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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Santa Sangre
In the 1970s, his legendary films EL TOPO and THE HOLY MOUNTAIN redefined movies as both art and entertainment while changing the face of cinema forever. And in 1989, visionary writer/director Alejandro Jodorowsky returned with his modern masterpiece: It is the story of a young circus performer,...Watch Movie
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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...Watch Movie
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The Bus
This is the remarkable story of the vehicle that became an icon. Anyone who has driven a Volkswagen Bus already knows that it's a nostalgic tale of freedom, love, friendship and adventure. THE BUS playfully explores how a post-WWII German utility vehicle evolved into a cultural icon that...Watch Movie
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Memories of the Future
A woman writes increasingly passionate love letters without answer. Her passion and frustration are interwoven with a sense of impending doom, a vision of the coming Mexican apocalypse. A single personal tragedy mirrors the struggle of an entire country trying, in the midst of...Watch Movie
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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...Watch Movie
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Summer of Goliath
One can hardly swing a fistful of popcorn without hitting a "docu-fiction hybrid" these days. But fortunately Nicolás Pereda moves that conceit far forward with his ever-surprising, genre-bending SUMMER OF GOLIATH. Here, all forms of fiction, documentary, fantasy and reality...Watch Movie
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We are Mari Pepa
Alex is one of four Guadalajara best mates who comprise the titular garage-punk band. Never mind that they can barely play their instruments or that they only have one song (albeit a great one, a joyfully obscene ode to "Natasha" whose rare quotable line runs, "I'm never going...Watch Movie
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Agnes Varda: From Here to There
The much-anticipated follow up to Agnes Varda's masterful THE BEACHES OF AGNES, FROM HERE TO THERE is a five-part documentary series that chronicles the indefatigable filmmaker's travels around the world, meeting friends, artists and filmmakers for an expansive view of the...Watch Movie
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Zapatista
January 1, 1994. The day the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) comes into effect. A few minutes after midnight in Southeastern Mexico, several thousand Mayan soldiers take over half the state of Chiapas, declaring a war against the global corporate power they say rules Mexico. They call...Watch Movie
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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...Watch Movie
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Death and the Compass
A complex Mexican murder mystery based on the short story "La muerte y la brujula" by Jorge Luis Borges. DEATH AND THE COMPASS stars Peter Boyle, Miguel Sandoval and Christopher Eccleston, made by the same crew and much of the same cast as HIGHWAY PATROLMAN (shot in Mexico the...Watch Movie
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Intimidad
INTIMIDAD is an original Mexican love story about family relationships and the meaning of "home." Cecy and Camilo (ages twenty-one) recently moved to the border, Reynosa, Mexico, from Santa Maria, Puebla with a dream to save money, buy land and build a home. A year later they return to their...Watch Movie
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Max Kennedy and the American Dream
Max Kennedy is a Minuteman, one of the many American vigilantes who patrol the border with Mexico. Hunting down illegal immigrants, the Minutemen live a gritty existence in the desert. They do it from a belief that they are at the frontline of a war to save their country. Yet...Watch Movie
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What is this film called Love?
WHAT IS THIS FILM CALLED LOVE? is a passionate, poetic documentary about the nature of happiness. Filmed in Mexico over three days for just £10, it begins as a film about the soviet director Sergei Eisenstein, and then, using his ideas, opens up to look at memory, landscape...Watch Movie
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YO
Yo is a strong young man, but with limited mental skills. He says he is fifteen years old, although he seems to be older. He lives and works in his mother's restaurant by a busy freeway. Yo loves his mother but hates her lover. One day he meets Elena, an eleven year old girl, who will change his...Watch Movie
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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...Watch Movie
