María Félix
María de los Ángeles Félix Güereña (8 April 1914 – 8 April 2002) was a Mexican film actress. She is considered one of the most important female figures of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema. She was also considered one of the most beautiful film actresses of her time, and one of the greatest erotic myths of Spanish-language cinema. Along withPedro Armendáriz and Dolores del Río, she is one of the most important figures of Latin American cinema of the 1940s and 1950s. She is known by the nickname La Doña a name derived from her character in the film Doña Bárbara (1943). She is also known as María Bonita, thanks to the anthem composed exclusively for her, as a wedding gift by the composer Agustín Lara. She completed a film career that included 47 films made in Mexico, Spain, France, Italy and Argentina.
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 2.17 |
Birthday | 1914-04-08 |
Place of Birth | Alamos, Sonora, Mexico |
Also Known As | María Bonita, La Doña, Мария Феликс, |
1958
El cine mexicano de fiesta
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María: La Diva Eterna
7/6
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María: La Diva Eterna
1959
Fever Mounts at El Pao
5.9/28
Aroused citizens assassinate an unpopular Caribbean despot, then two men vie for his gorgeous widow Ines. Ojeda is a steamy, isolated island, the pena...
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Fever Mounts at El Pao
1954
The Abduction
4.6/7
In a small Mexican village the news shock neighbors, Ricardo Alfaro, a wealthy local rancher has disappeared without a trace. Taking advantage of the...
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The Abduction
1963
La Bandida
4.6/7
During a lull in the Mexican Revolution when Francisco Madero became president and attempted to implement land reforms, two former revolutionaries are...
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La Bandida
1959
La Cucaracha
6.1/12
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 soldi...
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La Cucaracha
1957
Tizoc
7.324/37
An Indian arouses envy for his expertise in hunting animals without ruining their skins, for his wisdom and his kindness.
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Tizoc
1943
María Eugenia
5.5/4
Before marrying María Eugenia, landowner Carlos are away to visit her godmother to break the promise to marry his daughter. The godmother is dying, Ca...
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María Eugenia
1959
Sonatas
4.6/8
In the fall of 1824 Javier Montenegro, Bradomin Marquis is spared death hanging by Captain Casares, and in return, the Marquis agrees to help him esc...
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Sonatas
1950
La noche del sábado
5.3/3
In Rome, a beautiful young model named Donina is hired by a sculptor, Leonardo, inspired her to do a statue he hopes will be his masterpiece. The stri...
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La noche del sábado
1946
Enamorada
7.7/55
In Mexican Revolution times, a guerrilla general and his troops take the conservative town of Cholula, near by Mexico City. As the revolutionaries mis...
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Enamorada
1943
Doña Bárbara
7.1/37
A woman hardened by her past now runs a ranch she acquired through manipulation and bribery.
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Doña Bárbara
1948
Río escondido
5.9/10
Called by the Mexican President himself, a rural teacher goes to work in a village that is dominated by a malevolent chieftain.
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Río escondido
1947
The Kneeling Goddess
6.6/23
Businessman Antonio is carrying on an affair with Raquel, who wants him to divorce his wife Elena. He purchases for Elena as an anniversary gift a sta...
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The Kneeling Goddess
1943
The Spirit's Canyon
5.8/9
The love between María Ángela and Fernando is impossible because there's an ancient history of hate between their families. His father killed hers, an...
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The Spirit's Canyon
1957
Faustina
5.7/6
A conquering woman of love, power, and fame is challenged by the devil, as he too wants to conquer all. Even the devil learns that there is no wrath l...
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Faustina
1948
Maclovia
6.5/10
On a small Mexican island dwells a group of Indians who live in the traditional manner and who disdain outsiders. The beautiful Maclovia and the pover...
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Maclovia
1945
The White Monk
5.7/3
In an Italian monastery during the XIII century, a white image appears sculpted by Fray Paracleto humble mystically and sew clothes. Besides a mysteri...
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The White Monk
1951
Black Crown
5.2/8
A woman suffers from amnesia after killing her husband, who was just about to demand a divorce for having found her engaging in an affair with a lover...
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Black Crown
1956
Basket of Mexican Tales
6.8/6
Strong-willed Luisa attracts lots of men, but her intelligence and sharp tongue often sends them running. When she meets Carlos, who is equally cagey,...
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1946
La Devoradora
6.2/8
After her lover commits suicide, Diana involves her fiancé and his nephew in a scheme to help her disappear with the corpse.
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La Devoradora
1948
May God Forgive Me
5.6/5
Lena, a beautiful and mysteriously sinister refugee haunted by her past, is chased into the arms of a rich, unsuspecting industrialist not for love, b...
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May God Forgive Me
1944
Amok
6.2/5
After being caught embezzling from his clinic to impress his high society lover and support his gambling habit, a doctor flees to a remote Indian vill...
