Arturo Ripstein Movies

After the death of his son, Javier hopes that restoring his family's abandoned ranch will allow him and his wife Mariana, who attempted suicide, a...

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

"La Nueva Jerusalem" is a small community of believers lead by Papá Basilio and Mamá Dorita. They're waiting for the second coming of...

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

Driven by desire and desperate for self-love, Coral and Nicolás will abandon their past lives in a journey surrounded by murder.

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...

Family honor, greed, machismo, homophobia, and dreams collide in a small Mexican town.

The haunting story of a child left in the care of a clown.

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

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

A group of people, including Capulina and Viruta, head towards the city by train. A heavy storm interrupts their journey and now they must take a...

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...

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

Mexico City. Every day, Beatriz is insulted and humiliated by her jealous husband, but she does not flee his side because they have created a...

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

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

After her experiences in Nazi Germany, actress Macarena Granada traveled to Hollywood, where she became a star. In the 1950s, the diva returns 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...

A disciplined and sexually driven man forces his family to stay isolated in their home in order to protect them from the “evil nature” of...

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