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79
78
7.7
/13460/
75
/374/
78
/733/
4.0
/33358/
86
/68/

El Infierno (2010)
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.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
76
7.3
/24716/
73
/484/
70
/388/
3.7
/14637/
90
/31/
85
/419/
69
/17/

Salvador (1986)
In 1980, an American journalist covering the Salvadoran Civil War becomes entangled with both the leftist guerrilla groups and the right-wing military dictatorship while trying to rescue his girlfriend and her children.
poster
Netflix
72
7.8
/7706/
76
/163/
79
/194/
3.8
/15725/
68
/25/
88
/87/
64
/11/

Herod's Law (1999)
In the 1940s, a small Mexican town has seen its last three mayors assassinated in rapid succession. A naive janitor is recruited to become the new mayor, and he believes he will modernize the little town and usher in a reign of peace. But the system corrupts him very quickly, and he takes to abusing his power while associating with an unscrupulous assortment of opportunists, hypocrites and criminals.
poster
Criterion Channel
72
6.8
/6724/
65
/105/
65
/98/
3.5
/5995/
74
/19/
71
/126/
70
/14/

Under the Volcano (1984)
Against a background of war breaking out in Europe and the Mexican fiesta Day of Death, we are taken through one day in the life of Geoffrey Firmin, a British consul living in alcoholic disrepair and obscurity in a small southern Mexican town in 1939. The consul's self-destructive behaviour, perhaps a metaphor for a menaced civilization, is a source of perplexity and sadness to his nomadic, idealistic half-brother, Hugh, and his ex-wife, Yvonne, who has returned with hopes of healing Geoffrey and their broken marriage.
poster
Netflix
73
62
7.2
/6590/
73
/194/
74
/201/
3.5
/16443/
77
/27/

The Perfect Dictatorship (2014)
TV MX, the most powerful Mexican Television Corporation, discloses a scandalous story involving Governor Carmelo Vargas in serious crimes and illicit business. Governor Vargas worried about his political future, decides to clean his image and negotiates a billionaire secret agreement with the owners of the TV Corporation. Carlos Rojo, an ambitious young news producer, and Ricardo Diaz, TV network star reporter, are responsible for making a dirty campaign to change the image the public has of the corrupt Governor and make him, at any cost, a political star and a great presidential candidate. Mexican Television believes that democracy is a farce and has already placed one President... Will they do it again?
poster
Criterion Channel
81
57
7.8
/2119/
78
/56/
78
/82/
4.1
/9199/
86
/7/
88
/14/

Canoa: A Shameful Memory (1976)
A group of students arrives in a small town during a hiking expedition. Once there, the local priest accuses them of being communist agitators on the run from an army crack-down against student demonstrations in nearby Mexico City and rallies the townsfolk to lynch them. Based on a true story.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
57
6.1
/119979/
64
/2256/
59
/1544/
3.0
/53581/
54
/134/
44
/2241/
43
/35/
cc age 17+

The Mexican (2001)
Jerry Welbach, a reluctant bagman, has been given two ultimatums: The first is from his mob boss to travel to Mexico and retrieve a priceless antique pistol, known as "the Mexican"... or suffer the consequences. The second is from his girlfriend Samantha to end his association with the mob. Jerry figures alive and in trouble with Samantha is better than the more permanent alternative, so he heads south of the border.
poster
54
5.7
/2238/
64
/36/
55
/34/
3.1
/630/
46
/13/
44
/24/

Old Gringo (1989)
A writer forms a triangle with a schoolmarm and a Mexican general on the run.
poster
47
5.5
/80371/
60
/2403/
57
/1432/
2.6
/21885/
19
/139/
27
/1224/
33
/34/
cc age 17+

Collateral Damage (2002)
Firefighter Gordon Brewer is plunged into the complex and dangerous world of international terrorism after he loses his wife and child in a bombing credited to Claudio 'The Wolf' Perrini.
poster
59
46
5.3
/2357/
60
/73/
68
/145/
3.1
/10590/
54
/145/

Charm School (2007)
Defiant 18-year-old Adela León pushes her father and an unbending headmistress to the limit in this delicious comedy.
poster
Netflix
54
43
5.6
/2734/
60
/99/
73
/190/
2.6
/11114/
33
/6/
cc age 16+

¡Que viva México! (2023)
After his grandfather's death, a man travels with his wife and kids to his hometown, where chaos ensues with his relatives over the inheritance.
poster
72
43
7.1
/489/
60
/10/
68
/40/
3.4
/1334/
92
/70/

Las Poquianchis (1976)
During the mid-1970s, in the Mexican state of Guanajuato, authorities discover a clandestine burial ground. The corpses are from murdered prostitutes. The suspects are three sisters known as "Las Poquianchis".
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72
33
7.6
/365/
61
/5/
65
/23/
3.5
/712/
87
/79/

