Arturo Ripstein Movies

In a seedy brothel, their frustrations parade: A poet who has never published, a revolutionary who came late to history, a provocative angel, a...

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

An erotic model has three lovers, one of them is the father of her child. Which of the three will be?

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,...

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

In a reinterpretation of Madame Bovary set on contemporary Mexico City, Emilia, a middle class housewife, tries to deal with the monotony of her...

The film tells the story of the Boteros, a middle-class Mexican family struggling against poverty after their father's death. Ignacia (Egurrola) is...

Mama has four daughters in their late teens. some of them might be more interested in careers than husbands, but she's hoping she'll find a highly...

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...

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

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...

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...

A novelist travels to the country to learn the problems of a friend's shy son and runs into an intruder.

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

A gunfighter is appointed sheriff of a town that is terrorized by a gang of criminals.

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