Silvia Pinal
Birthday: Born in 1931-09-12 in Guaymas, Sonora, Mexico
Deathday: 2024-11-28
Silvia Pinal (September 12, 1931 - November 28, 2024) was a Mexican actress, who had roles in several of Luis Buñuel's movies such as El ángel exterminador and Viridiana. Pinal is also considered as one of the legends of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema.
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Una Familia de Diez
Character: Herself (Chivis)
Ten members of the same family share a small house and stumble together through life's mishaps....
Mujeres asesinas
Character: Inés Someyera
Mujeres Asesinas is a series that shows the dark side of women who have been mistreated or abused and become cruel murderers. The series shows how violence and death can overcome the feminine mind....
Soy tu dueña
Character: Isabel Rangel Vda. de Dorantes
Soy Tu Dueña is a Mexican telenovela produced by Nicandro Díaz González for Televisa. It starred Lucero, Gabriela Spanic, Fernando Colunga, David Zepeda, Sergio Goyri and Jacqueline Andere....
Conversando con Cristina Pacheco
Character: Self
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Mi marido tiene familia
Character: Imelda Sierra Calvillo de Córcega
Julieta is quite happy in her relationship with her live in boyfriend, Robert... and thrilled that she won't have to deal with in-laws since Robert doesn't know his family. Things start going downhill for the couple when they rent an apartment from a very eccentric family dealing with a traumatic incident from their past....
Las Vías del Amor
Character: Vanessa Vázquez
Las Vías del Amor is a Mexican telenovela that aired on the Televisa channel in Mexico and Univision in the United States from 2002-2003....
Carita de Ángel
Character: Reverenda Lucía / Madre Superiora #2
Carita de Angel is a remake of the telenovela Papa Corazon, which also was adapted for Mundo de juguete. Tells the story of Dulce Maria, a sweet, 5-year-old girl full of joy, compassion, and good feelings. After the death of her mother, her father Luciano Larios sinks into depression and lives abroad for a few years, leaving his daughter and loved ones behind. Dulce Maria enrolls in a Catholic boarding school for girls called "Reina de America" (Queen of America) to be taken care of by the nuns...
Fuego en la Sangre
Character: Santa "Santita"
Fuego en la sangre is a telenovela that began transmissions on January 21, 2008, through Mexico's Canal de las Estrellas network. Starring Adela Noriega, Eduardo Yáñez, Diana Bracho, and Guillermo García Cantú. It is the Mexican remake of the Colombian soap operas Las Aguas Mansas and Pasion de Gavilanes. The theme song called "Para Siempre" is sung by Vicente Fernández. The telenovela received TVyNovelas Award for Best Telenovela, in 2009....
Mujer, Casos de la Vida Real
Character: Host
The show presents mature themes involving love stories and disturbing topics of real-life cases including rape, incest, child abuse, prostitution, discrimination and domestic violence. At the beginning of each episode, Silvia Pinal would discuss the social aspect surrounding the case the audience was about to view....
Una familia con suerte
Character: Herself
A Mexican telenovela based on the Argentinean telenovela Los Roldán....
Las Lunas del Auditorio
Character: Self
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Movie Credits
Viridiana
Character: Viridiana
Viridiana is preparing to start her life as a nun when she is sent, somewhat unwillingly, to visit her aging uncle, Don Jaime. He supports her; but the two have met only once. Jaime thinks Viridiana resembles his dead wife. Viridiana has secretly despised this man all her life and finds her worst fears proven when Jaime grows determined to seduce his pure niece. Viridiana becomes undone as her uncle upends the plans she had made to join the convent....
Shark
Character: Anna
A gunrunner loses his cargo near a small coastal Sudanese town so he's stuck there. When a woman hires him to raid a sunken ship in the shark-infested waters, he sees a chance to compensate for his losses. He's not the only one....
The Exterminating Angel
Character: Leticia 'La Valkiria'
A formal dinner party starts out normally enough, but after the bourgeois group retire to the host’s music room, they inexplicably find themselves unable to leave....
Simon of the Desert
Character: The Devil
Simon, a deeply religious man living in the 4th century, wants to be nearer to God so he climbs a column. The Devil wants him come down to Earth and is trying to seduce him....
