Ignacio López Tarso Movies

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.

A poor, but very lucky man in the cock fighting business, is hired by a rich man, but both are in love with the same woman.

Luisa is a small-town girl who works in the bakery of the widower Don Albino. Luisa dreams of marrying and loves children. Just as Don Albino shows...

Three episodes from the "history" of organized labor in the harbors of Tampico, 1912 to modern-times.

Chronicle Caste War in Yucatan held in the nineteenth century, where the land and the people were the property of the landowners, who called...

The Mexican Revolution serves as a backdrop to a torrid love triangle composed of three freedom fighters: a colonel, a widow, and a fiery female...

This film tells several short stories that end up lapsing in the emergency room of a hospital, because it is dedicated to nurses. Cantinflas appears...

Anna is a psychologist undertaking research about famous suicidal women. She takes a specific interest in the case of Antonieta Rivas Mercado, who...

Peasant woman leads a regiment during the final days of the Mexican Revolution. Also, romantic entanglements.

Mourners share their memories of a dead film-star at her wake, a la Citizen Kane. Only melodrama.

Subsistence-economy slum guy who sells used newsprint for a living breaks into showbiz with an inadvertantly-comical fire-eater act. The novelty of...

A young architect returns from Europe to live in the house of his uncles and cousins, where someone pretends to be the Devil.

Teo, a young and struggling actor, disguises himself as a 79 year old man to take advantage from the benefits of a retirement home, while also trying...

During the Mexican Revolution, a butcher is forced to hide stolen train gold, but his wife pushes him into murder to keep it. Sparking guilt,...

Trophy wife of a crooked industrialist meets a philanthropic doctor and develops a social conscience. Mexican remake of Born Yesterday.

A mid-level government bureaucrat is forced to think hard about his ideas on governmental corruption and his own integrity.

The human and divine justice are exposed through five real life stories related to the legal processes of a prison. The cases presented are: "I want...

Two humble indigenous woodcutters discover the wreckage of a plane that has crashed at the top of the mountains and decide to steal the belongings of...

Childhood trauma and religious repression causes a little boy to grow up into a murderer.