Ignacio López Tarso Movies

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

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.

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.

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...

Felino, his girlfriend and his two friends, have their film rejected from every film festival, so they decide to submit it as major filmmaker Tomas...

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

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

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

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

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 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...

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

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...

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

"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...

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