Vision 2020 // Documentales Mexicanos Siglo XXI (I)
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1. 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
2. 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
3. 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: 2,712 | Gross: $0.06M
4. 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
5. 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
6. Niños de la calle (2004)
82 min | Documentary
Niños de la Calle examines the gritty reality of four children living on the streets of Mexico City. Filmed in 2001, this dramatic and moving documentary follows Marcos, Erika, Antonio and ... See full summary »
Director: Eva Aridjis Fuentes | Stars: Marco Antonio Diaz Soria Garcia, Erika Cuna Penaloza, Juan Carlos Alcala Torres Martin, Antonio Álvarez
Votes: 30
7. 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: 278
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. 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
11. 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
12. Bajo Juárez: La ciudad devorando a sus hijas (2006)
96 min | Documentary
In an industrial town in Mexico near the US border, hundreds of women have been sexually abused and murdered. As the body count continues to rise, a web of corruption unfolds that reaches the highest levels of Mexican society.
Directors: José Antonio Cordero, Alejandra Sánchez Orozco, Alejandra Sánchez
Votes: 86
13. My Life Inside (2007)
120 min | Documentary
Teenage immigrant, Rosa Jimenez, is accused of committing murder in a Texas.
Director: Lucía Gajá
Votes: 123
14. Maquilapolis (2006)
60 min | Documentary
Just over the border in Mexico is an area peppered with maquiladoras: massive sweatshops often owned by the world's largest multinational corporations. Carmen and Lourdes work at maquiladoras in Tijuana, and it is there that they try to balance the struggle for survival with their own radicalization in this documentary.
Directors: Sergio de la Torre, Vicky Funari
Votes: 103
15. Those Who Remain (2008)
96 min | Documentary
An intimate and discerning depiction of the impact of migration on families and villages left behind by loved ones who have traveled North for work.
Directors: Carlos Hagerman, Juan Carlos Rulfo | Stars: Julio Cesar Castillo, Luis Castillo, Maricela Dzul, Adrian Esparza
Votes: 97
16. Trazando Aleida (2008)
Not Rated | 88 min | Documentary
During the 1970s, Mexico engaged in a "dirty war" against left-wing dissidents and suspected "subversives," resulting in the arrest and "disappearance" of hundreds of its own citizens.
Director: Christiane Burkhard
Votes: 22
17. 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
18. Bajo Juárez: La ciudad devorando a sus hijas (2006)
96 min | Documentary
In an industrial town in Mexico near the US border, hundreds of women have been sexually abused and murdered. As the body count continues to rise, a web of corruption unfolds that reaches the highest levels of Mexican society.
Directors: José Antonio Cordero, Alejandra Sánchez Orozco, Alejandra Sánchez
Votes: 86
19. 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
20. Fraude: México 2006 (2007)
110 min | Documentary
Documentary on the 2006 Mexican presidential elections.
Director: Luis Mandoki | Stars: Felipe Calderón Hinojosa, Guillermina Campuzano, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, Yeidckol Polevnsky
Votes: 380 | Gross: $0.00M
21. Los demonios del Edén (2007)
70 min | Documentary
The mexican journalist Lydia Cacho exposes a child prostitution network directed by a powerful entrepreneur, Kamel Nacif, who is supported by a deeply corrupted government system in the state of Puebla, including governor Mario Marin.
Director: Alejandra Islas | Star: Lydia Cacho
Votes: 16
22. Otaola o la república del exilio (2001)
Director: Raúl Busteros | Stars: Mario Iván Martínez, Eugenio Álvarez, Héctor Ortega, Roger Nevares
Votes: 9
23. Aro Tolbukhin - En la mente del asesino (2002)
95 min | Drama
Aro Tolbukhin is a hungarian inmigrant that sets fire to seven people in an infirmary in a Mission in Guatemala, the movie traces back to see what made him do it, from his arrival in Guatemala to his childhood in Hungary.
Directors: Isaac-Pierre Racine, Agustí Villaronga, Lydia Zimmermann | Stars: Daniel Giménez Cacho, Carmen Beato, Zóltán Józan, Mariona Castillo
Votes: 491
24. The Passion of María Elena (2003)
76 min | Documentary
A tribal woman from Mexico's Tarahumara Mountains seeks justice for the death of her son who is tragically killed by a car driven by a white woman.
Director: Mercedes Moncada Rodríguez
Votes: 47
25. Un retrato de Diego (2007)
80 min | Documentary, Biography
Documentary film about Diego Rivera produced by his grandson, director Diego Rivera Lopez and released to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Rivera's death. Rivera Lopez says, "In the 50 ... See full synopsis »
Directors: Gabriel Figueroa Flores, Diego López Rivera | Stars: Dolores Del Río, Gabriel Figueroa, Carlos Monsivåis, Guadalupe Rivera Marín
Votes: 30
26. 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
27. 9 meses, 9 días (2009)
Not Rated | 95 min | Documentary
August 9 2006. Three Mexican fishermen are found near the Marshall Islands, more than 5,000 miles away from home, after 9 months and 9 days adrift. They declared, "We survived by eating raw... See full summary »
Director: Ozcar Ramírez González
Votes: 11
28. Compaz de arena (2007)
80 min | Documentary
A Crew of Mexican filmmakers decide to cross the world to go in search of a nomad who would guide them in the sea of sand, to find the cave of the djina (a devil) but on the way they find ... See full synopsis »
Director: Natalia Armienta | Star: Belga Mohamed Brahim
Votes: 11
29. Los últimos zapatistas, héroes olvidados (2002)
70 min | Documentary
In the year 2000 the Mexican film director, Francesco Taboada Tabone, began his search for the last of the soldiers to have fought beside General Emiliano Zapata in the 1910 Revolution.
