Top 80 movies about Mexican history.
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- DirectorAntonio SerranoStarsAna de la RegueraDemián BichirLuis Gerardo MéndezFrom his jail cell at Chihuahua's Military Hospital, Hidalgo begins to remember moments of his life, particularly his tenure as Parish Priest in the town of San Felipe Torres Mochas where he translated and produced the stage play "Tartuffe" by Moliere. During this time he fell in love with Josefa Quintana with whom he had three children and for whom he left the priesthood during a brief period in his life.
- DirectorAntonio SerranoStarsDagoberto GamaRaúl MéndezJuan Ignacio ArandaLa película retrata los últimos años de la vida de José María Morelos y Pavón (1812-1815), héroe mexicano quien tras burlar el cerco de sus enemigos, toma una de las ciudades más importantes de México. Sin embargo, teniendo más de la mitad del territorio mexicano en sus manos, Morelos cae en una contradicción y se empeña en tomar el puerto de Acapulco mientras las tropas realistas se reorganizan, se fortalecen y poco a poco van recuperando terreno. The movie portraits the last years in the life of José María Morelos y Pavón (1812-1815), Mexican heroe, who after escaping the siege of his enemies takes one of the most important cities of Mexico. However, having more than half of the Mexican territory in his hands, he insists on taking over the Acapulcos harbor while the royal troops rearrange themselves, grow stronger and slowly gain get territory back.
- DirectorRafa LaraStarsChristian VazquezAngélica AragónLiz GallardoOn May 5th, 1862, a few thousand Mexican soldiers put their lives on the line against the world's largest and most powerful army in one legendary battle for freedom and for Mexico.
- StarsEduardo YáñezRicardo ChavezIgnacio López TarsoSenda de gloria is a telenovela about the Mexican revolution.
- DirectorFelipe CazalsStarsAlejandro ParodiAna Bertha EspínRodolfo AriasThe life of Mexican dictator Antonio López de Santa Anna.
- DirectorLance HoolStarsTom BerengerJoaquim de AlmeidaDaniela RomoJohn Riley, an Irish immigrant soldier recruited in the American army during the Mexican-American War faces anti-immigrant and anti-Catholic bigotry from his fellow servicemen and defects to the Mexican army.
- DirectorAntonio EceizaStarsJosé AlonsoPedro Armendáriz Jr.Héctor BonillaXavier Mina accepted the commission to lead a liberating expedition in support of General Morelos. He failed to arrive in Mexico until Morelos had died and the Mexican Congress (which in New Spain faced the absolutism of Fernando VII) was dissolved, but for eight months he directed a series of more or less brilliant military actions, in the face of the harassment of the Viceroy , Who finally got him arrested.
- DirectorJulio BrachoStarsRamon NovarroDomingo SolerGloria Marín
- DirectorGonzalo Martínez OrtegaStarsBruno ReyNarciso BusquetsPedro Armendáriz Jr.In 1886 the residents of a town in Chihuahua reject the abuses of the authorities and the army.
- DirectorJulián PastorStarsIgnacio López TarsoAna Luisa PeluffoPedro Armendáriz Jr.In the South Yucatan at the turn of the 20th century, a Revolutionary Republican general battles against the region's wealthy land owners.
- DirectorGonzalo Martínez OrtegaStarsLucha VillaNarciso BusquetsAndrés GarcíaA man returns from Paris to find his home of Chihuahua Mexico occupied by Francisco Villa's revolutionary troops.
- DirectorDean WrightStarsAndy GarciaOscar IsaacCatalina Sandino MorenoA chronicle of the Cristeros War (1926-1929); a war by the people of Mexico against the atheistic Mexican government.
- DirectorAlfredo B. CrevennaEmilio FernándezStarsPedro ArmendárizAriadne WelterVíctor JuncoA group of semi-slave laborers rebel against the appalling work conditions in a logging camp deep in the Mexican jungle.
