Ignacio López Tarso Movies

Subsistence-economy slum guy who sells used newsprint for a living breaks into showbiz with an inadvertantly-comical fire-eater act. The novelty of...

During the Mexican Agrarian Reform, an engineer travels to a town to distribute the land of the landowners among the peasants.

This film tells several short stories that end up lapsing in the emergency room of a hospital, because it is dedicated to nurses. Cantinflas appears...

In a small town, time stops for a father who has lost his son.

The life of the Mexican muralist José Clemente Orozco and his quest to create a career in New York.

A movie divided in two segments, the first "La puerta" (The Door) is about a high society gathering in which a door inside the mansion leads to a...

Trophy wife of a crooked industrialist meets a philanthropic doctor and develops a social conscience. Mexican remake of Born Yesterday.

"Nazarín is a Quixote of the priesthood " "Among the films I have made in Mexico, Nazarin is one that I prefer." "As inexplicable as the...

Song/action clips from 8 or 12 movies that starred Antonio Aguilar as historical figures, with an onscreen narrator who splains things.

When his mother Dolores dies, Juan Preciado, son of Pedro Páramo, goes to Comala to claim his inheritance; but when he arrives he finds an...

Three episodes from the "history" of organized labor in the harbors of Tampico, 1912 to modern-times.

A behind-the-scenes documentary on the making of John Huston's "Under the Volcano" (1984).

A mid-level government bureaucrat is forced to think hard about his ideas on governmental corruption and his own integrity.

During the Mexican Revolution, a butcher is forced to hide stolen train gold, but his wife pushes him into murder to keep it. Sparking guilt,...

A landowner known as Bulldog seeks to take over a ranch, but is opposed by the Brotherhood of the Blade, a group of tobacco smugglers made up of...

After an all-nighter, Ricardo gets to his apartment only to find his family ready to have an intervention for him. His struggle with addiction is the...

When a worker is found murdered on the construction side, the investigation swiftly turns from things criminal to the political circumstances...