Blanca Guerra
Blanca Guerra Islas (born January 10, 1953) is a Mexican actress. In 1983 she was a member of the jury at the 13th Moscow International Film Festival.
Initially she was a dentistry student, but she abandoned her studies to study at the UNAM University Theater Center, which allowed her to debut as a theater actress. Later, she ventured into the cinema acting in the film La loca de los milagros, which marks her artistic debut and the beginning of her extensive film career. She has to his credit more than sixty films.
In 2018 the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences invited her to be a special part of its new members.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.9414 |
| Birthday | 1953-01-10 |
| Place of Birth | Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico |
| Also Known As |
2007
Charm School
6.9/148
Defiant 18-year-old Adela León pushes her father and an unbending headmistress to the limit in this delicious comedy.
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Charm School
1995
Mystery of the Maya
4.625/12
Filmed in IMAX, a young Mayan boy who lives close to the ruins becomes acquainted with an archaeologist (Guerra) and asks her to tell him about his an...
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Mystery of the Maya
2008
Insignificant Things
5.4/16
Esmeralda is a teenager with an unusual obsession: she collects lost, forgotten or discarded objects from people she doesn't know and keeps them in a...
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Insignificant Things
1992
Mantis religiosa
7/1
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Mantis religiosa
2023
¿Cómo matar a mamá?
7.2/19
After learning an irreversible truth, Camila, Teté and Margo must abandon their busy lives to come up with a plan to end their mother's life.
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¿Cómo matar a mamá?
1980
Memorias de un Visitador Médico
5.1/10
A pharmaceutical salesman travels around the country and has sexual adventures in every place, but no woman really interests him. When returning from...
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Memorias de un Visitador Médico
2008
Kada kien su karma
4.2/4
Every abandoned woman has dreamed of taking revenge on her husband. Fate gives Eva that possibility. On the first anniversary of running away to find...
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Kada kien su karma
1994
Clear and Present Danger
6.641/1663
Agent Jack Ryan becomes acting Deputy Director of Intelligence for the CIA when Admiral Greer is diagnosed with cancer. When an American businessman,...
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Clear and Present Danger
1986
Separate Vacations
4.385/13
A young architect finds himself in a situation that he never had to deal with before--now that he is successful (and married), sexy young women are th...
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Separate Vacations
2023
Bendita Suegra
8.2/53
Andrea, a successful veterinarian who loves her job and is in a relationship with Lucio, an up-and-coming lawyer who grew up in the country. Lucio has...
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Bendita Suegra
2023
Where the Tracks End
8/116
Georgina is a teacher determined to make a difference in the lives of the children she educates in the classroom of a wagon school in rural Mexico.
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Where the Tracks End
1989
Santa Sangre
7.161/496
A former circus artist escapes from a mental hospital to rejoin his armless, cult leader mother, and is forced to enact brutal murders in her name.
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Santa Sangre
1982
The Flying Pony
5.444/9
Mythical and fantastic story on the wishes of a peasant boy, Diego, who become reality in the course of a day and a night. On the eve of his birthday,...
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The Flying Pony
1994
The Queen of the Night
5/13
The legendary life of Mexican singer Lucha Reyes is the basis of this fictionalized biography ( or as director Arturo Ripstein puts it "an imaginary b...
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The Queen of the Night
2008
Under the Salt
6.21/31
A series of murders leads Commander Trujillo to Santa Rosa de la Sal a town close to a salt mine, where he meets Victor Zepeda - a lonely teenager who...
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Under the Salt
1986
What Do You Think?
5.25/12
A gritty musical drama about life in the ghettos of Mexico City during the 1980s. With a soundtrack of Mexican rock music, the camera takes the viewer...
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What Do You Think?
1987
Persecución en Las Vegas: 'Volvere'
6.333/3
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Persecución en Las Vegas: 'Volvere'
1984
Knock Out
6.833/9
Rodrigo Zaracho, once a promising boxer, is in decline. While fleeing from a gang that is chasing him, he remembers his past.
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Knock Out
1981
La cripta
6/4
A patient is released from a mental hospital to help the police find a student who disappeared a few days ago.
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La cripta
1984
Motel
5.111/9
The discovery of the mutilated body of a wealthy woman leads a detective to an isolated motel.
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Motel
1979
Estas ruinas que ves
4.2/10
In this sexy romantic comedy from Mexico, the life of a college professor is turned upside down when he falls for a former student, who is already ple...
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Estas ruinas que ves
2007
The Zone
6.3/121
Residents of an enclosed neighborhood in the middle of Mexico DF are shocked by a violent crime, and for one resident in particular, young Alejandro,...
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The Zone
1986
The Realm of Fortune
5.477/22
Poor Dionisio finds himself as recipient of the good fortune, but soon he forgets that everything that goes up also has to go down, and that in the de...
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The Realm of Fortune
1996
Sabor latino
4.4/5
An officer (Francis Lorenzo) from Madrid keeps a general's daughter (Patricia Vico) in the dark about his love affair with a Central American guerrill...
