Arturo Ripstein Movies

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

Javier Espada's documentary about the making of Bunuel's masterpiece "Los Olvidados".

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

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...

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...

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

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

After being released from jail, "Tarzan" Lira seeks to rebuild his life as a bank employee. Unfortunately, it might not be as easy as he thinks.

Thriller directed by Arturo Ripstein.

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 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...

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

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

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