Ignacio López Tarso

Curandero (2025)

Manuel is desperate to save his wife from death. A mysterious man appears to him one day at church, convincing him to go to a Healer who can help her. ...

Buenos días, Ignacio (2021)

Wolves Aren't Meant For The Circus (2021)

After an all-nighter, Ricardo gets to his apartment only to find his family ready to have an intervention for him. His struggle with addiction is the least of his problems in this peculiar event where he faces his drug dealer, a prostitute and the worst co ...

Taken Identity (2020)

Felino, his girlfriend and his two friends, have their film rejected from every film festival, so they decide to submit it as major filmmaker Tomas Guevara latest film. ...

Más sabe el Diablo por Viejo (2018)

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 to sort out his personal and love life. ...

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. ...

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. ...

The Waterwheel (2013)

In a small town, time stops for a father who has lost his son. ...

Morenita: el escándalo (2009)

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 pandemonium throughout Mexico. ...

Veneno (2002)

Reclusorio (1997)

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 to stay in jail", "Blood between women", "The raped prostitute", "The kidnapped policeman", and "Euthanasia ...

Saint Lucifer (1997)

A conflict arises between the people of the town and the local priest when they have to decide how to represent certain biblical episode. ...

Banderas, the Tyrant (1993)

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 trying to seize power by force while some liberals try a change of government legally. ...

Codicia mortal (1991)

Drug dealer tries to force local subsistance farmers to sell their land to him. The village's "good" rich guy eventually gets around to helping them mount a resistance. ...

Muelle rojo (1987)

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

Astucia (1986)

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 skilled horsemen who operated during the turbulent times of General Antonio López de Santa Anna. ...

El otro (1986)

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

Toña Machetes (1985)

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

Notes from Under the Volcano (1984)

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

Under the Volcano (1984)

Against a background of war breaking out in Europe and the Mexican fiesta Day of Death, we are taken through one day in the life of Geoffrey Firmin, a British consul living in alcoholic disrepair and obscurity in a small southern Mexican town in 1939. The ...

Antonieta (1982)

Anna is a psychologist undertaking research about famous suicidal women. She takes a specific interest in the case of Antonieta Rivas Mercado, who killed herself in 1931 in the Cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris. ...

Viva México y sus corridos (1982)

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

Corrupción oficial (1980)

Los hijos de Sanchez (1978)

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 life of her own, the family and Sanchez face an enormous challenge. ...

The Children of Sanchez (1978)

Hall Bartlett directs the rural drama The Children of Sanchez, based on the tome The Children of Sanchez: Autobiography of a Mexican Family written by Oscar Lewis in the '60s. Anthony Quinn stars as the widowed Jesus Sanchez, a poor farmer struggling to pr ...

Los amantes frios (1978)

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

La casta divina (1977)

Chronicle Caste War in Yucatan held in the nineteenth century, where the land and the people were the property of the landowners, who called themselves " divine caste ". On one hand, General Salvador Alvarado organized the revolution; on the other, the lan ...

¿Y ahora qué, señor fiscal? (1977)

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

The Bricklayers (1976)

When a worker is found murdered on the construction side, the investigation swiftly turns from things criminal to the political circumstances surrounding the building itself. Widespread corruption and neglect by the builder himself are seen to have brought ...

Resigned for Reasons of Health (1976)

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

Rapine (1975)

Two humble indigenous woodcutters discover the wreckage of a plane that has crashed at the top of the mountains and decide to steal the belongings of all the occupants killed in the accident. ...

Looking for a Wall (1974)

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

The Prophet Mimi (1973)

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

Cayó de la gloria el diablo (1972)

Subsistence-economy slum guy who sells used newsprint for a living breaks into showbiz with an inadvertantly-comical fire-eater act. The novelty of him wears off very quickly, and then... ...

La Generala (1971)

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 love with a revolutionary leader that is killed by a sadistic and corrupt federal officer. She takes the re ...

The Useless Life of Pito Pérez (1970)

A man goes on a trip and then returns to his village pretending that everything went well for him. ...

