Anita Blanch

Acting

Anita Blanch

Born — Died

1910-07-26 — 1983-04-23

Place of birth

Valencia, Spain

Known for

Acting

Credits

51 titles

Anita Blanch (July 26, 1910 – April 23, 1983) was a Spanish-born, Mexican actress, who worked in the Golden Age of Mexican cinema. She was nominated for an Ariel Award from the Mexican Academy of Film three times and won the Best Supporting Actress Award from Diosa de Plata (Silver Goddess Award) in 1963.

Known for

Film credits

1970s · 12 titles

Faith, Hope and Charity poster
6.5

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

Faith, Hope and Charity

1974

Mi mesera poster
5.7

No synopsis available yet.

Mi mesera

1973

No artwork available
NR

A circus fakir performs a crucifixion act to earn enough money to secure a home for his mother. As the spectacle intensifies, the boundary between devotion, showmanship, and danger begins to blur.

Hope

1974

Omen poster
5.0

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.

Omen

1974

The Dogs of God poster
4.4

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.

The Dogs of God

1974

Balún Canán poster
5.4

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, inheritance for her only son. For her actions, the sorcerers of Chacjatal cast a death spell over her son.

Balún Canán

1977

El hombre del puente poster
6.0

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

El hombre del puente

1976

Ave sin nido poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Ave sin nido

1971

The Days of Love poster
6.0

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.

The Days of Love

1972

Renzo el gitano poster
6.5

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 left for dead.

Renzo el gitano

1973

Mujercitas poster
6.8

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

Mujercitas

1973

Pubertinaje poster
6.3

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 the saints of the church with her voice. The youngest son wants to stab everyone dead. 2) "Game of mirrors". Two young classmates kiss on a picnic, but the girl's brother accuses the couple of being immoral. Bizarre things develop. 3) "Tetrahedron". A very fat man faces his girlfriend's longing for love.

Pubertinaje

1978

1960s · 4 titles

1950s · 16 titles

El gran mentiroso poster
4.4

A married man's double life unravels when his city acquaintance encounters his daughter back home, threatening to expose fifteen years of deception about his frequent urban getaways.

El gran mentiroso

1953

Damned City! poster
8.2

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 them wish they had never left their village.

Damned City!

1954

La faraona poster
4.4

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. However, as Pastora was his only granddaughter and sole heir of all his property, it does not hesitate to cross the pond to claim his inheritance. But once there is that Don Guillermo, grandfather, not dead.

La faraona

1956

Adventure in Rio poster
5.5

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.

Adventure in Rio

1953

Magdalena poster
5.0

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 experiences.

Magdalena

1954

The Man and the Monster poster
6.4

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.

The Man and the Monster

1959

Lullaby poster
6.6

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

Lullaby

1953

El mil amores poster
7.6

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. Actually, Viviano is engaged with Marilu

El mil amores

1954

Misericordia poster
6.3

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.

Misericordia

1953

Mujeres sacrificadas poster
6.1

Nightclub dancer comes unglued after killing a man.

Mujeres sacrificadas

1952

No artwork available
6.0

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

La mujer que no tuvo infancia

1957

Yo pecador poster
6.6

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

Yo pecador

1959

Night Falls poster
6.6

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

Night Falls

1952

La torre de marfil poster
6.0

Philandering husband drives wife to the brink of suicide.

La torre de marfil

1958

No artwork available
5.6

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

Los salvajes

1958

Sor Alegría poster
7.2

No synopsis available yet.

Sor Alegría

1952

1940s · 14 titles

La casa del rencor poster
5.8

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 Adelaida—the master’s second wife—and her son Hugo came to live there; the despotism and cruelty of both ultimately destroyed the entire family.

La casa del rencor

1941

Those Were The Days, Senor Don Simon! poster
6.8

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.

Those Were The Days, Senor Don Simon!

1941

El conde de Montecristo poster
5.6

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 cell, he changes his identity, becoming the wealthy Count of Monte Cristo, an identity he uses to take revenge on those who betrayed him and sent him to prison.

El conde de Montecristo

1942

The Barracks poster
6.9

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.

The Barracks

1945

Miguel Strogoff poster
5.8

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.

Miguel Strogoff

1944

¿Quién te quiere a ti? poster
6.0

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.

¿Quién te quiere a ti?

1942

Simón Bolívar poster
6.7

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

Simón Bolívar

1942

El abanico de Lady Windermere poster
6.7

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

El abanico de Lady Windermere

1944

Entre hermanos poster
5.7

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.

Entre hermanos

1945

La pequeña madrecita poster
5.7

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

La pequeña madrecita

1944

Alejandra poster
6.5

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.

Alejandra

1942

Toda una vida poster
5.6

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.

Toda una vida

1945

No artwork available
6.0

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".

The Red Virgin

1943

Tres hermanos poster
5.6

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

Tres hermanos

1943

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