Aurora Martínez
Aurora Martinez is the perfect example of an empowered woman who managed to create a name for herself from her career as a director. Martínez’s films are produced almost exclusively in Mexico, with dialogue in Spanish and marketed to the Latin American population. Although her productions receive virtually no theatrical release in the United States, they can be found in many U.S. video outlets, both in VHS and DVD format. Martínez’s movies are generally in the action genre, concentrating on such staple themes as feuds between drug traffickers, illegal trade in human organs, and police investigations, and thus they are not of a kind that normally attracts the attention of foreign film critics. The two facts aforesaid likely explain why she is virtually unknown in the English-speaking world, despite her highly prolific output. Martínez appears on screen in many of her movies, though almost never in a leading role. She has often cast Mario Almada in leading roles including, Tijuana, ciudad de narcos in 1998. Her movies tend to portray extreme, explicit violence.
Acting
Movie
Son tus perjúmenes mujer
1978
Movie
Death Dealers
1995
Movie
Por un vestido de novia
1983
Movie
Todo personal
1998
Movie
El regreso de Camelia la Chicana
2000
Movie
El fantasma de la coca
as Mariana
1999
Movie
Muerto el perro se acabo la rabia
1994
Movie
Por tu maldito dinero
as Sandra
1998
Movie
Bachelor Party
2013
Movie
The Mirror's Reflection
2013
Movie
La zorra millonaria
2013
Movie
Esa hembra es mala
2011
Movie
Seeing Double
2013
Movie
Traición Con Traición Se Paga
as Sara Villanueva
1996
Movie
La fuga del penal de Apatzingán
2004
Movie
Día de los muertos
2007
Movie
Las 4 bellas del norte
2004
Movie
Monjas narcotraficantes II
2004
Movie
La muerte del judicial
1997
Movie
Me anda buscando la ley por traficante de drogas
2000
Movie
Pueblo sin leyes
1992
Movie
Herencia Homicida
1993
Movie
Ahogado el niño se tapa el pozo
1994
Movie
Ellas asesinas
2009
Crew
Movie
The True Story of the Weeping Woman
Director
2007
Movie
Return from Hell
Screenplay
2007
Movie
Cholos empericados
Director
2000
Movie
Magnicidio: Complot en Lomas Taurinas
Writer
2002
Movie
Death Dealers
Director
1995
Movie
Traficando con la blanca
Director
2005
Movie
Muertes Violentas
Assistant Director
1990
Movie
Cholos empericados II
Director
2000
Movie
Silent Revenge
Writer
1995
Movie
Con todos menos conmigo
Director
2012
Movie
Escoria otra parte de tí
Director
1990
Movie
Mi Gober Precioso
Director
2007