Popular from Mexico
Roma
A meditative portrait of a domestic worker's journey through adversity in turbulent 1970s Mexico City.
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- Mexico, United States • 2018
- Director Alfonso Cuarón
- Cast Yalitza Aparicio, Marina de Tavira, Diego Cortina Autrey, Carlos Peralta, Marco Graf, Daniela Demesa
- Genre Drama
- Available on Netflix, Netflix basic with Ads
Nothing to See Here
(Ojitos de huevo)
An aspiring blind comedian and his best friend/manager who has cerebral palsy move to Mexico City to pursue their dreams.
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- Mexico • 2023
- Creator Santiago Limón, Big Drama
- Cast Alejandro Calva, Verónica Merchant, Begoña Narváez, Paola Fernández, Alexis Arroyo, Kike Vázquez
- Genre Comedy
- Available on Netflix, Netflix basic with Ads
A Million Miles Away
The story of Mexican-American astronaut José Hernéndez and his decades-long journey to becoming a NASA flight engineer.
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- Mexico, United States • 2023
- Director Alejandra Márquez Abella
- Cast Michael Peña, Garret Dillahunt, Rosa Salazar, Bobby Soto, Julio Cedillo, Veronica Falcón
- Genre Drama
- Available on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads
Sicario
The border is just another line to cross.
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- United States, Mexico, Hong Kong • 2015
- Director Denis Villeneuve
- Cast Emily Blunt, Benicio del Toro, Josh Brolin, Daniel Kaluuya, Victor Garber, Jon Bernthal
- Genre Action, Crime, Thriller
- Available on MGM Plus, fuboTV, MGM Plus Amazon Channel, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, Spectrum On Demand, AMC on Demand
The Great Seduction
(La gran seducción)
When the opportunity arises to revitalize a struggling small town, its residents set out to make that happen -- whatever it takes.
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- Mexico • 2023
- Director Celso R. García
- Cast Guillermo Villegas, Pierre Louis, Yalitza Aparicio, Eligio Meléndez, Julio Casado, Héctor Jiménez
- Genre Comedy, Drama
- Available on Netflix, Netflix basic with Ads
A Deadly Invitation
(Invitación a un Asesinato)
Eccentric millionaire Olivia sends her half sister, Agatha, and a group of old friends, a mysterious invitation for a weekend on her yacht.
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- Mexico • 2023
- Director José Manuel Cravioto
- Cast Regina Blandón, Maribel Verdú, Juan Pablo de Santiago, Manolo Cardona, Aarón Díaz, José María de Tavira
- Genre Comedy, Mystery
- Available on Netflix, Netflix basic with Ads
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Perfectos desconocidos
At a dinner party, a group of friends play a game where they must share every text message, phone call, and email they receive.
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- Mexico • 2018
- Director Manolo Caro
- Cast Cecilia Suárez, Bruno Bichir, Mariana Treviño, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Ana Claudia Talancón, Miguel Rodarte
- Genre Comedy, Drama
- Available on Hulu, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube, AMC on Demand
New Order
(Nuevo orden)
An upper-class wedding goes awry in an unexpected uprising of class warfare that gives way to a violent coup d’état.
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- Mexico • 2020
- Director Michel Franco
- Cast Naian González Norvind, Diego Boneta, Dario Yazbek Bernal, Mónica del Carmen, Eligio Meléndez, Patricia Bernal
- Genre Drama, Thriller
- Available on Hulu, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube, AMC on Demand, Kanopy
Dos Estaciones
An owner of a tequila plant does everything she can do to save it after a plague and flood.
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- Mexico • 2022
- Director Juan Pablo González
- Cast Teresa Sánchez, Rafaela Fuentes, Tatín Vera, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo
- Genre Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube
Holy Beasts
(La fiera y la fiesta)
A filmmaker faces increasing challenges as she tries, decades later, to complete Dominican filmmaker Jean-Louis Jorge’s unfinished work.
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- Dominican Republic, Argentina, Mexico • 2019
- Director Israel Cárdenas, Laura Amelia Guzmán
- Cast Geraldine Chaplin, Udo Kier, Jackie Ludueña, Jaime Piña, Luis Ospina, Pau Bertolini
- Genre Drama
- Available on Film Movement Plus
The River and the Wall
Five friends embark on an expedition of the Rio Grande borderlands.
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- Mexico, United States • 2019
- Director Ben Masters
- Cast Ben Masters, Beto O'Rourke
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube, Tubi TV, The Roku Channel, Pluto TV, VUDU Free, Kanopy, Plex,
The Great Seduction
(La gran seducción)
When the opportunity arises to revitalize a struggling small town, its residents set out to make that happen -- whatever it takes.
