Mexican Jungle Movies

List of the best Mexican jungle movies selected by visitors to our site: Knock on Wood, Predator, Monsters, Miracles, Jungle Shuffle, Koati, Becoming Mayan: Creating Apocalypto, The Ardor, Across the Line: The Exodus of Charlie Wright, I Am Happiness on Earth.

In the top there are new films of 2021, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

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Markimdb: 7.3
Genrecomedy, adventure, crime
CountryFrance, Mexico, Malta
Duration01:31

When the boss' unlucky daughter is missing in South America, Campana is sent to watch the boss' most unlucky employee who is sent as a private detective in hopes he can duplicate the daughter's mistakes.

Markimdb: 7.8
Genrehorror, fantastic, action, adventure
CountryUSA, Mexico
Duration01:44

Dutch and his group of commandos are hired by the CIA to rescue downed airmen from guerillas in a Central American jungle. The mission goes well but as they return they find that something is hunting them. Nearly invisible, it blends in with the forest, taking trophies from the bodies of its victims as it goes along. Occasionally seeing through its eyes, the audience sees it is an intelligent alien hunter, hunting them for sport, killing them off one at a time.

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: 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
Genreadventure, cartoon
CountryMexico, South Korea, Colombia

In this turbulent jungle adventure an outcast coati male has to team up with a quirky spider monkey to save a coati princess from the hands of a human poacher and his mysterious client.

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Genrefantasy, adventure, cartoon
CountryMexico

A coati, a butterfly and a frog join forces in order to avoid an evil snake that is destroying their homes.

Markimdb: 7.8
Genreaction, thriller, drama, adventure
CountryUSA, Mexico, United Kingdom
Duration02:19

An overview of the making of Mel Gibson's 'Apocalypto'.

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: 5.2
Genreaction, thriller, drama, short, crime
CountryUSA, Mexico

The story centers on Charlie, a Los Angeles billionaire financial whiz who goes into self-imposed exile in Tijuana after his empire is revealed to have been a Ponzi scheme. While looking for the woman he abandoned there 25 years before, Charlie is pursued by a Mexican gangster, a federal agent and thugs sent by a former client looking to retrieve his money.

Markimdb: 4.4
Genredrama
CountryMexico
Duration02:02

Emiliano looks at his life with the eyes of a film director, mixing the objective reality with the processes of the artistic creation. The story he is filming flounders with his daily life, until his world is trapped in the lens of his camera. Confused, always alone and in front of a screen, now become a transfigured reality, but at the same time a measurable, controllable and manipulable one, he listens in loop to a song: one of those songs you sing or repeat as a prayer and forcing you to remember, believe and convince yourself.

Markimdb: 5.7
Genrecomedy
CountryMexico

“Cásese quien pueda”, is a romantic comedy placed in Mexico City and in the Quintana Roo jungles. The story tells about two sisters with completely different goals in life: one of them wants to get married, and the other wants to succeed in her professional career; but life will take them to completely unknown and new paths. Ana Paula (Martha Higareda) is about to get married when she finds out her fiancé is cheating on her with her own cousin. That night, after many shots of tequila, Ana Paula ends up falling asleep in the back of a truck owned by a worker who that same night goes back to his hometown, a small village in Quintana Roo.

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: 5.5
Genreaction, thriller, drama
CountryUSA, Mexico
Duration01:16

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.

Markimdb: 7.6
Genreaction, thriller, drama, adventure, crime, detective
CountryUSA, Mexico, Hong Kong
Duration02:25

A young female FBI agent joins a secret CIA operation to take down a Mexican cartel boss, a job that ends up pushing her ethical and moral values to the limit.

Markimdb: 7.6
Genredrama
CountryMexico, Spain, Guatemala
Duration01:50

A group of Central-American teen-agers depart from the slums of Guatemala City escaping poverty and violence, towards the promised land of California.

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: 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: 7.9
Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
CountryUSA, Mexico, Spain, Malta
Duration00:29

Teresa flees Mexico after her drug-runner boyfriend is murdered. Settling in Dallas, she looks to become the country's reigning drug smuggler and to avenge her lover's murder.

