Arturo Ripstein Movies

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

Genre: Crime

Cast: Regina Orozco

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Claudio Brook

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Claudio Brook

The film tells the story of the Boteros, a middle-class Mexican family struggling against poverty after their father's death. Ignacia (Egurrola) is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ernesto Laguardia

In a reinterpretation of Madame Bovary set on contemporary Mexico City, Emilia, a middle class housewife, tries to deal with the monotony of her...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Arcelia Ramírez

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Roberto Cobo

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Roberto Cobo

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Fernando Luján

In Vera Cruz in the 1940s, Nacho, an Indian, waits tables at Don Lázaro's café at Hotel Ofélia. He falls for Lola, an...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Juan Diego

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Arcelia Ramírez

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

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Cast: Armando Coria

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

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Patricia Reyes Spíndola

"La Nueva Jerusalem" is a small community of believers lead by Papá Basilio and Mamá Dorita. They're waiting for the second coming of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Francisco Rabal

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,...

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Cast: Damián Alcázar

The film tells the story of the Boteros, a middle-class Mexican family struggling against poverty after their father's death. Ignacia (Egurrola) is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ernesto Laguardia

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.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Pedro Armendáriz Jr.

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jorge Luke

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

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Isabela Corona

The legendary life of Mexican singer Lucha Reyes is the basis of this fictionalized biography ( or as director Arturo Ripstein puts it "an imaginary...

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Cast: Patricia Reyes Spíndola

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.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Pedro Armendáriz Jr.

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Luis Buñuel

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...

Genre: Western

Cast: Marga López

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Renato Salvatori

In a seedy brothel, their frustrations parade: A poet who has never published, a revolutionary who came late to history, a provocative angel, a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: María Barranco

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ernesto Gómez Cruz

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Isela Vega

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Patricia Reyes Spíndola

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

Genre: Documentary

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Patricia Reyes Spíndola

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

Genre: Crime

Cast: Silvia Pinal

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jorge Luke

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Alonso Echánove

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lucía Méndez

Directed by Arturo Ripstein

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Peter O'Toole

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rafael Sánchez Navarro

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Thriller directed by Arturo Ripstein.

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Pedro Armendáriz Jr.

Thriller directed by Arturo Ripstein.

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Pedro Armendáriz Jr.

A formal dinner party starts out normally enough, but after the bourgeois group retire to the host’s music room, they inexplicably find...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Silvia Pinal

Genre: Drama

Cast: Katy Jurado

Genre: Drama

Cast: Katy Jurado

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

Genre: Western

Cast: Claudio Brook

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sylvia Pasquel

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Renato Salvatori

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Gloria Contreras

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Peter O'Toole

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Gustavo Alatriste

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Genre: Drama

Cast: Martin LaSalle

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Cast: Mario Castillón Bracho

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