Carmen Salinas Filmography

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Under the Same Moon

Actors: Adrian Alonso, Kate del Castillo, Eugenio Derbez, Maya Zapata, Carmen Salinas

Synopsis: The debut feature from director Patricia Riggen, this drama centers on a young boy's journey across the U.S./Mexico border to be reunited with his mother. Adrian Alonso stars as Carlitos, a Mexican adolescent living with his grandmother while his mother works as a maid in the U.S., hoping someday Read More

3/21/08
Amor Que Mata

2005
A Silent Love

Actors: Vanessa Bauche, Noël Burton, Susana Salazar, Maka Kotto, Regina Orozco

Synopsis: A pair of e-mailing lovers discover romance is more difficult in the real world than in cyberspace, especially when a highly unexpected rivalry comes into the picture in this understated comedy drama. Norman (Noël Burton) is a middle-aged college professor from Montreal who, through an on-line Read More

10/29/04
Santos Peregrinos

Synopsis: The tenants of an apartment building go on a treasure hunt when they discover a fortune has been lurking under their noses in this comedy. When one of the residents of an apartment block in Mexico City passes on, someone sorting through their belongings makes a surprising discovery -- it seems Read More

2004
Todo el poder

Synopsis: Directed by Fernando Sariñana, Todo el poder centers around the politics and corruption that shroud the Mexican police system. Featuring Demián Bichir as Gabriel, a filmmaker whose career has left him assaulted and robbed in broad daylight more times than he cares to remember, the film itself was Read More

1999
La Antorcha Encendida

Synopsis: The Mexican telenova La Antorcha Encendida concerns a man and a woman from different ends of the socio economic ladder. Their love for each other persists through major cultural differences, as well as through a tumultuous war. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide Read More

1996
Danzon

Actors: María Rojo, Carmen Salinas, Margarita Isabel, Tito Vasconcelos, Blanca Guerra

Synopsis: Spending the bulk of her time working and raising her child alone, Julia's life is filled with mundane grays. The only color in her life comes from her Wednesday night trips to Mexico City where she dances the danzon with her long-time partner Carmelo. But one night, she goes to dance and Carmelo Read More

9/25/92
Ciudad De Ciegos

Actors: Gabriela Roel, Fernando Balzaretti, Silvia Mariscal, Arcelia Ramirez

Synopsis: In this art-film, ten episodes take place in the life of an apartment, which is the real leading character in the movie. The apartment must be quite a place, because it is the setting for a party between chauffeurs and maids who are taking advantage of their employers' absence. In another episode Read More

1991
La Corneta de Mi General

Actors: Luis de Alba, Roberto "Flaco" Guzman, Sasha Montenegro

1989
El Rey de las Ficheras

Actors: Alfonso Zayas

Synopsis: After losing his long-standing status as king of the cabaret by spending too much time soaking up sun on the beach, a determined former star devises an ingenious plan to reclaim his former title in a this sexy Spanish-language comedy from director Victor Manuel Castro. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Read More

1989
Camino Largo a Tijuana

Actors: Pedro Armendariz, Jr., Ofelia Medina

Synopsis: Lila (Patricia Pereyra) is a teenaged heroin addict who is on the run from some rough customers. It doesn't matter to her that these unpleasant characters were hired by her parents to drag her back to her home. She stumbles into an auto junkyard and is befriended by the manager, Juan (Pedro Armendariz, Jr. Read More

1988
Corrupcion

Actors: Abril Campillo, Carmen Salinas, Pedro Infante, Jr., Alberto Rojas

Synopsis: For anyone wondering why the Mexican government has permitted Mexico City to become the most populous city in the world when it can barely support even one half its population decently, this film and films like it provide the welcome news that the government has been doing what little it can to Read More

1987
Olor a Muerte

Actors: Gilberto Trujillo, Raoul Trujillo, Carmen Salinas

Synopsis: This earnest and well-intentioned message drama tells the cautionary tale of three teenagers who died due to involvement with drugs and gangs. The narrator of the story is a doctor who is moved by their story and warns that "we are all to blame" for their plight. Each boy's story is told with the Read More

1987
Esta Noche Cena Pancho

Actors: Alfonso Zayas, Carmen Salinas, Armando Silvestre, Alberto Rojas, Alfredo Solares

Synopsis: Pancho Medrano (Alfonso Zayas) is an attorney married to an overweight wife (Carmen Salinas), who along with their children constantly depress him. When his friend Marcelo (Armando Silvestre) announces his wedding plans, Pancho and his friend throw a bachelor party complete with booze and loose Read More

1987
Huevos Rancheros

Synopsis: Huevos Rancheros features two comical stories with a sexy edge. The first, "A Real Good Wot," tells the tale of a beautiful housewife who gives herself fully to a total stranger by mistake. The second segment, "Virginity at the River," features a rugged charro who demands proof that his Read More

1987
Albures Mexicanos

Actors: Alfonso Zayas, Carmen Salinas, Sergio "El Comanche" Ramos

Synopsis: A traveling tent show accused of being a risque cabaret is the focus of this comedy. Chief Junior (Alfonso Zayas) is the wicked land developer who tries to run the show out of town. Sexual innuendo, sight gags, and bathroom humor dominates this low-budget feature. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide Read More

