Arturo Ripstein Movies

When a young boy steals billiard balls from a local saloon, a stranger is charged with the crime. The local layabouts find there is no reason to hang...

After being released from jail, "Tarzan" Lira seeks to rebuild his life as a bank employee. Unfortunately, it might not be as easy as he thinks.

A plague is spreading through 16th century Mexico, and the Inquisition of the Roman Catholic Church is rooting out Jews, for they are believed to be...

In a seedy brothel, their frustrations parade: A poet who has never published, a revolutionary who came late to history, a provocative angel, a...

Surrealist master Luis Buñuel is a towering figure in the world of cinema history, directing such groundbreaking works as Un Chien Andalou,...

Deceived over and over again by the whole world, a woman does not want to give up in the face of life's adversities.

A Romanian aristocrat retreats to a desert isle with his wife and servants on the eve of World War II.

Narration of one of the bloodiest episodes of the Mexican national history, The Tragic Ten, beginning when General Victoriano Huerta sent to kill...

Two dark-comedy stories involving blackmail, murder and love triangles in Rio de Janeiro

A man comes home after serving 18 years in jail for murder in this routine western. Although the man killed in self defense, rumors in town...

"La Nueva Jerusalem" is a small community of believers lead by Papá Basilio and Mamá Dorita. They're waiting for the second coming of...

Documentary about the founding of Ciudad Nezahualcóyotl on the outskirts of Mexico City in the sixties.

Two wrestlers decide to go to a hotel in order to meet two prostitutes.

Betty is visited by a strange salesman the day she is going away on a trip. He stays in the house as a series of bizarre events occur with his...

A woman seeks help from one of her bigamous husband's killers to transport his corpse back to her home.

Documentary about a Mexico City prison, notorious for holding political prisoners and for civil rights abuses committed there.

Set in Mexico City, Mentiras Piadosas is the doomed love story of Clara and Israel. She is a health inspector and he is an herb merchant, who is...

In a reinterpretation of Madame Bovary set on contemporary Mexico City, Emilia, a middle class housewife, tries to deal with the monotony of her...

A novelist travels to the country to learn the problems of a friend's shy son and runs into an intruder.