The Heist (1976)
In Mexico City's infamous Lecumberri prison, three drug-addicted convicts celebrate getting drugs from one of their the mothers. They are found out and locked up in the "apando," the dreaded punishment cell. Protests over the treatment of those held in the cell lead to a bloody confrontation.
poster
Hulu
57
29
5.6
/648/
64
/24/
63
/27/
2.9
/1128/
45
/11/

The Mongolian Conspiracy (2019)
1963, the Soviet Union intercepts a rumour that China pretends to assassinate the president of the US in his visit to Mexico. Filiberto Garcia, a local policeman, has 72 hours to investigate the Mongolian Conspiracy.
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55
24
5.1
/411/
53
/32/
62
/118/
2.7
/778/

The Exorcist (2022)
Ophelia, a young nun recently arriving in the town of San Ramon, is forced to perform an exorcism on a pregnant woman in danger of dying. Just when she thinks her possession has ended, she discovers that the evil presence hasn't disappeared yet. The director of the award-winning Here Comes the Devil and Late Phases adds a new twist to possession movies in one of this year's Latin American horror surprises.
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65
22
7.7
/281/
46
/3/
65
/31/
3.6
/654/

The Bricklayers (1976)
When a worker is found murdered on the construction side, the investigation swiftly turns from things criminal to the political circumstances surrounding the building itself. Widespread corruption and neglect by the builder himself are seen to have brought the situation about. Much of the movie is filmed using hand-held cameras, and the majority of the dialogue is in the difficult-to-understand and very slangy Spanish dialect of Mexico City's bricklayers.
poster
61
20
6.0
/311/
50
/3/
68
/4/
67
/97/

One Man’s War (1991)
Anthony Hopkins plays an English medical doctor living with his family in Paraguay and treating the poor people from the surroundings, who has his life turned upside down when his son was mysteriously murdered in what could have been an attack to him since he's opposed to the military dictatorship of the country. The doctor and his family will take lots of risk while trying to prove that the government was involved in the murder.
poster
61
16
6.8
/576/
50
/12/
53
/13/
3.4
/496/
67
/14/

Frida Still Life (1986)
This film is a chronicle of painter Frida Kahlo, and her encounter with the personalities of her time. Despite being confied to a wheelchair as a result of polio, operations and amputations, she faces and traces some of the most colorful and controversial aspects of Mexican history, during the dominant time of Mexican muralism.
poster
72
12
7.4
/120/
70
/1/
73
/11/
3.6
/463/

Drizzle (1978)
Returning from a business trip, a man meets some peasants who arouse fears in him.
poster
62
11
6.9
/390/
57
/8/
54
/15/
3.5
/280/

Letters from Marusia (1975)
Chronicle of the repression that a foreign company exerts on the miners of a small nitrate town in Chile, whose workers decide to claim their most essential rights. A reflection of the historic union struggles in the northern Chile that ended with terrible repressive acts.
poster
61
8
6.5
/232/
56
/3/
55
/11/
3.5
/258/

Ángel de fuego (1991)
The young trapeze artist Alma is part of the show of a miserable traveling circus. In an act of desperation, Alma commits incest with her father, a sick clown obsessed with the woman who abandoned them. Determined to have his child, Alma leaves the circus and joins a group of preachers led by Refugio, a woman who performs puppet shows with biblical passages in poor neighborhoods.
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?
4.7
/36/
47
/3/

The House in the South (1976)
Indian village experiences forced relocation; their experience is paralleled by that of other groups dating back to the 18th century.
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?
4.1
/16/
10
/2/
50
/2/

Una buena forma de morir (1994)
After his wife is murdered by gang members, a man must take revenge.
poster
?
7.8
/80/
60
/1/
50
/2/

Sobre el arco iris (2004)
A man buys a video camera and goes to Berlin adopting a new identity: Ludwig. Fascinated by the magic of cinema, he films his trip in an obsessive fascion, converting it into fiction
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?
20
/1/
50
/2/

De muerte natural (1996)
Four women get mad at a bakery while they recall their lives at their neighborhood.
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?
6.2
/40/
62
/5/
40
/5/

Viaje al paraíso (1985)
Family plans for a quiet weekend at the beach, but everything goes wrong.
poster
27
?
3.3
/183/
30
/1/
20
/4/

Jack's Law (2006)
Jack Santos is a retired undercover vice cop whose world is suddenly torn apart by the murder of his wife and daughter. After serving a prison term for a crime he did not commit, Jack returns to the streets with a vengeance against crime, and takes to vigilantism.
poster
?
6.4
/22/
10
/1/
53
/3/

The Eve (1982)
Aging politicians who have faded from the public eye hold a cocktail party to celebrate one friend's appointment to the President's Cabinet. Illusions are indulged, illusions are shattered.
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?
6.4
/22/
10
/1/
50
/2/

