Lilia Prado
Also Known As: Лилия Прадо, Leticia Lilia Amezcua Prado, Las piernas más bonitas de México
Biography: Lilia Prado (March 30, 1928 – May 22, 2006) was a Mexican actress and dancer. After winning a beauty contest she started working in the Mexican cinematographic industry, first as an extra, and later on in leading roles. She starred in over 100 films, being directed by Luis Buñuel in Subida al cielo (Ascent to Heaven), Abismos de pasión (Wuthering Heights), and La ilusión viaja en tranvía (Illusion Travels by Streetcar). In many films she shared scenes with Pedro Infante. She and Silvia Pinal were the only actresses who worked with Buñuel in three films.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Sahuayo, Michoacan, Mexico
Birthday: March 30, 1928
Deathday: May 22, 2006
Adult: No
Gender: Female
Popularity:
Known For:
The Castaway on the Street of Providence
Overview: Friends of Luis Buñuel discuss the director while Buñuel mixes drinks and entertains friends in his home.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1971-05-14
Popularity:
Wuthering Heights
Overview: Gone several years, the brooding Alejandro returns to the hacienda of his foster sister, Catalina, whom he loves, to find her married to the wealthy and effete Eduardo.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1954-06-30
Popularity:
Illusion Travels by Streetcar
Overview: Confronted with the unfortunate news that their favorite Streetcar, no. 133, is going to be decommissioned, two Municipal Transit workers get drunk and decide to "take 'er for one last spin," as it were. Unfortunately, the "one last spin" ends up being an all-night and all-day scramble to stay out of trouble, as they are confronted with situation after sometimes bizarre situation that prevents them from returning the "borrowed" Streetcar!
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1954-03-10
Popularity:
Mexican Bus Ride
Overview: Newlywed Oliverio receives disturbing news that his mother is on her deathbed. He travels to a remote part of Mexico to fetch a lawyer who can sort out her will. Leaving his wife behind, he embarks on a bus ride that’s interrupted by an increasingly absurd series of episodes, including an impromptu birthday celebration; a one-legged man writhing in the mud; come-ons from an insatiable small-town belle, Raquel; and Oliverio’s frequent, Freudian nightmares.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1952-06-25
Popularity:
The Useless Life of Pito Pérez
Overview: A man goes on a trip and then returns to his village pretending that everything went well for him.
Genres: Drama Adventure Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1970-09-15
Popularity:
Mi nombre es Sergio, soy alcohólico
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1981-06-18
Popularity:
My General's Wives
Overview: The encounter with an old lover puts a revolutionary general in great danger of death.
Genres: Drama Romance War Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-07-13
Popularity:
Traigo mi 45
Overview: Mexican feature film
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1952-01-01
Popularity:
El fuego de mi ahijada
Overview: Young Raúl looks for his ex-girlfriend Alicia to resume their relationship, but she responds that she doesn't love him anymore. The young woman lives with her godfather Marcial in a hotel he owns.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1979-01-01
Popularity:
Dos Maridos baratos
Overview: Two showgirls need to find husbands in order to collect an inheritance.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-07-07
Popularity:
A Media Luz Los Tres
Overview: "Confirmed bachelor" quits playing the field and gets married.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-03-26
Popularity:
Una gallega en México
Overview: The Galician Candida has a bakery in front of the butcher Robustito, who constantly berates although children of both Aurora and Rodolfo are in love. In the neighborhood where they live, the neighbors prepared a joke to the galician girl. She gets angry Robustito hard time believing him guilty of what happened.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1949-12-31
Popularity:
The Hawks
Overview: The story of two half brothers who do not know they are such, who fight over a woman and nearly kill each other. One of them belongs to Los Gavilanes, a group of men who live live hidden and looting to give to the poor. Revenge, love and hate will at the end bring out the truth and everyone will get what he deserves.
Genres: Western
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1956-02-10
Popularity:
Dos tipas de cuidado
Overview: Gold-digger conspires with gal-pal to snag herself a rich husband.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1989-08-17
Popularity:
Little Town
Overview: Reactionary local "Big Daddy" tries to prevent a school being built in his district.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1962-08-02
Popularity:
Cuanto vale tu hijo
Overview: Family life in a squatter's-rights neighborhood on the outskirts of Mexico City.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-01-11
Popularity:
Dueña y señora
Overview: After his wife dies, the master of the house can... maybe... acknowledge that he had children with the houseekeeper. But will he?
