Ignacio Tarso Filmography

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Saint Lucifer

Synopsis: Featuring a story that closely parallels the Indian revolt in the Mexican state of Chiapas that occurred in the mid 1990s, this politically correct drama chronicles the uprising of the Nahuatls against the oppressive criollos, wealthy rulers of Spanish descent who patronize and abuse them. The Read More

1997
Tirano Banderas

Actors: Gian Maria Volontè, Ana Belén, Juan Diego, Ignacio Tarso, Fernando Guillén

Synopsis: This historical drama, set in the '20s examines the strange, brief reign of a Latin American dictator. It was alternately shot in Havana and Mexico. The story is set in an unspecified Latin country and chronicles the daily life of the tyrannical dictator. One of his day's highlights is the signing Read More

1994
Muelle Rojo

Actors: Roberto "Flaco" Guzman, Ignacio Tarso, Manuel Ojeda, Erick del Castillo, Fernando Balzaretti

Synopsis: This docudrama was filmed as part of the celebrations for the 75th anniversary in 1986 of the founding of the Gremio Unido de Alijadores, the Mexican dockworker's union. In addition to retelling the story of the union's martyred founder Isauro Alfaro, the film celebrates the leadership of current Read More

1988
La Trinchera

1987
El Otro

Actors: Rafael Sanchez Navarro, Juan Ignacio Aranda, Ignacio Tarso, Patricia Rivera

Synopsis: In one of the more intentionally and unintentionally confusing films to come out of the directorial career of auteur Arturo Ripstein, El Otro is something else, so to speak. The film is set in the late 1940s or early '50s and told as one partially surreal story within another, and clues to Read More

1985
Under the Volcano

Actors: Albert Finney, Jacqueline Bisset, Anthony Andrews, Katy Jurado

Synopsis: A strange, hallucinatory adaptation of the Malcolm Lowry novel of the same name, John Huston's bleak drama is set during the Mexican "Day of the Dead" ceremony in 1939. Albert Finney stars as Geoffrey Firmin, the booze-besotted former British consul to Cuernevarca, who has cut himself off from his Read More

1984
Antonieta

Actors: Isabelle Adjani, Hanna Schygulla, Ignacio Tarso, Carlos Bracho, Gonzalo Vega

Synopsis: In this French-Mexican-Spanish film that hops back and forth between the narration's present and its past, viewers watch Antonieta (Isabelle Adjani) as she is involved in the turbulent Mexican political scene in the first decades of the 20th century -- as she goes to Paris and commits suicide in Read More

1982
The Children of Sanchez

Actors: Anthony Quinn, Lupita Ferrer, Dolores Del Rio, Stathis Giallelis, Lucia Mendez

Synopsis: Hall Bartlett directs the rural drama The Children of Sanchez, based on the novel The Children of Sanchez: Autobiography of a Mexican Family written by Oscar Lewis in the '60s. Anthony Quinn stars as the widowed Jesus Sanchez, a poor farmer struggling to provide for his family in Mexico City. Also Read More

1978
Renuncia por Motivos de Salud

Actors: Ignacio Tarso, Carmen Montejo, Silvia Mariscal, Aaron Hernan, Adriana Roel

Synopsis: In this Mexican film, Don Gus (Ignacio Lopez Tarso) is a bureaucrat whose conscience bothers him whenever he sees anyone giving or taking a bribe (mordida in Spanish). The measures he takes to deal with this cause his wife endless anxiety and concern. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide Read More

1976
Los Albaniles

Actors: Ignacio Tarso, Jaime Fernandez, David Silva, José Alonso

Synopsis: When a worker is found murdered on the construction side, the investigation swiftly turns from things criminal to the political circumstances surrounding the building itself. Widespread corruption and neglect by the builder himself are seen to have brought the situation about. Much of the movie is Read More

1976
El Profeta Mimi

1972
La Generala

Actors: Maria Felix, Ignacio Tarso

Synopsis: A woman sets out to avenge the death of her brother after the Mexican Revolution. ~ Nicole Gagne, All Movie Guide Read More

1970
La Trinchera

1968
Pedro Paramo

Actors: Ignacio Tarso, Pilar Pellicer

Synopsis: Highly symbolic and allegorical, this drama takes the search of a son for his father in the chaotic times of the Mexican Revolution and the early 1900s as its basis. Stereotypical (or archetypal) figures from early Mexican cinema appear from time to time, and the violence of the revolutionary Read More

1967
Un Largo Viaje Hacia La Muerte

Synopsis: All the clues point to one of the psychiatrist's patients as the kidnapper of the doctor's fiance. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

1967
El Gallo De Oro

Synopsis: Cockfights are an important aspect of Mexican tradition as illustrated in this story of two competitors who gamble everything on a big cockfight. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

