Mexican Movies (Want to Watch)
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1. Amores Perros (2000)
R | 154 min | Drama, Thriller
An amateur dog fighter, a supermodel, and a derelict assassin, all separately struggling to find love, find their lives transformed by a devastating car wreck in Mexico City.
Director: Alejandro G. Iñárritu | Stars: Emilio Echevarría, Gael García Bernal, Goya Toledo, Álvaro Guerrero
Votes: 252,968 | Gross: $5.38M
2. And Your Mother Too (2001)
R | 106 min | Drama
In Mexico, two teenage boys and an older woman embark on a road trip and learn a thing or two about life and each other.
Director: Alfonso Cuarón | Stars: Maribel Verdú, Gael García Bernal, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Ana López Mercado
Votes: 128,903 | Gross: $13.62M
3. Sueño (2005)
PG-13 | 108 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
A Mexican-American chases his dreams as he puts together a classic Mexican band to compete in a radio station sponsored contest, all while attempting to court a beautiful girl.
Director: Renée Chabria | Stars: John Leguizamo, Ana Claudia Talancón, Elizabeth Peña, Nestor Serrano
Votes: 620
4. Biutiful (2010)
R | 148 min | Drama, Romance
A man dying of cancer tries his best to leave the world on his own terms.
Director: Alejandro G. Iñárritu | Stars: Javier Bardem, Maricel Álvarez, Hanaa Bouchaib, Guillermo Estrella
Votes: 94,631 | Gross: $5.10M
5. Midaq Alley (1995)
Unrated | 140 min | Drama, Romance
The lives of men and women living on Callejón de los Milagros in Mexico City.
Director: Jorge Fons | Stars: Ernesto Gómez Cruz, María Rojo, Salma Hayek, Bruno Bichir
Votes: 3,363
6. Quemar las naves (2007)
PG-13 | 100 min | Drama
Eugenia is a former pop singer who is bedridden and dying of cancer. Her 19-year-old daughter Helena dreams of traveling the world and learns foreign languages at home and wishes she could ... See full summary »
Director: Francisco Franco Alba | Stars: Irene Azuela, Ángel Onésimo Nevares, Claudette Maillé, Bernardo Benítez
Votes: 792
7. The Obscure Spring (2014)
TV-MA | 100 min | Drama
Igor and Pina long for each other but cannot act. When spring comes, their passions are unleashed, though burdened by guilt.
Director: Ernesto Contreras | Stars: José María Yazpik, Cecilia Suárez, Irene Azuela, Hayden Meyenberg
Votes: 786
8. Parallel Roads (2016)
91 min | Drama
Gaby, Fer's mother, and Silvia, Diego's mother, live their lives happily, until they find out one day, due to Diego's kidney disease, that the children were switched at birth.
Director: Rafael Montero | Stars: Ludwika Paleta, Iliana Fox, Michel Brown, Fernanda Castillo
Votes: 419
9. The Chosen Ones (2015)
Unrated | 105 min | Drama
Young Ulises falls in love with teen Sofia, even as he is forced to lure her into his family's prostitution ring. Now he will do anything to save her.
Director: David Pablos | Stars: Nancy Talamantes, Óscar Torres, Leidi Gutiérrez, José Santillán Cabuto
Votes: 2,103
10. Párpados azules (2007)
R | 98 min | Comedy, Drama
Marina wins a paradise vacation for two, but when she realizes that she has no one to bring along, she decides to invite a stranger named Victor. The pair soon discovers that true love depends more on compatibility rather than idyllic scenery.
Director: Ernesto Contreras | Stars: Cecilia Suárez, Enrique Arreola, Magali Boysselle, Armando Casas
Votes: 852
11. Desierto (2015)
R | 88 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A group of people trying to cross the border from Mexico into the United States encounter a racist man who has taken border patrol duties into his own hands.
Director: Jonás Cuarón | Stars: Gael García Bernal, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Alondra Hidalgo, Diego Cataño
Votes: 10,760 | Gross: $1.83M
12. Under the Same Moon (2007)
PG-13 | 106 min | Adventure, Drama
After his grandmother passes away, a young Mexican boy illegally travels across the border to search for his undocumented mother living and working in the U.S.
