Arturo Ripstein Movies

In Vera Cruz in the 1940s, Nacho, an Indian, waits tables at Don Lázaro's café at Hotel Ofélia. He falls for Lola, an...

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...

Family honor, greed, machismo, homophobia, and dreams collide in a small Mexican town.

A profile and history of film director Akira Kurosawa.

An erotic model has three lovers, one of them is the father of her child. Which of the three will be?

An examination of the problem of alcoholism in Mexico, focusing primarily on the underprivileged, though it also analyzes how this addiction...

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...

The Lecumberri Penitentiary was one of the most notorious prisons in 20th-century Mexico, known for the notorious inmates who were held there and the...

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...

Poor Dionisio finds himself as recipient of the good fortune, but soon he forgets that everything that goes up also has to go down, and that in the...

The arrival of Aunt Alejandra triggers a series of nightmarish events that will put the life of a family at mysterious risk.

"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...

Mama has four daughters in their late teens. some of them might be more interested in careers than husbands, but she's hoping she'll find a highly...

Perla, a prostitute and the star in a miserable cabaret in the docks, falls in love with a sailor without knowing that he is her brother. Tomasa,...

A group of people, including Capulina and Viruta, head towards the city by train. A heavy storm interrupts their journey and now they must take a...

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...

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

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

Documentary following Gloria Contreras, a dancer, choreographer and pedagogue, as she manages her own dance company.