María Félix
Birthday: 1914-04-08
Place of Birth: Alamos, Sonora, Mexico
Biography: María de los Ángeles Félix Güereña (8 April 1914 – 8 April 2002) was a Mexican film actress. She is considered one of the most important female figures of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema. She was also considered one of the most beautiful film actresses of her time, and one of the greatest erotic myths of Spanish-language cinema. Along withPedro Armendáriz and Dolores del Río, she is one of the most important figures of Latin American cinema of the 1940s and 1950s. She is known by the nickname La Doña a name derived from her character in the film Doña Bárbara (1943). She is also known as María Bonita, thanks to the anthem composed exclusively for her, as a wedding gift by the composer Agustín Lara. She completed a film career that included 47 films made in Mexico, Spain, France, Italy and Argentina.
Movies
María: La Diva Eterna
Twenty years after her death, María Félix, a figure of Mexican cinema, is a model for free and indep...
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Fever Mounts at El Pao
Aroused citizens assassinate an unpopular Caribbean despot, then two men vie for his gorgeous widow ...
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The Abduction
In a small Mexican village the news shock neighbors, Ricardo Alfaro, a wealthy local rancher has dis...
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La Bandida
During a lull in the Mexican Revolution when Francisco Madero became president and attempted to impl...
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La Cucaracha
The Mexican Revolution serves as a backdrop to a torrid love triangle composed of three freedom figh...
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Tizoc
An Indian arouses envy for his expertise in hunting animals without ruining their skins, for his wis...
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María Eugenia
Before marrying María Eugenia, landowner Carlos are away to visit her godmother to break the promise...
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Sonatas
In the fall of 1824 Javier Montenegro, Bradomin Marquis is spared death hanging by Captain Casares,...
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La noche del sábado
Rome, Italy, February 1900. While a malaria epidemic sweeps the city, the young and beautiful Donina...
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Enamorada
In Mexican Revolution times, a guerrilla general and his troops take the conservative town of Cholul...
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Doña Bárbara
A woman hardened by her past now runs a ranch she acquired through manipulation and bribery....
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Hidden River
Called by the Mexican President himself, a rural teacher goes to work in a village that is dominated...
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The Kneeling Goddess
Antonio, a millionaire, gifts his wife a statue of a naked, kneeling woman for their wedding anniver...
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The Rock of Souls
The love between María Ángela and Fernando is impossible because there's an ancient history of hate ...
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Faustina
A conquering woman of love, power, and fame is challenged by the devil, as he too wants to conquer a...
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Maclovia
On a small Mexican island dwells a group of Indians who live in the traditional manner and who disda...
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The White Monk
In an Italian monastery during the XIII century, a white image appears sculpted by Fray Paracleto hu...
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Black Crown
A woman suffers from amnesia after killing her husband, who was just about to demand a divorce for h...
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Basket of Mexican Tales
Strong-willed Luisa attracts lots of men, but her intelligence and sharp tongue often sends them run...
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La Devoradora
After her lover commits suicide, Diana involves her fiancé and his nephew in a scheme to help her di...
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May God Forgive Me
Lena, a beautiful and mysteriously sinister refugee haunted by her past, is chased into the arms of ...
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Amok
After being caught embezzling from his clinic to impress his high society lover and support his gamb...
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Heroes and Sinners
A good cast smooths over the rough spots of Les Heros sont Fatigues. The scene is the African republ...
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Everybody's Woman
A beautiful woman of affairs falls in love with a handsome young man of great promise. Fearing for h...
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An Ordinary Woman
A woman who has walked out of an unhappy marriage is unsuccessful trying to earn herself a new livin...
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Reportaje
Reporters compete for cash prize awarded for biggest scoop on New Year's Eve....
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Camelia
A sort of meta riff on Alexandre Dumas fils' novel The Lady of the Camellias (La Dame aux Camélias o...
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Si yo fuera millonario
White-collar criminals conspire to prevent a shmuck from collecting an inheritance....
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La monja alférez
A 17th century woman, imprisoned for fighting in a bar, recounts her past to a priest. She tells of ...
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Love & Sex (Sappho 1963)
Independently-wealthy woman tries to break free of repressive, conservative cultural constraints....
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La Valentina
A smuggler, condemned to be shot, is pardoned in exchange for kidnapping "La Valentina."...
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Café Colón
Expensively-kept woman unexpectedly falls for a Zapatista general. She sells her jewels to help fina...
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La estrella vacía
Mourners share their memories of a dead film-star at her wake, a la Citizen Kane. Only melodrama....
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French Cancan
Nineteenth-century Paris comes vibrantly alive in Jean Renoir’s exhilarating tale of the opening of ...
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Vertigo
Young woman's fiance unexpectedly falls in love with her mom, and ends up arranging the young woman'...
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Doña Diabla
A woman, after committing a murder, flees into a church, confessing her life story to a priest....
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La Generala
During the Mexican Revolution, a hardened and rich lady landowner is overtaken by the violence of th...
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Mare nostrum
The Spanish merchant "Mare Nostrum", captained by Ulises Ferragut, docked in September 1939 at the p...
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The Beautiful Otero
An Italo-French biopic about one of the most famous women of Belle Époque, Spanish-born dancer and a...
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The Hidden One
Amid the Mexican Revolution, a woman rises from the depths of poverty and becomes a courtesan who is...
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The Affairs of Messalina
A story, set in Rome of 44 A.D., concerning the amorous and political intrigues of the evil Empress ...
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Juana Gallo
Peasant woman leads a regiment during the final days of the Mexican Revolution. Also, romantic entan...
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Beyond All Limits
This typical Mexican melodrama is set in a coastal fishing village where a wealthy fisherman lives w...
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Il falso bugiardo
Based upon Vincenzoni's biography, "Pane e cinema", the documentary traces the story of the screen p...
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Quand Jean devint Renoir
The fascinating story of a man destined to be only a son of and who sought all his life to become "s...
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Inasible María Félix
Untouchable, inaccessible, ungraspable... Maria Felix is one of the great myths of Latin American ci...
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Naked Passion
A woman who works doing chores in the convent where her paralyzed daughter, that believes that is de...
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Ash Wednesday
1913: A young woman is raped by a priest and turns away from the Church as a result of the experienc...
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The Bronze Screen: 100 Years of the Latino Image in American Cinema
Documentary about the presence of Latin American culture and actors in American movies....
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Acuérdate de Acapulco
A captivating diva, incarnation of Acapulco, remembers when she was the most famous movie star of Me...
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