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...

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

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 profile and history of film director Akira Kurosawa.

This documentary explores key moments in the life of writer Juan Rulfo, with artists such as Werner Herzog and Eduardo Galeano reflecting on his work.

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

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...

Thriller directed by Arturo Ripstein.

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...

An erotic model has three lovers, one of them is the father of her child. Which of the three will be?

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

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

A story where the Cristero Rebellion creates a story of love, passion, and betrayal. When the Federal Rosas and his lover arrive in a town, a local...

The Lecumberri Penitentiary was one of the most notorious prisons in 20th-century Mexico, known for the notorious inmates who were held there and the...

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,...

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...

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

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

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...