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1. The Exterminating Angel (1962)
Not Rated | 95 min | Drama, Fantasy
The guests at an upper-class dinner party find themselves unable to leave.
Director: Luis Buñuel | Stars: Silvia Pinal, Jacqueline Andere, Enrique Rambal, José Baviera
Votes: 35,644
2. Mujer, casos de la vida real (1985–2007)
TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
It is a Mexican series that shares real stories that have been sent to Silvia Pinal, the host of the show; the episodes deal with strong issues surrounding women that don't always end well.
Stars: Silvia Pinal, Eduardo De Gortari, Ricardo Vera, Thelma Dorantes
Votes: 294
3. Jugaremos en el bosque (2024)
90 min | Horror
Directors: Alejandra Cárdenas, Guillermo Granillo | Stars: Lucía Gómez-Robledo, Alejandro Cuétara, Víctor Albor, Emilio Cortés Alonso
Votes: 54
4. The Castle of Purity (1973)
Not Rated | 110 min | Drama
The story of a disciplined and sexually driven man who keeps his family isolated in his home for years to protect them from the "evil nature" of human beings while inventing (with his wife)... See full summary »
Director: Arturo Ripstein | Stars: Claudio Brook, Rita Macedo, Arturo Beristáin, Diana Bracho
Votes: 2,399
5. The Queen of Spain (2016)
128 min | Comedy, Drama
Nearly twenty years after the events of "The Girl of Your Dreams." in the 1950s, Macarena Granada, who has become a Hollywood star, returns to Spain to film a blockbuster about Queen Isabella I of Castile.
Director: Fernando Trueba | Stars: Penélope Cruz, Antonio Resines, Neus Asensi, Ana Belén
Votes: 2,278
6. Foxtrot (1976)
R | 91 min | Adventure, Drama, Thriller
At the beginning of WW2, Liviu, a Romanian count, and his wife Julia come to live on an uninhabited tropical island, where they hope to escape the war and their past. They bring with them ... See full summary »
Director: Arturo Ripstein | Stars: Peter O'Toole, Charlotte Rampling, Max von Sydow, Jorge Luke
Votes: 394
7. An Unknown Enemy (2018– )
60 min | Drama, Thriller
Fernando Barrientos, Head of the National Security Directorate, Mexico's Secret Police, is trying to reach the highest position in the country.
Stars: Daniel Giménez Cacho, Roberto Duarte, Antonio de la Vega, Kristyan Ferrer
Votes: 592
8. Simplemente María (1989–1990)
Drama, Romance
The innocent María López leaves her town, looking for a better economic future in Mexico City. She gets a job as a servant in the home of a wealthy family. María falls in love and gives up her employer's son and he leaves her pregnant.
Stars: Victoria Ruffo, Jaime Garza, Gabriela Goldsmith, Adriana Parra
Votes: 321
9. Deep Crimson (1996)
114 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
The life of a man who preys on unsuspecting women for a living is changed when he finds an accomplice in the woman who loves and controls him.
Director: Arturo Ripstein | Stars: Regina Orozco, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Sherlyn, Giovani Florido
Votes: 2,096
10. The Place Without Limits (1978)
Not Rated | 110 min | Drama
Family honor, greed, machismo, homophobia, and the dreams of whores collide in a Mexican town. Rich, elderly Don Alejo is poised to sell the town for a profit, needing only to buy a ... See full summary »
Director: Arturo Ripstein | Stars: Roberto Cobo, Fernando Soler, Lucha Villa, Ana Martín
Votes: 1,655
11. El coronel no tiene quien le escriba (1999)
Not Rated | 122 min | Drama
Every Friday, the Colonel puts on his only suit and goes to the dock to await a letter announcing the arrival of his pension. But the townsfolk all know that this pension will never come. ... See full summary »
Director: Arturo Ripstein | Stars: Fernando Luján, Marisa Paredes, Salma Hayek, Rafael Inclán
Votes: 1,234
12. Devil Between the Legs (2019)
147 min | Drama, Romance
Beatriz (Silvia Pasquel) and the Old Man (Alejandro Suárez) have been together for decades. A retired homeopathic pharmacist, the Old Man now divides his time between their Mexico City home... See full summary »
Director: Arturo Ripstein | Stars: Silvia Pasquel, Alejandro Suárez, Greta Cervantes, Daniel Giménez Cacho
Votes: 265
13. The Holy Inquisition (1974)
127 min | Drama
A gripping, shocking story of the Spanish Inquisition hunting Jews, believed to be the cause of a plague spreading in 16th century colonial Mexico. A monk reports a family practicing Jewish burial rites bringing devastating consequences.
