Lilia Prado
Birthday: 1928-03-30
Place of Birth: Sahuayo, Michoacan, Mexico
Biography: Lilia Prado (March 30, 1928 – May 22, 2006) was a Mexican actress and dancer. After winning a beauty contest she started working in the Mexican cinematographic industry, first as an extra, and later on in leading roles. She starred in over 100 films, being directed by Luis Buñuel in Subida al cielo (Ascent to Heaven), Abismos de pasión (Wuthering Heights), and La ilusión viaja en tranvía (Illusion Travels by Streetcar). In many films she shared scenes with Pedro Infante. She and Silvia Pinal were the only actresses who worked with Buñuel in three films.
Movies
The Castaway on the Street of Providence
Friends of Luis Buñuel discuss the director while Buñuel mixes drinks and entertains friends in his ...
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Wuthering Heights
Gone several years, the brooding Alejandro returns to the hacienda of his foster sister, Catalina, w...
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Illusion Travels by Streetcar
Confronted with the unfortunate news that their favorite Streetcar, no. 133, is going to be decommis...
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Mexican Bus Ride
Newlywed Oliverio receives disturbing news that his mother is on her deathbed. He travels to a remot...
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The Useless Life of Pito Pérez
A man goes on a trip and then returns to his village pretending that everything went well for him....
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My General's Wives
The encounter with an old lover puts a revolutionary general in great danger of death....
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El fuego de mi ahijada
Young Raúl looks for his ex-girlfriend Alicia to resume their relationship, but she responds that sh...
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Dos Maridos baratos
Two showgirls need to find husbands in order to collect an inheritance....
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The Hawks
The story of two half brothers who do not know they are such, who fight over a woman and nearly kill...
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Una gallega en México
The Galician Candida has a bakery in front of the butcher Robustito, who constantly berates although...
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Two Kinds of Schemes
Gold-digger conspires with gal-pal to snag herself a rich husband....
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Little Town
Reactionary local "Big Daddy" tries to prevent a school being built in his district....
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Cuanto vale tu hijo
Family life in a squatter's-rights neighborhood on the outskirts of Mexico City....
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Dueña y señora
After his wife dies, the master of the house can... maybe... acknowledge that he had children with t...
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Tongolele Has Been Killed
Murder mystery set in a night-club; who killed the star performer?...
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Asesinos de la lucha libre
Cowboy sheriff investigates the murder of a crooked lucha-libre promoter....
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El medio pelo
A woman who fancies herself an aristocrat rejects a potential suitor because he's not of her class. ...
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Faith, Hope and Charity
Three episodes. Faith: a woman is attacked. Hope: a fakir is crucified. Charity: a woman faces burea...
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Vuelta al paraíso
All men who arrive on a small island fall in love with the daughters of an old fisherman who live th...
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The Poulterer Hawk
Two bumpkins in the big city fight over the same girl, until they realize that she's playing them ag...
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Arriba el norte
Husband and wife are reunited after a twenty-year misunderstanding; their grown daughter has her eye...
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Ratero
Solovino is called like that because no one knows where he came from. He is a miserable province man...
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El malvado Carabel
Frustrated salaryman responds to career setbacks by embarking on a life of crime....
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Crimen y castigo
Adaptation of Dostoyevsky's novel about a student who plans a conceptual murder and then butts heads...
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La Puerta Negra
A horse breeder needs to acquire his rival's horse at the same time protecting his three beautiful d...
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Los cuervos están de luto
The family of a dying man celebrates his wake while the man is still alive, showing their darker, se...
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Hembras De Tierra Caliente
A small rural town projects all of their real and perceived sins and transgressions on the town's "s...
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Heart of beast
Wanted criminal has plastic surgery, starts new life in a distant town. Old habits die hard....
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Dicen que soy hombre malo
Mistaken identities, courtship woes, invalidated marriages, and sombreros de charro....
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Love Pays for Love
Pre-Revolutionary setting; class conflicts and a romance across class-boundaries....
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Talpa
Produced on a grand scale, the Mexican Talpa relates the simple story of two brothers. The older of ...
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La locura del rock and roll
Two rival colleges prepare for a Battle Of The Bands. Also malt-shoppes and football games....
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El analfabeto
Inocencio Prieto y Calvo receives a letter telling him he is the heir to his uncle's fortune of two ...
