Thriller movies about Mexico

List of the best thriller movies about Mexico, selected by visitors to our site: The Mule, Suite Française, Labor Day, The Grey, Split, Argo, Shutter Island, Flight, Limitless, Bad Times at the El Royale.

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

Markimdb: 7
Genrethriller, drama, crime
CountryUSA, Canada
Duration01:56

Earl Stone, a man in his eighties, is broke, alone, and facing foreclosure of his business when he is offered a job that simply requires him to drive. Easy enough, but, unbeknownst to Earl, he's just signed on as a drug courier for a Mexican cartel. He does so well that his cargo increases exponentially, and Earl hit the radar of hard-charging DEA agent Colin Bates.

Markimdb: 7
Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, military
CountryUnited Kingdom, France, Canada, Belgium, USA
Duration01:47

France, 1940. In the first days of occupation, beautiful Lucile Angellier is trapped in a stifled existence with her controlling mother-in-law as they both await news of her husband: a prisoner of war. Parisian refugees start to pour into their small town, soon followed by a regiment of German soldiers who take up residence in the villagers' own homes. Lucile initially tries to ignore Bruno von Falk, the handsome and refined German officer staying with them. But soon, a powerful love draws them together and leads them into the tragedy of war.

Markimdb: 6.9
Genrethriller, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:51

Depressed single mom Adele and her son Henry offer a wounded, fearsome man a ride. As police search town for the escaped convict, the mother and son gradually learn his true story as their options become increasingly limited.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genrethriller, drama, adventure
CountryUSA
Duration01:57

    An oil drilling team struggles to survive after a plane crash strands them in the wilds of Alaska. Hunting them is a pack of wolves that sees them as intruders.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama, detective
    CountryUSA, Japan
    Duration02:27

    Though Kevin has evidenced 23 personalities to his trusted psychiatrist, Dr. Fletcher, there remains one still submerged who is set to materialize and dominate all the others. Compelled to abduct three teenage girls led by the willful, observant Casey, Kevin reaches a war for survival among all of those contained within him — as well as everyone around him — as the walls between his compartments shatter apart.

    Markimdb: 7.7
    Genrethriller, drama, biography
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom
    Duration02:00

    As the Iranian revolution reaches a boiling point, a CIA 'exfiltration' specialist concocts a risky plan to free six Americans who have found shelter at the home of the Canadian ambassador.

    Markimdb: 8.2
    Genrethriller, drama, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:18

    World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by his troubling visions and also by a mysterious doctor.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genrethriller, drama
    CountryUSA, United Arab Emirates
    Duration02:18

    Commercial airline pilot Whip Whitaker has a problem with drugs and alcohol, though so far he's managed to complete his flights safely. His luck runs out when a disastrous mechanical malfunction sends his plane hurtling toward the ground. Whip pulls off a miraculous crash-landing that results in only six lives lost. Shaken to the core, Whip vows to get sober -- but when the crash investigation exposes his addiction, he finds himself in an even worse situation.

    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: 7.1
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:03

    Lake Tahoe, 1969. Seven strangers, each one with a secret to bury, meet at El Royale, a decadent motel with a dark past. In the course of a fateful night, everyone will have one last shot at redemption.

    Markimdb: 7.8
    Genrethriller, drama, biography, history
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom, India

    What was supposed to be a peaceful protest turned into a violent clash with the police. What followed was one of the most notorious trials in history.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genrethriller, detective
    CountryRussia, USA, United Kingdom, Cyprus

    Looking to investigate recruitment techniques of ISIS to lure women into Syria, Amy Whitaker, a journalist, creates a Facebook profile of a Muslim convert. When an ISIS recruiter contacts her online character, she experiences the process first hand.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genreaction, thriller
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:34

    A runaway train, transporting deadly, toxic chemicals, is barreling down on Stanton, Pennsylvania, and only two men can stop it: a veteran engineer and a young conductor. Thousands of lives hang in the balance as these ordinary heroes attempt to chase down one million tons of hurtling steel and prevent an epic disaster.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genrethriller, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:52