Director: Patricia Riggen | Stars: Eugenio Derbez, Kate del Castillo, Adrian Alonso, Maya Zapata
Votes: 7,458 | Gross: $12.59M
13. La primera noche (1998)
100 min | Drama
In the middle of a city facing a new century, a group of friends between the ages of 15 and 18 lives out the adventures, deceptions, and anxieties of "The First Night"
Director: Alejandro Gamboa | Stars: Florencio Almazán, Judith Arciniega, Marta Aura, Adriana Barraza
Votes: 249
14. La mitad del mundo (2009)
92 min | Comedy, Drama
The sexual awakening of Mingo, a 25-year-old with a mental disability, brings him both popularity and problems. When this charismatic and imaginative poet assumes his new role as lover, ... See full summary »
Director: Jaime Ruiz Ibáñez | Stars: Luisa Huertas, Hansel Ramírez, Susana Salazar, Ignacio Guadalupe
Votes: 150
15. La cebra (2011)
94 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Two bandits mistake a zebra for an American horse while looking to align themselves with Álvaro Obregón's troops.
Director: Fernando Javier León Rodríguez | Stars: Jorge Adrián Spíndola, Harold Torres, Leticia Huijara, Raúl Adalid
Votes: 99
16. Las paredes hablan (2012)
96 min | Drama, History
A couple find themselves in love in three different centuries
Director: Antonio Zavala Kugler | Stars: María Aura, Kuno Becker, Mario Zaragoza, Miguel Rodarte
Votes: 79
17. Gloria (II) (2013)
R | 110 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A story set in Santiago and centered on Gloria, a free-spirited older woman, and the realities of her whirlwind relationship with a former naval officer whom she meets out in the clubs.
Director: Sebastián Lelio | Stars: Paulina García, Sergio Hernández, Diego Fontecilla, Fabiola Zamora
Votes: 9,372 | Gross: $2.11M
18. Like Water for Chocolate (1992)
R | 105 min | Drama, Romance
When tradition prevents her from marrying the man she loves, a young woman discovers she has a unique talent for cooking.
Director: Alfonso Arau | Stars: Marco Leonardi, Lumi Cavazos, Regina Torné, Mario Iván Martínez
Votes: 18,846 | Gross: $21.67M
19. Un embrujo (1998)
130 min | Drama, Romance
In 1930s Mexico, a young boy falls in love with his elementary-school teacher.
Director: Carlos Carrera | Stars: Blanca Guerra, Mario Zaragoza, Daniel Acuña, Luis Fernando Peña
Votes: 283
20. The Other Conquest (1998)
R | 105 min | Drama, History
It is May 1520 in the vast Aztec Empire one year after the Spanish Conqueror Hernán Cortés' arrival in Mexico. "The Other Conquest" opens with the infamous massacre of the Aztecs at the ... See full summary »
Director: Salvador Carrasco | Stars: Damián Delgado, José Carlos Rodríguez, Elpidia Carrillo, Iñaki Aierra
Votes: 1,204 | Gross: $0.89M
21. Ciudad de ciegos (1991)
87 min | Drama
Over more than 30 years, a department of the Condesa in Mexico City is the setting in which are carried out 10 stories, mixed, that form one whose only constant is the rupture. The passage ... See full summary »
Director: Alberto Cortés | Stars: Gabriela Roel, Arcelia Ramírez, Verónica Merchant, Roberto Sosa
Votes: 139
22. The Beginning and the End (1993)
188 min | Drama
The film tells the story of the Boteros, a middle-class Mexican family struggling against poverty after their father's death. Ignacia (Egurrola) is the Boteros mother, a desperate woman who... See full summary »
Director: Arturo Ripstein | Stars: Ernesto Laguardia, Julieta Egurrola, Blanca Guerra, Verónica Merchant
Votes: 464
23. Deep Crimson (1996)
114 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
The life of a man who preys on unsuspecting women for a living is changed when he finds an accomplice in the woman who loves and controls him.
