Juan Rulfo Movies

A man searches for his father, Pedro Páramo, in a town doomed by violence and the fury of a frustrated love.

When his mother Dolores dies, Juan Preciado, son of Pedro Páramo, goes to Comala to claim his inheritance; but when he arrives he finds an...

Juan Preciado, son of Pedro Páramo, goes to Comala to claim his inheritance; but when he arrives he finds an abandoned and sinister town,...

A poor, but very lucky man in the cock fighting, is hired by a rich man, but both are in love with the same woman

Poor Dionisio finds himself as recipient of the good fortune, but soon he forgets that everything that goes up also has to go down, and that in the...

Produced on a grand scale, the Mexican Talpa relates the simple story of two brothers. The older of the siblings, Tanilo (Victor Manuel Mendoza) is a...

This documentary explores key moments in the life of writer Juan Rulfo, with artists such as Werner Herzog and Eduardo Galeano reflecting on his work.

The third film version of the popular Mexican novel, about a wayfarer who travels to a mysterious arid village, to meet the father who long ago...

"Faith-healer" develops a cult-like following in 1920s Jalisco.

A cinematographic essay, full of surreal moments and provocative scenarios related to intellectual debates about the Mexican national character.

The story of a native Mexican who wants to kill a man.

When a young boy steals billiard balls from a local saloon, a stranger is charged with the crime. The local layabouts find there is no reason to hang...

An experimental film in which time breaks again and again at the moment of death, where the seconds become whole lives condemned.

Carrying his son on his back, a man travels from place to place looking for a doctor to treat the sick boy. As they journey, the indio father tells...

A man is on the run after taking revenge on his brother murder, but someone goes after him too

Adaptation of Juan Rulfo's classic short tale "La herencia de Matilde Arcángel". Tranquilino Herrera, a man of the time of the Mexican...

A young peasant farmer has a feud with a heartless landowner which results in the landowner killing the peasant's cattle which result in the peasant...