María Rojo 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
Two Auroras

Actors: María Rojo, Tizoc Arroyo, Jose Juan Meraz, Jesus Hernandez, Karla Ibarra

Synopsis: A deluded woman is torn between her family and the man she loves in this dark drama from Mexican filmmaker Jaime Humberto Hermosillo. Aurora (Maria Rojo) is a middle-aged woman whose obsessive love for famous singer Andres (Rogelio Guerra) led to a brief tryst that left her with child. Many years Read More

2005
El Misterio de los Almendros

Actors: María Rojo, Alejandro Tommasi, Jose Juan Meraz

2004
Demasiado Amor

Actors: Karina Gidi, Martin Altomaro

Synopsis: It's said that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but one woman finds that her boyfriend's absence makes other men more fond of her in this romantic comedy. Beatriz (Karina Gidi) is a frumpy office worker in a Spanish community who often laments the sad state of her love life, especially Read More

2001
Cronica De Un Desayuno

Actors: María Rojo, Bruno Bichir, José Alonso

Synopsis: In this wildly stylized look at love, sex, family, and community, an absent husband comes home late one night to make up with his wife, and they make love into the wee hours of the morning. As the new day dawns, the children of the household realize their father has come home -- and they're not Read More

2000
Perfume de violetas: Nadie te oye

Actors: Ximena Ayala, Nancy Gutierrez, Arcelia Ramirez, María Rojo, Luis Fernando Peña, Eligio Melendez

Synopsis: Familial dysfunction and widespread crime conspire to destroy the life of one young woman in this topical drama from Mexico. Yessica (Ximena Ayala) and Mariam (Nancy Gutierrez) are two girls in their early teens growing up in a poor, crime-ridden neighborhood in Mexico City. Both girls are Read More

2000
De Noche Vienes, Esmeralda

Actors: María Rojo, Claudio Obregón, Martha Navarro, Antonio Crestain, Ignacio Retes

Synopsis: While films about polygamous men who don't bother telling their wives about their other wives are not uncommon, those concerning polyandrous women doing the same thing are rare. This featherweight romantic comedy from Mexican director Jaime Humberto Hermosillo is one of those films. Esmeralda is Read More

9/18/98
De Muerte Natural

Actors: Angélica Aragón, Ana Ofelia Murguia, Adriana Roel, María Rojo, Salvador Sanchez

Synopsis: Poverty-stricken women struggle with hardships at the lowest levels of Mexican society in this low-budget drama. Middle-aged Esperanza (Adriana Roel) has a mute son, two daughters, and an abusive husband. Esperanza and her friend Nicolasa (Angelica Aragon) recall past dreams and desires, before Read More

1998
Alta Tension

Actors: Juan Manuel Bernal, María Rojo, Maria Colla, Jésus Ochoa, Ernesto Gómez Cruz, Juan Carlos Colombo, Evangelina Elizondo

1997
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
El Callejón De Los Milagros

Actors: Margarita Sanz, Juan Manuel Bernal, Bruno Bichir, Salma Hayek

Synopsis: This Mexican drama is a faithful adaptation of Nobel-laureate Naguib Mahfouz's novel, only it is set in contemporary Mexico City instead of 1940s Cairo. The film is comprised of three overlapping "chapters" that come together in the fourth chapter. Each segment, centering on a different Read More

1995
Movil Pasional

Actors: Orlando Urdaneta, María Rojo, Miguel Ángel Rodríguez, Elvira Valdez

Synopsis: This erotic Venezuelan thriller features lots of violence and kinky sex. Gyula, is the tough police commissioner who must solve the murder of a wealthy gringo businessman. The prime suspect is his wife, an ex-hooker who is in line for a large inheritance. She still loves her old pimp, Macabi. To Read More

1994
Los Vuelcos del Corazon

Synopsis: This Mexican drama, set in 1941 just before the U.S. entered WW II, examines the lives of Communists who worked and spread propaganda in Mexico. Jose is an aspiring novelist and Communist living in Mexico. Raquel, a prostitute and waitress, lives with him. She loves him deeply. He carries a torch Read More

1994
Salon Mexico

Actors: María Rojo, Blanca Guerra, Edith Gonzalez, Manuel Ojeda, Alberto Estrella

Synopsis: The murder of a taxi dancer and her pimp provide the motivation for this crime melodrama, a remake of Emilio Fernandez's famed Salon Mexico. Set in the '30s, the crime occured in a popular Mexico City dance hall with the bodies being discovered in the dressing room of the dancer, Mercedes. Beside Read More

1994
Encuentro Inesperado

Actors: Lucha Villa, María Rojo, Ignacio Retes, Jorge Zepeda

Synopsis: Long ago, Pilar Landeros ran away from her husband and child and changed her name so that she could have a career as a singer. Now, she is rich and famous. Not everyone has forgotten her past, as she discovers when the new maid she has hired turns out to be her angry and vengeful daughter. In this Read More

