Arturo Ripstein

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 humiliated, she feels desired and desirable.

Depois de suas experiências na Alemanha nazista, a atriz Macarena Granada viajou para Hollywood, onde se tornou uma estrela. Nos anos 50, a diva retorna à Espanha franquista para estrelar um sucesso de bilheteria de Hollywood sobre a rainha Isabella I de Castela.

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

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 in front of their machines, unable to live with the people that surround them, exasperated for finding a pinch of love in the fantasy of the net. Outside the virtual world, they do not exist.

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

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

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.

Residents of a bordello scurry to put together their outfits for an annual carnival.

Directed by Arturo Ripstein

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's unbalanced. Don Lázaro warns Nacho about Lola, and Nacho knows his love will be unrequited, but he'll do anything, regardless of how degrading, to be near her. Lola, for her part, can be sadistic. Republican exiles who are regulars at the café encourage Lola's desire to assassinate Franco. Nacho in turn mixes this political mirage with his fascination with the plot of "The Mikado." Where do fantasies and obsessions lead?

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

After her husband leaves her for a younger woman, Julia plans her revenge with the help of her grandmother.

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 waiting, living with the pain of the death of his son.

A profile and history of film director Akira Kurosawa.

"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 signals of the chosen one. The young girl will be the new leader in "La Nueva Jerusalem".

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

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 ranchera" style singing. Her story begins in 1939, where at 33 she still lived at home with her mother, Dona Victora, the madame of a renowned Mexico City whorehouse. Lucha marries the liberal Pedro Calderon and then buys a beggar's daughter. She becomes the mother to this child, Luzma. Lucha craves lasting love like junkies crave heroin. But for her loyal daughter, she never finds it and in the end no one can help her.

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 order to protect Gabriel (Laguardia) the youngest one. She believes Gabriel will climb the social structure and bring back the lost fortune to the family. But destiny has other plans for the Boteros and tragedy will overcome eventually. Based on the novel of Nobel Prize winner Naguib Mahfouz.

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 order to protect Gabriel (Laguardia) the youngest one. She believes Gabriel will climb the social structure and bring back the lost fortune to the family. But destiny has other plans for the Boteros and tragedy will overcome eventually. Based on the novel of Nobel Prize winner Naguib Mahfouz.

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 sordid environment, the director makes no concessions in this tragic love affair, which is narrated from three different points of view.

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. They both decide to leave their respective partners to live together, however, jealousy, blackmail and guilt will become unbreakable patterns destroying their tragic relationship

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.

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

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.

Thriller directed by Arturo Ripstein.

Thriller directed by Arturo Ripstein.

Thriller directed by Arturo Ripstein.

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

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

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.

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.

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

Father and daughter compete for the same passion in a ruthless place where kindness mixes with hate.

Father and daughter compete for the same passion in a ruthless place where kindness mixes with hate.

Documentary about a Mexico City prison, notorious for holding political prisoners and for civil rights abuses committed there.

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

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 film recreates the moment of the execution at the hands of Huerta and his accomplices Bernardo Reyes, Félix Díaz and Manuel Mondragón.

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

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

A Jewish family suffers persecution and suffering in the 16th century when they are accused of practicing witchcraft.

A Jewish family suffers persecution and suffering in the 16th century when they are accused of practicing witchcraft.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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 liberated when in reality she wants to consummate the passion that ignites her.

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 liberated when in reality she wants to consummate the passion that ignites her.

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.

The haunting story of a child left in the care of a clown.

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. (English Subtitled)

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

Juan Sayago é condenado a dezoito anos de prisão após matar um homem em um duelo. Juan cumpre sua pena e assim que sai da cadeia, traça um plano para sua vida: viver tranquilamente em sua cidade natal ao lado de Mariana Sampedro. No entanto, os filhos do homem que Juan matou não pretendem deixar que ele viva tão tranquilamente assim.

Em um pequeno povoado, vive Dámaso, um vagabundo mantido por Ana, sua esposa, que é mais velha do que ele e que está grávida. Uma noite, ele entra no salão de Don Ubaldo, e leva três bolas de brilhar, isso é tudo que encontra por lá. A culpa recai sobre um forasteiro e, o crime gera uma grande crise na cidade, especialmente entre os homens, pois o bilhar é sua única diversão. Adaptação do conto de Gabriel García Márquez.

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.

Após uma extravagante e farta refeição, os convidados de uma festa de alta classe se sentem estranhamente incapazes de deixar a sala de jantar e, nos dias que se seguem, pouco a pouco, caem as máscaras de civilização e virtude e o grupo passa a viver como animais.