Carmen Salinas
Nascimento : 1939-10-05, Torreón, Coahuila de Zaragoza, Mexico
Morte : 2021-12-09
História
Carmen Salinas Lozano (October 5th, 1939 - December 9th, 2021) was a Mexican actress, impressionist, comedian, politician, and theatre entrepreneur. She was associated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) during her later career as a politician.
She appeared in 115 films, 70 theater works, 23 soap operas, and 9 television series.
Cecilia
A estrela de cinema mundialmente famosa Olivia enfrenta um desastre de relações públicas quando um paparazzi tira sua foto com seu amante casado, Vincent. O manobrista dedicado Antonio aparece acidentalmente na mesma foto e é contratado para posar como o novo namorado de Olivia como álibi. Essa armadilha com Olivia coloca Antonio no centro das atenções e o leva a um caos inesperado.
Doña Tere
The legal and illegal status of immigrants and the discrimination endured by a segment whom are only looking to a better way of life.
It narrates the obstacles Sebastian Delgado, a slacker and aspiring writer faces when, to win the love of a beautiful girl, finally decides to do something: a movie.
Elpidia
When Martin's car breaks down in the middle of the desert, he has no choice but to head off across the empty landscape to look for help. Along the road he happens upon a mysterious brothel. He has no choice but to go there. But when he goes inside he unknowingly is drawn into a fateful game of chance. In this suspenseful film from Mexico, not everything is what it seems.
Vieja Samora
Um jovem rapaz é adotado pelo carteiro. Em suas tarefas diárias, eles não só devem entregar o correio, mas ler as cartas para os moradores, já que a maioria são analfabetos.
Chepita
Lupita, a young mexican girl, runs away from her family who want to commit her into a hospital. She will start a journey that will take us into a world that seems crazier than she is. With her sensuality, innocence and romanticism, Lupita invites us to think that the world can be experienced in other ways.
Doña Chuy
Jean Paul e Chema estão juntos há dez anos. Eles têm uma carreiras de sucesso, uma casa confortável e muitos amigos. Mas tudo virou de cabeça para baixo quando a amiga íntima Ivana resgata Hendrix de sua casa destruída e pede que eles cuidem do garoto. A mãe de Hendrix, Nina, é viciada em drogas e sofre nas mãos de seu parceiro abusivo Patrick. Os homens começam a considerar fazer Hendrix parte de sua família.
Luz
Hermoso silencio (Beautiful Silence) is a film that tells the story of a man (Cruz) born and raised in the mountains of north Mexico, unaware of modern society. After his Parents death he sets himself on a journey to the discovery of the world long kept from his simple existence. His path into the unknown reveals the evil and good in the human heart and the harsh realities of life.
Nerdy college boy gets romantic advice from the apparition of a dead film star.
Petra
A story of redemption, drama and action, where only love can overcome all obstacles.
Doña Carmen 'La Coyota'
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.
Magdalena is fifteen, but unlike many girls her age, her life is apathetic and somber, due to the abuse she receives from her father, a hopeless alcoholic, and her strange passion for Carlos, a neighborhood thug. A series of complex characters parade through Magdalena's life looking for themselves, such as Gabriel, the homosexual brother, and Huker, a violent judicial policeman who has an important secret. A portrait of the emotional depths of the strange and terrible Mexico City.
Elva Maria
Kern has to fight an evil menace that could destroy the earth when Veritas, his favorite comic book hero, comes to life and seeks his help.
Abuela
When greed comes calling, say goodbye to saintliness. An irresistible comedy about what happens when the residents of a Mexico City apartment building discover that three religious figurines passed down through the decades from Emiliano Zapata are full of solid gold. Tempers fly, libidos flare and no one emerges unscathed, including viewers overcome by a heavenly dose of hilarity in Santos Peregrinos.
