Mexican
see all genres ›Boasting the most prolific film industry in Latin America, Mexico for many years produced movies almost exclusively for local audiences. More recently, an explosion of new talent, including directors like Guillermo del Toro, Alfonso Cuaron and Carlos Reygadas, have brought new visions both grittily realistic and occasionally fantastical to international attention.
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Alamar
Jorge has only a few weeks with his five year old son Natan before he leaves to live with his mother in Rome. Intent on teaching Natan about their Mayan heritage, Jorge takes him to the pristine Chinchorro reef and eases him into the rhythms of a fisherman's life. As the bond between father and son grows stronger, Natan...Start your free trial to watch -
Los bastardos
A multiple award winner and 2008 Cannes Film Festival selection, Amat Escalante's LOS BASTARDOS makes an indelibly disturbing impact. Like the rest of the day-laboring migrant workers who gather together each morning on a southwestern American strip mall sidewalk, Jesus (Jesus Moises Rodriguez) and Fausto (Rubén Sosa)...Start your free trial to watch -
Becloud
On a dry lakebed in 1964, a trucker and his companion find a baby boy at the dry breast of its dead mother. Years later, the trucker operates an ice factory in a poor urban district with his son, José, who dreams of one day striking out on his own. Neighbor Felipe, meanwhile, works at an Internet café and another neighbor,...Start your free trial to watch
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The Bermuda Triangle
Director René Cardona Jr. has managed to make a very convincing horror tale set square in THE BERMUDA TRIANGLE, still one of the greatest mysteries on Earth. This place, which has reportedly swallowed up hundreds of ships, planes and human lives without a trace, now reached out to devour the Marvin family...Start your free trial to watch -
The Brave One
A film full of warmth and sensitivity, THE BRAVE ONE is the story about the friendship of a boy and a bull. Gitano, or Gypsy, is the name the boy gives the bull whose life he saves during a storm. The animal follows him around like a puppy until the legal owners spirit the mature Gitano away to do battle with top matador...Start your free trial to watch -
Cruzando
Many earnest films have been made recently about the struggles of Latin American migrants trying to cross into the U.S. for a better tomorrow; CRUZANDO isn't one of them. A madcap adventure following the journey of two Mexican no-hopers, CRUZANDO chronicles the real-life hazards of such a trip. About a week before the birth...Start your free trial to watch
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Cyclone
An airplane goes down in the ocean during a storm and the few survivors find refuge on a small tour boat. Swept out to sea, these people slowly starve to death in the hot sun with barely any food or clean water. With no place to turn, the boat survivors resort to cannibalism to stay alive. That is‚ until the rescue planes...Start your free trial to watch -
Highway Patrolman
Against his father's wishes, Pedro, a naive kid from Mexico City, joins the Federal Highway Patrol. His simple desire to do good rapidly comes into conflict with the reality of police work in a lonely rural environment populated by poor farmers, rich drug dealers, beautiful women and his father's ghost.Start your free trial to watch -
In the Pit
For every bridge built, warns a Mexican proverb, the devil demands one soul. Even in contemporary Mexico, "any major construction project needs a soul in its foundation," agrees one of IN THE PIT's army of laborers tunneling beneath the surface and scaling the perilous heights of La Cuidad to ensure that "the Second Deck"...Start your free trial to watch
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Isle of the Snake People
A small remote island is the home for voodoo rites, death cults and an evil priest named Damballah. Local law officials turn a blind eye to their evil ways until Captain Labesch arrives from the mainland. Determined to crack down on the island's lawlessness and clean up the ineffectual, hard-drinking...Start your free trial to watch -
Lake Tahoe
Teenage Juan crashes his family's car into a telegraph pole on the outskirts of town and then scours the streets searching for someone to help him fix it. His quest will bring him to Don Heber, an old paranoid mechanic whose only companion is Sica, his almost human boxer dog; to Lucía, a young mother who is convinced that her...Start your free trial to watch -
The Mermaids of Tiburon
THE MERMAIDS OF TIBURON was produced and directed in 1962 as a fantasy-adventure by noted underwater cinematographer John Lamb. Two years later, he chopped out ten minutes, re-shot the close-ups and medium shots of the mermaids, revealing the enchantresses in the nude (with emphasis on actress Gaby...Start your free trial to watch
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Mojados
A stunning documentary, filmed over the course of ten days, following four men into the world of illegal border-crossing from Mexico to United States. Alongside Bear, Tiger, Handsome and Old Man, director Tommy Davis takes a 120 mile cross-desert journey that has been traveled innumerable times by nameless immigrants who...Start your free trial to watch -
Morisma
MORISMA documents in colorful detail the traditional and religious celebrations of Moors against Christians in the Mexican states of Zacatecas and Jalisco. The documentary focuses, on the life of Hilario Espinosa, a representative of the Moors in both states, and through him we learn of the Moors traditions and plights,...Start your free trial to watch -
La perdicion de los hombres
"The ruination of men is caused by women," is a famous saying in Mexco. The film depicts two ranchers who decide to stone a third rancher to death. In a darkly surreal and comic way the film then follows several widows that show up at the police station to claim the body, as each detail their grievances....Start your free trial to watch
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Santa Claus
The producers of the legendary made-in-Mexico SANTA CLAUS packed every magical, wacky holiday oddity known to man in to this wild, wonderful and strangely charming children’s classic! It’s not enough that Santa must deal with the usual suspects (the good little boys and girls; the not so good little boys and girls) but this...Start your free trial to watch -
Summer of Goliath
Shocked by her husband’s sudden departure, Teresa embarks on a mission to find out what happened. Instead of finding answers, her mission becomes a journey through the streets and homes of the people she meets. Blending fiction and documentary, her wanderings portray the town and its inhabitants....Start your free trial to watch -
Supervivientes de los Andes
This incredible film is based on a true story. On October 13, 1972, the flight of Fairchild 571 carrying forty-five passengers crashed in the Andes mountains of Argentina. This horrible accident took the lives of most of the passengers (including many members of a professional rugby team). Sixteen people...Start your free trial to watch




