Arturo Ripstein Movies

Father and daughter compete for the same passion in a ruthless place where kindness mixes with hate.

A very poor and handicapped man lives in a small town in Mexico with his mother. He works announcing things along the town (“The priest lost his cow, if someone…

“El Tarzan” Lira is an ex-convict who decides to give up his criminal past and reform his life. However, a corrupt policeman blackmails him leaving “El Tarzan” no other option…

The story of a disciplined and sexually driven man who keeps his family isolated in his home for years to protect them from the “evil nature” of human beings while…

For killing in a duel, Juan Sayago (Jorge Martínez de Hoyos) is sent to jail, and after serving 18 years of conviction , returns to his hometown, with the intention…

In Vera Cruz in the 1940s, Nacho, an Indian, waits tables at Don Lázaro’s café at Hotel Ofélia. He falls for Lola, an opium-addicted, alcoholic whore who’s hopelessly in love…

Old aunt Alejandra goes to live with a Mexican middle-class family; she’s bitter and the children tease her and make her life miserable, but the old woman is truly a…