Mexican Survival Movies

List of the best Mexican survival movies selected by visitors to our site: Monsters, Across the Line: The Exodus of Charlie Wright, Late Phases, The Ardor, Sleep Dealer, Desierto, The Predator, From Dusk Till Dawn 3: The Hangman's Daughter, Crocodile 2: Death Swamp, Summer Camp.

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: 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
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: 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.

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
Genrefantastic, thriller, melodrama, drama
CountryMexico, USA

Set in a near-future, militarized world marked by closed borders, virtual labor and a global digital network that joins minds and experiences, three strangers risk their lives to connect with each other and break the barriers of technology.

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: 5.3
Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, adventure
CountryUSA, Mexico, Canada
Duration02:06

When a kid accidentally triggers the universe's most lethal hunters' return to Earth, only a ragtag crew of ex-soldiers and a disgruntled female scientist can prevent the end of the human race.

Markimdb: 4.8
Genrehorror, action, thriller, fantasy, comedy, crime
CountryUSA, Mexico
Duration01:34

Narrowly escaping death, outlaw Johnny Madrid is on the run from the hangman, with the hangman's sensuous daughter Esmeralda by his side. Along with Madrid's gang, Johnny and Esmeralda embark on an adventure filled with colorful and unsavory characters who lead them straight into the fight of their lives!

Markimdb: 3.7
Genrehorror, action, thriller, comedy, adventure
CountryUSA, Mexico
Duration01:29

After a bank robbery, four criminals escape to Mexico, but a storm causes an accident which takes down the plane where several die in the crash. The criminals take it into their own hands to continue when one survivor is attacked and eaten by a crocodile. The criminals kill it, but from then on the mother Crocodile is on a killing spree with a goal to kill each survivor. But that is not the only worry, because they're trapped within it's world, and if it doesn't kill them, the criminals will.

Markimdb: 5
Genrehorror
CountrySpain, USA, Mexico

A group of people have just signed up to be camp Councillors at a foreign country. They expect the camp to be the place for a memorable summer. Instead, something strange is going on and some of the campers begin to act strange. Things go terribly wrong real fast as a terrible game of tag has the campers running for their lives or going after the campers.

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: 5.2
Genrefantastic, action, adventure
CountryUSA, China, Canada, Mexico
Duration02:23

Autobots and Decepticons are at war, with humans on the sidelines. Optimus Prime is gone. The key to saving our future lies buried in the secrets of the past, in the hidden history of Transformers on Earth.

Markimdb: 7
Genrehorror, fantasy, drama, crime
CountryMexico
Duration01:57

A dark fairy tale about a gang of five children trying to survive the horrific violence of the cartels and the ghosts created every day by the drug war.

Markimdb: 7.4
Genredrama, military, history
CountryMexico, USA
Duration02:16

An eight-year-old boy is willing to do whatever it takes to end World War II so he can bring his father home. The story reveals the indescribable love a father has for his little boy and the love a son has for his father.

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: 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: 4.6
Genrethriller
CountryMexico

A group of paramedics receives an emergency call from Arizona, but when they get there, they realize that the victim is on the Mexican side; however, they decide to help anyway…

Markimdb: 2.2
Genrehorror, thriller
CountryMexico

A shocking assault inspires horrific violence when a group of teens encounters a girl from their school while camping in a remote spot.

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: 6.9
Genrefantastic, action, adventure
CountryUnited Kingdom, China, Japan, USA, Mexico, Hong Kong
Duration02:11

    When legions of monstrous creatures, known as Kaiju, started rising from the sea, a war began that would take millions of lives and consume humanity's resources for years on end. To combat the giant Kaiju, a special type of weapon was devised: massive robots, called Jaegers, which are controlled simultaneously by two pilots whose minds are locked in a neural bridge. But even the Jaegers are proving nearly defenseless in the face of the relentless Kaiju. On the verge of defeat, the forces defending mankind have no choice but to turn to two unlikely heroes—a washed-up former pilot (Charlie Hunnam) and an untested trainee (Rinko Kikuchi)—who are teamed to drive a legendary but seemingly obsolete Jaeger from the past. Together, they stand as mankind's last hope against the mounting apocalypse.

