Arturo Ripstein Movies

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

In the documentary about the Lecumberri prison (El palacio negro, 1976), which a few months later would be closed, Arturo Ripstein filmed, among many...

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

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...