La tía Alejandra
Old aunt Alejandra goes to live with a Mexican middle-class family; she's bitter and the children tease her and make her life miserable, but the old woman is truly a witch, and takes revenge.
Arturo Ripstein
Director
Casts & Crew
Also Directed by Arturo Ripstein
The life of a man who preys on unsuspecting women for a living is changed when he finds an accomplice in the woman who loves and controls him.
In a small town in Mexico, Matea is an orphan who assists the priest, Father Feliciano in his parish. The village doctor tries to seduce her but fails and proceeds to defame her into believing that Matea maintains relations with the priest. The people believe him and demand to cure her; he refuses and locks himself away with Matea. During the lockdown they develop a passionate love, but fate arrives and the priest dies.. Matea becomes a kind of priestess to which known as the "Black Widow".
A novelist travels to the country to learn the problems of a friend's shy son and runs into an intruder.
Documentary about a Mexico City prison, notorious for holding political prisoners and for civil rights abuses committed there.
Directed by Arturo Ripstein
Every Friday, the Colonel puts on his only suit and goes to the dock to await a letter announcing the arrival of his pension. But the townsfolk all know that this pension will never come. His wife also knows it, and even he knows it. But he is still waiting, living with the pain of the death of his son.
