Ignacio López Tarso Movies

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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...