The best Emma Roldán’s drama movies

Emma Roldán

Emma Roldán

03/02/1893- 29/08/1978
Today we present the best Emma Roldán’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Emma Roldán’s movies.
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Castle of Purity

Castle of Purity
7.5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 10/05/1973
  • Character: Clerk
A disciplined and sexually driven man forces his family to stay isolated in their home in order to protect them from the “evil nature” of human beings.

El mil amores

El mil amores
7.4/10
Carmen has a daughter, Patricia, who attends a school for young ladies where they think Carmen is married to a sailor. Viviano is a friend of Carmen and when she needs it, he poses as the father of Patricia and she believes is her father. Actually, Viviano is engaged with Marilu

One Way Street

One Way Street
6.5/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 01/04/1950
  • Character: Catalina
After stealing a gangster's money and his girlfriend, a doctor heads for a small village in Mexico to hide out.

Forbidden Kisses

Forbidden Kisses
4.9/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 16/08/1956
  • Character: Nana
Nightclub singer has to choose between marrying again or reuniting with her divorced husband.

La Cucaracha

La Cucaracha
7.1/10
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.

Place without Limits

Place without Limits
7.5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 28/04/1978
  • Character: Ludovinia
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."

Harvest of Hate

Harvest of Hate
A 1940 film directed by William Rowland.

Two Monks

Two Monks
7/10
In a Gothic-styled monastery, a monk named Javier sees the face of another monk, Juan, and suddenly attempts to bludgeon him to death with a heavy crucifix. Both men then relate their own versions of a story of romantic rivalry between them.

Free Love

Free Love
6.8/10
Two single women share an apartment, work together, and sometimes swap boyfriends. None of their romantic attachments seem quite as stable or enduring as their friendship.

Caballero a la medida

Caballero a la medida
7.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 01/09/1954
  • Character: Doña Pelos
Cantinflas works as a model of tuxedos in a prestigious store, your job is to use the smoking in the street along with an advertising sign on his back. The use of smoking gives you access to exclusive places and meet important people. During this time, Cantinflas was the manager of an amateur boxer, it is an attractive nurse assistant and occasionally attending a priest in the church and the orphanage. However, a Cantinflas day while wearing tuxedo, is a rich man, who mistakenly believe that Cantinflas is a millionaire too.

Los hijos de María Morales

Los hijos de María Morales
7.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 13/08/1952
  • Character: Doña María Morales
Two brothers known in town for their womanizing, drinking and rowdiness meet their matches when two girls who like them decide to tame the two machos.

María

María
7/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 20/10/1922
  • Character: Efraín's Mother
María tells the tragic love story of María, a beautiful young woman, and her half brother Efraín, a handsome young man from Valle del Cauca. They both fall in love and live their romance on the farm "El Paraíso", in Valle del Cauca, but not everything is rosy, since Efraín must go to Bogotá because of study reasons leaving María with pain in her soul. Some time later, María becomes ill and Emma tells her brother about the situation.

El rey del tomate

El rey del tomate
7.3/10
El rey del tomate ("The Tomato King") is a 1964 Mexican comedy-drama film, directed by Miguel M. Delgado and starring Eulalio González, Luz Márquez, and Emma Roldán.

The Underdogs

The Underdogs
7.1/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/01/1940
  • Character: Mamá de Camila
During the Mexican Revolution, the people tired of living in poverty and enduring the atrocities committed by the federals, decide to follow one of their own, General Demetrio Macias, a thief with tricks he learned in jail and who along with "La Pintada" decides to take his people to victory. Led by Captain Anastacio Montañez, the newly formed army fight and honor their code at the same time as they loot houses to spread the wealth.

Naufragio

Naufragio
6.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 02/11/1978
  • Character: Raquelito
One woman lives waiting for his son who is a sailor. She hasn't seen him for years although he writes to her a lot. The woman shares the letters and her grief with a co-worker and friend. This last woman begins to idealize her friend's son.

El compadre Mendoza

El compadre Mendoza
7.6/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 05/04/1934
  • Character: María
During Mexican Revolution, Rosalio Mendoza survives by making and winning favors from both factions, the governmental forces and Zapata's Army. His hacienda welcomes everybody, and Mendoza is considered a good friend of his guests. Eventually, the situation becomes unsustainable and he has to take sides. Betrayal and deception overcome and Mendoza's dark side surfaces

Por qué peca la mujer

Por qué peca la mujer
6.8/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 10/07/1952
  • Character: Doña Mati
Working-class girl-next--door type is seduced into a high-glam lifestyle when an oily promoter helps launch her as a nightclub singer; she throws over her decent-simple-guy boyfriend and loses her moral compass.

Secuestro diabolico

Secuestro diabolico

Vertigo

Vertigo
7.5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 06/09/1945
Young woman's fiance unexpectedly falls in love with her mom, and ends up arranging the young woman's death.

La norteña de mis amores

La norteña de mis amores
Child whose father was murdered grows up and seeks revenge, also falling in love with a new victim of the same bad guy.

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