Lucia Mendez Movies
- 2000
This steamy tela-novela stars Lucia Mendez as Silvana Bernal, a sexy fashion designer, wife and mother whose stormy marriage drives her into the arms of another man. Silvana loves her husband Andres but, unfortunately, he is resentful of her intelligence and success, going so far as to sabotage her career. Silvana thinks that the solution could be found with her co-worker and lover, but tangled web of her personal life only becomes more complicated. Passionate romance and heartbreaking betrayal accompany many graphic love scenes, making the erotic soap opera inappropriate for young viewers. ~ Cammila Albertson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Lucia Mendez, Salvador Pineda, (more)
- 1986
As melodramatic as its soap-opera predecessor, this horror film revolves around an agent of the Devil and his successor. Enrique de Martino (Ernesto Alonso) was supposed to have died, but because of his association with Lucifer, he is back again. This time around, he is looking for a young man who is depicted in a particular painting. Enrique's "boss" has charged him with finding the youth and training him to become the next Devil's advocate. Meanwhile, the young man is discovering some of his supernatural powers on his own and, he scares his aunt every time he throws a tantrum and breaks the windows or cracks the plaster. His sister Marcela (Lucia Mendez) is an attractive woman, and when Enrique comes across his future charge at last, he falls for Marcela. The trouble is that Enrique's interest in his sister has irritated the future agent of darkness and disaster is imminent. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Ernesto Alonso, Lucia Mendez, (more)
Hall Bartlett directs the rural drama The Children of Sanchez, based on the novel The Children of Sanchez: Autobiography of a Mexican Family written by Oscar Lewis in the '60s. Anthony Quinn stars as the widowed Jesus Sanchez, a poor farmer struggling to provide for his family in Mexico City. Also starring Lupita Ferrer as Consuelo and Stathis Giallelis as Roberto. This is the last film in the 50-year career of international star Dolores del Rio, who plays the Grandma. Jazz-pop performer Chuck Mangione was nominated for a Golden Globe and won a Grammy award for his original musical score. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Anthony Quinn, Lupita Ferrer, (more)
Fernando Duran's action film Juan Armenta El Repatriado concerns the title hero teaming up with his twin in order to defeats group of bad guys. Their relationship complicates when, after that adventure, he begins an affair with his twin's wife. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide
- 1975
Cantinflas (Mario Moreno) appears in several separate stories in this film, all of which deal with bureaucrats of one sort or another. In the first episode, Cantinflas is a man who earns his living writing letters for illiterate people, an evantelista. In the second, he is a low-level government bureaucrat in situations which free him to criticize abuses. The next episode has him, hat in hand, coming to a bureaucrat for some help, and in yet another episode, he helps a deaf-mute girl. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Cantinflas, Lucia Mendez, (more)