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1948-11-20
Popularity:
Tongolele Has Been Killed
Overview: Murder mystery set in a night-club; who killed the star performer?
Genres: Drama Music Mystery
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1948-09-30
Popularity:
Asesinos de la lucha libre
Overview: Cowboy sheriff investigates the murder of a crooked lucha-libre promoter.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1962-02-15
Popularity:
El medio pelo
Overview: A woman who fancies herself an aristocrat rejects a potential suitor because he's not of her class. Also: their adult children have their own drama, a bit inflected with hippie-ish values.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1972-01-06
Popularity:
Faith, Hope and Charity
Overview: Three episodes. Faith: a woman is attacked. Hope: a fakir is crucified. Charity: a woman faces bureaucracy.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1974-02-14
Popularity:
Vuelta al paraíso
Overview: All men who arrive on a small island fall in love with the daughters of an old fisherman who live there.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1960-06-30
Popularity:
The Poulterer Hawk
Overview: Two bumpkins in the big city fight over the same girl, until they realize that she's playing them against each other.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-01-26
Popularity:
Arriba el norte
Overview: Husband and wife are reunited after a twenty-year misunderstanding; their grown daughter has her eye on a fella.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-08-14
Popularity:
El desalmado
Overview: Fictional biography of a career criminal.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1950-06-28
Popularity:
Ratero
Overview: Solovino is called like that because no one knows where he came from. He is a miserable province man trying to improve his life, but sees himself forced to steal to survive. When he comes up with a large jewelry bounty a pair of cops offer him his freedom in exchange of the bounty and becomes the target of the police harassment.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1979-02-01
Popularity:
El malvado Carabel
Overview: Frustrated salaryman responds to career setbacks by embarking on a life of crime.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1961-11-12
Popularity:
El rincón de las vírgenes
Overview: "Faith-healer" develops a cult-like following in 1920s Jalisco.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1972-11-30
Popularity:
Crimen y castigo
Overview: Adaptation of Dostoyevsky's novel about a student who plans a conceptual murder and then butts heads with a police detective.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-07-05
Popularity:
La Puerta Negra
Overview:
Genres: Drama Action Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1988-04-01
Popularity:
Los cuervos están de luto
Overview: The family of a dying man celebrates his wake while the man is still alive, showing their darker, selfish ambitions and trying to take the best part of the inheritance.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1965-01-01
Popularity:
Hembras De Tierra Caliente
Overview: A small rural town projects all of their real and perceived sins and transgressions on the town's "sexy" girl.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1991-01-01
Popularity:
Kermesse
Overview: Four young couples cement their primary relationships during the town fair.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-02-26
Popularity:
Heart of beast
Overview: Wanted criminal has plastic surgery, starts new life in a distant town. Old habits die hard.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-02-21
Popularity:
Dicen que soy hombre malo
Overview: Mistaken identities, courtship woes, invalidated marriages, and sombreros de charro.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-06-23
Popularity:
Love Pays for Love
Overview: Pre-Revolutionary setting; class conflicts and a romance across class-boundaries.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1950-01-11
Popularity:
Talpa
Overview: Produced on a grand scale, the Mexican Talpa relates the simple story of two brothers. The older of the siblings, Tanilo (Victor Manuel Mendoza) is a well-to-do family man; the other, Estaban (Jamie Fernandez), is one step above a wastrel. When Tanilo is felled by illness, Estaban is forced to take over the family's blacksmith business. He also inaugurates a romance with Tanilo's attractive young wife Juana (Lilia Prado). Punishment is eventually doled out in a manner which suggests that God Himself is exacting retribution on the adulterous couple. Originally released at 87 minutes, Talpa was pared down to 73 minutes for American consumption.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-12-20
Popularity:
La locura del rock and roll
Overview: Two rival colleges prepare for a Battle Of The Bands. Also malt-shoppes and football games.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1957-03-29
Popularity:
El analfabeto
Overview: Inocencio Prieto y Calvo receives a letter telling him he is the heir to his uncle's fortune of two million pesos. Not being able to read he has no idea of who sent the letter or its content. So he goes to the drugstore because the pharmacist can read the letter to him. But while waiting to be helped he sees that a young girl can read. He figures he has to be able to discover the letter's content by himself and decides he will save the letter and go to school, and wait to read the letter on his own.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1961-09-07
Popularity:
I'm flying low
Overview: Two hot-shot pilots working for the same company get all competitive and ructious toward each other.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1959-01-22
Popularity:
Audaz y bravero
Overview: Two ranchers competing over a woman. Cult actor Noe Murayama plays a mentally handicapped character.