Pubis angelical
Character: Beatriz
It's about three women, three stories, or perhaps a single story in different projections of time and space. The Mistress wishes to unravel the meaning of being a woman is the victim of Hollywood. Ana is the product of a society ruled or dominated by men....
Guns for San Sebastian
Character: Félicia
Leon Alastray is an outlaw who has been given sanctuary by Father John, whom he then escorts to the village of San Sebastian. The village is deserted, with its cowardly residents hiding in the hills from Indians, who regularly attack the village and steal all their supplies. When Father John is murdered, the villagers mistakenly think the outlaw is the priest. Alastray at first tells them he is not a priest, but they don't believe it, and an apparent miracle seems to prove they are correct. Even...
Adriana del Rio, actriz
Character: Self
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A Place Close to Heaven
Character: Sonia Iliana
On reaching the capital, Pedro Gonzalez gets a lowly job and marries Margaret. After losing that job, get a new one as a bodyguard but is fired again. With so much poverty and despair Pedro believes that his only way out is suicide....
The King of the Neighborhood
Character: Carmelita
A poor man becomes a modern Robin Hood, robbing the rich to give to the poor....
The Innocent
Character: Mané
After a quarrel with her boyfriend on New Year's Eve, Mane drives her car from Mexico City to Cuernavaca to meet her parents in their country house. The car breaks down in the highway and Mane has to ask for help. Mechanic Cruci arrives and, after testing the car, offers Mane a ride on his motorcycle. Back in Mane's house, she invites him some drinks to celebrate New Year's Eve. They get drunk and, the morning after, Mane's parents arrive and find them sleeping together. Not knowing what happene...
Bamba
Character: Emilia
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María Isabel
Character: María Isabel Sánchez
A woman jumping from the poverty of the countryside to the splendor of wealth in the city without losing its simplicity...
Si volvieras a mi
Character: Lidia Kane
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Divinas palabras
Character: Mari Gaila
Mari Gaila (Silvia Pinal), is an adulteress who lives between ragged, thieves, prostitutes, dwarfs and other misshapen beings, in a rare box at a country and a vague time. Her husband, is a poor sacristan who agrees with other relatives to do business with the display of his orphaned nephew, a mentally retarded dwarf. Caught in committing adultery with her lover, Mari Gaila is caged naked and punished by the people....
Por ellas aunque mal paguen
Character: Isabel
Don Anastacio, an aristocrat passing through a rough patch,He will make marry his daughter Isabel with wealthy rancher. Isabel and her family refuse to work, Jose Manuel takes them to the ranch, where they are forced to work for food....
The Mayor
Character:
The film tells the story of Mauricio Fernandez, mayor of the wealthiest municipality in Latin America, located in the North of Mexico. He presents himself as a polemical figure who takes justice into his own hands in order to "clean" his municipality of the drug cartels' presence. Mauricio is a key character to better understand the present situation in Mexico and through the unusual views of this politician, the audience will be a privileged witnesses of an scenario where political tasks and ex...
Maribel and the Strange Family
Character: Maribel
The life of Maribel, a disilluisoned prostitute working the Madrid of 1960, suddenly changes when a simple man that she meets by chance without knowing her profession, decides that she is the woman of her life and that he wants to marry her and to meet his odd family....
Una cita de amor
Character: Soledad
The story of the doomed love between Soledad and Román. She is the daughter of a rich man that wants to marry her with Ernesto, nephew of his friend, the judge. Román owns a little ranch. A brawl in the town will unleash several deaths that will affect the already difficult relationship....
The Scandalous Charm of Broken Egos
Character:
Short film inspired by the cinema of Luis Buñuel....
Bang bang al hoyo
Character: Viuda velorio (uncredited)
Parody western about a poofy gunslinger and his brothers....
Orange Blossoms for your Wedding
Character: Tota
During the time of the Mexican Revolution, the eldest daughter of a conservative family must respect the decision of her parents, and follow the traditions of using the wedding flowers her mother used....
Hijas casaderas
Character: Magdalena
Mexican feature film...
¡Buenas noches, año nuevo!
Character: Silvia
Backstage comedy; singer-dancer and her songwriter husband pretend to have an open relationship, because it makes them look smart and modern....
