Martin LaSalle Movies

The film is a drama about the aftermath of the 1520s Spanish Conquest of Mexico told from the perspective of the indigenous Aztec people. It explores...

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

The Mexican painter Francisco Goitia, feeling his death approaching, manages to make a memory of his life: the reunion with his country and his...

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

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

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

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

The Penitent (1988) isn’t faith-affirming drama—it’s lurid exploitation mocking Catholic penitents. In a devout New Mexico/Mexico...

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

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

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

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...

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

Jose learns that Nora, the woman he was married to for 30 years and from whom divorced, has committed suicide. The rabbi explains Joseph that due to...

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...