Movies: Meche Barba

Musicians/dancers look for their big show-biz break while dealing with a melodrama/crime activity that involves an abusive husband, a lecherous employer and a heroin lab....

Theatrical troupe schemes to expose corrupt dealings in local government....

College students, ready to start entering adult society, are ashamed of their working-class backgrounds....

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

Free-spirited young woman schemes different ways to trying to nudge her spinsterish older sister into falling in love and getting married....

Teenaged slum-girl falls into show-biz by accident and rises to the tuxedos-and-furs class. Gangster drama and heartbreak, so she goes back to her own social class at the end, even though other options were available to her....

Convicted on flimsy evidence of complicity in a jewel robbery, there's nothing he can do afterward to put his life in order. Downward spiral....

Man in the final stages of a fatal illness gets immersed in a new romance and a murder investigation....

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

After the mysterious disappearance of an oil well owner, one of his workers, Gerardo assumes the business management. Soon, the owner's sister arrives from Argentina, and, believing that Gerardo killed her brother to keep the wells for himself, she s...

Wholesome young man falls hard for a woman who's identified as a luxury commodity; gangster/pimp guy in her orbit convinces the nice boy to do crimes so he'll have enough money to move in her circle....

Personal dramas among the residents of an apartment house....

Two young sweethearts get married, and then are made to believe that she's his illegitimate half-sister....

Two poor children swear an oath: one will study, the other will work and support them both. The worker turns to crime......

Two adventurers visit a small coastal village in 1850 in hopes of getting access to a shipwreck that took place 100 years earlier. Also, local girlfriends....

After cohabiting with a man without benefit of marriage, a young woman discovers the emotional cost of her sinful perversity....

Handicapped songwriter falls for bad girl. Again....

A circus dancer marries a famous singer, but is threatened when a figure from her past blackmails her....

Young woman miraculously rises from runway model to internationally-acclaimed film star in a few months' time because she's sorta pretty and stuff. Then she decides to get even with an ex-boyfriend who left town for a job and forgot about her....

Young actress advances her career by choosing boyfriends judiciously....