Una gallega baila mambo
Character:
Ladylike widow hires a roughneck neighbor to help her marry off her daughter and collect an inheritance by impersonating her husband....
The Last Call
Character: "La Delegada"
Turmoil becomes the order of the day when a Mexican theatrical company begins its rehearsals of absurdist philosopher Albert Camus's “Caligula” for an influential upcoming international theater festival....
The Song of the Cicada
Character: Elisa
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¡Adiós, Mimí Pompón!
Character: María 'Mimí Pompón'
The famous couplet singer Mimi Pompon leaves everything to marry Heriberto Promenade, a wealthy merchant of Limoges with five marriages behind her. Of course Mimi has also been widowed five times. Saintpaul, an astute police, suspicious of so many accidental deaths and closely monitor both the mansion. Gradually, we discover that Heriberto, fearing that their wives may betray him, the killer, always with the complicity of her mother....
Cape Horn
Character: Jimena
The whaling captain, Antonio Grez, meets in a bar in the port of Valparaiso a very beautiful woman who lives haunted by the tragic premonition that fate will give her a violent death. Grez takes command of a whaler bound for Cape Horn and Antarctica. In Punta Arenas, the owner of the whaling company embarks on together with his fiancee, who is none other than the mysterious woman with whom Grez has fallen in love. The final route of the ship is the 'Land of Desolation', a place on which there is...
El Portero
Character: Rosita
Cantinflas works as a porter, who writes letters and speeches in his old writing machine to earn an extra money, despite the fact that he still goes to school. The sentimental issues come when Cantinflas falls in love of his pretty neighborhood (Silvia Pinal), who is handicapped and unable to walk. The thing wont be easy, because a young military man also has feelings for the girl. But the porter wants to see her happy, and he will become a sort of Cyrano De Bergerac, writing love letters to her...
Laura's Sin
Character: Juanita
Young woman breaks her engagement to be married when an opportunity for stardom comes her way....
Love in Four Parts
Character: Sofía
Anthology film, four episodes....
Los cuervos están de luto
Character: Piedad
The family of a dying man celebrates his wake while the man is still alive, showing their darker, selfish ambitions and trying to take the best part of the inheritance....
Me traes de un ala
Character: Rosita
To conquer the beautiful vedette Rosita, journalist Tin Tan is subject to her whims. Fired along with his friend Narciso from the newspaper they worked, Tin Tan trying to sell a movie plot. A woman looking to buy it and Tin Tan will visit her in a gloomy mansion where a mess is unleashed....
La estatua de carne
Character:
Sculptor becomes infatuated with model. Everyone suffers....
Doña Mariquita de mi corazón
Character: Paz Alegre
Adolfo, the son of Dona Mariquita, is committed to Marisa to please his mother, but his real love is Paz....
Ya no los hacen como antes
Character: Genoveva
Recently widowed, Benito faces the jealousy of his daughters when, reunited by an old ford car, he finds a new love and new meaning for his life....
When Children Sin
Character: Tencha López
Bad girl makes lives miserable....
El casto Susano
Character:
Father and son are sober, responsible pillars of the community in their home-town... but they make frequent trips to the city....
Historia de un abrigo de mink
Character:
Four anecdotes involving a mink coat in display in a shop window....
La adúltera
Character: Irene Gálvez
Jilted lover takes revenge on her ex's new wife....
Agent Macaw: Shaken & Stirred
Character: Mamá Osa
Tambo Macaw, an overweight macaw who works as a janitor at the Central Intelligentus Animalus (CIA), dreams of becoming a secret agent. His opportunity arises when he is assigned by mistake the most important mission in the agency's history: stop the wicked plans of Mama Bear and her evil organization. Tambo is helped by Jack Tortoise, an old turtle that's in charge of the advanced technology lab in the agency and is one of Tambo's few friends....
My Three Merry Widows
Character: Silvia
Dead man's will reveals he had three wives....
La sospechosa
Character: Regina de Alba
After a trip to Europe, Regina de Alba comes home and finds out her mother is nowhere to be found. When her step-father's criminal past becomes known, her suspicions increase....
