Lilia Prado
Lilia Prado (March 30, 1928 – May 22, 2006) was a Mexican actress and dancer. After winning a beauty contest she started working in the Mexican cinematographic industry, first as an extra, and later on in leading roles. She starred in over 100 films, being directed by Luis Buñuel in Subida al cielo (Ascent to Heaven), Abismos de pasión (Wuthering Heights), and La ilusión viaja en tranvía (Illusion Travels by Streetcar). In many films she shared scenes with Pedro Infante. She and Silvia Pinal were the only actresses who worked with Buñuel in three films.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.96 |
| Birthday | 1928-03-30 |
| Place of Birth | Michoacan, Mexico |
| Also Known As | Лилия Прадо, |
1958
A Media Luz Los Tres
5.8/4
"Confirmed bachelor" quits playing the field and gets married.
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A Media Luz Los Tres
1954
Wuthering Heights
6.1/31
Gone several years, the brooding Alejandro returns to the hacienda of his foster sister, Catalina, whom he loves, to find her married to the wealthy a...
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Wuthering Heights
1954
Illusion Travels by Streetcar
6.4/40
Confronted with the unfortunate news that their favorite Streetcar, no. 133, is going to be decommissioned, two Municipal Transit workers get drunk an...
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Illusion Travels by Streetcar
1952
Mexican Bus Ride
6.4/29
Newlywed Oliverio receives disturbing news that his mother is on her deathbed. He travels to a remote part of Mexico to fetch a lawyer who can sort ou...
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Mexican Bus Ride
1949
Novia a la medida
5.5/4
Door-to-door salesman falls for a young woman, implements hare-brained schemes to separate her from her fiance.
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Novia a la medida
1951
My General's Wives
6.8/15
The encounter with an old lover puts a revolutionary general in great danger of death.
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My General's Wives
1956
The Hawks
6.7/44
The story of two half brothers who do not know they are such, who fight over a woman and nearly kill each other. One of them belongs to Los Gavilanes,...
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The Hawks
1949
Una gallega en México
5/5
The Galician Candida has a bakery in front of the butcher Robustito, who constantly berates although children of both Aurora and Rodolfo are in love....
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Una gallega en México
1960
Dos Maridos baratos
5/2
Two showgirls need to find husbands in order to collect an inheritance.
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Dos Maridos baratos
1989
Dos tipas de cuidado
4.8/6
Gold-digger conspires with gal-pal to snag herself a rich husband.
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Dos tipas de cuidado
1962
Little Town
6/4
Reactionary local "Big Daddy" tries to prevent a school being built in his district.
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Little Town
1962
Cuanto vale tu hijo
5/2
Family life in a squatter's-rights neighborhood on the outskirts of Mexico City.
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Cuanto vale tu hijo
1948
Tongolele Has Been Killed
5.8/4
Murder mystery set in a night-club; who killed the star performer?
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Tongolele Has Been Killed
1948
Dueña y señora
6/4
After his wife dies, the master of the house can... maybe... acknowledge that he had children with the houseekeeper. But will he?
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Dueña y señora
1962
Asesinos de la lucha libre
5/5
Cowboy sheriff investigates the murder of a crooked lucha-libre promoter.
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Asesinos de la lucha libre
1960
Vuelta al paraíso
5.2/4
All men who arrive on a small island fall in love with the daughters of an old fisherman who live there.
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Vuelta al paraíso
1951
The Poulterer Hawk
7.925/60
Two bumpkins in the big city fight over the same girl, until they realize that she's playing them against each other.
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The Poulterer Hawk
1949
Arriba el norte
5.3/3
Husband and wife are reunited after a twenty-year misunderstanding; their grown daughter has her eye on a fella.
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Arriba el norte
1950
El desalmado
5/5
Fictional biography of a career criminal.
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El desalmado
1979
Ratero
5.5/4
Solovino is called like that because no one knows where he came from. He is a miserable province man trying to improve his life, but sees himself forc...
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Ratero
1962
El malvado Carabel
5/2
Frustrated salaryman responds to career setbacks by embarking on a life of crime.
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El malvado Carabel
1988
La Puerta Negra
4.4/6
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La Puerta Negra
1950
Pata de palo
5.3/3
Boy witnesses a murder, killer terrorizes and exploits him.
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Pata de palo
1951
Crimen y castigo
5/5
Adaptation of Dostoyevsky's novel about a student who plans a conceptual murder and then butts heads with a police detective.
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Crimen y castigo
1965
Los cuervos están de luto
6/7
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 o...
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Los cuervos están de luto
1959
Kermesse
5/2
Four young couples cement their primary relationships during the town fair.
