Country: Mexico

Discover the best movies, series, and documentaries made in Mexico. Enjoy the top titles of all time, handpicked for you.


The Young and the Damned

1950 · Movie · 88 min. · Mexico

Direction Luis Buñuel

Cast Alfonso Mejía · Roberto Cobo · Estela Inda · Miguel Inclán

Plot El Jaibo is a teenager who escapes from a reformatory institution and joins his friends in the neighborhood. After a couple of days, el Jaibo kills, with the presence of...

8.3

14K votes

8.3

14K votes

Las muertes chiquitas

2013 · Documentary · min. · Mexico

Direction Mireia Sallarès

8.2

36 votes

8.2

36 votes

The Exterminating Angel

1962 · Movie · 90 min. · Mexico

Direction Luis Buñuel

Cast Silvia Pinal · Enrique Rambal · Jacqueline Andere · José Baviera

Plot High society guests find themselves unable to leave the dining room after a posh dinner party. The uncomfortable situation extends far beyond the limits of their patience and survival instincts...

8.1

25K votes

8.1

25K votes

El (This Strange Passion)

1953 · Movie · 92 min. · Mexico

Direction Luis Buñuel

Cast Arturo de Córdova · Delia Garcés · Aurora Walker · Carlos Martínez Baena

Plot Francisco is rich, rather strict on principles, and still a bachelor. After meeting Gloria by accident, he is suddenly intent on her becoming his wife and courts her until she...

8.0

6K votes

8.0

6K votes

El cielo abierto

2011 · Documentary · 100 min. · Mexico

Direction Everardo González

Plot First came the word, then the assassin's bullet, then the silence. This strong documentary by Everardo González about Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero, the voice of the voiceless in El Salvador,...

7.8

24 votes

7.8

24 votes

Macario

1960 · Movie · 91 min. · Mexico

Direction Roberto Gavaldón

Cast Ignacio López Tarso · Pina Pellicer · Enrique Lucero · Mario Alberto Rodríguez

Plot Macario is a poor, hungry peasant, with a wife and several children, who sells wood in the town. Fed up with a life full of hardships, Macario longs for a...

7.8

2K votes

7.8

2K votes

Nazarin

1959 · Movie · 92 min. · Mexico

Direction Luis Buñuel

Cast Francisco Rabal · Marga López · Rita Macedo · Ignacio López Tarso

Plot Indigent village priest, Father Nazario is prepared to completely sacrifice himself in order to show the villagers the radically giving, humble, selfless way of life that he believes is the...

7.7

4K votes

7.7

4K votes

Love Dogs

2000 · Movie · 150 min. · Mexico

Direction Alejandro González Iñárritu

Cast Emilio Echevarría · Gael García Bernal · Goya Toledo · Alvaro Guerrero

Plot Alejandro Gonzalez Iniarritu makes an electrifying directorial debut with AMORES PERROS, an energetic, assured motion picture that jumps off the screen with a seemingly boundless energy. Told in three separate...

7.7

74K votes

7.7

74K votes

Skeleton of Mrs. Morales

1960 · Movie · 92 min. · Mexico

Direction Rogelio A. González

Cast Arturo de Córdova · Amparo Rivelles · Elda Peralta · Guillermo Orea

Plot A taxidermist decides to murder his wife after having to put up with her after twenty years of hellish marriage.

7.6

1K votes

7.6

1K votes

7.6

8K votes

The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz

1955 · Movie · 91 min. · Mexico

Direction Luis Buñuel

Cast Ernesto Alonso · Miroslava · Ariadne Welter · Rita Macedo

Plot The delirious journey of a mental disordered man, who is obsessed in making the perfect crime.

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7.6

5K votes

7.6

5K votes

The Beginning and the End

1993 · Movie · 188 min. · Mexico

Direction Arturo Ripstein

Cast Ernesto Laguardia · Julieta Egurrola · Blanca Guerra · Lucía Muñoz

Plot Based on the homonymous novel by the Egyptian Nobel-Prize-winner Naguib Mahfouz. The widow Ignacia places all the family hopes in his son Gabriel. All the members of the family make...

7.5

640 votes

7.5

640 votes

Presumed Guilty

2009 · Documentary · 87 min. · Mexico

Direction Roberto Hernández · Geoffrey Smith

Plot 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...

7.5

567 votes

7.5

567 votes

The Tiniest Place

2011 · Documentary · 104 min. · Mexico

Direction Tatiana Huezo

7.5

67 votes

7.5

67 votes

Black Wind

1965 · Movie · 127 min. · Mexico

7.5

176 votes

7.5

176 votes

Tempestad

2016 · Documentary · 105 min. · Mexico

Direction Tatiana Huezo

Cast Miriam Carbajal · Adela Alvarado

Plot A woman is recruited to a prison controlled by organized crime while another woman searches for her missing daughter. Through images that submerges us in a journey from north to...

7.4

165 votes

7.4

165 votes

The Place Without Limits (Hell Without Limits)

1977 · Movie · 110 min. · Mexico

Direction Arturo Ripstein

Cast Roberto Cobo · Gonzalo Vega · Ana Martín · Lucha Villa

Plot In a small town, "La Manuela", an extravagant homosexual and his daughter "La Japonesita" run a brothel. The town's relative tranquility is upset by the arrival of Pancho, a boastful...

7.4

671 votes

7.4

671 votes

Disrupted

2013 · Documentary · 95 min. · Mexico

Direction Roberto Fiesco

Cast Coral Bonelli · Lilia Ortega (Doña Pinoles)

Plot The memory and testimony of two characters: Fernando García, known as Pinolito, who was a child actor in the seventies and Doña Lilia Ortega, his mother, an actress. Fernando came...

7.4

77 votes

7.4

77 votes

La rosa blanca

1961 · Movie · 105 min. · Mexico

Direction Roberto Gavaldón

Cast Ignacio López Tarso · Christiane Martel · Reinhold Olszewski · Rita Macedo

Plot An illiterate Indian (Ignacio Lopez Tarso) lives an idyllic existence as a landowner on Mexico's Gulf Coast until the greed of a US oil company gets in the way. He...

7.4

80 votes

7.4

80 votes