A Secretary's Intimacies 1971
Mexican feature film
Mexican feature film
A mother enters an old home for her autistic daughter's therapy. Unexpectedly, the daughter start speaking but has encountered dark entities from the past seeking payback. The family faces supernatural forces related to the home's history.
The film is loosely based on real life events of Marianna de Leyva, better known as "The Nun of Monza," whose story was made famous by the Alessandro Manzoni's novel The Betrothed.
Paquito lives with his mother in poverty. When she dies, he looks for his father's love, who is a very wealthy man.
In a small zoo, the arrival of the hippopotamus Zafari is celebrated by neighbours of opposing social classes. Ana, Edgar and their son Bruno watch all the action from the windows of their decadent high-class building. Amidst a chaos of food, water and electricity shortages, the family has to solve everyday problems and the lack of basic needs while trying to find a solution to escape. Ana scavenges for food in the abandoned apartments, but strange noises in the dark corridors frighten her more and more. In a world that has become wild, Zafari is the only one who still has enough to eat.
Rafa, a Communist Republican exiled after the Spanish Civil War, returns to his hometown to carry out an attack against the imposed tyrannical regime, but the mission fails and, in his attempt to escape, he kidnaps a lady of high society.
Jim is the drummer for the great black musician Billy Swann. With him, he plays in a club called San Sebastián, owned by his friend Floro, every summer.
Alicia and Damian are ghosts occupying a large empty house on Lake Riñihue. Unable to assimilate their condition as dead people, they wander the house during an eternal day, gradually discovering the rules of this strange world and the reason for their presence.
A nightclub performer decides to raise the baby boy she found abandoned in a trash can, putting her job and social life in jeopardy.
The story of Francisco, a young psychics teacher who starts consuming drugs, his mother, a well known congresswoman and Nina, the woman who will try to save him from a horrible future.
After taking over a ramshackle little hotel, bought by mistake at an auction for an exorbitant price, the Garcias live a new adventure, helped, much to their regret, by a group of gifted children who are staying at the hotel to attend the Talent Final. Together they will confront the mafioso Benito Camarena, who will try to snatch the loot hidden in the hotel from the Garcias.
A passionate young man can't forget the love of her life, who is about to get married. Passion will find its way but with fatal consequences.
This documentary deals with the stories, achievements and difficulties of women boxers and footballers. Their stories are told from the point of view of their daily lives where sport, family live and relationships intermingle in a complex and often contradictory whole. All these women share the desire to triumph in sports normally considered to be men´s sports. Some of them pursue their dream while working at other jobs such as driving taxis, selling tacos or being lawyers. They are not women victims, trapped in the family or in marriage; for the simple reason that they are still fighting, they have not accepted defeat. This documentary looks at the feminine aspect of these sports and the unfairness that there is.
Theatrical promoter deals with temperamental artists and temperamental investors while putting a show together and holding everything together until opening night.
A marriage becomes a living hell when hubby's pathologies start surfacing.
Carlos, a former factory worker of humble origins, has made millions - but the upper class refuses to accept him as one of their own. Meanwhile, Barbara, the spoiled daughter of an industrialist, is to enter into a loveless marriage of convenience. Tensions arise when the two fall madly in love.
A radio host has to deal with his son's cancer with the help of a trainer.
A young architect returns from Europe to live in the house of his uncles and cousins, where someone pretends to be the Devil.