Movies: Esther Fernández

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...

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

City slicker scams on young farmgirl while her fiance's in USA on a work permit....

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...

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

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,...

In 1834, Charles Stewart (Alan Ladd), the spoiled, dissolute son of a shipping magnate, is shanghaied aboard the Pilgrim, one of his father's own ships. He embarks upon a long, hellish sea voyage under the tyrannical rule of Captain Francis Thompson ...

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

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...

Sequel to Alla en el Rancho Grande, twenty years later -- sons and daughters of the original characters go through a courtship melodrama of their own....

Combines airplane trips and fashion. Heavy on the fashion....

Orphan girl grows up, meets the wrong man and falls into disgrace....

All of Mexico asks the same question, who has won the lottery jackpot of five million pesos? If the lucky person who won them does not show up soon to collect the prize, it will have to be raffled again....

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....

Rom-com scheming; wealthy landowner wants to seduce one of his tenants, but she wants the other guy......

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

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....

A stagecoach full of conflictive passengers makes its dangerours way from Mexico to Veracruz during the days of the French Intervention....

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

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