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1. The Young and the Damned (1950)
Not Rated | 80 min | Crime, Drama
A group of juvenile delinquents live a violent and crime-filled life in the festering slums of Mexico City, as the morals of young Pedro are gradually corrupted and destroyed by the others.
Director: Luis Buñuel | Stars: Alfonso Mejía, Roberto Cobo, Estela Inda, Miguel Inclán
Votes: 21,995
2. The Outsiders (1967)
95 min | Comedy, Drama
A rich, aristocratic engaged couple (Julissa, Enrique Alvarez Felix) abandons a dinner party to enjoy a night on the town with an urban gang known as Los Caifanes.
Director: Juan Ibáñez | Stars: Julissa, Enrique Álvarez Félix, Óscar Chávez, Ernesto Gómez Cruz
Votes: 706
3. The Exterminating Angel (1962)
Not Rated | 95 min | Drama, Fantasy
The guests at an upper-class dinner party find themselves unable to leave.
Director: Luis Buñuel | Stars: Silvia Pinal, Jacqueline Andere, Enrique Rambal, José Baviera
Votes: 35,539
4. 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
5. The Place Without Limits (1978)
Not Rated | 110 min | Drama
Family honor, greed, machismo, homophobia, and the dreams of whores collide in a Mexican town. Rich, elderly Don Alejo is poised to sell the town for a profit, needing only to buy a ... See full summary »
Director: Arturo Ripstein | Stars: Roberto Cobo, Fernando Soler, Lucha Villa, Ana Martín
Votes: 1,642
6. 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
7. 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: 1,868
8. 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: 252,837 | Gross: $5.38M
9. The Secret Formula (1965)
42 min | Short, Comedy, Drama
An irreverent essay, unified only by the author's unique voice, full of surreal moments and provocative scenarios related to intellectual debates about the Mexican national character.
Director: Rubén Gámez | Stars: José Castillo, Manuel Gaitán, Pilar Islas, Nico-Nito
Votes: 353
10. 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: 169,760
11. 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: 128,867 | Gross: $13.62M
12. Nosotros los pobres (1948)
Not Rated | 128 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Nosotros Los Pobres stars Pedro Infante as a carpenter whose entire family must work together to clear his name after he is charged with a murder..
Director: Ismael Rodríguez | Stars: Pedro Infante, Evita Muñoz 'Chachita', Carmen Montejo, Blanca Estela Pavón
Votes: 1,164
13. The Amazing Catfish (2013)
Not Rated | 89 min | Comedy, Drama
Martha, a single mother of four children, lets Claudia move into her home. As Claudia bonds with the family, Martha's health slowly deteriorates.
Director: Claudia Sainte-Luce | Stars: Lisa Owen, Ximena Ayala, Sonia Franco, Wendy Guillén
Votes: 2,086 | Gross: $0.01M
14. Enamorada (1946)
PG | 99 min | Drama, Romance, War
During the Mexican Revolution, a macho rebel general falls in love with the independent-minded daughter of an aristocrat in the town he is occupying.
Director: Emilio Fernández | Stars: María Félix, Pedro Armendáriz, Fernando Fernández, José Morcillo
Votes: 941
15. Viridiana (1961)
Not Rated | 91 min | Drama
Viridiana, a young nun about to take her final vows, pays a visit to her widowed uncle at the request of her Mother Superior.
Director: Luis Buñuel | Stars: Silvia Pinal, Francisco Rabal, Fernando Rey, José Calvo
Votes: 26,123
16. 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: 33,117 | Gross: $0.62M
17. Días de otoño (1963)
95 min | Drama
A psychological melodrama about a lonely country woman who embarks on a marriage with a city chauffeur which is doomed to fail, this vehicle for an actress who would commit suicide later ... See full summary »
Director: Roberto Gavaldón | Stars: Pina Pellicer, Ignacio López Tarso, Adriana Roel, Luis Lomelí
Votes: 301
18. 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: 3,357
19. Carmín Tropical (2014)
TV-MA | 80 min | Drama, Mystery
Mabel, a muxe, returns home to her village in Oaxaca, Mexico to find her friend's killer.
