Ignacio López Tarso Movies

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

Odyssey of a man involved in a criminal activity, which leads him to his moral and material failure.

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

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...

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.

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

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

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

An anthropologist goes to the mountains to study the problems of the indigenous people and finds out that they are being dispossessed of their lands.

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.