The best Carmen Salinas’s movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Carmen Salinas’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Carmen Salinas.
Man on Fire
7.7/10
Jaded ex-CIA operative John Creasy reluctantly accepts a job as the bodyguard for a 10-year-old girl in Mexico City. They clash at first, but eventually bond, and when she's kidnapped he's consumed by fury and will stop at nothing to save her life.
Under the Same Moon
7.3/10
Tells the parallel stories of nine-year-old Carlitos and his mother, Rosario. In the hopes of providing a better life for her son, Rosario works illegally in the U.S. while her mother cares for Carlitos back in Mexico.
Mi Verdad
3.1/10
Film about the scandal of TV producer Juan Osorio with Cuban dancer Niurka Marcos.
La pulquería
6.1/10
The Devil offers a man to help him if he can show him to love.
La pulquería 2
5.6/10
Las ficheras (Bellas de noche II)
6.3/10
El Día de la Unión
4.8/10
Todo el poder
6.6/10
Gabriel is a filmmaker in Mexico City, where he is a victim of crime and violence sometimes even three times a day. This is a black comedy that shows the extreme situation Mexico City is suffering as far as crime is concerned, and the tension the city and it's inhabitants live day after day.
Santos Peregrinos
4.5/10
When greed comes calling, say goodbye to saintliness. An irresistible comedy about what happens when the residents of a Mexico City apartment building discover that three religious figurines passed down through the decades from Emiliano Zapata are full of solid gold. Tempers fly, libidos flare and no one emerges unscathed, including viewers overcome by a heavenly dose of hilarity in Santos Peregrinos.
Danzón
6.8/10
Julia is a phone operator in Mexico City who divides her time between her job, her daughter, and the danzón: a Cuban dance very popular in Mexico and Central America. Every Wednesday, Julia does the danzón with Carmelo in the old Salón Colonia. They've danced for years, but barely know each other. One night, Carmelo disappears without a trace. Feeling lonely and sad, Julia takes a train to Veracruz, where she knows Carmelo has a brother. The sudden trip will change Julia's life forever.
Albures Mexicanos
5.2/10
La pulquería 3
5.6/10
After regaining his manliness, he escapes from hell Satan for embezzling Secretary of infernal hacienda, being chased by a couple of poor devils good for nothing, and took refuge in the cabaret ends up working as a transvestite.
The Loving Ones
4/10
Tivoli
6/10
The movie plot revolves around a burlesque theater called "Tivoli", located in downtown Mexico city. The Tivoli is about to be demolished by the corrupt major of Mexico city, and the artists struggle to try to save their workplace. Throughout the movie we see a strong critique towards the Mexican political system of the time, where corrupt politicians run everything like a fiefdom, and live with double standards. While they publicly criticize the Tivoli as obscene and indecent, many of them are regular customers and they even "hire" the artists to do private functions in their mansions.
Inspector Calzonzin
7.2/10
Mexico's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1974
Burdel
7.2/10
(AKA: Ratero 2 or Cada quien su madre.) Innocent man forced to hide from the police, ends up taking refuge in a brothel.
Place without Limits
7.5/10
Family honor, greed, machismo, homophobia, and the dreams of whores collide in a Mexican town. Rich, elderly Don Alejo is poised to sell the town for a profit, needing only to buy a whorehouse to own all the buildings and close the deal. It's owned by a man and his daughter: Manuelita is gay, aging, afraid; he cross-dresses and entertains as a flamenco dancer; he wants to sell and leave. His daughter wants to stay. The return of Pancho complicates things: he's a hothead Alejo tries to control and he scared Manuelita the year before. Things come to a head as Pancho breaks Alejo's hold on him, then flirts and dances with Manuelita and finds himself at risk of being called a "maricón."
Las tentadoras
6.6/10
Bellas de noche
5.9/10
The Boxer Germán Bronco Torres loses his license, and works as bouncer at the cabaret El Pirulí, where he falls for the fichera Carmen, and befriends of the pimp Margarito Fuensanta El Vaselinas, who lost a bet and has to pay to a gangsters. For 500 pesos for El Vaselinas, Bronco prepares a trap in the cabaret to the taxi driver Raul, to seduce his girlfriend, not knowing that the victim is his own sister Lupita.
Huevos rancheros
6.2/10
Two "naughty" comedy episodes with naked women and bodies of water.
