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1. Amores Perros (2000)
R | 154 min | Drama, Thriller
An amateur dog fighter, a supermodel, and a derelict assassin, all separately struggling to find love, find their lives transformed by a devastating car wreck in Mexico City.
Director: Alejandro G. Iñárritu | Stars: Emilio Echevarría, Gael García Bernal, Goya Toledo, Álvaro Guerrero
Votes: 252,986 | Gross: $5.38M
2. Biutiful (2010)
R | 148 min | Drama, Romance
A man dying of cancer tries his best to leave the world on his own terms.
Director: Alejandro G. Iñárritu | Stars: Javier Bardem, Maricel Álvarez, Hanaa Bouchaib, Guillermo Estrella
Votes: 94,635 | Gross: $5.10M
3. The Crime of Padre Amaro (2002)
R | 118 min | Drama, Romance
Politics and sexual passions threaten to corrupt a young, newly-ordained priest in a small Mexican town.
Director: Carlos Carrera | Stars: Gael García Bernal, Ana Claudia Talancón, Sancho Gracia, Angélica Aragón
Votes: 14,429 | Gross: $5.71M
4. Pan's Labyrinth (2006)
R | 118 min | Drama, Fantasy, War
In the Falangist Spain of 1944, the bookish young stepdaughter of a sadistic army officer escapes into an eerie but captivating fantasy world.
Director: Guillermo del Toro | Stars: Ivana Baquero, Ariadna Gil, Sergi López, Maribel Verdú
Votes: 703,248 | Gross: $37.63M
5. Dona Herlinda and Her Son (1985)
Unrated | 90 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Rodolfo ( Marco Treviño ) is a young bachelor doctor who has a love affair with a younger music student, Ramon ( Arturo Meza ). When Rodolfo's mother begins to urge his son to get married, ... See full summary »
Director: Jaime Humberto Hermosillo | Stars: Arturo Meza, Marco Treviño, Guadalupe Del Toro, Letícia Lupercio
Votes: 583
6. Cronos (1992)
R | 94 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A mysterious device designed to provide its owner with eternal life resurfaces after four hundred years, leaving a trail of destruction in its path.
Director: Guillermo del Toro | Stars: Federico Luppi, Ron Perlman, Claudio Brook, Margarita Isabel
Votes: 33,139 | Gross: $0.62M
7. Midaq Alley (1995)
Unrated | 140 min | Drama, Romance
The lives of men and women living on Callejón de los Milagros in Mexico City.
Director: Jorge Fons | Stars: Ernesto Gómez Cruz, María Rojo, Salma Hayek, Bruno Bichir
Votes: 3,363
8. Danzón (1991)
PG-13 | 120 min | Drama
Julia (Rojo) is a phone operator in Mexico City who divides her time between her job, her daughter and the danzon: a cuban dance very popular in Mexico and Central America. Every wednesday ... See full summary »
Director: María Novaro | Stars: María Rojo, Carmen Salinas, Tito Vasconcelos, Margarita Isabel
Votes: 687 | Gross: $0.36M
9. Red Dawn (1990)
96 min | Drama, Thriller
A Claustrophobic experience which involves a Mexican middle class family into the atrocities made by wild and heartless army forces whose main objective seems to be students who do not permit the 1968's Olimpic games' to develop normally.
Director: Jorge Fons | Stars: Héctor Bonilla, María Rojo, Jorge Fegán, Ademar Arau
Votes: 2,038
10. Rudo y Cursi (2008)
R | 103 min | Comedy, Drama, Sport
Two siblings are rivals in the world of professional soccer.
Director: Carlos Cuarón | Stars: Gael García Bernal, Diego Luna, Guillermo Francella, Dolores Heredia
Votes: 9,324 | Gross: $1.83M
11. Babel (I) (2006)
R | 143 min | Drama
Tragedy strikes a married couple on vacation in the Moroccan desert, which jump starts an interlocking story involving four different families.
Director: Alejandro G. Iñárritu | Stars: Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Gael García Bernal, Mohamed Akhzam
Votes: 317,201 | Gross: $34.30M
12. And Your Mother Too (2001)
R | 106 min | Drama
In Mexico, two teenage boys and an older woman embark on a road trip and learn a thing or two about life and each other.
