Movies: Esther Fernández

Her father dies... her fiance dumps her... and she can't find a job... so she covers the waterfront. And then one night......

Santa is a beautiful and very humble young girl living in Chimalistac, a small and quiet spot south of the 1930's Mexico City. After Santa is cheated by arrogant soldier Marcelino, she's rejected by her family and friends and expelled of Chimalistac....

Liberal farmer Pepe has arrived in Santa Fe to visit his aunt, Dona Perfecta. While he's there, Pepe is eager to teach the traditional-minded townspeople a new way of living. Unfortunately for Pepe the people of Santa Fe aren't eager to embrace chang...

During the Mexican Revolution, the people tired of living in poverty and enduring the atrocities committed by the federals, decide to follow one of their own, General Demetrio Macias, a thief with tricks he learned in jail and who along with "La Pint...

Two good friends — the owner and general manager of a ranch — fall in love with the same girl at the same time. The owner tries to 'buy' the girl without knowing she is in love with the manager....

A 1938 film....

Two romantic rivals join the Mexican Revolution on opposing sides. The movie's more interested in the love triangle than in the war....

A crazed scientist tries to keep his terminally ill wife alive by transfusing into her the blood of young women he murders....

Slum child, abandoned almost since birth, is reunited with his father....

Empty nest syndrome, #1388....

Slumlord and his daughter interfere in the lives of the proletariat for personal gratification....

It's 1913, and noble Mexican General Pancho Villa leads his troops against the assassins of President Madero....

This post-World War II drama, (released to a world-wide audience on July 9, 1949), is definitively unique for the caliber of each of its contributing writers, who are clearly better-known for their cinematic talents in black and white . For instance,...

Reporters compete for cash prize awarded for biggest scoop on New Year's Eve....

Beautiful peasant girl runs afoul of her landlord's horny son and he poisons the well between her and her fiance, so she runs away and joins the Revolution....

Young silversmith runs for office, butts heads with political machine that's sucking the town dry....

Elderly woman bonds with other senior citizens for emotional support....

Financier threatens to foreclose on a cigar-factory's mortgage, but a secret benefactor pays off the owner's debt and saves the day....

Fernando Mendez's 1953 Spanish-language melodrama El Lunar de la Familia unfurls against the backdrop of a deceptively innocent-sounding family reunion. Two freewheeling, party-happy young men, Luis and his buddy Antonio, catch the train in to San Mi...

Three men in a mining community end up competing for the same woman....