice, and juvenile delinquent Marisa has an affair with an accused man, in turn also trying to prove his innocence.
The Cubs
Luvi
After having his genitals brutally mutilated during childhood, a man must face prejudice and himself.
The Cubs
Lucy
After having his genitals brutally mutilated during childhood, a man must face prejudice and himself.
Castle of Purity
Young at store
A disciplined and sexually driven man forces his family to stay isolated in their home in order to protect them from the “evil nature” of human beings.
Forbidden Kisses
Alicia
Nightclub singer has to choose between marrying again or reuniting with her divorced husband.