María Félix
Also Known As: María Bonita, La Doña, Мария Феликс
Biography: María de los Ángeles Félix Güereña (8 April 1914 – 8 April 2002) was a Mexican film actress. She is considered one of the most important female figures of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema. She was also considered one of the most beautiful film actresses of her time, and one of the greatest erotic myths of Spanish-language cinema. Along withPedro Armendáriz and Dolores del Río, she is one of the most important figures of Latin American cinema of the 1940s and 1950s. She is known by the nickname La Doña a name derived from her character in the film Doña Bárbara (1943). She is also known as María Bonita, thanks to the anthem composed exclusively for her, as a wedding gift by the composer Agustín Lara. She completed a film career that included 47 films made in Mexico, Spain, France, Italy and Argentina.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Alamos, Sonora, Mexico
Birthday: April 08, 1914
Deathday: April 08, 2002
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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El cine mexicano de fiesta
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1958-09-01
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María: La Diva Eterna
Overview: Twenty years after her death, María Félix, a figure of Mexican cinema, is a model for free and independent women who are in control of their lives. Known as La Doña, she was a beautiful and strong woman. Admired and ahead of her time, she is our eternal diva.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2023-04-06
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Fever Mounts at El Pao
Overview: Aroused citizens assassinate an unpopular Caribbean despot, then two men vie for his gorgeous widow Ines. Ojeda is a steamy, isolated island, the penal colony for an oppressive dictatorship. A reactionary seizes the murdered governor's post, and rushes to eliminate his romantic rival, an idealistic underling. The bureaucrat Vazquez hopes to marshal the angry residents of the capitol, El Pao, plus the many political prisoners, to oust Governor Gual.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-12-05
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The Abduction
Overview: In a small Mexican village the news shock neighbors, Ricardo Alfaro, a wealthy local rancher has disappeared without a trace. Taking advantage of the circumstance, Aurora Campos, a strong woman with overwhelming beauty, convinces the authorities to sell her the property in exchange for twelve thousand dollars. Soon after, when Ricardo suddenly reappears, a real battle is about to begin.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1954-04-23
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La Bandida
Overview: During a lull in the Mexican Revolution when Francisco Madero became president and attempted to implement land reforms, two former revolutionaries are pitted against each other for the love of the same woman.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1963-01-01
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La Cucaracha
Overview: The Mexican Revolution serves as a backdrop to a torrid love triangle composed of three freedom fighters: a colonel, a widow, and a fiery female soldier.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1959-11-12
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Tizoc
Overview: An Indian arouses envy for his expertise in hunting animals without ruining their skins, for his wisdom and his kindness.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1957-10-23
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María Eugenia
Overview: Before marrying María Eugenia, landowner Carlos are away to visit her godmother to break the promise to marry his daughter. The godmother is dying, Carlos quiets and everything takes an unexpected course.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1943-04-01
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Sonatas
Overview: In the fall of 1824 Javier Montenegro, Bradomin Marquis is spared death hanging by Captain Casares, and in return, the Marquis agrees to help him escape to America. Adaptation of "Sonata de Otoño" and "Sonata de Estío" of Ramón María del Valle-Inclan, which included elements Bardem later works of the author.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1959-10-12
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La noche del sábado
Overview: In Rome, a beautiful young model named Donina is hired by a sculptor, Leonardo, inspired her to do a statue he hopes will be his masterpiece. The striking statue of Prince Florencio, heir to the throne of Preslavia, who presented at the banquet in his villa in Rome. Soon their beauty is all the rage across the country, the girl is the feeling of the moment and decides to leave with her prince, leaving behind all his life, including his daughter, who leaves her under the protection of Leonardo.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1950-12-29
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Enamorada
Overview: In Mexican Revolution times, a guerrilla general and his troops take the conservative town of Cholula, near by Mexico City. As the revolutionaries mistreat the town's riches, General Reyes falls for beautiful and wild Beatriz Peñafiel, the daughter of one of the town's richest men.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1946-12-25
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Doña Bárbara
Overview: A woman hardened by her past now runs a ranch she acquired through manipulation and bribery.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1943-09-16
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Río escondido
Overview: Called by the Mexican President himself, a rural teacher goes to work in a village that is dominated by a malevolent chieftain.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1948-02-12
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The Kneeling Goddess
Overview: Businessman Antonio is carrying on an affair with Raquel, who wants him to divorce his wife Elena. He purchases for Elena as an anniversary gift a statue – the titular Kneeling Goddess – which, unbeknownst to him, features Raquel as the model. Antonio marries Raquel after Elena dies under suspicious circumstances — but not everything is what it seems.
