Mexican shortlist
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1. 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: 252,991 | Gross: $5.38M
2. 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: 128,910 | Gross: $13.62M
3. 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: 169,852
4. 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: 1,659
5. Amar te duele (2002)
R | 104 min | Drama, Romance
Renata is a young high-class girl and Ulises is a poor guy. They both fall in love, but they must fight against everyone, specially Renata's rich parents, who want to stop their love by ... See full summary »
Director: Fernando Sariñana | Stars: Luis Fernando Peña, Martha Higareda, Ximena Sariñana, Karla Alvarado
Votes: 3,589
6. 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: 5,764 | Gross: $0.13M
7. Sexo, pudor y lágrimas (1999)
R | 109 min | Comedy, Drama
Six friends... two couples... from the mexican middle well-off class, dealing with issues about sex, relationships, infidelity and many others.
Director: Antonio Serrano | Stars: Demián Bichir, Susana Zabaleta, Víctor Huggo Martin, Cecilia Suárez
Votes: 3,100
8. 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: 7,085
9. Hell (2010)
NC-17 | 149 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
After being deported back to Mexico, a man has no choice but to join the vicious drug cartel that has corrupted his hometown in order to survive.
Director: Luis Estrada | Stars: Damián Alcázar, Joaquín Cosio, Ernesto Gómez Cruz, María Rojo
Votes: 12,102
10. El mil usos (1983)
113 min | Comedy, Drama
The tragic adventures of a illiterate man named "Milusos" who leaves his family & hometown to go to the big city and try to better his luck. And finds he's unprepared for what he encounters.
Director: Roberto G. Rivera | Stars: Héctor Suárez, Rafael Inclán, Roberto Cañedo, Isabela Corona
Votes: 144
11. 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: 1,871
12. 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: 18,848 | Gross: $21.67M
13. Tear This Heart Out (2008)
R | 107 min | Drama
Set in 1930's in Puebla, Mexico, a young woman finds herself in an arranged marriage to a prominent politician (Andres Ascencio). As his career progresses, she finds it more difficult to remain a loyal, loving wife.
Director: Roberto Sneider | Stars: Ana Claudia Talancón, Daniel Giménez Cacho, José María de Tavira, Joaquín Cosio
Votes: 2,535
14. 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: 2,089 | Gross: $0.01M
15. Innocent Voices (2004)
R | 120 min | Drama, Thriller, War
A young boy, in an effort to have a normal childhood in 1980's El Salvador, is caught up in a dramatic fight for his life as he desperately tries to avoid the war which is raging all around him.
Director: Luis Mandoki | Stars: Carlos Padilla, Leonor Varela, Xuna Primus, Gustavo Muñoz
Votes: 8,195 | Gross: $0.84M
16. Nora's Will (2008)
92 min | Comedy, Drama
This story begins when José finds out that Nora, the woman he'd been married to for 30 years and then divorced, has committed suicide. The rabbi explains to José that due to the celebration... See full summary »
Director: Mariana Chenillo | Stars: Fernando Luján, Enrique Arreola, Ari Brickman, Juan Carlos Colombo
Votes: 1,153
17. 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
18. 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: 957
19. 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: 5,108
20. 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
21. 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
22. De la calle (2001)
84 min | Drama
Authentic and committed, moving and stormy drama of street kids from Mexico City. Wonderful adaptation of successful play about street kids who have more trouble with corrupt cops, than with dirty and heavy work.
Director: Gerardo Tort | Stars: Luis Fernando Peña, Maya Zapata, Armando Hernández, Mario Zaragoza
Votes: 553
23. 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: 9,052 | Gross: $0.13M
24. 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: 4,057 | Gross: $0.00M
25. 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
26. 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
27. Chavela (2017)
Unrated | 93 min | Documentary, Biography, History
The life of pioneering singer Chavela Vargas, from her birth in Costa Rica in 1919 to her death in Mexico in 2012.
Directors: Catherine Gund, Daresha Kyi | Stars: Eugenia León, Jesusa Rodríguez, Tania Libertad, Marcela Rodríguez
Votes: 1,165 | Gross: $0.15M
28. Chicuarotes (2019)
TV-14 | 95 min | Crime, Drama
A group of teenagers in Mexico City set out to enrich their lives.
Director: Gael García Bernal | Stars: Benny Emmanuel, Leidi Gutiérrez, Gabriel Carbajal, Daniel Giménez Cacho
Votes: 3,367
29. 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
30. 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: 9,417
31. 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: 4,341
32. 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: 22,011
33. Rudo y Cursi (2008)
R | 103 min | Comedy, Drama, Sport
Two siblings are rivals in the world of professional soccer.
Director: Carlos Cuarón | Stars: Gael García Bernal, Diego Luna, Guillermo Francella, Dolores Heredia
Votes: 9,324 | Gross: $1.83M
34. 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: 3,363
35. 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
36. 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: 1,647
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