Some Mexican movies
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1. El pecado de Laura (1949)
83 min | Crime, Drama
José, a driver, and Laura, a dancer, were lovers. José couldn't dance with Laura due to his condition on his legs. Therefore, a man notices Laura's skill to dance and wants to do business ... See full summary »
Director: Julián Soler | Stars: Meche Barba, Abel Salazar, Arturo Martínez, Rafael Banquells
Votes: 20
2. After Lucia (2012)
Not Rated | 103 min | Drama
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.
Director: Michel Franco | Stars: Tessa Ia, Hernán Mendoza, Gonzalo Vega Jr., Tamara Yazbek
Votes: 6,999
3. Rapiña (1975)
114 min | Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Two neighbors who had always lived in poverty witness a plane crash and decide to take anything they find valuable among the dead. They begin to experience greed.
Director: Carlos Enrique Taboada | Stars: Ignacio López Tarso, Germán Robles, Norma Lazareno, Rosenda Monteros
Votes: 280
4. El niño y el muro (1965)
85 min | Drama
Not realizing the dangers he is facing, Young Dieter will do anything to get his ball back after it was thrown over the Berlin wall by a ruthless guard.
Director: Ismael Rodríguez | Stars: Daniel Gélin, Yolanda Varela, Nino del Arco, Karin Block
Votes: 124
5. La mujer de Benjamín (1991)
90 min | Comedy, Drama
Old bachelor Benjamin (Lopez Rojas) still lives with his sister Micaela (Doria) in the boredom of a small town. His only entertainment is getting together with a bunch of old men and spare ... See full summary »
Director: Carlos Carrera | Stars: Eduardo López Rojas, Malena Doria, Arcelia Ramírez, Eduardo Palomo
Votes: 500
6. 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: 4,336
7. The Scapular (1968)
85 min | Crime, Drama, Fantasy
A woman who is about to die calls the town's priest and hands him a scapulary, saying that she knows of its great powers. Anybody who does not believe in them will end up dead.
Director: Servando González | Stars: Enrique Lizalde, Enrique Aguilar, Carlos Cardán, Federico Falcón
Votes: 361
8. Presagio (1974)
118 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
When the bottle she uses to help women give birth to their children breaks, midwife Mama Santos announces that something terrible will happen in a small town in the Mexican countryside. ... See full summary »
Director: Luis Alcoriza | Stars: David Reynoso, Fabiola Falcón, Lucha Villa, Pancho Córdova
Votes: 114
9. Hidden River (1948)
99 min | Drama
Called by the Mexican President himself, and in spite of a heart condition, young teacher Rosaura Salazar travels to the deserted town of Rio Escondido to accomplish the mission of bringing... See full summary »
Director: Emilio Fernández | Stars: María Félix, Carlos López Moctezuma, Fernando Fernández, Agustín Isunza
Votes: 292
10. Tirando a gol (1966)
85 min | Comedy, Drama
A middle-aged couple gets married, forcing two families into one household. Each son plays for a different soccer team, leading to many fights and disagreements throughout the movie. But they soon learn how to become a family.
Director: Icaro Cisneros | Stars: Lola Beltrán, David Reynoso, Julissa, Fernando Luján
Votes: 11
11. The Realm of Fortune (1986)
130 min | Drama
Poor Dionisio finds himself as recipient of the good fortune, but soon he forgets that everything that goes up also has to go down, and that in the depressing nothingness of his town it is easy to die.
Director: Arturo Ripstein | Stars: Ernesto Gómez Cruz, Blanca Guerra, Alejandro Parodi, Zaide Silvia Gutiérrez
Votes: 510
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. The Dressel Family (1935)
90 min | Drama
Friedric Dressel (Soler) gets married to mexican radio singer Magdalena (Frank) against his mother's desire: Frau Dressel (Arriaga) wanted his son to marry a German girl. Soon after the ... See full summary »
Director: Fernando de Fuentes | Stars: Consuelo Frank, Jorge Vélez, Rosita Arriaga, Ramón Armengod
Votes: 11
14. Una familia de tantas (1949)
130 min | Drama
A strict patriarch exercises almost absolute control over his family and uses it to impose his vision of order and conservative family values. However, the budding sexuality of some of his children causes the union to unravel.
