Movies (and a few TV shows) that take sex work seriously and provide humanizing roles for characters in the trade, at whatever level. And no, no Pretty Woman here.

Mark Eydelshteyn and Mikey Madison in Anora (2024)

Rhys Wakefield in La noche de la expiación (2013)

Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon in Un final inesperado (1991)

A list of movies/tv shows where prominent characters portray/suffer from identifiable mental illnesses. This list does not include things like psychopathy/antisocial personality disorder, substance abuse disorder or lower level afflictions like anxiety or depression that most people, and thus many many many characters, will struggle with at some point in time. These movies shed some light on lesser known or understood conditions, be it through the lens of comedy, drama, docuseries or biopic. May they help us understand humanity a bit better! (or not-- no guarantees)

Bill Murray and Richard Dreyfuss in ¿Qué tal, Bob? (1991)

Explorations via documentary, docudrama or docuseries of various cults, known and unknown, and some maybe just being classified as cults by me in this moment. Most of these stories are told with grace, empathy and care towards respecting folks' humanity and freedom of choice, although some certainly are not. I'm looking at you, Tarantino...

Movies that explore the darker side of pregnancy and birth. Maybe your baby is the devil, or an alien, or maybe the "joys of motherhood" all women have been promised by the cultural powers that be aren't quite all we were promised.

Mia Farrow in El bebé de Rosemary (1968)

Movies that feature doubles, whether real people or imaginary, be they pesky or horrifying. Explorations of what can happen when there is another you out there, impacting your life via their choices.

Elisabeth Moss and Mark Duplass in El amor perfecto no existe (2014)

Some scary, some not so scary. Maybe trauma is the ghost once or twice...

Even before the aughts gave this trope its name, we had zany female characters portrayed as love interests for those of us who didn't want to date, or didn't want to be, classic female pinup types. They're not good girls or femme fatales, they may be slightly off, slightly ill, and they probably have colored hair... 

Audrey Hepburn and George Peppard in Muñequita de lujo (1961)

In literature and moving forward into film and tv, writers have often realized that islands can be used as liminal spaces and as a mechanism of confinement; a place of the world yet apart from it. Because islands can be cut off from the rest of civilization, backwards and isolating, they work as the perfect backdrop for strange works of fiction that seek to explore ideas related to these thematic elements. Or sometimes coincidences occur and bizarre actual events take place in these places, events that could only happen when man is cut off from the world at large.

Balthazar Getty in El señor de las moscas (1990)

The romantic comedy is a tired, boring construct. The meet-cute, the false barrier to being together, the 'wait, I DO love him' denouement; those things may occur in these movies, but something in these films transcends the tired paradigm. Hugh Grant *may* occur on this list, as does Meg Ryan, but the vast majority of their oeuvres is exactly what you wont find here!

Bill Murray and Andie MacDowell in Hechizo del tiempo (1993)

Compiling a list of great movies for the weirdos of the world who want to watch a movie that is offbeat, celebrates the odd, but, first and foremost, are FUN to watch! No main stream comedies here, but a lot of capers, adventures, and strange humanity intermixed and intermingling.

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