Martin LaSalle Movies

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

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

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

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

A tale of passion and betrayal in which Samson, a judge of Israel who fled with his tribe during the Great Exodus from Egypt, uses his herculean...

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...

Drama written by Octavio Paz.

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

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...