Director: Arturo Ripstein | Stars: Regina Orozco, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Sherlyn, Giovani Florido
Votes: 2,082
24. The Realm of Fortune (1986)
130 min | Drama
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 depressing nothingness of his town it is easy to die.
Director: Arturo Ripstein | Stars: Ernesto Gómez Cruz, Blanca Guerra, Alejandro Parodi, Zaide Silvia Gutiérrez
Votes: 512
25. Fibra óptica (1998)
105 min
When a Brazilian woman is falsely accused of killing a prominent Mexican politician, Marco, a young journalist, is hired by a stranger to discover the real motive of the crime. He is ... See full summary »
Director: Francisco Athié | Stars: Roberto Sosa, Lumi Cavazos, Angélica Aragón, Alberto Estrella
Votes: 57
26. The Crime of Padre Amaro (2002)
R | 118 min | Drama, Romance
Politics and sexual passions threaten to corrupt a young, newly-ordained priest in a small Mexican town.
Director: Carlos Carrera | Stars: Gael García Bernal, Ana Claudia Talancón, Sancho Gracia, Angélica Aragón
Votes: 14,428 | Gross: $5.71M
27. Tear This Heart Out (2008)
R | 107 min | Drama
Set in 1930's in Puebla, Mexico, a young woman finds herself in an arranged marriage to a prominent politician (Andres Ascencio). As his career progresses, she finds it more difficult to remain a loyal, loving wife.
Director: Roberto Sneider | Stars: Ana Claudia Talancón, Daniel Giménez Cacho, José María de Tavira, Joaquín Cosio
Votes: 2,535
28. El coronel no tiene quien le escriba (1999)
Not Rated | 122 min | Drama
Every Friday, the Colonel puts on his only suit and goes to the dock to await a letter announcing the arrival of his pension. But the townsfolk all know that this pension will never come. ... See full summary »
Director: Arturo Ripstein | Stars: Fernando Luján, Marisa Paredes, Salma Hayek, Rafael Inclán
Votes: 1,232
29. Bleak Street (2015)
Not Rated | 99 min | Crime, Drama
In the small hours of the morning, two elderly hookers return to their hovels. They are not tired from working; they are tired of not doing do. One has problems at home with her teenage ... See full summary »
Director: Arturo Ripstein | Stars: Patricia Reyes Spíndola, Nora Velázquez, Silvia Pasquel, Alejandro Suárez
Votes: 334
30. Nosotros los pobres (1948)
Not Rated | 128 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Nosotros Los Pobres stars Pedro Infante as a carpenter whose entire family must work together to clear his name after he is charged with a murder..
Director: Ismael Rodríguez | Stars: Pedro Infante, Evita Muñoz 'Chachita', Carmen Montejo, Blanca Estela Pavón
Votes: 1,164
31. Japan (2002)
R | 122 min | Drama
A painter from the big city goes to a remote canyon to commit suicide. To reach some calmness, he stays at the farmstead of Ascen, an old, religious woman. Although but a few words are spoken, love grows.
Director: Carlos Reygadas | Stars: Alejandro Ferretis, Magdalena Flores, Yolanda Villa, Martín Serrano
Votes: 3,993
32. Mexican Bus Ride (1952)
74 min | Comedy
A newly-wed country boy receives the terrible news that his mother is dying, and takes a long and dangerous bus trip to the city to contact a notary for her last will and testament. Will he resist temptation and do the right thing?
Director: Luis Buñuel | Stars: Lilia Prado, Carmelita González, Esteban Mayo, Luis Aceves Castañeda
Votes: 1,453
33. Alucarda (1977)
R | 78 min | Horror
After the death of her parents, a young girl arrives at a convent and brings a sinister presence with her. Is it her enigmatic imaginary friend, Alucarda, who is to blame? Or is there a satanic force at work?
Director: Juan López Moctezuma | Stars: Claudio Brook, David Silva, Tina Romero, Susana Kamini
Votes: 4,094
34. The Night Buffalo (2007)
NC-17 | 102 min | Drama
A schizophrenic man commits suicide after his girlfriend cheats on him with his best friend.
