Mexican movies

List of the best Mexican movies selected by visitors to our site: Biutiful, Pan's Labyrinth, Amores perros, Romancing the Stone, Eisenstein in Guanajuato, Roma, Y Tu Mamá También, New Order, Instructions Not Included, Larceny.

In the top there are new films of 2022, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

Markimdb: 7.5
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryMexico, Spain
Duration02:28
CharactersTerminally ill
PlotDeath, Life after death
StyleGloomy, Depressive

This is a story of a man in free fall. On the road to redemption, darkness lights his way. Connected with the afterlife, Uxbal is a tragic hero and father of two who's sensing the danger of death. He struggles with a tainted reality and a fate that works against him in order to forgive, for love, and forever.

Markimdb: 8.2
Genrefantasy, drama, military
CountrySpain, Mexico, USA, France
Duration01:58
CharactersChildrens, Fairies, Wizards
PlotWar, Magic
PlaceMountains, Spain

Living with her tyrannical stepfather in a new home with her pregnant mother, 10-year-old Ofelia feels alone until she explores a decaying labyrinth guarded by a mysterious faun who claims to know her destiny. If she wishes to return to her real father, Ofelia must complete three terrifying tasks.

Markimdb: 8.1
Genrethriller, drama, crime
CountryMexico
Duration02:33
CharactersGangsters, Old man
PlotFight

Three different people in Mexico City are catapulted into dramatic and unforeseen circumstances in the wake of a terrible car crash: a young punk stumbles into the sinister underground world of dog fighting; an injured supermodel's designer pooch disappears into the apartment's floorboards; and an ex-radical turned hit man rescues a gunshot Rotweiler.

Markimdb: 6.9
Genreaction, comedy, melodrama, adventure
CountryUSA, Mexico
Duration01:46
CharactersCrocodiles
PlotSurvival, Adventure, Chase, Treasures, Gems
PlaceJungle
StyleExciting, Light

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: 6.3
Genrebiography
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration01:42
CharactersDogs, Horses, Gay, Writers, Bodyguards
PlotOn real events, Dancing, Travel, Money, Loneliness
PlaceUSSR, Mexico, Hotels, Canada, Small cities
StyleAtmospheric, Serious

In 1931, following the success of the film Battleship Potemkin, Soviet filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein travels to the city of Guanajuato, Mexico, to shoot a new film. Freshly rejected by Hollywood, Eisenstein soon falls under Mexico’s spell. Chaperoned by his guide Palomino Cañedo, the director opens up to his suppressed fears as he embraces a new world of sensual pleasures and possibilities that will shape the future of his art.

Markimdb: 7.7
Genredrama
CountryMexico
Duration02:03
CharactersDogs, Animals, Family, Trainers, Maids
PlotMartial Arts, Cars, Relationship, Earthquake, Death
PlaceSea, Aircraft, Ocean, Beach, Mexico
StyleOscars, Fascinating, Heavy, Makes me think, Touching

In 1970s Mexico City, two domestic workers help a mother of four while her husband is away for an extended period of time.

Markimdb: 7.7
Genredrama
CountryMexico
Duration01:46
CharactersWriters
PlotTravel, Passion, Friendship, Loneliness, Jealousy
PlaceMexico
StyleExplicit scenes

In Mexico, two teenage boys and an attractive older woman embark on a road trip and learn a thing or two about life, friendship, sex, and each other.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genrethriller, drama, crime
CountryMexico, France
CharactersMilitary, Rich
PlotRevolution, Curfew
PlaceConcentration camp, Mexico
StyleDystopian, Action, Heavy, Gloomy

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: 7.5
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryMexico
Duration01:40
CharactersDogs, Lawyers, Parents
PlotMystery, Growing up, Parenting
PlaceLos Angeles
StyleKind, To cry, Cute, Inspirational, Vital signs

Valentin is Acapulco's resident playboy, until a former fling leaves a baby on his doorstep and him heading with her out of Mexico.

Markimdb: 3.5
Genreaction, thriller
CountryUSA, Mexico
Duration01:51
CharactersCIA
PlotRobbery, Martial Arts
PlacePrison, Mexico
StyleSerious, Disturbing

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: 7.7
Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Mexico, Luxembourg
Duration02:26
CharactersCIA, Heroes, Bodyguards, Warriors
PlotAbduction, Revenge, Friendship, Justice
PlaceMexico
StyleExciting, Psychological problems, Action, Heavy, Serious

Jaded ex-CIA operative John Creasy reluctantly accepts a job as the bodyguard for a 10-year-old girl in Mexico City. They clash at first, but eventually bond, and when she's kidnapped he's consumed by fury and will stop at nothing to save her life.