Director: Rigoberto Pérezcano | Stars: José Pescina, Luis Alberti, Everardo Trejo, Juan Carlos Medellin
Votes: 303
20. The Passion of Berenice (1976)
107 min | Drama
When a man appears in her life, a young woman of traditional manners who lives with her godmother suffers a deep and unusual transformation.
Director: Jaime Humberto Hermosillo | Stars: Pedro Armendáriz Jr., Martha Navarro, Emma Roldán, Blanca Torres
Votes: 325
21. You're Missing the Point (1940)
Not Rated | 112 min | Comedy
The boyfriend (Cantinflas) of the servant of a rich industrial man, gets into the house in order to kill a mad dog. Suddenly this man appears so the servant tells him that Cantinflas is his... See full summary »
Director: Juan Bustillo Oro | Stars: Cantinflas, Joaquín Pardavé, Sara García, Sofía Álvarez
Votes: 1,508
22. My Son, the Hero (1961)
95 min | Adventure, Drama, Western
Reynaldo and Martín Del Hierro are witnesses of the murder of their father by Pascual Velazco, as they grow up they're poisoned by the desire of vengeance by their mother, but once they get it it'll change their lifes forever.
Director: Ismael Rodríguez | Stars: Antonio Aguilar, Julio Alemán, Columba Domínguez, Patricia Conde
Votes: 347
23. 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: 702,823 | Gross: $37.63M
24. The Castle of Purity (1973)
Not Rated | 110 min | Drama
The story of a disciplined and sexually driven man who keeps his family isolated in his home for years to protect them from the "evil nature" of human beings while inventing (with his wife)... See full summary »
Director: Arturo Ripstein | Stars: Claudio Brook, Rita Macedo, Arturo Beristáin, Diana Bracho
Votes: 2,382
25. I Dream in Another Language (2017)
Unrated | 103 min | Drama, Romance
When a language dies, a unique vision of the world is lost forever.
Director: Ernesto Contreras | Stars: Fernando Álvarez Rebeil, José Manuel Poncelis, Eligio Meléndez, Fátima Molina
Votes: 4,053 | Gross: $0.00M
26. The Good Girls (2018)
TV-MA | 93 min | Drama
A well-to-do socialite and her husband must wrestle with the impact of Mexico's 1982 economic crisis.
Director: Alejandra Márquez Abella | Stars: Ilse Salas, Flavio Medina, Cassandra Ciangherotti, Paulina Gaitan
Votes: 2,044
27. Skeleton of Mrs. Morales (1960)
85 min | Comedy, Crime, Horror
A taxidermist decides to murder his wife after having to put up with her after fifteen years of hellish marriage.
Director: Rogelio A. González | Stars: Arturo de Córdova, Amparo Rivelles, Elda Peralta, Guillermo Orea
Votes: 2,105
28. Escuela de vagabundos (1955)
99 min | Comedy, Drama
Alberto Medina is a very famous composer and is on a field trip when his car runs out of gas and goes downhill. While looking for help, he finds the Valverdes' house and is welcome by ... See full summary »
Director: Rogelio A. González | Stars: Pedro Infante, Miroslava, Blanca de Castejón, Óscar Pulido
Votes: 755
29. 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
30. Nazarin (1959)
Not Rated | 94 min | Drama
A priest in a poor community lives a charitable life in accordance with his religious principles, but many others do not return the favor.
Director: Luis Buñuel | Stars: Francisco Rabal, Marga López, Rita Macedo, Ignacio López Tarso
Votes: 6,451
31. The King of the Neighborhood (1950)
100 min | Comedy, Crime, Romance
A small-time con artist gets more for what he bargained for when one of his would-be victims falls in love with him.
