Martin LaSalle Movies

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

A mother and her daughter receive a stranger in their home, who at first has an affair with the mother but then tries to push her aside to seduce the...

A beautiful artist helps an amnesiac piece together his identity and evade a gangster on his trail.

Taking as a guiding theme of religion in Latin America, the film shows the pre-Columbian myths, the arrival of the white man, later syncretism and...

A pair of spies disguised as tourists are stalked by mysterious figures in Mexico's most attractive locations.

A woman abandons her partner, a journalist, but tortures him by sending him photos of her with her lovers.

A young sociology student has an unintended pregnancy and is subjected to the terrible humiliation of an incompetent doctor. The girl falls ill from...

A blend of documentary and fiction about the death of Simón Otaola.

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...

President Juárez fights against the conservatives, who have ordered an emperor to be brought from France to govern Mexico

Unsympathetic portrait of a man who's too macho to display his feelings.

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...

The french dancer America is in a hotel in Paris with her lover. He goes out to buy cigarettes and she imagines that he travels to Mexico, where he...

Historical drama about the career of a hit-man who specialized in political assassinations in Mexico in the 1920s-30s.

A man becomes more and more infatuated with his childhood sweetheart leading to a haunting encounter with horror.

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

Based on a true story in the American owned Cananea mine. It depicts how the owner profits while the Mexican workers struggle to survive and are...

Three episodes: 1) "A Christmas dinner" where the family members fantasize about being somewhere else. The fetishist father wants to put on feminine...

An adaptation of the tragicomedy "Calisto y Melibea", attributed to Fernando de Rojas.