Movies: Ninón Sevilla

A nightclub performer decides to raise the baby boy she found abandoned in a trash can, putting her job and social life in jeopardy....

Left alone after her mother runs off with another man and her father kills himself, Elena attempts to make a new life for herself in a new city. Believing he's a friend, Elena goes to dinner with "Pretty Boy" Lucio, but he drugs her champagne and sel...

One night in the cabaret, a drug trafficker places drugs in a man's pocket without him noticing....

A saloon singer is released from prison after being convicted on a prostitution charge. She plans to blackmail the judge from her case by seducing him, but after she grows close to the judge she has a change of heart....

Semi-employed street musician butts heads with his wife and grown(ish) children because of his irresponsible lifestyle. Then he lucks into a cushy government job....

A dramatic encounter between passionate love and fraternal love. Two brothers fall in love with the same woman, played by the beautiful dancer Ninón Sevilla, an orphan they rescued during their childhood. Though she loves only one of them, she decide...

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A freed slave, who is descended from a murdered witch, plots revenge with her grandmother on a sugar plantation's inhabitants. Complications ensue due to her love for the master of the estate....

Nightclub dancer comes unglued after killing a man....

Her stepfather rapes her and she runs away to home. After that, she's exploited by a series of men, and......

Prostitution and drug-smuggling in Mexico City and Cd. Juarez....

The struggle between two rival families brings many complications into the life of a people. The priest, with the agreement of the women, get a strike of crossed legs until peace is a fact....

Famous singer hires a pianist/songwriter on the strength of his compositions, then seduces him away from his fiancee and from the paths of righteousness in general....

A group of young people lives in a world of drugs and crime, they wanna be free....

In the port of Havana, two biracial children, Mateo (Ricardo Román) and Caridad (Ninón Sevilla) grow up together. She is the daughter of a white man who died in a shipwreck and of a black laundress of African origin. Over the years, Mateo falls for C...

A 1952 film by Alberto Gout....

Lonelyhearts advisor on a tv show becomes feminist icon and movement-leader....

To pay off her father's debts, Rita leaves her humble fishing village in Yucatan and gets exploited by several men, including a married politician who turns her into a big dancing star....

This film traces the unbelievable true story of the Calderón family, who built grand movie palaces in Mexico and the U.S., employing thousands to produce incomparable, hugely successful, and often reprehensible populist-genre films that were utterly ...

A man steals to buy medicine for his sick mother but when she dies he gets into drug trafficking at a local cabaret....