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- Mexico • 2023
- Director Celso R. García
- Cast Guillermo Villegas, Pierre Louis, Yalitza Aparicio, Eligio Meléndez, Julio Casado, Héctor Jiménez
- Genre Comedy, Drama
- Available on Netflix, Netflix basic with Ads
Midnight Family
The Ochoa family runs a private ambulance, competing with other for-profit EMTs for patients in need of urgent help.
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- Mexico • 2019
- Director Luke Lorentzen
- Cast
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Google Play Movies, Vudu, YouTube, Pluto TV
Digimon Tamers
(デジモンテイマーズ)
When their Digimon card game characters suddenly come to life, a group of 12-year-olds begin to defend Shinjuku against wild Digimon.
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- Japan, Mexico, Spain • 2001
- Creator Yukio Kaizawa
- Cast Masako Nozawa, Yuka Imai, Makoto Tsumura, Mayumi Yamaguchi, Fumiko Orikasa, Aoi Tada
- Genre Action & Adventure, Animation, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
- Available on Hulu
Santitos
A woman sets out on a journey across Mexico to find her daughter after a saint appears to her.
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- Mexico, France, Spain • 1999
- Director Alejandro Springall
- Cast Dolores Heredia, Demián Bichir, Alberto Estrella, Pedro Altamirano, Roberto Cobo
- Genre Drama, Romance
- Available on fuboTV
Al Otro Lado
An aspiring composer from Mexico faces two difficult choices: traffic drugs or unlawfully immigrate to the United States.
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- Mexico, United States • 2006
- Director Natalia Almada
- Cast
- Genre Documentary, Music
- Available on OVID
Inazuma Eleven
(イナズマイレブン)
A soccer team must win a match against the best team in Japan if they want to save their club.
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- Japan, Spain, Mexico • 2008
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- Cast
- Genre Animation, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
- Available on Amazon Video
Deep Crimson
(Profundo carmesí)
A nomadic couple commits a series of gruesome murders in this drama based on the “Lonely Hearts Killers.”
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- Mexico • 1996
- Director Arturo Ripstein
- Cast Regina Orozco, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Marisa Paredes, Julieta Egurrola, Sherlyn
- Genre Crime, Drama, Romance
- Available on Criterion Channel, Amazon Video
Nothing to See Here
(Ojitos de huevo)
An aspiring blind comedian and his best friend/manager who has cerebral palsy move to Mexico City to pursue their dreams.
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- Mexico • 2023
- Creator Santiago Limón, Big Drama
- Cast Alejandro Calva, Verónica Merchant, Begoña Narváez, Paola Fernández, Alexis Arroyo, Kike Vázquez
- Genre Comedy
- Available on Netflix, Netflix basic with Ads
The Inheritors
(Los Herederos)
Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the Earth.
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- Mexico • 2011
- Director Eugenio Polgovsky
- Cast
- Genre
- Available on OVID
This Is Not Berlin
(Esto no es Berlin)
It's 1986 in Mexico City, and the life of seventeen-year-old Carlos changes forever when he discovers the undergroud nightlife scene.
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- Mexico • 2019
- Director Hari Sama
- Cast Xabiani Ponce de León, José Antonio Toledano, Mauro Sánchez Navarro, Ximena Romo, Klaudia García, Américo Hollander
- Genre Drama
- Available on Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube, Tubi TV, The Roku Channel, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, Kanopy, Plex,
Telescope Recommends
No
In 1988, Chilean military dictator Augusto Pinochet calls a plebiscite on his presidency under international political pressure.
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- Chile, France, Mexico • 2012
- Director Pablo Larraín
- Cast Gael García Bernal, Alfredo Castro, Néstor Cantillana, Luis Gnecco, Antonia Zegers, Jaime Vadell
- Genre Drama, History
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube
Like Water for Chocolate
(Como agua para chocolate)
In Tita's kitchen, ordinary spices become a recipe for passion.
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- Mexico • 1992
- Director Alfonso Aráu
- Cast Marco Leonardi, Lumi Cavazos, Regina Torné, Ada Carrasco, Mario Iván Martínez, Claudette Maillé
- Genre Drama, Romance
- Available on Hoopla, Paramount Plus Apple TV Channel , Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube, Spectrum On Demand
Son of Monarchs
(Hijo de monarcas)
A Mexican biologist living in NYC returns to his hometown following the death of his grandmother, undergoing an intense personal journey.
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- Mexico, United States • 2020
- Director Alexis Gambis
- Cast Tenoch Huerta, Kaarlo Isaacs Barria, Noé Hernández, Angel Adrian Flores, Ignacio Guadalupe, Alexia Rasmussen
- Genre Drama
- Available on Max Amazon Channel, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, YouTube
The Empty Hours
(Las horas muertas)
On the desolate coast of Veracruz, Sebastián, 17, has to run his uncle's motel single-handedly, renting rooms by the hour. He meets Miranda, and a fleeting game of seduction is sparked.