Director: Gilberto Martínez Solares | Stars: Germán Valdés, Silvia Pinal, Marcelo Chávez, Famie Kaufman
Votes: 541
32. Pueblerina (1949)
105 min | Drama, Romance
Aurelio Rodríguez is released from jail, and tries to start a new life marrying Paloma and working his land. But the local landowners, the brothers González, interfere with his plans.
Director: Emilio Fernández | Stars: Columba Domínguez, Roberto Cañedo, Arturo Soto Rangel, Manuel Dondé
Votes: 282
33. Duck Season (2004)
R | 90 min | Comedy, Drama
Flama and Moko are fourteen years old; they have been best friends since they were kids. They have everything they need to survive yet another boring Sunday: an apartment without parents, ... See full summary »
Director: Fernando Eimbcke | Stars: Diego Cataño, Daniel Miranda, Enrique Arreola, Danny Perea
Votes: 4,614 | Gross: $0.15M
34. El (1953)
Approved | 82 min | Drama, Romance
A husband's suave exterior unravels after his marriage, and he unleashes his paranoid and volatile temper on his wife, which escalates to more dangerous and unpredictable tantrums.
Director: Luis Buñuel | Stars: Arturo de Córdova, Delia Garcés, Aurora Walker, Carlos Martínez Baena
Votes: 6,569
35. 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
36. Matinée (1977)
96 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
Two young schoolboys in a Mexican town cut class to go to a matinee. The boys get involved with a gang of thieves and get caught up in the fun, but once the gang leaves, loyalties shift, leaving the two boys in conflicting positions.
Director: Jaime Humberto Hermosillo | Stars: Héctor Bonilla, Manuel Ojeda, Rodolfo Chávez Martínez, Armando Martín
Votes: 216
37. Godfather Mendoza (1934)
85 min | Drama, War
During Mexican Revolution, Rosalio Mendoza (Del Diestro) survives by making and winning favors from both factions, the governmental forces and Zapata's Army. His hacienda welcomes everybody... See full summary »
Directors: Juan Bustillo Oro, Fernando de Fuentes | Stars: Alfredo del Diestro, Carmen Guerrero, Antonio R. Frausto, Luis G. Barreiro
Votes: 608
38. La diosa arrodillada (1947)
PG | 107 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A artist model who leads the ever hapless Arturo de Córdova away from the arms of his innocent, blue-eyed wife and down, down, down into the ecstatic depths of degradation which include a stop at seedy Panamanian nightclub.
Director: Roberto Gavaldón | Stars: María Félix, Arturo de Córdova, Rosario Granados, Fortunio Bonanova
Votes: 360
39. The Chambermaid (2018)
TV-MA | 102 min | Drama
A look at the working environment of a chambermaid in one of Mexico City's most luxurious hotels.
Director: Lila Avilés | Stars: Gabriela Cartol, Agustina Quinci, Teresa Sánchez, Alán Uribe
Votes: 2,077 | Gross: $0.08M
40. Another Dawn (1943)
108 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
The disaffected wife of a failed civil servant, is thrilled to re-encounter Octavio, a former lover who is now a union activist on the run from a corrupt politician. Hoping to help him, she... See full summary »
Director: Julio Bracho | Stars: Andrea Palma, Pedro Armendáriz, Alberto Galán, Narciso Busquets
Votes: 339
41. El grito (1968)
120 min | Documentary
A documentary on the student movement in Mexico, 1968, made by film students
Director: Leobardo López Aretche | Stars: Rolando de Castro, Magda Vizcaíno
Votes: 162
42. 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
43. Campeón sin corona (1946)
111 min | Action, Drama, Sport
"Champion without a crown". Quick rise and fall of a boxer filled with talent and psychological complexes.
Director: Alejandro Galindo | Stars: David Silva, Amanda del Llano, Carlos López Moctezuma, Fernando Soto
Votes: 159
44. La mancha de sangre (1937)
70 min | Crime, Drama
A dancer and prostitute in Mexico City is unsaddled by guilt about her raunchy life and even tries to find happiness.
