Ignacio López Tarso Movies

A poor, but very lucky man in the cock fighting business, is hired by a rich man, but both are in love with the same woman.

A behind-the-scenes documentary on the making of John Huston's "Under the Volcano" (1984).

Luisa is a small-town girl who works in the bakery of the widower Don Albino. Luisa dreams of marrying and loves children. Just as Don Albino shows...

Childhood trauma and religious repression causes a little boy to grow up into a murderer.

When a worker is found murdered on the construction side, the investigation swiftly turns from things criminal to the political circumstances...

A worker of the Mexican Indigenist Institute tries to help the Tarahumara Indians to protect and keep their lands, but he must face corrupt...

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...

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

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...

Teo, a young and struggling actor, disguises himself as a 79 year old man to take advantage from the benefits of a retirement home, while also trying...

Mourners share their memories of a dead film-star at her wake, a la Citizen Kane. Only melodrama.

A landowner known as Bulldog seeks to take over a ranch, but is opposed by the Brotherhood of the Blade, a group of tobacco smugglers made up of...

During the Mexican Revolution, a butcher is forced to hide stolen train gold, but his wife pushes him into murder to keep it. Sparking guilt,...

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...

Desperate to save his family from death threats by a notorious drug dealer, Mateo Cruz steals the venerated image of the Virgin of Guadalupe causing...

A young architect returns from Europe to live in the house of his uncles and cousins, where someone pretends to be the Devil.

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.

In the fall of 1824 Javier Montenegro, Bradomin Marquis is spared death hanging by Captain Casares, and in return, the Marquis agrees to help him...

"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...