    A Harvard Medical School graduate takes a position at a mental institution and soon becomes obsessed with a female mental patient, but he has no idea of a recent and horrifying staffing change.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:35

    Naomi Watts stars as Susan, a single mother of two, working as a waitress in a small town. Her son, Henry, is an 11-year-old genius who not only manages the family finances but acts as emotional support for his mother and younger brother. When Henry discovers that the girl next door has a terrible secret, he implores Susan to take matters into her own hands in this imaginative and emotional drama.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:20

      A motorcycle stunt rider considers committing a crime in order to provide for his wife and child, an act that puts him on a collision course with a cop-turned-politician.

      Markimdb: 6.3
      Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, detective, military
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:48

        Sergeant John Tyree is home on a 2 week leave from Germany. He meets Savannah after he dives into the ocean to retrieve Savannah's purse that had fallen off the pier. John falls in love with Savannah who is a student on spring break helping build a house for Habitat for Humanity. A romance occurs and Savannah falls deeply in love with John. She promises to write John overseas until he returns.

        Markimdb: 6.9
        Genrethriller, drama
        CountryUnited Kingdom, Germany, USA
        Duration02:10

          Set against the backdrop of the succession of Queen Elizabeth I, and the Essex Rebellion against her, the story advances the theory that it was in fact Edward De Vere, Earl of Oxford who penned Shakespeare's plays.

          Markimdb: 6.9
          Genrethriller, drama
          CountryUSA

          Based on the true story of the events that led to the death of Kenneth Chamberlain Sr., an elderly African American veteran with bipolar disorder, who was killed during a conflict with police officers who were dispatched to check on him.

          Markimdb: 8.1
          Genrethriller, drama
          CountryCanada, Republic of Ireland, United Kingdom, USA
          Duration02:32

          Jack is a young boy of 5 years old who has lived all his life in one room. He believes everything within it are the only real things in the world. But what will happen when his Ma suddenly tells him that there are other things outside of Room?

          Markimdb: 7.7
          Genrethriller, drama, adventure, detective
          CountryUSA
          Duration02:09

          In honor of his birthday, San Francisco banker Nicholas Van Orton, a financial genius and a coldhearted loner, receives an unusual present from his younger brother, Conrad -- a gift certificate to play a unique kind of game. In nearly a nanosecond, Nicholas finds himself consumed by a dangerous set of ever-changing rules, unable to distinguish where the charade ends and reality begins.

          Genrethriller, drama, crime
          CountryUSA, Mexico, Canada

          An ambitious young carny with a talent for manipulating people with a few well-chosen words hooks up with a female psychiatrist who is even more dangerous than he is.

          Markimdb: 7.8
          Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
          CountryUSA
          Duration02:14

            The true story of Captain Richard Phillips and the 2009 hijacking by Somali pirates of the US-flagged MV Maersk Alabama, the first American cargo ship to be hijacked in two hundred years.

            Markimdb: 6.5
            Genrethriller, melodrama, drama
            CountryUSA, Germany, Saudi Arabia
            Duration01:41

            A thriller in which a battle of philosophies between a fundamentalist Christian and an atheist escalates into a lethal battle of wills.

            Markimdb: 7
            Genrethriller, drama, crime
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:35

            When a promised job for Texan Michael fails to materialise in Wyoming, Mike is mistaken by Wayne to be the hitman he hired to kill his unfaithful wife, Suzanne. Mike takes full advantage of the situation, collects the money and runs. During his getaway, things go wrong, and soon get worse when he runs into the real hitman, Lyle.

            Markimdb: 7.5
            Genrethriller, drama
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:32

              Susan Morrow receives a book manuscript from her ex-husband – a man she left 20 years earlier – asking for her opinion of his writing. As she reads, she is drawn into the fictional life of Tony Hastings, a mathematics professor whose family vacation turns violent.

