Martin LaSalle Movies

Drama written by Octavio Paz.

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...

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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.