Director: Arturo Ripstein | Stars: Jorge Luke, Diana Bracho, Claudio Brook, Ana Mérida
Votes: 381
14. Time to Die (1966)
90 min | Drama, Western
After serving his conviction, a former gunman returns to his town planning to live a quiet life, however, the sons of a man he killed have other plans.
Director: Arturo Ripstein | Stars: Marga López, Jorge Martínez de Hoyos, Enrique Rocha, Alfredo Leal
Votes: 549 | Gross: $0.01M
15. El otro (II) (1984)
105 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A novelist travels to the country to learn the problems of a friend's shy son and runs into an intruder.
Director: Arturo Ripstein | Stars: Rafael Sánchez Navarro, Juan Ignacio Aranda, Aline Davidoff, Ignacio López Tarso
Votes: 57
16. The Realm of Fortune (1986)
130 min | Drama
Poor Dionisio finds himself as recipient of the good fortune, but soon he forgets that everything that goes up also has to go down, and that in the depressing nothingness of his town it is easy to die.
Director: Arturo Ripstein | Stars: Ernesto Gómez Cruz, Blanca Guerra, Alejandro Parodi, Zaide Silvia Gutiérrez
Votes: 513
17. La tía Alejandra (1980)
98 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
Old aunt Alejandra goes to live with a Mexican middle-class family; she's bitter and the children tease her and make her life miserable, but the old woman is truly a witch, and takes revenge.
Director: Arturo Ripstein | Stars: Diana Bracho, Isabela Corona, Manuel Ojeda, María Rebeca
Votes: 457
18. The Outsiders (1967)
95 min | Comedy, Drama
A rich, aristocratic engaged couple (Julissa, Enrique Alvarez Felix) abandons a dinner party to enjoy a night on the town with an urban gang known as Los Caifanes.
Director: Juan Ibáñez | Stars: Julissa, Enrique Álvarez Félix, Óscar Chávez, Ernesto Gómez Cruz
Votes: 714
19. Los novios de mis hijas (1964)
PG | 93 min | Family, Drama
Una viuda, su ahijado y sus cuatro hijas se verán envueltos en un drama familiar, en el que también se involucrarán los jóvenes que las cortejan.
Director: Alfredo B. Crevenna | Stars: Amparo Rivelles, Julio Alemán, Maricruz Olivier, Patricia Conde
Votes: 43
20. The Black Widow (1977)
88 min | Drama
Matea is an orphan who assists the priest, Father Feliciano, in his parish. The village doctor tries to seduce her, but fails and proceeds to defame her into believing that Matea maintains relations with the priest.
Director: Arturo Ripstein | Stars: Isela Vega, Mario Almada, Sergio Jiménez, Hilda Aguirre
Votes: 330
21. Días de cine (1991– )
60 min | News
Antonio Gasset hosts this show in which recently released movies and DVDs are thoughtfully discussed in a documentary-like way.
Stars: Gerardo Sánchez, Elena S. Sánchez, Antonio Gasset, Cayetana Guillén Cuervo
Votes: 335
22. The Beginning and the End (1993)
188 min | Drama
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... See full summary »
Director: Arturo Ripstein | Stars: Ernesto Laguardia, Julieta Egurrola, Blanca Guerra, Verónica Merchant
Votes: 473
23. Juego peligroso (1967)
94 min | Comedy, Crime
Two stories set in Río de Janeiro: The first (HO) is about a man who picks up a newlywed couple on the highway to Río; their car is wrecked and the man offers to deliver the bride to their ... See full summary »
Directors: Luis Alcoriza, Arturo Ripstein | Stars: Silvia Pinal, Julissa, Milton Rodríguez, Leonardo Villar
Votes: 48
24. En este pueblo no hay ladrones (1965)
82 min | Drama
Dámaso lives in a small town with his wife Ana, who is expecting a child.
