Ignacio López Tarso
Birthday: 1925-01-15
Place of Birth: Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
Biography: Ignacio López López (b. 15 January 1925 – 11 March 2023), better known as Ignacio López Tarso, was a Mexican actor of stage, film and television. He acted in about 50 films and appeared in documentaries and in one short feature. In 1973 he was given the Ariel Award for Best Actor for Rosa Blanca, and the Ariel de Oro lifetime achievement award in 2007. He was honored multiple times at the TVyNovelas Awards. At the time of his death, he was the oldest living actor and one of the last surviving stars from the Golden Age of Mexican cinema.
Movies
Wolves Aren't Meant For The Circus
After an all-nighter, Ricardo gets to his apartment only to find his family ready to have an interve...
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Nazarin
After hiding a murderer, a Catholic priest is forced into self-exile and decides to embark on a pilg...
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Under the Volcano
Against a background of war breaking out in Europe and the Mexican fiesta Day of Death, we are taken...
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Antonieta
Anna is a psychologist undertaking research about famous suicidal women. She takes a specific intere...
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The Useless Life of Pito Pérez
A man goes on a trip and then returns to his village pretending that everything went well for him....
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Looking for a Wall
The life of the Mexican muralist José Clemente Orozco and his quest to create a career in New York....
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La Bandida
During a lull in the Mexican Revolution when Francisco Madero became president and attempted to impl...
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La Cucaracha
The Mexican Revolution serves as a backdrop to a torrid love triangle composed of three freedom figh...
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Macario
Poor, hungry peasant Macario longs for just one good meal on the Day of the Dead. After his wife coo...
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The Paper Man
A deaf and mute vagabond finds a large denomination bill in a Mexico City dump, and while he tries t...
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Sonatas
In the fall of 1824 Javier Montenegro, Bradomin Marquis is spared death hanging by Captain Casares,...
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Morenita: el escándalo
Desperate to save his family from death threats by a notorious drug dealer, Mateo Cruz steals the ve...
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Cri Cri el Grillito Cantor
Biography of the famous composer of children's music Gabilondo Soler. Starts from his childhood, whe...
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The Golden Cockerel
A poor, but very lucky man in the cock fighting business, is hired by a rich man, but both are in lo...
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Rapine
Two humble indigenous woodcutters discover the wreckage of a plane that has crashed at the top of th...
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Notes from Under the Volcano
A behind-the-scenes documentary on the making of John Huston's "Under the Volcano" (1984)....
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The Prophet Mimi
Childhood trauma and religious repression causes little boy to grow up and murder ....
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The Bricklayers
When a worker is found murdered on the construction side, the investigation swiftly turns from thing...
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The Shadow of the Tyrant
In 1920s Mexico, the candidates being chosen to succeed the current president, El Caudillo, find the...
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La casta divina
Chronicle Caste War in Yucatan held in the nineteenth century, where the land and the people were th...
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Happy Year, My Love
Man and woman have a couple of one-night-stands spread out over 15 or 20 years....
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Autumn Days
Luisa is a small-town girl who works in the bakery of the widower Don Albino. Luisa dreams of marryi...
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Reclusorio
The human and divine justice are exposed through five real life stories related to the legal process...
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Saint Lucifer
A conflict arises between the people of the town and the local priest when they have to decide how t...
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Our Daily Hunger
Trophy wife of a crooked industrialist meets a philanthropic doctor and develops a social conscience...
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Chilam Balam
Priest defies the gods by refusing to sacrifice his daughter. Also: conquistadores....
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Ellas también son rebeldes
The discovery of a young woman murdered in her car triggers unrelated problems among a diverse group...
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Pedro Paramo
When his mother Dolores dies, Juan Preciado, son of Pedro Páramo, goes to Comala to claim his inheri...
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La estrella vacía
Mourners share their memories of a dead film-star at her wake, a la Citizen Kane. Only melodrama....
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Cayó de la gloria el diablo
Subsistence-economy slum guy who sells used newsprint for a living breaks into showbiz with an inadv...
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Astucia
Historical melodrama on horseback, 1840s or so in central Mexico. Pulpy, Zorro-ish......
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The Devil's Visitations
A young architect returns from Europe to live in the house of his uncles and cousins, where someone ...
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Resigned for Reasons of Health
A mid-level government bureaucrat is forced to think hard about his ideas on governmental corruption...
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A Long Journey Toward Death
Juan is subjected to shock treatment in the hands of Dr. David, and apparently is able to resume a "...
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Un hombre en la trampa
Odyssey of a man involved in a criminal activity, which leads him to his moral and material failure....
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Tras Nazarin: Following Nazarin
"Nazarín is a Quixote of the priesthood " "Among the films I have made in Mexico, Nazarin is one tha...
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Vanilla, Bronze and to Die
A beautiful woman, fatally ill of the heart, is torn between the love of a poor sculptor and a force...
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Viva México y sus corridos
Song/action clips from 8 or 12 movies that starred Antonio Aguilar as historical figures, with an on...
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¿Y ahora qué, señor fiscal?
Working-class dude grows up surrounded with petty delinquency and ghetto temptations; he marries a r...
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The Door and The Butcher's Wife
A movie divided in two segments, the first "La puerta" (The Door) is about a high society gathering ...
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Codicia mortal
Drug dealer tries to force local subsistance farmers to sell their land to him. The village's "good"...
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Love Your Neighbor
This film tells several short stories that end up lapsing in the emergency room of a hospital, becau...
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La Generala
During the Mexican Revolution, a hardened and rich lady landowner is overtaken by the violence of th...
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Curandero
Manuel is desperate to save his wife from death. A mysterious man appears to him one day at church, ...
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Heart of a Child
The story tells us about an old teacher from the town, who upon knowing he was going to die, entrust...
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My Son, the Hero
Northern Mexico, early 20th century. Reynaldo del Hierro is murdered while riding with his sons Reyn...
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Tarahumara (Further and farther)
An anthropologist goes to the mountains to study the problems of the indigenous people and finds out...
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El otro
A novelist travels to the country to learn the problems of a friend's shy son and runs into an intru...
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Rosa blanca
An international oil company comes into conflict with a Mexican ranch owner who refuses to sell his ...
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Juana Gallo
Peasant woman leads a regiment during the final days of the Mexican Revolution. Also, romantic entan...
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Más sabe el Diablo por Viejo
Teo, a young and struggling actor, disguises himself as a 79 year old man to take advantage from the...
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Muelle rojo
Three episodes from the "history" of organized labor in the harbors of Tampico, 1912 to modern-times...
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Banderas, the Tyrant
In Santa Fe de Tierra Firme, an imaginary Latin American country, the indigenous dictator Santos Ban...
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Taken Identity
Felino, his girlfriend and his two friends, have their film rejected from every film festival, so th...
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The Children of Sanchez
Hall Bartlett directs the rural drama The Children of Sanchez, based on the tome The Children of San...
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Toña Machetes
A woman adopts a child and discovers that she can love again despite facing a wicked man....
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Then God Named It Earth
During the Mexican Agrarian Reform, an engineer travels to a town to distribute the land of the land...
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One Hundred Years with Juan Rulfo
This documentary explores key moments in the life of writer Juan Rulfo, with artists such as Werner ...
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