Director: Alejandro Galindo | Stars: Fernando Soler, David Silva, Martha Roth, Carlos Riquelme
Votes: 391
15. When Children Leave Home (1941)
139 min | Drama
A marriage suffers various family problems, but eventually on a Christmas Eve happiness comes forth again.
Director: Juan Bustillo Oro | Stars: Fernando Soler, Sara García, Joaquín Pardavé, Emilio Tuero
Votes: 123
16. I'm a Real Mexican (1942)
125 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
German, Japanese and Italian agents are sent to Mexico to plan an invasion.
Director: Emilio Fernández | Stars: Pedro Armendáriz, Janet Alcoriza, David Silva, Andrés Soler
Votes: 39
17. La liga de las canciones (1941)
Comedy, Musical, Romance
Director: Chano Urueta | Stars: Ramón Armengod, Mapy Cortés, Domingo Soler, Fernando Cortés
18. La virtud desnuda (1957)
92 min | Drama
Director: José Díaz Morales | Stars: Octávio Arias, Armando Arriola, José Luis Carol, Rosa de Castilla
Votes: 17
19. The Guns of Juana Gallo (1961)
Not Rated | 91 min | War, Drama
The true life's story of Juana Gallo. A woman who rose to become one of the leaders of the Mexican revolution.
Director: Miguel Zacarías | Stars: María Félix, Jorge Mistral, Luis Aguilar, Ignacio López Tarso
Votes: 104
20. The Black Whip (1958)
85 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
This film is the first of three parts. A double crime has been committed. In the "Hacienda Rosales", two men are killed by gunmen in the service of a powerful and anonymous landowner (a ... See full summary »
Director: Vicente Oroná | Stars: Luis Aguilar, Rosita Arenas, Rosa Elena Durgel, Federico Curiel
Votes: 15
21. Mary My Dearest (1981)
100 min | Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Maria is on a business trip, and during a storm her car cracks up in the middle of the highway. She is picked up by a mental hospital's bus that takes her there but she cannot get out because everyone thinks she is mentally ill.
Director: Jaime Humberto Hermosillo | Stars: Héctor Bonilla, María Rojo, Armando Martín, Salvador Sánchez
Votes: 153
22. Gueros (2014)
Not Rated | 106 min | Comedy, Drama
Tomas is too much for his lone mother so she sends him to live with his older brother Federico, aka Sombra, in Mexico City.
Director: Alonso Ruizpalacios | Stars: Tenoch Huerta, Sebastián Aguirre, Ilse Salas, Leonardo Ortizgris
Votes: 5,101
23. The Comet (1999)
TV-PG | 92 min | Musical, Adventure, Drama
At the time of the Mexican Revolution, Valentina is forced to hide with a traveling circus after the death of her father. There she establishes a friendship with Victor, a young man fascinated by the new cinema.
Directors: José Buil, Marisa Sistach | Stars: Diego Luna, Ana Claudia Talancón, Gabriel Retes, Carmen Maura
Votes: 189
24. Por la libre (2000)
R | 96 min | Comedy
Rocco (Osvaldo Benavides) and Rodrigo (Rodrigo Cachero) are cousins, but they're not at all alike. Rocco is the loose one, Rodrigo's uptight. But when their grandfather Rodrigo Carnicero (... See full summary »
Director: Juan Carlos de Llaca | Stars: Osvaldo Benavides, Rodrigo Cachero, Ana de la Reguera, Otto Sirgo
Votes: 971
25. Killing Cabos (2004)
R | 94 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
A dark, offbeat comedy about a group of Mexico City teens embroiled in a kidnapping involving a retired wrestling legend and a parrot.
Director: Alejandro Lozano | Stars: Tony Dalton, Ana Claudia Talancón, Pedro Armendáriz Jr., Kristoff Raczynski
Votes: 5,759 | Gross: $0.13M
26. Las búsquedas (2013)
75 min | Drama
Ulises is robbed in the subway. Losing his wallet becomes a personal tragedy. Elvira has also suffered a terrible loss, too. A random encounter will join them and new hope will arise in them, until Ulises finds the one who stole from him.
