Martin LaSalle Movies

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

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...

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...

Drama written by Octavio Paz.

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

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...

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...

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

A pair of spies disguised as tourists are stalked by mysterious figures in Mexico's most attractive locations.

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

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

An adaptation of the tragicomedy "Calisto y Melibea", attributed to Fernando de Rojas.

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

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...

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...

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

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

A blend of documentary and fiction about the death of Simón Otaola.

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...