Genres: Western
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1965-09-09
Popularity:
El asesino enmascarado
Overview: Hero vs bad-guy western.
Genres: Action
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1962-08-30
Popularity:
Las interesadas
Overview: Three young women sharing an apartment take in a man they injured in a car accident; while he's recovering, they also make friends with a homeless man. And then...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1952-10-31
Popularity:
Duelo en El Dorado
Overview: Saloon-owner's a hard guy and none too law-abiding; his twelve year old son comes to live with him and he starts changing his ways... but his past is likely to catch up with him.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-07-17
Popularity:
La India
Overview: Boy is traumatized from watching his sex-worker mother with her clients; he grows up with a particular grudge against that one guy that used to come to see her...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1976-10-26
Popularity:
The Promised Land?
Overview: Farm's not producing, and a rural family feel like they've exhausted their options, so they move to Mexico City.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1986-01-12
Popularity:
El cara parchada
Overview: Evil guy gratifies his ambitions and desires at any cost, and he prospers nicely. Until he doesn't.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1980-02-28
Popularity:
Sand kisses
Overview: Romantic rivalries and violence on a tropical island.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-07-16
Popularity:
Ladrones de niños
Overview: Kidnapping band has a system set up to transport infants and older children to black-market adoptive parents in the USA.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1958-07-17
Popularity:
Senda prohibida
Overview: The story of Nora, a poor but ambitious young woman, who uses her beauty to seduce a rich and married lawyer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1961-04-06
Popularity:
Pata de palo
Overview: Boy witnesses a murder, killer terrorizes and exploits him.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1950-11-29
Popularity:
Emanuelo
Overview:
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1984-09-06
Popularity:
Novia a la medida
Overview: Door-to-door salesman falls for a young woman, implements hare-brained schemes to separate her from her fiance.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-05-31
Popularity:
El que con niños se acuesta...
Overview: Chón is rejected by his girlfriend Rosario's parents, so they both escape to the capital in search of his friend Manny, a millionaire philanthropist, who helps him but makes him adopt four children from his orphanage.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1959-06-21
Popularity:
Mis secretarias privadas
Overview:
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1959-01-01
Popularity:
Rumba caliente
Overview: Stage-hand and a concession-girl try to break into showbiz.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1952-11-27
Popularity:
El reino de los gángsters
Overview: Johnny Carmenta is a gunman who heads a gang of gangsters. Carmenta secretly acts as a kind of El Zorro, helping the unprotected.
Genres: Crime Thriller Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1948-08-05
Popularity:
México de noche
Overview: Two street gangs vie for primacy, which will give them control of drug smuggling and stolen jewelry.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1975-06-12
Popularity:
Tío de mi vida
Overview: Hard-partying college student wants his parents to think he's a serious and respectable young man, so Uncle Felipe pays all his bills and takes the blame for his misdeeds and wildnesses.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1952-10-01
Popularity:
Lovers of the Lord of the Night
Overview: Venusita falls in love with the son of a wealthy family whose mother sends her son off to the United States in order to keep the two apart. Not to be rejected so easily, Venusita visits Saurina the sorceress who comes up with a spell that kills off the merchant and zaps the son back home, but Venusita's problems are far from over.
Genres: Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1986-10-29
Popularity:
Cuarto de hotel
Overview: Newlywed couple move from small town to Mexico City. Their first night in the city, they get separated by accident, and it takes them 90 minutes and lots of incidents before they find each other again.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1953-08-13
Popularity:
Confidencias de un ruletero
Overview: Taxi driver takes the wrong passenger at the wrong time and gets caught up in a murder investigation.
