Las mejores películas mexicanas (The best Mexican movies of all time)
by AleFHaro | created - 07 Sep 2021 | updated - 2 weeks ago | PublicLista de las mejores películas mexicanas de todas las décadas (en constante actualización).
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1. Pan's Labyrinth (2006)
R | 118 min | Drama, Fantasy, War
In the Falangist Spain of 1944, the bookish young stepdaughter of a sadistic army officer escapes into an eerie but captivating fantasy world.
Director: Guillermo del Toro | Stars: Ivana Baquero, Ariadna Gil, Sergi López, Maribel Verdú
Votes: 703,122 | Gross: $37.63M
2. Roma (2018)
R | 135 min | Drama
A year in the life of a middle-class family's maid in Mexico City in the early 1970s.
Director: Alfonso Cuarón | Stars: Yalitza Aparicio, Marina de Tavira, Diego Cortina Autrey, Carlos Peralta
Votes: 169,826
3. Cronos (1992)
R | 94 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A mysterious device designed to provide its owner with eternal life resurfaces after four hundred years, leaving a trail of destruction in its path.
Director: Guillermo del Toro | Stars: Federico Luppi, Ron Perlman, Claudio Brook, Margarita Isabel
Votes: 33,132 | Gross: $0.62M
4. 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: 252,931 | Gross: $5.38M
5. 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: 128,898 | Gross: $13.62M
6. Herod's Law (1999)
R | 123 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A naive man appointed as an acting mayor of a small town turns into a corrupt politician capable of anything to stay in power.
Director: Luis Estrada | Stars: Damián Alcázar, Pedro Armendáriz Jr., Delia Casanova, Juan Carlos Colombo
Votes: 7,084
7. 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
8. Dos tipos de cuidado (1953)
TV-PG | 111 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Two best friends clash when one marries the girlfriend of the other.
Director: Ismael Rodríguez | Stars: Jorge Negrete, Pedro Infante, Carmelita González, Yolanda Varela
Votes: 983
9. You're Missing the Point (1940)
Not Rated | 112 min | Comedy
The boyfriend (Cantinflas) of the servant of a rich industrial man, gets into the house in order to kill a mad dog. Suddenly this man appears so the servant tells him that Cantinflas is his... See full summary »
Director: Juan Bustillo Oro | Stars: Cantinflas, Joaquín Pardavé, Sara García, Sofía Álvarez
Votes: 1,509
10. El supersabio (1948)
103 min | Comedy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Cantinflas is the apprentice of a renowned scientist, Prof. Arquimides Monteagudo (Carlos Martinez Baena). But Cantinflas has the soul of a poet rather than a serious researcher, and he ... See full summary »
Director: Miguel M. Delgado | Stars: Cantinflas, Perla Aguiar, Carlos Martínez Baena, Alejandro Cobo
Votes: 269
11. El señor fotógrafo (1953)
100 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery
An apprentice of photography is accidentally involved in a n international complot.
Director: Miguel M. Delgado | Stars: Cantinflas, Rosita Arenas, Ángel Garasa, Rebeca Iturbide
Votes: 346
12. The Exterminating Angel (1962)
Not Rated | 95 min | Drama, Fantasy
The guests at an upper-class dinner party find themselves unable to leave.
Director: Luis Buñuel | Stars: Silvia Pinal, Jacqueline Andere, Enrique Rambal, José Baviera
Votes: 35,550
13. Sr. Pig (2016)
100 min | Drama
A beautiful road movie, and a chance to talk about love for Mexico through the eyes of an American.
Director: Diego Luna | Stars: Danny Glover, Maya Rudolph, José María Yazpik, Joel Murray
Votes: 1,267
14. El sueño del caimán (2001)
Not Rated | 102 min | Drama, Family
Inaki is a young man living in Spain who has joined up with an elderly man to become a petty thief. A routine robbery goes awry when the old man dies unexpectedly, and Inaki finds himself ... See full summary »
Director: Beto Gómez | Stars: Daniel Guzmán, Rafael Velasco, Kandido Uranga, Miguel Natividad
Votes: 88
15. El siete machos (1951)
98 min | Comedy, Western
In order to woo Rosario, Margarito pretends to be the famous outlaw "Siete Machos", called like that because "he possesses the courage of seven macho men".
Director: Miguel M. Delgado | Stars: Cantinflas, Alma Rosa Aguirre, Miguel Ángel Ferriz, Miguel Inclán
Votes: 393
16. Presunto culpable (2008)
87 min | Documentary
Two young Mexican attorneys attempt to exonerate a wrongly convicted man by making a documentary. In the process, they expose the contradictions of a judicial system that presumes suspects guilty until proven innocent.
