Modesta is a 1956 short film, set in Puerto Rico, in which a peasant woman rebels against her husband's authoritarism. She and the other women of her community organize the Liberated Women League to fight for their rights. It stars Antonia Hidalgo and Juan Ortiz Jiménez.

The movie was adapted by Benjamin Doniger, Luis A. Maisonet and René Marqués from the story by Domingo Silas Ortiz. It was directed by Doniger. The film has been deemed "culturally significant" by the Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry.