Rita Macedo
Nascimento : 1928-12-08, Mexico City, Mexico
Morte : 1993-12-06
História
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Rita Macedo was a Mexican actress who performed during the Golden Age of Mexican cinema. She was nominated for an Ariel Award for her 1956 performance in "Ensayo de un crimen" and in 1991 for a TVyNovelas Prize for "Alcanzar una estrella". She won the Best Actress Ariel Award in 1972 for "Tú, yo, y nosotros". She also was instrumental in bringing many works of international writers to the Mexican stage.
She was married to a pioneer of Mexican radio, television and film, Luis de Llano Palmer, by whom she had two children, Julissa, an actress and musician, and Luis de Llano Macedo, renowned telenovela producer. On December 5, 1993, Macedo committed suicide after being diagnosed with cancer.
Hermana Angustias
A musical band of teens travel by plane to a scheduled event where they will perform in scenario have an accident and get lost in the middle of the desert.
Jaime's Grandmother (uncredited)
As histórias de bruxaria que a cozinheira conta para a pequena Verônica lhe despertam a imaginação. A chegada de Flávia, uma nova colega de turma, faz com que Verônica se apresente à nova amiga como sendo ela mesma uma "bruxa". Diante da descrença de sua amiga, Verônica se aproveita de uma série de circunstâncias para a convencer de que ela tem feito bruxaria para causar as tais "situações". A inocência dessa brincadeira adquire uma ar macabro, quando Verônica insiste com Flávia para que ela a leve junto nas sua férias na fazenda da família, onde poderá preparar um veneno para as fadas. Aí é quando esta brincadeira se torna realmente perigosa.
Da Rosa
Retired boxer is the moral compass of his slum neighborhood.
Retired boxer is the moral compass of his slum neighborhood.
Wealthy family in the 1940s have failed to change with the times, and now everything's collapsing in their lives.
Trinidad
Family from a farming community move to the capital and lose their moral compass.
Eva's Mother
Two young waitresses, Laura and Eva, become romantically involved with a movie distributor, Adrian, and his friend Luis.
Beatriz
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.
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.
Silvia
Three interwoven stories where the characters experience deception, passion, love and rejection.
Virgen María
Third movie in "Life of Christ" trilogy.
Marta
Widow with teenaged children faces hostility from her dead husband's mother, who seems to know a family secret she wants to use against her.
Hotel with a dozen stories unfolding simultaneously: man with brain tumor, child with leukemia, drug-traffic magnate and his paid escort, rich widow and her paid escort, lesbian seduction scenario, etc etc...
Tía Amparo
Young-adult movie about a crew of 8 or 10 upper-middle-class boys and girls -- mostly about the romance between two of them.
Drifter returns to his home town for revenge, but he get caught up in the town's interpersonal dramas.
Rebecca Núñez
Neutron, a wrestler/superhero, investigates a series of murders at a sanitarium.
Western gunfighter Billy Kid decides to embark upon a new life and, accompanied by his sister, sets off on the long journey to his ranch. The journey is fraught with danger as Billy is attacked by both gunmen and lawmen.
Victoria, esposa del Torcuato
A deaf and mute vagabond finds a large denomination bill in a Mexico City dump, and while he tries to buy something with it, others try to con him into giving it away. The film was selected as the Mexican entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 36th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.
Troubled young man meets his father for the first time.
Selma
A young woman inherits a mansion, only to discover that it is haunted by witches and evil spirits.
Carmen López de Yáñez
An international oil company comes into conflict with a Mexican ranch owner who refuses to sell his land, resorting to a devious scheme to try to take over the property.
Starving woman
Peasant woman leads a regiment during the final days of the Mexican Revolution. Also, romantic entanglements.
Loose remake of Chaplin's The Kid.
Teresa, Beatriz's mother
María Antonia, Beatriz and Leonor are three classmates who are anxiously awaiting the celebration of their 15th birthday. However, each of them will have to cope with their complicated personal situation.
Teresa
Mourners share their memories of a dead film-star at her wake, a la Citizen Kane. Only melodrama.
Cowboy goes to track down the man who murdered his brother, but it turns out to be someone other than the one he was looking for. Together, they set things straight and take care of the real murderer.
Andara
Baseando-se na novela de Benito Perez Galdós, Luis Buñuel, o cineasta mais importante da língua hispânica de sua época, atualiza o argumento, dando-lhe grande força dramática (uma vez que os problemas manchengos da trama são adaptados ao universo mexicano). O humilde padre Nazarín, interpretado por Francisco Rabal, vive e compartilha sua pobreza com os necessitados que moram perto da pousada de Chanfa. Após proteger uma prostituta que provocou um incêndio, é obrigado a fugir da cidade. Em sua peregrinação, as ações de Nazarín provocam uma série de problemas que se contrapõem fortemente a visão da caridade cristã.
Anthology-movie with episodes set in Cuba, Mexico and Colombia.
Mariana del Sauz
Luis Aguilar heads the cast in this story of a band of outlaws whose exploits are more fun than negligible.
María Álvarez
Going out for a drink with the guys after work, a salaryman get in over his head with a gangster's moll and a murder.
Patricia Terrazas
A bizarre black comedy about a man whose overwhelming ambition in life is to be a renowned serial killer of women, and will stop at nothing to achieve it - but not everything goes according to plan...
Governess falls in love with the uncle of the children she's teaching. Then complications.
The old folks back home in Spain have arranged a marriage for their niece living in Mexico. To side-step their demands, she pretends to be already married, with a male acquaintance who agrees to pose as her husband while her relatives are visiting.
Beatriz Vega
In 1850s Mexico, the beautiful owner of a silver mine is kidnapped by a bandit leader, who needs money to finance his revolt against the Emperor Maximilian.
Employees and clients at Merle's Beauty Stuff have illicit romances and cheating husbands and that kind of thing. Meanwhile, the cop that directs traffic outside gets an opportunity to become a movie star.
Ranch melodrama: romantic triangle leads to multiple murders.
Newly-elected state governor is challenged by his responsibilities.
Wanted criminal has plastic surgery, starts new life in a distant town. Old habits die hard.
Elsa
Adela Quiroga
Bernardo is in love with Adela and although she does not belong, he has always helped her family although they only care about money and not the virtues of man.
Esperanza
1910: Revolutionary leader escapes military, hides in small town, falls in love.
Mexican movie
Rosalia / Maria
Biography of the first Catholic Saint to be born in Mexico.
In Michoacan in the 1920s, Gabriel, a young farmer and champion cockfighter, finds himself in violent opposition to Roman, who not only wants to beat Gabriel's fighting cock, but to steal Gabriel's wife Rosa.
Rosenda
A ruffian sends his assistant to force a peasant girl to marry him, but while he is bringing her to him, he falls in love with her.
Mexican Revolution: rich man's son kills somebody over a woman, runs off to the war, goes home afterwards. Many complications, much melodrama.
Elena (as Concha Macedo)
"The great love of his life" happened five times; one of those women just wrote him a letter. Which one will it be?
1940s-style teen comedy set in a private school for girls.
Globe-hopping playboy bachelor is getting on in years, so he invites his five international children to come live with him.
