Arturo Ripstein

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 ...

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

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

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

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, ...

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

After her husband leaves her for a younger woman, the helping of her caring, but cynical godmother, is not enough to prevent Julia from plotting ...

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 ...

“La Nueva Jerusalem” is a small community of believers lead by Papá Basilio and Mamá Dorita. They’re waiting for the second ...

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

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 legendary life of Mexican singer Lucha Reyes is the basis of this fictionalized biography ( or as director Arturo Ripstein puts it “an ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

Thriller directed by Arturo Ripstein.

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 ...