Ignacio López Tarso Movies

Three-fer anthology of black-humor sex-n-death anecdotes.

The story tells us about an old teacher from the town, who upon knowing he was going to die, entrusts his sixth-grade class to a colleague who had...

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

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

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

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

A young architect returns from Europe to live in the house of his uncles and cousins, where someone pretends to be the Devil.

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...

"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...

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

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

A conflict arises between the people of the town and the local priest when they have to decide how to represent certain biblical episode.

The discovery of a young woman murdered in her car triggers unrelated problems among a diverse group of people.

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

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

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