Martin LaSalle Movies

Newly-committed to a mental institution, a woman tries to convince her doctors that her husband conspired to have her put away for selfish reasons...

Subjugated by power, the workers of a mining town organize clandestinely.

Unsympathetic portrait of a man who's too macho to display his feelings.

Historical drama about the career of a hit-man who specialized in political assassinations in Mexico in the 1920s-30s.

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

A mother and her daughter receive a stranger in their home, who at first has an affair with the mother but then tries to push her aside to seduce the...

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

The french dancer America is in a hotel in Paris with her lover. He goes out to buy cigarettes and she imagines that he travels to Mexico, where he...

A pair of spies disguised as tourists are stalked by mysterious figures in Mexico's most attractive locations.

The story of two women, a mother and her daughter, who during the Cristero War set traps for government soldiers passing by their house, using...

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

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

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...

Based on a true story in the American owned Cananea mine. It depicts how the owner profits while the Mexican workers struggle to survive and are...

Three episodes: 1) "A Christmas dinner" where the family members fantasize about being somewhere else. The fetishist father wants to put on feminine...

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...

A man becomes more and more infatuated with his childhood sweetheart leading to a haunting encounter with horror.

An adaptation of the tragicomedy "Calisto y Melibea", attributed to Fernando de Rojas.