Estrategia matrimonio
Character: Mónica Ferrer
Pragmatic young woman plots out her flirtations with five rich, eligible bachelors to play to the weaknesses of each one. Then she has to pick one for keeps....
Mi desconocida esposa
Character: Silvia Heredia
After moving from Guadalajara to Mexico City, a young woman gets embroiled in a series of puzzling mistaken-identity misadventures....
Dangerous Game
Character: Lena Anderson
Two dark-comedy stories involving blackmail, murder and love triangles in Rio de Janeiro...
24 horas de placer
Character: Catalina
Man develops a reputation as a great bedroom athlete after publishing a 'spicy' novel....
La soldadera
Character: Lázara
While waiting for a train which will take them on their honeymoon, two newlyweds, Juan and Lázara, are separated by a federal army commander who is going around enlisting men to fight against the revolutionaries. Traveling with the troops, Lázara follows Juan until he dies in a battle against the Villistas. From that moment on, the young woman's fate will be in the hands of whoever happens to win the latest contest, an uncertain fate for someone whose only wish is for a home of her own....
Charlestón
Character: Beatriz
Silvia Pinal stars as Beatriz, a woman whose troubles are brought on by the fact that she has two wildly different suitors....
Caín, Abel... y el Otro
Character: Mujer en el casino (sin credito)
Three early twenties guys in Acapulco competing for women... they end up marooned on a desert island together......
¡Cómo hay gente sinvergüenza!
Character:
Two criminal rivals and two crooked insurance adjusters jockey for ownership of a batch of stolen jewels....
Una golfa
Character:
Trumpet-player in a club band falls for a streety young woman; she dumps him to become a kept woman... and his roommate the pianist is dealing weed... and......
La mujer de oro
Character:
Heist movie: bank teller develops an elaborate game plan to lift money from the vault where she works....
La vida tiene tres días
Character: María Andrade
Big-city songwriter and small-town music student conduct a romance by mail, then finally meet....
El amor no es ciego
Character:
A boxer wins a championship but he is injured and forced to retire. After that he falls in love with a blind girl....
Speaking of Buñuel
Character: Self
Surrealist master Luis Buñuel is a towering figure in the world of cinema history, directing such groundbreaking works as Un Chien Andalou, Exterminating Angels, and That Obscure Object of Desire, yet his personal life was clouded in myth and paradox. Though sexually diffident, he frequently worked in the erotic drama genre; though personally quite conservative, his films are florid, flamboyant, and utterly bizarre....
La dulce enemiga
Character: Lucrecia
The story of a femme fatale whose adventures are narrated in flashbacks by the ghosts of her former lovers....
Préstame tu cuerpo
Character: Leonor Rivas Conde / Regina Salsamendi
Heaven Can Wait scenario; a young woman dies forty years ahead of schedule because her guardian angel made a mistake... so the divine powers that be put her back on earth in a new body....
Las cariñosas
Character: Carmen
When three beautiful young nurses from Jalisco, afflicted with a rare disease called "sexappealitis", create commotion among the patients in a hospital, they are forced to resign. They travel to Mexico City following the suggestion of a crazy scientist, who tells them they will be cured when they get married. But they are attracted to three men who are indifferent to their sexy looks, being themselves sick with "lovetitis"....
A Stranger on the Stairs
Character: Laura
Based on Ladislas Fodor's "Stranger on the Stairs". A loved triangle composed by a cynical entrepreneur, a loan manager, and a seductive secretary will lead to a criminal plot in Cuba....
Reventa de esclavas
Character:
Mad-science/comedy scenario about reviving the corpse of an Egyptian mummy morphs into a love story set in ancient Egypt....
Tras Nazarin: Following Nazarin
Character: Self
"Nazarín is a Quixote of the priesthood " "Among the films I have made in Mexico, Nazarin is one that I prefer." "As inexplicable as the accidents that set it off, our imagination is a crucial privilege."...
El vendedor de muñecas
Character:
A man sells his wife, and takes care of street women turning them into ladies to sell to rich men....
The Last Script: Remembering Luis Buñuel
Character: Self
A loosely chronological visual “scrapbook” marking the 25th anniversary of the death of Luis Buñuel....
Los Cacos
Character: Bertha
A group of Soccer-loving friends devise a plan to make easy money....