Guardian Three
Uma grande onda de sequestros e criminalidade varre a Cidade do México, fazendo com que muitos de seus cidadãos mais ricos contratem guarda-costas para seus filhos. John Creasy é um ex-agente da CIA. Sem emprego e bebendo mais do que deveria, ele aceita a proposta de ser guarda-costas da pequena Pita, uma garota de 9 anos que é filha de um industrial. O sequestro de Pita faz com que ele, mesmo ferido, parta para resgatá-la a qualquer custo.
Carmen Salinas
Film about the scandal of TV producer Juan Osorio with Cuban dancer Niurka Marcos.
La madame
Dolores é abandonada pelo marido de forma inusitada: ele não aguenta mais tanta bondade. Para todos de seu povoado, ela é uma mulher santa, que ajuda a todos de forma bondosa e despretensiosa. Após confessar-se o padre diz que ela não pecou e que sequer saber o que é o pecado; instigada pelas palavras do padre e pelo abandono do marido Dolores vai tentar cometer seu primeiro pecado entregando-se para um homem qualquer, mas ainda assim as coisas não vão sair como ela planejou.
Doña Cleofas
Gabriel is a filmmaker in Mexico City, where he is a victim of crime and violence sometimes even three times a day. This is a black comedy that shows the extreme situation Mexico City is suffering as far as crime is concerned, and the tension the city and it's inhabitants live day after day.
Carmen García (segment 'Sangre entre mujeres")
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?"
In this movie, Rafael Inclán stars as a man who claims at work that he is the "boss" at home but the truth is that his wife is the one who rules the house.
Abuela
Alejandra (Gutiérrez), a drugstore clerk, receives a note from a strange man (Alcázar). The note only shows a number, but Alejandra seems to understand its meaning. That night, Alejandra walks directly to a creepy downtown hotel, climbs the stairs and finds the man waiting for her in a room. The strange rendez-vous is not what it seems to be.
Doña Tí
A telephone operator from Mexico City tries to support a family and her passion for popular dance.
A film full of comedy skits of all kinds.
This belly-laugh funny theatrical hit spawned a genre of racy comedies revolving around "The Seven Year Itch." As several wacky bumblers find out, the "itching" can be true love, the "scratchin" a whole lot of fun, but what happens when the inevitable embarrassing situations ensue is pure hilarity.
Almorrana Monroy 'La Corcholata'
The Chemos and the Pachecos are two gangs whose adventures are witnessed by the doctor, the assistant and the social worker of a clinic where they know of the young men's problems.
Ella
Four different director contribute a segment to this horror anthology.
Cholita
Two families gather at a cemetery to honor their departed.
Carolina
A famous television showman is suffering a mental and spiritual crisis. But fortunately three friends who once have all been lovers of his try to help him...
Four friends gather to organize a wild and sleazy bachelor party.
Five young women visiting relatives in Acapulco are targetted by white-slave kidnappers.
Lucerito
Stranger with a dark past infects a small-town girl with HIV, and the contagion spreads out from there. Public health officials get involved...
Carmen
Vicente and Carmen, are spouses, he works in a factory, although he is a womanizer and irresponsible; she sells cosmetics or fayuca. Both dream of owning a home. Vincent did not want to leave their neighborhood but after several discussions they decide to buy a land...
La Madrastra
Based on a real event, twelve dead bodies are found in the Tula River, we see the events that lead up to the massacre in a tale of crime, vice, corruption and sleaze.
Two young emigres return home from USA to their family farm to visit for a week.
Elvira
After regaining his manliness, he escapes from hell Satan for embezzling Secretary of infernal hacienda, being chased by a couple of poor devils good for nothing, and took refuge in the cabaret ends up working as a transvestite.
A movie projectionist discovers that he has magical powers.
Jesusita
Cabaret Singer
Lucerito is a Spanish star who has come to Mexico, accompanied by her godfather and her agent, to find work. Rosario is from upper class society and has grown tired of the demands made upon her by her family. When they meet each other in a Mexican hotel, they discover that they could be each other's identical twin and decide to change places.
Journalist becomes a member of a boxing champion's entourage to write a book about the boxer's career.
