Mexican films about the border

List of the best Mexican films about the border, selected by visitors to our site: 600 Miles, Darker Than Night, We Are the Nobles, Get the Gringo, A la mala, Dead Drop, DeadTectives, While the Wolf's Away, New Order, Larceny.

In the top there are new films of 2023, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

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Markimdb: 5.5
Genrethriller, drama
CountryMexico, USA

Arnulfo Rubio smuggles weapons from Arizona to Mexico for a drug cartel, but he is being investigated by agent Harris. When agent Harris blows his covers, he and Arnulfo end up in a journey where he will be the hostage of this young criminal.

Markimdb: 4.3
Genrehorror
CountryMexico
Duration01:35

When four women move into an old house left by one woman's aunt, strange things begin to happen. Bizarre voices, visions of ghosts, and mysterious noises lead them to discover the darkest powers of evil and a horror and agony beyond terror.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genrecomedy
CountryMexico
Duration01:48

Tells the "riches to rags" story of the Nobles, three upper-class twenty-somethings that appear to have no limits to their checkbooks, and no direction in their lives. Until one day, their father tries to teach them a lesson by staging a financial scandal that forces the whole family to escape to an old house in the poor side of town, and leads the "kids" to do what they haven't done before: get jobs.

Markimdb: 7
Genreaction, drama, crime
CountryUSA, Mexico
Duration01:36

    A career criminal (Gibson) nabbed by Mexican authorities is placed in a tough prison where he learns to survive with the help of a 9-year-old boy.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genrecomedy
    CountryMexico

    Maria Laura "Mala" is an actress with little luck, but she is successful working for other women, seducing their boyfriends to know if they are faithful or not. But everything changes when her dream to perform in her acting career depends on a job to be performed with Santiago who breaks the pattern and shakes her professional convictions.

    Markimdb: 3.5
    Genreaction, thriller, crime
    CountryMexico, USA
    Duration01:31

    After surviving a fall from a plane 3000-feet over the ocean, a former CIA operative turned government contractor re-infiltrates a dangerous North Mexican drug trafficking ring to find his own killer. With his memory unraveling, he descends into a murderous rampage while trying to uncover the truth. Who threw him from the plane? Was it his best friend?

    Markimdb: 6
    Genrehorror, comedy
    CountryUSA, Mexico

    A team of reality TV paranormal investigators go to Mexico's most haunted house in the pursuit of better ratings. However, when the true dark secrets of the mansion begin to reveal themselves, the hapless team quickly discover that this house is no hoax. With zero genuine ghost-hunting experience, they have to figure out how to stop the ghosts and escape the house with their lives.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genrethriller, drama, detective
    CountryMexico
    Duration02:20

    A young teen and his misfit group of friends try to escape from a strict boarding school that holds dangerous secrets.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryMexico, France

    In the near future, a popular uprising in Mexico City interrupts a wedding held at the home of a wealthy family. After the riots have been quashed, they discover the bride has gone missing and plea with the military to help locate her.

    Markimdb: 3.4
    Genreaction, thriller
    CountryUSA, Mexico
    Duration01:51

    After being busted for a heist, a former CIA contractor is sent to a Mexican prison. His former CIA boss offers him freedom if he can break into the prison vault and steal $50 Million.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genremelodrama, drama, adventure
    CountryMexico
    Duration01:56

    In the Mexican-Guatemalan border, young teenage lovers, Sabina and Jovany, both Hondurans, accidentally meet again after some years without seeing each other. She plans to get to the United States and dreams about being a great singer; he commits all the required atrocities to be accepted by the gang: la Mara Salvatrucha. Sabina and Jovany crashed with the most adverse conditions at the border like white slavery, the Mexican and American migratory agents Burrona and Patrick, the brothel matron Doña Lita, Don Nico the Mexican Consul in Tecún Umán, the drug trafficking networks, the army and la Mara Salvatrucha.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryMexico

    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?

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genredrama
    CountryMexico

    A well-to-do socialite and her husband must wrestle with the impact of Mexico's 1982 economic crisis.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
    CountryMexico
    Duration01:53

    The story of a young woman clinging on to her dream to become a beauty contest queen in a Mexico dominated by organized crime.