    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: 4.7
    Genrehorror
    CountryMexico
    Duration01:54

    Eight tales based on the most brutally terrifying Mexican traditions and legends, an anthology of haunting stories woven into the fabric of the Mexican culture, some told through the centuries and some new, but all equally frightening. Bogeymen, trolls, ghosts, monsters, all brought to life. Time for Aztec sacrifices. This is the Day of the Dead.

    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: 6.3
    Genrefantastic, thriller, detective
    CountryMexico

    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: 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
    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: 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: 6.5
    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: 7.6
    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: 7.9
    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: 5.5
    Genrecomedy, western
    CountryUSA, Mexico
    Duration01:21

    Scheming of a way to save their father's ranch, the Alvarez brothers find themselves in a war with Mexico's most feared drug lord.

    Markimdb: 5.1
    Genrehorror, fantastic, action
    CountryUSA, Germany, Romania, Mexico
    Duration01:37

    After a group of biologists discovers a huge network of unexplored caves in Romania and, believing it to be an undisturbed eco-system that has produced a new species, they hire the best American team of underwater cave explorers in the world. While exploring deeper into the underwater caves, a rockslide blocks their exit, and they soon discover a larger carnivorous creature has added them to its food chain.

    Markimdb: 3.9
    Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, adventure
    CountrySpain, USA, Mexico
    Duration01:41

    Arachnid is a 2001 film directed by Jack Sholder. In this movie, giant killer spiders menace survivors of a plane crash.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genreadventure, western
    CountryUSA, Mexico, Canada
    Duration01:58

    A Montana bounty hunter is sent into the wilderness to track three escaped prisoners. Instead he sees something that puzzles him. Later with a female Native Indian history professor, he returns to find some answers.

    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: 7.7
    Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama
    CountryUSA, Mexico, United Kingdom
    Duration01:30

    Dr. Ryan Stone, a brilliant medical engineer on her first Shuttle mission, with veteran astronaut Matt Kowalsky in command of his last flight before retiring. But on a seemingly routine spacewalk, disaster strikes. The Shuttle is destroyed, leaving Stone and Kowalsky completely alone-tethered to nothing but each other and spiraling out into the blackness of space. The deafening silence tells them they have lost any link to Earth and any chance for rescue. As fear turns to panic, every gulp of air eats away at what little oxygen is left. But the only way home may be to go further out into the terrifying expanse of space.

    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: 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: 7.2
    Genredrama, western
    CountryMexico
    Duration02:05

    El Topo decides to confront warrior Masters on a trans-formative desert journey he begins with his 6 year old son, who must bury his childhood totems to become a man.

    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: 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: 6.4
    Genrefantastic, comedy, melodrama, adventure, family
    CountryUSA, Mexico
    Duration01:30

    The scientist father of a teenage girl and boy accidentally shrinks his and two other neighborhood teens to the size of insects. Now the teens must fight diminutive dangers as the father searches for them.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genrehorror, thriller
    CountryUnited Kingdom, Mexico, USA, Czech Republic
    Duration01:41

    Upon receiving reports of missing persons at Fort Spencer, a remote Army outpost on the Western frontier, Capt. John Boyd investigates. After arriving at his new post, Boyd and his regiment aid a wounded frontiersman who recounts a horrifying tale of a wagon train murdered by its supposed guide -- a vicious U.S. Army colonel gone rogue. Fearing the worst, the regiment heads out into the wilderness to verify the gruesome claims.

    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: 7.1
    Genredrama
    CountryMexico, France
    Duration01:43

    Alejandra and her dad Roberto have just moved to town. She is new at school, he has a new job. Starting over is sometimes complicated when you have left so much behind.

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

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

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime
    CountryMexico, Netherlands, Germany, France
    Duration01:45

    Heli must try and protect his young family when his 12-year-old sister inadvertently involves them in the brutal drug world. He must battle against the drug cartel that have been angered as well as the corrupt police force.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genrecomedy, melodrama
    CountryMexico

    After a one-night stand results in pregnancy, a young woman decides to become partners with the emotionally immature father-to-be.




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