Directors: Roberto Hernández, Geoffrey Smith
Votes: 1,419
17. Identifying Features (2020)
99 min | Drama
A mother travels across Mexico in search for her son whom authorities say died while trying to cross the borders into the United States.
Director: Fernanda Valadez | Stars: Mercedes Hernández, David Illescas, Juan Jesús Varela, Ana Laura Rodríguez
Votes: 2,445
18. Prayers for the Stolen (2021)
R | 110 min | Drama
Life in a town at war seen through the eyes of three young girls on the path to adolescence.
Director: Tatiana Huezo | Stars: Guillermo Villegas, Mayra Batalla, Teresa Sánchez, Eileen Yañez
Votes: 4,047
19. 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: 128,898 | Gross: $13.62M
20. Macario (1960)
91 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Poor and hungry peasant Macario wishes to have a good meal for All Saint's Day. After his wife cooks him a turkey he has three apparitions: The Devil, God, and the Death.
Director: Roberto Gavaldón | Stars: Ignacio López Tarso, Pina Pellicer, Enrique Lucero, Mario Alberto Rodríguez
Votes: 4,341
21. Maria Candelaria (1944)
Approved | 76 min | Romance, Drama
In Xochimilco 1909, María Candelaria and Lorenzo Rafael long for getting married but the odds are against them. María Candelaria is segregated for being a prostitute's child and the couple ... See full summary »
Director: Emilio Fernández | Stars: Dolores Del Río, Pedro Armendáriz, Alberto Galán, Margarita Cortés
Votes: 1,220
22. The Pearl (1947)
Approved | 85 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
The discovery of a perfect pearl forever changes the lives of a poor Mexican fisherman and his family.
Director: Emilio Fernández | Stars: Pedro Armendáriz, María Elena Marqués, Fernando Wagner, Gilberto González
Votes: 1,116
23. Herod's Law (1999)
R | 123 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A naive man appointed as an acting mayor of a small town turns into a corrupt politician capable of anything to stay in power.
Director: Luis Estrada | Stars: Damián Alcázar, Pedro Armendáriz Jr., Delia Casanova, Juan Carlos Colombo
Votes: 7,084
24. Hell (2010)
NC-17 | 149 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
After being deported back to Mexico, a man has no choice but to join the vicious drug cartel that has corrupted his hometown in order to survive.
Director: Luis Estrada | Stars: Damián Alcázar, Joaquín Cosio, Ernesto Gómez Cruz, María Rojo
Votes: 12,098
25. Tempestad (2016)
105 min | Documentary
The emotional journeys of two women victimized by corruption and injustice in Mexico and of the love, dignity and resistance that allowed them to survive.
Director: Tatiana Huezo
Votes: 887
26. The Darkness within La Luz del Mundo (2023)
TV-MA | 113 min | Documentary, Crime
In this gut-wrenching documentary, survivors share their stories of how they were abused by three generations of La Luz del Mundo church leaders.
Director: Carlos Perez Osorio | Stars: Elias Argentiere, Naasón Joaquín García, Eduardo De Los Reyes
Votes: 425
27. The Violin (2005)
Not Rated | 98 min | Drama, Music
In an unnamed Latin American country that closely resembles Mexico, the government fights a rural insurgency with torture, assault, rape, and murder. Soldiers descend on a town, cutting off... See full summary »
Director: Francisco Vargas | Stars: Ángel Tavira, Gerardo Taracena, Dagoberto Gama, Mario Garibaldi
Votes: 2,597 | Gross: $0.07M
28. Los ladrones viejos. Las leyendas del artegio (2007)
97 min | Documentary, Crime
A series of stories with old thieves. Framed portraits in Mexico City from the 1970s and 1980s. From the corners of poverty and the prowess of being able to steal "honestly", a series of ... See full summary »
Director: Everardo González
Votes: 334
29. El viaje del cometa (2009)
86 min | Documentary
Enoc and Maria Luisa a retired teachers couple travels in a RV packed with telescopes to the most remote places in Mexico to teach and share their love for astronomy.
Director: Ivonne Fuentes | Stars: Maria Luisa Aguilar, Enoc Fuentes, Víctor Enoch García
Votes: 56
30. Gods of Mexico (2022)
97 min | Documentary
It follows the resistance to modernization in rural Mexico. It is a reminder that it is still possible to live in tune with our essence as human beings.
Director: Helmut Dosantos
Votes: 116
31. Skeleton of Mrs. Morales (1960)
85 min | Comedy, Crime, Horror
A taxidermist decides to murder his wife after having to put up with her after fifteen years of hellish marriage.
Director: Rogelio A. González | Stars: Arturo de Córdova, Amparo Rivelles, Elda Peralta, Guillermo Orea
Votes: 2,111
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