Martin LaSalle Movies

After her birthday party, a little girl goes to bed looking forward to an amusement-park trip with her grandparents for the next day.

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...

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...

The story of the oil leader Lázaro Pizarro, of his political and personal wars, the use of crime to settle conflicts and the course of his...

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...

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

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

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

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

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.

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...

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...

The basic plot of this film concerns a secret service-esque man in Mexico battling personal demons who discovers a conspiracy behind an assassination...

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...

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

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

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...

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...