- DirectorRoberto GavaldónStarsIgnacio López TarsoChristiane MartelReinhold OlszewskiAn illiterate Indian (Ignacio Lopez Tarso) lives an idyllic existence as a landowner on Mexico's Gulf Coast until the greed of a US oil company gets in the way. He is murdered and the lives of all those around him are irrevocably destroyed as the company takes over the land by crooked means. Based on the novel by B.Traven.
- DirectorChano UruetaStarsMiguel Ángel FerrizEsther FernándezIsabela CoronaLiderados por el capitán Anastasio Montañez, el recién formado ejército de campesinos -hartos de las injusticias de los federales-, toma como código de honor saquear las casas para repartir las riquezas.
- DirectorAlberto IsaacStarsHéctor OrtegaBruno ReyArturo Beristáin
- DirectorRoberto SneiderStarsAna Claudia TalancónDaniel Giménez CachoJosé María de TaviraSet 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.
- DirectorElia KazanStarsMarlon BrandoJean PetersAnthony QuinnThe story of Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata, who led a rebellion against the corrupt, oppressive dictatorship of President Porfirio Díaz in the early 20th century.
- DirectorFelipe CazalsStarsAntonio AguilarArmando AcostaDavid AlejandroEmiliano Zapata was a peasant who understood the ideals of the working class. He became a figurehead of the revolutionary uprising in Mexico and his life as a leader, his wife and the battles of those who fight alongside him are portrayed. He lead an ongoing battle to redistribute lands to the peasants and fought against the powerful and oppressing regime of Porfirio Diaz.
- DirectorWilliam DieterleStarsPaul MuniBette DavisBrian AherneLouis Napoleon III (Claude Rains) takes advantage of the American Civil War to circumvent the Monroe Doctrine and expand his power by helping Emperor Maximilian von Habsburg (Brian Aherne) to add Mexico to his empire.
- DirectorMiguel Contreras TorresRaphael J. SevillaStarsMedea de NovaraEnrique HerreraAlfredo del DiestroFrom Maximilian's arrival in Mexico to his execution in Querétaro.
- DirectorFernando de FuentesStarsAntonio R. FraustoDomingo SolerManuel TamésThe 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 assisting in the struggle. After several battles and valiant heroics, the original group is eventually reduced to the leader Tiburcio Maya (Frausto) and young Becerrillo (Vallarino). When Becerrillo is infected by smallpox, Villa orders Tiburcio to kill him and burn the corpse. After reluctantly doing his duty, Tiburcio is ordered to leave the army, and returns home.
- DirectorSalvador CarrascoStarsDamián DelgadoJosé Carlos RodríguezElpidia CarrilloIt is May 1520 in the vast Aztec Empire one year after the Spanish Conqueror Hernán Cortés' arrival in Mexico. "The Other Conquest" opens with the infamous massacre of the Aztecs at the Great Temple of Tenochtitlan [what is now called Mexico City]. The sacred grounds are covered with the countless bodies of priests and nobility slaughtered by the Spanish Armies under Cortés' command. The lone Aztec survivor of the massacre is a young Indian scribe named Topiltzin [Damián Delgado]. Topiltzin, who is the illegitimate son of the Aztec Emperor Moctezuma, survives the onslaught by burying himself under a stack of bodies. As if awakening from a dream, the young man rises from among the dead to find his mother murdered, the Spanish in power and the dawn of a new era in his native land. A New World with new leaders, language, customs... and God. Representing the New Order is the Spanish Friar Diego [José Carlos Rodríguez]. His mission is to convert the "savage" natives into civilised Christians; to replace their human sacrifices and feathered deities with public Christenings and fealty to the Blessed Virgin Mary. With Topiltzin, Friar Diego faces his most difficult spiritual and personal challenge, for when Topiltzin is captured by Spanish troops and presented to Cortés [Iñaki Aierra], the Spanish Conqueror places Topiltzin's conversion under Friar Diego's care. Old world confronts the New as Topiltzin struggles to preserve his own beliefs, whilst Friar Diego attempts to impose his own. All the while, the question remains: who is converting who?