Movies: Anita Blanch

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

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?...

A Russian courier has to deliver a message from the Czar to the Grand Duke across enemy lines .On the way he encounters adventures and colorful characters....

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

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

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

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....

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 happe...

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 ...

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....

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

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....

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

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

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

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

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

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

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....