    Markimdb: 4.1
    Genreaction, thriller, comedy
    CountryMexico
    Duration01:28

    When Matt Booth sets off to meet his fiance for a foreign wedding he couldn't have imagined the dangerous world he was about to step into. Betrayed and set up, Matt finds himself on the run from the CIA and hired mercenaries, all looking for a package that he has supposedly smuggled through customs. Hunted on all sides, Matt is aided by Agent Adriana Vasquez, a femme fatale with orders of her own to follow.

    Markimdb: 8.4
    Genrefantasy, comedy, adventure, family, cartoon, detective, music
    CountryUSA, Mexico
    Duration01:27

    Despite his family’s baffling generations-old ban on music, Miguel dreams of becoming an accomplished musician like his idol, Ernesto de la Cruz. Desperate to prove his talent, Miguel finds himself in the stunning and colorful Land of the Dead following a mysterious chain of events. Along the way, he meets charming trickster Hector, and together, they set off on an extraordinary journey to unlock the real story behind Miguel's family history.

    Markimdb: 4.8
    Genrefantasy, family, cartoon
    CountryMexico

    In the Mexican town of Santa Clara, Salma, a 16 year-old orphan who never got to meet her biological parents, has spent most of her life searching for clues of their identities and whereabouts, that is until she discovers a special book that is filled with stories of the town's past and the history of it's people.

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryMexico
    Duration01:46

    Set amidst the 1999 student strikes in Mexico City, this coming-of-age tale finds two brothers venturing through the city in a sentimental search for an aging legendary musician. Shot in black-and-white, Güeros brims with youthful exuberance.

    Markimdb: 5.6
    Genrehorror, thriller
    CountryMexico
    Duration01:37

    A married couple loses their children while on a family trip near some caves in Tijuana. The kids eventually reappear without explanation, but it becomes clear that they are not who they used to be, that something terrifying has changed them.

    Markimdb: 5.3
    Genreaction, comedy, melodrama, drama, adventure
    CountryMexico, USA
    Duration01:07

    High school seniors Logan and Blake prepare for an epic Spring Break as they travel to the beautiful and exotic Mexican beach resort of Puerto Vallarta hoping to hook up with their high school crushes. Surrounded by hot girls in teeny bikinis, the guys are truly in heaven. After meeting at a club, Logan falls for a mysterious local beauty named Gaby but then realizes the next morning, when his grandfather’s Rolex watch is missing, that she was after more than just his heart.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, drama, military
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration01:34

    Six years ago NASA discovered the possibility of alien life within our solar system. A probe was launched to collect samples, but crashed upon re-entry over Central America. Soon after, new life forms began to appear and half of Mexico was quarantined as an infected zone. Today, the American and Mexican military still struggle to contain "the creatures," while a journalist agrees to escort a shaken tourist through the infected zone in Mexico to the safety of the U.S. border.

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genremelodrama, drama, biography
    CountryUSA, Mexico, Canada
    Duration01:58

    "Frida" chronicles the life Frida Kahlo shared unflinchingly and openly with Diego Rivera, as the young couple took the art world by storm. From her complex and enduring relationship with her mentor and husband to her illicit and controversial affair with Leon Trotsky, to her provocative and romantic entanglements with women, Frida Kahlo lived a bold and uncompromising life as a political, artistic, and sexual revolutionary

    Markimdb: 4.5
    Genrehorror, action, thriller
    CountryJapan, USA, Mexico
    Duration01:33

    Tough-as-nails vampire hunter Derek Bliss is on the hunt for "suckers" in the heart of Mexico when he receives a new assignment from a mysterious client. Thrown together with a group of slayers, including sexy Zooey, who may or may not be one of the undead. Derek and company are up against a growing number of fast-moving, bloodthirsty vampires and their elusive and powerful leader.

    Markimdb: 4.5
    Genrefantasy, comedy, adventure, family, cartoon
    CountryUnited Kingdom, Mexico, USA
    Duration02:08

    Balloon kingdoms, dopey police dragons and happy wizards are exactly how Terry remembered his Grandmother's whacky fairy tales. Except they are real and it's definitely not as 'cheerful.'

    Markimdb: 4.4
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryMexico
    Duration01:30

    Anabel Bolio is a beautiful and young workingwoman; Oskar Pratz is a brilliant and handsome entrepreneur. A spark of mutual attraction is inevitable and a torrid romance ensues. But what seams to be the prefect love story quickly decay and spiral downward into dangerous sexual games that lead to tragedy.