Director: Adolfo Best-Maugard | Stars: Estela Inda, José Casal, Heriberto G. Batemberg, Manuel Dondé
Votes: 78
45. 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
46. Calabacitas tiernas (1949)
101 min | Comedy, Musical
Tin Tan plays a broke man who is trying to put on a musical to pay his debts.
Director: Gilberto Martínez Solares | Stars: Germán Valdés, Rosita Quintana, Nelly Montiel, Jorge Reyes
Votes: 311
47. The Untamed (2016)
Not Rated | 98 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A couple in a troubled marriage locate a meteorite, initiating an encounter with a mysterious creature. Their lives are turned upside down by the discovery of the creature, which is a source of both pleasure and destruction.
Director: Amat Escalante | Stars: Ruth Ramos, Simone Bucio, Jesús Meza, Eden Villavicencio
Votes: 6,609 | Gross: $0.03M
48. 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: 4,034 | Gross: $0.01M
49. Poison for the Fairies (1986)
90 min | Fantasy, Horror
A 10 year old girl convinces a lonely classmate that she is a witch, forcing the child to become her assistant. Though their games are initially rather naive, they gradually take a nasty and violent turn.
Director: Carlos Enrique Taboada | Stars: Ana Patricia Rojo, Elsa María Gutiérrez, Leonor Llausás, Carmen Stein
Votes: 2,551
50. Águila o sol (1938)
78 min | Comedy, Musical, Drama
When three orphans that were raised together and love like brothers knows about plans to be separated and work outside, they escape and live in the street. They sell lottery and newspapers. When older, they became artists.
Director: Arcady Boytler | Stars: Cantinflas, Manuel Medel, Margarita Mora, Marina Tamayo
Votes: 190
51. 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: 7,078
52. 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
53. Rosauro Castro (1950)
TV-PG | 90 min | Drama
García Mata, civil servant, arrives to the village to investigate Cardoza's murder, a candidate to the local presidency, enemy of "cacique" Rosauro Castro.
Director: Roberto Gavaldón | Stars: Pedro Armendáriz, Carlos López Moctezuma, María Douglas, Carlos Navarro
Votes: 118
54. Santa Sangre (1989)
NC-17 | 123 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
A former circus artist escapes from a mental hospital to rejoin his armless mother - the leader of a strange religious cult - and is forced to enact brutal murders in her name as he becomes "her arms".
Director: Alejandro Jodorowsky | Stars: Axel Jodorowsky, Blanca Guerra, Guy Stockwell, Thelma Tixou
Votes: 23,318
55. Redes (1936)
Not Rated | 65 min | Drama
A story of burgeoning labor rights amongst poor fishermen in a small village in Mexico.
Directors: Emilio Gómez Muriel, Fred Zinnemann | Stars: Silvio Hernández, David Valle González, Rafael Hinojosa, Antonio Lara
Votes: 847
56. The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz (1955)
Not Rated | 89 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
The delirious journey of a mentally disordered man, who is obsessed with committing the perfect crime.
Director: Luis Buñuel | Stars: Ernesto Alonso, Miroslava, Rita Macedo, Ariadne Welter
Votes: 5,888
57. The Grey Automobile (1919)
223 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
A gang terrorize Mexico City's high society in 1915. Murder, kidnapping and robbery are their trademarks. One police inspector (Cabrera) follows the gang's crimes and eventually sends them to jail.
Director: Enrique Rosas | Stars: Joaquín Coss, Juan de Homs, Manuel de los Ríos, María Teresa Montoya
Votes: 235
58. 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: 581
59. Tigers Are Not Afraid (2017)
Not Rated | 83 min | Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
A dark fairy tale about a gang of five children trying to survive the horrific violence of the cartels and the ghosts created every day by the drug war.
