Ignacio López Tarso Movies

Manuel is desperate to save his wife from death. A mysterious man appears to him one day at church, convincing him to go to a Healer who can help her.

In 1920s Mexico, the candidates being chosen to succeed the current president, El Caudillo, find themselves at his mercy as he will resort to...

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

Two humble indigenous woodcutters discover the wreckage of a plane that has crashed at the top of the mountains and decide to steal the belongings of...

Historical melodrama on horseback, 1840s or so in central Mexico. Pulpy, Zorro-ish...

Childhood trauma and religious repression causes little boy to grow up and murder .

During a lull in the Mexican Revolution when Francisco Madero became president and attempted to implement land reforms, two former revolutionaries...

Chronicle Caste War in Yucatan held in the nineteenth century, where the land and the people were the property of the landowners, who called...

Desperate to save his family from death threats by a notorious drug dealer, Mateo Cruz steals the venerated image of the Virgin of Guadalupe causing...

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

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...

In Santa Fe de Tierra Firme, an imaginary Latin American country, the indigenous dictator Santos Banderas rules with an iron fist. A group of rebels...

"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...

Priest defies the gods by refusing to sacrifice his daughter. Also: conquistadores.

A deaf and mute vagabond finds a large denomination bill in a Mexico City dump, and while he tries to buy something with it, others try to con him...

Northern Mexico, early 20th century. Reynaldo del Hierro is murdered while riding with his sons Reynaldo and Martín, whose mother instills in...

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

Anna is a psychologist undertaking research about famous suicidal women. She takes a specific interest in the case of Antonieta Rivas Mercado, who...

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