LRMT: Documentales Mexicanos
by theater_des_thodes | created - 11 Nov 2018 | updated - 09 Jun 2020 | PublicLa vida supera a la aflicción
- Instant Watch Options
- Genres
- Movies or TV
- IMDb Rating
- In Theaters
- Release Year
- Keywords
1. Tempestad (2016)
105 min | Documentary
The emotional journeys of two women victimized by corruption and injustice in Mexico and of the love, dignity and resistance that allowed them to survive.
Director: Tatiana Huezo
Votes: 886
2. Devil's Freedom (2017)
TV-MA | 74 min | Documentary
A documentary about the violence in Mexico told from the word of those who have suffered the pain and those who make the pain.
Director: Everardo González
Votes: 956
3. The Inheritors (2008)
90 min | Documentary
Depicts the lives of children and their families who labor in the Mexican countryside.
Director: Eugenio Polgovsky
Votes: 123
4. Toro negro (2005)
87 min | Documentary
Intimate and fascinating portrait of Fernando, also known as El Suicida and El Negro, a bull fighter in the slums of the Mexican Yucutan Peninsular. Sometimes he is a charming host to the ... See full summary »
Directors: Carlos Armella, Pedro González-Rubio | Stars: Fernando Pacheco, Romelia Sosa, Mario Tello, Teodoro
Votes: 82
5. Presunto culpable (2008)
87 min | Documentary
Two young Mexican attorneys attempt to exonerate a wrongly convicted man by making a documentary. In the process, they expose the contradictions of a judicial system that presumes suspects guilty until proven innocent.
Directors: Roberto Hernández, Geoffrey Smith
Votes: 1,419
6. Intimidades de Shakespeare y Víctor Hugo (2008)
83 min | Documentary, Crime, Thriller
My grandmother??s lodging house situated at the corner of Shakespeare and Victor Hugo streets in Mexico City. When I was ten years old I met one of them. His name was Jorge Riosse. My grand... See full summary »
Director: Yulene Olaizola | Stars: Regina Cardo, Florencia Vega Moctezuma
Votes: 277
7. 1973 (2005)
96 min | Documentary, Crime, History
This dark documentary can be seen as three separate stories of people united by two themes: they were born in 1973 in Mexico City, and their lives were, to different extent, destroyed. The ... See full summary »
Director: Antonino Isordia Llamazares | Stars: Alejandro Cota, Rodolfo Escogido, María Fernanda Ramos Macín
Votes: 77
8. Tierra Caliente (I) (2015)
80 min | Documentary, Crime, Drama
Tierra Caliente is the story of an ordinary family in the state of Guerrero, Mexico. As they go about their normal lives, they are caught in the crossfire between the Narco drug cartels and the military.
Director: Laura Plancarte | Stars: Anais Alvarado, Dimitri Andreas, Claudia Coulter, Luciano Dodero
Votes: 11
9. Missing Young Woman (2001)
74 min | Documentary
This gripping documentary investigates the disappearance of young women from assembly plants that line the Mexican-American border
Director: Lourdes Portillo
Votes: 165
10. Del olvido al no me acuerdo (1999)
75 min | Documentary
Juan Carlos Rulfo, the son of the acclaimed Mexican writer and photographer Juan Rulfo (1917 - 1986), travels to the plains of Jalisco in search of his father.
Director: Juan Carlos Rulfo | Stars: Juan José Arreola, Manuel Cosío, Clara Aparicio de Rulfo, Rebeca Jiménez
Votes: 159
11. Beauties of the Night (2016)
92 min | Documentary
An honest portrait of five women who go through the night looking for other possibilities of beauty while discovering the passing of time, lost youth, the mirage that is fame, and the chance for happiness.
Director: María José Cuevas | Stars: Olga Breeskin, Lyn May, Rossy Mendoza, Wanda Seux
Votes: 592
12. Plaza de la Soledad (2016)
78 min | Documentary
This Documentary shows the life of four third age prostitutes working at one of the most poor neighborhoods of Mexico City.
Director: Maya Goded
Votes: 149
13. Los últimos héroes de la península (2008)
100 min | Documentary
Director: J.M Cravioto | Stars: Miguel Canto, Freddie Castillo, Guty Espadas, Juan Herrera
Votes: 19
14. 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
15. Canícula (2012)
65 min | Documentary
Director: José Álvarez | Stars: Hermelinda Santes González, Esteban González Juárez
Votes: 20
16. Digna. Hasta el último aliento (2004)
118 min | Documentary
The violent death of Human Rights advocate Digna Ochoa y Plácido reveals the corrupt and dangerous rackets that operate within the political system in Mexico.
