Arturo Ripstein Movies

Three teenagers are confined to an isolated country estate that could very well be on another planet. The trio spend their days listening to endless...

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

After a lavish dinner party, the guests find themselves unable to depart... and, over the next few days, all of their elaborate societal pretenses...

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...

The legendary life of Mexican singer Lucha Reyes is the basis of this fictionalized biography ( or as director Arturo Ripstein puts it "an imaginary...

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

A profile and history of film director Akira Kurosawa.

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

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

In Vera Cruz in the 1940s, Nacho, an Indian, waits tables at Don Lázaro's café at Hotel Ofélia. He falls for Lola, an...

Surrealist master Luis Buñuel is a towering figure in the world of cinema history, directing such groundbreaking works as Un Chien Andalou,...

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...

Every Friday, the Colonel puts on his only suit and goes to the dock to await a letter announcing the arrival of his pension. But the townsfolk all...

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

Perla, a prostitute and the star in a miserable cabaret in the docks, falls in love with a sailor without knowing that he is her brother. Tomasa,...

When a young boy steals billiard balls from a local saloon, a stranger is charged with the crime. The local layabouts find there is no reason to hang...

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...

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

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

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