Arturo Ripstein Movies

Thriller directed by Arturo Ripstein.

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

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

Poor Dionisio finds himself as recipient of the good fortune, but soon he forgets that everything that goes up also has to go down, and that in the...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

Set in Mexico City, Mentiras Piadosas is the doomed love story of Clara and Israel. She is a health inspector and he is an herb merchant, who is...

Mexico City. Every day, Beatriz is insulted and humiliated by her jealous husband, but she does not flee his side because they have created a...

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

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...

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

Narration of one of the bloodiest episodes of the Mexican national history, The Tragic Ten, beginning when General Victoriano Huerta sent to kill...