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: 6
Genrecomedy, melodrama
CountryMexico

Rachel is an intelligent, modern-day woman constantly on the move. Primarily focused on her career as a diplomatic consul for the U.S. embassy, she's literally lived her life on the move, globe-trotting from city to city. Currently working in Mexico City and set to leave for London, Rachel's world turns upside down on the eve of her own goodbye party when she gets drunk and passes out on the street. Saved by Alejandro, a handsome Mariachi singer and single father, Rachel wakes up in his apartment with no recollection of how she got there. Nor does she remember that she rejected his visa the day before, which he desperately needs for his daughter. Romance unexpectedly blossoms between the two, but either sparks or fists will fly after she finds out his secret.

Markimdb: 5.2
Genreaction, thriller, comedy, crime
CountryUSA, Mexico
Duration01:34

Drug baron Peter Loomis (Patrick Stewart) has his $400 million dollar drug fortune stolen in South America. Loomis sends Armor O'Malley (Denis Leary), a ruthless killer to find his money. Cole Parker (Mario Van Peebles), a DEA Agent is on a South American mission of justice and revenge. He is sent to find his father's killer. Cole busts an eccentric smuggler, Dani Servigo (Christopher Lambert) to help Cole to find the smuggler's brother's money that he has stolen from Loomis. But O'Malley wants to find the fortune for himself. In a Cat and Mouse game, Cole and Dani are forced to help each other to find the missing fortune while trying to avoid O'Malley and his men. Together, Servigo and Parker search for the boat.

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: 7
    Genredrama
    CountryMexico

    Eve, a young chambermaid at a luxurious Mexico City hotel, confronts the monotony of long workdays with quiet examinations of forgotten belongings and budding friendships that nourish her newfound and determined dream for a better life.

    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: 7
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryMexico, France

    Young Claudia works in a supermarket where she promotes various types of products. One night, she ends up in the emergency room with severe appendicitis and meets Martha, a patient, laying in the bed next to hers.

    Markimdb: 5.7
    Genrehorror, drama
    CountryMexico
    Duration01:30

    A middle-aged man dies in the street, leaving his widow and three children destitute. The devastated family is confronted not only with his loss but with a terrible challenge - how to survive. For they are cannibals. They have always existed on a diet of human flesh consumed in bloody ritual ceremonies... and the victims have always been provided by the father. Now that he is gone, who will hunt? Who will lead them? How will they sate their horrific hunger? The task falls to the eldest son, Alfredo, a teenage misfit who seems far from ready to accept the challenge... But without human meat the family will die.

    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: 6.1
    Genreaction, comedy, drama, crime
    CountryAustralia, USA, Mexico
    Duration01:31

    An American businessman with a stake in a pharmaceutical company that's about to go public finds his life is thrown into turmoil by an incident in Mexico.

    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
    Genredrama, history
    CountryArgentina, Portugal, USA, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, France, Dominican Republic, Spain, Brazil, Lebanon
    Duration01:56

    In a remote South American colony in the late 18th century, officer Zama of the Spanish crown waits in vain for a transfer to a more prestigious location. He suffers small humiliations and petty politicking as he increasingly succumbs to lust and paranoia.

    Markimdb: 5.4
    Genredrama
    CountryMexico
    Duration01:26

    (In a dark basement) Norma hears the faint voice of Everio and her own, from an Ampex vintage tape recorder. They have been talking incessantly, and *oftentimes the taped conversations coincide with their *chats. The only thing troubling Norma is that until that day, she and Everio had never met and the last she heard was Everio strangling her.

    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: 5.8
    Genredrama
    CountryMexico

    On a mission to sell his last remaining prize hog and reunite with old friends, an aging farmer abandons his foreclosed farm and journeys to Mexico. After smuggling in the hog, his estranged daughter shows up, forcing them to face their past and embark on an adventurous road trip together.

