Movies: Anita Blanch

Biopic of the revolutionary Simón Bolívar who fought to end Spanish rule over much of Latin America....

Biopic of a 1930s operatic tenor who ended up becoming a Franciscan monk and joining the priesthood....

A man without identity/citizenship papers is stuck in the no-man's-land between two countries....

Borderline mentally-ill woman with neurotic compulsion to behave like a child and the psychiatrist who looooves her....

Little girl develops her maternal instincts with dolls and with an infant cousin while family tragedies erupt over and over again around her....

Faded rich family has a housekeeper who struggles to keep them fed and comfortable after their fortune disappears; she also sacrifices herself on behalf of sick and disabled friends. Is there no end to her nobility of spirit?...

There's a lot of confusion about who Alejandra's parents are, and until those questions are resolved, she may not be able to get married....

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A 1941 film directed by Gilberto Martínez Solares....

Neither he nor she are very handsome, not to say ugly, and how they would like to be good looking to give and receive compliments, and that someone loves them....

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

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Extremely loose adaptation of Little Women, set in 1970s; three teenaged girls and a younger sister live alone after the death of their parents....

Fantasy-life of an upper-class girl overwhelmed with spiritual questions....

Pedro, a wealthy Mexican landowner, is convinced he can get everything he wants with money and arrogance....

Rodolfo wants to marry the aristocrat Adriana who rejects him. Humberto, her brother, kills a man for her. Rodolfo attributes the crime to the gypsy Renzo so that Adriana will gratefully marry him. Renzo is sent to the island of the condemned, where ...

Philandering husband drives wife to the brink of suicide....

Family melodrama; one sister runs away with the other one's fiance. Twenty-odd years later, her daughter tries to make peace with the rest of the family. Plus accidental deaths and unwed motherhood and miraculous cures for blindness and near death ex...

The three sons of a Mexican family emigrated to USA end up fighting in WWII....