
Birthday:
04-09-1942
Deathday:
07-08-2022 (80 years)
Birthplace:
Mexico City, Mexico
Biography
Marta Aura Palacios was a renowned Mexican actress. She was born on September 4, 1942 in Mexico City and would remain active in the entertainment world for more than 60 years. She studied acting at the National Academy of Fine Arts, making her debut with the play Judith, presented at the Teatro La Capilla in 1959 and later she would be a very active member of the National Theater Company (CNT).
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El día menos pensado
event2005 star_border 6
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What would happen if the world's largest city ran out of clean water? The situation is portrayed through the eyes of a mature couple who are reluctant to leave their home and who defend their last drops of water at gunpoint.
Honest Days
Act like Natalia Miranda
event2021 star_border 5.5
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When she is fired from her only job in a series of infomercials, Amanda, an actress with little talent and whose film career is forgotten, decides to resume her career in the midst of an economic crisis that leads her to a questionnaire about her vocation, but also, that the shore to rethink its responsibility as the mother of Nicolás, a 7-year-old boy to whom she had not paid much attention until then.
The Cubs
Act like Enfermera
event1973 star_border 5
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After having his genitals brutally mutilated during childhood, a man must face prejudice and himself.
Red Dawn
Act like Vecina
event1990 star_border 8.1
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On October 2, 1968, a student uprising descends into violence after the Mexican government begins to use lethal force against the protesters.
Crazy Carnival
Act like Caricoña
event2006 star_border 4.7
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In a seedy brothel, their frustrations parade: A poet who has never published, a revolutionary who came late to history, a provocative angel, a bureaucrat with delusions of a dancer, a greedy Chinese man and his timorous wife, Monica, a prostitute with low professional esteem, a group of prostitutes of dubious sensuality and, finally, a priest with a stench of holiness and another with redeeming instincts. But a stranger with the air of a princess appears, and upsets the balance of the establishment.
The First Night
event1998 star_border 5.8
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In the middle of a city facing a new century, a group of friends between the ages of 15 and 18 live out the adventures, deceptions and anxiety of "The First Night."
Someone Wants to Kill Us!
event1970 star_border 5.6
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A woman is sent to Mexico to kill the person who presumptly killed her father.
Cayó de la gloria el diablo
Act like Zoila Margarita Acosta, soprano
event1972 star_border 5
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Subsistence-economy slum guy who sells used newsprint for a living breaks into showbiz with an inadvertantly-comical fire-eater act. The novelty of him wears off very quickly, and then...
Nobody Will Speak of Us When We're Dead
Act like María Luisa
event1995 star_border 7
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A hit man searches for an alcoholic prostitute who has witnessed a crime and fled to Madrid.
Max Dominó
event1981 star_border 5
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Mexican feature film
The Book of Stone
Act like Soledad
event2009 star_border 4.2
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Julieta is a young child psychologist hired by millionaire Eugenio Ruvalcaba, to work with his only daughter, Sylvia, who has severe emotional problems, while staying in their isolated island mansion. Once there, she finds out there's much more to Sylvia's imaginary friend than what everybody knows... and the results can be horrifying... Remake of Carlos Enrique Taboada's classic film from 1969.
Tres minutos en la oscuridad
event1996 star_border 5
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Four childhood friends decide to play a prank on an aunt of one of the four. Two enter the house and two others remain waiting in the car. When the alarm goes off, the two waiting in the car escape, leaving the other two to escape on their own. After that, the friends begin distrusting each other wondering what really happened during those three minutes in the dark inside the house.
The Queen of the Night
Act like Balmori
event1994 star_border 4.5
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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.
Written on the Body of Night
event2001 star_border 4.5
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A look back at a director's life with his neurotic mother.
Angel of Fire
Act like Marta
event1991 star_border 5.9
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The young trapeze artist Alma is part of the show of a miserable traveling circus. In an act of desperation, Alma commits incest with her father, a sick clown obsessed with the woman who abandoned them. Determined to have his child, Alma leaves the circus and joins a group of preachers led by Refugio, a woman who performs puppet shows with biblical passages in poor neighborhoods.
4 Moons
Act like Petra
event2014 star_border 7.1
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Four interwoven stories about love and self-acceptance: An eleven year-old boy struggles to keep secret the attraction he feels towards his male cousin. Two former childhood friends reunite and start a relationship that gets complicated due to one of them’s fear of getting caught. A gay long lasting relationship is in jeopardy when a third man comes along. An old family man is obsessed with a young male prostitute and tries to raise the money to afford the experience.