The Food of Fear (1994)
The story unfolds in an underclass neighborhood of Mexico City, a place where a unique troupe features a circus act, led by Don Ramón (López Moctezuma himself.) He and his wife Petra (Isaura Espinosa) have to take care of the daughter of a neighbor who has been jailed for drug trafficking. Petra decides that the girl (who is only 5 years old) must earn a living, entrusting her several domestic tasks; the little girl, which he nicknamed "Flea" befriends Pepito, who works as a clown on the street. Things get complicated when somone with satanic tendencies arrives to Ramon's house, and the visitor develops an interest on Petra. A fight between the three adults causes that "lil Flea" suffers a fatal accident, so the solution will be to use her meat for the tamales sold by Petra.
poster
?
20
/1/

Ojitos mentirosos (1999)
N/A
poster
60
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5.1
/56/
55
/4/
78
/4/
2.9
/292/

1938: When Mexico Recovered Its Oil (2025)
A chronicle of the Mexican oil expropriation in 1938 through the eyes of President Lazaro Cardenas and journalist Alberto Miranda.
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?
3.6
/11/
10
/1/
50
/1/

Motel of Death (1990)
Murders take place in and around a hotel. Debuted on Mexican TV.
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?
4.1
/15/
63
/6/
50
/2/

Fuera de la ley (1998)
Four raw stories about justice and law.
poster
?
50
/1/

Héroes de la seguridad (2009)
N/A
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?
6.4
/66/
20
/1/
62
/6/

His Most Serene Highness (2000)
This historical drama depicts the waning days of the life of Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, who waged a war against the United States that ultimately cost his nation half of its territory
poster
The Roku Channel
40
?
5.7
/44/
10
/1/
53
/11/

Mujer de cabaret (1991)
Alicia Conde is famous and successful cabaret singer is going to marry Octavio and quit her career. But this Octavio turns to be a gambler and in a few months he loses all family's fortune. Alicia decided to come back to that cabaret and sing again. The cabaret owner Don Lalo wants her to be his love and his girlfriend Elena finds out about it. She kills him and makes people and police think that Alicia is guilty for this murder. Being imprisoned Alicia must find a prove that she's innocent. And the only prove is a VHS with the record of that murder which was stolen from Elena by her ex-lover. Alicia goes through beatings, humiliation, takes drugs and finally faces with Elena and her ex-lover to get the prove of her innocence...
poster
?
5.9
/21/
10
/1/
43
/9/

Octagon and Atlantis, the rematch (1992)
A Colombian gangster buys modern weapons to re-sell them to guerrillas of various countries, under the patronage of the Mafia. Interpol is after Gallardo, the Mexican provider, with the help of two masked wrestlers, Octagon and Atlantis.
poster
?
6.7
/18/
10
/1/
53
/3/

El vals sin fin (1972)
N/A
poster
?
7.0
/44/
10
/1/
55
/4/

Those Years (1974)
President Juárez fights against the conservatives, who have ordered an emperor to be brought from France to govern Mexico
poster
57
?
6.1
/216/
54
/5/
57
/9/

File of Attempted Murder (2010)
Tells the story behind an assassination attempt perpetrated in 1897, by a dipsomaniac man, against the President of the Mexican Republic, General Porfirio Diaz.
poster
51
?
6.7
/121/
36
/6/
51
/7/

Under the Shrapnel (1983)
A guerrilla commando tries to kidnap a politician. In the attempt, several policemen and a guerrillero die. By chance the head of the kidnappers meets an old colleague; to prevent him from betraying them, he kidnaps him.
poster
?
6.8
/29/
63
/7/

El elegido (1977)
A guy is peer-pressured, despite his reluctance, to play the role of Christ in a local production of the Passion Play.
poster
?
7.1
/87/
42
/4/
62
/10/

Emiliano Zapata (1970)
This is the story of a man, Emiliano Zapata, and of a revolution, the Mexican Revolution.
poster
?
7.1
/25/
10
/1/
58
/4/

Zapata en Chinameca (1987)
Urbino Martínez, on his deathbed, regrets his wrongdoing after betraying Emiliano Zapata.
poster
?
6.1
/43/
60
/6/
49
/7/

Motel (1984)
The discovery of the mutilated body of a wealthy woman leads a detective to an isolated motel.
poster
?
7.6
/38/
10
/1/
60
/3/

Cayó de la gloria el diablo (1972)
Subsistence-economy slum guy who sells used newsprint for a living breaks into showbiz with an inadvertantly-comical fire-eater act. The novelty of him wears off very quickly, and then...
poster
?
5.7
/33/
45
/2/
37
/7/

Perseguida (1991)
A journalist Lorena and her friend photographer Raul decide to try to take an interview from influential politician Hermenegildo Parra. After several unsuccessful attempts they decide to break into his house and make some photos there but when they enter his cabinet they see him stabbed with the knife. The next day the newspaper announces his death and start to celebrate a big amount of sold copies but during the fiesta a phone calls and it was Mr.Parra "alive and kicking". After this scandal Lorena becomes pursued by some mysterious killers who want to take the negatives from her at any price. The solution of this mystery is very unexpected...
poster
?
5.8
/30/
10
/1/
50
/3/

Loving Ghosts (1994)
N/A


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