Sonia Furio Movies
Mexican actress Sonia Furio's career spanned four decades and encompassed 50 films. She was born in Spain, but raised in Mexico. She made her film debut at age 17 in And Tomorrow Thy Will Be Women in the 1940s. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide- 1987
The Mexican Revolution is the background for this tale of love and jealousy. ~ All Movie Guide
The disaster genre gets the exploitation treatment in this gruesome tale of survival at sea from director René Cardona Jr. In the wake of a violent cyclone, the remaining passengers of a downed airplane find refuge on a passing boat carrying the survivors of a shipwreck. Without a clue where in the world they are, a shortage of food and water, and the surrounding waters teeming with man-eating sharks, the tensions are soon on the rise. El Ciclon was released in the U.S. as The Cyclone. ~ Matthew Tobey, All Movie Guide
Mexican helmer Carlos Enrique Taboada's Spanish-language melodrama El Arte de Enganar concerns Fabian, an incorrigible womanizer whose philanderings directly prompted a married woman to off herself. The plot thickens when Fabian falls hard for the victim's daughter, further rousing the ire of her already enraged husband. Driven around the bend, the husband vows to track Fabian down and permanently end his amorous manipulations. ~ Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Julio Aleman, Anel, (more)
In Raúl de Anda's 1970 Spanish-language western Su precio unos dólares (AKA For a Handful of Dollars), several dancehall girls seduce a bank proprietor to obtain inside information that will enable them to intercept and rob a gold shipment. Problems arise, however, when several money-hungry bandits overhear the exchange and hire a gunfighter to get there first - leading to a series of twists, turns and double-crosses between the dancers, the fighter and his Native American sidekick. ~ Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide
South-of-the-border director Carlos Enrique Taboada helms the Spanish-language soaper El Deseo en Otoño. The story concerns a young woman named Elena (Maricruz Oliver) who ascends from rags to riches when she inherits a substantial fortune; having no one else with whom she can share the monies, she invites her best friend, Clara, to move into her home and enjoy the wealth with her. All fares well until Elena falls in love with a male suitor - and thus threatens to jeopardize Clara's place in the household and her share of the spoils. Indignant, Clara vows to do everything in her power to prevent this new romance from blossoming. ~ Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Maricruz Oliver, Sonia Furio, (more)
Join actors Rogelio Guerra, Fernando Luján, Ana Martin, and Sonia Furio in Acapulco a Go-Go (1967), a mod romantic drama from those hip and swinging '60s. The action unfolds in Tequila a Go-Go, a notorious disco in the paradise of Acapulco, where we meet three resident couples: Mario -- an architect who has moved to the area to recuperate along with his wife Celia; Elizabeth, a wealthy and feisty American heiress involved with the Greek sailor Jorge; and Elizabeth's younger brother Robert, who falls madly in love with a sensual disco dancer named Rita. The lives of these six characters begin to intertwine as they experience exotic adventure and romance beneath the Acapulcan sun. ~ Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide
- 1964
José Maria (Luis Aguilar) is a widower with three children who tries to seek a better life for his family. He falls in love with Laura (Sonia Furio), and the two are later married. Things work out for a while until Laura becomes mentally unbalanced to the point where she is a homicidal maniac. Poor José! The film is aimed at the teen market. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Luis Aguilar, Sonia Furio, (more)
A rebellious young man sets out to find himself in this melodrama by Roberto Rodríguez (of the brothers Rodríguez, well-established in Mexican cinema). The setting is Acapulco and the young man is one of the divers who throw themselves off the incredibly high cliffs known as the Quebrada, for recompense from tourists. That calling is dangerous enough but the unhappy home life of the diver sends him away, looking for his niche in the world. Just because of his dysfunctional family he is not so good at engendering relationships himself and when he does meet someone interesting he hurts the woman's feelings -- which does not bode well for finding the love he needs. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Rodolfo De Anda, Patricia Conde, (more)
A femme fatale to end all, the woman who stands at the center of Gilberto Gazcon's erotically-charged western drama Remolino plots and schemes to win the amorous adoration of three men on one ranch - father, son and the local martinet. Her deceptions inevitably lead to a heated confrontation between the suitors - meanwhile raising the pivotal question of whether they will recognize her true nature before the damage done is irreversible. ~ Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide
La Carcel de Cananea is a well-wrought, finely acted Mexican western directed by Gilberto Gazcon and starring the popular Pedro Armendariz as a federal lawman on the trail of a young criminal. The youthful fugitive from justice (Augustin de Anda who died before the film was released) is at first an unknown quantity. But after he is captured by the persistent federal deputy, the two men begin to have a greater appreciation for each other. This friendship of sorts does not help while they both contemplate the prison that waits at the end of their journey. Fortunately for the story, there are no songs or musical numbers to interrupt the narrative. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Pedro Armendáriz, Agustín de Anda, (more)
- 1960
Director Benito Alazraki does the best he can with this low-budget, stereotyped, cops-and-criminals story set in Algiers. Love interests run high as the requisite policeman (Tito Junco) pines after the woman of his dreams and the likeable bandit (Yerye Beirute) finds solace with several different women. Sonia Furio has some standard (though rushed in production) dance scenes, as the criminals in the story are hunted down and inevitably meet their deserved fate. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Christiane Martel, Sonia Furio, (more)
- 1960
Although this is just a routine comedy it does play on the daydreams of an unknown quantity of young men -- how does a mild-mannered student turn into a super-macho and win the woman he really wants? In this instance, the weakling is a poor student (Manuel "Loco" Valdez), forced to work as a waiter in order to pay for his college education. When a scientist he knows tries out an experiment on him, the lowly waiter turns into an extraordinary version of manhood, a macho who can do anything he wants both physically and mentally. Now if that does not impress the woman he longs for (Sonia Furio), then nothing will.
~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Manuel Valdés, Sonia Furio, (more)
- 1959
The dark side of American society is emphasized in this standard Mexican melodrama about a family from south of the border, living just north of that dividing line. The paterfamilias is lonesome and nostalgic for his old home, not an uncommon reaction for anyone living outside their country. But the problems of adjusting to a new culture are multiple -- one of the sons in the family successfully battled alcoholism, another is dropping out by dealing in drugs, and the daughter has reasoned that her best bet out of a life of poverty is to make a good marriage. She is not the first woman in the world to get that idea, and what happens to her is a classic tale -after her Caucasian boyfriend tires of their relationship, he dumps her for greener pastures. Unremittingly downbeat, the moral seems to be that a poor Hispanic family in the U.S. has the odds stacked against them for a variety of reasons. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Pedro Armendáriz, Ariadne Welter, (more)
An all-powerful lawman attempts to clear a town of crime. ~ All Movie Guide
- 1956
Los Amantes (The Lovers) ran into censorship problems in Mexico because one of the minor characters is a prostitute, played (believe it or not) by an actress named Cleopatra Walkup! The bulk of the story concerns hero Carlos Baena, who can't make up his mind between his virtuous fiancee Sonia Furio and his sexier paramour Yolanda Varela. He opts for the latter, moving in with the girl and her mother (Elisa De Leon). Eventually, however, Baena realizes that Varela's fast-and-loose lifestyle is not for him. The American distribution of Los Amantes was hampered as much by the picture's substandard technical quality as by its "racy" theme. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Carlos Martínez Baena, Amanda del Llano, (more)
