Ignacio López Tarso Movies

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.

Childhood trauma and religious repression causes little boy to grow up and murder .

"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."

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

A man goes on a trip and then returns to his village pretending that everything went well for him.

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

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

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

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

Working-class dude grows up surrounded with petty delinquency and ghetto temptations; he marries a rich girl and faces the disapproval of her parents. Then the young couple plans a crime...

A beautiful woman, fatally ill of the heart, is torn between the love of a poor sculptor and a forced marriage with the sadistic son of a millionaire.

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

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 mount a resistance.

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

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

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 him wears off very quickly, and then...