Director: Alberto Isaac | Stars: Julián Pastor, Rocío Sagaón, Graciela Enríquez, Luis Buñuel
Votes: 107
25. La virgen de la lujuria (2002)
151 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance
In Vera Cruz in the 1940s, Nacho, an Indian, waits tables at Don Lázaro's café at Hotel Ofélia. He falls for Lola, an opium-addicted, alcoholic whore who's hopelessly in love with Gardenia ... See full summary »
Director: Arturo Ripstein | Stars: Luis Felipe Tovar, Ariadna Gil, Patricia Reyes Spíndola, Juan Diego
Votes: 402
26. Cinema 3 (1984–2016)
News
Stars: Jaume Figueras, Crisol Tuà, Monts Llussà, Àlex Gorina
Votes: 231
27. Así es la vida... (2000)
98 min | Drama, Romance
Based on the Greek tragedy MEDEA, this is a present day Mexican version, set in the seediest possible milieu of Mexico City. A woman abandoned by her husband, is thrown out of her apartment... See full summary »
Director: Arturo Ripstein | Stars: Arcelia Ramírez, Patricia Reyes Spíndola, Luis Felipe Tovar, Ernesto Yáñez
Votes: 356
28. Sweet Challenge (1988–1989)
Drama, Romance
Love story between a teacher and a student in a all-girls boarding school
Stars: Eduardo Yáñez, Adela Noriega, Enrique Lizalde, Sergio Kleiner
Votes: 53
29. Life Sentence (1979)
95 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A former felon is blackmailed by a corrupt policeman and forced to commit a crime.
Director: Arturo Ripstein | Stars: Pedro Armendáriz Jr., Narciso Busquets, Ernesto Gómez Cruz, Angélica Chain
Votes: 528
30. Seduction (1981)
90 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
Director: Arturo Ripstein | Stars: Katy Jurado, Viridiana Alatriste, Gonzalo Vega, Noé Murayama
Votes: 53
31. Bleak Street (2015)
Not Rated | 99 min | Crime, Drama
In the small hours of the morning, two elderly hookers return to their hovels. They are not tired from working; they are tired of not doing do. One has problems at home with her teenage ... See full summary »
Director: Arturo Ripstein | Stars: Patricia Reyes Spíndola, Nora Velázquez, Silvia Pasquel, Alejandro Suárez
Votes: 335
32. Triángulo (1992)
Drama, Romance
Stars: Daniela Castro, Humberto Elizondo, Eduardo Palomo, Guillermo García Cantú
Votes: 25
33. Internet Junkie (2015)
91 min
Inside the virtual world - A soldier looks for relationships, a teenager search for porn, women try to find love and the best -or any- lover in the area - outside the virtual world no one is what they seem.
Director: Alexander Katzowicz | Stars: Antonio Birabent, Ángela Molina, Arturo Ripstein, Nicolás Mateo
Votes: 28
34. Quebranto (2013)
TV-MA | 90 min | Documentary, Biography, Drama
The memory and testimony of two characters: One, who was a child actor in the seventies, and Lilia Ortega, his mother, an actress. Fernando came out as a transvestite some years ago, and ... See full summary »
Director: Roberto Fiesco | Stars: Fernando García Ortega, Lilia Ortega, Jorge Fons, Patricio Pereda
Votes: 186
35. La sonrisa del diablo (1992)
Stars: Rebecca Jones, Enrique Álvarez Félix, Ernesto Laguardia, Jaime Garza
Votes: 20
36. The Queen of the Night (1994)
117 min | Drama, Romance
A female cabaret artist has to leave Berlin, Germany, after an incident with the Nazis. Back in her motherland Mexico she tries and succeeds in remaking her career.
Director: Arturo Ripstein | Stars: Patricia Reyes Spíndola, Alberto Estrella, Blanca Guerra, Ana Ofelia Murguía
Votes: 230
37. Dile que la quiero (1963)
90 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
Director: Fernando Cortés | Stars: César Costa, Patricia Conde, Óscar Madrigal, Beatriz Aguirre
Votes: 22
38. Woman of the Port (1991)
110 min | Drama
Perla is a teenager who has been prostituted by her mother, Tomasa and acts as a dancer in a cabaret-brothel. The pianist who plays at the venue is a romantic singer-songwriter and ... See full summary »
Director: Arturo Ripstein | Stars: Evangelina Sosa, Alejandro Parodi, Damián Alcázar, Patricia Reyes Spíndola
Votes: 236
39. Adriana del Río, actriz (1979)
95 min | Drama
A young woman is willing to have sex with a lot of businessmen if that is what it takes to become a movie star, but she ends up working in a brothel instead.