Director: Issa López | Stars: Paola Lara, Juan Ramón López, Nery Arredondo, Hanssel Casillas
Votes: 9,039 | Gross: $0.13M
60. The Pearl (1947)
Approved | 85 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
The discovery of a perfect pearl forever changes the lives of a poor Mexican fisherman and his family.
Director: Emilio Fernández | Stars: Pedro Armendáriz, María Elena Marqués, Fernando Wagner, Gilberto González
Votes: 1,116
61. Victims of Sin (1951)
Not Rated | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Musical
In México City, a Cuban dancer from "Cabaret Changó" rescues a baby from a garbage can and decides to raise him, but her pachuco pimp gets in her way.
Director: Emilio Fernández | Stars: Ninón Sevilla, Tito Junco, Rodolfo Acosta, Rita Montaner
Votes: 378
62. 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
63. Doña Bárbara (1943)
125 min | Drama, Western
A young lawyer and owner of a great property in the interior of Venezuela tries to recover its control in the name of the law, fighting against his neighbour, a powerful, seductive and ... See full summary »
Directors: Fernando de Fuentes, Miguel M. Delgado | Stars: María Félix, Julián Soler, María Elena Marqués, Andrés Soler
Votes: 381
64. Life Sentence (1979)
95 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A former felon is blackmailed by a corrupt policeman and forced to commit a crime.
Director: Arturo Ripstein | Stars: Pedro Armendáriz Jr., Narciso Busquets, Ernesto Gómez Cruz, Angélica Chain
Votes: 523
65. Let's Go with Pancho Villa (1936)
PG-13 | 92 min | Drama, War
The Mexican Revolution is on its way when six brave peasants, known as "Los Leones de San Pablo", decide to join Pancho Villa's army and help end the suffering in their community by ... See full summary »
Director: Fernando de Fuentes | Stars: Antonio R. Frausto, Domingo Soler, Manuel Tamés, Ramón Vallarino
Votes: 816
66. Two Monks (1934)
Not Rated | 79 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
When the Monk Javier acts violently in a gothic monastery, the Prior asks the Monk Juan to calm him down since he believes that Javier is possessed by demons. When Juan comes to Javier's ... See full summary »
Director: Juan Bustillo Oro | Stars: Víctor Urruchúa, Carlos Villatoro, Magda Haller, Beltrán de Heredia
Votes: 713
67. Apocalypse 1900 (1965)
23 min | Documentary, Short
In Louis Hubert Farabeuf (1841-1910), a French surgeon that among other text wrote "Précis de manual opératoire". In this book Salvador Elizondo (1932-2006) imagines the understanding of ... See full summary »
Director: Salvador Elizondo
Votes: 22
68. The Important Man (1961)
Not Rated | 100 min | Drama
Animas Trujano is a colorful but irresponsible Indian in a small Mexican village. He hopes above all things someday to be chosen mayordomio of his village, a place of great honor usually ... See full summary »
Director: Ismael Rodríguez | Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Columba Domínguez, Flor Silvestre, Pepe Romay
Votes: 730
69. 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
70. We Are What We Are (2010)
Not Rated | 90 min | Drama, Horror
When the patriarch of the family passes away, the teenage children must take responsibility for the family chores: the preparation of the rituals, the hunting and putting the all-important ... See full summary »
Director: Jorge Michel Grau | Stars: Francisco Barreiro, Paulina Gaitan, Alan Chávez, Carmen Beato
Votes: 5,090
71. La otra (1946)
98 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Dolores Del Rio plays a dual role as identical twins - one good and one bad.
