LRMT: Documentales mexicanos Siglo XXI (II)
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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: 888
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: 958
3. Los reyes del pueblo que no existe (2015)
Not Rated | 83 min | Documentary, Drama
Three families live in a village partially submerged by water in Northwestern Mexico. Despite their loneliness and fear, they refuse to leave.
Director: Betzabé García | Stars: Irineo Osuna Enciso, María Aura Zazueta Lamphar, Ramiro Osuna Moreno, Cipriano Osuna Sánchez
Votes: 106
4. M (I) (2018)
52 min | Documentary, Biography, Music
Miguel traces his way trying to survive. His reality becomes increasingly labyrinthine until he must eventually face up to his own being. His complex behavior with a repressive society, an ... See full summary »
Director: Eva Villaseñor
Votes: 29
5. Memoria Oculta (2014)
60 min | Documentary, Biography
We follow the filmmaker's struggle to reconstruct a period of her life when she lost her memory.
Director: Eva Villaseñor
Votes: 21
6. 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
7. El Cuarto Desnudo (2013)
70 min | Documentary, Drama
'The Naked Room' shows a whole world without leaving a single space: the examination room in a children's hospital in Mexico City. Listening to children, their parents and the doctors ... See full summary »
Director: Nuria Ibañez
Votes: 27
8. 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: 185
9. Música ocular (2012)
105 min | Documentary, Drama
In a southern Mexico village, young deaf students are taking on an unusual challenge: to make a movie out of their dreams. While Eric and his friends watch films and discuss ideas, their ... See full summary »
Director: José Antonio Cordero | Stars: Tari Beltran, Erik Davila, Omar Garcia Sandoval, Mirian Lopez Enriquez
Votes: 13
10. 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
11. Guerrero (I) (2017)
115 min | Documentary
In the depths of the Sierra of Guerrero in Mexico, after the disappearance of the 43 students, we find the reaction of wounded civil society to seek an answer to the situation of abuse of authority mixed with poverty.
Director: Ludovic Bonleux
Votes: 31
12. Batallas Intimas (2016)
87 min | Documentary
It is the story of five women from different countries who have survived or are trying to survive domestic violence.
Director: Lucía Gajá
Votes: 66
13. Sink or Swim (2018)
121 min | Comedy, Drama, Sport
A depressed man joins a synchronized swimming team made up of middle aged men.
Director: Gilles Lellouche | Stars: Mathieu Amalric, Guillaume Canet, Benoît Poelvoorde, Jean-Hugues Anglade
Votes: 11,957
14. Yo'eme Labyrinth (2019)
87 min | Documentary, Drama
The documentary is about the difficulties that the Yaquis of Sonora (Mexico) face and their ancestral defense of the land and life in Mexico. Today they face a decisive battle. Since 2010, ... See full summary »
Director: Sergi Pedro Ros
Votes: 22
16. Resurrección (2016)
94 min | Documentary
A family fights to reclaim a lost paradise, a waterfall once known as the "Mexican Niagara". Today, its poisonous waters destroy everything in their path. The fight for its resurrection is a fight for humanity itself.
Director: Eugenio Polgovsky
Votes: 36
17. Dibujos contra las balas (2019)
91 min | Documentary
Women try to heal through art and love the wounds that organized crime's violence has caused to children in Mexico.
Director: Alicia Calderón
Votes: 18
18. 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
20. 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
21. The Man Who Saw Too Much (2016)
89 min | Documentary
The Accident, The Image, The Obsession.
Director: Trisha Ziff | Star: Enrique Metinides
Votes: 200
22. Margarita (I) (2016)
73 min | Documentary, Drama
A young filmmaker makes a documentary about the life of woman living in the streets of Mexico City.
Director: Bruno Santamaría Razo
Votes: 39
23. Armed to the Teeth (2018)
105 min | Documentary, Crime, Thriller
On March 19th 2010, the Mexican government announced the death of two hitmen, armed to the teeth, in the city of Monterrey, Nuevo León. Days later, it was discovered that they were in fact ... See full summary »
Director: Alberto Saúl Arnaut Estrada
Votes: 731
24. Flor en otomí (2012)
78 min | Documentary, Biography, Crime
At 19, Deni Prieto Stock joined a guerrilla group and, four months later, on February 14, 1974, was murdered by the Mexican army in Nepantla, Mexico State together with four companions. A ... See full summary »
Director: Luisa Riley
Votes: 20
25. All of Me (2014)
Not Rated | 90 min | Documentary, Biography
A documentary that tells the stories of the women who live in La Patrona, a Mexican village that is situated by the tracks of a train from Central America that brings many migrants North to the U.S..
