Arturo Ripstein Movies

An erotic model has three lovers, one of them is the father of her child. Which of the three will be?

In a seedy brothel, their frustrations parade: A poet who has never published, a revolutionary who came late to history, a provocative angel, a...

"La Nueva Jerusalem" is a small community of believers lead by Papá Basilio and Mamá Dorita. They're waiting for the second coming of...

Betty is visited by a strange salesman the day she is going away on a trip. He stays in the house as a series of bizarre events occur with his...

A woman seeks help from one of her bigamous husband's killers to transport his corpse back to her home.

After her husband leaves her for a younger woman, the helping of her caring, but cynical godmother, is not enough to prevent Julia from plotting her...

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

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

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...

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...

Thriller directed by Arturo Ripstein.

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,...

A married couple entrusts the care of their young son to a strange clown. The film focuses on the relationship between the clown and the child, to...

"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...

Friends of Luis Buñuel discuss the director while Buñuel mixes drinks and entertains friends in his home.

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

Deceived over and over again by the whole world, a woman does not want to give up in the face of life's adversities.

An examination of the problem of alcoholism in Mexico, focusing primarily on the underprivileged, though it also analyzes how this addiction...

Two wrestlers decide to go to a hotel in order to meet two prostitutes.

A plague is spreading through 16th century Mexico, and the Inquisition of the Roman Catholic Church is rooting out Jews, for they are believed to be...