    Markimdb: 7.7
    Genrefantastic, action, fantasy, comedy, adventure, family, cartoon
    CountryUSA, Mexico, Canada
    Duration02:18

    After crash-landing on Earth, two royal teen aliens on the run struggle to blend in with humans as they evade intergalactic bounty hunters.

    Markimdb: 6
    Genreaction, melodrama, drama, western, military, history
    CountryMexico, USA, Spain
    Duration02:01

    One Man's Hero tells the little-known story of the "St. Patrick's Battalion" or "San Patricios," a group of mostly Irish and other immigrants of the Catholic faith who deserted to Mexico after encountering religious and ethnic prejudice in the U.S. Army during the Mexican-American War. The plot centers around the personal story of John Riley, an Irishman who had been a sergeant in the American Army who is commissioned as a captain in the Mexican army and commands the battalion, as he leads his men in battle and struggles with authorities on both sides of the border

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genrehorror, action, thriller, fantasy, comedy, crime
    CountryUSA, Mexico
    Duration01:48

    Seth Gecko and his younger brother Richard are on the run after a bloody bank robbery in Texas. They escape across the border into Mexico and will be home-free the next morning, when they pay off the local kingpin. They just have to survive 'from dusk till dawn' at the rendezvous point, which turns out to be a Hell of a strip joint.

    Markimdb: 5.3
    Genrecomedy, family
    CountryMexico
    Duration01:40

    A rebellious teen butts heads with the teachers at an all-girl charm school in Mexico City.

    Markimdb: 6
    Genrefantastic, action, thriller, fantasy, adventure
    CountryUSA, Japan, Mexico, Taiwan
    Duration02:20

    Follows the heroic efforts of the crypto-zoological agency Monarch as its members face off against a battery of god-sized monsters, including the mighty Godzilla, who collides with Mothra, Rodan, and his ultimate nemesis, the three-headed King Ghidorah. When these ancient super-species - thought to be mere myths - rise again, they all vie for supremacy, leaving humanity's very existence hanging in the balance.

    Markimdb: 6
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, adventure
    CountryMexico, France

    A group of Mexican emigrants attempts to cross the Mexican-US border. What begins as a hopeful journey becomes a harrowing, bloody and primal fight for survival when a deranged, rifle-toting vigilante and his loyal Belgian Malinois dog chase the group of unarmed men and women through the treacherous borderland. In the harsh, unforgiving desert terrain, the odds are stacked firmly against them as they discover there’s nowhere to hide from the unrelenting, merciless killer.

    Markimdb: 5.6
    Genrehorror, fantasy
    CountryUSA, Australia, Mexico
    Duration01:39

    A young girl sent to live with her father and his new girlfriend discovers creatures in her new home who want to claim her as one of their own.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genrethriller, melodrama, crime, detective
    CountryFrance, Mexico, Luxembourg
    Duration02:12

    In the summer of 1979, gay porn producer Anne sets out to film her most ambitious film yet, but her actors are picked off, one by one, by a mysterious killer.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genrefantastic, drama
    CountryUSA, Canada, Mexico
    Duration01:56

    An other-worldly story, set against the backdrop of Cold War era America circa 1962, where a mute janitor working at a lab falls in love with an amphibious man being held captive there and devises a plan to help him escape.

    Markimdb: 7.9
    Genrefantasy, drama, adventure
    CountryUSA, Taiwan, United Kingdom, Canada, Mexico, France, India
    Duration02:07

    The story of an Indian boy named Pi, a zookeeper's son who finds himself in the company of a hyena, zebra, orangutan, and a Bengal tiger after a shipwreck sets them adrift in the Pacific Ocean.

    Markimdb: 7.6
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryMexico

    The outward perfection of a family-run flower business hides a dark side rife with dysfunctional secrets in this darkly humorous comedy series.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genrecomedy
    CountryMexico

    Toto and his friends must rescue his egg children after they're taken away for a gourmet food event in Africa.

    Markimdb: 7.8
    Genrefantastic, action, thriller, fantasy, comedy, drama, musical, adventure, family, cartoon, detective
    CountryUSA, South Korea, Spain, Japan, Mexico

    Two years after the events of "Change Your Mind", Steven (now 16 years old) and his friends are ready to enjoy the rest of their lives peacefully. However, all of that changes when a new sinister Gem arrives, armed with a giant drill that saps the life force of all living things on Earth. In their biggest challenge ever, the Crystal Gems must work together to save all organic life on Earth within 48 hours.