Markimdb: 5.5
Genrecomedy, melodrama
CountryMexico, USA
Duration01:45
CharactersStudents, Losers
PlaceLos Angeles
StyleTo cry, Fancy

A whimsical fish-out-of-water story of two spoiled sisters: Nora (Camilla Belle), a law student, and Mary (Alexa Vega), an undergrad party girl, living with their father in a luxurious mansion in Beverly Hills. Mary has become so "90210" she refuses to admit she is of Mexican decent. When dad suddenly passes away, their posh lives are turned upside down. They discover they have been left penniless and are forced to move into their estranged aunt Aurelia's (Adriana Barraza) modest but lively home in the Latino-centric Boyle Heights neighborhood of East LA.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genrefantastic, thriller, detective
CountryMexico
CharactersOld man
PlotSurvival, Apocalypse, Cars, Virtual Reality, Death
StyleFancy

Two parallel stories about people trapped in illogical endless spaces: two brothers and a detective locked on an infinite staircase, and a family locked on an infinite road... for over 35 years.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genredrama, history
CountryArgentina, Portugal, USA, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, France, Dominican Republic, Spain, Brazil, Lebanon
Duration01:56
CharactersHorses, Family, Writers, Slaves, Judge
PlotInvestigation, Loneliness, Death
PlaceJungle, Beach
Time18th century

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: 6.9
Genredrama, crime
CountryMexico
Duration01:54
CharactersStudents, Actors
PlotOn real events, Robbery, Friendship
PlaceMexico
TimeNew Year
StyleAction, Fascinating, Tense, Makes me think

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: 6.7
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryUSA, Mexico, Australia, Canada
Duration02:00
PlotSkirmishes, True love, Rivalry
StyleRomantic, Action, Atmospheric, Tense

In director Baz Luhrmann's contemporary take on William Shakespeare's classic tragedy, the Montagues and Capulets have moved their ongoing feud to the sweltering suburb of Verona Beach, where Romeo and Juliet fall in love and secretly wed. Though the film is visually modern, the bard's dialogue remains.

Markimdb: 8.1
Genredrama
CountrySpain, Mexico
Duration01:30
CharactersNuns, Orphans
PlaceSpain
StyleAtmospheric, Fascinating, Smart, Fancy, Black humor

Viridinia is preparing to start her life as a nun when she is sent, somewhat unwillingly, to visit to her aging uncle, Don Jaime. He supports her; but the two have met only once. Jaime thinks Viridinia resembles his dead wife. Virdinia has secretly despised this man all her life and finds her worst fears proven when Jaime grows determined to seduce his pure niece. Viridinia becomes undone as her uncle upends the plans she had made to join the convent.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryUSA, Mexico, United Kingdom, Colombia
Duration02:18
CharactersPianists
PlotLove triangle, Funeral
PlaceShips
Time19th century, Honeymoon
StyleTo cry, By books, Atmospheric, Serious

In Colombia just after the Great War, an old man falls from a ladder; dying, he professes great love for his wife. After the funeral, a man calls on the widow - she dismisses him angrily. Flash back more than 50 years to the day Florentino Ariza, a telegraph boy, falls in love with Fermina Daza, the daughter of a mule trader.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genrethriller, drama, crime
CountryGermany, USA, Mexico
Duration02:00
CharactersCriminals, Brothers, Mentors
PlotOn real events, Abduction, Slavery, Pursuit, Human trafficking
PlaceUSA
StyleAction, By books, Heavy, Serious, Disturbing

A Texas cop (Kevin Kline), whose own daughter might have been forced into sexual slavery, joins forces with a Mexican youth (Cesar Ramos) to find the boy's sister, who was abducted and forced into prostitution. Meanwhile, a Ukrainian woman who was promised a better life in America also becomes a victim.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genrethriller, drama, crime
CountryUSA, Mexico
Duration01:35
CharactersHorses, Snipers, Mafia, Gangsters, Hired assassins
PlotLove, Gambling, Superpowers, Happiness, Fate
StyleFascinating, Touching, Serious

A drama based on an ancient Chinese proverb that breaks life down into four emotional cornerstones: happiness, pleasure, sorrow and love. A businessman bets his life on a horse race; a gangster sees the future; a pop star (Gellar) falls prey to a crime boss; a doctor must save the love of his life.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genredrama, history
CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Taiwan, Japan, Mexico, Italy
Duration02:19
CharactersPriests
PlotTime travel, Loneliness, Religious, Fear
PlaceJapan, Asia
StyleBy books, Philosophical, Atmospheric, Fascinating, Tense

Two Jesuit priests travel to seventeenth century Japan which has, under the Tokugawa shogunate, banned Catholicism and almost all foreign contact.