Director: Roberto Gavaldón | Stars: Dolores Del Río, Agustín Irusta, Víctor Junco, José Baviera
Votes: 534
72. The Beginning and the End (1993)
188 min | Drama
The film tells the story of the Boteros, a middle-class Mexican family struggling against poverty after their father's death. Ignacia (Egurrola) is the Boteros mother, a desperate woman who... See full summary »
Director: Arturo Ripstein | Stars: Ernesto Laguardia, Julieta Egurrola, Blanca Guerra, Verónica Merchant
Votes: 460
73. Cascabel (1977)
105 min | Drama
A young filmmaker travels to Chiapas to film natives of Lacandona Jungle. In spite of being financed by the censorious Mexican Government, he expects that some of the truth about the living conditions of poor native people come to surface.
Director: Raúl Araiza | Stars: Ernesto Gómez Cruz, Raúl Ramírez, Aarón Hernán, Héctor Gómez
Votes: 85
74. 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: 18,840 | Gross: $21.67M
75. Santa (1932)
81 min | Drama
Woman turns to prostitution after her beloved soldier leaves her.
Director: Antonio Moreno | Stars: Lupita Tovar, Carlos Orellana, Juan José Martínez Casado, Donald Reed
Votes: 253
76. Club Sandwich (2013)
R | 82 min | Comedy
Hector and his young mother Paloma go on vacation. Out of season their hotel is deserted. They spend their days sitting on the edge of the swimming pool. Then attractive Jazmin arrives and we see how Paloma loses her son to a summer fling.
Director: Fernando Eimbcke | Stars: María Renée Prudencio, Lucio Giménez Cacho, Danae Reynaud, Carolina Politi
Votes: 986
77. The Last Call (2013)
92 min | Comedy, Drama
The story of a turbulent theatrical production, a Mexican company rehearse Albert Camus Caligula for an International Festival.
Director: Francisco Franco Alba | Stars: Martín Altomaro, Irineo Alvarez, Moisés Arizmendi, Irene Azuela
Votes: 352
78. 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
79. 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: 2,034
80. Deep Crimson (1996)
114 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
The life of a man who preys on unsuspecting women for a living is changed when he finds an accomplice in the woman who loves and controls him.
Director: Arturo Ripstein | Stars: Regina Orozco, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Sherlyn, Giovani Florido
Votes: 2,076
81. Dos tipos de cuidado (1953)
TV-PG | 111 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Two best friends clash when one marries the girlfriend of the other.
Director: Ismael Rodríguez | Stars: Jorge Negrete, Pedro Infante, Carmelita González, Yolanda Varela
Votes: 982
82. Salón México (1949)
95 min | Crime, Drama
Mercedes (Marga Lopez) dances for money with the clients of Salon Mexico, a famous cabaret in Mexico City. Her younger sister Beatriz (Derbez) studies in an expensive private school, paid ... See full summary »
Director: Emilio Fernández | Stars: Marga López, Miguel Inclán, Rodolfo Acosta, Roberto Cañedo
Votes: 619
83. Mecánica nacional (1971)
TV-PG | 105 min | Comedy, Drama
A mechanic takes his family to a car race and a series of events occur which brings problems, betrayals, violence and the unexpected death of an elderly person.
Director: Luis Alcoriza | Stars: Manolo Fábregas, Lucha Villa, Héctor Suárez, Sara García
Votes: 413
84. I'm No Longer Here (2019)
TV-MA | 112 min | Drama
In Monterrey, Mexico, a young street gang spends their days dancing to slowed-down cumbia and attending parties. After a mix-up with a local cartel, their leader is forced to migrate to the U.S. but quickly longs to return home.
Director: Fernando Frias | Stars: Juan Daniel García Treviño, Emily May Jampel, Xueming Angelina Chen, Leonardo Ávila
Votes: 9,409
85. Night Falls (1952)
85 min | Crime, Drama, Sport
Marcos is an arrogant jai-alai player who seduces and discards women until he himself becomes the object of a cunning revenge.
Director: Roberto Gavaldón | Stars: Pedro Armendáriz, Anita Blanch, Rebeca Iturbide, Eva Martino
Votes: 283
86. El ceniciento (1952)
95 min | Comedy
New in the city, Tin Tan's distant relatives abuse his good nature and have him work for them as a servant, until his godfather intervenes. A comic take on Cinderella.