Becloud
Act like Josefina
event2010 star_border 5
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Alejandro Gerber Bicecci's "Vaho" (Becloud) tells the story of three childhood friends, Andres, Felipe, and Jose, and their lives in a dusty, run down corner of Mexico City. The boys were inseparable until they witnessed a tragedy that haunts them to the present day. The tragedy shaped each boy differently, and had a profound effect on their lives.
Mosquita muerta
Act like Mamá de Sofía
event2007 star_border 5
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Marcelo and Sofía love each other, but both suspect the other of infidelity. Marcelo, a film director, accidentally discovers condoms in Sofías purse. They are really for Marcelos younger sister, but he thinks the discovery confirms his suspicions and keeps one as evidence. Sofía discovers the condom in Marcelos wallet and takes for granted that he is cheating on her. Pepe, Marcelos cousin, pretends to be him to impress a girl, further complicating the mix up.
Luz's Motives
Act like Lic. Marisela Alférez
event1985 star_border 5.1
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Luz is in jail, accused of murdering her own children. Her husband and her mother-in-law say she killed them in cold blood. Dr. Rebollar tries to help the woman, but she refuses to remember anything. Luz thinks of jail as the purgatory: it's only one step to reach the Heaven.
The Humiliated
Act like Sister Concepción
event1986 star_border 5.2
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Four nuns are raped by a group of lepers. Although they all turn out to be pregnant, their status is hidden from them in the convent.
The Place Without Limits
Act like Emma (acompañante de Octavio)
event1978 star_border 7.4
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Family honor, greed, machismo, homophobia, and dreams collide in a small Mexican town.
Long live Tepito!
Act like Chelo
event1981 star_border 5.4
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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.
Leftie
event2003 star_border 7.2
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Futuristic movie about Alejandro, a gifted left-handed child marble player who must win a competition as the entire town's hopes - and money - rest on him.
Scars
event2005 star_border 7.5
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The story of a dysfunctional couple, whose problems will inevitably deteriorate their marriage and their son's life.
Malos hábitos
Act like Chelo
event2007 star_border 6.3
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Matilde is a nun convinced that faith moves mountains. She secretly begins a mystic fasting to end what she considers to be the second great flood. Elena is a thin and fashion-conscious woman ashamed of her daughter's chubbiness. She's willing to do the impossible to make her daughter Linda thin so Linda will look like a little princess on the day she receives her first communion. At the same time Elena's husband Gustavo - a professor of architecture - cannot cope with his wife's bones poking him during intimate moments so he turns his attention to a buxom female student with a hearty appetite.
The Cousin
Act like Tía Virginia
event2018 star_border 6.1
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A married woman, who's husband leaves her alone way too many times, is seduced by a junior spoiled young man, leading her into the fullfillment of her unsatisfied needs.
Courage
Act like Alma
event2021
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A story about aging, motherhood and life. About looking back and not understanding how you got to where you are, about wounds so deep that all the energy is spent on not wanting to see them. An intimate drama where, through fiction, the director delves into the wounds of his own family.
El baile de San Juan
Act like Genoveva
event2010 star_border 5
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It is the final decade of the 18th century in New Spain. We are in Mexico City, inhabited by local adventurers, native inhabitants and Europeans of every kind. In these surroundings, our characters, Jerónimo Marani, court choreographer, Giovanni, his mestizo son, and Victoria, the daughter of the most prominent family in the city, who is in love with Giovanni, live a life of love and aversion, court intrigue and popular grievances, Viceregal dogmas and dreams of freedom. Mexico´s war of independence is only a few years in the future.
Family Blood
Act like Estela
event2013 star_border 3
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Two young people, who knew each other in a previous life, meet again. Alejandro recognizes Yolanda, who is from a strange family that has the disadvantage of living a very long time, which is also to blames for the mysterious disappearance of his father. Alejandro embarks on an adventure to delve into the secret of his fathers’ death and in the meantime, wonder if he’s capable of abandon his life to fulfill his destiny.
Paper Cemetery
event2007 star_border 3.5
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A thriller about four young people who investigate the murder of a woman who worked in the National Archive. They discover that she had stolen documents incriminating an ex president and a high level police officer involved in crimes during the Dirty War.
Adán Y Eva (Todavía)
event2004 star_border 3.7
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Having partaken in Eden not only of the tree of knowledge, but of the tree of life eternal as well, Adam and Eve became immortal and now find themselves wandering throughout the world in a journey of extreme sexuality and boredom.
