Martin LaSalle Movies

A worker's wife and six pretty daughters are desired by all the men in their little town, so he decides to move his family elsewhere.

Drama written by Octavio Paz.

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

A volcano scientist (Issabela Camil) arrives in Mexico to study the Popocatepetl volcano. The journey will change her whole life

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

A dramatization of John Reed's newspaper accounts of the Mexican Revolution. Considered the first real film in Mexican cinema to be made on the...

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

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 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...

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

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

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

A drama centered on the relationship between a painter who's losing his sight and a maid in a Mexican brothel.

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...

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

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...

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

A domineering, reclusive and ostentatiously pious widow in a small Spanish town keeps such close watch on her daughters that they are unable to have...

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