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Lucha Villa

Lucha Villa

Acting

Biography

Luz Elena Ruiz Bejarano (born November 30, 1936), more commonly known by her stage name Lucha Villa, is a Mexican singer and actress. She appeared in several films during the 1950s and early 1960s, received her first starring role in El gallo de oro (1965), and starred in Me cansé de rogarle, a musical with Jiménez and recording star Marco Antonio Muñiz. She has appeared in some fifty films and won an Ariel Award for Best Actress (the Mexican equivalent of the Oscar) for Mecánica nacional (1973).

Known For

El principio
5.5

Mexico is in the midst of Revolution when the protagonist returns after studying in Paris to find his native town in Chihuahua occupied by Francisco Villa’s revolutionary forces. He visits his deserted home and remembers people and events from his adolescence that provide glimpses of pre-Revolutionary society under dictatorship: his uncle, the chief of police; his sister’s involvement with a liberal political association; bathing with the girls from a local brothel; a labor strike that ended in a massacre. Returning to the present he discovers that his father has been assassinated and, in the company of his father’s former servant, joins the revolutionary movement.

El principio

1973
Central camionera
3.9

Everyone living around a truck terminal has their destinies intertwined.

Central camionera

1988
Omen
5.0

While attending the birth of Isabel, the wife of foreigner Felipe, Mama Santos predicts that "something terrible is going to happen in the town." From this omen, calamities will torment the locals.

Omen

1974
National Mechanics
7.4

A mechanic takes his family to a car race and a series of events occur which brings problems, betrayals, violence and the unexpected death of an elderly person.

National Mechanics

1972
Sor Batalla
6.7

As punishment for participating in a game show a nun is sent to a small town. The chief and presidential hopeful municipal Instead, a pinko comecuras that attacks capitalism and refuses to let children be vaccinated and go to school, is opposed to the presence of the newcomer, but as the religious conquest people and helps to rescue the kidnapped daughter of the chief, the evil becomes good.

Sor Batalla

1990
No image
6.3

In his home-town, he's a respectable rancher... but out on the range he's a hitman for hire. His son finds out about his double life, and...

Dos valientes

1969
No image
6.4

José Guadalupe García was born in the United States, but seems very Mexican. Winning his American girlfriend creates many comic situations, but he also faces discrimination and racism.

El pocho

1970
The Golden Cockerel
7.0

A poor, but very lucky man in the cock fighting business, is hired by a rich man, but both are in love with the same woman.

The Golden Cockerel

1964
El norteño
6.7

Lawman on horseback cracks a case involving stolen gold bullion, the title to a mine, an evil twin and a plucky pre-adolescent boy. First in a series.

El norteño

1963
The Useless Life of Pito Pérez
5.8

A man goes on a trip and then returns to his village pretending that everything went well for him.

The Useless Life of Pito Pérez

1970
The Place Without Limits
7.3

Family honor, greed, machismo, homophobia, and dreams collide in a small Mexican town.

The Place Without Limits

1978
Doña Herlinda and Her Son
5.3

A manipulative mama deftly manages the life of her homosexual son so that he can have his cake and eat it too. A woman of means, she does this by allowing her son, a doctor, to tryst in her home with his lover. Putting her son's happiness above all else, she then arranges a marriage of convenience to a woman.

Doña Herlinda and Her Son

1985
Los Reyes del Palenque
6.6

Widow becomes professional singer to meet expenses. Love complications come along with the territory.

Los Reyes del Palenque

1979
Seis días para morir
6.7

Public health thriller: rabies in Mexico City.

Seis días para morir

1967
Las noches del Blanquita
5.7

Mexican feature film

Las noches del Blanquita

1981
Los hombres de Lupe Alvírez
5.8

Three bad dudes are each hot for Lupe. They kill a guy while committing some crimes together, and that guy's brother goes gunning for them. Eventually, he meets Lupe; she helps him track down the killers and a thing develops between them.

Los hombres de Lupe Alvírez

1967
El fugitivo
5.6

Drifter returns to his home town for revenge, but he get caught up in the town's interpersonal dramas.

El fugitivo

1966
El Mil Usos II
6.4

Transit must deal with his impulse to leave the country to go to the United States in search of the famous American dream.

El Mil Usos II

1984
Amanecí en tus brazos
5.8

No description available.

Amanecí en tus brazos

1967
The Empire of Dracula
5.7

A group of beautiful female vampires lure men to their estate so they can feed on their blood.

The Empire of Dracula

1967