Director: Arturo González Villaseñor
Votes: 265
26. Canícula (2012)
65 min | Documentary
Director: José Álvarez | Stars: Hermelinda Santes González, Esteban González Juárez
Votes: 20
27. Agnus Dei: The Lamb of God (2011)
84 min | Documentary, Biography, Drama
Jesus was sexually abused by a priest when he was an 11 year old boy. As an adult, he decides not only to denounce his aggressor but also to find him and confront him.
Directors: Alejandra Sánchez Orozco, Alejandra Sánchez | Star: Jesús Romero Colín
Votes: 48
28. H2Omx (2014)
82 min | Documentary, Drama, History
With over 20 million residents, can Mexico City avert disaster and become water sustainable?
Directors: José Cohen, Lorenzo Hagerman
Votes: 77
29. La piedra ausente (2013)
80 min | Documentary, Adventure, Drama
Focusing on the removal and subsequent replications of a colossal pre-Hispanic rain deity taken from a small Mexican town to the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City, this film ... See full summary »
Directors: Jesse Lerner, Sandra Rozental
Votes: 40
30. Nadie es inocente: 20 años después (2010)
72 min | Documentary, Drama
Ciudad Neza and the great metropolis. The movements of Pablo el Podrido Hernandez intertwine the stories of Cienfuegos, Rafa Punk, Benjamin el ostras, Moroco, Buho, and others who are no longer with us.
Directors: Sarah Minter, Sarah Minter
Votes: 11
31. La maleta mexicana (2011)
Not Rated | 86 min | Documentary, Drama, History
The story of three lost boxes known as the Mexican Suitcase that were recovered in 2007. The boxes, misplaced in the chaos at the start of WWII, contained many of the Spanish Civil War ... See full summary »
Director: Trisha Ziff | Stars: Ernest Alós, Juan Diego Botto, Sebastian del Amo, Antonio de la Fuente Ferraz
Votes: 274
32. El lugar más pequeño (2011)
100 min | Documentary
The inhabitants of a small town in El Salvador relive their life experiences during the civil war while remembering their loved ones.
Director: Tatiana Huezo
Votes: 186
33. Still Here (2016)
87 min | Documentary
Aquí sigo (Still here) brings together the existential ponderings of the people around us who most deserve to be listened to, those who have lived the longest. We travel the world hearing memories of love and loss, of joy and hardship.
Director: Lorenzo Hagerman
Votes: 66
34. Silvestre Pantaleón (2012)
65 min | Documentary, Biography
The story of an elderly man from the Nahuatl-speaking village of San Agustin Oapan, Guerrero, Mexico. Told with a lyrical combination of lingering imagery and ethnographic detail, '... See full summary »
Director: Roberto Olivares
Votes: 14
35. 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
36. México Pelágico (2014)
70 min | Documentary
A film that unveils the Mexican open ocean wonders through the eyes of young conservationists while trying to substitute shark fishing with sustainable tourism.
Director: Jeronimo Prieto | Stars: Ignacio Armida, Carlos Céspedes, Sylvia Earle, Alberto Friscione
Votes: 116
37. El Alcalde (2012)
81 min | Documentary, Biography, Crime
In a Mexican municipality besieged by drug trafficking, a mayor uses controversial methods to maintain order in one of the richest and safest areas in Latin America.
Directors: Emiliano Altuna, Diego Enrique Osorno, Carlos Rossini | Star: Mauricio Fernandez
Votes: 107
38. Summer of Goliath (2010)
Not Rated | 78 min | Documentary, Drama
Summer of Goliath is a documentary/fiction hybrid that narrates various stories of the people of the town of Huilotepec in rural Mexico. Teresa's husband has disappeared and she believes he... See full summary »
Director: Nicolás Pereda | Stars: Clemencia Alejo, Gabriela Alejo, Jose Refugio Alejo, Silvia Alejo
Votes: 132
39. Drought (2011)
105 min | Documentary, Western
Metaphor of a small town that hides from death.
Director: Everardo González
Votes: 85
40. El cielo abierto (2011)
100 min | Documentary, Drama
The memories from Monsignor Oscar Arnulfo Romero, his letters, the Homilies transmitted through the YSAX radio station; viewed through the characters who suffered with him the fear of the outbreak of war in El Salvador.
Director: Everardo González
Votes: 29
41. Retratos de una búsqueda (2014)
74 min | Documentary, Crime, Drama
In the Mexican drug war, thousands of mothers search for their missing sons and daughters. A portrait of Mexico today.
Director: Alicia Calderón | Stars: Guadalupe Aguilar, Natividad Guerrero, Margarita López
Votes: 22
42. La revolución de los alcatraces (2013)
90 min | Documentary, Biography, Drama
The personal journey and social awakening of Eufrosina, a young indigenous woman from Mexico, fighting against gender inequality as well as the seducing offering of political power.
