The best Ignacio López Tarso’s thriller movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Ignacio López Tarso’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Ignacio López Tarso.
Leader's Shadow
7.8/10
The movie situated in post-revolutionary Mexico describes the way politics were done in those times. Ignacio Jimenez is chosen as the candidate of the Partido Radical Progresista, but he isn't so sure about it, because he knows his boss, El Caudillo has chosen another candidate. Several political moves are done between the parties, leading to a thunderous climax.
The Bricklayers
7.7/10
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 filmed using hand-held cameras, and the majority of the dialogue is in the difficult-to-understand and very slangy Spanish dialect of Mexico City's bricklayers.
Rapiña
7.3/10
"Rapiña" is a history about the tragic consequences of greed, after a plane crashes nearby a small Mexican town.
The Prophet Mimi
7.5/10
Childhood trauma and religious repression causes little boy to grow up and murder prostitutes.
La generala
6.4/10
During the Mexican Revolution, a hardened and rich lady landowner is overtaken by the violence of the times. Losing her land and house, she falls in love with a revolutionary leader that is killed by a sadistic and corrupt federal officer. She takes the revolutionary flag and leads a rampage of violence and destruction.
