Arturo Ripstein Movies

Betty is visited by a strange salesman the day she is going away on a trip. He stays in the house as a series of bizarre events occur with his...

A singer is on the run from the law and a criminal gang. She takes refuge at a hotel where she finally reveals a complex story of betrayal and...

Thriller directed by Arturo Ripstein.

The arrival of Aunt Alejandra triggers a series of nightmarish events that will put the life of a family at mysterious risk.

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

Intrigues and secrets come together because of a woman, who has the protection of the parish priest.

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

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