1987
Entre Ficheras Anda El Diablo

Actors: Jorge Rivero, Sasha Montenegro, Carmen Salinas, Rafael Inclán, Alfonso Zayas

Synopsis: An all-star cast of popular Mexican comics appears in this uneven sex comedy. A wife paints a nude picture of her husband who suspects infidelity when he is not portrayed as being anatomically correct. A veterinarian becomes obsessed over a beautiful showgirl, and the devil emerges from hell to Read More

1987
La Chica de la Piscina

1986
La Raza Nunca Pierde

Actors: Miguel Ángel Rodríguez, Sasha Montenegro, Rafael Inclán, Roberto "Flaco" Guzman, Carmen Salinas

Synopsis: Jorge Torres (Miguel Angel Rodriguez) is a former boxing champ who takes a job as a truck driver in this routine sex farce. He hires two other drivers to help him deliver gas to homes and businesses. The oversexed delivery men provide most of the comedy as they encounter willing women on the Read More

1985
Piernas Cruzadas

1984
Nos Reimos De La Migra

Actors: Isela Vega, Rafael Inclán, Roberto "Flaco" Guzman, Carmen Salinas, Polo Ortin

Synopsis: Monica (Isela Vega) is a showgirl who is kidnapped by her uncle who heads the Texas mob in this routine comedy. A trio of drunks from Mexico City sneak across the border to rescue Monica, who is being held because she know too much about her uncle's activities. Rafael Inclan, Roberto (Flaco) Guzman Read More

1984
Mexicano... tú puedes

Actors: Carmen Salinas, Sergio Jiménez, Arturo Alegro, Lupita Sandoval, Ernesto Yanez

Synopsis: This comedy is a hilarious look at the unique foibles inherent in Mexico's bureaucracy and government, and in the ordinary person's vision of life as well. Already an award-winning screenplay, Mexicano, Tu Puedes might be translated as "Go For It" in U.S. parlance -- and a fed-up mother living in Read More

1983
La Pulqueria 2

Synopsis: Victor Manuel Castro's thriller La Pulqueria 2 stars Leticia Perdigon and Maria Luisa Alcala as a pair of women who behind bars after being suspected of a murder they had nothing to do with. In order to guarantee that he stays a free man, the actual murderer (Luis Reynoso) hatches a plot to have Read More

1982
El Dia Que Murió Pedro Infante

Actors: Humberto Zurita, Delia Casanova, Luz Maria Jerez, Tina Baker

Synopsis: Adeptly manipulating images and scenes, director Claudio Isaac has fashioned an existential story about the aspirations of Pablo Rueda (Humberto Zurita), born on the day that Pedro Infante died. (Infante was a popular, well-loved Mexican singer and actor who died in a 1957 plane crash.) Rueda's Read More

1982
La Pulqueria

Synopsis: An unrepentant ladies man begins to experience romantic longings for his psychiatrist as the devil comes to Earth in hopes of experiencing true love in director Victor Manuel Castro's quirky comedy classic. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide Read More

1981
El Secuestro De Los 100 Millones De Dolares

Synopsis: This is a laugher about an abducted gal who befriends a lovable gorilla. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

1980
Las Tentadoras

Actors: Sasha Montenegro, Rafael Inclán

1980
Las Cariñosas

Actors: Luis de Alba

1979
Munecas de Media Noche

Actors: Sasha Montenegro, Rafael Inclán

Synopsis: Victor Manuel Castro's comedy Munecas de Media Noche tells the tale of a man of a man who loses his job as a nightclub entertainer after a vacation that he ended up extending without notifying his employer. He comes up with a variety of outrageous scams in order to get his place on the stage back. Read More

1978
The Place Without Limits

Actors: Lucha Villa, Ana Martin, Gonzalo Vega, Julian Pastor, Carmen Salinas

Synopsis: In a Mexican village, the local whorehouse is run by an elderly transvestite man and his daughter. One of the house's regular customers is a truck driver with a violent turn of mind. One day, he loses control entirely. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide Read More

1977
El Rincon de las Virgines

Synopsis: In rural Mexico, during the silent-film era, people who could read were delegated to narrate the films' story cards. In this film, Lucas Lucatero not only performed that chore, but traveled around with a charismatic peddler, Anacieto Morones (Emilio Fernandes) who at some point began to pass Read More

1974
Tivoli

Synopsis: Actor and filmmaker Alfonso Arau stars in the period musical comedy about the last great days of burlesque in Mexico. In the early '50s, Jesus Quijano (Pancho Córdova) is the manager of a struggling burlesque theater in a decaying part of Mexico City, where his star comedian, Tiliches (Alfonso Arau Read More

1974
Bellas De Noche

Synopsis: When a Latino pimp messes with the Mafia, he finds himself in a dangerous situation. Dialogue is in Spanish. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

1974
Calzonzin Inspector

Synopsis: Based on the comic strip "The Super Machos," this fun tale is about a man who comes into a small town and is mistaken for a government inspector. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

1973
A Paso de Cojo
Distrito Federal
Paso De Cojo
Noche De Carnaval
Fin De Semana En Garibaldi
Comezon A La Mexicana
El Sexo Sentido
Que Viva Tepito, Mi Barrio

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