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Sabor latino
1981
Como México no hay dos
7.387/31
Rags-to-riches story about the rise of a fictional ranchera-music superstar.
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Como México no hay dos
1980
Perro callejero
7.857/56
An abandoned child steals to survive and has problems when he decides to steal from the priest who helps him.
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Perro callejero
1981
Perro callejero 2
7.303/38
After serving his three-year sentence, Perro, who was only visited by Father Maromas, returns to his old environment. There, Chava recruits him back i...
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Perro callejero 2
1982
Juan Charrasqueado y Gabino Barrera
7.386/22
Revolution-era Mexico: two well-known bandits hook up, then join forces with an outlaw woman.
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Juan Charrasqueado y Gabino Barrera
1983
El Sinvergüenza
7.816/49
Married man hires a surrogate to pose as the father of the four children he has had with his mistress.
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El Sinvergüenza
1982
Burdel
5.167/6
(AKA: Ratero 2 or Cada quien su madre.) Innocent man forced to hide from the police, ends up taking refuge in a brothel.
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Burdel
2022
Mambo Dreams
6.9/11
Dámaso Pérez Prado, known as "el rey del mambo", came back from the dead to look for the love of his life.
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Mambo Dreams
1983
Una pura y dos con sal
6.625/8
Young woman engineers a reconciliation between her long-estranged parents.
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Una pura y dos con sal
1981
Mojado Power
4.8/5
An undocumented man becomes the leader of a movement that defends the working conditions of migrants in the United States.
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Mojado Power
2000
His Most Serene Highness
6.429/7
This historical drama depicts the waning days of the life of Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, who waged a war against the United States that ultimately co...
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His Most Serene Highness
1999
Under a Spell
6.864/22
In the Yucatan coast of the thirties , Elisha, a boy of 13, is initiated into the art of love by Felipa , his schoolteacher. After discovering the rel...
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Under a Spell
1999
In the Shadow of the Moon
5.8/5
Ana starts falling in love with an ecologist engineer that comes with her father who is from Russia.
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In the Shadow of the Moon
1979
En la trampa
6.5/8
Oscar Cardenas is a free young man who dreams of being a racer. One day he is trapped by Isabel Salas, a young secretary, who while finds a husband, s...
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En la trampa
2024
Switched Up
7.8/15
It follows an unconventional family who find themselves embroiled in a personality swap after little Zoe has a mystical encounter with an ancient god....
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Switched Up
1980
Coyote and Bronca
7.125/48
A murder forces Juan "El Coyote" and Trinidad "La Bronca" to escape from a life of easy money and prostitution and become a real couple.
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Coyote and Bronca
1984
El billetero
5.667/3
A poor family hits the lottery.
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El billetero
1985
Sinverguenza pero honrado
6.6/5
Man and woman get married, they adapt to living together and he adapts to living with her four children.
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Sinverguenza pero honrado
1983
Chile Picante
4.7/10
A woman uses her husband's money to open a beauty parlor/spa... so she'll have a place to meet with her lover.
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Chile Picante
1983
Dos de abajo
4.714/7
Two bozo construction workers discover a cache of 19th century gold coins while demolishing a building.
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Dos de abajo
1986
El cafre
6.889/9
Trucker accepts an assignment to haul an extremely dangerous load of explosives from Tijuana to Mexico City.
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El cafre
1985
La revancha
5.75/4
Industrial spies are holed up in a safe-house after killing a half-dozen people to steal some data. On their way to the private airfield where their h...
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La revancha
1977
The Mongol Plot
4.875/8
In the context of a visit by the President of the United States to Mexico, there is a threat that China will attack his life. Policeman Filiberto is c...
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The Mongol Plot
1984
¡Mamá, soy Paquito!
7.982/28
Paquito lives with his mother in poverty. When she dies, he looks for his father's love, who is a very wealthy man.
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¡Mamá, soy Paquito!
1982
Viva México y sus corridos
5.4/5
Song/action clips from 8 or 12 movies that starred Antonio Aguilar as historical figures, with an onscreen narrator who splains things.
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Viva México y sus corridos
1989
Cabalgando con la muerte
6.25/4
Wandering gunslinger trains peaceable farmers to defend themselves for an impending range war.
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Cabalgando con la muerte
1982
Robbers Of The Sacred Mountain
6.75/8
An archaeologist travels to Mexico to investigate rumors of the discovery of the ancient statue of a fertility goddess.
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Robbers Of The Sacred Mountain
1984
La segua
6.5/4
Encarnacion is a beautiful villager and Petronila is her jealous, evil nemesis. When Petronila's love interest, a fetching young Spanish lieutenant, s...
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La segua
2011
Forget Everything You Have Ever Seen: The World of Santa Sangre
7/1
After his dream project DUNE fell apart, visionary filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky took a break from cinema, only to return over a decade later with hi...
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Forget Everything You Have Ever Seen: The World of Santa Sangre
1981
The Seven Cucas
6.333/27
A worker's wife and six pretty daughters are desired by all the men in their little town, so he decides to move his family elsewhere.
