Ignacio López Tarso Movies

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

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.

When his mother Dolores dies, Juan Preciado, son of Pedro Páramo, goes to Comala to claim his inheritance; but when he arrives he finds an...

Working-class dude grows up surrounded with petty delinquency and ghetto temptations; he marries a rich girl and faces the disapproval of her...

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.

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

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

The Sanchez clan have seen the worst of times, but they have survived by sticking together. When Sanchez's oldest daughter Consuelo plans to build a...

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...

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,...

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

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

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

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

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

A woman adopts a child and discovers that she can love again despite facing a wicked man.

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...

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

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