María Elena VelascoFilmography

Occupation:: Actor, Director, Screenwriter

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Ni De Aqui Ni De Alla

Crew: Director

Actors: María Elena Velasco, Rafael Banquells, Cruz Infante, Bruno Schwebel

Synopsis: La India María, also known as María Elena Velasco, co-wrote, directed and starred in this comedy/drama. She has specialized in roles where poor and ignorant "Indios," (Mexicans who are very poorly acculturated to the dominant Spanish culture), are somehow able to bumble through their lives where Read More

1987
Hell Hunters

Actors: Stewart Granger, George Lazenby, Maud Adams, William Berger, Eduardo Conde

Synopsis: Stewart Granger plays a Joseph Mengele type in the grim Hell Hunters. Hiding out in jungles of South America, Granger plans to poison the population of Los Angeles as revenge for the toppling of the Third Reich. Nazi hunters Maud Adams and George Lazenby race against time to foil the old Nazi's Read More

1986
Ni Chana Ni Juana

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Carmen Montejo, Armando Calvo

Synopsis: This undistinguished comedy is about twin sisters separated at birth, one grows up in poverty in a rural village, and the other goes on to fame and fortune as a sophisticated singer and dancer. Juana (Maria Elena Velasco, also the director and writer) is taken by her father after she was born to Read More

1985
The Emerald Forest

Actors: Powers Boothe, Meg Foster, Charley Boorman, Dira Pass, Rui Polonah

Synopsis: The Emerald Forest is based on a true story, as related by Los Angeles Times correspondent Leonard Greenwood. Powers Boothe stars as Bill Markham, a US engineer working on a dam project in the Amazonian jungles. Bill's young son, Tomme (played by director John Boorman's son Charley Boorman) is Read More

1985
Blame It on Rio

Actors: Michael Caine, Joseph Bologna, Valerie Harper, Michelle Johnson, Jose Lewgoy

Synopsis: This attempt to remake the clever 1977 French farce Un Moment d'Egarement stars 50-film-a-year man Michael Caine as an executive named Matthew Hollis, who, together with friend Victor Lyons (Joseph Bologna), travels to Rio de Janeiro on business. Victor sets out on the town in search of a lambada Read More

1984
El Coyote Emplumado

Synopsis: An Acapulco smuggling ring pursues an inept comedian-turned-detective. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

1983
El Que No Corre Vuela

Actors: María Elena Velasco

Synopsis: When a young woman living in the big city discovers just how chaotic urban living can be, she does all she can in order to stay in control of her sanity in a rollicking comedy starring Maria Elena Velasco. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide Read More

1981
Sor Tequila

Synopsis: An Indian nun stumbles into a series of hilarious misadventures while attempting to help those around her in this Spanish-language comedy starring Mexican funny lady Maria Elena Velasco. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide Read More

1980
Okey, Mister Pancho

Actors: María Elena Velasco

Synopsis: Irrepressible Mexican queen of comedy Maria Elena Velasco returns to the screen in this rollicking laugh-fest that finds her enduring character La India Maria becoming deeply embroiled in a large scale diamond heist. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide Read More

1979
La Comadrita

Synopsis: A fun-loving girl finds her quest for a good time propelling her into a series of hilarious happenings in this Spanish-language comedy starring in irrepressible Maria Elena Velasco. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide Read More

1978
El Miedo no Anda en Burro

Actors: María Elena Velasco

Synopsis: A greedy family schemes to find a means of wrestling a hearty inheritance from the ailing family matriarch, only to discover that the mischievous grandmother has left everything to her ever-faithful feline friend in this dark comedy starring Emma Roldan, Fernando Lujan, and Maria Elena Velasco. Read More

1976
La Presidenta Municipal

Actors: María Elena Velasco, Adalberto "Resortes" Martinez

Synopsis: Mexican comedienne La India Maria stars in this political comedy in which a woman who has no political experience to speak of is inexplicably elected to the office of mayor. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide Read More

1974
Duro Pero Seguro

Synopsis: Maria Elena Velasco stars in this Mexican comedy concerning an ancient talisman, and the troubles that can arise when life's little accidents spiral out of control. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide Read More

1974
La Madrecita

Actors: María Elena Velasco

Synopsis: A selfless nun who has dedicated her existence to better the lives of orphaned children sets out on a series of zany adventures in a classic Mexican comedy starring screen icon Maria Elena Velasco. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide Read More

1974
Pobre Pero Honrada

Synopsis: Beloved Mexican screen star La India Maria portrays a poor but honorable woman who causes a stir around town when she decides to become a witch doctor in this classic comedy from director Fernando Cortes. When the real medical practitioner in town discovers that there's a new shaman around, the Read More

1972
Tonta Tonta Pero No Tanto

Actors: María Elena Velasco

Synopsis: When an Indian woman from San José of the Burros leaves her friends and family behind to seek out a job that has been promised to her in the big city, she soon finds that live in the urban jungle is far different from the laid-back pace of life in her quiet hometown in a classic Mexican comedy Read More

1971
Las Delicias del Poder

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: Ivan Lipkies' Mexican comedy Las Delicias del Poder stars Maria Elena Velasco as a peasant girl who eventually meets up with a twin sister she has been estranged from since birth. The sister is a respected politician. Soon enough the two very similar looking women with two very different Read More