1993
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
Tequila

Actors: Hugo Stiglitz, Yirah Aparicio, María Rojo

Synopsis: This feature-length production is billed as "a cinematographer's sketchbook" focused on images of modern Mexico. The director in question previously made a highly regarded short film entitled Formula Secreta. Without significant amounts of verbiage, the film links images in a surprisingly Read More

1992
Forbidden Homework

Actors: Julian Pastor, María Rojo

Synopsis: In this provocative drama from Mexican filmmaker Jaime Humberto Hermosillo, Julian Pastor plays a young college student who is living with his aunt. The student is taking a course in filmmaking and is working on a short video as a class project. An attractive middle-aged woman, Marieda (Maria Read More

1992
El Extensionista

Actors: Eduardo Palomo, José Carlos Ruiz, Manuel Ojeda, Ernesto Gómez Cruz

Synopsis: In Mexico, as in many former Spanish colonies, despite many attempts at change, the larger part of the country's farmland is still held or managed by a privileged few and farmed by powerless peasants or tenants. In this story, based on the longest-running play in Mexican history (El Extensionista Read More

1991
Triste Recuerdo

1990
La Tarea

Actors: María Rojo, José Alonso

Synopsis: Virginia (Maria Rojo) is taking a class at film school, and has decided on her solo project for the class. She will film herself and her ex-husband Marcelo (Jose Alonso) (who likes to leave the light on) while they make love. She carefully positions a camera under a chair, and maneuvers her Read More

1990
Intimidades en un Cuarto de Bano

Actors: Gabriela Roel, Alvaro Guerrero, María Rojo, Emilio Echeverria

Synopsis: Intimate details in the lives of five family members become extremely clear from the vantage point of their bathroom mirror, in this innovative drama. Bertha (María Navarro) is the mother of the clan, and spends her afternoons away from the house with her lovers. Her husband Juan (Emilio Read More

1990
La Leyenda de Una Mascara

Actors: Hector Bonilla, Hector Ortega, María Rojo, Gina Morett, Pedro Armendariz, Jr.

Synopsis: El Angel Enmascarado was found dead in his mansion, and reporter Olmo Robles has been given the task of finding out what happened to the famous (and wealthy) wrestler -- including the wrestler's true identity, which has remained hidden from the beginning. This takes him into the wrestler's past Read More

1989
Rojo Amanecer

Actors: María Rojo, Demián Bichir, Eduardo Palomo, Hector Bonilla

Synopsis: Set entirely in the city residence of a of a notable, but not ruling-class family of Mexico, this drama explores what happened during a 1968 student uprising, which was brutally suppressed by the government. In the story, the family's two college-aged boys are ardent advocates of change. Despite Read More

1989
Lo Que Importa Es Vivir

Actors: Gonzalo Vega, Ernesto Gómez Cruz, María Rojo, Alejandro Parodi, Lolo Navarro

Synopsis: This dreamy and somewhat improbable tale set in the Mexican countryside has been compared with the fantasy-laden social satires of (Luis Bunuel). Not coincidentally, the director of this film, Luis Alcoriza has worked with Bunuel. In the story, Candelario (Gonzalo Vega), a rugged unemployed man Read More

1989
Break of Dawn

Actors: Oscar Chavez, María Rojo, Pepe Serna, Tony Plana, Peter Henry Schroeder

Synopsis: This bio-film profiles the life of Pedro Gonzalez, the first Mexican radio show host. Gonzalez, who immigrated to the U.S. in 1928, became a target for racism after he became an important political activist in the 1930's. He was most influential among the residents of East L.A. who began to Read More

1988
Robachicos

Actors: Gerardo Vigil, José Carlos Ruiz, Alma Muriel, Narciso Busquets, María Rojo

Synopsis: Juanito Aguilar (Gerardo Vigil) is a private detective who simply cannot wrap his mind around what he has stumbled on, so he misses clues that are right beneath his nose. He is unable to envision a group of thugs so heartless that they will steal children from their families or off the streets and Read More

1987
Viaje al Paraiso

Actors: José Carlos Ruiz, María Rojo, Alejandro Parodi, Jorge Zepeda

Synopsis: This film came into existence because the screenwriter and director won a 1983 screenplay-writing competition. In the story, a family of eight "Chilangos" are vacationing in the Mexican countryside. "Chilangos" are long-time residents of Mexico City, and they are famed for having loud Read More

1987
La Vispera

Actors: Ernesto Gómez Cruz, María Rojo, Alfredo Sevilla, Ignacio Retes, Salvador Sanchez

1982
Maria de mi Corazon

Actors: Hector Bonilla, María Rojo, Ana Ofelia Murguia, Blanca Rosa Torres

Synopsis: With a screenplay by the Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel García Márquez and noted Mexican director Jaime Humberto Hermosillo, who also directed this film, there are several inventive and whimsical facets to this story about an ill-fated love. When Hector (Hector Bonilla) comes back from his Read More

1979
El Apando

Actors: José Carlos Ruiz, Delia Casanova, Manuel Ojeda, María Rojo

Synopsis: A prison drama full of juvenile-delinquent blood and violence. Spanish. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

1976