María Rojo

María Rojo

August 15, 1943 · 83 years old

María Rojo is the artistic name of María de Lourdes Rojo e Incháustegui (Mexico City, August 15, 1943), a Mexican film, theater and television actress. Daughter of Roberto Rojo, an agronomist, and Águeda Incháustegui, a school teacher. From her childhood, she remembers being nervous and suffering f…

Known For

16 titles
1
Hell

Hell

2010 · 2h 29m · Movie

After being deported back to Mexico, a man has no choice but to join the vicious drug cartel that has corrupted his hometown in order to survive.

7.6
2
Under the Same Moon

Under the Same Moon

2007 · 1h 46m · Movie

After his grandmother passes away, a young Mexican boy illegally travels across the border to search for his undocumented mother living and working in the U.S.

7.3
3
The Perfect Dictatorship

The Perfect Dictatorship

2014 · 2h 23m · Movie

After accepting a colossal bribe, a powerful TV conglomerate gins up fake news stories to enhance the image of a notoriously corrupt politician.

7.2
4
Midaq Alley

Midaq Alley

1995 · 2h 20m · Movie

The lives of men and women living on Callejón de los Milagros in Mexico City.

7.3
5
The Castle of Purity

The Castle of Purity

1973 · 1h 50m · Movie

The story of a disciplined and sexually driven man who keeps his family isolated in his home for years to protect them from the "evil nature" of human beings while inventing (with his wife) rat poison.

7.5
6
Violet Perfume: Nobody Hears You

Violet Perfume: Nobody Hears You

2001 · 1h 30m · Movie

The history of friendship of two females teenagers and how it's cracked up by misinformation about sexual education and violence against women.

7.1
7
A Not So Merry Christmas

A Not So Merry Christmas

2022 · 1h 40m · Movie

In this heartwarming comedy, a grumpy man is cursed at Christmas time and wakes up a year later, only to find he's doomed to relive Christmas Eve over and over again.

5.0
8
Homework

Homework

1991 · 1h 25m · Movie

A middle agend woman asks an old boyfriend to her home. He thinks its only for casual sex, she is planning something else and she is taping in on video.

6.3
9
La boda de Valentina

La boda de Valentina

2018 · 1h 47m · Movie

Valentina has the perfect life in America--until her universe trembles when her boyfriend Jason proposes and she must confront her family, the most chaotic and surreal political dynasty in the history of Mexico.

4.8
10
The Popcorn Chronicles

The Popcorn Chronicles

2014 · 1h 41m · Movie

When the projectionist Don Toribio Mujica dies, his two sons, Gumaro and Archimboldo must return to Guepez to know the will of their father. Don Cuino, the mayor of the City, is in charge of reading the will for the brothers: for ...

4.3
11
Forbidden Homework

Forbidden Homework

1992 · 1h 20m · Movie

A student needs to deliver a short film as a homework, which has to be shot in just one sequence. He writes an erotic scene and invites an older woman to act in his project ¿The problem? The older woman is not just a friend, is a ...

5.3
12
Naufragio

Naufragio

1978 · 1h 41m · Movie

A woman (Murguía) lives waiting for her son (Alonso) who is a sailor. She hasn't seen him for years although he writes to her a lot. The woman shares his letters and her grief with a co-worker and friend (Rojo). This last woman be...

6.9
13
The Attempt Dossier

The Attempt Dossier

2010 · 2h 0m · Movie

Tells the story behind an assassination attempt perpetrated in 1897, by a dipsomaniac man, against the President of the Mexican Republic, General Porfirio Diaz.

6.1
14
El día que me perdí

El día que me perdí

2020 · 2h 19m · Movie

¿What would you do if the worst day of your life was worse than you remember? The day I lost myself tells Xochil's journey, a woman who dares to dive into her past to find herself and open the doors of a world she thought forgotten.

5.2
15
La prima

La prima

2018 · 1h 34m · Movie

A woman seeks love and is not sexually satisfied by her husband. At one point, he leaves her alone for a while and her young, handsome and successful cousin seduces her.

3.9
16
Tequila

Tequila

1992 · 1h 25m · Movie

"For her self-denial and courage, this film is dedicated to the Mexican woman." A tribute to the undeniable combative and strong spirit of the women exploited labor, who are subjected to the double duty as mothers and wives.

7.4