Genres: Comedy Crime Mystery
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1949-11-16
Popularity:
Cuando acaba la noche
Overview: Newspaper reporter interests himself in contesting a manslaughter verdict on behalf of the son of a woman who saves his life.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1950-06-14
Popularity:
El rey de la pistola
Overview: Western heist movie; a complicated bank job goes bad, and two groups of thieves fight the sheriff and each other.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1962-08-08
Popularity:
La vida no vale nada
Overview: Pablo, a wandering laborer, has imprisoned himself in a hell of alcoholism. Cruz, a widow, reaches out to the troubled man, but even her compassion may not be enough to save him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1955-05-04
Popularity:
La vida de Pedro Infante
Overview:
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1966-04-20
Popularity:
Después de la tormenta
Overview: This Mexican melodrama may have been released above the border as After the Storm. The principal characters are a pair of twin lighthouse keepers. They try their best to live together with their wives under the same roof, but the delicate balance is shattered when one of the brothers falls in love with his sister-in-law. When one twin is lost during a storm, the other assumes his identity, with the expected romantic complications. If Despues de la Termenta sounds familiar, it is because the screenplay was inspired by the 1946 Bette Davis vehicle A Stolen Life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1955-01-21
Popularity:
Nocturno de amor
Overview: Venice Film Festival 1948
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1948-01-11
Popularity:
Oficio de tinieblas
Overview: "Occupation of Darkness" - Set in 1934, and meant to dramatize social injustices, this melodrama examines an official's attempt at land reform. The landowners are against any reform and are also not interested in ending the exploitation of their workers. On the opposite side of the fence, the Native Americans have almost no way to better their living conditions or to fight oppression. They are also plagued by "superstition," which leads to some misguided actions that only make things worse. Violence and sexual encounters are interspersed throughout the story.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1981-06-04
Popularity:
Cinco nacos asaltan Las Vegas
Overview: Five friends decide to go to Las Vegas to get money and one of them thinks of robbing a casino.
Genres: Comedy Adventure
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1987-08-06
Popularity:
Horas de agonía
Overview: Nubile young woman seems to be quite free with her affections... but she has a deep, dark secret. Deep. Dark.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1958-01-08
Popularity:
Perez Family
Overview: Gumaro Pérez must fulfill all the whims of his wife, who is sworn lady of society even though the Pérez are not a wealthy family. In order not to look bad with his wife, Gumaro asks for a loan, but when he receives it, all his co-workers take it from him since he owes everyone money.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1949-05-04
Popularity:
Más Buenas que el Pan
Overview: After winning a bet, Lalo goes on vacation with his two daughters and his best friend, they will try to keep Lalo's daughters away from perverted boys.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1987-09-10
Popularity:
Mojado de nacimiento
Overview:
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1981-05-10
Popularity:
Pobre corazón
Overview: Woman discovers she's dying of an incurable illness, so she tries to make her husband hate her; dumping her on moving on would be better for him than watching her decline and feeling sad.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1950-05-17
Popularity:
Un milagro de amor
Overview: Young man goes to Mexico City in search of opportunity and gets framed for another person's embezzlement at their place of employ. Meanwhile, back home, his fiancée the blind woman...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1949-12-09
Popularity:
Adiós Lagunilla, adiós
Overview: Middle-aged couple's adult children decide to emigrate to USA. Third movie in trilogy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1984-05-09
Popularity:
Los valientes de Guerrero
Overview: Weaselly bad guy wants to get in good with a woman he's hot for, so he frames the hero for a murder and then organizes a lynch mob against him... all to further her plans.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1974-11-14
Popularity:
Tania, the Beautiful Wild Girl
Overview: Rolando, a millionare, travels to a remote island and meets the young and tough Tania, a local woman with great dancing skills. He falls in love with her and takes the girl to Mexico, but their relationship gets awry when Tania cheats on him with another man.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1948-06-04
Popularity:
Si fuera una cualquiera
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1950-05-31
Popularity:
Cita con la muerte
Overview:
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1949-06-22
Popularity:
Arriba Michoacán
Overview: The two largest ranches in a small town are operated entirely by women, because their menfolk have all emigrated. Seceral of the younger women have boyfriend troubles, and all the women band together to vote their own representative into City Hall as Mayor.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1987-07-09
Popularity:
Tarzan and the Mermaids
Overview: A high priest tries to force a young beauty to marry a pearl trader who is masquerading as the god Balu.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-05-15
Popularity:
La reina del cielo
Overview: A tribe of Venezuelan Indians in the jungle, commanded by chief Coromoto live with fear because of the presence of a Spanish colony settled in the outskirts. Coromoto's fears are increased because of the presence of a snake and the prophecies of the sorcerers. His government is threatened by the rebellious character of Piache, a warrior who also has his followers. One day Coromoto and his people have a vision in the lake of the Virgin Mary, but he doesn't trust on it, thinking that it's a negative spirit despite its beauty. However, the tribe exiled a woman, Guaita and his little son Jesus. Guaita and Jesus run away to the Spanish colony, where they're received in the local governor's house. The governor and a soldier, Bartolome offer to help Guaita and Jesus. Maybe the father of the child is a Spaniard known by Bartolome and his brother.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1959-01-01
Popularity: