61 Films & TV Shows Set In Mexico During The 1910s
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Zapata: The dream of a hero
🇲🇽 Mexico The 1910sZapata: The dream of a hero — This fictionalized portrayal of Emiliano Zapata as an Indigenous Mexican shaman, directed by Alfonso Arau, was reportedly the most expensive Mexican movie ever produced, with a massive ad campaign, and the largest ever opening in the nation's history. Unusual in the Mexican film industry, Zapata was financed independently.
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And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself
🇲🇽 Mexico New Jersey Texas The 1910s The 1920sIn 1914, the Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa invites studios to shoot his actual battles against Porfírio Diaz army to raise funds for financing guns and ammunition. The Mutual Film Corporation, through producer D.W. Griffith, interests for the proposition and sends the filmmaker Frank Thayer to negotiate a contract with Pancho Villa himself.
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From Dusk Till Dawn 3: The Hangman's Daughter
🇲🇽 Mexico The 1910s The 1900sNarrowly escaping death, outlaw Johnny Madrid is on the run from the hangman, with the hangman's sensuous daughter Esmeralda by his side. Along with Madrid's gang, Johnny and Esmeralda embark on an adventure filled with colorful and unsavory characters who lead them straight into the fight of their lives!
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Old Gringo
🇲🇽 Mexico The 1910sA woman inspired by a man of dreams swept into the arms of a general, and drawn into a worlds of danger. — When school teacher Harriet Winslow goes to Mexico to teach, she is kidnapped by Gen. Tomas Arroyo and his revolutionaries. An aging American, Ambrose "Old Gringo" Bierce also in Mexico, befriends Gen. Arroyo and meets Harriet. Bierce is a famous writer, who knowing that he is dying, wishes to keep his identity secret so he can determine his own fate. Though he likes Arroyo, Bierce tries to provoke the General's anger whenever possible in an attempt to get himself killed, thus avoiding suffering through his illness. Winslow is intrigued by both Bierce and Arroyo, and the men are in turn attracted to her. She becomes romantically involved with Arroyo. When Winslow learns of Bierce's true identity (a writer whose work she has loved and respected for years), she is singlemindedly determined to fulfill his dying wish. Written by E.W. DesMarais
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¡Three Amigos!
California 🇲🇽 Mexico The 1910sThey're Down On Their Luck And Up To Their Necks In Senoritas, Margaritas, Banditos And Bullets! — Three unemployed actors accept an invitation to a Mexican village to replay their bandit fighter roles, unaware that it is the real thing.
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La casta divina
🇲🇽 Mexico The 1910sChronicle Caste War in Yucatan held in the nineteenth century, where the land and the people were the property of the landowners, who called themselves " divine caste ". On one hand, General Salvador Alvarado organized the revolution; on the other, the landowners hire Colonel Ortiz Argumedo to organized the defense of their autonomy. Don Wilfrido, one of the masters, do not hesitate to send his son to fight to maintain their wealth and privileges.
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Reed: Insurgent Mexico
🇲🇽 Mexico The 1910sA dramatization of John Reed's newspaper accounts of the Mexican Revolution. Considered the first real film in Mexican cinema to be made on the Mexican Revolution.
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What Am I Doing in the Middle of the Revolution?
🇲🇽 Mexico The 1910sNever mind how they got into it ...wait 'till you see how they get out! — In the beginning of the 20th. century Italian actor Guido Guidi, more enthusiastic than talented, and his ensemble tour Texas. The mysterious and obviously rich Peppino Garibaldi gives them an offer, they can’t deny: For a large amount of dough they should play “Richard III.” in the Mexican town Vera Cruz. But Peppino is not really interested in cultural affairs: He supports “La Revolución” and “General” Carasco, who utilizes the feastful premiere of “Richard III.” to raid Vera Cruz for Comandante Zapata. But shortly after the Mexican Army shows up with some canons in tow to sort things out. Guidi and Padre Albino, Italian like him, succeed to flee and save Carasco accidentially from the firing squad. Whereas the latter coninues his revolutionary fight, Guidi and Albino start an odyssey through the struggling Mexico, which lets them fall one time in the hands of Carasco the other time in those of Herrera or even in the clutches of “hand-taking” bandidos.
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Duck, You Sucker
🇲🇽 Mexico The 1910sRod Steiger and James Coburn will blow you apart in — At the beginning of the 1913 Mexican Revolution, greedy bandit Juan Miranda and idealist John H. Mallory, an Irish Republican Army explosives expert on the lam from the British, fall in with a band of revolutionaries plotting to strike a national bank. When it turns out that the government has been using the bank as a hiding place for illegally detained political prisoners -- who are freed by the blast -- Miranda becomes a revolutionary hero against his will.
