# Arturo Ripstein's best films

Solitude, confinement and long takes: the best of the great Mexican director according to Cinescopia, El Informador and El Universal, from Time to Die to Bleak Street.

- 112 votes · 12 items
- Jul 30, 2025 · Julieta Romero Benítez
- https://even.best/en/l/3313/arturo-ripstein-s-best-films

## Top 12

1. **The Castle of Purity (1973)** (17 · ▲18 ▼1) — A father keeps his family locked up for years; several Ariel awards.
2. **The Queen of the Night (1994)** (10 · ▲10 ▼0) — The life of the singer Lucha Reyes.
3. **Bleak Street (2015)** (8 · ▲9 ▼1) — Two dwarf wrestlers and two prostitutes, in black and white.
4. **The Beginning and the End (1993)** (6 · ▲9 ▼3) — From Naguib Mahfouz; Golden Shell in San Sebastián.
5. **The Place Without Limits (1978)** (6 · ▲8 ▼2) — From José Donoso's novel, set in a village brothel.
6. **The Woman of the Port (1991)** (6 · ▲7 ▼1) — Incest in Veracruz told from three points of view.
7. **Deep Crimson (1996)** (5 · ▲7 ▼2) — The 'lonely hearts killers' in 1940s Mexico.
8. **Time to Die (1966)** (5 · ▲6 ▼1) — His debut, written by García Márquez and Carlos Fuentes.
9. **Such Is Life (2000)** (4 · ▲6 ▼2) — Medea in a Mexico City tenement.
10. **The Realm of Fortune (1986)** (4 · ▲5 ▼1) — A cockfighter and a singer, from Juan Rulfo.
11. **No One Writes to the Colonel (1999)** (3 · ▲6 ▼3) — Fernando Luján in the García Márquez adaptation.
12. **Reasons of the Heart (2011)** (2 · ▲3 ▼1) — Madame Bovary on a city rooftop.

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