1964
Tarahumara

Actors: Ignacio Tarso, Jaime Fernandez, Aurora Clavel, Erick del Castillo, Alfonso Mejía

Synopsis: Raul (Igancio Lopez Tarso) is a white man who enjoys the simple way of life practiced by the Indians of Mexico. He does his best to try and help the tribe, but he becomes a victim of greedy land grabbers who covet the tribal property. Jaime Fernandez and Aurora Clavel play the Indians. The Read More

1964
El Hombre De Papel

Actors: Ignacio Tarso, Alida Valli

1963
La Bandida

Actors: Maria Felix, Pedro Armendáriz, Emilio Fernández, Ignacio Tarso, Katy Jurado

Synopsis: Overcooked melodrama characterizes this tale set during the Mexican Revolution and starring some of Mexico's most famous, old-time actors (Katy Jurado, María Félix, Emilo Fernández, and Pedro Armendáriz). The story is about as far-fetched as can be imagined. Herrera (Armendáriz) and Gómez Read More

1962
Los Hermanos Del Hierro

Actors: Antonio Aguilar, Julio Aleman, Columba Dominguez

Synopsis: This effective drama about vengeance and its results is loosely based on practices in the Mexican boondocks where the law can be ignored when it comes to seeking revenge. The tale concerns two brothers who decide to avenge their father's death, as would be expected. But this ill-considered Read More

1961
La Sombra del Caudillo

Synopsis: When a retiring military leader is forced to choose his successor, his selection clashes with popular opinion and finds a conflicted general weighing his loyalty to his country against his desire for power in this drama from director Julio Bracho. Though the departing leader has clearly chosen Read More

1960
Macario

Actors: Ignacio Tarso, Pina Pellicer, Enrique Lucero, Jose Galvez, Jose Luis Jimenez

Synopsis: B. Traven, the reclusive author of Treasure of the Sierra Madre, used an old Mexican folk tale as the basis for his novel The Third Guest. The book was in turn adapted for film as Macario. Ignacio Tarso plays a poverty-stricken peasant who goes on a hunger strike, hoping that someone will take Read More

1960
La Rosa Blanca

Synopsis: This drama is adapted from a novel by B. Traven and contains a potent anti-capitalist message as it tells the story of a peasant who truly loves the land he lives upon. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1960
La Estrella Vacia

Actors: Maria Felix, Carlos Lopez Moctezuma, Enrique Rambal, Ignacio Tarso, Ramon Gay

Synopsis: The life of a powerful actress is examined in this tragedy. The film begins with her demise during a plane crash. Later, the men who loved her try to figure out why she was always so unhappy. Her story is told in flashback. It begins in a small town where she was a dress shop model. She used the Read More

1960
Juana Gallo

Actors: Maria Felix, Jorge Mistral, Luis Aguilar, Ignacio Tarso

Synopsis: This is a dramatic, entertaining, and largely fictional interpretation of a very non-fictional event and a real set of characters in the Mexican Revolution. The heroine, Juana Gallo is portrayed by one of Mexico's most famous female leads, María Felix. Gallo was born and raised in the state of Read More

1960
The Soldiers of Pancho Villa

Synopsis: Soldiers of Pancho Villa is the English-language title for the Mexican historical epic La Cucaracha. The matchless Maria Felix stars as a patriotic young woman whose admiration for Villa borders on the fanatical. Maria rallies her countrymen to stand by Villa in his fight to wrest control of Read More

1959
La Cucaracha

Actors: Maria Felix, Dolores Del Rio, Pedro Armendáriz, Emilio Fernández, Flor Silvestre

Synopsis: Four of the best-known, most popular actors in Mexican cinematic history star in this drama about the Mexican Revolution by equally well-known director Ismael Rodriguez. Maria Felix is Refugio and Dolores Del Rio is Chabela, two women who love the same man and who are both equally dedicated to Read More

1959
Sonatas

Actors: Maria Felix, Francisco Rabal, Aurora Bautista, Fernando Rey, Carlos Rivas

Synopsis: A Marquis (Francisco Rabal) has a comfortable, predictable life until the women in his life inspire him to greater deeds. He first loves the wife of a Spanish nobleman, then the mistress of a Mexican dictator. He is convinced by his experiences to join the forces of the Mexican revolution. ~ Dan Read More

1959
Nazarin

Actors: Francisco Rabal, Marga Lopez, Rita Macedo, Jesus Fernandez, Ignacio Tarso

Synopsis: Acclaimed director Luis Buñuel displays several of his trademark interests in this drama about a priest who leaves his order. The director's disdain for organized religion and the establishment, as well as his tendency to shock through visual imagery, are both apparent. Nazarin (Francisco Rabal) Read More

1958
Corazon De Nino

1939
Viva Mexico Y Sus Corridos