Arturo Ripstein Movies

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...

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

A gunfighter is appointed sheriff of a town that is terrorized by a gang of criminals.

Documentary following Gloria Contreras, a dancer, choreographer and pedagogue, as she manages her own dance company.

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,...

Two dark-comedy stories involving blackmail, murder and love triangles in Rio de Janeiro

Many stories happen simultaneously through Internet. In the real world, people are lonely, isolated, desperate for finding love, friendship and...

Documentary about a Mexico City prison, notorious for holding political prisoners and for civil rights abuses committed there.

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

Documentary about the founding of Ciudad Nezahualcóyotl on the outskirts of Mexico City in the sixties.

A singer is on the run from the law and a criminal gang. She takes refuge at a hotel where she finally reveals a complex story of betrayal and...

Homero Olmos, a famous television publicist known as "H.O." or "The Voice of Experience," is driving along a lonely road heading to Rio de Janeiro...