    Markimdb: 5.1
    Genredrama
    CountryMexico

    Déficit follows one day of crisis in the life of Cristobal (Gael Garcia Bernal), a spoilt, rich kid throwing a party for his friends at his parents' luxurious villa. A big fence and a live-in staff of servants are there to shield Cristobal from the harsher realities of life, while his younger sister Elisa (Camila Sodi), there with her own crowd, uses drugs as her chosen means of escape. There are, however, some realities that cannot be kept at bay forever, like the reason behind their parents' prolonged absence, the gradual breakdown in the villa's amenities, and Cristobal's dwindling university prospects.

    Markimdb: 5.2
    Genrecomedy
    CountryMexico

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    Markimdb: 4.7
    Genrehorror, fantastic, action
    CountryUSA, Mexico

    Dr. Emma Collins and her team are spending their third summer on the island of Little Happy studying the effect of climate change on the great white sharks who come to the nearby nursery every year to give birth. Along with the last two inhabitants of this former fishing village, their peaceful life is disrupted when a "scientific" team led by her ex-boyfriend and marine biologist Richard show up looking for three bull sharks who we soon learn aren't just any bull sharks.

    Markimdb: 5.2
    Genrecomedy, adventure
    CountryMexico, USA
    Duration01:27

    Miracles is a 1986 comedy film about a newly divorced couple who can't seem to get away from one another. The film was written and directed by Jim Kouf, and stars Teri Garr, Tom Conti, Paul Rodriguez, and Christopher Lloyd.

    Markimdb: 4.5
    Genrethriller
    CountryMexico
    Duration01:29

    Laura is a successful plastic surgeon who feels her life is somewhat empty. She meets a young nurse and falls in love and experiences sexuality to a extent not known to her. However, In this spiral of desire and seduction both play a dangerous game where no one is who appears to be.

    Markimdb: 6
    Genreaction, drama
    CountryUSA, Mexico
    Duration01:37

    Jeb Maynard is a patrolman guarding the U.S.-Mexican border, whose partner and buddy Scooter has just been murdered. Maynard knows that a smuggler of illegal aliens is responsible for Scooter's death, but the feds insist that drug dealers committed the crime.

    Markimdb: 5.1
    Genredrama, western
    CountryArgentina, Mexico

    Kaí is a mysterious shaman who emerges from the Rio Paraná to help a poor farmer and his daughter, who are threatened by a band of cold-blooded mercenaries hired to force them to sell their land.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryUSA, Mexico
    Duration01:30

    After being struck and killed by lightning, a young man recounts the way he blackmailed his fellow classmates into contributing to his literary magazine.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genredrama
    CountryMexico
    Duration01:40

    Jean Paul and Chema have been together ten years. They have successful careers, a comfortable home and many friends. But that's all turned turned upside down when close friend Ivana rescues Hendrix from his broken home and asks them to care for the boy. Hendrix's mother Nina is a drug addict who suffers at the hands of her abusive partner Patrick. The men begin to consider making Hendrix part of their family. ~ Baseline StudioSystems

    Markimdb: 7
    Genreaction, western
    CountryUSA, Mexico
    Duration01:56

    Hogan, on his way to do some reconnaissance for a future mission to capture a French fort, encounters Sister Sara, a nun in trouble. Before he knows it, Hogan is accompanying Sister Sara in the dangerous frontier while she seeks to achieve a hidden goal.

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genredrama, history
    CountryChile, France, Mexico, USA
    Duration01:55

    In 1988, Chilean military dictator Augusto Pinochet, due to international pressure, is forced to call a plebiscite on his presidency. The country will vote ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ to Pinochet extending his rule for another eight years. Opposition leaders for the ‘No’ vote persuade a brash young advertising executive, Rene Saavedra, to spearhead their campaign. Against all odds, with scant resources and while under scrutiny by the despot’s minions, Saavedra and his team devise an audacious plan to win the election and set Chile free.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA, Mexico
    Duration01:35

    A young Texan mother who loses her child to foster care begins smuggling Mexicans across the border.




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