I. The Ariel goes to, 1990 to date, the New Mexican Cinema
by orestesmelendez | created - 02 May 2022 | updated - 30 May 2022 | PublicAriel award to the best movie since 1990, the year generally considered the start for the age and movies of the New Mexican Cinema.
New Mexican Cinema is a popular definition rather than a cohesive school; whereas it could very well be still current, critics and industry professionals talk of late about a new golden age.
From Rojo Amanecer, the movie that reawaken the attention of Mexicans to its cinema despite budgets, to Roma, the most awarded movie of all times.
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Premios Ariel a la mejor película desde 1990, el año generalmente aceptado como el comienzo de las películas del Nuevo Cine Mexicano.
Más un movimiento popular que una escuela definida bien puede considerarse aún vigente; sin embargo, hay quien habla más recientemente de una nueva época dorada, por la frecuencia y el tamaño de las producciones.
De Rojo Amancer, la cinta que a pesar de su relativamente bajo presupuesto reanimó el interés por el cine nacional, a Roma, la obra quizá más premiada de todos los tiempos.
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1. Red Dawn (1990)
96 min | Drama, Thriller
A Claustrophobic experience which involves a Mexican middle class family into the atrocities made by wild and heartless army forces whose main objective seems to be students who do not permit the 1968's Olimpic games' to develop normally.
Director: Jorge Fons | Stars: Héctor Bonilla, María Rojo, Jorge Fegán, Ademar Arau
Votes: 2,036
2. 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: 18,842 | Gross: $21.67M
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: 33,127 | Gross: $0.62M
4. 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: 463
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: 3,361
6. Sin remitente (1995)
97 min | Drama
Tired and frustrated of being constantly awaken at midnight by his noisy young neighbor Mariana (Scanda), old Don Andres (Torre Laphame) engages himself into a solitaire crusade against his... See full summary »
Director: Carlos Carrera | Stars: Fernando Torre Lapham, Tiaré Scanda, Luisa Huertas, Guillermo Gil
Votes: 167
7. Cilantro y perejil (1996)
PG-13 | 90 min | Comedy, Romance
This is a comedy about couples from the same family, hit by the economic crisis in Mexico. The plot turns around the eternal question of whether it is worth it to live as a couple.
Director: Rafael Montero | Stars: Arcelia Ramírez, Demián Bichir, Germán Dehesa, Rodolfo Arias
Votes: 454
8. Por si no te vuelvo a ver (1997)
97 min | Comedy
Senior citizens form a musical band, and dream with performing live in a stage.
Director: Juan Pablo Villaseñor | Stars: Alfredo Alfonso, Óscar Castañeda, Aurora Cortés, José Diaz Estévez
Votes: 170
9. Bajo California: El límite del tiempo (1998)
96 min | Drama
Damian is a married artist living in Los Angeles with his wife. After he accidentally hits a woman with his car and flees the scene, he seeks atonement and travels alone to Mexico, both to ... See full summary »
Director: Carlos Bolado | Stars: Damián Alcázar, Jesús Ochoa, Fernando Torre Lapham, Gabriel Retes
Votes: 477
10. 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: 7,082
11. 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: 252,904 | Gross: $5.38M
12. Cuentos de hadas para dormir cocodrilos (2002)
108 min | Drama
A man who travels back to the house of his father, grandfather and backwards.
Director: Ignacio Ortiz | Stars: Arturo Ríos, Luisa Huertas, Miguel Santana, Ana Graham
Votes: 223
13. 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: 14,425 | Gross: $5.71M
14. Duck Season (2004)
R | 90 min | Comedy, Drama
Flama and Moko are fourteen years old; they have been best friends since they were kids. They have everything they need to survive yet another boring Sunday: an apartment without parents, ... See full summary »
Director: Fernando Eimbcke | Stars: Diego Cataño, Daniel Miranda, Enrique Arreola, Danny Perea
Votes: 4,616 | Gross: $0.15M
15. Mezcal (2006)
90 min | Drama, Family, Fantasy
Director: Ignacio Ortiz | Stars: Ana Graham, Dagoberto Gama, Ricardo Blume, Angelina Peláez
Votes: 75
16. 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: 703,041 | Gross: $37.63M
17. Silent Light (2007)
Not Rated | 136 min | Drama, Romance
In a Mennonite community in Mexico, a father's faith is tested when he falls in love with a new woman.
