14 Films & TV Shows Set In Mexico During The 1940s
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The Marquez-Castillo Siblings
🇲🇽 Mexico The 1940sA group of four siblings compete for the heritage of their father.
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Lupin III: The First
🇲🇽 Mexico 🇫🇷 France 🇧🇷 Brazil The 1960s The 1940sThe iconic "gentleman thief" Lupin III returns in an action-packed, continent-spanning adventure, as Lupin III and his colorful underworld companions race to uncover the secrets of the mysterious Bresson Diary, before it falls into the hands of a dark cabal that will stop at nothing to resurrect the Third Reich.
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Seabiscuit
Baja California Maryland California The 1940s The 1930s The 1920sThe hopes of a nation rode on a long shot. — True story of the undersized Depression-era racehorse whose victories lifted not only the spirits of the team behind it but also those of their nation.
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Frida
Ciudad de México The 1950s The 1940s The 1930s The 1920sPrepare to be seduced. — A biography of artist Frida Kahlo, who channeled the pain of a crippling injury and her tempestuous marriage into her work.
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Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
🇲🇽 Mexico New York Massachusetts Pennsylvania California 🇫🇮 Finland 🇩🇪 Germany The 1970s The 1980s The 1960s The 1950s The 1940sSome things are better left top secret. — Television made him famous, but his biggest hits happened off screen. Television producer by day, CIA assassin by night, Chuck Barris was recruited by the CIA at the height of his TV career and trained to become a covert operative. Or so Barris said.
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Beat
🇲🇽 Mexico New York The 1950s The 1940sSex and Drugs before Rock and Roll — The story of writer William Seward Burroughs and his wife.
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All the Pretty Horses
🇲🇽 Mexico The 1940sSome passions can never be tamed. — The year is 1949. A young Texan named John Grady finds himself without a home after his mother sells the ranch where he has spent his entire life. Lured south of the border by the romance of cowboy life and the promise of a fresh start, Cole and his pal embark on an adventure that will test their resilience, define their maturity, and change their lives forever.
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Herod's Law
🇲🇽 Mexico The 1940sWhy don't they want you to see it? — Mexico, 1949. The fable of a janitor turned Mayor on a little town lost in the Mexican desert, who gradually realizes how far his new acquainted power and corruption can get him.
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No One Writes to the Colonel
🇲🇽 Mexico The 1940sEvery Friday, the Colonel puts on his only suit and goes to the dock to await a letter announcing the arrival of his pension. But the townsfolk all know that this pension will never come. His wife also knows it, and even he knows it. But he is still waiting, living with the pain of the death of his son.
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The Shawshank Redemption
Maine 🇲🇽 Mexico The 1940s The 1950s The 1960sFear can hold you prisoner. Hope can set you free. — Framed in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufresne begins a new life at the Shawshank prison, where he puts his accounting skills to work for an amoral warden. During his long stretch in prison, Dufresne comes to be admired by the other inmates -- including an older prisoner named Red -- for his integrity and unquenchable sense of hope.
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Miroslava
🇲🇽 Mexico The 1950s The 1940sTomorrow, I won't be here — Mexico, 1955. A beautiful and popular movie star, Miroslava Sternova is depressed tonight. Sad memories fill her mind: her childhood in the pre-war Prague, one failed marriage, several attempts to be taken as a serious actress and the betrayal of the man she loved. As she prepares to commit suicide her entire life reveals itself on the screen, showing us the portrait of a lonely woman.
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Under the Volcano
🇲🇽 Mexico The 1940s The 1930sOne cannot live without love. — Against a background of war breaking out in Europe and the Mexican fiesta Day of Death, we are taken through one day in the life of Geoffrey Firmin, a British consul living in alcoholic disrepair and obscurity in a small southern Mexican town in 1939. The Consul's self-destructive behaviour, perhaps a metaphor for a menaced civilization, is a source of perplexity and sadness to his nomadic, idealistic half-brother, Hugh, and his ex-wife, Yvonne, who has returned with hopes of healing Geoffrey and their broken marriage.
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W.C. Fields and Me
New York California 🇲🇽 Mexico The 1940s The 1930sIn 1920s New York City, W. C. Fields is a successful headlining entertainer, but when his girlfriend leaves him and his broker loses his money, Fields begins anew in California. While working at a wax museum, Fields eventually lands a film role that ascends him to stardom. Back in the limelight and palling around with John Barrymore and the like, Fields meets an aspiring actress Carlotta Monti at a party, with whom he forms a rocky relationship.
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The Assassination of Trotsky
🇲🇽 Mexico The 1940sA Stalinist assassin tracks exiled revolutionary Leon Trotsky to Mexico in 1940.
