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Emma Roldán

Emma Roldán

Acting

Biography

Emma Roldán (February 3, 1893 – August 29, 1978) was a Mexican character actress and costume designer. She is remembered as the sharp-tongued, domineering matron of Mexican cinema, and was nominated three times for a Silver Ariel Award.

Known For

Santa
6.2

Santa is a beautiful and very humble young girl living in Chimalistac, a small and quiet spot south of the 1930's Mexico City. After Santa is cheated by arrogant soldier Marcelino, she's rejected by her family and friends and expelled of Chimalistac. Santa finds shelter in a whorehouse and becomes a cinic and bitter woman, mistreated by bullfighter "Jarameno" and silently loved by blind pianist Hipolito.

Santa

1943
Two Monks
6.2

In a Gothic-styled monastery, a monk named Javier sees the face of another monk, Juan, and suddenly attempts to bludgeon him to death with a heavy crucifix. Both men then relate their own versions of a story of romantic rivalry between them.

Two Monks

1934
El seductor
5.6

A young artist's affair with a married woman destroys her family. Twenty-odd years later, her two daughters fall into his orbit.

El seductor

1955
The Illegitimate
4.5

Family melodrama: manipulative parents ruin lives with their meddling.

The Illegitimate

1956
Pobres millonarios
5.7

Squatter neighborhood finds a wealthy sponsor.

Pobres millonarios

1957
Ojos tapatios
6.3

Mexican feature film

Ojos tapatios

1938
Simitrio
7.1

A blind teacher is the victim of endless pranks and pranks from his students.

Simitrio

1960
El superhombre
6.0

1946 Mexican film directed by Chano Urueta.

El superhombre

1946
Vertigo
7.0

Young woman's fiance unexpectedly falls in love with her mom, and ends up arranging the young woman's death.

Vertigo

1945
Los hijos de María Morales
7.3

Two brothers known in town for their womanizing, drinking and rowdiness meet their matches when two girls who like them decide to tame the two machos.

Los hijos de María Morales

1952
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6.7

Two secret agents are after a couple of car thieves who belong to a band of criminals headed by Ernesto. The band has kidnapped the son of Daniel, a boxer who is about to fight for the world title. The agents must destroy Ernesto's band and rescue Daniel's son before the fight so Daniel doesn't lose his chance at the title under the kidnapper's threats.

Servicio secreto

1962
Cuidado con el amor
6.9

Salvador accompanied by two friends of his father whom he calls uncles, they arrive at a fair in the village, there he meets Ana. When he wins a bet he is paid with a mortgaged house, to his surprise upon entering the hom he realizes that Ana and her mother live in it, provoking a funny entanglement with an explosive final.

Cuidado con el amor

1954
La infame
6.5

For love, the rules of society and justice are broken, leading to abduction, exposing life and freedom, facing everything to make a sick child a normal child.

La infame

1954
One Way Street
5.3

After stealing a gangster's money and his girlfriend, a doctor heads for a small village in Mexico to hide out.

One Way Street

1950
La Fuga
5.8

A stagecoach full of conflictive passengers makes its dangerours way from Mexico to Veracruz during the days of the French Intervention.

La Fuga

1944
Diabolical Kidnapping
5.7

Second film in the Tigres del ring series.

Diabolical Kidnapping

1957
La Adelita
5.8

Beautiful peasant girl runs afoul of her landlord's horny son and he poisons the well between her and her fiance, so she runs away and joins the Revolution.

La Adelita

1937
Entrega Inmediata
7.2

Immediate delivery recounts the misadventures of Feliciano Callosum (Cantinflas), a postman who is recruited by the secret counterintelligence service (called XU-777 secret agency), and must uncover an international conspiracy.

Entrega Inmediata

1963
Naufragio
5.6

One woman lives waiting for her son who is a sailor. She hasn't seen him for years although he writes to her a lot. The woman shares the letters and her grief with a co-worker and friend. This last woman begins to idealize her friend's son.

Naufragio

1978
La Cucaracha
6.4

The Mexican Revolution serves as a backdrop to a torrid love triangle composed of three freedom fighters: a colonel, a widow, and a fiery female soldier.

La Cucaracha

1959