La trinchera (1969)

The Door and the Butcher's Wife (1969)

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 bizarre corridor where a naked and menacing human figure appears. The second "La mujer del carnicero" (The But ...

The Devil's Visitations (1968)

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

A Long Journey Toward Death (1968)

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 dolls in a workshop attached to their apartment in New York. However, John does not heal and he starts looking for ...

Pedro Paramo (1967)

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 abandoned and sinister place, inhabited by mysterious voices and whispers… ...

Tarahumara (Further and farther) (1965)

An anthropologist goes to the mountains to study the problems of the indigenous people and finds out that they are being dispossessed of their lands. ...

Un hombre en la trampa (1965)

Odyssey of a man involved in a criminal activity, which leads him to his moral and material failure. ...

The Golden Cockerel (1964)

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. ...

Furia en el Edén (1964)

Cri-Cri the Singing little cricket (1963)

Biography of the famous composer of children's music Gabilondo Soler. Starts from his childhood, when he worked as a pastor and grandmother tried to teach him to play the piano. Later he went to the city to study music theory and began writing his first so ...

Autumn Days (1963)

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 interest in her, Luisa announces that she will marry soon with Carlos, the driver of a rich house whom she m ...

The Paper Man (1963)

A deaf and mute vagabond finds a large denomination bill in a Mexico City dump, and while he tries to buy something with it, others try to con him into giving it away. ...

Heart of a Child (1963)

Story about an old teacher from the town, who upon knowing he was going to die, entrusts his sixth-grade class to a colleague who had also been his student. Asking him to help them so that they could survive. ...

La Bandida (1963)

During a lull in the Mexican Revolution when Francisco Madero became president and attempted to implement land reforms, two former revolutionaries are pitted against each other for the love of the same woman. ...

My Son, the Hero (1961)

Northern Mexico, early 20th century. Reynaldo del Hierro is murdered while riding with his sons Reynaldo and Martín, whose mother instills in them the need for revenge. ...

Then God Named It Earth (1961)

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

The White Rose (1961)

An international oil company comes into conflict with a Mexican ranch owner who refuses to sell his land, resorting to a devious scheme to try to take over the property. ...

Juana Gallo (1961)

Peasant woman leads a regiment during the final days of the Mexican Revolution. Also, romantic entanglements. ...

Ellas también son rebeldes (1961)

The discovery of a young woman murdered in her car triggers unrelated problems among a diverse group of people. ...

The Shadow of the Tyrant (1960)

In 1920s Mexico, the candidates being chosen to succeed the current president, El Caudillo, find themselves at his mercy as he will resort to anything to accomplish his will, including kidnapping, betrayal, and murder. ...

Macario (1960)

Poor, hungry peasant Macario longs for just one good meal on the Day of the Dead. After his wife cooks a turkey for him, he meets three apparitions, the Devil, God, and Death. Each asks him to share his turkey, but he refuses all except Death. In return, D ...

La estrella vacía (1960)

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

Our Daily Hunger (1960)

Trophy wife of a crooked industrialist meets a philanthropic doctor and develops a social conscience. Mexican remake of Born Yesterday. ...

La Cucaracha (1959)

The Mexican Revolution serves as a backdrop to a torrid love triangle composed of three freedom fighters: a colonel, a widow, and a fiery female soldier. ...

Sonatas (1959)

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 escape to America. Adaptation of "Sonata de Otoño" and "Sonata de Estío" of Ramón María del Valle-Inclan, ...

Nazarín (1959)

A Catholic priest in a poor community lives a charitable life in accordance with his religious principles, but others do not return the favor. ...

Love Your Neighbor (1958)

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 at the end of the film playing the role of Luis, a man who has five daughters and looks forward to a boy, b ...

Vanilla, Bronze and to Die (1957)

A beautiful woman, fatally ill of the heart, is torn between the love of a poor sculptor and a forced marriage with the sadistic son of a millionaire. ...

Happy Year, My Love (1957)

Man and woman have a couple of one-night-stands spread out over 15 or 20 years. ...

Chilam Balam (1955)

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

La desconocida (1954)