Martin LaSalle

Michel takes up pickpocketing on a lark and is arrested soon after. His mother dies shortly after his release, and despite the objections of his only...

Romero is a compelling and deeply moving look at the life of Archbishop Oscar Romero of El Salvador, who made the ultimate sacrifice in a passionate...

A young girl's arrival at a convent after the death of her parents marks the beginning of a series of events that unleash an evil presence on the...

Corporate smuggling of South American killer bees into the United States results in huge swarms terrorizing the northern hemisphere. A small team of...

While attending the birth of Isabel, the wife of foreigner Felipe, Mama Santos predicts that "something terrible is going to happen in the town."...

A young sociology student has an unintended pregnancy and is subjected to the terrible humiliation of an incompetent doctor. The girl falls ill from...

The inmates of an insane asylum take over the institution, imprison the doctors and staff, and then put into play their own ideas of how the place...

Taking as a guiding theme of religion in Latin America, the film shows the pre-Columbian myths, the arrival of the white man, later syncretism and...

Pablo and Marina wake up in a hotel room and then travel the country together, she accompanies him while he is in the process of writing a traveler's...

After Moishe's death, family and friends sit Shiva in Mexico City. During seven days, secrets will be disclosed.

Five surreal short stories make up this Mexican anthology film.

Drama written by Octavio Paz.

At a museum of Mexico City arrives a perfectly conservated mumie. It is a vampire who has died years ago and who returns to life in search of his...

A documentary that follows up on what happened to the three principle actors in Robert Bresson's "Pickpocket."

A man becomes more and more infatuated with his childhood sweetheart leading to a haunting encounter with horror.

Young Danny is following his rich girlfriend's family to the Caribbean. But suddenly he simply must make a chemistry test and cannot go with them....

A tale of passion and betrayal in which Samson, a judge of Israel who fled with his tribe during the Great Exodus from Egypt, uses his herculean...

An expressionist reimagining of the classic Greek myth involving Acteón and Diana, transposed to Spain's Costa Brava by a future auteur of...

A woman abandons her partner, a journalist, but tortures him by sending him photos of her with her lovers.

A beautiful artist helps an amnesiac piece together his identity and evade a gangster on his trail.

Snippets of a family drama involving a rebellious son coming to his depressing home village, his father, and a jaded ex-lover, mixed with various...

A small film crew goes through several locations including Europe, New York and Mexico.

A plague is spreading through 16th century Mexico, and the Inquisition of the Roman Catholic Church is rooting out Jews, for they are believed to be...

After her birthday party, a little girl goes to bed looking forward to an amusement-park trip with her grandparents for the next day.

Three episodes: 1) "A Christmas dinner" where the family members fantasize about being somewhere else. The fetishist father wants to put on feminine...

A terrible disease is found in a Mexican town. A doctor tries to alert the authorities when he discovers its epidemic nature. No one listen to him...

Three U.S. journalists get too close to one another and their work in 1979 Nicaragua.

Unsympathetic portrait of a man who's too macho to display his feelings.

Tension between a jealous husband, his wife who's attracted to his friend and the friend is rising as their small, deeply catholic, Mexican village...

Based on the real-life experiences of Ed Horman. A conservative American businessman travels to Chile to investigate the sudden disappearance of his...

The french dancer America is in a hotel in Paris with her lover. He goes out to buy cigarettes and she imagines that he travels to Mexico, where he...

Based on a true story in the American owned Cananea mine. It depicts how the owner profits while the Mexican workers struggle to survive and are...

A soap opera actor is mixed in a real drama very similar to what he represents in his work.

A despondent Vietnam veteran in danger of losing his livelihood is pushed to the edge when he sees Vietnamese immigrants moving into the fishing...

Newly-committed to a mental institution, a woman tries to convince her doctors that her husband conspired to have her put away for selfish reasons...

Due to betting problems, Andrés and his lover, Blanca, flee the city and travel through several states of the country; During their journey...

In a totalitarian future, in a nightmare metropolis, inhabited only by criminals and police, Erik Lonnrot, a gifted detective, investigates a series...

Historical drama about the career of a hit-man who specialized in political assassinations in Mexico in the 1920s-30s.

Adult brothers compete for pateral affection and for control of the family estate.

Subjugated by power, the workers of a mining town organize clandestinely.

A man thought-dead comes home to find that his wife has sold their ranch and married a Mexican revolutionary.

Giff Hoyt, a cafe owner in Cabo Blanco, Peru after World War II is caught between refuge-seeking Nazis and their enemies. After the murder of a sea...

President Juárez fights against the conservatives, who have ordered an emperor to be brought from France to govern Mexico

A mother and her daughter receive a stranger in their home, who at first has an affair with the mother but then tries to push her aside to seduce the...

To maintain his powers, the evil wizard Traigon must sacrifice his firstborn child to the god Caligara. His wife, however, has other ideas and runs...

O.K. End Here is Frank’s 1963 short film about inertia in a modern relationship. The film alternates between semidocumentary scenes and shots...