Martin LaSalle

Luisa's Dream (2009)

After her birthday party, a little girl goes to bed looking forward to an amusement-park trip with her grandparents for the next day. ...

Nora's Will (2008)

Jose learns that Nora, the woman he was married to for 30 years and from whom divorced, has committed suicide. The rabbi explains Joseph that due to the celebrations this time of the year, if Nora is not buried that same day, they should wait at least 5 da ...

Ópera (2008)

Pablo and Marina wake up in a hotel room and then travel the country together, she accompanies him while he is in the process of writing a traveler's guide. Pablo is a married man with two daughters, while Marina is a college student. During the journey th ...

My Mexican Shivah (2007)

After Moishe's death, family and friends sit Shiva in Mexico City. During seven days, secrets will be disclosed. ...

The Models of 'Pickpocket' (2003)

A documentary that follows up on what happened to the three principle actors in Robert Bresson's "Pickpocket. ...

Contratiempo (2003)

Otaola o la república del exilio (2000)

A blend of documentary and fiction about the death of Simón Otaola. ...

Pilgrim (2000)

A beautiful artist helps an amnesiac piece together his identity and evade a gangster on his trail. ...

Second Century (1999)

A small film crew goes through several locations including Europe, New York and Mexico. ...

The Other Conquest (1999)

The film is a drama about the aftermath of the 1520s Spanish Conquest of Mexico told from the perspective of the indigenous Aztec people. It explores the social, religious, and psychological changes brought about by a historical process of colonization tha ...

Avalón (Paleativo) (1995)

Hasta Morir (1994)

A street kid's wish to run away to Tijuana is hampered by lies and betrayal ...

Death and the Compass (1992)

In a totalitarian future, in a nightmare metropolis, inhabited only by criminals and police, Erik Lonnrot, a gifted detective, investigates a series of strange murders and disappearances that seem to implicate a insane crime lord. (Re-released in 1996 as a ...

The Southern Cross (1992)

Taking as a guiding theme of religion in Latin America, the film shows the pre-Columbian myths, the arrival of the white man, later syncretism and liberation theology. The main theme is the "popular religion". In Latin America this forms a kind of religiou ...

Nightlife (1989)

In modern-day Mexico City, a vampiress is awakened from a century's sleep and finds herself romantically pursued by a doctor and an older male vampire. ...

Romero (1989)

Romero is a compelling and deeply moving look at the life of Archbishop Oscar Romero of El Salvador, who made the ultimate sacrifice in a passionate stand against social injustice and oppression in his county. This film chronicles the transformation of Rom ...

Goitia: A God for Himself (1989)

The Mexican painter Francisco Goitia, feeling his death approaching, manages to make a memory of his life: the reunion with his country and his people, his permanent search for identity as a man and as an artist and his struggle against the demons of the b ...

The Penitent (1988)

The Penitent (1988) isn't faith-affirming drama—it's lurid exploitation mocking Catholic penitents. In a devout New Mexico/Mexico village reenacting Christ's Passion (flagellation, crucifixion), jealous husband Ramon (Raúl Juliá) joins fanatical Penite ...

Sor Juana Inez de la cruz (1988)

Drama written by Octavio Paz. ...

Hot Pursuit (1987)

High school student Dan Bartlett misses the plane he was supposed to be on with his rich girlfriend and her family on the way to a Caribbean vacation during a school break. He flies there alone, and runs into a series of characters and misadventures as he ...

Noche de Calífas (1987)

Murder in Three Acts (1986)

In Acapulco, Hercule Poirot attends a dinner party in which one of the guests clutches his throat and suddenly dies. The causes seem to be natural until another party with most of the same guests produces another corpse. ...

Violent Stories (1985)

Five surreal short stories make up this Mexican anthology film. ...

Alamo Bay (1985)

A despondent Vietnam veteran in danger of losing his livelihood is pushed to the edge when he sees Vietnamese immigrants moving into the fishing industry in a Texas bay town. ...

El diablo y la dama (1984)

The french dancer America is in a hotel in Paris with her lover. He goes out to buy cigarettes and she imagines that he travels to Mexico, where he makes a cabaret number dancing with a mannequin that represents the devil. It is related to the gigolo Jimmy ...

Samson and Delilah (1984)

A tale of passion and betrayal in which Samson, a judge of Israel who fled with his tribe during the Great Exodus from Egypt, uses his herculean strength in the fight against the Philistine oppressors. He is seduced by Delilah, a Philistine courtesan, who ...

Desires (1983)

Snippets of a family drama involving a rebellious son coming to his depressing home village, his father, and a jaded ex-lover, mixed with various surrealist scenes and statements about sin. ...

Todo un hombre (1983)

Unsympathetic portrait of a man who's too macho to display his feelings. ...

Under Fire (1983)

Three U.S. journalists get too close to one another and their work in 1979 Nicaragua. ...

