Arturo Ripstein Movies

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

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".

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...

Many stories happen simultaneously through Internet. In the real world, people are lonely, isolated, desperate for finding love, friendship and...

Héctor, a young writer, arrives in the capital to try his luck. There, he meets Mario and Gloria, a painter. Through her, he soon finds...

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...

"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 woman seeks help from one of her bigamous husband's killers to transport his corpse back to her home.

Two ditzy dance-hall girls are stranded on a tugboat floating down the big river after a night when all the crew kill each other in an unexplained...

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

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

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...

As a teenager and student at a convent school, young Mariana runs away with her boyfriend, provoking the wrath of her father who sends her to...

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

Homero Olmos, a famous television publicist known as "H.O." or "The Voice of Experience," is driving along a lonely road heading to Rio de Janeiro...

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

Narration of one of the bloodiest episodes of the Mexican national history, The Tragic Ten, beginning when General Victoriano Huerta sent to kill...

Teenager covers for his no-count older brother. Ice-cream parlors, rock-n-roll dances, football games, jalopies and racing cars. Also tragedy.

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