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The Seven Cucas
1987
Walker
6.39/86
William Walker and his mercenary corps enter Nicaragua in the middle of the 19th century in order to install a new government by a coup d'etat.
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Walker
1987
Zapata en Chinameca
6.6/5
Urbino Martínez, on his deathbed, regrets his wrongdoing after betraying Emiliano Zapata.
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Zapata en Chinameca
2003
Mientras me muero
10/1
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Mientras me muero
1978
Pedro Páramo, el hombre de la Media Luna
5.909/11
Juan Preciado, son of Pedro Páramo, goes to Comala to claim his inheritance; but when he arrives he finds an abandoned and sinister town, inhabited by...
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Pedro Páramo, el hombre de la Media Luna
1993
In The MIddle of Nowhere
5.667/3
A retired union leader runs a restaurant by the highway with the help of his wife and his young son. One day a wounded criminal, his lover and his bro...
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In The MIddle of Nowhere
1982
Red Bells Part I: Mexico in Flames
4.2/15
American journalist John Reed travels to Mexico during the Mexican Revolution and interviews Francisco Villa. At the same time, we learn about his rel...
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Red Bells Part I: Mexico in Flames
1987
Conexión Criminal
5.6/5
Two secret police officers fight against drug dealers and a sadistic criminal who executes the mafia's enemies.
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Conexión Criminal
2007
My Mexican Shivah
6.556/9
After Moishe's death, family and friends sit Shiva in Mexico City. During seven days, secrets will be disclosed.
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My Mexican Shivah
1992
Sonata de luna
6/5
A high-strung love triangle of mystery and suspense arises between Julia, a beautiful and ambitious woman who, helped by Raúl, her lover, kill her hus...
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Sonata de luna
1983
Erendira
6.111/18
While Erendira, a beautiful teenage girl, has a surreal mystical vision, her grandmother's house catches on fire and burns to the ground. Her grandmot...
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Erendira
1988
Difficult Days
6.4/5
Two shareholder brothers close several factories due to economic problems, except for their chemical plants.
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Difficult Days
1993
Kino: The Legend of the Black Priest
3.5/4
Propped up on his deathbed, a 17th century Spanish missionary named Father Kino (Enrique Rocha) looks back on his remarkable life and relives one of h...
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Kino: The Legend of the Black Priest
1985
Oro blanco, droga maldita
5/6
Cocaine industry in the Colombian outback.
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Oro blanco, droga maldita
1986
Orinoco
5.5/4
Two ditzy dance-hall girls are stranded on a tugboat floating down the big river after a night when all the crew kill each other in an unexplained fre...
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Orinoco
1991
Danzón
6.583/30
A telephone operator from Mexico City tries to support a family and her passion for popular dance.
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Danzón
1994
The Beginning and the End
7.375/16
The film tells the story of the Boteros, a middle-class Mexican family struggling against poverty after their father's death. Ignacia (Egurrola) is th...
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The Beginning and the End
1982
Valentín Lazaña
5/4
Parody of the Zorro-styled "noble bandit" story.
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Valentín Lazaña
1996
Salón México
5.722/9
In this remake of the 40's classic, two lovers murder each other, leading to an investigation and the closing of the Saln Mxico, a famous place where...
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Salón México
2020
Deadly Embroidered Memories
5/2
A woman with a degree in biology and a particular taste for arachnids gets involved with some unfinished business left by her dead mother, leading her...
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Deadly Embroidered Memories
1987
El juego de la muerte
6/4
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El juego de la muerte
1990
Dying in the Gulf
6.8/5
The story of the oil leader Lázaro Pizarro, of his political and personal wars, the use of crime to settle conflicts and the course of his power betwe...
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Dying in the Gulf
1988
Cacería implacable
6.667/3
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Cacería implacable
2011
La Revolución De Juan Escopeta
6.6/7
Mexico 1914. During the Revolution, a raid by the army in a small mining town leaves Gapo, 11, orphaned. Taken captive to be turned into a child soldi...
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La Revolución De Juan Escopeta
1982
Aquel famoso Remington
6.2/5
Historical drama about the career of a hit-man who specialized in political assassinations in Mexico in the 1920s-30s.
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Aquel famoso Remington
1983
La fuga de Carrasco
6.667/3
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La fuga de Carrasco
2017
One Hundred Years with Juan Rulfo
0/0
This documentary explores key moments in the life of writer Juan Rulfo, with artists such as Werner Herzog and Eduardo Galeano reflecting on his work.
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One Hundred Years with Juan Rulfo
1992
Secuestro a Mano Armada
6.333/3
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Secuestro a Mano Armada
1997
Violeta
6/3
Violeta is a Cuban prostitute who tells her tempestuous life story to a young male journalist. Her first lover was a revolutionary killed by governmen...
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Violeta
2025
Looking Through Water
5.889/9
William McKay’s successful New York executive career is in ruins after a shocking betrayal. Called by his estranged father, William travels to Belize...
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