Arturo Ripstein Movies

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

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...

Friends of Luis Buñuel discuss the director while Buñuel mixes drinks and entertains friends in his home.

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...

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

A gunfighter is appointed sheriff of a town that is terrorized by a gang of criminals.

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

Intrigues and secrets come together because of a woman, who has the protection of the parish priest.

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...

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...

Thriller directed by Arturo Ripstein.

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

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...

A novelist travels to the country to learn the problems of a friend's shy son and runs into an intruder.

In the documentary about the Lecumberri prison (El palacio negro, 1976), which a few months later would be closed, Arturo Ripstein filmed, among many...