Martin LaSalle Movies

After her birthday party, a little girl goes to bed looking forward to an amusement-park trip with her grandparents for the next day.

Romero is a compelling and deeply moving look at the life of Archbishop Oscar Romero of El Salvador, who made the ultimate sacrifice in a passionate...

A young sociology student has an unintended pregnancy and is subjected to the terrible humiliation of an incompetent doctor. The girl falls ill from...

A despondent Vietnam veteran in danger of losing his livelihood is pushed to the edge when he sees Vietnamese immigrants moving into the fishing...

A man thought-dead comes home to find that his wife has sold their ranch and married a Mexican revolutionary.

Snippets of a family drama involving a rebellious son coming to his depressing home village, his father, and a jaded ex-lover, mixed with various...

In a totalitarian future, in a nightmare metropolis, inhabited only by criminals and police, Erik Lonnrot, a gifted detective, investigates a series...

Drama written by Octavio Paz.

The Penitent (1988) isn’t faith-affirming drama—it’s lurid exploitation mocking Catholic penitents. In a devout New Mexico/Mexico...

President Juárez fights against the conservatives, who have ordered an emperor to be brought from France to govern Mexico

The inmates of an insane asylum take over the institution, imprison the doctors and staff, and then put into play their own ideas of how the place...

Jose learns that Nora, the woman he was married to for 30 years and from whom divorced, has committed suicide. The rabbi explains Joseph that due to...

While attending the birth of Isabel, the wife of foreigner Felipe, Mama Santos predicts that "something terrible is going to happen in the town."...

O.K. End Here is Frank’s 1963 short film about inertia in a modern relationship. The film alternates between semidocumentary scenes and shots...

The film is a drama about the aftermath of the 1520s Spanish Conquest of Mexico told from the perspective of the indigenous Aztec people. It explores...

Taking as a guiding theme of religion in Latin America, the film shows the pre-Columbian myths, the arrival of the white man, later syncretism and...

A woman abandons her partner, a journalist, but tortures him by sending him photos of her with her lovers.

A beautiful artist helps an amnesiac piece together his identity and evade a gangster on his trail.