Alex Phillips Movies

The Mad Empress is a 1939 American historical drama film depicting the 3-year reign of Maximilian I of Mexico and his struggles against Benito Juarez.

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...

Reactionary local "Big Daddy" tries to prevent a school being built in his district.

A saloon singer is released from prison after being convicted on a prostitution charge. She plans to blackmail the judge from her case by seducing...

The story of Mary Magdalene from being a sinner to follow Jesus Christ.

Producer, director and projectionist watch an assortment of musical numbers and brainstorm about framing narrative that could contain them all.

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...

A mute fisherman helps another whose boat capsizes, he dies and leaves behind a girl whom he raises as his own daughter.

Damiana, a girl who has grown up with her grandmother and a friend, is discovered by photographer and launched as supermodel.

A woman looses her baby girl in a train accident but, years later, the girl's father reveals that the baby survived and was raised by him with two...

A 1933 film.

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

The Sabine tribe battles Romulus in the early days of Rome after Romans seize their women as unwilling brides.

A young woman falls in love with a classical pianist and has problems with her friends from high society.

Women connected with a female-run employment agency and a women-only boarding house bond together in mutual support.

A bureaucrat gets a house and even a car on credit thanks to the support of a compadre who is a union leader, but then has difficulty paying because...

Card-sharks blackmail a dissolute young man into participating in a big robbery; his brother takes the rap for him.

A 1940 film.