Ignacio López Tarso Movies

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...

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...

Song/action clips from 8 or 12 movies that starred Antonio Aguilar as historical figures, with an onscreen narrator who splains things.

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.

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

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...

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...

Chronicle Caste War in Yucatan held in the nineteenth century, where the land and the people were the property of the landowners, who called...

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...

A movie divided in two segments, the first "La puerta" (The Door) is about a high society gathering in which a door inside the mansion leads to a...

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

"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...

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

Three episodes from the "history" of organized labor in the harbors of Tampico, 1912 to modern-times.

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

Juan is subjected to shock treatment in the hands of Dr. David, and apparently is able to resume a "normal" life. He and his wife María make...

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