Arturo Ripstein

Devil Between the Legs (2019)

Mexico City. Every day, Beatriz is insulted and humiliated by her jealous husband, but she does not flee his side because they have created a codependency and, at least for her, she would not conceive of her life any other way: by dint of feeling humiliate ...

Signos de vida y rebeldía (2016)

Documentary following Gloria Contreras, a dancer, choreographer and pedagogue, as she manages her own dance company. ...

Bleak Street (2015)

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

The Reasons of the Heart (2011)

In a reinterpretation of Madame Bovary set on contemporary Mexico City, Emilia, a middle class housewife, tries to deal with the monotony of her life. One day, she loses the two things which makes everything beareable: her lover and her credit card. ...

Crazy Carnival (2006)

In a seedy brothel, their frustrations parade: A poet who has never published, a revolutionary who came late to history, a provocative angel, a bureaucrat with delusions of a dancer, a greedy Chinese man and his timorous wife, Monica, a prostitute with low ...

Los héroes y el tiempo (2005)

In the documentary about the Lecumberri prison (El palacio negro, 1976), which a few months later would be closed, Arturo Ripstein filmed, among many other things, the crunch of political prisoners. Today, almost 30 years after that filming, he meets again ...

Mi gran noche (2004)

The Virgin of Lust (2002)

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 with Gardenia Wilson, a masked wrestler who slept with her once but knows she' ...

Such is Life (2001)

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 revenge. ...

The Ruination of Men (2000)

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

No One Writes to the Colonel (1999)

Every Friday, the Colonel puts on his only suit and goes to the dock to await a letter announcing the arrival of his pension. But the townsfolk all know that this pension will never come. His wife also knows it, and even he knows it. But he is still waitin ...

Divine (1998)

"La Nueva Jerusalem" is a small community of believers lead by Papá Basilio and Mamá Dorita. They're waiting for the second coming of Christ, so they've abandoned the world, searching for a new spiritual life. Mamá Dorita sees in young Tomasa the signal ...

Deep Crimson (1996)

Driven by desire and desperate for self-love, Coral and Nicolás will abandon their past lives in a journey surrounded by murder. ...

La mujer del puerto (1996)

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, Perla's mother, tries to prevent this incestuous relationship at all costs, but fails to do so. Set in a sordi ...

The Queen of the Night (1994)

The legendary life of Mexican singer Lucha Reyes is the basis of this fictionalized biography ( or as director Arturo Ripstein puts it "an imaginary biography"). Lucha Reyes was an unconventional, and sexually liberated woman, most famous for her "cancion ...

The Beginning and the End (1994)

The film tells the story of the Boteros, a middle-class Mexican family struggling against poverty after their father's death. Ignacia (Egurrola) is the Boteros mother, a desperate woman who chooses to sacrifice the destiny of her three older children, in o ...

Love Lies (1989)

Set in Mexico City, Mentiras Piadosas is the doomed love story of Clara and Israel. She is a health inspector and he is an herb merchant, who is obsessed with the construction of an enormous model of the ancient city of Tenochtitlan. ...

The Realm of Fortune (1986)

Poor Dionisio finds himself as recipient of the good fortune, but soon he forgets that everything that goes up also has to go down, and that in the depressing nothingness of his town it is easy to die. ...

El otro (1986)

A novelist travels to the country to learn the problems of a friend's shy son and runs into an intruder. ...

The Black Widow (1983)

Intrigues and secrets come together because of a woman, who has the protection of the parish priest. ...

Seduction (1981)

The story of two women, a mother and her daughter, who during the Cristero War set traps for government soldiers passing by their house, using seduction that was never consummated. The idea was to deceive the soldiers by making them feel safe, then hand th ...

Trail of Death (1981)

Thriller directed by Arturo Ripstein. ...

Aunt Alejandra (1980)

The arrival of Aunt Alejandra triggers a series of nightmarish events that will put the life of a family at mysterious risk. ...

Life Sentence (1979)

After being released from jail, "Tarzan" Lira seeks to rebuild his life as a bank employee. Unfortunately, it might not be as easy as he thinks. ...

The Illegal (1979)

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

The Place Without Limits (1978)

Family honor, greed, machismo, homophobia, and dreams collide in a small Mexican town. ...

Lecumberri, the Dark Palace (1977)

The Lecumberri Penitentiary was one of the most notorious prisons in 20th-century Mexico, known for the notorious inmates who were held there and the appalling living conditions inside. This documentary records daily life in the prison shortly before its c ...

