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...
Por un vestido de novia
1983
Ahogado el niño se tapa el pozo
1994
Me anda buscando la ley por traficante de drogas
2000
Son tus perjúmenes mujer
1978
Esa hembra es mala
2011
Ellas asesinas
2009
La muerte del judicial
1997
The Mirror's Reflection
2013
Herencia Homicida
1993
Seeing Double
2013
Traición Con Traición Se Paga
1996
Todo personal
1998
Pueblo sin leyes
1992
El regreso de Camelia la Chicana
2000
Death Dealers
1995
La fuga del penal de Apatzingán
2004
Por tu maldito dinero
1998
Bachelor Party
2013
Día de los muertos
2007
La zorra millonaria
2013