Director: Gilberto Martínez Solares | Stars: Germán Valdés, Alicia Caro, Andrés Soler, Marcelo Chávez
Votes: 174
87. Rosenda (1948)
98 min | Drama, Romance, War
In this love triangle set amid a revolution, a peasant woman ,abandoned by her roughhewn man, finds comfort with a local store owner, until her former lover returns as the head of an army of bandits.
Director: Julio Bracho | Stars: Fernando Soler, Rita Macedo, Nicolás Rodríguez, Rodolfo Acosta
Votes: 68
88. Abel (2010)
Not Rated | 82 min | Comedy, Drama
About a peculiar young boy who, as he blurs reality and fantasy, takes over the responsibilities of a family man in his father's absence.
Director: Diego Luna | Stars: Christopher Ruíz-Esparza, Karina Gidi, José María Yazpik, Carlos Aragón
Votes: 1,515
89. 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
90. The Golden Dream (2013)
Not Rated | 108 min | Drama
A road movie about teenage immigrants and their journey to the U.S.
Director: Diego Quemada-Diez | Stars: Brandon López, Rodolfo Domínguez, Karen Martínez, Carlos Chajon
Votes: 5,131
91. El apando (1976)
83 min | Drama
In Mexico city, the most infamous jail "Lecumberri" three prisoners make a plan to introduce drugs.
Director: Felipe Cazals | Stars: Salvador Sánchez, José Carlos Ruiz, Manuel Ojeda, Delia Casanova
Votes: 330
92. La puerta y la mujer del carnicero (1969)
87 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A movie divided in two segments, the first "la Puerta" (the Door) is about a high society gathering in which a door inside the mansion leads to a bizarre corridor where a menacing human ... See full summary »
Directors: Luis Alcoriza, Ismael Rodríguez, Chano Urueta | Stars: Ana Luisa Peluffo, Carlos Piñar, Armando Silvestre, Beatriz Baz
Votes: 137
93. Titixe (2018)
63 min | Documentary
A mourning tree, dancing sprouts, the language of clouds, ghosts, stories and seeds. This is an intimate mosaic of the last harvest of a Mexican family, before their small plot of land falls into abandonment.
Director: Tania Hernandez Velasco | Stars: Abel Velasco Calixto, Yolanda Velasco Juárez, Abel Velasco Orea, Valentín Velasco Orea
Votes: 50
94. Mariana, Mariana (1987)
110 min | Drama, Romance
In 1940s Mexico City, schoolboy Carlos falls in love with his best friend's mother, Mariana. Carlos is impressed because this family is not like the typical Mexican families of the time ... See full summary »
Director: Alberto Isaac | Stars: Pedro Armendáriz Jr., Elizabeth Aguilar, Isabel Andrade, Juan Carlos Andrews
Votes: 395
95. Violet Perfume: Nobody Hears You (2001)
PG-13 | 90 min | Drama
The history of friendship of two females teenagers and how it's cracked up by misinformation about sexual education and violence against women.
Director: Marisa Sistach | Stars: Ximena Ayala, Nancy Gutiérrez, Arcelia Ramírez, María Rojo
Votes: 1,652
96. The Woman of the Port (1934)
76 min | Drama
Rosario (Palma) becomes a prostitute after losing her father and discovering her boyfriend had a liaison with another woman. In Veracruz, Rosario lives above a sordid cabaret "selling her ... See full summary »
Directors: Arcady Boytler, Raphael J. Sevilla | Stars: Andrea Palma, Domingo Soler, Francisco Zárraga, Joaquín Busquets
Votes: 428
97. 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: 639
98. 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: 6,837 | Gross: $0.05M
99. Nocaut (1984)
109 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Director: José Luis García Agraz | Stars: Gonzalo Vega, Blanca Guerra, Wolf Ruvinskis, Guillermo Orea
Votes: 71
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