The Drunkard (1976)

An examination of the problem of alcoholism in Mexico, focusing primarily on the underprivileged, though it also analyzes how this addiction transcends social, gender, and temporal barriers. ...

Foxtrot (1976)

A Romanian aristocrat retreats to a desert isle with his wife and servants on the eve of World War II. ...

The Holy Inquisition (1974)

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 its cause. At his father's funeral, a monk observes his family practicing Jewish burial rite, and he report ...

Cinco mil dolares de recompensa (1974)

A gunfighter is appointed sheriff of a town that is terrorized by a gang of criminals. ...

La causa (Tres preguntas a Chávez) (1974)

Castle of Purity (1973)

A disciplined and sexually driven man forces his family to stay isolated in their home in order to protect them from the "evil nature" of human beings. ...

The Castaway on the Street of Providence (1971)

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

Whoever is Responsible (1971)

Documentary about the founding of Ciudad Nezahualcóyotl on the outskirts of Mexico City in the sixties. ...

Autobiografía (1970)

Exorcismos (1970)

Crimen (1970)

La belleza (1970)

Memories of the Future (1969)

A story where the Cristero Rebellion creates a story of love, passion, and betrayal. When the Federal Rosas and his lover arrive in a town, a local woman feels strangely attracted to him. The woman will surrender under the pretext that the population is li ...

The Children's Hour (1969)

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 whom he reluctantly tells stories and tries to keep entertained while waiting for his fee to be paid. ...

Dangerous Game (1967)

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

Time to Die (1966)

A man comes home after serving 18 years in jail for murder in this routine western. Although the man killed in self defense, rumors in town circulated that he murdered the victim in cold blood. The ex-con wants to get his life together, but the two sons of ...

The Exterminating Angel (1962)

After a lavish dinner party, the guests find themselves unable to depart... and, over the next few days, all of their elaborate societal pretenses and façades deteriorate as they are reduced to living like animals. ...

Jugaremos en el bosque (2024)

After the death of his son, Javier hopes that restoring his family's abandoned ranch will allow him and his wife Mariana, who attempted suicide, a new beginning, but his grandmother refuses. ...

Recuerdo De Mi Presentación (2020)

One Hundred Years with Juan Rulfo (2017)

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. ...

The Queen of Spain (2016)

After her experiences in Nazi Germany, actress Macarena Granada traveled to Hollywood, where she became a star. In the 1950s, the diva returns to Francoist Spain to star a Hollywood blockbuster about Queen Isabella I of Castile. (A sequel to The Girl of Yo ...

Internet Junkie (2015)

Many stories happen simultaneously through Internet. In the real world, people are lonely, isolated, desperate for finding love, friendship and tenderness. They project themselves as superheroes, with infinity of friends and hypersex. They live asphyxiated ...

Tras Nazarin: Following Nazarin (2015)

"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 accidents that set it off, our imagination is a crucial privilege. ...

Arturo Ripstein habla de Luis Buñuel (2002)

Speaking of Buñuel (2000)

Surrealist master Luis Buñuel is a towering figure in the world of cinema history, directing such groundbreaking works as Un Chien Andalou, Exterminating Angels, and That Obscure Object of Desire, yet his personal life was clouded in myth and paradox. Tho ...

Kurosawa: The Last Emperor (1999)

A profile and history of film director Akira Kurosawa. ...

The African Lover (1985)

A singer is on the run from the law and a criminal gang. She takes refuge at a hotel where she finally reveals a complex story of betrayal and revenge to the investigating detective. ...

Trail of Death (1981)

Thriller directed by Arturo Ripstein. ...

Adriana del Rio, actriz (1979)

The Flight of the Stork (1979)

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

Cuartelazo (1977)

Narration of one of the bloodiest episodes of the Mexican national history, The Tragic Ten, beginning when General Victoriano Huerta sent to kill President Francisco I. Madero, Vice President José María Pino Suárez and Senator Belisario Dominguez. The f ...

Familiarities (1969)

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 arrival. ...

Mariana (1968)

As a teenager and student at a convent school, young Mariana runs away with her boyfriend, provoking the wrath of her father who sends her to Switzerland for ten years. ...

The Specter's Road (1967)

A group of people, including Capulina and Viruta, head towards the city by train. A heavy storm interrupts their journey and now they must take a haunted path to reach they city. ...

There Are No Thieves in This Village (1965)

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 out at the bar without being able to shoot pool, and the boy entertains thoughts of forming a gang to stea ...

Los novios de mis hijas (1964)

Mama has four daughters in their late teens. some of them might be more interested in careers than husbands, but she's hoping she'll find a highly suitable young man for each of them. If there are any out there that meet her standards. ...