Director: Francesco Taboada Tabone | Stars: Marcelino Anrubio, Audiaz Anzures, Manuel Corona, Matías Cruz Corridista
Votes: 74
31. No tuvo tiempo, la hurbanistoria de Rockdrigo (2004)
84 min | Documentary
Director: Rafael Montero | Star: Rodrigo Gonzalez
Votes: 12
32. Recuerdos (II) (2003)
86 min | Documentary
Director: Marcela Arteaga | Stars: Genoveva Arteaga, José Borrás, Roberto de Hacha, Antonia Fontanillas
Votes: 17
33. Calentamiento local (2008)
52 min | Documentary
Director: Fernando Frias | Stars: Oscar Moncada, Edwin Morales, Efren Rosete
Votes: 9
34. 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
35. Flores en el desierto (2009)
71 min | Documentary, Drama
A documentary the Wixarika culture (or Huichol) originates from the Mexican states of Jalisco, Nayarit, and Durango where more than 50,000 Huicholes currently live and practice their indigenous traditions.
Directors: José Àlvarez, José Álvarez
Votes: 34
36. Rehje (2009)
67 min | Documentary
Longing to escape the pressure and turmoil of Mexico City, a native Mazahua woman returns to her hometown only to find that things are not as idyllic as she remembered.
Directors: Raúl Cuesta, Anais Huerta
Votes: 13
37. Ni muy, muy... ni tan, tan... simplemente Tin Tan (2005)
90 min | Documentary
Biography of the "first Mexican of the 21st century", actor, singer and dancer Tin Tan, considered the best comedian of Mexican cinema by colleagues and specialists, and an innovator and ... See full summary »
Director: Manuel Marquez | Stars: Alfonso Arau, Alfonso Arnold, Rafael Avina, Jorge Ayala Blanco
Votes: 39
38. The Toledo Report (2009)
87 min | Documentary
A series of 15 prints inspired by "A Report for an Academy" by Franz Kafka, provokes this look at the life of the artist and social activist Francisco Toledo.
Director: Albino Alvarez | Stars: Dawn Ades, Germaine Gomez Haro, Francisco Toledo
Votes: 40
39. ¿Quién es el Señor López? (2006– )
Documentary
Documentary following Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador's 2006 Mexican presidential campaign. After a narrow defeat, he challenged the results before electoral courts, rallying supporters for potential long protests.
Stars: Andrés Manuel López Obrador, Felipe Calderón Hinojosa
Votes: 64
41. Gabriel Orozco (2002)
80 min | Documentary
Director: Juan Carlos Martín | Star: Gabriel Orozco
Votes: 44
42. Flores para el soldado (2008)
80 min | Documentary, Biography, War
His adoptive family know he has remained a mystery for over fifty years. Join us in the exciting journey of unveiling Edmond William Quear Jr.'s remarkable life.
Directors: Francisco Javier Garza, Daniel Galo, Iván García | Star: Joe Cappelletti
44. J.C. Chávez (2007)
78 min | Documentary, Biography, Sport
A documentary about the life and career Mexican boxer Julio César Chávez.
Director: Diego Luna | Stars: Bob Arum, Julio Cesar Chavez, Julio César Chávez Jr., Oscar De La Hoya
Votes: 968
45. El milagro del Papa (2009)
75 min | Documentary, Mystery
In 1990Pope John Paul II blessed a Mexican child evicted from Leukemia .The child Healed and many people viewed it is a living miracle .Now he is a man He is not a saint it is the story
Directors: Jose Luis Valle, Pepé Valle | Star: Heron Badillo Mireles
Votes: 32
46. La santa muerte (III) (2007)
84 min | Documentary
In Mexico there is a cult that is rapidly growing- the cult of Saint Death. This female grim reaper, considered a saint by followers but Satanic by the Catholic Church, is worshiped by ... See full summary »
Director: Eva Aridjis Fuentes | Stars: Jesus Padilla Alonso, Gael García Bernal, Jesse Ortiz Piña, Enriqueta Romero Romero
Votes: 58
47. Un día menos (2009)
76 min | Documentary
As the holiday festivities draw to an end, Don Eme and Dona Carmen's visiting grown children kiss them goodbye and the old couple, now well into their '90s, start counting down the days ... See full summary »
Director: Dariela Ludlow Deloya
Votes: 24
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