Arturo Ripstein Movies

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

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...

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

The film tells the story of the Boteros, a middle-class Mexican family struggling against poverty after their father's death. Ignacia (Egurrola) is...

After her husband leaves her for a younger woman, the helping of her caring, but cynical godmother, is not enough to prevent Julia from plotting her...

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

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

"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...

A married couple entrusts the care of their young son to a strange clown. The film focuses on the relationship between the clown and the child, to...

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...

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