Arturo Ripstein — Director (17)
Seduction (1981) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
La seducción
other title: Víctima de la seducción / La seducción
The story of two women, a mother and her daughter, who during the Cristero War set traps for government soldiers passing by their house, using seduction that was never consummated. The idea was to deceive the soldiers by making them feel safe, then hand them over, almost with their hands tied, to the Cristero guerrillas. But then one of the women, the daughter, truly falls in love with one of the soldiers, allows herself to be seduced by him, and then tries to save him, only to be killed, in the circumstances, by the soldier himself.
Lecumberri, the Dark Palace (1977) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Lecumberri: El palacio negro
other title: Lecumberri: El palacio negro / Lecumberri, el palacio negro
The Lecumberri Penitentiary was one of the most notorious prisons in 20th-century Mexico, known for the notorious inmates who were held there and the appalling living conditions inside. This documentary records daily life in the prison shortly before its closure.
Memories of the Future (1969) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Los recuerdos del porvenir
other title: Los recuerdos del porvenir
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 is liberated when in reality she wants to consummate the passion that ignites her.
The Reasons of the Heart (2011) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Las razones del corazón
other title: Las razones del corazón
In a reinterpretation of Madame Bovary set on contemporary Mexico City, Emilia, a middle class housewife, tries to deal with the monotony of her life. One day, she loses the two things which makes everything beareable: her lover and her credit card.
Aunt Alejandra (1979) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
La tía Alejandra
director: Arturo Ripstein actor: Isabela Corona / Diana Bracho
other title: La tía Alejandra / 亞歷杭德拉阿姨
The arrival of Aunt Alejandra triggers a series of nightmarish events that will put the life of a family at mysterious risk.
The Queen of the Night (1994) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
La reina de la noche
director: Arturo Ripstein actor: 帕特里夏·雷耶斯·斯宾多拉 / Alberto Estrella
other title: La reine de la nuit / La reina de la noche
The legendary life of Mexican singer Lucha Reyes is the basis of this fictionalized biography ( or as director Arturo Ripstein puts it "an imaginary biography"). Lucha Reyes was an unconventional, and sexually liberated woman, most famous for her "cancion ranchera" style singing. Her story begins in 1939, where at 33 she still lived at home with her mother, Dona Victora, the madame of a renowned Mexico City whorehouse. Lucha marries the liberal Pedro Calderon and then buys a beggar's daughter. She becomes the mother to this child, Luzma. Lucha craves lasting love like junkies crave heroin. But for her loyal daughter, she never finds it and in the end no one can help her.
The Beginning and the End (1994) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Principio y fin
director: Arturo Ripstein actor: Julieta Egurrola / Ernesto Laguardia
other title: Principio y fin / 始与终
The film tells the story of the Boteros, a middle-class Mexican family struggling against poverty after their father's death. Ignacia (Egurrola) is the Boteros mother, a desperate woman who chooses to sacrifice the destiny of her three older children, in order to protect Gabriel (Laguardia) the youngest one. She believes Gabriel will climb the social structure and bring back the lost fortune to the family. But destiny has other plans for the Boteros and tragedy will overcome eventually. Based on the novel of Nobel Prize winner Naguib Mahfouz.
The Holy Inquisition (1974) [Movie] Douban IMDb WikiData TMDB
El santo oficio
director: Arturo Ripstein actor: Jorge Luke / Diana Bracho
other title: 圣公会 / El santo oficio
Gaspar de Carvajal, a Dominican, has not seen his family since the age of 10 when he was sent away to pursue the religious life. He attends the funeral of his father, where he notices that the body was washed, then buried in a shroud and without a coffin. Gaspar tells his confessor that he suspects his family, Jews converted to Catholicism, are still following the old ways. Father Lorenzo says this matter must be taken before the Inquisition. Alonso de Peralta, chief Inquisitor of New Spain, orders the Carvajal family arrested on the testimony of their son. Hernando, a Franciscan friar, is sent as a spy to the cell of Luis, Gaspar's brother. Luis's faith converts Hernando to Judaism. Under torture, Luis's mother Francisca confesses. Each family member renounces the Jewish heresy and is allowed to leave prison. But they are warned. If they revert to Judaism a second time, they will be burnt at the stake... Written by David Carless