Dos y dos, cinco
Character: Julia
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Si, Mi vida
Character: Leticia
Dr. Castellanos is saved from bankruptcy....
Teatro del crimen
Character: Herself
In a music hall has committed a murder, the police will also find the murderer....
Locura pasional
Character:
Wife-killer narrates flashbacks about how his obsessive jealousy led him to tragedy....
El hombre que me gusta
Character:
A man facing bankruptcy and ruin rehearses a couple of scenarios relating to suicide, until his family convinces him he's worth more alive than dead....
El niño de su mamá
Character:
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Desnúdate, Lucrecia
Character:
Commercial artist and her fiancé go to Acapulco for a weekend, and she discovers that their engagement was a mistake. Lookie-here, Mr. Right just came along! (But he's got his own comical baggage.)...
Awakening of the Wolf
Character: Kim Jones
Young woman looking for a rich husband, sets her sights on a very pious and old-fashioned neighbor....
El cuerpazo del delito
Character: Magda Bustamante / Enriqueta (segment "La insaciable")
Anthology film: three "sophisticated" rom-com scenarios....
The Dried Butterflies
Character: Cassandra / Writer
A disturbed middle aged writer becomes obsessed with a little boy who reminds her of a former lover....
Los novios
Character: Irene
Near the end of a very long engagement, two lovers break away from each other to cut loose and have one crazy weekend before their wedding....
México de mis amores
Character:
Anthology of clips from classic-era Mexican films, with reality-footage of elderly actors discussing their memories of the period....
Mujer de medianoche
Character:
Young woman elopes with her fiancé; during their honeymoon, things happen that cause them to be separated, and she finds herself alone in a big city with no resources to fall back on....
Recién casados... no molestar
Character:
Newly-married woman discovers that her husband's a virgin and not the notorious Don Juan that she'd heard rumors about, and their marriage almost collapses because he's faithful and monogamous and good....
Secreto de confesión
Character: María
Young woman falls in love with a cub reporter who's investigating the illegal activities of her father. Then there's secret marriages and secret murders and secret babies and... family melodrama in full flower....
Buñuel
Character: Self
Analysis of the work of Luis Buñuel in fifty mini chapters. A co-production of Arsenal Films, Barcelona International Film Festival and Ovideo TV in collaboration with the Menéndez Pelayo International University (UIMP). The film won the 1st Prize at the European Biennial for the Conservation of European Cultural Heritage....
La Mujer Que Yo Perdí
Character: Laura
A political revolutionary fights against injustice, his adoring wife by his side. But only in her death does he realize the depth of her love for him and their country. A dramatic romance from the 23 film library of the most iconic classic Mexican film and recording star, Pedro Infante....
Men and Noblemen
Character: Giovanna
Nicola Peccoli has always nurtured his niece Giovanna, an orphan since the age of two and now of age, but he does not look favorably on her beloved Mario because he is just a simple employee and a lower class of society....
Yo soy muy macho
Character: Mario / María Aguirre
To help her pilot brother, Maria disguises as a man to take his place, and must live in the jungle with a very "macho" captain, eventually falling in love....
Dios no lo quiera
Character: Felisa
A beautiful young woman from the neighborhood falls in love with two rude men, one good and the other bad....
Amor es... veneno, Carlota
Character: Carlota Cavendish
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Las locuras de Bárbara
Character: Bárbara
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Vintage Model
Character: Carmen
Life unravels when famous radio talk-show host Carmen (Sylvia Pinal) discovers she has just months to live. To tie up the loose ends of her life, she hires a chauffeur to drive her around Mexico City and visit her old haunts. But he does far more than that; instead, he gives her life a much-needed spark and shows her the road to happiness. Alonso Echanove and Raul Araiza Jr. co-star....
The Mark of the Skunk
Character: Lupita
In 1840 California, The Texmelucan viscount bizco, offers a feast for his son Tin, who returned from Italy where he studied fencing. The boy turns out to be a coward who flees in terror after refusing to fight a duel with Captain Gaspar. In their flight, Tin rescues a witch was tied to a tree. Grateful, the witch gives him an ointment that will make him invincible for an hour. The coward swordsman will have three opportunities to use it and save his father from the injustices of the evil ruler ...