Arturo Ripstein Movies

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...

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

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

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.

"Nazarín is a Quixote of the priesthood " "Among the films I have made in Mexico, Nazarin is one that I prefer." "As inexplicable as the...

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

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

A story where the Cristero Rebellion creates a story of love, passion, and betrayal. When the Federal Rosas and his lover arrive in a town, a local...

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...

Javier Espada's documentary about the making of Bunuel's masterpiece "Los Olvidados".

The story of two women, a mother and her daughter, who during the Cristero War set traps for government soldiers passing by their house, using...

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

A singer is on the run from the law and a criminal gang. She takes refuge at a hotel where she finally reveals a complex story of betrayal and...