Arturo Ripstein Movies

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...

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

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...

Documentary following Gloria Contreras, a dancer, choreographer and pedagogue, as she manages her own dance company.

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

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 novelist travels to the country to learn the problems of a friend's shy son and runs into an intruder.

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...

Two wrestlers decide to go to a hotel in order to meet two prostitutes.

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...

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

Legendary 1970s Mexican horror film auteur Juan F. Moctezuma II reportedly influenced the work of mega-directors Guillermo del Toro, Robert...

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...

In the documentary about the Lecumberri prison (El palacio negro, 1976), which a few months later would be closed, Arturo Ripstein filmed, among many...