Director: Alfonso Cuarón | Stars: Maribel Verdú, Gael García Bernal, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Ana López Mercado
Votes: 128,909 | Gross: $13.62M
13. Canoa: A Shameful Memory (1976)
Not Rated | 115 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
A group of university employees arrive in a small village during a hiking expedition. Once there, the local priest accuses them of being university students who're attempting to spread communism and mobilizes the townspeople to lynch them.
Director: Felipe Cazals | Stars: Enrique Lucero, Salvador Sánchez, Ernesto Gómez Cruz, Roberto Sosa
Votes: 1,871
14. Esmeralda Comes by Night (1997)
R | 103 min | Comedy
Esmeralda is married with 5 husbands at the same time, so she has to explain to the judge why she has done this.
Director: Jaime Humberto Hermosillo | Stars: María Rojo, Claudio Obregón, Martha Navarro, Antonio Crestani
Votes: 288 | Gross: $0.02M
15. Homework (1991)
Unrated | 85 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A middle agend woman asks an old boyfriend to her home. He thinks its only for casual sex, she is planning something else and she is taping in on video.
Director: Jaime Humberto Hermosillo | Stars: María Rojo, José Alonso
Votes: 828
16. Frida (1983)
108 min | Biography, Drama
The most prominent female painter of Latin America, Frida Kahlo, is agonizing in her Coyoacán home. She evokes memories of her childhood, of the streetcar accident that caused her terrible ... See full summary »
Director: Paul Leduc | Stars: Ofelia Medina, Juan José Gurrola, Max Kerlow, Claudio Brook
Votes: 535
17. Muxes: Auténticas, intrépidas y buscadoras de peligro (2005)
Not Rated | 105 min | Documentary
Documentary on muxes, as homosexuals are called in Juchitán, Mexico, famous for its concentration of gay people.
Director: Alejandra Islas | Stars: Clara Chagorua, Victor Chirinos, Alicia de Sales, Judith López Zaire
Votes: 36
18. Cabeza de Vaca (1991)
R | 111 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama
A handful of survivors from a disastrous 1528 Spanish expedition to Florida journey across the coast until they reach Mexico.
Director: Nicolás Echevarría | Stars: Juan Diego, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Roberto Sosa, Carlos Castañón
Votes: 1,201 | Gross: $0.79M
19. Japan (2002)
R | 122 min | Drama
A painter from the big city goes to a remote canyon to commit suicide. To reach some calmness, he stays at the farmstead of Ascen, an old, religious woman. Although but a few words are spoken, love grows.
Director: Carlos Reygadas | Stars: Alejandro Ferretis, Magdalena Flores, Yolanda Villa, Martín Serrano
Votes: 3,993
20. The Queen of the Night (1994)
117 min | Drama, Romance
A female cabaret artist has to leave Berlin, Germany, after an incident with the Nazis. Back in her motherland Mexico she tries and succeeds in remaking her career.
Director: Arturo Ripstein | Stars: Patricia Reyes Spíndola, Alberto Estrella, Blanca Guerra, Ana Ofelia Murguía
Votes: 230
21. Maria Candelaria (1944)
Approved | 76 min | Romance, Drama
In Xochimilco 1909, María Candelaria and Lorenzo Rafael long for getting married but the odds are against them. María Candelaria is segregated for being a prostitute's child and the couple ... See full summary »
Director: Emilio Fernández | Stars: Dolores Del Río, Pedro Armendáriz, Alberto Galán, Margarita Cortés
Votes: 1,220
22. The Adventuress (1950)
101 min | Drama, Musical
Left alone after her mother runs off with another man and her father kills himself, Elena attempts to make a new life for herself in a new city. Believing he's a friend, Elena goes to ... See full summary »
Director: Alberto Gout | Stars: Ninón Sevilla, Tito Junco, Andrea Palma, Rubén Rojo
Votes: 640
23. Tizoc (1957)
109 min | Drama, Romance
A white woman enters into a romance with a Mexican Indian. The racial barriers between the lovers prove to be insurmountable, resulting in tragedy.
Director: Ismael Rodríguez | Stars: María Félix, Pedro Infante, Andrés Soler, Carlos Orellana
Votes: 712
24. Broken Sky (2006)
Unrated | 140 min | Drama, Romance
Two students, Gerardo and Jonas, are in love. However, Jonas becomes obsessed with another boy, which leads to Gerardo moving into arms of Sergio.
