Arturo Ripstein Movies

A formal dinner party starts out normally enough, but after the bourgeois group retire to the host’s music room, they inexplicably find...

In Vera Cruz in the 1940s, Nacho, an Indian, waits tables at Don Lázaro's café at Hotel Ofélia. He falls for Lola, an...

Family honor, greed, machismo, homophobia, and dreams collide in a small Mexican town.

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.

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...

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 all...

After her experiences in Nazi Germany, actress Macarena Granada traveled to Hollywood, where she became a star. In the 1950s, the diva returns to...

After the death of his son, Javier hopes that restoring his family's abandoned ranch will allow him and his wife Mariana, who attempted suicide, a...

A disciplined and sexually driven man forces his family to stay isolated in their home in order to protect them from the “evil nature” of...

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...

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 the...

After her husband leaves her for a younger woman, Julia plans her revenge with the help of her grandmother.

The arrival of Aunt Alejandra triggers a series of nightmarish events that will put the life of a family at mysterious risk.

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

When a young boy steals billiard balls from a local saloon, a stranger is charged with the crime. The local layabouts find there is no reason to hang...

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

A group of people, including Capulina and Viruta, head towards the city by train. A heavy storm interrupts their journey and now they must take a...

A profile and history of film director Akira Kurosawa.

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

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