    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: 6.1
    Genreaction, fantasy, comedy, adventure, family, detective
    CountryUSA, Mexico, Australia
    Duration02:20

    Dora, a girl who has spent most of her life exploring the jungle with her parents, now must navigate her most dangerous adventure yet: high school. Always the explorer, Dora quickly finds herself leading Boots (her best friend, a monkey), Diego, and a rag tag group of teens on an adventure to save her parents and solve the impossible mystery behind a lost Inca civilization.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genreaction, comedy, melodrama, adventure
    CountryUSA, Mexico
    Duration01:46

    Though she can spin wild tales of passionate romance, novelist Joan Wilder has no life of her own. Then one day adventure comes her way in the form of a mysterious package. It turns out that the parcel is the ransom she'll need to free her abducted sister, so Joan flies to South America to hand it over. But she gets on the wrong bus and winds up hopelessly stranded in the jungle...

    Markimdb: 4
    Genrefantastic, action, thriller
    CountryMexico, USA
    Duration01:34

    An android fighting-machine (Mario Van Peebles) is charged with destroying a small brigade of rebels in a Latin American war who are fighting to maintain their freedom and protect their village. Contrary to his programming, Peebles decides to stay and assist the rebels in their plight. Having gained this information, his "creators" develop a more powerful android to try and defeat him.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genredrama, western, military, history
    CountryMexico
    Duration02:25

    A chronicle of the Cristeros War (1926-1929), which was touched off by a rebellion against the Mexican government's attempt to secularize the country.

    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: 6.8
    Genredrama, crime
    CountryMexico
    Duration01:54

    Mexico, 1985. Juan and Wilson, two perennial Veterinary students, perpetrate an audacious heist in the National Museum of Anthropology, running away with a loot of more than hundred invaluable pieces of Mayan art, unaware of the consequences of their outrageous act.

    Markimdb: 5.7
    Genrehorror, thriller, crime
    CountryMexico, USA
    Duration01:45

      Three college students, Phil, Ed, and Henry take a road trip into Mexico for a week of drinking and carefree fun only to have Phil find himself a captive of a group of satanic Mexican drug smugglers who kill tourists and whom are looking for a group of new ones to prepare for a sacrifice.

      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: 6.3
      Genredrama
      CountryMexico, Colombia, Chile

      Medea is expelled from the mining region in the Atacama Desert and is given just one day to disappear. But in that single day, she comes up with a plan for revenge. In order to carry out this plan, which will culminate in her murdering her own son, she invokes her innermost strength, summoning the power of the female gender.

      Markimdb: 5.7
      Genremelodrama, drama
      CountryMexico

      After an accidental text message turns into a digital friendship, Vale and Alex start crushing on each other without realizing they’ve met in real life.

      Markimdb: 6.3
      Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama, military
      CountrySerbia, United Kingdom, USA, Argentina, Mexico
      Duration02:16

      A man, shaken by fate after his wife's death, chooses to be a monk.

      Markimdb: 7.4
      Genrefantastic, thriller, drama
      CountryUSA, Mexico
      Duration01:45

      A paranoia-fueled action thriller about an unsuccessful writer whose life is transformed by a top-secret "smart drug" that allows him to use 100% of his brain and become a perfect version of himself. His enhanced abilities soon attract shadowy forces that threaten his new life in this darkly comic and provocative film.

      Markimdb: 6.8
      Genredrama, biography, history
      CountryMexico, Brazil

      Mexico City, November 1901. The police raid a private home where a secret party is being held. Among those attending is the son-in-law of President Porfirio Díaz.

      Markimdb: 4.4
      Genrehorror, thriller
      CountrySpain, Mexico, Colombia
      Duration01:15

      A serial killer traps and taunts a young dancer inside a laundromat that located down an isolated alley.

      Markimdb: 6
      Genredocumentary
      CountryUSA, Mexico

      A documentary about today's young adult hookup culture and the stories in pop-culture that influence it.

      Markimdb: 6
      Genrehorror
      CountryUSA, Mexico
      Duration01:35

      When deadly attacks from the forests beset a secluded retirement community, it is up to a grizzled veteran to figure what the residents are hiding.




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