Director: Luciana Kaplan
Votes: 25
43. Vuelve a la vida (I) (2010)
Documentary
The love story between a top model from New York, a Mexican scuba diver and a shark.
Director: Carlos Hagerman | Stars: Roberto Balderas, John Grillo, Alejandro Martinez, Rafaela Martinez
Votes: 61
44. Ayotzinapa, El paso de la Tortuga (2018)
80 min | Documentary
A documentary about 43 Mexican students forcibly disappeared after being violently detained by police, and the unsatisfactory slow investigation that followed both at state and federal levels.
Director: Enrique García Meza | Stars: Ángela Buitrago, Don Bernardo Campos, Caseta, Coyuco
Votes: 230
45. Made in Bangkok (2015)
75 min | Documentary, Comedy, Drama
Morgana is a Mexican transgender opera singer with a dream: a sex reassignment surgery. We follow her odyssey all the way to Bangkok as she fights for the identity she has been struggling all her life to construct.
Director: Flavio Florencio | Stars: Morganna Love, Noa Herrera
Votes: 164
46. 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
47. Rush Hour (2018)
80 min | Documentary
A documentary of three people in three different cities, Istanbul, Los Angeles, and Mexico City, sharing their experiences on commuting - a sacrifice of half their lives for the sake of supporting themselves and their families.
Director: Luciana Kaplan | Star: Nicole Monosky
Votes: 110
48. Inori (2012)
72 min | Documentary
Inori is a great Japanese / spiritual / scientific documentary. Uncovering deep Human Being truths. A must watch
Director: Pedro González-Rubio
Votes: 110
49. Mexicanos de Bronce (2016)
100 min | Documentary
Bullet has spend almost half of his life in prison. Now he's about to be released for the third time. In the abyss of freedom, the opportunities that will shape his path are not clear.
Director: Julio Fernandez Talamantes
Votes: 31
50. Hasta el fin de los días (2014)
88 min | Documentary, Crime, War
At the beginning of 2012 the so called war against crime, led by the Mexican Federal Government brought, as consequence, a number of nearly 50,000 casualties and a social climate of ... See full summary »
Director: Mauricio Bidault
Votes: 9
51. Bering. Equilibrio y Resistencia (2013)
80 min | Documentary, History
Little or almost anything, is know about the people living in the Bering Strait. What are its conditions and needs, its thoughts. What are their customs, which fed their culture, how they ... See full summary »
Director: Lourdes Grobet
Votes: 10
52. El Paso (2016)
76 min | Documentary
This is a story about the families of those that once were our eyes and our voice, but were threatened, and had to leave Mexico and forced to live in exile.
Director: Everardo González | Stars: Ricardo Chávez Aldana, Alejandro Pacheco Hernández, Carlos Spector
Votes: 30
53. 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
54. La Historia Negra del Cine Mexicano (2016)
97 min | Documentary
After studying filmmaking I rediscovered a book, "The black book of Mexican Cinema", written by my mom's uncle, Miguel Contreras Torres. Through his investigations I find out about his ... See full summary »
Director: Andrés García Franco | Star: Américo del Río
Votes: 17
55. Carrière, 250 metros (2011)
88 min | Documentary
A portrait documentary tracing the inspiration, philosophy and imagination of the celebrated theatre and screen writer - and Bunuel's long term collaborator - Jean Claude Carrière. Carrière... See full summary »
Directors: Juan Carlos Rulfo, Natalia Gil Torner | Stars: Peter Brook, Iris Carriere, Jean-Claude Carrière, Milos Forman
Votes: 43
56. Chuy, El hombre lobo (2014)
94 min | Documentary, Biography, Drama
Jesus 'Chuy' Aceves and a dozen living members of his extended family suffer from the very rare condition of congenital hypertrichosis, meaning they were born with excessive hair on their ... See full summary »
Director: Eva Aridjis Fuentes | Star: Jesus Aceves
Votes: 10
57. El paciente interno (2012)
TV-MA | 83 min | Documentary, Drama
On February 5th 1970, Carlos Castaneda de la Fuente defied the most repressive regime in contemporary Mexican history and tried to avenge the October 2nd 1968 Tlatelolco massacre. Forty ... See full summary »
Director: Alejandro Solar Luna
Votes: 50
58. Los Exóticos (2013)
83 min | Documentary, Sport
The documentary portrays the life and history of Mexican wrestlers who for various reasons have decided to participate in this contact sport characterizing exotic characters. The exotic ... See full summary »
Director: Michael Ramos Araizaga
Votes: 27
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