Movies: Arturo Ripstein

After the death of his son, Javier hopes that restoring his family's abandoned ranch will allow him and his wife Mariana, who attempted suicide, a new beginning, but his grandmother refuses....

A formal dinner party starts out normally enough, but after the bourgeois group retire to the host’s music room, they inexplicably find themselves unable to leave....

A disciplined and sexually driven man forces his family to stay isolated in their home in order to protect them from the “evil nature” of human beings....

After her experiences in Nazi Germany, actress Macarena Granada traveled to Hollywood, where she became a star. In the 1950s, the diva returns to Francoist Spain to star a Hollywood blockbuster about Queen Isabella I of Castile. (A sequel to The Girl...

In Vera Cruz in the 1940s, Nacho, an Indian, waits tables at Don Lázaro's café at Hotel Ofélia. He falls for Lola, an opium-addicted, alcoholic whore who's hopelessly in love with Gardenia Wilson, a masked wrestler who slept with her once but knows s...

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 know that this pension will never come. His wife also knows it, and even he knows it. But he is still ...

Driven by desire and desperate for self-love, Coral and Nicolás will abandon their past lives in a journey surrounded by murder....

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

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 codependency and, at least for her, she would not conceive of her life any other way: by dint of feeling hum...

"La Nueva Jerusalem" is a small community of believers lead by Papá Basilio and Mamá Dorita. They're waiting for the second coming of Christ, so they've abandoned the world, searching for a new spiritual life. Mamá Dorita sees in young Tomasa the sig...

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

After her husband leaves her for a younger woman, Julia plans her revenge with the help of her grandmother....

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

Family honor, greed, machismo, homophobia, and dreams collide in a small Mexican town....

Surrealist master Luis Buñuel is a towering figure in the world of cinema history, directing such groundbreaking works as Un Chien Andalou, Exterminating Angels, and That Obscure Object of Desire, yet his personal life was clouded in myth and paradox...

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

Two dark-comedy stories involving blackmail, murder and love triangles in Rio de Janeiro...

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 depressing nothingness of his town it is easy to die....

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

This documentary explores key moments in the life of writer Juan Rulfo, with artists such as Werner Herzog and Eduardo Galeano reflecting on his work....