Markimdb: 6.1
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryUnited Kingdom, France, Germany, Mexico, USA
Duration02:31
CharactersKings, Gay, Wolves, Businessmen
PlotLove, Dancing, Travel, Weapon, Divorce
PlaceVillage, Party, Deserts, Hotels
StyleLight

Alan Clay, a struggling American businessman, travels to Saudi Arabia to sell a new technology to the King, only to be challenged by endless Middle Eastern bureaucracy, a perpetually absent monarch, and a suspicious growth on his back.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genredrama
CountryMexico
Duration01:39
CharactersTeens
PlotStockholm syndrome
PlaceLabyrinths

The fictional Father Ángel de la Cruz is based on Legion of Christ founder Marcial Maciel, whose long history of child abuse was not addressed until 2006 and only publicly acknowledged in 2009. But director Luis Urquiza chooses to structure his film through the largely uncomprehending, wondering eyes of 13-year-old Julián, who travels from the arms of his loving pastoral family into the austere, hallowed halls of the seminary. Singling out the boy as his intimate disciple, installing him in his palatial private quarters and redubbing him “Sacramento Santos,” Father Ángel begins Julian’s instruction into the mysteries of “perfect obedience,” whose cardinal rule is: Never question a superior’s actions.

Markimdb: 6.9
Genreaction, thriller, crime
CountryUSA, Mexico
Duration01:21
CharactersGangsters, Hired assassins, Musicians, Investigators
PlaceMexico, Small cities

El Mariachi just wants to play his guitar and carry on the family tradition. Unfortunately, the town he tries to find work in has another visitor, a killer who carries his guns in a guitar case. The drug lord and his henchmen mistake el Mariachi for the killer, Azul, and chase him around town trying to kill him and get his guitar case.

Markimdb: 7.4
Genremelodrama, drama, biography
CountryUSA, Mexico, Canada
Duration01:58
CharactersLesbians, Strong women, Artists, Disabled people, Artists
PlotLoneliness, Art, Jealousy, Divorce, Dreams
PlaceMexico
StyleSoulful, Vital signs, Serious

"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: 7
Genrethriller, drama, crime
CountryFrance, USA, Mexico, Belgium
PlotMoney, Friendship, Loneliness, Mental disorders
PlaceEngland, Mexico
StylePsychological problems, Twisted plot, Tense, Gloomy, Serious

An alcoholic becomes involved in a fellow A.A. member's plan to kidnap her young son from the boy's wealthy grandfather.

Markimdb: 5.1
Genreaction, thriller, melodrama, drama, crime
CountryUSA, Mexico
Duration01:43
CharactersGangsters, Hired assassins, Priests
PlotRevenge, Wedding, Intrigue
PlaceMexico, New York
StyleSerious, Disturbing

After witnessing her lover being murdered by his jealous wife, Angela seeks refuge in a church where she encounters a young priest named Michael, who gives her sanctuary. But the killing was not a simple act of passion, as the victim had ties to organized crime, and, surprisingly, so does Michael, whose father is a powerful don. When the priest finds himself falling in love with Angela, his religious vows and family ties are both severely tested.

Markimdb: 5.4
Genreaction, comedy, melodrama, drama, adventure
CountryMexico, USA
Duration01:07
CharactersGangsters, Friends
PlotTravel, Passion, Friendship, Happiness, Fate
PlaceMexico
StyleFascinating

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: 6.8
Genremelodrama, drama, adventure
CountryMexico
Duration01:56
CharactersTeens, Poor
PlotLove, Adventure
PlaceMexico
StyleRomantic, Action, By books, Fascinating, Touching

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: 5.5
Genrethriller, drama
CountryMexico, USA
CharactersCriminals
PlotBorder
PlaceDeserts, Mexico, USA
StyleAction, Fascinating, Tense, Serious, Disturbing

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.





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