Director: Julián Hernández | Stars: Miguel Ángel Hoppe, Fernando Arroyo, Alejandro Rojo, Ignacio Pereda
Votes: 1,227 | Gross: $0.03M
25. A Thousand Clouds of Peace (2003)
Not Rated | 83 min | Drama, Romance
Gerardo, a 17-year old guy has just finished his relationship with Bruno and starts wandering hopeless through the streets of the city. In his wandering he's tortured by images: each ... See full summary »
Director: Julián Hernández | Stars: Juan Carlos Ortuño, Juan Carlos Torres, Salvador Alvarez, Gloria Andrade
Votes: 521
26. The Violin (2005)
Not Rated | 98 min | Drama, Music
In an unnamed Latin American country that closely resembles Mexico, the government fights a rural insurgency with torture, assault, rape, and murder. Soldiers descend on a town, cutting off... See full summary »
Director: Francisco Vargas | Stars: Ángel Tavira, Gerardo Taracena, Dagoberto Gama, Mario Garibaldi
Votes: 2,597 | Gross: $0.07M
27. 21 Grams (2003)
R | 124 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A freak accident brings together a critically ill mathematician, a grieving mother, and a born-again ex-con.
Director: Alejandro G. Iñárritu | Stars: Sean Penn, Benicio Del Toro, Naomi Watts, Danny Huston
Votes: 245,904 | Gross: $16.29M
28. When Pigs Have Wings (2011)
98 min | Comedy
After a tempest, fishermen do not find only fish in their nets. That is what happens to Jafaar, a poor fisherman who lives poorly in Gaza. And what he hauls in is really upsetting : imagine... See full summary »
Director: Sylvain Estibal | Stars: Sasson Gabay, Baya Belal, Myriam Tekaïa, Gassan Abbas
Votes: 3,518
29. Herod's Law (1999)
R | 123 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A naive man appointed as an acting mayor of a small town turns into a corrupt politician capable of anything to stay in power.
Director: Luis Estrada | Stars: Damián Alcázar, Pedro Armendáriz Jr., Delia Casanova, Juan Carlos Colombo
Votes: 7,085
30. Macario (1960)
91 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Poor and hungry peasant Macario wishes to have a good meal for All Saint's Day. After his wife cooks him a turkey he has three apparitions: The Devil, God, and the Death.
Director: Roberto Gavaldón | Stars: Ignacio López Tarso, Pina Pellicer, Enrique Lucero, Mario Alberto Rodríguez
Votes: 4,341
31. El color de los olivos (2006)
97 min | Documentary
Like many Palestinian families, the Amers live surrounded by the infamous West Bank Wall where their daily lives are dominated by electrified fences, locks and a constant swarm of armed ... See full summary »
Director: Carolina Rivas | Stars: Asia Amer, Hani Amer, Hisham Amer, Ishak Amer
Votes: 84 | Gross: $0.00M
32. Silent Light (2007)
Not Rated | 136 min | Drama, Romance
In a Mennonite community in Mexico, a father's faith is tested when he falls in love with a new woman.
Director: Carlos Reygadas | Stars: Cornelio Wall, Miriam Toews, Maria Pankratz, Peter Wall
Votes: 6,839 | Gross: $0.05M
33. Innocent Voices (2004)
R | 120 min | Drama, Thriller, War
A young boy, in an effort to have a normal childhood in 1980's El Salvador, is caught up in a dramatic fight for his life as he desperately tries to avoid the war which is raging all around him.
Director: Luis Mandoki | Stars: Carlos Padilla, Leonor Varela, Xuna Primus, Gustavo Muñoz
Votes: 8,195 | Gross: $0.84M
34. Love in the Time of Hysteria (1991)
Not Rated | 94 min | Comedy, Romance
A womanizer is falsely diagnosed with AIDS by a jealous lover and falls in love with a woman equally suicidal as he.
Director: Alfonso Cuarón | Stars: Daniel Giménez Cacho, Claudia Ramírez, Luis de Icaza, Astrid Hadad
Votes: 4,036 | Gross: $0.01M
35. Nuevo mundo (1978)
Not Rated | 95 min | Drama, History
A story of a priest set in 16th century Mexico who converted the local pagan population to Christianity by making a statue of the Virgin Mary resembling a native woman.