Director: Carlos Reygadas | Stars: Cornelio Wall, Miriam Toews, Maria Pankratz, Peter Wall
Votes: 6,838 | Gross: $0.05M
18. Lake Tahoe (2008)
Not Rated | 89 min | Drama
A story of a teenager and the strange events that take place in his small town.
Director: Fernando Eimbcke | Stars: Diego Cataño, Hector Herrera, Daniela Valentine, Juan Carlos Lara II
Votes: 1,761 | Gross: $0.01M
19. Nora's Will (2008)
92 min | Comedy, Drama
This story begins when José finds out that Nora, the woman he'd been married to for 30 years and then divorced, has committed suicide. The rabbi explains to José that due to the celebration... See full summary »
Director: Mariana Chenillo | Stars: Fernando Luján, Enrique Arreola, Ari Brickman, Juan Carlos Colombo
Votes: 1,152
20. 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: 12,095
21. Pastorela (2011)
R | 88 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Agent Jesus Juarez (aka Chucho) has always played the Devil in his town's Nativity Play. This Christmas, when the new pastor of the church recasts the role, the two men engage in a battle between good and evil.
Director: Emilio Portes | Stars: Joaquín Cosio, Carlos Cobos, Eduardo España, Ernesto Yáñez
Votes: 1,005 | Gross: $0.16M
22. The Prize (2011)
Not Rated | 115 min | Drama
Ceci, a seven year old girl, has to keep a huge secret, but she doesn't completely understand what is the secret about. The life of her family depends on her silence. But what exactly must ... See full summary »
Director: Paula Markovitch | Stars: Paula Galinelli Hertzog, Laura Agorreca, Viviana Suraniti, Sharon Herrera
Votes: 433
23. The Golden Dream (2013)
Not Rated | 108 min | Drama
A road movie about teenage immigrants and their journey to the U.S.
Director: Diego Quemada-Diez | Stars: Brandon López, Rodolfo Domínguez, Karen Martínez, Carlos Chajon
Votes: 5,131
24. Gueros (2014)
Not Rated | 106 min | Comedy, Drama
Tomas is too much for his lone mother so she sends him to live with his older brother Federico, aka Sombra, in Mexico City.
Director: Alonso Ruizpalacios | Stars: Tenoch Huerta, Sebastián Aguirre, Ilse Salas, Leonardo Ortizgris
Votes: 5,107
25. 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: 2,102
26. La 4ª Compañía (2016)
109 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Zambrano is a juvenile offender that when arrives to the penitentiary only longs to join a football team, Los Perros. Such illusion ends up involving him with the organized crime under the ... See full summary »
Directors: Mitzi Vanessa Arreola, Amir Galván Cervera | Stars: Adrian Ladron, Andoni Gracia, Hernán Mendoza, Gabino Rodríguez
Votes: 829
27. I Dream in Another Language (2017)
Unrated | 103 min | Drama, Romance
When a language dies, a unique vision of the world is lost forever.
Director: Ernesto Contreras | Stars: Fernando Álvarez Rebeil, José Manuel Poncelis, Eligio Meléndez, Fátima Molina
Votes: 4,054 | Gross: $0.00M
28. 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: 169,807
29. I'm No Longer Here (2019)
TV-MA | 112 min | Drama
In Monterrey, Mexico, a young street gang spends their days dancing to slowed-down cumbia and attending parties. After a mix-up with a local cartel, their leader is forced to migrate to the U.S. but quickly longs to return home.
Director: Fernando Frias | Stars: Juan Daniel García Treviño, Emily May Jampel, Xueming Angelina Chen, Leonardo Ávila
Votes: 9,417
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