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Kermesse
1951
Heart of beast
5.3/3
Wanted criminal has plastic surgery, starts new life in a distant town. Old habits die hard.
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Heart of beast
1960
Dicen que soy hombre malo
5/3
Mistaken identities, courtship woes, invalidated marriages, and sombreros de charro.
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Dicen que soy hombre malo
1950
Love Pays for Love
5/4
Pre-Revolutionary setting; class conflicts and a romance across class-boundaries.
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Love Pays for Love
1961
El analfabeto
7.662/99
Inocencio Prieto y Calvo receives a letter telling him he is the heir to his uncle's fortune of two million pesos. Not being able to read he has no id...
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El analfabeto
1959
I'm flying low
5.7/3
Two hot-shot pilots working for the same company get all competitive and ructious toward each other.
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I'm flying low
1952
Las interesadas
5/3
Three young women sharing an apartment take in a man they injured in a car accident; while he's recovering, they also make friends with a homeless man...
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Las interesadas
1962
El asesino enmascarado
5.3/3
Hero vs bad-guy western.
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El asesino enmascarado
1956
Talpa
5.6/5
Produced on a grand scale, the Mexican Talpa relates the simple story of two brothers. The older of the siblings, Tanilo (Victor Manuel Mendoza) is a...
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Talpa
1965
Audaz y bravero
4.7/3
Two ranchers competing over a woman. Cult actor Noe Murayama plays a mentally handicapped character.
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Audaz y bravero
1969
Duelo en El Dorado
5/4
Saloon-owner's a hard guy and none too law-abiding; his twelve year old son comes to live with him and he starts changing his ways... but his past is...
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Duelo en El Dorado
1976
La India
5/7
Boy is traumatized from watching his sex-worker mother with her clients; he grows up with a particular grudge against that one guy that used to come t...
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La India
1980
El cara parchada
5/2
Evil guy gratifies his ambitions and desires at any cost, and he prospers nicely. Until he doesn't.
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El cara parchada
1959
Sand kisses
5/2
Romantic rivalries and violence on a tropical island.
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Sand kisses
1958
Ladrones de niños
5.5/4
Kidnapping band has a system set up to transport infants and older children to black-market adoptive parents in the USA.
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Ladrones de niños
1986
The Promised Land?
5/5
Farm's not producing, and a rural family feel like they've exhausted their options, so they move to Mexico City.
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The Promised Land?
1961
Senda prohibida
5.5/4
The story of Nora, a poor but ambitious young woman, who uses her beauty to seduce a rich and married lawyer.
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Senda prohibida
1984
Emanuelo
4.2/5
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Emanuelo
1959
El que con niños se acuesta...
5.3/3
Chón is rejected by his girlfriend Rosario's parents, so they both escape to the capital in search of his friend Manny, a millionaire philanthropist,...
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El que con niños se acuesta...
1952
Rumba caliente
6/4
Stage-hand and a concession-girl try to break into showbiz.
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Rumba caliente
1975
México de noche
5/5
Two street gangs vie for primacy, which will give them control of drug smuggling and stolen jewelry.
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México de noche
1948
El reino de los gángsters
5/2
Johnny Carmenta is a gunman who heads a gang of gangsters. Carmenta secretly acts as a kind of El Zorro, helping the unprotected.
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El reino de los gángsters
1953
Cuarto de hotel
5.3/3
Newlywed couple move from small town to Mexico City. Their first night in the city, they get separated by accident, and it takes them 90 minutes and l...
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Cuarto de hotel
1952
Tío de mi vida
5/2
Hard-partying college student wants his parents to think he's a serious and respectable young man, so Uncle Felipe pays all his bills and takes the bl...
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Tío de mi vida
1986
Lovers of the Lord of the Night
4.4/7
Venusita falls in love with the son of a wealthy family whose mother sends her son off to the United States in order to keep the two apart. Not to be...
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Lovers of the Lord of the Night
1949
Confidencias de un ruletero
6.3/7
Taxi driver takes the wrong passenger at the wrong time and gets caught up in a murder investigation.
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Confidencias de un ruletero
1972
El rincón de las vírgenes
5.4/17
"Faith-healer" develops a cult-like following in 1920s Jalisco.
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El rincón de las vírgenes
1957
La locura del rock and roll
5/4
Two rival colleges prepare for a Battle Of The Bands. Also malt-shoppes and football games.
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La locura del rock and roll
1962
El rey de la pistola
5/3
Western heist movie; a complicated bank job goes bad, and two groups of thieves fight the sheriff and each other.
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El rey de la pistola
1955
La vida no vale nada
8.167/45
Pablo, a wandering laborer, has imprisoned himself in a hell of alcoholism. Cruz, a widow, reaches out to the troubled man, but even her compassion ma...
