Arturo Ripstein Movies

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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

Thriller directed by Arturo Ripstein.

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...

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

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

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

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