Marta Aura
Know for: Acting
Born: 1942-04-09
Place of birth: Mexico City, Mexico
Also know as:
El día menos pensado (2005)
What would happen if the world's largest city ran out of clean water? The situation is portrayed through the eyes of a mature couple who are...
Honest Days (2021)
When she is fired from her only job in a series of infomercials, Amanda, an actress with little talent and whose film career is forgotten, decides to...
The Cubs (1973)
After having his genitals brutally mutilated during childhood, a man must face prejudice and himself.
Red Dawn (1990)
On October 2, 1968, a student uprising descends into violence after the Mexican government begins to use lethal force against the protesters.
Crazy Carnival (2006)
In a seedy brothel, their frustrations parade: A poet who has never published, a revolutionary who came late to history, a provocative angel, a...
The First Night (1998)
In the middle of a city facing a new century, a group of friends between the ages of 15 and 18 live out the adventures, deceptions and anxiety of...
Someone Wants to Kill Us! (1970)
A woman is sent to Mexico to kill the person who presumptly killed her father.
Cayó de la gloria el diablo (1972)
Subsistence-economy slum guy who sells used newsprint for a living breaks into showbiz with an inadvertantly-comical fire-eater act. The novelty of...
Nobody Will Speak of Us When We're Dead (1995)
A hit man searches for an alcoholic prostitute who has witnessed a crime and fled to Madrid.
The Book of Stone (2009)
Julieta is a young child psychologist hired by millionaire Eugenio Ruvalcaba, to work with his only daughter, Sylvia, who has severe emotional...
Tres minutos en la oscuridad (1996)
Four childhood friends decide to play a prank on an aunt of one of the four. Two enter the house and two others remain waiting in the car. When the...
The Queen of the Night (1994)
The legendary life of Mexican singer Lucha Reyes is the basis of this fictionalized biography ( or as director Arturo Ripstein puts it "an imaginary...
Written on the Body of Night (2001)
A look back at a director's life with his neurotic mother.
Angel of Fire (1991)
The young trapeze artist Alma is part of the show of a miserable traveling circus. In an act of desperation, Alma commits incest with her father, a...
4 Moons (2014)
Four interwoven stories about love and self-acceptance: An eleven year-old boy struggles to keep secret the attraction he feels towards his male...
Becloud (2010)
Alejandro Gerber Bicecci's "Vaho" (Becloud) tells the story of three childhood friends, Andres, Felipe, and Jose, and their lives in a dusty, run...
Mosquita muerta (2007)
Marcelo and Sofía love each other, but both suspect the other of infidelity. Marcelo, a film director, accidentally discovers condoms in...
The Humiliated (1986)
Four nuns are raped by a group of lepers. Although they all turn out to be pregnant, their status is hidden from them in the convent.
Luz's Motives (1985)
Luz is in jail, accused of murdering her own children. Her husband and her mother-in-law say she killed them in cold blood. Dr. Rebollar tries to...
Scars (2005)
The story of a dysfunctional couple, whose problems will inevitably deteriorate their marriage and their son's life.
Malos hábitos (2007)
Matilde is a nun convinced that faith moves mountains. She secretly begins a mystic fasting to end what she considers to be the second great flood....
The Place Without Limits (1978)
Family honor, greed, machismo, homophobia, and dreams collide in a small Mexican town.
Courage (2021)
A story about aging, motherhood and life. About looking back and not understanding how you got to where you are, about wounds so deep that all the...
El baile de San Juan (2010)
It is the final decade of the 18th century in New Spain. We are in Mexico City, inhabited by local adventurers, native inhabitants and Europeans of...
Long live Tepito! (1981)
Slice of life covering four or five days in a badly run-down neighborhood. Matriarch of a slum family dies unexpectedly; relatives from neighboring...
Leftie (2003)
Futuristic movie about Alejandro, a gifted left-handed child marble player who must win a competition as the entire town's hopes - and money - rest...
The Cousin (2018)
A married woman, who's husband leaves her alone way too many times, is seduced by a junior spoiled young man, leading her into the fullfillment of...
Paper Cemetery (2007)
A thriller about four young people who investigate the murder of a woman who worked in the National Archive. They discover that she had stolen...
Family Blood (2013)
Two young people, who knew each other in a previous life, meet again. Alejandro recognizes Yolanda, who is from a strange family that has the...
On the Air (1995)
Alberto is a disc-jockey at a radio station. His life is torn apart by the memories of his ex-wife and his free and careless life in the 60s. Alberto...
Adán Y Eva (Todavía) (2004)
Having partaken in Eden not only of the tree of knowledge, but of the tree of life eternal as well, Adam and Eve became immortal and now find...
Between Pancho Villa and a Naked Woman (1996)
Gina is a modern business woman in her late forties, she has a lover named Adrian, who she sees once in a while just to have sex; they are both...
Such is Life (2000)
After her husband leaves her for a younger woman, Julia plans her revenge with the help of her grandmother.
The Reasons of the Heart (2011)
In a reinterpretation of Madame Bovary set on contemporary Mexico City, Emilia, a middle class housewife, tries to deal with the monotony of her...
Ella(s) (2009)
Documentary about the life of Mercedes Pinto by three women, student, journalist and writer, go in search of another woman: Mercedes Pinto Canarian...
The Walls Talk (2012)
A tragic and epic love that transcends time and generations unites Maria and Javier forever. During important periods in Mexico (The War of...
El águila descalza (1971)
Shmuck makes a superhero costume, rides his bike to crime scenes. He gets involved with something big involving US capitalists taking over local...
The Eve (1982)
Aging politicians who have faded from the public eye hold a cocktail party to celebrate one friend's appointment to the President's Cabinet....
Divine (1998)
"La Nueva Jerusalem" is a small community of believers lead by Papá Basilio and Mamá Dorita. They're waiting for the second coming of...
Y Tu Mamá También (2001)
In Mexico, two teenage boys and an attractive older woman embark on a road trip and learn a thing or two about life, friendship, sex, and each other.
La casa de Bernarda Alba (1982)
A domineering, reclusive and ostentatiously pious widow in a small Spanish town keeps such close watch on her daughters that they are unable to have...
Tear This Heart Out (2008)
A young girl recounts her girlhood and eventual marriage to a general of the Mexican revolution. by one of the most outstanding writers of the new...
Lucky Break (1992)
A bureaucrat gets a house and even a car on credit thanks to the support of a compadre who is a union leader, but then has difficulty paying because...