Martin LaSalle Movies

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...

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

In a totalitarian future, in a nightmare metropolis, inhabited only by criminals and police, Erik Lonnrot, a gifted detective, investigates a series...

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

A small film crew goes through several locations including Europe, New York and 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...

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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...

The Mexican painter Francisco Goitia, feeling his death approaching, manages to make a memory of his life: the reunion with his country and his...

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

Drama written by Octavio Paz.

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

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

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