Genres: Drama Romance Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1947-08-13
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The Spirit's Canyon
Overview: The love between María Ángela and Fernando is impossible because there's an ancient history of hate between their families. His father killed hers, and other family members have killed each other for years. When María Ángela's grandfather finds she's in love with Fernando, he frames the young man and forces her to marry Manuel. Maria Ángela finds that Manuel doesn't love her and together plan her escape with Fernando. But things go wrong and the lovers find their destiny in The Spirit's Canyon.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1943-02-25
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Faustina
Overview: A conquering woman of love, power, and fame is challenged by the devil, as he too wants to conquer all. Even the devil learns that there is no wrath like a woman’s scorn.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1957-05-13
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Maclovia
Overview: On a small Mexican island dwells a group of Indians who live in the traditional manner and who disdain outsiders. The beautiful Maclovia and the poverty-stricken Jose Maria are in love, but her father refuses to allow their marriage, or even any communication between them, due to Jose Maria's lack of means.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1948-09-30
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The White Monk
Overview: In an Italian monastery during the XIII century, a white image appears sculpted by Fray Paracleto humble mystically and sew clothes. Besides a mysterious woman appears Orsina Galata. She tells her story to the Father Provincial and thus dates back to his past.
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 1945-10-06
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Black Crown
Overview: A woman suffers from amnesia after killing her husband, who was just about to demand a divorce for having found her engaging in an affair with a lover, who is only interested in her to find where some precious jewels are hidden.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-05-23
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Basket of Mexican Tales
Overview: Strong-willed Luisa attracts lots of men, but her intelligence and sharp tongue often sends them running. When she meets Carlos, who is equally cagey, sparks fly. The two of them marry, and quickly begin clashing on a daily basis, humiliating each other as they try to teach one another lesson after lesson.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1956-05-17
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La Devoradora
Overview: After her lover commits suicide, Diana involves her fiancé and his nephew in a scheme to help her disappear with the corpse.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1946-04-18
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May God Forgive Me
Overview: Lena, a beautiful and mysteriously sinister refugee haunted by her past, is chased into the arms of a rich, unsuspecting industrialist not for love, but for information.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1948-03-25
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Amok
Overview: After being caught embezzling from his clinic to impress his high society lover and support his gambling habit, a doctor flees to a remote Indian village to volunteer as a humanitarian aid worker. There he tries to mitigate the onslaught of a strange disease called "Amok," while his past continues to haunt him.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1944-12-22
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Heroes and Sinners
Overview: A good cast smooths over the rough spots of Les Heros sont Fatigues. The scene is the African republic of Liberia, which in this film proves to be a stopping-off point for a number of shady characters. Yves Montand plays a French ex-pilot who becomes involved in a scheme to smuggle stolen diamonds. His cohorts include a Nazi collaborator, a German refugee, and the white mistress of a prominent Liberian. A romance develops between the ex-pilot and the aforementioned mistress. Meanwhile, one of the conspirators (Curt Jurgens) has a last-minute attack of conscience, effectively queering the deal. The steamier romantic passages in Les Heros sont Fatigues had to be trimmed for American consumption.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1955-09-12
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Every Man’s Woman
Overview: A beautiful woman of affairs falls in love with a handsome young man of great promise. Fearing for his future, the man's father begs her to leave his son so that her reputation will not hold him back.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-01-11
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An Ordinary Woman
Overview: A woman who has walked out of an unhappy marriage is unsuccessful trying to earn herself a new living and gets mixed with a man who is a murderer and tries to incriminate her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1949-08-15
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Reportaje
Overview: Reporters compete for cash prize awarded for biggest scoop on New Year's Eve.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1953-11-13
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Camelia
Overview: A sort of meta riff on Alexandre Dumas fils' novel The Lady of the Camellias (La Dame aux Camélias or Camille) here in Mexican melodrama form involving the doomed love of a bullfighter and a beautiful but ailing actress/courtesan.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-02-16
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Si yo fuera millonario
Overview: White-collar criminals conspire to prevent a shmuck from collecting an inheritance.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-08-26
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Woman Without a Soul
Overview: Ambitious young woman climbs the social ladder. A bit too fast.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1944-10-10
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La monja alférez
Overview: A 17th century woman, imprisoned for fighting in a bar, recounts her past to a priest. She tells of her father teaching her how to fence, of being sent to a convent by her aunt when her father died, of escaping by dressing as a man, and of her life as a man following the escape.
