Martin LaSalle

Martin LaSalle

Birth : 1935-01-01,

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Martin LaSalle

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Luisa's Dream
After her birthday party, a little girl goes to bed looking forward to an amusement-park trip with her grandparents for the next day.
Ópera
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 they pass through different points in the relationship, sometimes in full disagreement.
My Mexican Shivah
Isaac Fischer
After Moishe's death, family and friends sit Shiva in Mexico City. During seven days, secrets will be disclosed.
The Models of 'Pickpocket'
Himself
A documentary that follows up on what happened to the three principle actors in Robert Bresson's "Pickpocket."
Contratiempo
Second Century
A small film crew goes through several locations including Europe, New York and Mexico.
Avalón (Paleativo)
Death and the Compass
Dr. Yarmolinsky
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 feature film, 86 minutes.)
The Southern Cross
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 religious sacred territory where millions of Indians seeking refuge. This is repeated in Brazil, where African religions are another impenetrable territory, which also functions as a stronghold, a refuge.
Romero
Bishop Rivera y Damas
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 Romero from an apolitical, complacent priest to a committed leader of the Salvadoran people.
Nightlife
Old Man
At a museum of Mexico City arrives a perfectly conservated mumie. It is a vampire who has died years ago and who returns to life in search of his lost love Angelique. But unfortunately for him the young woman has met a doctor and fallen in love with him who supplies her with the blood she needs to resist the vampire attacks.
Goitia: A God for Himself
padre de Goitia
The Penitent
Miguel
Tension between a jealous husband, his wife who's attracted to his friend and the friend is rising as their small, deeply catholic, Mexican village is deciding who will be Christ during the possibly dangerous reenactment of the Crucifixion.
Sor Juana Inez de la cruz
Drama written by Octavio Paz.
Hot Pursuit
Prisoner (as Martin Lasalle)
Young Danny is following his rich girlfriend's family to the Caribbean. But suddenly he simply must make a chemistry test and cannot go with them. After they have left, he gets a leave from his professor and takes a plane to find them. But he is not quite sure where they are, and meets smugglers, crazy captains and murderers.
Alamo Bay
Luis
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.
Violent Stories
Five surreal short stories make up this Mexican anthology film.
The Devil and the Lady
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, who prostitutes and explodes, and wanders around the city getting involved in a strange plot with some gangsters.
A Real Man
Doctor
Unsympathetic portrait of a man who's too macho to display his feelings.
Under Fire
Commandante Cinco
Three U.S. journalists get too close to one another and their work in 1979 Nicaragua.
God's Crooked Lines
Dr. Dorantes / García del Olmo
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
Historical drama about the career of a hit-man who specialized in political assassinations in Mexico in the 1920s-30s.
Missing
Paris
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 implicate the US State department which supports the dictatorship.
Ora sí tenemos que ganar
The abuse of authority and the employer of a mining town make workers, influenced by reading articles from Ricardo Flores Magon in newspaper Regeneration, organize clandestinely and mutiny against the US, owner of the mine, which is refuses to rescue a group of workers trapped by a landslide.
La seducción
Mistery
Invitado 1
A soap opera actor is mixed in a real drama very similar to what he represents in his work.
Caboblanco
Aparicio
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 chief also intimidates a new arrival Marie, and Giff intervenes to help her. Giff suspects Beckdorff, a Nazi refugee living in the area. Beckdorff, it emerges, is seeking to uncover sunken treasure.
The Year of the Plague
Diplomatic
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. (IMDb)
The Bees
Saudi Arabia - United Nations
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 species that threatens the world.
Cananea
Mr. Curtis
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.
Pubertinaje
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 the saints of the church with her voice. The youngest son wants to stab everyone dead. 2) "Game of mirrors". Two young classmates kiss on a picnic, but the girl's brother accuses the couple of being immoral. Bizarre things develop. 3) "Tetrahedron". A very fat man faces his girlfriend's longing for love.
Cosas de mujeres
An uncompromising documentary, shot on black and white 16mm, which follows a young sociology student as she undergoes an illegal abortion.
Alucarda
Brother Felipe
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, and vampirism follows.
Desires
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.
Omen
Anciano
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
Díaz Márquez
A Jewish family suffers persecution and suffering in the 16th century when they are accused of practicing witchcraft.
Those Years
Duque de Morey
President Juárez fights against the conservatives, who have ordered an emperor to be brought from France to govern Mexico
The Master of Ballantrae
Galarza
Adult brothers compete for pateral affection and for control of the family estate.
The Mansion of Madness
Julien Couvier
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
Alfredo
A man becomes more and more infatuated with his childhood sweetheart leading to a haunting encounter with horror.
Hardcase
Luis Camacho
A man thought-dead comes home to find that his wife has sold their ranch and married a Mexican revolutionary.
The Gates of Paradise
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
Acteón
Acteón
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, the goddess of love, and is subsequently turned into a deer for his dogs to devour, Jorge Grau's modernist retelling resets the story to contemporary Spain, where a fisherman – played by Martin LaSalle, star of Bresson's Pickpocket – follows an enchanting, flirtatious stranger into the city.
Love with a stranger
A mother and her daughter receive a stranger in their home, who at first has an affair with the mother but then tries to push her aside to seduce the daughter.
Pickpocket
Michel
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 to improve his craft. With a police inspector keeping an eye on him, Michel also tries to get a straight job, but the temptation to steal is hard to resist.