Anita Blanch

El testamento (1981)

After the death of her husband the industrialist, unprepared trophy-wife takes over the management of his business concerns. ...

Vivir para amar (1980)

Rigo Tovar plays "Tony Franco", a singer who rises to fame and balances his new lifestyle while trying to keep up with everyone back home. ...

Pubertinaje (1978)

Three episodes: 1) "A Christmas dinner" where the family members fantasize about being somewhere else. The fetishist father wants to put on feminine clothes. The son longs for another transvestite adventure. The daughter yearns to be a singer and destroy t ...

Balún Canán (1977)

Based on Rosario Castellanos' novel, Balún Canán is about the turmoil created by the Cardenas' land reforms. Events occur in Chiapas on the border with Guatemala, mainly in a town called Comitán. Zoraida struggles and fights to keep her properties, inh ...

El hombre del puente (1976)

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

The Dogs of God (1974)

After a near-drowning, Laura moves through four social worlds under different names, obsessed with God's infinite mercy and provoking sin to test forgiveness. ...

Omen (1974)

While attending the birth of Isabel, the wife of foreigner Felipe, Mama Santos predicts that "something terrible is going to happen in the town." From this omen, calamities will torment the locals. ...

Faith, Hope and Charity (1974)

Three episodes. Faith: a woman is attacked. Hope: a fakir is crucified. Charity: a woman faces bureaucracy. ...

Mujercitas (1973)

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

Renzo el gitano (1973)

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 he is ...

Mi mesera (1973)

The Days of Love (1972)

In the 1920s, Mexico was still in a state of near-chaos. Rebellions and revolutions had followed one after the other for decades. Though things were beginning to settle down some, it was still a time when one had the feeling that anything could happen. ...

Ave sin nido (1971)

Un tipo a todo dar (1963)

Romanticized version of Javier Solis' biography, from working-class roots to boxer to musician. ...

Tlayucan (1962)

Desperate because of his son's illness, the peasant Eufemio steals a pearl from the image of Santa Lucía in the village church. ...

Ellas también son rebeldes (1961)

The discovery of a young woman murdered in her car triggers unrelated problems among a diverse group of people. ...

Adventures of Joselito and Tom Thumb (1960)

Joselito lives with his grandmother in a fishing village. His father went to America long ago to make a fortune. One day, the boy decides to travel there to meet him. He takes courage and embarks on a fragile boat and miraculously is saved at sea by a vess ...

The Man and the Monster (1959)

A failed pianist sells his soul to the devil in return for his becoming the greatest musician in the world. The catch: every time he plays he turns into a horrible monster. ...

Yo pecador (1959)

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

La torre de marfil (1958)

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

Los salvajes (1958)

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

La mujer que no tuvo infancia (1957)

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

La faraona (1956)

Pastora Heredia is a beautiful gypsy with great character who always tries to help the needy. One day she gots the notice of the death of his grandfather, a millionaire who lived in Mexico and that since his father was angry, she knew nothing of him. Howev ...

El mil amores (1954)

Carmen has a daughter, Patricia, who attends a school for young ladies where they think Carmen is married to a sailor. Viviano is a friend of Carmen and when she needs it, he poses as the father of Patricia and she believes is her father. ...

Magdalena (1954)

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 experien ...

Damned City! (1954)

A humble provincial writer who wants to publish his first book offers it to a film producer who is looking for locations for a film at that time. The novelist's family then moves to the big city, where they will have to face many adversities that will make ...

El gran mentiroso (1953)

A respectable, married gent has made up a passel of stories to cover for his fifteen years of frequent pleasure trips to the city. One weekend, one of his city friends meets his daughter in her home town and all his lies and cover stories start unraveling. ...

Adventure in Rio (1953)

Tourist gets bonked on the head, suffers an amnesiac fugue, wanders away from her husband and children, becomes an evil prostitute-y thief-y saloon gal. ...

Lullaby (1953)

A group of nuns raise an abandoned baby as their own inside a convent. ...

Misericordia (1953)

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. ...

Sor Alegría (1952)

Mujeres sacrificadas (1952)

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

Night Falls (1952)

Marcos is an arrogant jai-alai player who seduces and discards women until he himself becomes the object of a cunning revenge. ...

The Barracks (1945)

The film chronicles the adventures of a peasant family of the late nineteenth century to push through his work with the opposition and hatred of the rest of the villagers. ...

Entre hermanos (1945)

During the Mexican Revolution, brothers Ramón and Geraldo fall in love with Pilar who is uncertain of which brother she loves. Pilar ends up marrying Ramón but gets pregnant when Geraldo rapes her. ...

Toda una vida (1945)

A beautiful young woman, adopted as a child by a man, falls in love with her stepfather and wants to conceive a child with him. ...

El abanico de Lady Windermere (1944)

A woman with a dubious reputation causes problems in an aristocratic marriage. ...

La pequeña madrecita (1944)

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

Miguel Strogoff (1944)

A Russian courier has to deliver a message from the Czar to the Grand Duke across enemy lines. He encounters many colorful characters along the way. ...

Tres hermanos (1943)

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

The Red Virgin (1943)

Aurora's life changes when her younger sister is brutally assaulted and killed. Seeking justice, she tracks down the attacker and kills him, then escapes the law and rises as the feared outlaw "The Red Virgin". ...

Alejandra (1942)

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. ...

El conde de Montecristo (1942)

Based on the famous novel by Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo tells the story of a man who is unjustly imprisoned alongside an old man, who before dying reveals the location of a buried treasure. When the man manages to escape from his miserable ...

¿Quién te quiere a tí? (1942)

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. ...

Simón Bolívar (1942)

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

La casa del rencor (1941)

Martina, a sorrowful woman, is the sole inhabitant of an abandoned and eerie house, where a couple arrives on a stormy night seeking shelter. Martina tells them how what was once a happy hacienda turned into a hell filled with resentment when Doña Adelaid ...

Those Were The Days, Senor Don Simon! (1941)

A not very grief stricken young widow flutters her hand fan between a dashing young soldier and an elderly politician in this Belle Epoque era musical comedy. ...

Luponini (El terror de Chicago) (1935)

Luponini, a bank employee, becomes a robber due to a broken heart. His criminal career, successful at first, is soon threatened by the betrayal of one of his accomplices and the contempt of Luisa, his ex-wife. ...