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- Spain, France, Mexico • 2013
- Director Aarón Fernández Lesur
- Cast Kristyan Ferrer, Adriana Paz, Eliseo Lara Martínez, Amaranta Abril, Bartolo Campos, Fermín Martínez
- Genre Romance, Drama
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube, Tubi TV, VUDU Free
The Inheritors
(Los Herederos)
Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the Earth.
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- Mexico • 2011
- Director Eugenio Polgovsky
- Cast
- Genre
- Available on OVID
Sin Nombre
A Honduran teen and two young men in a gang board the same American-bound train for a journey that will change their lives forever.
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- Mexico, United States • 2009
- Director Cary Joji Fukunaga
- Cast Paulina Gaitán, Edgar Flores, Kristyan Ferrer, Diana García, Luis Fernando Peña
- Genre Drama, Action, Thriller, Crime
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Microsoft Store, YouTube, Spectrum On Demand, AMC on Demand
Alamar
Before his five-year-old son moves to Italy, Jorge takes him to a Mexican coral reef to teach him about his Mayan origins.
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- Mexico • 2010
- Director Pedro González-Rubio
- Cast Jorge Machado, Roberta Palombini, Natan Machado Palombini, Nestor Marin
- Genre Documentary, Drama, Family
- Available on Hoopla, Apple TV, Amazon Video, FlixFling, Tubi TV, Kanopy, Plex,
Silent Light
(Stellet Licht)
Johan is a Mennonite who, despite his guilt, is cheating on his wife.
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- Mexico, France, Netherlands • 2007
- Director Carlos Reygadas
- Cast Cornelio Wall, Miriam Toews, Maria Pankratz, Peter Wall, Jacobo Klassen, Elizabeth Fehr
- Genre Drama, Romance
- Available on Vudu, VUDU Free, Kanopy
Güeros
Being young and not being a revolutionary is a contradiction.
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- Mexico • 2015
- Director Alonso Ruizpalacios
- Cast Tenoch Huerta, Leonardo Ortizgris, Sebastián Aguirre, Ilse Salas, Sophie Alexander-Katz
- Genre Comedy, Drama
- Available on Netflix, Netflix basic with Ads, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, YouTube, Kino Now, Pluto TV, Kanopy
Japón
A painter from Mexico City goes into the desert to commit suicide, staying with an old indigenous widow in Ascen.
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- Mexico, Germany, Netherlands • 2002
- Director Carlos Reygadas
- Cast Alejandro Ferretis, Magdalena Flores, Yolanda Villa, Martín Serrano, Rolando Hernández
- Genre Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel, Apple TV
The Maid
(La nana)
A live-in housekeeper for a wealthy family is fed up with her repetitive responsibilities, and must rediscover passion in her life.
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- Chile, Mexico • 2009
- Director Sebastián Silva
- Cast Catalina Saavedra, Claudia Celedón, Andrea García-Huidobro, Mariana Loyola, Alejandro Goic, Delfina Guzmán
- Genre Comedy, Drama
- Available on MUBI, Fandor Amazon Channel, MUBI Amazon Channel, Hoopla, OVID, Apple TV, Amazon Video, Tubi TV, Pluto TV, VIX , Redbox, Kanopy, Plex, Popflick,
Midnight Family
The Ochoa family runs a private ambulance, competing with other for-profit EMTs for patients in need of urgent help.
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- Mexico • 2019
- Director Luke Lorentzen
- Cast
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Google Play Movies, Vudu, YouTube, Pluto TV
Western
When darkness descends upon two border towns, a cowboy and a lawman must face a new and threatening reality.
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- Mexico, United States • 2015
- Director Bill Ross, Turner Ross
- Cast
- Genre Documentary, Western
- Available on OVID, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube, Tubi TV, Kanopy
Y Tu Mamá También
(Y tu mamá también)
Two teenage boys and an older woman embark on a road trip and learn about life — and each other.
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- Mexico • 2001
- Director Alfonso Cuarón
- Cast Maribel Verdú, Gael García Bernal, Diego Luna, Diana Bracho, Verónica Langer, María Aura
- Genre Drama, Romance
- Available on AMC+, IFC Films Unlimited Apple TV Channel, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, YouTube
Miss Bala
In a Mexico dominated by organized crime, a young woman clings to her dream of becoming a beauty contest queen.
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- Mexico, United States • 2011
- Director Gerardo Naranjo
- Cast Stephanie Sigman, Noé Hernández, Irene Azuela, Jose Yenque, James Russo, Miguel Couturier
- Genre Drama, Action
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, AMC on Demand