              Markimdb: 7.7
              Genrethriller, drama, adventure
              CountryUSA
              Duration01:49

              Intent on seeing the Cahulawassee River before it's turned into one huge lake, outdoor fanatic Lewis Medlock takes his friends on a river-rafting trip they'll never forget into the dangerous American back-country.

              Markimdb: 6.6
              Genreaction, thriller, detective
              CountryUSA, Italy, Malta, France, United Kingdom
              Duration02:29

              When the curator of the Louvre is found murdered in the famed museum's hallowed halls, Harvard professor, Robert Langdon and cryptographer, Sophie Neve must untangle a deadly web of deceit involving the works of Leonardo da Vinci.

              Markimdb: 6.6
              Genrethriller, drama, crime
              CountryUSA, United Kingdom
              Duration01:47

              When two married business executives having an affair are blackmailed by a violent criminal, they are forced to turn the tables on him to save their families.

              Markimdb: 7.7
              Genrethriller, drama, crime
              CountryUSA
              Duration01:55

              Set in 1929, a political boss and his advisor have a parting of the ways when they both fall for the same woman.

              Markimdb: 7.3
              Genrethriller, melodrama, crime
              CountryUSA
              Duration01:49

              Corky, a tough female ex-convict working on an apartment renovation in a Chicago building, meets a couple living next door, Caesar, a paranoid mobster, and Violet, his seductive girlfriend, who is immediately attracted to her.

              Markimdb: 6.6
              Genrethriller, drama, detective
              CountryUSA
              Duration02:03

              An agoraphobic psychologist and a female detective must work together to take down a serial killer who copies serial killers from the past.

              Markimdb: 6.7
              Genrethriller, drama, crime
              CountryUSA, France
              Duration01:59

              When Bobby's car breaks down in the desert while on the run from some of the bookies who have already taken two of his fingers, he becomes trapped in the nearby small town where the people are stranger than anyone he's encountered. After becoming involved with a young married woman, her husband hires Bobby to kill her. Later, she hires Bobby to kill the husband.

              Markimdb: 7.3
              Genrethriller, drama, crime
              CountryGermany, USA, Mexico
              Duration02:00

              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: 7.8
              Genrethriller, drama, crime
              CountryUSA
              Duration01:58

                When Lou Bloom, desperate for work, muscles into the world of L.A. crime journalism, he blurs the line between observer and participant to become the star of his own story. Aiding him in his effort is Nina, a TV-news veteran.

                Markimdb: 6.3
                Genrehorror, thriller
                CountryUSA

                On the day of his scheduled execution, a convicted serial killer gets a psychiatric evaluation during which he claims he is a demon, and further claims that before their time is over, the psychiatrist will commit three murders of his own.

                Markimdb: 6.5
                Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
                CountryUSA
                Duration01:45

                Matt Lee Whitlock, respected chief of police in small Banyan Key, Florida, must solve a vicious double homicide before he himself falls under suspicion. Matt Lee has to stay a few steps ahead of his own police force and everyone he's trusted in order to find out the truth.

                Markimdb: 6.9
                Genrethriller, comedy, crime, music
                CountryUSA
                Duration01:45

                Chili Palmer is a Miami mobster who gets sent by his boss, the psychopathic "Bones" Barboni, to collect a bad debt from Harry Zimm, a Hollywood producer who specializes in cheesy horror films. When Chili meets Harry's leading lady, the romantic sparks fly. After pitching his own life story as a movie idea, Chili learns that being a mobster and being a Hollywood producer really aren't all that different.

                Markimdb: 7.6
                Genrethriller, melodrama, drama
                CountryUSA, United Kingdom
                Duration01:59

                Match Point is Woody Allen’s satire of the British High Society and the ambition of a young tennis instructor to enter into it. Yet when he must decide between two women - one assuring him his place in high society, and the other that would bring him far from it - palms start to sweat and a dark psychological match in his head begins.

