Martin LaSalle Movies

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...

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...

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

Romero is a compelling and deeply moving look at the life of Archbishop Oscar Romero of El Salvador, who made the ultimate sacrifice in a passionate...

Corporate smuggling of South American killer bees into the United States results in huge swarms terrorizing the northern hemisphere. A small team of...

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

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...

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

A despondent Vietnam veteran in danger of losing his livelihood is pushed to the edge when he sees Vietnamese immigrants moving into the fishing...

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 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...

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

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

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

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

Drama written by Octavio Paz.

After Moishe's death, family and friends sit Shiva in Mexico City. During seven days, secrets will be disclosed.

Unsympathetic portrait of a man who's too macho to display his feelings.