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Blindman
🇲🇽 Mexico The 1910sBlindman, Blindman, what did he do? Stole 50 women that belong to you. — A blind, but deadly, gunman, is hired to escort fifty mail order brides to their miner husbands. His business partners double cross him, selling the women to bandit Domingo. Blindman heads into Mexico in pursuit.
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A Town Called Hell
🇲🇽 Mexico The 1910s The 1890sVengeance's fire is raging. — A group of Mexican revolutionaries murders a town priest and a number of his christian followers. Ten years later, a widow arrives in town intent to take revenge from her husband's killers.
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Bad Man's River
🇲🇽 Mexico The 1910sThe gang, the rebels, the army. She sold them all down — Robber Roy King loses his wife, Alicia, to revolutionary Montero. Despite their rivalry they collaborate in an attempt to rob the Mexican government of one million dollars.
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Don't Turn the Other Cheek
🇲🇽 Mexico The 1910sThe bottoms-up comedy hit that will fill your seats. — A spaghetti western in which three adventurers team up during the Mexican Revolution. Mary O'Donnell, a radical Irish journalist, wants to foment a peasant revolt in Mexico. She enlists the help of a seedy bandit, Lozoya, by saving him from a death sentence in Utah. They meet a man calling himself Prince Dmitri Vassilovich Orlowsky, who claims to be a Russian prince, not to mention a man of the cloth. Wallach pretends to be a Mexican folk hero. The trio crosses the border, the two men seeking a cache of gold while O'Donnell pursues her revolution.
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The Great White Hope
🇲🇽 Mexico Illinois Nevada England 🇨🇺 Cuba 🇫🇷 France 🇩🇪 Germany The 1910sHe could beat any white man in the world. He just couldn't beat all of them. — A black champion boxer and his white female companion struggle to survive while the white boxing establishment looks for ways to knock him down.
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Compañeros
México The 1910sFate brought them together, greed made them inseparable, and violence made them Compañeros! — Arms dealer Yolaf Peterson aims to make a sale to guerilla Mongo, but the money is locked in a bank safe, the combination known only to Professor Xantos, a prisoner of the Americans. Yolaf agrees to free Xantos, accompanied by reluctant guerilla Basco, but a former business partner of Yolaf's- John 'The Wooden Hand', has other ideas.
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Cannon for Cordoba
🇲🇽 Mexico The 1910sThey aimed him at Cordoba's fortress, and pulled the trigger! — In 1912, during the Mexican Revolution, the border between Texas and Mexico is on flames due to savage raids by Mexican bandits who call themselves freedom fighters, so the US government entrusts to General Pershing the capture of General Héctor Córdoba, the most notorious among them.
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Vuelve el ojo de vidrio
🇲🇽 Mexico The 1910sUpon hearing the news of Madero's death, Porfirio Alcalá and his four cousins interrupt their peaceful lives as farmers to again join the Mexican Revolution.
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Zapata
🇲🇽 Mexico The 1910sEmiliano Zapata was a peasant who understood the ideals of the working class. He became a figurehead of the revolutionary uprising in Mexico..
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The Wild Bunch
🇲🇽 Mexico Texas The 1910sUnchanged men in a changing land — Aging outlaw, Pike Bishop prepares to retire after one final robbery. Joined by his gang, Dutch Engstrom and brothers Lyle and Tector Gorch, Bishop discovers the heist is a setup orchestrated in part by a former partner, Deke Thornton. As the remaining gang takes refuge in Mexican territory, Thornton trails them—resulting in fierce gunfights with plenty of casualties.
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100 Rifles
🇲🇽 Mexico The 1910sAll they need is… 100 RIFLES — When half-breed Indian Yaqui Joe robs an Arizona bank, he is pursued by dogged lawman Lyedecker. Fleeing to Mexico, Joe is imprisoned by General Verdugo, who is waging a war against the Yaqui Indians. When Lyedecker attempts to intervene, he is thrown into prison as well. Working together, the two escape and take refuge in the hills, where Lyedecker meets beautiful Yaqui freedom fighter Sarita and begins to question his allegiances.
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The Five Man Army
🇲🇽 Mexico The 1910sSet during the Mexican Revolution, a man known only as "The Dutchman" has a plan, and brings in four of his old acquaintences, including an old army buddy and a silent Japanese swordsman, to help him out by promising a $1000 reward if it succeeds. The plan turns out to be a fool's mission: rob a train carrying $500,000 in gold that's guarded by dozens of heavily armed soldiers and passes through a steady stream of military checkpoints. Naturally, his friends agree to go along with the scheme
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Tepepa
🇲🇽 Mexico The 1910sJails can't hold him! Armies can't stop him! Women can't get enough of him! — The Mexican guerilla leader Tepepa and his gang fight against the chief of police, Cascorro.
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Lauro Puñales
🇲🇽 Mexico The 1910sOne of Zapata's field marshals runs afoul of dictator Huerta's stooges in his home town.
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