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Socorro Avelar
Died February 11, 2003
No biography available.
Known For
Solo · 1996Solo
★ 5.01996
MovieActionAdventure
An android fighting-machine is charged with destroying a small brigade of rebels in a Latin American war who are fighting to maintain their freedom and protect their village. Contrary to his programming, Peebles decides to stay and assist the rebels in their plight. Having gained this information, his "creators" develop a more powerful android to try and defeat him.
The Outsiders · 1967The Outsiders
★ 8.11967
MovieDrama
A couple on the verge of getting married gets mixed up with a gang of thugs in this routine crime drama that underscores the Socio-economic disparity in the Mexican culture. The upper-class couple rides along with outsiders who go club-hopping and resort to petty thievery. After their adventure, the couple questions whether or not they are right for each other.
Nazarín · 1959Nazarín
★ 7.61959
MovieDrama
A Catholic priest in a poor community lives a charitable life in accordance with his religious principles, but others do not return the favor.
The Minister and Me · 1976The Minister and Me
★ 7.11976
MovieComedyDrama
Mateo Melgarejo is a notary public and scribe for the illiterate people of Santo Domingo, a neighborhood north of Mexico City's Zócalo. A squatter friend asks for his help in negotiating with the land census bureau to regularize a land title. After a great deal of frustration with the government bureaucracy, he writes a letter to the cabinet minister, earning an audience with him. The minister hires Melgarejo to reform the bureau, and the appointee proceeds to lecture the officials on their duties in a democratic society. At the end, he gives up the post, returning to Santo Domingo to help its poor residents.
Powder Keg · 2001Powder Keg
★ 6.92001
MovieActionWar
The Driver is drafted by the UN to rescue a wounded war photographer named Harvey Jacobs from out of hostile territory. While they are leaving Jacobs tells the Driver about the horrors he saw as a photographer, but he regrets his inability to help war victims. Jacobs answers the driver curiosity about why he is a photographer by saying how his mother taught him to see. He gives the Driver the film needed for a New York Times story and also his dog tags to give to his mother. When they reach the border, they are confronted by a guard who begins to draw arms as Jacobs begins taking pictures, trying to get himself killed. The Driver drives through a hail of gunfire to the border, but finds Jacobs killed by a bullet through the seat. The Driver arrives in America to visit Jacobs' mother and share the news of him winning the Pulitzer prize and hand over the dog tags, only to discover that she is blind.
Partners and Lovers · 1973Partners and Lovers
★ 4.01973
MovieDramaRomance
Three short films about intimacy, infidelity and life as a couple (or almost)
The Queen of the Night · 1994The Queen of the Night
★ 5.01994
MovieDramaRomance
The legendary life of Mexican singer Lucha Reyes is the basis of this fictionalized biography ( or as director Arturo Ripstein puts it "an imaginary biography"). Lucha Reyes was an unconventional, and sexually liberated woman, most famous for her "cancion ranchera" style singing. Her story begins in 1939, where at 33 she still lived at home with her mother, Dona Victora, the madame of a renowned Mexico City whorehouse. Lucha marries the liberal Pedro Calderon and then buys a beggar's daughter. She becomes the mother to this child, Luzma. Lucha craves lasting love like junkies crave heroin. But for her loyal daughter, she never finds it and in the end no one can help her.
Mujer, casos de la vida realMujer, casos de la vida real
★ 10.0
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Nazarín · 1959Nazarín
★ 7.61959
MovieDrama
A Catholic priest in a poor community lives a charitable life in accordance with his religious principles, but others do not return the favor.
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