Director: Felipe Cazals | Star: Vanessa Bauche
Votes: 59
17. My Life Inside (2007)
120 min | Documentary
Teenage immigrant, Rosa Jimenez, is accused of committing murder in a Texas.
Director: Lucía Gajá
Votes: 123
18. En el hoyo (I) (2006)
Unrated | 84 min | Documentary
A portrait of the construction workers involved in building the second deck of Mexico City's Periferico freeway.
Director: Juan Carlos Rulfo | Stars: Salvador Enriquez Castillo, Sofia García López, José Guadalupe Calzada, Isabel Dolores Hernández
Votes: 431 | Gross: $0.01M
19. Gabriel Orozco (2002)
80 min | Documentary
Director: Juan Carlos Martín | Star: Gabriel Orozco
Votes: 44
20. Tropico de cancer (2004)
53 min | Documentary
At the Tropic of Cancer in the desert of San Luis Potosi, Mexico, various families survive by hunting animals which they sell on the freeway.
Director: Eugenio Polgovsky
Votes: 61
21. Drought (2011)
105 min | Documentary, Western
Metaphor of a small town that hides from death.
Director: Everardo González
Votes: 85
22. Eco de la montaña (2014)
92 min | Documentary, Biography
A portrait of the great Wixarika (Huichol) artist Santos de la Torre who lives in near anonymity in the Western Sierra Madre.
Director: Nicolás Echevarría | Star: Santos de la Torre
Votes: 236
23. Navajazo (2014)
75 min | Documentary, Biography
The imagined apocalypse presented to us through portraits of characters struggling to survive in a hostile environment, where all they have is each other, and the only thing they posses in ... See full summary »
Director: Ricardo Silva | Star: Richard Lewis
Votes: 120
24. Luz en el encierro (2013)
88 min | Documentary
On the 29th of August 1990, the Mexican architect Bosco Gutiérrez Cortina was kidnapped in Mexico City. During 257 days, he lived in a room of 3x1 meters, without control of the light and ... See full summary »
Director: Rodrigo Occelli | Star: Bosco Gutiérrez Cortina
Votes: 13
25. Quebranto (2013)
TV-MA | 90 min | Documentary, Biography, Drama
The memory and testimony of two characters: One, who was a child actor in the seventies, and Lilia Ortega, his mother, an actress. Fernando came out as a transvestite some years ago, and ... See full summary »
Director: Roberto Fiesco | Stars: Fernando García Ortega, Lilia Ortega, Jorge Fons, Patricio Pereda
Votes: 184
26. Miradas múltiples (La máquina loca) (2012)
96 min | Documentary, History
They build myths, light passions, and practically never speak. In this documentary they'll complete with their words, the iconographic world of one of the most legendary cinematographers of... See full summary »
Director: Emilio Maillé | Stars: Javier Aguirresarobe, Ricardo Aronovich, Affonso Beato, Gabriel Beristain
Votes: 81
27. Lecciones para Zafirah (2011)
75 min | Documentary
Lessons for Zafirah records the faces and gestures that congregate around the train "The Beast", which represents the symbolic vehicle of escape for thousands of migrants who travel to the ... See full summary »
Directors: Carolina Rivas, Daoud Sarhandi | Stars: Norma Romero, Zafirah Sarhandi, Alejandro Solalinde
Votes: 26
28. Alamar (2009)
G | 73 min | Documentary, Drama
Before their inevitable farewell, Jorge, a young man of Mayan roots, and Natan, his half-Italian son, spend time together living off the Banco Chinchorro coral reef.
Director: Pedro González-Rubio | Stars: Jorge Machado, Roberta Palombini, Natan Machado Palombini, Nestór Marín
Votes: 2,710 | Gross: $0.06M
29. Otaola o la república del exilio (2001)
Director: Raúl Busteros | Stars: Mario Iván Martínez, Eugenio Álvarez, Héctor Ortega, Roger Nevares
Votes: 9
30. The Thorn in the Heart (2009)
Not Rated | 86 min | Documentary
Michel Gondry chronicles the life of Gondry family matriarch, his aunt Suzette Gondry, and her relationship with her son, Jean-Yves.
Director: Michel Gondry | Stars: Suzette Gondry, Jean-Yves Gondry, Michel Gondry, Sasha Allard
Votes: 506 | Gross: $0.01M
Tell Your Friends