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I'm flying low
Two hot-shot pilots working for the same company get all competitive and ructious toward each other....
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Audaz y bravero
Two ranchers competing over a woman. Cult actor Noe Murayama plays a mentally handicapped character....
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Las interesadas
Three young women sharing an apartment take in a man they injured in a car accident; while he's reco...
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Duelo en El Dorado
Saloon-owner's a hard guy and none too law-abiding; his twelve year old son comes to live with him a...
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La India
Boy is traumatized from watching his sex-worker mother with her clients; he grows up with a particul...
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The Promised Land?
Farm's not producing, and a rural family feel like they've exhausted their options, so they move to ...
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El cara parchada
Evil guy gratifies his ambitions and desires at any cost, and he prospers nicely. Until he doesn't....
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Ladrones de niños
Kidnapping band has a system set up to transport infants and older children to black-market adoptive...
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Senda prohibida
The story of Nora, a poor but ambitious young woman, who uses her beauty to seduce a rich and marrie...
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Novia a la medida
Door-to-door salesman falls for a young woman, implements hare-brained schemes to separate her from ...
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El que con niños se acuesta...
Chón is rejected by his girlfriend Rosario's parents, so they both escape to the capital in search o...
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México de noche
Two street gangs vie for primacy, which will give them control of drug smuggling and stolen jewelry....
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El reino de los gángsters
Johnny Carmenta is a gunman who heads a gang of gangsters. Carmenta secretly acts as a kind of El Zo...
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Tío de mi vida
Hard-partying college student wants his parents to think he's a serious and respectable young man, s...
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Lovers of the Lord of the Night
Venusita falls in love with the son of a wealthy family whose mother sends her son off to the United...
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Cuarto de hotel
Newlywed couple move from small town to Mexico City. Their first night in the city, they get separat...
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Confidencias de un ruletero
Taxi driver takes the wrong passenger at the wrong time and gets caught up in a murder investigation...
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Cuando acaba la noche
Newspaper reporter interests himself in contesting a manslaughter verdict on behalf of the son of a ...
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El rey de la pistola
Western heist movie; a complicated bank job goes bad, and two groups of thieves fight the sheriff an...
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La vida no vale nada
Pablo, a wandering laborer, has imprisoned himself in a hell of alcoholism. Cruz, a widow, reaches o...
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Después de la tormenta
This Mexican melodrama may have been released above the border as After the Storm. The principal cha...
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Nocturno de amor
Luis Aguilar is a talented piano student who struggles to make ends meet. At the conservatory he mee...
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Occupation of Darkness
Set in 1934, and meant to dramatize social injustices, this melodrama examines an official's attempt...
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Cinco nacos asaltan Las Vegas
Five friends decide to go to Las Vegas to get money and one of them thinks of robbing a casino....
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Horas de agonía
Nubile young woman seems to be quite free with her affections... but she has a deep, dark secret. De...
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Perez Family
Gumaro Pérez must fulfill all the whims of his wife, who is sworn lady of society even though the Pé...
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Más Buenas que el Pan
After winning a bet, Lalo goes on vacation with his two daughters and his best friend, they will try...
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Pobre corazón
Woman discovers she's dying of an incurable illness, so she tries to make her husband hate her; dump...
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Un milagro de amor
Young man goes to Mexico City in search of opportunity and gets framed for another person's embezzle...
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Adiós Lagunilla, adiós
Middle-aged couple's adult children decide to emigrate to USA. Third movie in trilogy....
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Los valientes de Guerrero
Weaselly bad guy wants to get in good with a woman he's hot for, so he frames the hero for a murder ...
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Tania, the Beautiful Wild Girl
Rolando, a millionare, travels to a remote island and meets the young and tough Tania, a local woman...
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Arriba Michoacán
The two largest ranches in a small town are operated entirely by women, because their menfolk have a...
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Tarzan and the Mermaids
A high priest tries to force a young beauty to marry a pearl trader who is masquerading as the god B...
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La reina del cielo
A tribe of Venezuelan Indians in the jungle, commanded by chief Coromoto live with fear because of t...
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Yo quiero ser artista
The Postman Adalberto is involved by chance in the filming of a scene, which gives the film director...
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Las tres alegres comadres
When three poor young women fail in their attempts to break into films and night clubs in Mexico Cit...
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