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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
MGM Plus
69
6.7
/3703/
67
/71/
65
/70/
3.4
/2104/
81
/16/
63
/24/
73
/7/

Who'll Stop the Rain (1978)
John, a disillusioned Vietnam War journalist, turns to heroin smuggling. He cons Ray, an equally burnt out veteran into delivering the drugs stateside to his wife. Everything soon falls apart and Ray ends up on the run with John's wife trying to evade crooked narcotics agents.
poster
71
66
6.7
/9376/
70
/199/
66
/168/
3.4
/5194/
97
/37/
67
/111/
62
/12/

Major Dundee (1965)
During the last winter of the Civil War, cavalry officer Amos Dundee leads a contentious troop of Army regulars, Confederate prisoners and scouts on an expedition into Mexico to destroy a band of Apaches who have been raiding U.S. bases in Texas.
poster
The Roku Channel
76
61
7.4
/3027/
74
/66/
79
/121/
3.8
/15226/
79
/130/

Tear This Heart Out (2008)
A young girl recounts her girlhood and eventual marriage to a general of the Mexican revolution. by one of the most outstanding writers of the new feminist Mexican literature, it is at once a haunting novel of one woman's life and a powerful account of post-revolutionary Mexico from a female perspective.
poster
68
59
6.6
/3049/
70
/108/
63
/60/
3.6
/5494/
84
/44/
61
/35/
65
/16/

Buck and the Preacher (1972)
A wagon master and a con-man preacher help freed slaves dogged by cheap-labor agents out West.
poster
73
47
7.1
/1268/
80
/29/
76
/62/
3.2
/1603/
76
/45/

El estudiante (2009)
After retiring to the beautiful Mexican town of Guanajuato, a 70 year old decides to follow his dreams and enroll at the university where he stumbles upon a new generation and they are bound together by the novel Don Quijote de la Mancha.
poster
74
41
7.5
/477/
65
/9/
83
/38/
3.8
/2237/

The Scapular (1968)
A woman who is about to die calls the town's priest and hands him a scapulary, saying that she knows of its great powers. Anybody who does not believe in them will end up dead.
poster
79
40
7.5
/843/
72
/31/
74
/21/
3.6
/1441/
100
/5/
84
/5/

Warehoused (2015)
An employee about to retire and the young man who is to take over, share five journeys in the work place, an enormous empty warehouse where apparently nothing ever happens.
poster
80
39
8.0
/344/
66
/8/
79
/22/
3.8
/751/
100
/65/

Black Wind (1965)
The building of a railroad under tough conditions from searing heat to freezing cold in the Sonora desert provokes clashes of passion and struggles between the engineers and the workers at the campsite. The workers also contend with sudden dust storms that are called the 'black wind'. Based on true events.
poster
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
Netflix
61
32
5.7
/1239/
59
/53/
65
/60/
2.8
/2592/
71
/4/
cc age 15+

Tell Me When (2020)
After his grandfather's death, a young man decides to fulfill his elder's last wish with the help of his new friends. The problem starts when he falls in love with a female friend who may not feel the same.
poster
73
30
6.8
/351/
68
/15/
74
/49/
3.3
/250/
83
/6/
82
/3/

One for the Road (2015)
Three octogenarians set out on a trip in order to fulfill the dying wish of a lifelong friend, in spite of the disapproval of their families and the limitations of their advanced age. Along the way, they find themselves embroiled in a series of comedic misadventures and meet a cast of colorful characters. Their journey fundamentally alters each characters' sense of self and their place in the world. There is, indeed, life after 80.
poster
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
52
22
4.8
/677/
47
/31/
61
/62/
2.9
/963/
46
/4/

Suave Patria (2012)
Oscar and Arthur are two actors without fortune who survive unemployment with a routine street, where one represents the thief and the other to the police. Thanks to this performance are "hired" by Mr. Mauricio Tavares to play a practical joke on dangerous Don Antonio Robledo, a senior executive who suffer a fictional kidnapping for later culminate in a surprise party.
poster
45
21
5.3
/1521/
55
/34/
53
/36/
2.9
/652/
9
/98/

Caboblanco (1980)
Giff Hoyt, a cafe owner in Cabo Blanco, Peru after World War II is caught between refuge-seeking Nazis and their enemies. After the murder of a sea explorer is passed off as accidental death by the corrupt local police, Giff becomes suspicious. The police chief also intimidates a new arrival Marie, and Giff intervenes to help her. Giff suspects Beckdorff, a Nazi refugee living in the area. Beckdorff, it emerges, is seeking to uncover sunken treasure.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
53
15
5.9
/1029/
60
/22/
52
/25/
3.2
/285/
32
/6/

Eagle's Wing (1979)
Two men, an aging Native American and a ne'er-do-well trapper from North America, race to claim the stallion Eagle's Wing in antebellum Mexico, meeting marauded stagecoach travelers and garrisoned Mexicans along the way.
poster
50
14
4.9
/517/
44
/17/
56
/14/
53
/15/

Curandero (2005)
A journey that takes one man into the bowels of black magic in Mexico City
poster
60
12
6.6
/171/
55
/5/
51
/18/
3.4
/410/

The Year of the Plague (1978)
A terrible disease is found in a Mexican town. A doctor tries to alert the authorities when he discovers its epidemic nature. No one listen to him and soon after the disease spreads. The government tries to control the information in order to prevent panic.
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
58
10
7.4
/153/
20
/2/
70
/13/
3.4
/277/

El mil usos (1981)
The tragic adventures of a illiterate man named "Milusos" who leaves his family & hometown to go to the big city and try to better his luck. And finds he's unprepared for what he encounters.
poster
60
9
7.3
/348/
50
/4/
47
/11/
3.5
/277/

