Martin LaSalle Movies

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

Snippets of a family drama involving a rebellious son coming to his depressing home village, his father, and a jaded ex-lover, mixed with various...

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...

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...

Drama written by Octavio Paz.

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

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...

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 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...

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

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

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

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 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...