Martin LaSalle Movies

The film is a drama about the aftermath of the 1520s Spanish Conquest of Mexico told from the perspective of the indigenous Aztec people. It explores...

A street kid's wish to run away to Tijuana is hampered by lies and betrayal

A terrible disease is found in a Mexican town. A doctor tries to alert the authorities when he discovers its epidemic nature. No one listen to him...

Adult brothers compete for pateral affection and for control of the family estate.

Snippets of a family drama involving a rebellious son coming to his depressing home village, his father, and a jaded ex-lover, mixed with various...

Newly-committed to a mental institution, a woman tries to convince her doctors that her husband conspired to have her put away for selfish reasons...

Five surreal short stories make up this Mexican anthology film.

A small film crew goes through several locations including Europe, New York and Mexico.

After Moishe's death, family and friends sit Shiva in Mexico City. During seven days, secrets will be disclosed.

O.K. End Here is Frank’s 1963 short film about inertia in a modern relationship. The film alternates between semidocumentary scenes and shots...

A soap opera actor is mixed in a real drama very similar to what he represents in his work.

The Mexican painter Francisco Goitia, feeling his death approaching, manages to make a memory of his life: the reunion with his country and his...

A documentary that follows up on what happened to the three principle actors in Robert Bresson's "Pickpocket."

Drama written by Octavio Paz.

While attending the birth of Isabel, the wife of foreigner Felipe, Mama Santos predicts that "something terrible is going to happen in the town."...

Tension between a jealous husband, his wife who's attracted to his friend and the friend is rising as their small, deeply catholic, Mexican village...

An expressionist reimagining of the classic Greek myth involving Acteón and Diana, transposed to Spain's Costa Brava by a future auteur of...

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...