Ignacio López Tarso Movies

Childhood trauma and religious repression causes a little boy to grow up into a murderer.

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

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

Man and woman have a couple of one-night-stands spread out over 15 or 20 years.

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...

Felino, his girlfriend and his two friends, have their film rejected from every film festival, so they decide to submit it as major filmmaker Tomas...

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

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...

Mourners share their memories of a dead film-star at her wake, a la Citizen Kane. Only melodrama.

In the fall of 1824 Javier Montenegro, Bradomin Marquis is spared death hanging by Captain Casares, and in return, the Marquis agrees to help him...

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...

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...

Peasant woman leads a regiment during the final days of the Mexican Revolution. Also, romantic entanglements.

Luisa is a small-town girl who works in the bakery of the widower Don Albino. Luisa dreams of marrying and loves children. Just as Don Albino shows...

"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...

An international oil company comes into conflict with a Mexican ranch owner who refuses to sell his land, resorting to a devious scheme to try to...

Drug dealer tries to force local subsistance farmers to sell their land to him. The village's "good" rich guy eventually gets around to helping them...

During the Mexican Revolution, a hardened and rich lady landowner is overtaken by the violence of the times. Losing her land and house, she falls in...

The human and divine justice are exposed through five real life stories related to the legal processes of a prison. The cases presented are: "I want...