Movies: Arturo Ripstein

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Friends of Luis Buñuel discuss the director while Buñuel mixes drinks and entertains friends in his home....

Thriller directed by Arturo Ripstein....

Mama has four daughters in their late teens. some of them might be more interested in careers than husbands, but she's hoping she'll find a highly suitable young man for each of them. If there are any out there that meet her standards....

Documentary about the founding of Ciudad Nezahualcóyotl on the outskirts of Mexico City in the sixties....

A story where the Cristero Rebellion creates a story of love, passion, and betrayal. When the Federal Rosas and his lover arrive in a town, a local woman feels strangely attracted to him. The woman will surrender under the pretext that the population...

Set in Mexico City, Mentiras Piadosas is the doomed love story of Clara and Israel. She is a health inspector and he is an herb merchant, who is obsessed with the construction of an enormous model of the ancient city of Tenochtitlan. They both decide...

As a teenager and student at a convent school, young Mariana runs away with her boyfriend, provoking the wrath of her father who sends her to Switzerland for ten years....

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Betty is visited by a strange salesman the day she is going away on a trip. He stays in the house as a series of bizarre events occur with his arrival....

Documentary about a Mexico City prison, notorious for holding political prisoners and for civil rights abuses committed there....

The haunting story of a child left in the care of a clown....

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Documentary following Gloria Contreras, a dancer, choreographer and pedagogue, as she manages her own dance company....

Two dark-comedy stories involving blackmail, murder and love triangles in Rio de Janeiro...

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"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 accidents that set it off, our imagination is a crucial privilege."...

Homero Olmos, a famous television publicist known as "H.O." or "The Voice of Experience," is driving along a lonely road heading to Rio de Janeiro when he meets Claudia and Luis, a newlywed couple whose car has been in an accident....

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