Martin LaSalle Movies

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 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...

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...

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

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.

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 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...

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

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

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

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

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

An expressionist reimagining of the classic Greek myth involving Acteón and Diana, transposed to Spain's Costa Brava by a future auteur of...

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...

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