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La vida no vale nada
1950
Cuando acaba la noche
5/2
Newspaper reporter interests himself in contesting a manslaughter verdict on behalf of the son of a woman who saves his life.
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Cuando acaba la noche
1966
La vida de Pedro Infante
4.7/6
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La vida de Pedro Infante
1955
Después de la tormenta
5.3/3
This Mexican melodrama may have been released above the border as After the Storm. The principal characters are a pair of twin lighthouse keepers. The...
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Después de la tormenta
1948
Nocturno de amor
5.6/4
Venice Film Festival 1948
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Nocturno de amor
1981
Oficio de tinieblas
4.8/5
"Occupation of Darkness" - Set in 1934, and meant to dramatize social injustices, this melodrama examines an official's attempt at land reform. The la...
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Oficio de tinieblas
1987
Cinco nacos asaltan Las Vegas
6.1/13
Five friends decide to go to Las Vegas to get money and one of them thinks of robbing a casino.
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Cinco nacos asaltan Las Vegas
1949
Perez Family
6.786/14
Gumaro Pérez must fulfill all the whims of his wife, who is sworn lady of society even though the Pérez are not a wealthy family. In order not to look...
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Perez Family
1958
Horas de agonía
5/4
Nubile young woman seems to be quite free with her affections... but she has a deep, dark secret. Deep. Dark.
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Horas de agonía
1987
Más Buenas que el Pan
5/2
After winning a bet, Lalo goes on vacation with his two daughters and his best friend, they will try to keep Lalo's daughters away from perverted boys...
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Más Buenas que el Pan
1981
Mojado de nacimiento
5.75/7
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Mojado de nacimiento
1950
Pobre corazón
5/4
Woman discovers she's dying of an incurable illness, so she tries to make her husband hate her; dumping her on moving on would be better for him than...
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Pobre corazón
1949
Un milagro de amor
5.3/3
Young man goes to Mexico City in search of opportunity and gets framed for another person's embezzlement at their place of employ. Meanwhile, back hom...
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Un milagro de amor
1984
Adiós Lagunilla, adiós
6.2/13
Middle-aged couple's adult children decide to emigrate to USA. Third movie in trilogy.
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Adiós Lagunilla, adiós
1974
Los valientes de Guerrero
5/2
Weaselly bad guy wants to get in good with a woman he's hot for, so he frames the hero for a murder and then organizes a lynch mob against him... all...
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Los valientes de Guerrero
1948
Tania, the Beautiful Wild Girl
5.7/3
Rolando, a millionare, travels to a remote island and meets the young and tough Tania, a local woman with great dancing skills. He falls in love with...
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Tania, the Beautiful Wild Girl
1950
Si fuera una cualquiera
5/2
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Si fuera una cualquiera
1949
Cita con la muerte
5/2
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Cita con la muerte
1948
Tarzan and the Mermaids
6/54
A high priest tries to force a young beauty to marry a pearl trader who is masquerading as the god Balu.
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Tarzan and the Mermaids
1987
Arriba Michoacán
5/3
The two largest ranches in a small town are operated entirely by women, because their menfolk have all emigrated. Seceral of the younger women have bo...
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Arriba Michoacán
1971
The Castaway on the Street of Providence
6/1
Friends of Luis Buñuel discuss the director while Buñuel mixes drinks and entertains friends in his home.
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The Castaway on the Street of Providence
1981
Mi nombre es Sergio, soy alcohólico
5/2
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Mi nombre es Sergio, soy alcohólico
1952
Traigo mi 45
5/2
Mexican feature film
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Traigo mi 45
1979
El fuego de mi ahijada
5/2
Young Raúl looks for his ex-girlfriend Alicia to resume their relationship, but she responds that she doesn't love him anymore. The young woman lives...
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El fuego de mi ahijada
1972
El medio pelo
5.5/4
A woman who fancies herself an aristocrat rejects a potential suitor because he's not of her class. Also: their adult children have their own drama, a...
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El medio pelo
1974
Faith, Hope and Charity
5.9/12
Three episodes. Faith: a woman is attacked. Hope: a fakir is crucified. Charity: a woman faces bureaucracy.
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Faith, Hope and Charity
1970
The Useless Life of Pito Pérez
5.6/5
A man goes on a trip and then returns to his village pretending that everything went well for him.
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The Useless Life of Pito Pérez
1991
Hembras De Tierra Caliente
5/2
A small rural town projects all of their real and perceived sins and transgressions on the town's "sexy" girl.
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Hembras De Tierra Caliente
1959
Mis secretarias privadas
5/2
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