Between Pancho Villa and a Naked Woman
Act like 2da esposa de Adrián
event1996 star_border 5.2
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Gina is a modern business woman in her late forties, she has a lover named Adrian, who she sees once in a while just to have sex; they are both atracted to the historic figure of Pancho Villa, while he admires his power, she admires his virility. As Gina helps Adrian (who is a journalist) to write a book about Pancho Villa, she discovers the similarity between Villa's relation to women to that of Adrian and hers. She gets sick of only having sex, and when she decides to get married with him and have a baby, he escapes to buy cigarrettes and gets lost for three months. Gina forgets about him and gets a new boyfriend (half the age she is), and when Adrian tries to get her back and she refuses him and humiliates him, the one and only Pancho Villa appears as his machista conscience ready to do anything to get Gina back.
On the Air
Act like Madre de Laura
event1995 star_border 4
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Alberto is a disc-jockey at a radio station. His life is torn apart by the memories of his ex-wife and his free and careless life in the 60s. Alberto remembers, and his memories don't let him live his present life with Ana, his current girlfriend.
Such is Life
event2000 star_border 5.5
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After her husband leaves her for a younger woman, Julia plans her revenge with the help of her grandmother.
The Reasons of the Heart
Act like Emilia's mother
event2011 star_border 5.7
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In a reinterpretation of Madame Bovary set on contemporary Mexico City, Emilia, a middle class housewife, tries to deal with the monotony of her life. One day, she loses the two things which makes everything beareable: her lover and her credit card.
Ella(s)
event2009
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Documentary about the life of Mercedes Pinto by three women, student, journalist and writer, go in search of another woman: Mercedes Pinto Canarian writer. The film recovers the memory of one of the most important figures in the defense of the rights of women, to get into what their struggles were vital: gender violence, the social status of women ...
The Walls Talk
Act like voz - Casa Espíritu
event2012 star_border 3.7
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A tragic and epic love that transcends time and generations unites Maria and Javier forever. During important periods in Mexico (The War of Independence, the Revolution and current times) these souls play out their destiny facing political squabbles, social pressures, family hatred and historical battles, seeking to make a relationship flower which seems fated to die.
El águila descalza
Act like Trabajadora factoria
event1971 star_border 5.5
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Shmuck makes a superhero costume, rides his bike to crime scenes. He gets involved with something big involving US capitalists taking over local Mexican businesses.
The Eve
event1982 star_border 5.3
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Aging politicians who have faded from the public eye hold a cocktail party to celebrate one friend's appointment to the President's Cabinet. Illusions are indulged, illusions are shattered.
Divine
event1998 star_border 4.9
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"La Nueva Jerusalem" is a small community of believers lead by Papá Basilio and Mamá Dorita. They're waiting for the second coming of Christ, so they've abandoned the world, searching for a new spiritual life. Mamá Dorita sees in young Tomasa the signals of the chosen one. The young girl will be the new leader in "La Nueva Jerusalem".
Y Tu Mamá También
Act like Enriqueta 'Queta' Allende
event2001 star_border 7.4
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In Mexico, two teenage boys and an attractive older woman embark on a road trip and learn a thing or two about life, friendship, sex, and each other.
La casa de Bernarda Alba
Act like Amelia
event1982 star_border 4.9
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A domineering, reclusive and ostentatiously pious widow in a small Spanish town keeps such close watch on her daughters that they are unable to have normal social lives. However, the eldest is allowed to become engaged to an unprincipled young man, primarily for the financial advantages it will bring the mother, Bernarda. Jealousy and envy ensues among the other daughters.
Tear This Heart Out
Act like Josefina
event2008 star_border 8
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A young girl recounts her girlhood and eventual marriage to a general of the Mexican revolution. by one of the most outstanding writers of the new feminist Mexican literature, it is at once a haunting novel of one woman's life and a powerful account of post-revolutionary Mexico from a female perspective.
Lucky Break
event1992 star_border 5
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A bureaucrat gets a house and even a car on credit thanks to the support of a compadre who is a union leader, but then has difficulty paying because he is fired in a job cut despite the many years he has been working.
Marina
Act like Guadalupe "Lupe" Tovar (169 ep.)
event2006 star_border 2
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Marina is a beautiful, sweet young woman who makes a living driving a tourist boat. Her simple life transforms when her mother dies unexpectedly and she inherits a large family fortune. Marina moves into an elegant mansion owned by the wealthy Alarcón Morales family, who treat her with evil, scorn and rejection.
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