Director: Jose Luis Valle | Stars: Arcelia Ramírez, Gabino Rodríguez, Gustavo Sánchez Parra
Votes: 64
27. Ana's Desire (2019)
79 min | Drama
After years of absence Juan returns to Ana, his older sister. Both have changed, but none of them has been able to overcome the love affair they lived in their youth that marked them forever.
Director: Emilio Santoyo | Stars: Laura Agorreca, David Calderón León, Ian Garcia Monterrubio, Simone Bucio
Votes: 115
28. The Darkness (2016)
92 min | Thriller
In this coming of age movie a boy living with his father, brother and sister in a house in the woods is tormented by a unseen monster.
Director: Daniel Castro Zimbrón | Stars: Brontis Jodorowsky, Aliocha Sotnikoff, Camila Robertson Glennie, Fernando Álvarez Rebeil
Votes: 662
29. Los muertos (2014)
89 min | Adventure, Drama
The Dead attempts to unmask the lives of Mexico's hyper privileged youth. It draws an anatomy of money as a force that imprisons and blinds its supposed keepers to the social and political ... See full summary »
Director: Santiago Mohar Volkow | Stars: Santiago Corcuera, Elena Larrea, Ignacio Beteta, Florencia Ríos
Votes: 78
30. Identifying Features (2020)
99 min | Drama
A mother travels across Mexico in search for her son whom authorities say died while trying to cross the borders into the United States.
Director: Fernanda Valadez | Stars: Mercedes Hernández, David Illescas, Juan Jesús Varela, Ana Laura Rodríguez
Votes: 2,441
31. La ilegal (1979)
102 min | Drama
Claudia Bernal arrived in the U.S., pregnant by her filmmaker lover, who sets her up with a beach-front house. After his wife finds out, he hires men to rape Claudia and photograph the act.
Director: Arturo Ripstein | Stars: Lucía Méndez, Pedro Armendáriz Jr., Fernando Allende, Cristina Moreno
Votes: 74
32. Polar Bear (2017)
70 min | Drama
Shot with a cell phone camera, "Oso Polar" is a road trip movie that brings together three friends from childhood to attend an anniversary at the primary school they attended together, and ... See full summary »
Director: Marcelo Tobar | Stars: Luis Alberti, Humberto Busto, Marcelo Cerón, Nicole de Albornoz
Votes: 169
33. The Chosen Ones (2015)
Unrated | 105 min | Drama
Young Ulises falls in love with teen Sofia, even as he is forced to lure her into his family's prostitution ring. Now he will do anything to save her.
Director: David Pablos | Stars: Nancy Talamantes, Óscar Torres, Leidi Gutiérrez, José Santillán Cabuto
Votes: 2,101
34. The Dove and the Wolf (2019)
106 min | Drama
Displaced by the violence that swept their town, Paloma and Lobo survive trying to love each other. Through thirst, fear and nostalgia, Paloma wishes to go back home but Lobo lives tied to a memory that stops him from returning.
Director: Carlos Lenin | Stars: Paloma Petra, Armando Hernández, Mónica Del Carmen, Pablo Mendoza
Votes: 107
35. La niña en la piedra (2006)
R | 104 min | Drama
A young student, Mati, breaks up with and constantly humiliates Gabino, who is devoted to her - until he gets the opportunity to make her pay for her snubs.
Director: Marisa Sistach | Stars: Gabino Rodríguez, Sofía Espinosa, Ricardo Polanco, Alejandro Calva
Votes: 216
36. Semana Santa (2015)
85 min | Drama
Dali and her 8 year old son Pepe take a vacation with Dali's boyfriend, Chavez. Instead of bringing them closer, their beach holiday brings out things in each of them that threaten to pull ... See full summary »
Director: Alejandra Márquez Abella | Stars: Anajosé Aldrete Echevarria, Tenoch Huerta, Esteban Ávila, Magdalena Carmona Saez
Votes: 232
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