Arturo Ripstein Movies

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

Deceived over and over again by the whole world, a woman does not want to give up in the face of life's adversities.

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

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...

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...

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.

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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