Mónica del Carmen
Birthday: 1982-05-24
Place of Birth: Oaxaca, Mexico
Biography: Mónica del Carmen is an indigenous actress of Mexican origin who has played various roles in theater, film and television. Despite the fact that the interpreter has an extensive resume, the role that catapulted her to stardom was that of ‘Laura’ in the film ‘Leap Year’ by Australian director Michael Rowe; which won the ‘Caméra d'or’ award (awarded to the best first film) at the Cannes International Film Festival in 2010. The actress had her professional training at the National School of Theater Art of the Instituto Nacional Bellas Artes, from which she graduated in 2004. Since then Mónica del Carmen has managed to break through in an industry that is not always the most fair for people from different backgrounds. less privileged cultural backgrounds.
Movies
Sundown
When a distant emergency disrupts a vacation in Acapulco, simmering tensions rise to the fore betwee...
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Heroic
Luis, an 18-year-old Mexican boy with indigenous roots, enters the Heroico Military College with the...
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In Freedom
An immigrant couple caring for their grandchildren receives an unexpected visitor after hours, threa...
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Reconciled
A story about the desperation of a man leading a monotonous life. Interacting with people turns out ...
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Ramona
Ramona is 84, and she has announced that she is ready to die. While her family is making the prepara...
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A History of Love and War
This outrageous comedy stages a soap opera of epic proportions, as one corrupt property developer fa...
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600 Miles
Arnulfo Rubio smuggles weapons from Arizona to Mexico for a drug cartel, but he is being investigate...
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Gloria
Amidst the complex Mexico City, a man drives a public transport bus during daytime and works the nig...
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After Lucia
Alejandra and her dad Roberto have just moved to town. She is new at school, he has a new job. Start...
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Babel
Tragedy strikes a married couple vacationing in the Moroccan desert, which jumpstarts an interlockin...
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Leap Year
Journalist Laura works at home, isolating herself from others. While she lies to her mother and brot...
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The Legend of La Llorona
Based on a famous Mexican legend, a group of kids must stop the ghost of a woman whose guilt over th...
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White Weapon
Mari works as a maid in a luxury apartment where she takes care of Regina. She also helps her do her...
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The Last Gaze
A drama centered on the relationship between a painter who's losing his sight and a maid in a Mexica...
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The little red Train
The father of a family has just become unemployed. In the middle of the instability, an accident at ...
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The Heirs
Teenagers’ leisure at full swing: a group of friends spend their holidays at parties, having sex, bo...
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Killer Babes
Three girlfriends, neglected and mistreated by their husbands, plan to take revenge on them with the...
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Guie’dani’s Navel
Guie’dani, a Zapotec indigenous girl and her mother take up work with an upper-class family in Mexic...
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La pantera negra
Dishevelled private eye Nico Beamonte's latest case comes from God himself ... possibly. He wants Ni...
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Noise
Julia is a mother, or rather, one of many mothers, sisters, daughters, colleagues, who have had thei...
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Buen provecho
An impulsive and arrogant man has to share his lunch with an unknown woman. A story of prejudice and...
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Town Of La Raya
In the almost deserted town of La Raya, a mysterious refrigerator appears out of nowhere. Sotera San...
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Technoboys
They're fierce, they're iconic, they're back — and they're totally lost. A boyband seeking a renaiss...
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Suffocation
After getting out of jail, where she learned to care for the sick, Alma, an albino woman, is determi...
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The Dove and the Wolf
Displaced by the violence that swept their town, Paloma and Lobo survive trying to love each other. ...
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Modern Loves
A fateful day reunites an estranged family in Mexico City, where a chain of events shifts their roma...
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A Cop Movie
This documentary walks the line between fact and fiction, delving into corruption in the Mexican pol...
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New Order
In the near future, a popular uprising in Mexico City interrupts a wedding held at the home of a wea...
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Through the Eyes
Monica is a social worker in Mexico City, whose son has a degenerative illness in both eyes. Having ...
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Tattoo of Revenge
After suffering a violent incident, a woman decides to become a vigilante, defending every woman who...
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Statues
The unveiling of a statue honoring Emiliano Zapata becomes the site in which the demands of a strugg...
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Throw Everything into Play
Ismael, a 12 year old boy, dreams to become a professional baseball player but he is asthmatic. One ...
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La Civil
Cielo is a mother whose teenage daughter is kidnapped in Northern Mexico. When the authorities offer...
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Nada que ver
After Carlos is tasked to care for Paola, both characters must work out their differences to make th...
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The Mutations
After surgery leaves lawyer Raúl without his tongue, he struggles to adapt to life and his changing ...
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Let Me Be with You
Lucía lives with an incurable disease, and Bruno was deported to Mexico with no place to sleep. An u...
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120 Hours In Venice
Amid the Covid pandemic, filmmaker Michel Franco obtains a special permit to travel to Italy with hi...
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Sole
As an embalmer dreams up dialogue with a teenage trans boy she’s been told to put in a dress, she ...
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The Follies
Six women share a common «friend»: madness. It visits us all, pushes us to decide reality, to make d...
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El Rostro
17-year-old Joel, a recently recruited night guard, watches over a compound marked by cartel violenc...
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