Director: Jorge Hernandez Aldana | Stars: Diego Luna, Liz Gallardo, Gabriel González, Irene Azuela
Votes: 1,685
35. The Young and the Damned (1950)
Not Rated | 80 min | Crime, Drama
A group of juvenile delinquents live a violent and crime-filled life in the festering slums of Mexico City, as the morals of young Pedro are gradually corrupted and destroyed by the others.
Director: Luis Buñuel | Stars: Alfonso Mejía, Roberto Cobo, Estela Inda, Miguel Inclán
Votes: 22,011
36. Susana (1951)
Not Rated | 86 min | Drama
An unstable young woman escapes from a reformatory for very, very wayward girls and deceptively finds shelter in the kind home of a frighteningly nice and decent family. Little by little, ... See full summary »
Director: Luis Buñuel | Stars: Rosita Quintana, Fernando Soler, Víctor Manuel Mendoza, María Gentil Arcos
Votes: 2,278
37. Viridiana (1961)
Not Rated | 91 min | Drama
Viridiana, a young nun about to take her final vows, pays a visit to her widowed uncle at the request of her Mother Superior.
Director: Luis Buñuel | Stars: Silvia Pinal, Francisco Rabal, Fernando Rey, José Calvo
Votes: 26,141
38. Amorcito corazón (1961)
TV-PG | 80 min | Comedy, Musical
A young rich cattle rancher wants his wife to live with him in his ranch, but she refuses. He wants hardly to have a child, and his wife (as a resource to gain time before moving to the ... See full summary »
Director: Rogelio A. González | Stars: Rosita Quintana, Fernando Casanova, Mauricio Garcés, Óscar Ortiz de Pinedo
Votes: 7
39. Thirty, Single and Fantastic (2016)
Not Rated | 98 min | Comedy
A woman in her mid-thirties discovers herself through life, love, and heartbreak.
Director: Chava Cartas | Stars: Bárbara Mori, Jordi Mollà, Angélica Aragón, Héctor Bonilla
Votes: 965
40. El Topo (1970)
Not Rated | 125 min | Drama, Western
A mysterious black-clad gunfighter wanders a mystical Western landscape encountering multiple bizarre characters.
Director: Alejandro Jodorowsky | Stars: Alejandro Jodorowsky, Brontis Jodorowsky, José Legarreta, Alfonso Arau
Votes: 31,403 | Gross: $0.04M
41. Mary, Mary, Bloody Mary (1975)
R | 91 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
An American artist with a penchant for drinking blood begins seducing and dispatching residents of a small fishing town in Mexico.
Director: Juan López Moctezuma | Stars: Cristina Ferrare, David Young, John Carradine, Helena Rojo
Votes: 775
42. Miss Bala (2011)
R | 113 min | Action, Crime, Drama
After entering a beauty contest in Tijuana, a young woman witnesses drug-related murders and is forced to do the gang's bidding.
Director: Gerardo Naranjo | Stars: Stephanie Sigman, Noé Hernández, Irene Azuela, J.R. Yenque
Votes: 9,436
43. The Mongolian Conspiracy (2018)
TV-PG | 100 min | Crime, Thriller
Can the Mexican police avoid the assassination of the President of the United States? - The 72 hours in the life of Filiberto Garcia that can change the outcome of the Cold War - Damn International Intrigue!.
Director: Sebastian del Amo | Stars: Eugenio Derbez, Bárbara Mori, Damián Alcázar, Gustavo Sánchez Parra
Votes: 570
44. The Soldiers of Pancho Villa (1959)
Not Rated | 97 min | Drama, Romance, War
The Cucaracha is a brave woman soldier who leads a group of similar women into the fray against the forces of the Villa colonel, Zeta.
Director: Ismael Rodríguez | Stars: María Félix, Dolores Del Río, Emilio Fernández, Antonio Aguilar
Votes: 285
45. La duda (1954)
107 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Director: Alejandro Galindo | Stars: Rosita Quintana, Francisco Petrone, Víctor Parra, Magda Guzmán
Votes: 11
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