God's Crooked Lines (1983)

Newly-committed to a mental institution, a woman tries to convince her doctors that her husband conspired to have her put away for selfish reasons unrelated to her mental health. ...

Aquel famoso Remington (1982)

Historical drama about the career of a hit-man who specialized in political assassinations in Mexico in the 1920s-30s. ...

Red Bells Part I: Mexico in Flames (1982)

American journalist John Reed travels to Mexico during the Mexican Revolution and interviews Francisco Villa. At the same time, we learn about his relationship with his lover Mabel Dodge, his participation in the Patterson strike, and his work as a reporte ...

Sorceress (1982)

Twin warrior sisters, raised in the wilderness and trained for battle, must survive a bizarre world of monsters, cultists, zombies, and barbarians as they prepare for a final showdown with the father who once tried to destroy them. ...

Missing (1982)

Based on the real-life experiences of Ed Horman. A conservative American businessman travels to Chile to investigate the sudden disappearance of his son after a military takeover. Accompanied by his son's wife he uncovers a trail of cover-ups that implicat ...

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 ...

'Ora sí ¡tenemos que ganar! (1981)

Subjugated by power, the workers of a mining town organize clandestinely. ...

Mystery (1980)

A soap opera actor is mixed in a real drama very similar to what he represents in his work. ...

Caboblanco (1980)

Giff Hoyt, a cafe owner in Cabo Blanco, Peru after World War II is caught between refuge-seeking Nazis and their enemies. After the murder of a sea explorer is passed off as accidental death by the corrupt local police, Giff becomes suspicious. The police ...

Women's Things (1979)

A young sociology student has an unintended pregnancy and is subjected to the terrible humiliation of an incompetent doctor. The girl falls ill from the poorly performed abortion and is taken by a friend to the General Hospital. Film that reports clandesti ...

The Bees (1978)

Corporate smuggling of South American killer bees into the United States results in huge swarms terrorizing the northern hemisphere. A small team of scientists work desperately to destroy the threat, but the bees soon mutate into a super-intelligent specie ...

Cananea (1978)

Based on a true story in the American owned Cananea mine. It depicts how the owner profits while the Mexican workers struggle to survive and are exploited for their labour. ...

The Year of the Plague (1978)

A terrible disease is found in a Mexican town. A doctor tries to alert the authorities when he discovers its epidemic nature. No one listen to him and soon after the disease spreads. The government tries to control the information in order to prevent panic ...

Pubertinaje (1978)

Three episodes: 1) "A Christmas dinner" where the family members fantasize about being somewhere else. The fetishist father wants to put on feminine clothes. The son longs for another transvestite adventure. The daughter yearns to be a singer and destroy t ...

Alucarda (1977)

A young girl's arrival at a convent after the death of her parents marks the beginning of a series of events that unleash an evil presence on the girl and her mysterious new friend, an enigmatic figure known as Alucarda. Demonic possession, Satan worship, ...

Celestina (1976)

An adaptation of the tragicomedy "Calisto y Melibea", attributed to Fernando de Rojas. ...

El infierno tan temido (1975)

A woman abandons her partner, a journalist, but tortures him by sending him photos of her with her lovers. ...

Omen (1974)

While attending the birth of Isabel, the wife of foreigner Felipe, Mama Santos predicts that "something terrible is going to happen in the town." From this omen, calamities will torment the locals. ...

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 ...

Those Years (1974)

President Juárez fights against the conservatives, who have ordered an emperor to be brought from France to govern Mexico ...

The Master of Ballantrae (1974)

Adult brothers compete for pateral affection and for control of the family estate. ...

The Mansion of Madness (1973)

The inmates of an insane asylum take over the institution, imprison the doctors and staff, and then put into play their own ideas of how the place should be run. ...

Queen Doll (1972)

A man becomes more and more infatuated with his childhood sweetheart leading to a haunting encounter with horror. ...

Hardcase (1972)

A man thought-dead comes home to find that his wife has sold their ranch and married a Mexican revolutionary. ...

The Gates of Paradise (1971)

Due to betting problems, Andrés and his lover, Blanca, flee the city and travel through several states of the country; During their journey they get involved with a couple of hippies with whom they live for a time until the tragedy is complete. ...

Exorcismos (1970)

Acteón (1967)

An expressionist reimagining of the classic Greek myth involving Acteón and Diana, transposed to Spain's Costa Brava by a future auteur of horror cinema. Based on the myth from Ovid's Metamorphoses in which Acteón accidentally catches a glimpse of Diana ...

O.K. End Here (1963)

O.K. End Here is Frank's 1963 short film about inertia in a modern relationship. The film alternates between semidocumentary scenes and shots composed with rigid formality, and appears to have been directly influenced by the French Nouvelle Vague and Miche ...

Pickpocket (1959)

Michel takes up pickpocketing on a lark and is arrested soon after. His mother dies shortly after his release, and despite the objections of his only friend, Jacques, and his mother's neighbor Jeanne, Michel teams up with a couple of petty thieves in order ...