The best Rita Macedo’s drama movies

Rita Macedo

Rita Macedo

08/12/1928- 06/12/1993
Today we present the best Rita Macedo’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 Rita Macedo’s movies.

Nazarin

Nazarin
7.7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 04/06/1959
  • Character: Andara
Nazarín is the priest who leaves his order and decides to go on a pilgrimage. As he goes along subsisting on alms, he shelters a prostitute wanted by the police for murder. He is released from suspicion and she eventually catches up with him when she escapes imprisonment. Another woman joins the duo and soon the ex-priest is learning more about the human heart and suffering than when he wore robes.

Juana Gallo

Juana Gallo
6.9/10
Peasant woman leads a regiment during the final days of the Mexican Revolution. Also, romantic entanglements.

The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz

The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz
7.6/10
A bizarre black comedy about a man whose overwhelming ambition in life is to be a renowned serial killer of women, and will stop at nothing to achieve it - but not everything goes according to plan...

Castle of Purity

Castle of Purity
7.5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 10/05/1973
  • Character: Beatriz
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.

The White Rose

The White Rose
7.4/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 19/07/1961
  • Character: Carmen López de Yáñez
An international oil company comes into conflict with a Mexican ranch owner who refuses to sell his land, resorting to a devious scheme to try to take over the property.

The Paper Man

The Paper Man
7.9/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 05/10/1963
  • Character: Victoria, esposa del Torcuato
A deaf and mute vagabond finds a large denomination bill in a Mexico City dump, and while he tries to buy something with it, others try to con him into giving it away. The film was selected as the Mexican entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 36th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.

Rosenda

Rosenda
7.7/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 20/10/1948
  • Character: Rosenda
A ruffian sends his assistant to force a peasant girl to marry him, but while he is bringing her to him, he falls in love with her.

Por querer a una mujer

Por querer a una mujer
6.9/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 14/09/1951
Ranch melodrama: romantic triangle leads to multiple murders.

La estrella vacía

La estrella vacía
7.1/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 05/05/1960
  • Character: Teresa
Mourners share their memories of a dead film-star at her wake, a la Citizen Kane. Only melodrama.

By the False Door

By the False Door
6.7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 16/11/1950
  • Character: Adela Quiroga
Bernardo is in love with Adela and although she does not belong, he has always helped her family although they only care about money and not the virtues of man.

Felipe de Jesús

Felipe de Jesús
7/10
  • Genre: DramaHistory
  • Release: 05/08/1949
  • Character: Rosalia / Maria
Biography of the first Catholic Saint to be born in Mexico.

Corazón de fiera

Corazón de fiera
5.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 21/02/1951
Wanted criminal has plastic surgery, starts new life in a distant town. Old habits die hard.

El rencor de la tierra

El rencor de la tierra
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 10/11/1949
Mexican movie

Duelo en las montañas

Duelo en las montañas
6.6/10
1910: Revolutionary leader escapes military, hides in small town, falls in love.

Espejismo de la ciudad

Espejismo de la ciudad
Family from a farming community move to the capital and lose their moral compass.

The Other Virginity

The Other Virginity
6.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 24/04/1975
  • Character: Eva's Mother
Two young waitresses, Laura and Eva, become romantically involved with a movie distributor, Adrian, and his friend Luis.

La mujer ajena

La mujer ajena
6.4/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 26/10/1955

Manos de seda

Manos de seda
6.2/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 01/01/1951
  • Character: Elsa

Cinco rostros de mujer

Cinco rostros de mujer
6.6/10
  • Genre: DramaMusic
  • Release: 26/02/1947
  • Character: Elena (as Concha Macedo)
"The great love of his life" happened five times; one of those women just wrote him a letter. Which one will it be?

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