Ignacio López Tarso Movies

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

The story tells us about an old teacher from the town, who upon knowing he was going to die, entrusts his sixth-grade class to a colleague who had...

Drug dealer tries to force local subsistance farmers to sell their land to him. The village's "good" rich guy eventually gets around to helping them...

After an all-nighter, Ricardo gets to his apartment only to find his family ready to have an intervention for him. His struggle with addiction is the...

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...

Man and woman have a couple of one-night-stands spread out over 15 or 20 years.

"Nazarín is a Quixote of the priesthood " "Among the films I have made in Mexico, Nazarin is one that I prefer." "As inexplicable as the...

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

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

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

The life of the Mexican muralist José Clemente Orozco and his quest to create a career in New York.

The discovery of a young woman murdered in her car triggers unrelated problems among a diverse group of people.

Working-class dude grows up surrounded with petty delinquency and ghetto temptations; he marries a rich girl and faces the disapproval of her...

Historical melodrama on horseback, 1840s or so in central Mexico. Pulpy, Zorro-ish...

Priest defies the gods by refusing to sacrifice his daughter. Also: conquistadores.

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

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

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