Two Crimes (1995)
After being falsely accused of a murder, Marcos runs away to the small and quiet town of Cuevano. There he finds that the family matters are more complicated than his.
poster
?
70
/2/

Tigers (2020)
A story centered on the centuries-old feud between the aristocratic vampire race and their former slaves, the werewolves.
poster
?
7.2
/28/
20
/1/
57
/3/

Jasmine blossoms (1996)
Luis is attempting suicide from the top level of a construction building when he is interrupted by Don Ramón who also wants to kill himself. The two men engage into a conversation about life, love and family while sharing a song: "De jazmín en flor".
poster
66
?
5.5
/108/
64
/14/
78
/21/
2.9
/867/

La posada (2023)
The Mendoza family gathers yearly for Posada. Diego's girlfriend Caro hosts this year. Secrets and cultural clashes emerge, making Caro reconsider joining the Mendoza family.
poster
?
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.
poster
?
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
?
20
/1/
50
/2/

Reclusorio III (1999)
3 real life stories taken from the Mexican police archive.
poster
?
6.9
/52/
10
/1/
63
/6/

El Mil Usos II (1984)
Transit must deal with his impulse to leave the country to go to the United States in search of the famous American dream.
poster
?
5.7
/18/
10
/1/
50
/2/

Intriga contra México (1988)
An international group is trying to destabilize Mexico by assassinating the President.
poster
?
6.5
/32/
10
/1/
48
/5/

Oficio de tinieblas (1981)
"Occupation of Darkness" - Set in 1934, and meant to dramatize social injustices, this melodrama examines an official's attempt at land reform. The landowners are against any reform and are also not interested in ending the exploitation of their workers. On the opposite side of the fence, the Native Americans have almost no way to better their living conditions or to fight oppression. They are also plagued by "superstition," which leads to some misguided actions that only make things worse. Violence and sexual encounters are interspersed throughout the story.
poster
?
6.8
/32/
35
/2/
54
/7/

Fuego en el mar (1981)
Mariano works as chief driller on an oil platform in Campeche 14 days a month. However, he is obsessed with the idea that his wife Gloria is cheating on him while he is away. Therefore, time and again he asks her to stop working and get pregnant for the second time. However, Gloria refuses to be financially dependent on her husband. The couple's conflicts become more acute when engineer Becker, Gloria's former lover, starts working again in the offices where she works.
poster
?
7.4
/62/
20
/1/

Benjamín (2002)
N/A
poster
?
10
/1/
20
/1/

A Christmas Carol (1989)
Plot unknown.
poster
fuboTV
49
?
6.0
/116/
50
/1/
56
/8/
31
/6/

Morenita: el escándalo (2009)
Desperate to save his family from death threats by a notorious drug dealer, Mateo Cruz steals the venerated image of the Virgin of Guadalupe causing pandemonium throughout Mexico.
poster
?
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
?
80
/1/
50
/1/

Cruz de navajas (2008)
A few crooks escape prison during a transfer of criminals and decide to hide in a church where they pretend to be priests. Ironically, they never suspected that the true priests dedicated themselves to trafficking with sculptures from the church and thus becoming the most wanted delinquents of the region.
poster
?
6.5
/63/
10
/1/
54
/5/

El extensionista (1991)
N/A
poster
?
7.1
/63/
57
/7/

Three of Cups (1986)
While touring the towns, two revelers meet a beautiful woman who awakens greed and passion in both.
poster
53
?
6.0
/59/
43
/3/
59
/16/

Masacre en el río Tula (1985)
Based on a real event, twelve dead bodies are found in the Tula River, we see the events that lead up to the massacre in a tale of crime, vice, corruption and sleaze.
poster
?
7.5
/97/
30
/1/
61
/8/

Rattlesnake (1977)
A filmmaker is commissioned to film a documentary on the social reality of the Lacandon people in the state of Chiapas. As he enters the harsh living conditions of this indigenous community, his social conscience forces him to confront his superiors, who threaten to destroy his material.
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
?
5.5
/37/
30
/1/
44
/5/

Crossing the Desert (2012)
Victor, a successful and well-respected businessman, is obsessed by the legend that an indigenous woman told him when he was a child. Victor lives a conventional life with a family that knows and complains about his constant infidelities. When the woman is dying, she sends for Victor and her son Jose Francisco, who is working as his chauffeur. They both answer the summons. Their lives take an unexpected turn.
poster
?
4.9
/59/
66
/3/
65
/10/

El Garabato (2008)
The story of a naive young man, provincial and not very experienced, to whom the circumstances of destiny, when crossing with the beautiful Frida, lead him to mature with a single blow. Rodolfo helps Frida in a car accident while she orders him to deliver an envelope. There begins the desperate flight of this innocent man fighting for his life, persecuted by thugs -who want to recover the contents of the envelope- and by the police -who seeks him for being a suspect in the death of an important diplomat.
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
?
6.9
/51/
10
/1/
57
/6/

Wandering Lives (1985)
Two traveling projectionists tour the villages of the mountains showing films in order to save money and build their own theater.
poster
42
?
5.2
/108/
40
/2/
37
/3/

Buddah's Head (2009)
Tomás, a famous and egocentric actor, buying a Buddha head in Lagunilla . In an attempt to avoid being robbed, the thief accidentally kills in self-defense , with the relic . His life starts to change , forcing him to confront this crime and discover the sheer banality of existence. Seeking redemption faced with the mother of the thief and asks forgiveness , learning to forgive yourself
poster
?
7.1
/25/
10
/1/
58
/4/

Zapata en Chinameca (1987)
Urbino Martínez, on his deathbed, regrets his wrongdoing after betraying Emiliano Zapata.


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