Director: Gabriel Retes | Stars: Aarón Hernán, Tito Junco, Bruno Rey, Juan Ángel Martínez
Votes: 102
36. The Other Conquest (1998)
R | 105 min | Drama, History
It is May 1520 in the vast Aztec Empire one year after the Spanish Conqueror Hernán Cortés' arrival in Mexico. "The Other Conquest" opens with the infamous massacre of the Aztecs at the ... See full summary »
Director: Salvador Carrasco | Stars: Damián Delgado, José Carlos Rodríguez, Elpidia Carrillo, Iñaki Aierra
Votes: 1,204 | Gross: $0.89M
37. Eréndira la indomable (2006)
Not Rated | 117 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
The story of Princess Eréndira of the Tarascan, who, at the beginning of the sixteenth century, led her people in a fight against the Spanish conquerors in the region of the Aztec Empire.
Director: Juan Mora Catlett | Stars: Carlos Enrique Alarcón, Édgar Alejandre, Erandini Catalina Alvarado Villegas, Rubén Bautista
Votes: 148
38. Hidalgo. La historia jamás contada (2010)
115 min | Biography, Drama, History
From his jail cell at Chihuahua's Military Hospital, Hidalgo begins to remember moments of his life, particularly his tenure as Parish Priest in the town of San Felipe Torres Mochas where ... See full summary »
Director: Antonio Serrano | Stars: Ana de la Reguera, Demián Bichir, Luis Gerardo Méndez, Cecilia Suárez
Votes: 365
39. Sexo, pudor y lágrimas (1999)
R | 109 min | Comedy, Drama
Six friends... two couples... from the mexican middle well-off class, dealing with issues about sex, relationships, infidelity and many others.
Director: Antonio Serrano | Stars: Demián Bichir, Susana Zabaleta, Víctor Huggo Martin, Cecilia Suárez
Votes: 3,100
40. The Devil's Backbone (2001)
R | 106 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
After Carlos - a 12-year-old whose father has died in the Spanish Civil War - arrives at an ominous boys' orphanage, he discovers the school is haunted and has many dark secrets which he must uncover.
Director: Guillermo del Toro | Stars: Marisa Paredes, Eduardo Noriega, Federico Luppi, Fernando Tielve
Votes: 71,028 | Gross: $0.75M
41. Like Water for Chocolate (1992)
R | 105 min | Drama, Romance
When tradition prevents her from marrying the man she loves, a young woman discovers she has a unique talent for cooking.
Director: Alfonso Arau | Stars: Marco Leonardi, Lumi Cavazos, Regina Torné, Mario Iván Martínez
Votes: 18,847 | Gross: $21.67M
42. Dos crímenes (1994)
108 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
After being falsely accused of a murder, Marcos (Alcazar) runs away to the small and quiet town of Cuevano, where he has relatives. There he finds that the family matters are more ... See full summary »
Director: Roberto Sneider | Stars: Damián Alcázar, José Carlos Ruiz, Pedro Armendáriz Jr., Dolores Heredia
Votes: 335
43. Nora's Will (2008)
92 min | Comedy, Drama
This story begins when José finds out that Nora, the woman he'd been married to for 30 years and then divorced, has committed suicide. The rabbi explains to José that due to the celebration... See full summary »
Director: Mariana Chenillo | Stars: Fernando Luján, Enrique Arreola, Ari Brickman, Juan Carlos Colombo
Votes: 1,153
44. Miss Bala (2011)
R | 113 min | Action, Crime, Drama
After entering a beauty contest in Tijuana, a young woman witnesses drug-related murders and is forced to do the gang's bidding.
Director: Gerardo Naranjo | Stars: Stephanie Sigman, Noé Hernández, Irene Azuela, J.R. Yenque
Votes: 9,436
45. Simon, el gran varón (2002)
Not Rated | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The first-born son of a wealthy Mexican businessman, Simon is doted upon by his father, Don Andres. But as Simon grows older, he displays a fondness for dressing in women's clothing and playing with dolls.
Directors: Miguel Barreda-Delgado, Arturo Velazco | Stars: Alberto Estrella, Hugo Stiglitz, Alicia Encinas, Gibran Gonzalez
Votes: 42
46. 4 Moons (2014)
Unrated | 110 min | Drama, Romance
Four stories of love and disgust between men of different generations facing their conflicts and their fears
Director: Sergio Tovar Velarde | Stars: Antonio Velázquez, Alejandro de la Madrid, Cesar Ramos, Gustavo Egelhaaf
Votes: 4,869
47. The Other Family (2011)
127 min | Drama
The story of Hendrix, a 7-year-old child that's been abandoned by his crack-addict mother Nina. Ivana, her best friend rescues him, however, she can't take care of him because of an ongoing... See full summary »
Director: Gustavo Loza | Stars: Jorge Salinas, Luis Roberto Guzmán, Ana Serradilla, Bruno Loza
Votes: 894
48. We Are the Nobles (2013)
PG-13 | 108 min | Comedy
Three spoiled children are cut off from their family fortune and forced to do the unthinkable: get jobs.