Director: Alberto Bojórquez | Stars: Ana Luisa Peluffo, Julián Pastor, Claudio Obregón, Jorge Humberto Robles
Votes: 16
40. Divine (1998)
112 min | Drama
"La Nueva Jerusalem" is a small community of believers lead by Papá Basilio (Rabal) and Mamá Dorita (Jurado). They're waiting for the second coming of Christ, so they've abandoned the world... See full summary »
Director: Arturo Ripstein | Stars: Francisco Rabal, Katy Jurado, Edwarda Gurrola, Carolina Papaleo
Votes: 293
41. Memories of the Future (1969)
115 min | Action, Drama, History
During the cristero revolution federalist Rosas arrives in a town together with his lover and a local woman feels strangely attracted to him. Based on Elena Garro novel.
Director: Arturo Ripstein | Stars: Renato Salvatori, Daniela Rosen, Julián Pastor, Pedro Armendáriz Jr.
Votes: 47
42. El camino de los espantos (1967)
85 min | Comedy, Horror, Fantasy
A group of people, including Capulina and Viruta, head towards the city by train. A heavy storm interrupts their journey and now they must take a haunted path to reach they city. (English Subtitled)
Director: Gilberto Martínez Solares | Stars: Marco Antonio Campos, Gaspar Henaine, Elsa Cárdenas, Salome
Votes: 68
43. Love Lies (1989)
111 min | Drama
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 ... See full summary »
Director: Arturo Ripstein | Stars: Alonso Echánove, Delia Casanova, Ernesto Yáñez, Luisa Huertas
Votes: 62
44. La perdición de los hombres (2000)
Not Rated | 106 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Two men jump out from behind some cacti and beat a man over the head with a rock. They then take the body to the dead man's hut, and sit with his body for the night while they talk, ... See full summary »
Director: Arturo Ripstein | Stars: Patricia Reyes Spíndola, Rafael Inclán, Luis Felipe Tovar, Carlos Chávez
Votes: 322
45. Regarding Buñuel (2000)
103 min | Documentary
Documentary about spanish director Luis Buñuel.
Directors: José Luis López-Linares, Javier Rioyo | Stars: José Sancho, Carlos Fuentes, Claudio Isaac, Michel Piccoli
Votes: 370
46. La ilegal (1979)
102 min | Drama
Claudia Bernal arrived in the U.S., pregnant by her filmmaker lover, who sets her up with a beach-front house. After his wife finds out, he hires men to rape Claudia and photograph the act.
Director: Arturo Ripstein | Stars: Lucía Méndez, Pedro Armendáriz Jr., Fernando Allende, Cristina Moreno
Votes: 75
47. El vuelo de la cigüeña (1979)
91 min | Comedy, Drama
This comedy is about a family girl (Rosalía Valdés) with conservative parents who flirted with three men: a cinematographer (Pedro Armendariz Jr.), a political activist student (José Alonso... See full summary »
Director: Julián Pastor | Stars: Pedro Armendáriz Jr., José Alonso, Gloria Marín, Guillermo Orea
Votes: 54
48. Kurosawa: The Last Emperor (1999 TV Movie)
50 min | Documentary, Biography
A profile and history of film director Akira Kurosawa.
Director: Alex Cox | Stars: Bernardo Bertolucci, Francis Ford Coppola, Mike Hodges, Paul Joyce
Votes: 286
49. The Reasons of the Heart (2011)
119 min | Drama
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 ... See full summary »
Director: Arturo Ripstein | Stars: Arcelia Ramírez, Vladimir Cruz, Plutarco Haza, Patricia Reyes Spíndola
Votes: 188
50. El carnaval de Sodoma (2006)
119 min | Drama
Residents of a bordello scurry to put together their outfits for an annual carnival.
Director: Arturo Ripstein | Stars: Marta Aura, María Barranco, Alejandro Camacho, Carlos Chávez
Votes: 92