Panchita
Three interlocking anecdotes about boy/girl stuff. Two gigolos make a bet to see which can boff an heiress first, a young artist tries to persuade his upper-class parents that his artist's-model fiance is a good choice for marriage, and a guy on the run from the mafia hides from them by cross-dressing.
Mexican feature film
Sttreet vendors get caught up in the beef between their wholesale supplier and one of his competitors.
Two "naughty" comedy episodes with naked women and bodies of water.
In a small town governed by two rival families, the children break a decades-long feud by running away to the circus.
(AKA: Ratero 2 or Cada quien su madre.) Innocent man forced to hide from the police, ends up taking refuge in a brothel.
Escaping from an abusive stepfather, a young woman decides to cross the border as an undocumented worker. She ends up working on a farm where things aren't what they seem...
Benedita
Young rural-gentry dude sows wild oats, settles down to raise a family, and fights in the Revolution, all at the same time.
Neighbor
Mexican feature film
Anthology film, six little anecdotes about life in the big city.
La Corcholata
The Devil offers a man to help him if he can show him to love.
Doña Cleo
After the death of her husband the industrialist, unprepared trophy-wife takes over the management of his business concerns.
Concha
Slice of life covering four or five days in a badly run-down neighborhood. Matriarch of a slum family dies unexpectedly; relatives from neighboring blocks cope with the loss and arrange her funeral.
Ragtag crew of indigents from an asylum for the handicapped form a squadron to defend the Church during the Cristero Uprising.
Two young men go into hiding to escape from a contract killer; they put on women's clothing and hang around in bars.
La Corcholata
Juan Alonso goes through life without giving himself time to smell the flowers along the way. He stumbles upon a cabaret show and falls in love with the star. What he finds out later is that the lead dancer is actually a transsexual and he is torn by her feelings for her. Surprisingly beautiful, this story really takes a lot of twists and turns.
Tía Lupe
About a nymphomaniac and an artist that constantly spies on her.
Solovino is called like that because no one knows where he came from. He is a miserable province man trying to improve his life, but sees himself forced to steal to survive. When he comes up with a large jewelry bounty a pair of cops offer him his freedom in exchange of the bounty and becomes the target of the police harassment.
Lucy
Father and daughter compete for the same passion in a ruthless place where kindness mixes with hate.
La corcholata
Bellas de noche continues. The ex-fichera who bought the cabaret continues to work with several of her former companions, the waiter Fabian, the pugilist Bronco who returns to boxing, Carmen, his wife, who returns to booking, the drunk “La Corcholata”, in love with an old man, and a French woman and the pimp “El Vaselinas”, whose favors are disputed by all the women, but who loses his virility and fights to regain it.
Cute elementary-school kids get mixed up with black-marketeers.
It narrates the phenomenon of the Mexican Revolution, satirically reflected through what happens in a town far from the places where the true Revolution was fiercely fought.
La Corcholata
The Boxer Germán Bronco Torres loses his license, and works as bouncer at the cabaret El Pirulí, where he falls for the fichera Carmen, and befriends of the pimp Margarito Fuensanta El Vaselinas, who lost a bet and has to pay to a gangsters. For 500 pesos for El Vaselinas, Bronco prepares a trap in the cabaret to the taxi driver Raul, to seduce his girlfriend, not knowing that the victim is his own sister Lupita.
Chapas
While trying to save the famous Tivoli burlesque theater, the participants uncover a web of commercial corruption.
Doña Eme
Mexico's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1974
Pancha Fregoso
"Faith-healer" develops a cult-like following in 1920s Jalisco.
Lucila
The story of Armida (named ¨Doña Macabra¨ by her neighbors) and Demetria, two old women who live in an old house with Octavio, a kind of mad scientist. Their lives take an unexpected turn when the nephew of Armida, Lucila, recently married with Othón, arrive to the house looking for and old treasure, believed to be buried in the house. They will find a lot of dark and unexpected secrets.
A drug cartel disguises their activities as benefactors of different charities. When someone refuses to comply with this, they have their own methods to persuade people to help them out with their crimes.
