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Matilde Soto Landeta (September 20, 1910 – January 26, 1999) was a Mexican filmmaker and screenwriter, the first female to serve in those roles during the Golden Age of Mexican cinema. Her films focused on the portrayal of strong, realistic female protagonists in a patriarchal world.
Total trailers found: 16
18 November 1943
The disaffected wife of a failed civil servant, is thrilled to re-encounter Octavio, a former lover who is now a union activist on the run from a corrupt politician.
14 March 1956
The story focuses in on three young boys who, arrested by the authorities, await sentencing in Mexico City's Juvenile Court.
25 May 1949
Sonora Mexico, 1880s: Seri Indian tribe splits into two factions after a white woman comes to live in their settlement.
04 May 1938
When three orphans that were raised together and love like brothers knows about plans to be separated and work outside, they escape and live in the street.
04 December 1992
A tragic romance follows Mexican poet Manuel Acuña's passionate life and his deep love for Rosario de la Peña, a woman favored by Emperor Maximilian's court, leading to heartbreak in 19th century Mexico.
06 January 1992
A woman, an illusion. Matilde Landeta makes come true, at her seventy six years of age, what she has waited and longed for for 40 years.
30 March 1944
A magician suspected of having killed a colleague is arrested by the police, but his assistant helps him escape.
24 April 1943
The film features Fernandez himself as a character named Rogellio Torres. The lion's share of the footage, however, is devoted to the romance between Esperanza, granddaughter of a common laborer, and Jose Luis Castro, the firebrand son of a landowner.
20 January 1944
A young journalist asks an old artist about the portrait of a naked Indian woman that he has in his study.
10 June 1944
This is the story of a convict fellow whose brother is a bright scientist that discovers a vaccine against a deadly infection.
22 June 1951
In Mexico City, two sisters live radically different lives: Maria, who—along with her supportive group of fellow sex workers—must deal with unscrupulous, abusive clients and her exploitative pimp, Rudy, and Elena, a society woman trapped in a marriage of convenience, who falls prey to Rudy’s fortune-seeking seduction.
19 January 1950
When her father dies, a young Afro-Mexican woman joins the Revolution, the way he was planning to do, and becomes the leader of a Zapatista battalion.
24 January 1946
A rootless wilderness-dude in the Venezuelan outback gets caught up in some human dramas despite himself.
13 July 1935
The Dressel family owns a prosperous hardware store in the city. The business is managed by Mrs. Dressel, a strict widow who has two sons: Federico and Rodolfo.
01 January 1990
Matilde Landeta entered the flourishing Mexican film industry in the 1930s, working her way up from script girl to direct 110 shorts and, in the late 40s, to produce and direct three features, including LA NEGRA ANGUSTIAS.