                Markimdb: 6.9
                Genrethriller, melodrama, drama
                CountryUSA
                Duration01:51

                Lewis, Sheriff and Tony are three friends vacationing in Malaysia. Sheriff and Tony eventually leave to pursue careers in New York, but Lewis stays behind to work with orangutans. Two years later, Sheriff and Tony learn that, because of their past actions, Lewis has been arrested for drug possession. With Lewis facing a death sentence, the friends are left with a difficult decision: return to Malaysia and split Lewis' sentence, or let him die.

                Markimdb: 8.5
                Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, detective
                CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
                Duration02:05

                  A mysterious story of two magicians whose intense rivalry leads them on a life-long battle for supremacy -- full of obsession, deceit and jealousy with dangerous and deadly consequences.

                  Markimdb: 6.7
                  Genrethriller, melodrama, drama
                  CountryUnited Kingdom, Spain, USA
                  Duration01:32

                  Young lovers in London are wrapped up in a love triangle that may not be exactly what it seems. Carmen, a beautiful Spanish woman with a tendency to lose her temper at the drop of a hat, is about to be married to Barnaby, a caring, wealthy, but slightly boring Englishman. While out with friends on her 'hen night' she encounters a stranger who suddenly sparks a passion that has been sleeping within her. As her wedding date approaches, she finds herself struggling to put this newcomer out of her mind, but his effect on her keeps growing stronger. What is it that he sees in her, and why does she feel like she's being pushed inevitably into his arms?

                  Markimdb: 7.5
                  Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, military, history
                  CountryTaiwan, USA, Hong Kong, China
                  Duration02:37

                  During World War II a secret agent must seduce, then assassinate an official who works for the Japanese puppet government in Shanghai. Her mission becomes clouded when she finds herself falling in love with the man she is assigned to kill.

                  Markimdb: 7.6
                  Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
                  CountryUnited Kingdom, Canada, USA
                  Duration01:40

                  A Russian teenager, living in London, dies during childbirth but leaves clues to a midwife in her journal, that could tie her child to a rape involving a violent Russian mob family.

                  Markimdb: 7.3
                  Genreaction, thriller, melodrama, drama, crime
                  CountryUSA, France
                  Duration02:13

                    A married couple's life is turned upside down when the wife is accused of a murder. Lara Brennan is arrested for murdering her boss with whom she had an argument. It seems she was seen leaving the scene of the crime and her fingerprints were on the murder weapon. Her husband, John would spend the next few years trying to get her released, but there's no evidence that negates the evidence against her. And when the strain of being separated from her family, especially her son, gets to her, John decides to break her out. So he does a lot of research to find a way.

                    Markimdb: 7.1
                    Genrethriller, drama
                    CountryUSA
                    Duration01:41

                      Dirty tricks stand to soil an ambitious young press spokesman's idealism in a cutthroat presidential campaign where 'victory' is relative.

                      Markimdb: 6.1
                      Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, detective
                      CountryFrance, Mexico, USA
                      Duration01:58

                      A young man is plunged into a life of subterfuge, deceit and mistaken identity in pursuit of a femme fatale whose heart is never quite within his grasp

                      Markimdb: 7.4
                      Genrethriller, drama, crime
                      CountryUSA
                      Duration02:00

                      A widescreen, Technicolor remake by Hitchcock of his 1934 film of the same title. A couple vacationing in Morocco with their young son accidentally stumble upon an assassination plot. When the child is kidnapped to ensure their silence, they have to take matters into their own hands to save him.

                      Markimdb: 7
                      Genrethriller, drama, crime
                      CountryUSA
                      Duration01:36

                      While investigating a young nun's rape, a corrupt New York City police detective, with a serious drug and gambling addiction, tries to change his ways and find forgiveness.

                      Markimdb: 6.4
                      Genrethriller, drama, crime
                      CountryUSA
                      Duration02:25

                      Johnny Kovak joins the Teamsters trade-union in a local chapter in the 1930s and works his way up in the organization. As he climbs higher and higher his methods become more ruthless and finally senator Madison starts a campaign to find the truth about the alleged connections with the Mob.




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