Ignacio López Tarso Movies

In 1920s Mexico, the candidates being chosen to succeed the current president, El Caudillo, find themselves at his mercy as he will resort to...

An anthropologist goes to the mountains to study the problems of the indigenous people and finds out that they are being dispossessed of their lands.

Manuel is desperate to save his wife from death. A mysterious man appears to him one day at church, convincing him to go to a Healer who can help her.

Felino, his girlfriend and his two friends, have their film rejected from every film festival, so they decide to submit it as major filmmaker Tomas...

The story tells us about an old teacher from the town, who upon knowing he was going to die, entrusts his sixth-grade class to a colleague who had...

Biography of the famous composer of children's music Gabilondo Soler. Starts from his childhood, when he worked as a pastor and grandmother tried to...

Working-class dude grows up surrounded with petty delinquency and ghetto temptations; he marries a rich girl and faces the disapproval of her...

A mid-level government bureaucrat is forced to think hard about his ideas on governmental corruption and his own integrity.

A man goes on a trip and then returns to his village pretending that everything went well for him.

The life of the Mexican muralist José Clemente Orozco and his quest to create a career in New York.

A deaf and mute vagabond finds a large denomination bill in a Mexico City dump, and while he tries to buy something with it, others try to con him...

Three episodes from the "history" of organized labor in the harbors of Tampico, 1912 to modern-times.

Desperate to save his family from death threats by a notorious drug dealer, Mateo Cruz steals the venerated image of the Virgin of Guadalupe causing...

"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 beautiful woman, fatally ill of the heart, is torn between the love of a poor sculptor and a forced marriage with the sadistic son of a millionaire.

Juan is subjected to shock treatment in the hands of Dr. David, and apparently is able to resume a "normal" life. He and his wife María make...

In a small town, time stops for a father who has lost his son.

A conflict arises between the people of the town and the local priest when they have to decide how to represent certain biblical episode.