Genres: Adventure History
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1944-07-27
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Love & Sex (Sappho 1963)
Overview: Independently-wealthy woman tries to break free of repressive, conservative cultural constraints.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1964-05-14
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La Valentina
Overview: A smuggler, condemned to be shot, is pardoned in exchange for kidnapping "La Valentina."
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1966-02-10
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Café Colón
Overview: Expensively-kept woman unexpectedly falls for a Zapatista general. She sells her jewels to help finance the revolution and ends up fighting on the front lines. Yeah, right.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-03-05
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La estrella vacía
Overview: Mourners share their memories of a dead film-star at her wake, a la Citizen Kane. Only melodrama.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-05-05
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French Cancan
Overview: Nineteenth-century Paris comes vibrantly alive in Jean Renoir’s exhilarating tale of the opening of the world-renowned Moulin Rouge. Jean Gabin plays the wily impresario Danglard, who makes the cancan all the rage while juggling the love of two beautiful women—an Egyptian belly-dancer and a naive working girl turned cancan star.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1954-12-27
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Vertigo
Overview: Young woman's fiance unexpectedly falls in love with her mom, and ends up arranging the young woman's death.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1945-09-06
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The Devil Is a Woman
Overview: A woman, after committing a murder, flees into a church, confessing her life story to a priest.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1950-01-28
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La Generala
Overview: During the Mexican Revolution, a hardened and rich lady landowner is overtaken by the violence of the times. Losing her land and house, she falls in love with a revolutionary leader that is killed by a sadistic and corrupt federal officer. She takes the revolutionary flag and leads a rampage of violence and destruction.
Genres: Action Crime Drama Romance Thriller War Western
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1971-01-01
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Mare nostrum
Overview: The Spanish merchant "Mare Nostrum", captained by Ulises Ferragut, docked in September 1939 at the port of Naples to repair a breakdown. Walking through the ruins of Pompeii, Ferragut meets Freyra, an enigmatic and beautiful woman of whom she instantly falls madly in love, unaware that the girl is in fact a dangerous spy of the Third Reich.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1948-12-21
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The Beautiful Otero
Overview: An Italo-French biopic about one of the most famous women of Belle Époque, Spanish-born dancer and actress, star of Folies-Bèrgere: Carolina Otero.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1954-11-04
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The Hidden One
Overview: Amid the Mexican Revolution, a woman rises from the depths of poverty and becomes a courtesan who is much-sought-after by high-society men, but she cannot forget her love for a rebel leader.
Genres: Drama Western War
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1956-06-09
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The Affairs of Messalina
Overview: A story, set in Rome of 44 A.D., concerning the amorous and political intrigues of the evil Empress Messalina, the wife of the Roman Emperor Claudius, and her eventual hounding to death.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1951-12-04
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Juana Gallo
Overview: Peasant woman leads a regiment during the final days of the Mexican Revolution. Also, romantic entanglements.
Genres: Drama Action War
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1961-05-21
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Incantesimo tragico
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-10-13
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Beyond All Limits
Overview: This typical Mexican melodrama is set in a coastal fishing village where a wealthy fisherman lives with his wife and young son. Their lives are turned upside down when an American of dubious morality comes into town. The American and the fisherman's wife had been lovers years and years ago -- and now the fisherman begins to suspect that the son he always thought was his, is really the offspring of this foreign intruder.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1959-07-08
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Il falso bugiardo
Overview: Based upon Vincenzoni's biography, "Pane e cinema", the documentary traces the story of the screen play writer who invented many stories that became blockbusters throughout the world.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2008-07-03
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Quand Jean devint Renoir
Overview: The fascinating story of a man destined to be only a son of and who sought all his life to become "someone" by getting rid of the overwhelming image of his genius as a father, the painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-04-30
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Inasible María Félix
Overview: Untouchable, inaccessible, ungraspable... Maria Felix is one of the great myths of Latin American cinema. Fatal passions, multiple marriages, sudden deaths and fabulous diamonds, these are the components of the legendary life of this artist. Through the excerpts of her films and the archive material we can understand her characters and how this life of splendor also led her to the high solitude of her mansions, temples of her cultures.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2001-05-23
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Naked Passion
Overview: A woman who works doing chores in the convent where her paralyzed daughter, that believes that is dead, and falls in love of a doctor.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1953-04-01
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Ash Wednesday
Overview: 1913: A young woman is raped by a priest and turns away from the Church as a result of the experience. 1924: She now is the owner of an expensive brothel, and she plays a small role on both sides of the Cristero Uprising, when foreign-born clergy were deported from Mexico.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1958-10-01
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