Ignacio López Tarso Movies

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

Two humble indigenous woodcutters discover the wreckage of a plane that has crashed at the top of the mountains and decide to steal the belongings of...

An anthropologist goes to the mountains to study the problems of the indigenous people and finds out that they are being dispossessed of their lands.

Biography of the famous composer of children's music Gabilondo Soler. Starts from his childhood, when he worked as a pastor and grandmother tried to...

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...

In Santa Fe de Tierra Firme, an imaginary Latin American country, the indigenous dictator Santos Banderas rules with an iron fist. A group of rebels...

During the Mexican Agrarian Reform, an engineer travels to a town to distribute the land of the landowners among the peasants.

"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...

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...

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

A man goes on a trip and then returns to his village pretending that everything went well for him.

This documentary explores key moments in the life of writer Juan Rulfo, with artists such as Werner Herzog and Eduardo Galeano reflecting on his work.

During the Mexican Revolution, a hardened and rich lady landowner is overtaken by the violence of the times. Losing her land and house, she falls in...

Childhood trauma and religious repression causes little boy to grow up and murder .

During a lull in the Mexican Revolution when Francisco Madero became president and attempted to implement land reforms, two former revolutionaries...

This film tells several short stories that end up lapsing in the emergency room of a hospital, because it is dedicated to nurses. Cantinflas appears...

Three-fer anthology of black-humor sex-n-death anecdotes.

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

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

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