Director: Gary Alazraki | Stars: Gonzalo Vega, Luis Gerardo Méndez, Karla Souza, Juan Pablo Gil
Votes: 10,529
49. Cinco de Mayo, La Batalla (2013)
R | 125 min | Drama, History, War
On May 5th, 1862, a few thousand Mexican soldiers put their lives on the line against the world's largest and most powerful army in one legendary battle for freedom and for Mexico.
Director: Rafa Lara | Stars: Christian Vazquez, Angélica Aragón, Liz Gallardo, Kuno Becker
Votes: 940 | Gross: $0.17M
50. The Perfect Dictatorship (2014)
TV-MA | 143 min | Comedy, Drama
After accepting a colossal bribe, a powerful TV conglomerate gins up fake news stories to enhance the image of a notoriously corrupt politician.
Director: Luis Estrada | Stars: Damián Alcázar, Alfonso Herrera, Joaquín Cosio, Osvaldo Benavides
Votes: 6,157
51. Good Day, Ramon (2013)
PG-13 | 120 min | Drama
Ramon, a young Mexican boy, tries to cross the border for the fifth time but fails. His friend tells him about his aunt living in Germany and that she has a better life over there. Ramon then goes to Germany to find his friend's aunt.
Director: Jorge Ramírez Suárez | Stars: Kristyan Ferrer, Ingeborg Schöner, Adriana Barraza, Arcelia Ramírez
Votes: 2,998 | Gross: $0.10M
52. The Shape of Water (2017)
R | 123 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance
At a top secret research facility in the 1960s, a lonely janitor forms a unique relationship with an amphibious creature that is being held in captivity.
Director: Guillermo del Toro | Stars: Sally Hawkins, Octavia Spencer, Michael Shannon, Doug Jones
Votes: 447,814 | Gross: $63.86M
53. Sin destino (2002)
Not Rated | 97 min | Drama
This is a shocking film that deals with a 15-year-old boy who rents his body to men in order to pay for his drug abuses. Fran, tired of being termed a homosexual by others, confides in his ... See full summary »
Director: Leopoldo Laborde | Stars: Roberto Cobo, Francisco Rey, David Valdez, Mariana Gajá
Votes: 222
54. Los ladrones viejos. Las leyendas del artegio (2007)
97 min | Documentary, Crime
A series of stories with old thieves. Framed portraits in Mexico City from the 1970s and 1980s. From the corners of poverty and the prowess of being able to steal "honestly", a series of ... See full summary »
Director: Everardo González
Votes: 334
55. Roma (2018)
R | 135 min | Drama
A year in the life of a middle-class family's maid in Mexico City in the early 1970s.
Director: Alfonso Cuarón | Stars: Yalitza Aparicio, Marina de Tavira, Diego Cortina Autrey, Carlos Peralta
Votes: 169,850
56. The Revenant (I) (2015)
R | 156 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A frontiersman on a fur trading expedition in the 1820s fights for survival after being mauled by a bear and left for dead by members of his own hunting team.
Director: Alejandro G. Iñárritu | Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hardy, Will Poulter, Domhnall Gleeson
Votes: 874,724 | Gross: $183.64M
57. Museo (2018)
128 min | Crime, Drama
In 1985, a group of criminals mock the security of the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City to extract 140 pre-Hispanic pieces from their showcases.
Director: Alonso Ruizpalacios | Stars: Gael García Bernal, Leonardo Ortizgris, Alfredo Castro, Simon Russell Beale
Votes: 5,972 | Gross: $0.15M
58. 45 Days in Harvar (2019)
78 min | Documentary
The plastic artist-director César Aréchiga recreates the living room and studio of his house inside the maximum security prison of Puente Grande Jalisco, Mexico. Fifteen interns, by ... See full summary »
Director: César Aréchiga
Votes: 72
59. Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio (2022)
PG | 117 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
A father's wish magically brings a wooden boy to life in Italy, giving him a chance to care for the child.
Directors: Guillermo del Toro, Mark Gustafson | Stars: Ewan McGregor, David Bradley, Gregory Mann, Burn Gorman
Votes: 113,187
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