Martin LaSalle Movies

Five surreal short stories make up this Mexican anthology film.

Based on a true story in the American owned Cananea mine. It depicts how the owner profits while the Mexican workers struggle to survive and are...

A terrible disease is found in a Mexican town. A doctor tries to alert the authorities when he discovers its epidemic nature. No one listen to him...

At a museum of Mexico City arrives a perfectly conservated mumie. It is a vampire who has died years ago and who returns to life in search of his...

President Juárez fights against the conservatives, who have ordered an emperor to be brought from France to govern Mexico

A soap opera actor is mixed in a real drama very similar to what he represents in his work.

The french dancer America is in a hotel in Paris with her lover. He goes out to buy cigarettes and she imagines that he travels to Mexico, where he...

Historical drama about the career of a hit-man who specialized in political assassinations in Mexico in the 1920s-30s.

Adult brothers compete for pateral affection and for control of the family estate.

Unsympathetic portrait of a man who's too macho to display his feelings.

Three episodes: 1) "A Christmas dinner" where the family members fantasize about being somewhere else. The fetishist father wants to put on feminine...

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...

O.K. End Here is Frank’s 1963 short film about inertia in a modern relationship. The film alternates between semidocumentary scenes and shots...

A documentary that follows up on what happened to the three principle actors in Robert Bresson's "Pickpocket."

Tension between a jealous husband, his wife who's attracted to his friend and the friend is rising as their small, deeply catholic, Mexican village...

After Moishe's death, family and friends sit Shiva in Mexico City. During seven days, secrets will be disclosed.

A man thought-dead comes home to find that his wife has sold their ranch and married a Mexican revolutionary.

After her birthday party, a little girl goes to bed looking forward to an amusement-park trip with her grandparents for the next day.