5 Films & TV Shows Set In Mexico During The 1880s
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Bandidas
🇲🇽 Mexico The 1850s The 1880sBeing BAD never looked so GOOD! — Set in the late 19th century. When a ruthless robber baron takes away everything they cherish, a rough-and-tumble, idealistic peasant and a sophisticated heiress embark on a quest for justice, vengeance…and a few good heists.
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A Distant Trumpet
🇲🇽 Mexico Arizona The 1880sFrom Pulitzer Prize winner Paul Horgan's epic novel of Indians and Indian-fighters — In 1883, US Cavalry lieutenant Matthew Hazard, newly graduated from West Point, is assigned to isolated Fort Delivery on the Mexican border of Arizona, where he meets commanding officer Teddy Mainwarring's wife Kitty, whom he later rescues from an Indian attack.
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One-Eyed Jacks
🇲🇽 Mexico The 1880sThe motion picture that starts its own tradition of greatness. — Running from the law after a bank robbery in Mexico, Dad Longworth finds an opportunity to take the stolen gold and leave his partner Rio to be captured. Years later, Rio escapes from the prison where he has been since, and hunts down Dad for revenge. Dad is now a respectable sheriff in California, and has been living in fear of Rio's return.
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The Wonderful Country
🇲🇽 Mexico Texas The 1880sA Face...A Man...A Motion Picture as Proud and Violent as Tom Lea's Bold and Powerful Novel! — Having fled to Mexico from the U.S. many years ago for killing his father's murderer, Martin Brady travels to Texas to broker an arms deal for his Mexican boss, strongman Governor Cipriano Castro. Brady breaks a leg and while recuperating in Texas the gun shipment is stolen. Complicating matters further the wife of local army major Colton has designs on him, and the local Texas Ranger captain makes him a generous offer to come back to the states and join his outfit. After killing a man in self defense, Brady slips back over the border and confronts Castro who is not only unhappy that Brady has lost his gun shipment but is about to join forces with Colton to battle the local raiding Apache Indians.
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Lola Casanova
Sonora The 1880sSonora Mexico, 1880s: Seri Indian tribe splits into two factions after a white woman comes to live in their settlement.