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Amok
1955
Heroes and Sinners
8.3/6
A good cast smooths over the rough spots of Les Heros sont Fatigues. The scene is the African republic of Liberia, which in this film proves to be a s...
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Heroes and Sinners
1946
Every Man’s Woman
5.7/6
A beautiful woman of affairs falls in love with a handsome young man of great promise. Fearing for his future, the man's father begs her to leave his...
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Every Man’s Woman
1949
An Ordinary Woman
5.3/6
A woman who has walked out of an unhappy marriage is unsuccessful trying to earn herself a new living and gets mixed with a man who is a murderer and...
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An Ordinary Woman
1953
Reportaje
6.9/11
Reporters compete for cash prize awarded for biggest scoop on New Year's Eve.
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Reportaje
1954
Camelia
5/4
A sort of meta riff on Alexandre Dumas fils' novel The Lady of the Camellias (La Dame aux Camélias or Camille) here in Mexican melodrama form involvin...
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Camelia
1962
Si yo fuera millonario
4.5/4
White-collar criminals conspire to prevent a shmuck from collecting an inheritance.
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Si yo fuera millonario
1944
Woman Without a Soul
5.5/4
Ambitious young woman climbs the social ladder. A bit too fast.
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Woman Without a Soul
1944
La monja alférez
5.7/6
A 17th century woman, imprisoned for fighting in a bar, recounts her past to a priest. She tells of her father teaching her how to fence, of being sen...
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La monja alférez
1964
Love & Sex (Sappho 1963)
5.5/12
Independently-wealthy woman tries to break free of repressive, conservative cultural constraints.
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1966
La Valentina
5.5/4
A smuggler, condemned to be shot, is pardoned in exchange for kidnapping "La Valentina."
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La Valentina
1959
Café Colón
5/3
Expensively-kept woman unexpectedly falls for a Zapatista general. She sells her jewels to help finance the revolution and ends up fighting on the fro...
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1960
La estrella vacía
5.8/4
Mourners share their memories of a dead film-star at her wake, a la Citizen Kane. Only melodrama.
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La estrella vacía
1955
French Cancan
7.1/87
Nineteenth-century Paris comes vibrantly alive in Jean Renoir’s exhilarating tale of the opening of the world-renowned Moulin Rouge. Jean Gabin plays...
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French Cancan
1945
Vertigo
6.9/7
Young woman's fiance unexpectedly falls in love with her mom, and ends up arranging the young woman's death.
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Vertigo
1950
The Devil Is a Woman
7.1/19
A woman, after committing a murder, flees into a church, confessing her life story to a priest.
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The Devil Is a Woman
1971
La Generala
5.4/10
During the Mexican Revolution, a hardened and rich lady landowner is overtaken by the violence of the times. Losing her land and house, she falls in l...
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La Generala
1948
Mare nostrum
5.7/3
The Spanish merchant "Mare Nostrum", captained by Ulises Ferragut, docked in September 1939 at the port of Naples to repair a breakdown. Walking throu...
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Mare nostrum
1954
The Beautiful Otero
2/1
An Italo-French biopic about one of the most famous women of Belle Époque, Spanish-born dancer and actress, star of Folies-Bèrgere: Carolina Otero.
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The Beautiful Otero
1956
The Hidden One
4.9/8
Amid the Mexican Revolution, a woman rises from the depths of poverty and becomes a courtesan who is much-sought-after by high-society men, but she ca...
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The Hidden One
1951
The Affairs of Messalina
4/4
A story, set in Rome of 44 A.D., concerning the amorous and political intrigues of the evil Empress Messalina, the wife of the Roman Emperor Claudius,...
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The Affairs of Messalina
1961
Juana Gallo
6.5/12
Peasant woman leads a regiment during the final days of the Mexican Revolution. Also, romantic entanglements.
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1951
Incantesimo tragico
5/3
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1959
Beyond All Limits
5.2/6
This typical Mexican melodrama is set in a coastal fishing village where a wealthy fisherman lives with his wife and young son. Their lives are turned...
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Beyond All Limits
2008
Il falso bugiardo
0/0
Based upon Vincenzoni's biography, "Pane e cinema", the documentary traces the story of the screen play writer who invented many stories that became b...
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Il falso bugiardo
2017
Quand Jean devint Renoir
10/1
The fascinating story of a man destined to be only a son of and who sought all his life to become "someone" by getting rid of the overwhelming image o...
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2001
Inasible María Félix
8.5/8
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Inasible María Félix
1953
Naked Passion
5.2/5
A woman who works doing chores in the convent where her paralyzed daughter, that believes that is dead, and falls in love of a doctor.
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Naked Passion
1958
Ash Wednesday
4.8/6
1913: A young woman is raped by a priest and turns away from the Church as a result of the experience. 1924: She now is the owner of an expensive bro...
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